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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-01-25
UNFORTUNATE

There are eases where parents are
not the best protectors of their chill
dren, but they are rare, and happily
so. News dispatches state that a
father out In Seattle, Wash, few
days ago choked to death his two
boys, aged 8 and 3, due presumably
to a strange case of religious fan
atheism.
The father, for whom a sanity test
was planned, insisted, police said.
that he had been directed to kill the
children because they had the devil
in Them"
The home, the cornerstone of the
nation, is nearly always the best
place for children, but sad cases like
the one in Seattle, will occur now and
then amongst the millions of good
homes in the nation.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-01-25
4 GRACIOUS ACT
(New Ulm Review

Nothing that President Roosevelt
has done since he assumed office has
appealed to US SO much as his gen.
eral amnesty to conscientious Objec-
tors during the War. 1t was most
gracious act. We felt right along
that he should and would do. that
very thing and we suggested editor
tally months ago that this should
be done. 1t is customary that am
nesty be granted political prisoners
either at the beginning of a new
regime or during the Yuletide Presi-
dent Roosevelt decided upon the
later date. As we see it now, most
of those convicted during the war
hysteria were within their conStitu-
tional rights when they did what they
did,. Few things in our history are
more disgracefuI than the black
chapter of the World war and the ma
tional error should have been cor
rected long ago. President ROOSe-
welt deserves and will receive credit
for making amends, however tardy,
to the victims of war hysteria.
Continued on Page 81
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-01-25
All the problems that Socialism pro-

All the problems that Socialism pro-
pounds. aside from the cosmogonic
visions. dreams and mysticism, may
be reduced to two principal prob
LENS.
First. to produce wealth. and second,
to distribute it. Our first problem
contains the question of labor, the
second, of wages.
From the employment of force re-
suits public power. and from the dis
tributiOn of enjoyment results indi-
vidual happiness. By good distribu-
ton we mean not equal distribution,
but equitable distribution. The high
est quality is equity.
The combining of public power with
out and individual happiness within,
results social prosperity. Social pros
perity means man happy, the citizen
free, the nation great.
We have already solved the first
problem, we have created wealth by
the billions, we have distributed it
badly. This solution which is COM
plete on one side only has brought
us to two extremes, monstrous opu-
lence, monstrouS misery. All the en-
jOyments for few, all the privatiOn
for the rest, that is to say, to the
people. Privilege, exception, monopo-
ly, feudality, springing itself a false
and dangerous situation which POUNDS
public power upon private misery.
Communism and agrarian law think
they have solved the second problem.
They are mistaken. Their distribu-
tion kills production. Equal parti-
ton abolishes emulation, and conse-
quently labor. 1t is distribution
made by a butcher who kills what he
divides. 1t is therefore impossible to
stop at prOfessed solutions. To kill
wealth is not to distribute it,
The two problems must be solved
together to be we'll solved. The two
solutions must be combined and form
but one.
Solve the two problems, encourage
the rich and protect the poor, sup
press misery, put an end to the un-
just speculation upon the weak by
the strong, and place a bride on the
iniquitous jealousy of him who is on
the road against him who has reached
his end. We must adjust mathe-
matically and paternally wages to
labor. Make science the basis of
manhood and thus develop the intel
ligence while we occupy the arm.
Next, universaliZe property in such
a way that every citizen may be pro-
prietor, an easier thing than it is
believed to be, in two words, continue
to produce wealth but learn to dis
tribute it,. Only then will we have
material as we'll as moral grandeur.
Then, and then only, will we be able
to call ourselves happy nation.
Capitalism is failure; it's founda-
ton is greed and selfishness, man and
events shall in due time widen those
crevices under the foundation till it
shall crash, never to arise and Cypress
mankind again.
HENRI e. PELTO.
FinlaySOn, Mimi.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-01-25
A DEED WELL DONE

