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The Semi-weekly Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 1923-19??, 1933-02-28
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The Semi-weekly Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 1923-19??, 1933-02-28

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shin clerks and board of education
Blanks. THE MADISON PRESS co.
The Semi-weekly Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 1923-19??, 1933-02-28
Laughing Around the World
With IRWIN S. COBB
A Loophole
BY IRWIN S. COBB

FIREMAN duty behind the of of the big New York
theatres and charged with the responsibility that
the regulations strictly obeyed
shock around from behind of scenery before
the evening performances Standing opposite
East See cloak and
The Semi-weekly Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 1923-19??, 1933-02-28

Printed Stationery Of all kinds at
the Madison Press Co.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-08-17
Freak Thunder Storm
Made Weird Spectacle

In the log OF the British steamer
Moravian, Capt. A. Simpson described
a thunder storm on December 80.
1902. lust within range Of Cape
Verde lighthouse. At | 80 a. a..
warm pun of dust-laden wind came
of the African shore. Lightning. at
first distant on the northeast horizon.
became almost continuous, with loud
thunder.
All the stars were visible; only
upper clouds. no cumulus. In the SKY.
Captain Simpson had never before
experienced a severe thunder storm
without cloud. Charles Fitxhugh
Talman. who describes this freak
thunder storm In his Science Service
feature "Why the Weather." goes on
.For fully an hour the sky was
one blaze OF lightning, and wire
ropes. mastheads, yardarms. derrick
ends etc were lighted up. ALI the
stays seemed to have glow lamps
three to four feet apart, and the
mastheads and yardarms a bright
light at their extremities-
1.-THE most remarkable part OF thu
phenomenon WAS the extraordinary
sound emitted throughout Il was
/ saws the log. exactly like the nols'
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-08-17
Highway Without a Rival
Traveller in California Can Journey for Many Miles Denea
Majestic Redwood Trees That Have fioursned
.z47-E3 for Thousands of Years. s-<z
for Thousands of Years

even along the Klamath river, where
the mountain walls are solid with
redwood and the river Is full OF dead
redwood snags, could hardly bring
myself to feel that the Indians, using
redwood for fuel. were less than des-
ecrators. Ard the national bank and
..moyIer house at Scotia. built as imi-
fatIon Greek temples with solid red
wood logs for columns seemer = cruel
waste. The ScotIans, of course. had
merely used the cheapest and most
abundant wood of their neighbor-
hood.
few of the best groves, even oil
rectly beside the Redwood Highway,
are still In private hands, and some
day may yet be sacrificed to the
value Of board feet Of lumber. But
most OF these groves are state parks
saved, unless from fire. forever. You
pass through the Lane grove, the
Mather grove, the Williams grove,
and other groves dedicated to heroes
Of the long nght, and finally even
through the California. State FEEDER
ation-of- Women's-C Clubs and the Gar
den Clubs of America groves, dedi
Gated to other groups Of warriors.
Such names at first seem ludlcrous
they are, of course. no silller thar
the MobIloIl bay which Sir Huber
wilkins dedicated to patron OF oil
Antarctic flights or the Charles Y
Bob mountains which Admiral Byrt
first dedicated to doubtful bene
factor, then erased from his maps
They are close kin to Virginia. Caro-
linn and Georgia names OF our At
lantic coast. Age lends dignity {
| the most violent eccentrlcities Q
grateful nomenclature-when 1t doe
not simply forget them.
The big trees lead the mind bac
into the prehistoric past OF Caiifol
MIA. The giants we're giants eefof
Columbus sighted American land
some OF them were titans #he
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-08-17

The end OF the world Ii In sight,
according to the Inhabitants OF Pit
calrn island. and they are making no
provision for the future, says the Mont
real Herald. They are not planting
young coconuts this year nor storing
up anything for the futu q The 1913
people OF the island are the descend
ants OF English sailors who mutinied
on the warshlp Bounty 10 1880 and
Tahltian women. Because OF their
isolation In mid-Pacific. the islanders
are self-supporting. Coconuts and
other fruits brought to the island by
the crew OF the Bounty are still
growing there. Some Of the agrlcul-
tural implements still used were
made from the iron Of the Bounty.
Walters arc net allowed to aHnoke
there. Neither are they permitted to
drink alcohol or wear shorts.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-08-17

