Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-06-28
State Capitol News

For years, liberals have been con-
Quoting a campaign against compul-
sorry military drill in our State Uni
versity. This campaign was brought
to successful conclusion by the vote
of the University Board of Regents
making drill optional. This comes as
very fine gesture, especially at this
time when irresponsible rulers are at
tempting to revive the spirit of mill
tarism and make ready the stage for
another insane and senseless whole
sale slaughter. The only way to abol-
ish war is by abolishing the things
that make for the spirit of war. Just
why military training was made a
necessary adjunct to higher educa-
ton is beyond understanding. How
ever, students who still feel that mill
tary drill will benefit them i'm their
quest for learning can avail them
selves of it. Our guess is that very
| few of the seriously minded students
will.
appointment of sub-marginal
| land committee, which will later or
ganize itself into a quasi-public or
ganization for the purpose of acquir-
| ing title to sub-marginal lands pnr-
chased with Federal money, was an
nounced by Governor Olson. Mem
bers of the committee are E. V. Will
ard, conservation commissioner,
chairman; Carl Carlgren, chairman
of the Board of Control; Professor o.
B. Jessness, Department of Agricul-
tural Economics; Noble Clark, direc-
tor of the Wisconsin Agricultural EX-
pertinent Station, and DR.. Raphael
ZOn, director, Lake States Forest Elk
pertinent Station. In the Governor S
letter to the appointees it was sug-
gested that the first matter to be
taken up by the committee should be
the designation of areas in northern
NJ nm OF wherein sub-marginal
lands may be purchased and from
which areas, settlers may be moved
Approximately 1000 of foreign cat
| tie have been Quarantined by the
Livestock Sanitary Board since drouth
conditions became serious in neigh
boring states. These cattle, arriving
in Minnesota mostly by truck, were
| found to be diseased. Dangers of in
| lection of Minnesota herds was one
of the reasons National Guardsmen
were called to the borders of the state
to prevent cattle from coming in.
Guardsmen have all been withdrawn
and local law enforcement agencies
are continuing the Governors en-
barge.
Tuberculin tests of all the cattle
in the counties of Lyon, Chippewa,
yellow Medicine and Lac Qui Parle
counties have been completed by the
Minnesota State Livestock Sanitary
Board under DR.. c. E. Cotton. Cattle
in all the 81 counties of the state
have now been tested and by Septem-
Der, 1885, the board will be in a
position to designate all counties in
the state as Modified Accredited Tu-
berculOsis Free Areas. At present
| 70 counties are so designated by the
State Board and the U. S. Bureau OF
Animal Industry. Such designation
in 1885 will make Minnesota the
fourteenth state in the Union to be
SO accredited and will mean that Min
nesota dairymen will be able to COM
pete for eastern markets with greater
ease than formerly.
Check of the number of tests made
by the Livestock Sanitary Board
shows that there are approximately
3,466,457 cattle in Minnesota, more
than in any other state in the Union
This number includes cattle of all
types and ages.
Capacity of the George Washing
| ton Memorial state-Owned forestry
nursery at Badoura is being increased