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The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-02-25
ATTENTION, PIONEERS!

You are requested to attend the funeral of our brother, J. Mont gomery Davis, at Trinity Church Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
 E. F. RODENBERG,
 President.
 ELMER REED, -adv. Secretary.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-06-22

call on the family. Bill got wind of
the supposed fact that some other
fellow was taking advantage of his
absence and was being entertained by
Bills wife, so on that Saturday eve
ming he provides himself with gat,
takes on numerous quaffs of the fluid
that made Milwaukee and other
places famous, and starts out to get
the aforesaid friend, with the result
that he got" an innocent bystander
for which he was sent to Saltwater
for five-year term.
Arriving at his new place of resi-
dence he convinced the warden that
he was not accustomed to hard labor
and induced the prison board to in
stall a printing outfit and launch the
first prison newspaper published in
the United States. From that begin
ming most of the penitentiaries have
followed suit.
Bill served about 80 months Of his
five-year sentence, when he was par
doned by Governor McGill.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-06-22
INITIATION OF THE CURRENCY
T Ong Prairie Leader)

Congress under the leadership of
the president, is taking steps to in
flate the currency. This is being
done in two ways, % refusal of the
government to pay its obligations
upon demand in gold, and (2) issu-
ance of large quantities of paper
money without specific provision that
it will be redeemed in gold. There
are other ways, means and methods
but these two sum up the plans.
The purpose is to raise the prices
of commodities. If currency is cheap
ened, it becomes worthless. That is,
it will take more dollars to buy a
commodity such as wheat, butter, iron,
etc. If previously it took four pounds
of butter to buy one dollar and the
dollar sinks in value to Use, then it
would take only three pounds Of but
ter to buy one dollar, which in turn
would mean that butter had jumped
in price from Csc to 33c a pound.
The plan is also calculated to aid
debtors because debts, which of course
call for the payment of certain
number of dollars" can he paid
easier if the dollar is cheaper dol
lar, that is, a dollar custer to get
with commodities the debtor may have
to sell.
There is a catch in the scheme
however, because when the dollar is
cheapened it will naturally buy less.
A With 70
get more dollars for his commodities
but when he takes the dollars and
uses them to buy something else, he
finds that his dollars buy less because
in terms of dollars, the price of the
other commodities have also risen. So
in a way, one transaction tends to
balance the other.
Trial of the plan is justified because
other countries have cheapened their
money and this puts the United States
at a disadvantage in international
trade. 1t is also justified because of
its benefit to the debtor and because
of its benefit to farmers with products
to sell.
The danger of the plan lies in over
doing it. If too much currency is is
sued, it's value becomes uncertain
with resultant hesitancy to take it
and decentralization of business. 1t is
the purpose of congress, however, to
control the initiation so that the
thing is not OverdOne. If this purpose
lis religiously adhered to. the plan for
the time being at least will be help
full.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-06-22
THE HOSPITABLE MUNNS

Folks from different corners of the
state came to the farm home of
Speaker of the Minnesota House Of
near Osseo, Saturday night and en-
jcyed barn dance together with
farmers in the neighborhood. The
gathering included state, county, city,
and village officials who all enjoyed
the hospitality of the Munns. Amongst
Legislature and even some prosecuting
attorneys, police and secret service
men. Not that the latter were needed
on the premises but they all like
Charley" as the popular and able
speaker is known to his many legis-
1000 people were present, the crowd
was well handled, and all made to
feel at home. The dance was a real
old timer with some squares" thrown
in now and then for good measure,
much to the amusement of the neigh
bors and all the guests.
Reports have it that Representative
Roy E. Dunn, Pelican Rapids, is also
to give big party for friends at his
summer resort up in Ottertail county.
1t is of course possible that politics
is discussed a little at these gather
ings where so many in politics meet,
for they already have it figured out
that the time for filing for office
comes again in another six months.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-06-22
BACK ON TWO WHEELS