The apprehension and arrest of
the two murderers CT the Lithu-
-anian farm hand, whose body was
found near Brook Park in Deem
Der, the story of which has been re-
ported in the columns of the Askov
American, is a bit of detective work
which should draw commentator
from citizens throughout the state.
To people Over-run by bandits, kid
1napers, murderers such as are the
present generations a detection and
bringing to justice of a criminal is
good and wholesome news.
From the time that Melvin G. Pas
solt and his men of the state criminal
apprehension bureau came into the
case, there was little to work on as a
clue The body had been found partial
zly burned and the only clue which
might be utilized to track Down the
murderers was a Lithuanian book of
poems This looked very meager at
the start, but after detectives had
worked Oh the case "a short time,
news dispatches began to trickle in
that such a book had been sold by
the publishing house to five people
within the state, and after a
series of attempted identifications the
victim was identified and thus sub
sequent avenues to the capture of the
murderers were opened.
The conscientious work done by the
department in solving this crime
which had its climax within the pre-
cincts of Pine county should be ap-
plauded and fervent wish should be
extended that all other similar cases
will receive the same conscientious eff
forts. State law officials have beer
a thorn i'm the side" of criminals who
endeavor to ply their trade here the
past year and this is just one more
case to demonstrate that the depart
ment cannot be taken lightly by des
peradoes.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-01-25

way Is going to be built. If the Unit
ed States does not participate, the
work will be done eventually by Can
ada alone. Thus navigational facili-
ties-which will be limited-would
be available to the United States only
to the extent that Canada did not
want them.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-01-25
CREVICES UNDER THE
FOUNDATION
Editor AskOv Americans:

Editor ASkOV American.
In revolutions the revolted party is
not the people but the President. Rev.
olution is the opposite of revolt. Ev-
cry revolution being a normal accom-
plishment, contains in its own legiti-
macy, which false revOlutionists some
times dishonor, but which persists,
even when sullied and which sur
wives even when stained with blood.
Revolutions spring, not from accident
but from necessity. A Revolution is
return from the fictitious to the
real. We find then a revolution from
Democracy to Socialism a necessity.
No one will be astonished that for
various reasons we do not treat here
fundamentally from the theOretic
point of view, the questions raised by
Socialism, we limit ourselves to indi-
eating them.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-01-25
OPINIONS OF OTHERS

Short timely letters on topics
of public interest are welcome.
whether or not the writer's opin.
ions conform with those of the
American. All letters must be
signed with the writer's name for
our information. Signed articles al
ways are more effective. but If the
writer does not wish to have his
name used. 1T will be withheld.)
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-01-25

A young man who applied for a
marriage license at the ST. Paul court
house was given a drivers license by
mistake. He took it back and ex-
changed it for marriage license,
but il is said that he now finds it
Also included drivers license-back
seat driver.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-01-25
FROM EXCHANGES
editorial Comment From Other News.
papers. Which May or May Not
Conform With the Opinions
of the AskOv American.)
CHISAGO COUNTY AND MONEY
(ChiSagO County PreSS)

ICHISdSO county PreSS)
Last week this paper carried the
news of the ChisagO County Civil
Works Administration payroll running
around $4,000 for one week only. And
today, as we go to press, it has been
a pleasure to write another headline
stating that the CWA payroll in this
county again mounts to $4,000 or may
be higher. The CWA termed by many
as the finest piece of work yet insti-
tuted by the Roosevelt administration,
is bringing relief and that is, direct
relief to millions throughout the land
and hundreds right here at home.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-01-25
WHO. PAYS THE COST OF
GOVERNMENT.
(St.. Louis County independently

(St.. Louis County independently
Although the income of workers
and farmers fell sharply and that of
coupon-clippers held firm during the
fiscal year of 1928. the government
was able to get 1891, 100000 more in
sales taxes out of consumers, while
revenue from income taxes on the
coupon-clippers- fell by $309,0O0,OOO, as
compared with the previous fiscal
year This is the gist of the annual
report of the Bureau of Internal Rev.
enue.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-01-25

Something to worry about-A sci
enlist says that VIZ know absolutely
nothing about whether there Is life
Oh other planets or not.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-01-25