travel along their peaceful river.
But they are fewer than they we're;
and the chug -chug of white mems
motorboats begins to be heard. even
up-river. In fishing season.
Every year the craze for good
roads sends the long white fingers
Of machine civilization further and
further into what has remained.
deep into the Twentieth century. the
wild country of northern California.
Sometimes think that those groves
of redwoods, dedicated to the foun-
ders and the money-ralsers, al they
look down on the long streams OF
motor cars that wind along the new
Redwood highway. must feel lost and
lonely. Where does 4 redwood ut
In a world of stream-lined cars and
managed currencies and Information
al balances OF trade?-Lewis Can
nett. In the New York Herald Trib-
une.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-08-17


Caesar ruled Rome For the red
wood begins life violently. then takes
It's time. A ffty-year-old tree Is Al
big as an eastern veteran; after its
second century the redwood grows
slowly, and the tree which may be
twenty-five hundred years old today
seems little vaster from the base
than a tree thousand years its
junior.
The tall ferns. the oxnlis and the
little star flower. and the flesh col-
ored western azalea and pink rhodo
dendron which peek out from be-
meath the big trees along the Kla.
math river cannot be much different
from the ferns and forest flowers and
shrubs which have been openin. to
the morning dews Of California from
time immemoriaL But beyond their
own shade the big trees look ont on
a changed prospect The Yurok In
dams still cut redwood to make the
dugout canoes by which they still
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-08-17

Prof. Raymond Moley has been de-
tached as assistant secretary OF state
to have charge of the federal govern
ments campaign against crime, espe-
cially kidnapping and racketeerlng. II
was the first break In the brain
trust that group OF professors with
whom the President surrounded him
self. Some weeks ago wrote In these
columns the prediction that such re-
suit had to come. 1t was obvious.
The professor and his theories can be
used by the statesmen and practical
men only so far. Professor Moley
was of no use to Secretary Hull In the
Department OF State after his adven-
lures In connection with the London
economic conference and the unfavor-
able publicity that the professor
caused. In asst, ting Professor Moley
to the Job of banishing crime. the
| President said later he would put him
| hack MS assistant secretary OF state,
O. 1893. Western Newspaper Union
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-08-17

OF the sparks from the carbons OF
an arc lamp; or AZ II several thou
sands OF cicadas had taken up their
quarters In the rigging or the CRACK
ling OF burning grass or twiEA
~This noise was not local near the
bridge, but the officers reported 4
all over the ship. even In the neigh
borhood OF the noisy steering gear
Literary Digest.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-08-17

doubt II there Is any highway In
the world to match the beauty of the
great Redwood highway which Call
fornla has built through the noun
tains and along the sea. up toward
her Oregon frontier. For two hun
bred miles you travel, most of the
time, beneath redwoods which have
the vertical majesty of the Empire
State buildings columns and a tow
ering green dignity and simplicity
which no man-made building can RI
val. They are immense; the eye
takes time to adjust to their height.
Sometimes the rugged trunks
stretch skyward for two hundred feet
without a branch sometimes the
branches almost touch the ground.
And they are abundant; these are
no lone trees, relics of bygone age.
but whole forests of giants, with few
trees but redwood saplings In their
shade. The Founders Tree" on the
DycTflitc Iidtst OUH ACVt h'6ut sAoNsNN
1.-The worlds tallest known tree"
seems little taller than its nelghbors.
That Founders Tree" dedicated
to the founders of the Save-the-R Red
woods league-Madlson Grant, John
C. Merriam and Henry Fairfield Os-
born. two Of them New Workers. and
one citizen OF Washington, D. c.
hints part of the romance behind the
chain of state redwood parks. Drlv-
Ing today through that chain OF giant
groves, you have 10 sense OF .
mighty race In peril OF destruction
you feel only that redwoods have
aourished her for thousands OF years
and still flourish. But there was 9
time when logging was proceeding Al
such a pace that 1t seemed doubtful
whether coming generations woult
ever know what California's-ant
America Suggest living things hat
been.
The Saye-the- Redwoods league
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-08-17