Bicycle riding is fast coming into
style again. In the city parks the
bikes" are for rent to those who en-
joy the sport and many are taking
advantage. A new generation has
grown up since the bicycle was pop
ular and not only popular, but used
to advantage by thousands in going to
and from work and in the perform
ing of errands. This new generation
has hardly known the two-wheel
transport except for pictures in the
family album and rarely seeing an
old bike" that in most cases was
stored away. Bicycle riding is now
so popular that two young Minneapo-
lis ladies wheeled to Rochester Mon
day to visit friend, making the trip
in II hours. The distance is about
80 miles.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-06-22
WILL BE WELCOME WORK

Having been low on work in the
quarry and stone cutting sheds, the
past year especially-in fact almost
down to where they have no work
Sandstone citizens are naturally elat-
ed with prospects of securing the pro-
posed federals prison being much
brighter than before.
Not only will it please Sandstone
folks to have the prison built this
summer and without delay. but citi-
zens out over the county and this sec
tion of the state will rejoice with the
Quarry City in their good fortune
when the project is realized.
To be sure the federal government
will make no mistake in selecting
Sandstone as the site, for it is con-
veniently located on the Great North
ern railroad and trunk highway No. 1.
The 1855 acres acquired for the prison
farm are on the east banks of the
beautiful winding Kettle river, await
ing only development, and on which
it is proposed that the federal pris-
oners do farming. The water supply
is of the best and the drainage is
good.
Construction of the buildings will
give work to many that have been
looking for work a long time and need
it and an institution of that kind al
ways brings some additional families
to the community.
The government needs the building
for the nearest federal prison is at
Leavenworth, Kansas, but should il
prove later that the building was not
filled with federal prisoners the state
of Minnesota can board it's overflow
prisoners from Saltwater and ST.
Cloud at the federal prison.
With its recommendation by the
governor of the state, the o. X. by the
Sterilization Board at Washington is
anXiously awaited in Pine county
Sandstone neghbors will be glad to
congratulate them when they have
the final word.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-06-22
HOW THE PRISON PAPER
STARTED
publishers Auxiliary

Here is a little journalistic his
tory writes G. A. Ludwig of the Fri
day Harbor (Wash.) Journal. Per
haps it may be of interest to the fra
ternity." And he sends the following:
Several weeks ago l noticed a box
commenting on the fact that the
Prison Mirror, published in the Min
nesota pen was running short handed
and would find it necessary to have
the work done outside. Perhaps it
would be of interest to know how the
first prison paper came to be started.
Back in 1886 l was a case holder
on the Minneapolis Journal and there
was sub" named Bill working there
then whom l put on for a few days
while l took a trip to La Crosse. His
family was living at Anoka and he
made occasional trips to that burg to
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-06-22
COMMENCEMENT
(The Minneapolis Tribune)

No one but a misguided Nostra-
any hope of accuracy, what lies ahead
for the nearly 5000 high school pupils
who received diplomas from Mime
apolis public schools on Thursday.
Certainly the task of the prophet is
made no simpler when the whole
eager army that is being passed out
of educational institutions all over the
country today is considered. Yet be-
cause there are such things as COM
mencement orators, something akin to
that has doubtless been attempted and
those who have been appointed to in
terpret the uncertainty which their
listeners are heir to, have probably
not been entirely unmindful of the
responsibility and difficulty involved
in their task.
The convenient platitudes of another
day are poorly suited to a commence
ment address under present condi-
lions. Although old platitudes in new
dress may have been made to suffice,
the audience, its critical faculties
sharpened by adversely, is probably
more sensitive to them than hereto
fore. The graduate, no less a part
or the changing world than his elders,
mas not been spared in the changes.
nor mas he escaped the skepticism
winch the discouragements of depres-
sion and unemployment have brought
Not unnaturally there has been
more humility in the current COM
mencement addresses than those Of
other times. Men old in experience
nave been forced to admit that thew
are baffled by our unprecedented
problems. Convenient formulaa of
success have failed and the confident
certalntles of other days have run
a1oul In the disorders of TODAY. Few
speakers perhaps missed the onnor-
tuhlty to tell their audiences that
tnese are days of transition in which
the old order is passing ranidIv .wav
while they may have difficulty in
l'ttlng the young men and women of
To-Day into the world of yesterday. thew
are not slow to tell them that there is
plenty for them to do in the world
that Is just around the corner.
Since the world has never been
static, this same thing has always
been more or less true, although to-
day there is very general feeling
that the world is at the end of one
era and at the dawn of a new one.
The historian will probably be the
only one who can write of that with
any certainty. In the meantime there
is no denying that the world, no mat
ter how constituted, needs the hope
full ambition and the courage of youth
now more than it ever has within the
memory of single generation.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-06-22
KEEP FOOD COVERED
TO RID HOUSE OF ANTS