If there are some who ask why even
a fraction of tie e. penditures should
go to Canadian labor. they sltoCll re-
member that of the three rapids in
the st. Lawrence river, Canada is un-
dertaking to build the locks for two
entirely at it's own expense, as we'll as
doing fair share of other work to-
ward deepening the present w terway.
The power possibilities of the water
way are not less important than its
navigational advantages. AS We p int
ed out on December q, it is proposed
to develop more power from the ST.
Lawrence rapids along the interna-
tional boundary-to be divided equal
ly between Canada and the United
States-than is at present contem-
plated at Muscle Shoals and Boulder
Dam combined. This, CT course, is
the reason for the secret utility cam
paign against the waterway.
AS President Roosevelt reminded
the country in his message, the water
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-01-25

Continued on Page 81
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-21
BEFUDDLED BY DRINK OF
WHISKY, SLEW WOMAN BY
ACCIDENT, KILLERS PLEA
Pistol Went Off Prematurely in Attempt to
End Own Life, Salesman Tells The Times
in Exclusive Interview
IN NERVOUS STATE SEVERAL YEARS
Menaces Two Others After Staying Cultured
Sister-in-Law; Suffered Breakdown
After End of War.

big drink of whisky she gave him because he felt
bad" caused Harvey s. Talbot last night
kill his Sternlaw, Mrs. Pauline Dowden Williams he said
today
The 46-year-old man. pale and with his head bandaged
with gauze to wound he inflicted upon himself with
his 25caiber revolver after Mrs. Williams fell mortaly
wounded told The Indianapolis Times exclusively that he had
intended to shoot only himself but that the gun went off
accidentally because he was made clumsy depressed by
the liquor.
Fully conscious but weak Talbot lay a cot in city
hospital and related "a know about the leading
the shooting at her apartment 1912 West ST. Joseph street.
He had been in the neghborhood business during the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-21
FOUR PERISH IN
SHIP COLLISION
Lake Freighter Goes Down
Following Crash in
Dense Fog.
BIZ United Press

ALPENA, Mich, Nov 21.-Four
lives we're lost when the lake freight
er W. c. Franz sank today following
a collision with the S. S. Edward
LOOMS in a dense fog seventeen
miles southeast of Sturgeon Point,
in Lake Huron.
The LOOMS was damaged badly
in the crash, but was proceeding
slowly down the lakes with rescued
members of the Franz crew. She
was due to dock at Harbor Beach,
Mich, around l p. m. The S. S.
Reiss Brothers stood by and aided
in the rescue work.
Names of the men lost in the COL
lision were not included in the brief
radiogram received at Rogers City
commercial marine station which
told of the collision and the subSe-
quent sinking of the Franz.
First news of the disaster was con-
tanned in jerky SOS call sent out
at 1928 a. M, and picked up by
Marconi Radio in New York and lake
stations near here. The exact posi-
ton was not given and the ships
operator was forced to end his call
for help abruptly with a trembling
SOS to take to lifeboats from the
sinking vessel.
Communication was made difficult
by weather conditions and volume
of commercial messages which flooded
the air following the silent" period
during the SOS call.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-21
EXPENSES FILED
BY DEMOCRATS
2 Per Cent Club Donated
S55,275 to Fund,
Report Shows.

The Hoosier Democratic CLUB
dubbed by its critics as the Two Per
Cent Club" had a controlling mon
etary interest in the election cam
paign of the state Democratic COM
mittee, it was learned today from the
financial report filed by William
Storen, committee treasurer.
The club donated $55,275 of the
total receipts of s103,533 Commit
tee disbursements we're SOB, ISL
Federal check taxes amounted to Sc
and a balance of S475 remains.
The club was so nicknamed be-
cause dues asked of state employees
originally was per cent of their
salaries.
Leading contributors to the state
fund were Senator-elect Sherman
Minton, $4,000; Thomas Taggart
$1,000; Governor Paul V. McNutt
$500; Paul Fry, excise director, $500;
R. Earl Peters, 5000; Omer S. Jack
son. state chairman, $3.50; Victor M
O'ShauneSsy, Lawrenceburg, $1,000
and Pleas Greenlee, the Governor
secretary, 5000.
The report shows that county
committees we're assessed $4,000
Lake county received $4,000 from
the state fund and Marion county
$500.
Governor McNutt throughout the
campaign contended that contribu-
tons offered by state employees
through the club were solicited ra-
Their than donations from interested
persons seeking government favors
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-21
LABOR-CAPITAL
TRUCE SOUGHT
Labor Fears Must Be Set
at Rest, Is Belief of
NeW-DeaIerS.
By United Press