In the course OF negotiations be-
tween the recovery administrators and
Industrial represent
IT'S a Tough atives, one OF the
D-LTa great problems was
how to arrange
fair basis for competition when dif-
ferent factories had such widely diff
ferent costs Of production. The high
ly efficient plant could produce at
much lower cost. obviously, than could
the plant that was obsolete In equip
ment and managed In haphazard fash
Ion. The same situation obtains with
respect to retailers Chain stores with
great buying power and the resultant
advantage of lower prices are natural
lv going to be able to sell at lower
price than the Independent store. own
er who buys In small quantities and
has higher overhead costs. Now say
the critical-minded, II Doctor Howe
fixes as fair price that for which the
chain store Is able to sell Its goods,
what Is going to happen to the indie
pendents? IL, on the other hand, the
price level quoted by Doctor Howe APP
| proxlmates the price charged by the
| independent then the chain store can
and undoubtedly will get all OF the
| business. 1t will make use OF those
| figures In advertising the fact that the
/ chain store prices are below the gov
eminent price" Manlfestly, that will
/ be unfair to the Independent. But,
| am prompted to ask, what can Doctor
Howe do about 1t?
In announcing his program to estab-
lish fair prices, Doctor Howe said
there were consumers councils being
organized In scores Of cities and towns.
These, he ayerred would help In see
ing that no merchant profiteered.
There can be no doubt of the fact that
these consumers councils viii exert
a tremendous influence. 0ld-timers
here. however, recalled that the fight
against profiteering during the World
war developed many nasty situations.
Overzeaous individuals conscientious
In their efforts, but sometimes bit
shy Of horse sense, made personal
matter out of such things as patriotic
action.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-08-17
1l(ag!!,jitii92lg%fSliij qga( Z
National Topics Interpreted III m1llgI&
by William Bruckart 1kn<4M

consensus here, and Its insistence on
advantages promises further difficui-
Ties.
The Department of Agriculture has
set for Itself the big Job OF establish
ing fair prices for
To rhr~b the consumer while |
pro6t.~r;no giving what Is tan
tamount to guar
antee of higher prices for the Things
the farmer produces. Through a Sc
rles of statements. Secretary Wallace
has repeatedly affirmed that the re-
turns to the farmers must be Increased
In every direction. simultaneously,
DR.. Fred G. Howe. who as the consum-
ers' counsel represents the side OF the
buyers In the governments agricui-
tural set-up. made the announcement
that he was going to compile weekly
lists of prices for publication as
means of protecting against the prom
teer.
From this arrangement 1t would DE
made to appear that there will have 10
be reasonable prices maintained every
where on food commodities. But OBJ
servers here have been picking up nu-
merous angles of the situation which
they believe contain elements OF trou-
Bile. Doctor Howe, of course. will De
able to gather price lists at whatever
rate and In whatever volume he de.
sires, and he can get them distributed
through the press and through the
radio to the bulk of the people OF the
United States But the question that
Is being asked here Is. what method
Is Doctor Howe going to employ that
will fix price just and reasonable
everywhere and provide the farmers
with all of the return promised them7
Some of the more critical say there Is
likelihood that Doctor Howe Is going
to run into a difference OF opinion,
what with farmers demanding more,
added expenses forcing the retailer TO
charge more and the ultimate con-
snmer with limited means OF buying
the things concerned.
OF course. there can be no doubt but
that some retailers are going to Try to
capitalize on the situation and prof.
teer on prices Doctor Howe Is set
to defeat them by the weight OF public
opinion which must be regarded as
/ commemorate course. Yet, according
I=te the consensus one finds In Washing
ton, that which Doctor Howe an
nounces as d fair and reasonable price
ts unlikely always to fit the situation
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-08-17

The Save-the- Redwoods league
reused the nat'nn SO thoroughly that
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-08-17

consensus here, and Its inslstence On
advantages promises further difficult
Ties.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-08-17

AS a sample Of the driving force
that has been exerted and Is being
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-08-17

The Department of Agriculture ma
set for itself the big Job OF establish
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-10-26
! ASKOV SCHOOL NOTES
To Have News Column.