The little red house ant, bitterly
resented pest of many a Minnesota
housewife, came from the land of the
Pharaohs and altogether adds quite
an exotic touch to the household,
according to a bulletin issued today
by the Minnesota State Medical As
ISOLATION.
By fruiters and freighters to the
new world and thence by freight car
and barge, these Oriental visitors
came, according to the doctors. Even
tually they found themselves in an
uncomfortably cold climate and took
refuge at once in good warm Mime
sofa houses. These houses, especially
if food is occasionally left uncovered
or crumbs are dropped their way, they
find far nicer even than tropical
deserts.
1.-The first move in campaign to
get rid of ants whether they are the
red ants or the kind which come in
from the garden the first warm days
of spring seeking food, is to keep all
food tightly covered" the bulletin
says. Small use to invest in poisOns
or track down the visitors with gaso-
line if temptation to brother ants
whose name is legion, persists.
"The distinctively house inhabiting
ants nest in floor cracks, in masonry,
in articles of furniture. If it is pos
a little disulphid of carbon, kerosene
or gasoline, poured into the openings
will destroy the colony. Precautions
should be taken. of course, to avoid
fire if these inflammable substances
are used"
Sodium fluoride powder busted in
the runways of the ants is also cited
as giving good results. This chem
ical has proved to be very useful for
eradiction of reaches. The collection
of ants by use of attractive bats is
sometimes recommended.
Small sponges moistened with
sweetened water and placed where
ants can get at them are convenient.
But they are of doubtful value since
they probably call in more ants than
can be disposed of. A poisoned syrup
placed in the sponges is more eff
cient, especially if the ants collect
it and convey it to their nests where
it becomes food for other inmates.
A pound of sugar dissolved in a quart
of water to which 125 grains of sod
ium arsenate are added and the
whole boiled and strained is one such
formula. 1t is highly poisonous to
humans and domestic animals as we'll
as ants, however, and the greatest
precautions should be taken to pre-
vent accidents.
Garden and lawn ants can be traced
to their little crater-like nests out
doors and quantity of carbon disul-
phid or kerosene or gasoline can be
injected into the nests Or lawns of
small extent can be sprayed COM
pletely with kerosene emulsion or a
strong soap wash.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-06-22
MOULDING OPINIONS

We have all heard the expression
about the power of the press" 1t
is important who owns the press or
who directs the policy of the press.
We may sometimes read a good arti-
Gle in a magazine or newspaper with
a small circulation and think that
that article, judging by its quality,
will do much good. 1t will of course
do some good, and be the circulation
ever so limited, it must be considered,
but the magazines or newspapers with
combined calculations of millions are
the ones that to a greater extent
mould public opinion.
An article in this weeks issue of
The Nation under the caption of
"Glorifying the House of Morgan"
tells Of revelations from the Senate
how the money interests have had
their fingers in the most powerful
press of the country right along, how
they have played up the leaders" and
experts" from their own house.
A paragraph reads thus:
among the corporations in which
the house of Morgan holds director
ships, as disclosed by the Senate in
vestigating committee, was one whose
presence on the list caused some sur
prise in the newspaper world. This
was the Crowell Publishing Company.
We should perhaps explain that this
corporation owns and publishes Col
lier's Weekly, with circulation Of
100000, going to the man in the
street; the American Magazine, going
to some 100000 ambitious youths
hungering for success; the Woman's
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-06-22
TRADE TRY.OUT COURSES ARE
ARRANGED BEFORE OTHER
SCHOOLS OPEN in THE FALL