~ UHtted Press
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.-Re-
covery urgently needs now a realiza-
ton of the industrial truce proposed
by President Roosevelt before the
election.
Labor and industrial management
representing capital are far apart
Mr.. Roosevelt seeks a middle-of the
road course. He shortly must assure
labor that its interests will be safe
guarded in developing cooperation
between the New Deal and the
United States Chamber of Com
merce.
Both sides will be disappointed
when the assurance is given. Each
will find favorite policies Scrapped.
But New Dealers believe it is vital
to calm labor fears because the SUBJ
surface situation is alarming
Factors favoring Christmas
business upturn would not be con-
trolling if labor got out of hand
Confidential information leads o.
fcials to believe steel, automobile
and textile industrialists have a
gentlemen's agreement to block en-
ploye elections designed to further
organize their employees. Mr.. Roose-
welt probably will stand with labor
on that issue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-21
PARENTSOF GIRL, 16,
KEPT CAPTIVE YEAR,.
HELD UNDER BOND.
Step-Mother Free Makes 81 900 Bail, But
Father Is Detained in Default Trial
Is Set for Monday.
PRISONER RELATES AMAZING STORY
Tells of Being Kept in Dark Room, Fed Two
Daily Meals of Cold Gravy and
Cold Potatoes
Cold Potatoes.

Bond of ST. 900 each was continued today for Harry
Mack So and his wife, Mrs. Ora Mack 3D. of 1902 West
Market street. their preliminary arragnment before L.
Russell Newgen juvenile court referee on charges OF child
neglect arising out of the yearong Imprisonment of their
16-year-od daughter Helen.
Mrs Mack, bakery employe, made bond yesterday
afternoon few hours after her arrest Mack groceryman,
still is held at county jail in default of bond They rep
resented by attorney Paul P. Scharffn.
Both arrested yesterday afternoon on charges OF
child neglect their daughter had been found wrapped
dirty blanket dark at the West Market street
address Trial for Monday the absence from the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-21
PAUPERs. Ex-DRiLLERs, STRIKE OIL ON POOR FARM

the Washington county infirmary
Yerian and Hupp were offered
$4,000 each for their holdings.
NO" they said; well sink an
other well if production in this
one continues"
Il don't care so much about the
OIL" said Yerian. And the in
Urinary is good enough for me. I
will stay here so long as they will
allow it"
They let us drill a well, and
that is what We like to do" said
Hupp. That's our work"
A thirty-barrel we'll in Wash
ington county is considered an ex-
cellent producer, as the oil sand Is
known to increase production ra-
ther than decrease 1t.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-21

man, loaned them drilling tools,
however, and Hall advanced them
enough money to go TO work. The
four men became holders in the
Pauper Oil Company.
=
THE drillers dug coal from the
l. poorhouse grounds to fire
their engine boiler and set to work.
Visitors came, smiled, and walked
away.
One day, about noon, a black
fluid spurted up. Funds were
scraped together for nitroglycerin
and a charge was fired. Oil spurt-
ed like a geyser toward the sky,
kissing out Of the casing in bar
rels.
A great cheer went up around
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-21

Outside the Washington county
poorhouse the valuable crude oil
was making a black plume around
their equipment, giving forceful
reality to their dime-novel TO
nance of success.
Yerian and Hupp had been
prosperous oil drillers who worked
from Ohio to Oklahoma. Bad
times came. They finally trudged
of TO the Washington county
home, penniless, but not so much
concerned over that as over the
termination of a work they en-
joyed.
L. A. Hall. home superintendent,
recently heard with skepticism
their plan 10 drill for oil on the
grounds. Thomas Maxon, an oil
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-21