Because of financial difficulties, the
high school is unable to issue paper
of it's own this year. We have, how
ever. secured permission from A. w.
Conaway, managing editor, to have a
space in the Askov American each
week. Edith Hansen was chosen as
editor and Walter Krogh assistant
editor of this column. Mr. Anderson
will choose reporter from each
class every two weeks. The reporters
for these two weeks are Helen Grave
sen, Alva Fogt, Florence Clausen and
Gudrun Larsen.
1t is planned that this column shall
be of more interest to the reading
public than it has been before, as all
efforts will be confined to it. instead
of being divided between the local
column and the school newspaper.
In fact it will be the high school
newspaper. School news, editorials,
cluded. We plan to join high school
press association, whereby we receive
critical service and enter into COM
petition with other school papers.
School news used to appear under
the title of Askov School Notes. We
are now going to change this title
and have an original one as was the
case when we had our private paper.
The choice of a name is being carried
out in contest form. All students are
asked to submit name and the one
which is considered best is to be-
come the name of our weekly column.
Plans for the high school annual
have already been made. Alice Len
ora Nielsen, who was appointed edi-
tor of that division, has plans we'll
worked out for this project.
The first of the assembly programs
was staged Friday afternoon. Some
songs were sung after which Edith
Hansen outlined the plans for the
high school column in the Askov
American. Alice Lenora Nielsen told
of her plans for the making of a
bigger and better annual. 1t seemed
that she had her proceedings mapped
out to perfection, and if everyone
does his part, her plans are almost
certain to succeed. The afternoon
terminated with singing several
rounds and other high school favor
ties.
Those on the honor roll for the
first six weeks are as follows: fresh
men, Helen Gravesen, Esther Hansen.
Naomi Jensen, June Kilstofte, Astrid
Nielsen, and Ruby Petersen; sophie
mores, Anna Elkjer, Alva Fogt, Doro-
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-10-26
KERRICK

Miss Margaret Hogan spent the
weekend at home.
Bill Gellately of Duluth, was in
town one day last week. He tried
Marie's doughnuts and coffee and
says they are better than ever.
There was a party at the Neuman
home last Saturday night. Folks en-
joyed it.
Donovan Hogan and Victor Johnson
were in the city Friday, bringing up
new Ford truck and a pickup for
the Hogan Motor Sales. Donovan left
Saturday for South Dakota to be gone
ten days or more.
Ed Hultgren spent week in Du-
luth with his sisters.
Cy Halverson is here for a week.
They are loading a few more cars of
sand and have the usual weather
The first snow is here and will soon
be gone. 1t should be fine for blowing
after this.
The road from McGraths corner to
Oak lake is getting to be one of the
poorest in the township. That road
is entitled to better service.
Mrs. M. c. Balsom and her sister,
Mrs. Spence of Tacoma, Wash, left
Tuesday morning for visit at New
Richmond, Wis. Mrs. Spence has
been spending two weeks at the Bal
som home.
It's time to pay taxes. Remember
Oct. 81 is the last day for your real
estate taxes.
d. j. Curry is at Ely, Mimi, look
ing over some timber land. He ex-
poets to have a camp in that terri
tory this winter to get out spruce and
mining timber. Mrs. Curry is still
in Superior with her mother who is
quite i'll.
There was shower at the Kvas-
nicka home Wednesday in honor of
Mrs. Felix Kvasnicka (nee Blanche
Hedberg). Many useful gifts were
showered on the young bride. They
are starting home on the land south
of the Kvasnicka place.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-10-26