Trade try-out courses at Dunwoody
Institute in the following lines: auto
mobile work, building construction,
drafting, electrical work, machine
shop, printing, and highway construc-
ton, open up on August 16 and con-
t1nue until on or about September 8.
This gives an excellent opportunity
for young man to actually try out
one or more of the above lines to see
ii he is interested in the same and if
he has the ability which would best
function in the selected trade.
These try-out courses are specifical-
ly scheduled before the University
and other advanced institutions of
learning open in the fall so that fol-
lowing the three-week trade try-out
those who find that they are not in
terested or do not have the special
abilities required for the training at
Dunwoody may enter some other in
stitution of learning without getting
out of step" with their former class
mates.
Inquiries about the training at Dun
woody and visitors are welcome at all
times.
Dunwoody Institute (Minneapolis)
was a gift to the residents of the
State and is conducted without profit.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-06-22
THE PEDDLER AND THE FARMER
Duluth Herald)

The city council is wise to pass
an ordinance going after the peddler
who never had a hoe in his hand but
who pretends to be a grower when
he peddles his stuff in competition
not only with the merchant but with
the farmer who is a grower.
The farmer who peddles his prod
ucts deserves every possible help. One
practical help is to rid him of the
ruthless competition of the shrewd
lad who is peddler only, and whose
closest contact with the farmers
trade is that he dresses up something
like a farmer.
The council has taken proper step,
and it should follow it up vigorously.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-06-22

Home Companion, going into more
than 100000 American homes; and
the Country Home, going into more
than! 100000 farm homes. Taken
together, these magazines reach a
very sizable section of the reading
public of the United States. And now
it appears that Thomas w. Lamont.
of ]. P. Morgan and Company, is a
director of the publishing company"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-06-22

81 wish had money enough to get
married." remarked a fellow while
calling on a girl last evening. "And
-what-would you do?" she asked
blushfng. Il would spend it travel
ing," he replied, and the temperature
in the room Immediately dropped ten
degrees.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-06-22

DO you have modern improve
ments here" asked a tourist at an oil
station in a neighboring county.
We'll, every time we have a thunder
storm the town is lighted by cleo
tricity,' the native replied.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-06-22

Kindly tell me why a girl always
closes her eyes when a fellow kisses
herr" wrote a youth to the editor of
paper in neighboring town, eff
you will send us your photograph we
may be able to tell you the reason
replied the editor.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-06-22

"But didn't you suspect that the
place had been robbed when you
found the drawers pulled out of the
furniture and the contents scattered
around the room?" asked a policeman
of lady while investigating a rob-
berry there. why, no. she replied,
"You see, 1 thought my husband had
just been looking for a clean shirt"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-06-22

Shop through the columns of the
Askov American.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-06-22
FROM EXCHANGES

Editorial Comment From Other News
papers. Which May or May Not
Conform With the Opinions
of the AskOv American.)
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-06-22

The ads save you money.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-09-04
BAR ADS IN FREE PAPERS