appeared on behalf Of the defend
ants.
g. The loss of personal profits to
the defendants-a loss which was
SUI ined only because of their
abiding faith in the future of their
enterprises.
In the light of these facts I'M
hesitatingly put the fate Of the de-
PENDANTS in your hands"
Mr.. Lounsbury's conclusion came
at the start of what promised to be
the longest court session since the
start of the famous case in the old
federal building two months ago
Judge James H. Wilkerson planned
night session tonight TO speed The
case to conclusion.
In building up his final plea
Lounsbury recited the economic his
tory Of the last five years, beginning
with the lush period of 1929
Mr.. Lounsbury endeavored To
strengthen the defense plea that the
defendants made mistakes. but that
these mistakes were based on COM
mon fallacy in business judgment
rather than upon criminal intent.
The defendants scuttled their
own ship" he said, they passed up
hundred chances to get out with
profit, yet they are treated as if
they were crooks to commit bust
ness suicide"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-21
Vivid Tale of Runaway Lovers Life on
Eden Like Island Revealed in Letters
From f-Styled Adam of Galapagos

Lying on the sun-baked shore
of barren Maichena island. one OF
fifty in the group, they limited of
a mystery of jealousy and intrigue.
But I am sure that, whatever
strange thing has happened down
there, Ritter and Frau Koerwin
are SAFE" said DR.. Baker Brownell
of Northwestern university.
CPREAD before him were a
- dozen bulky letters from Rit-
ter. Nearly five years ago he was
a member of a yachting party
which discovered the self-exiled
German physician and his beau
tiful companion on the sylvan
isle.
Never again will he and Frau
Koerwin return to civilization,
wrote Ritter in one of his last
letters to the professor.
I'VE are truly at the entrance
gates to heaven-we shall remain
to the death, our naked bodies
toiling in the sun"
I'VE turned our backs on the
society Of our fellow man." wrote
Ritter of his flight from Amster-
dam with Frau Koerwin, a student
of his PHILOSOPHERS.
I'VE sought the solitude of an
almost desert island where we
would have peace of mind and an
opportunity to cultivate our rehec-
tive powers to the fullest extent,
thing denied to man by the
complexities of civilized life"
ERAU KOERWIN, he said, was
/ enthusiastic over the adven-
tUre and never has regretted it"
DR.. Brownell paused in his in
terpreting of the rugged German
Scrawl, spread across rough, ruled
paper.
I'm sure he is right" the pro-
feSsor said. She is a marvellous
person. Theirs wasn't the fight
OF illicit lovers 1t was greater
tran that, or it never would have
lasted"
Ritter wrote that: For relief
from the heat we were forced to
discard all clothing except hip
boots which we thought advisable
for protection against the jagged
rocks. Henceforth that was to be
our conventional garb."
n
TINE islands he described as
IL volcanic in origin with only
partial vegetation. There is very
little rain but the clouds hang so
low that on the higher slopes
there is enough moisture for a
lush growth of tropical plants.
Cool trade winds fan the island.
He described how he and Frau
Koerwin, who herself had left a
home and husband to travel across
the world to the strange place,
discovered fertile valley deep
within the place, abundant with
fruits and a clear spring.
"Dore was SO infected by her
joyousneSS that she staged dance
and I chriStened the lovely valley
Friedo, our garden of peace"
DR.. Brownell said that several
OF his letters to Ritter apparently
never reached their PARKWAY island.
One of the envelopes addressed to
the professor by Ritter bore a mo-
tation, delivered by the kindness
of Mr.. Vincent Aston"
The Aston yacht has made sew
eral trips to the Galapagos,
mysterious Garden of Eden"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-21
| MEMPHIS is DELUCED
BY RECORD RAINFALL
One Death Reported; Flood
Courses Streets.
By United Press

By United Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Nov. 21.-Rain
which officially broke all records
here today flooded and marooned
homes, endangered the lives of hun
dreds, tied up traffic, and indirectly
caused the death of one person.
In approximately twelve hours
the all-time twenty-four- hour record
of 967 inches of rainfall here was
surpassed.
Water flooded some streets to a
depth of three feet and more.
Joe Cheney, city engineering de-
partment employee, dropped dead as
he was explaining to friends the
great amount of water that had
blocked traffic on Market avenue
Excitement brought on death.