bolt, but soon the situation cleared
sufficiently to make it possible for
the conference to announce merely
postponement of the meeting from
October 16 to October 26. So. today
the session will open, according to
the plans made.
World Not Optimistic.
Now that nearly two weeks have
elapsed since Germany staged its SEN
sational withdrawal drama, the talk
about a war has been, as it was bound
to be, soft-pedaled. Informed opinion
fears no war now, mostly for the
reason that no cause of war actually
exists, and nothing is to be gained
by any country going into military
clash.
But, generally speaking, the world
is not very optimistic about the pros
poets of the disarmament conference.
During all the time from its opening
early in February of last year to the
day when Hitler shook the world with
his declarations, nothing was accom-
plished by the delegations assembled
in Geneva. 1t is reasonable to assume
that since the situation now has be-
come more intricate than ever before,
it will be still more difficult to OBJ
tain agreement about ornaments linn
itations, than it has been hitherto.
Even the feeblest attempt at attain
ing agreement about a disarmament
treaty must now be looked upon as
most pleasant surprise. For, cir
cumstances being what they are, a
surprise it will be.
Big Navies.
To further complicate the disarma-
ment situation, the United States is
| increasing its navy; Japan is prepar-
ing to follow that example; France
wants more and bigger ships; Great
Britain's Tory politicians and admir-
atty lords are shouting for bigger and
better war machines on the sea, and
tomorrow, Navy Day in this country,
the cry will once more be heard for
adequate naval defense.
Nowhere can the will to disarm be
seen; that is true in regard to navies;
it is equally true with respect to
armies So, the world had better not
key it's disarmament expectations too
high-just now.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-10-26
MOST LIVESTOCK
is UNCHANGED
Cattle Quality Plain, Few Grain.feds
S5.75 Down; Hogs $4.2O Down; Pigs
S3.25; Bulk Lambs $3.50.

tBy U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Eco
nomics and Minnesota Department OF
Agriculture.)
South ST. Paul, Mimi, Oct. %, 1888:
Little price change was evident in the
livestock market at this weeks OPEN
ing. Cattle quality was mostly plain.
Scattered lots of grain-feds sold at
$3.50 to S4.75, grass-fat steers mostly
$500 down, common kinds $500 to
$500, butcher heifers $500 to $500,
grain-feds being scarce. Desirable
grass beef cows brought $500 to So so,
low cutter to common cows S1.O0 to
$1.75, common to medium bulls $3.50
to 1925, better vealers $500 to $500.
medium to good stocker and feeder
steers 1925 to S4.25, palmer stockers
$1.75 to $500, good stock calves $500
to S4.25.
Better 40 to $50 pound hogs cleared
mainly at $40 to 1920, odd head of
$50 to $50 pounds, $3.50 to $40, de-
sirable $50 to 10 pounds, 1918 to
$500, pigs mainly 1925, packing sows
$2.S5 to $3.50.
In the sheep division a generous
supply moved over the scales at steady
prices. Good to choice lambs sold to
packers at $3.50, three loads of Sc
lected lambs to a shipper at $6.75.
Common throwouts cleared largely at
$500, medium to good yearlings $3.50
to $500, fat ewes $1.5O to 1925. Good
to choice range feeders sold at $3.50
TO S5S5 better natives and DakOtaS
$3.50 to $500.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-10-26
ASKOV

VIM. Meyers and son, Robert, of
Minneapolis, were here Saturday and
Sunday for visit with Mr.. and Mrs.
Ed Dietz, and to do some hunting.
Ed Dietz accompanied them home to
visit there the balance of this week.
Marius T. Johansen was at the Vet
Grams Hospital in Minneapolis last
week from Monday till Friday for
examination. He went down again
Tuesday of this week for further ex-
animation, expecting to be gone two
or three days.
Miss Esther Henriksen, teacher in
the Bear Creek school, four miles
south of Askov, announces that every
one is cordially invited to attend a
pie social to be given at her school
on Friday evening, Oct. q. There
will be short program in connection
with the social. The ladies are OF
course requested to please bring a
pie and the gentlemen little cash.
The proceeds from the social will go
toward buying some much needed
equipment for the school.
MI MI .. ". cohlloSh diN
son, Earl, Mr.. and Mrs. Harold john
sen, Frederick (Buster) Olesen and
Skat DiXen left last Thursday for
Wyndmere, N. D., to visit Chris M.
Petersen and family, and incidentally
do some hunting. They returned home
Tuesday evening and report that the
Petersen family (who formerly lived
southeast of Askov) are we'll and
happy and getting along as good as
can be expected in these times.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Hoiberg and Mr..
and Mrs. Hans Hoiberg from Nysted,
Nebr, were here Sunday in the in
terest of the Nysted Peoples College.
In the evening the two gentlemen
spoke at the Young Peoples meeting
and their wives rendered vocal selec-
lions. Both lectures dealt principally
with the economic problems of the
day and they terminated by saying
that their college endeavOred to train
young people so as to be able to meet
and cope with these problems, in adj
dition to giving regular courses of
instructions.