In the governments set-up of 'fair practices"
it mas turned thumbs down on free circulation
newspapers.
In all the codes that have been adopted or will
be adopted the federal government is stressing the
Importance of fair competition.
The restrictions which the government is pre-
pairing to enforce on advertising is found in Lii
cense No. issued by the United States Department
of Agriculture for the milk producers and dealers,
effective August 1, 1888
Exhibit D (page 10) is schedule of "fair prac-
tices" and deals with samples, special inducements,
solicitors, premiums discounts, etc. Here is Sec
ton 10:
Advertising Except as the same may be con-
Quoted through an association of distributors it
shall be considered unfair practice:
(a) To take advertising in any program, perodi-
cal, or publication of any kind whatsoever unless
such publication has general paid circulation or
is on sale on news stands. Advertisements or dis
play type in telephone directories, advertisements
in hotel registers and radio advertising are to be
considered in the same class as program advertise
ments.
"a member of the national committee states
that an Interpretation has been made that free
circulation newspaper does not qualify by placing
some of its papers on sale at a news stand As
long as any portion of the edition is given away
dealers are forbidden to advertise in its columns)
Paragraph 'b" prohibits floats, ETC., in paradcs
and sc" puts ban on buying tickets for benefits
concerts, fairs and exhibits.
While license No. applies only to milk produc
ers and dealers it is understood that the govern.
ment has agreed on standards of "far practice
which are to be applied all along the line The
Lagrange (Ill.) Citizen.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-09-04
LONE SAILOR FINDS NO ADVENTURE
(By BRUCE CATION

A little 36-foOt sailing slOop slipped into
New York harbor the other day after more
than a month at sea. 1t came from France,
and its sole occupant was young painter,
one Marin-Marie Durand-Couppel.
When this venturesome youth was asked
to tell of the thrills of his single-handed
crossing of the Atlantic, he replied tlatly
that there hadn't been any
There were some difficult head winds
and | was happy To- arrive in the bay, ne
said. What happened? A storm. Wind.
Waves. | lost & lib But l cannot excite
YOU with words. When one has been to sea
many times, one either has bad weather or
good weather, and the excitement comes
only when one has never seen either good
weather or bad weather before.
Now in all of the fine frenzy of words
with which we landsmen like to talk about
"the sea-" as if it were a mystic and Tor
biden realm on which romance eternalty
rides the horizon, this matter-of-fact little
statement seems to come about as close
to giving the real essence of things as any
one could.
For a great deal of expensive language
has been used to tell about the wonder and
mystery of the sea, but very little of 1t has
actually been used by sailors. The 70
nance" of sea-faring is generally some
thing that sailors know very little about;
and even when they know about it they
don't talk about it much.
This lad makes a trip which, to most OF
us stay-at-hOmes, seems like the very es-
sence of pure adventure-and he dismisses
it in paragraph. What did he see? Wind
and waves, sometimes turbulent, and q
storm that destroyed his jib Nothing
more; or, at any rate, nothing that he can
talk about.
And that is the way it usually is with
all of the callings that we look on as CLAM
orous. The men who actually follow them
can find in them nothing worth telling
about afterward. The fine writing comes
from people who stay at home and get
their thrills out of their own imgainations.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-09-04
Nebraskans May
Honor Pershing
With An Armory
A.E.F. Leader Took His
First Command AT
State University

LINCOLN. Neb., Sept. A.
UP)-On the flat, clay drill
field where once he whipped
awkward farm youths into crack
Nebraska university cadets, soon
may be erected a 100000 arm
ory as memorial to General
John J. Pershing, commander of
the A. L. F.
On the advice of Secretary of
War George Dern, himself for
mer Nebraskan, plans for the
construction Of the huge memoir
ial building from federal public
works funds now are being draft
cd by the Nebraska university
board of regents.
FIRST COMMAND
1t was at the Nebraska school
that the Missouri-born Pershing
assumed his first command as
commandment of the University Of
Nebraska cadet corps. 1t is to
Lincoln, and the quiet, white
house of his sister, Miss Mae
Pcrshing, that the general re-
turns when he desires to be "at
home"
While serving as youthful ca
dct commandant, Pershing still
fresh from West Point, won his
first recognition as a disciplin-
arian. In 1892 a battalion under
his training, competing in ma