Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-06-14

greatest nation in the worlds history!
We live today in the only nation that
has ever been able to solve its prob
lem of production! Just think of that
fact a moment. Since man began to
walk erect, since he began to gather
in tribes and in nations throughout
the development that has taken place
over the many centuries, man has
continually struggled with the prob
lem of production problem OF
subsistence!
Distribution Not Solved.
Look back today at the countries
from which you came. or from which
your forefathers came not many gen.
CREATIONS ago, and you will find without
exception that the same old struggle
goes forward to gather enough OF food
and clothing and shelter with which
to subsist. This is the only nation
which has solved that problem. We
can produce three times as much food
as is needed for our 100 million people,
for all our livestock, for all of our
needs. We have an industrial ma
chine geared to a point where we can
produce three times as much as our
people need of all the necessities of
life. | heard great scientist say
within the past few days that this ma
ton can now produce everything which
it consumes excepting only five COM
mOdities. These five commodities are
chromium, nickel, coffee and two drug
groups You therefore live in ma
ton favored of God, with a problem
quite different than that confronting
any other civilized nation of the
world. You live in that one nation
which has the power to demonstrate
that democracy is the fairest govern
ment yet devised by man. All other
nations of the world struggle to solve
the problem of production but this
great nation with the great indus
trial civilization which we have here
erected, making more progress in the
last thirty years than in the preceding
three hundred, developing industry,
/ Transportation and communication be-
yond the ability of man to control
them,-we have solved our problem of
production, but we have not solved
our problem of distribution and con-
sumption.
Some day in this great country
there will arise a man, or a group OF
men big enough and bold enough and
far enough removed from the com
mon-place, to solve the problem of
distribution and consumption so that
in this nation where we have solved
the great problem of production, men
may not starve and women may not
want and children may not be under
nouriShed and old age may not be
haunted by the spectre of poverty.
1t is my belief that we have the OPP
pOrtunity to here erect the finest civil
lization that the world has ever
known because here we have a people
with true conception of liberty, a
literate people, a people with their
roots deep in the soil of democracy,
who will under our Constitution and
under our laws, work out those
changes in a lawful and orderly man
ner, which will permit every citizen
of this country to lead better and a
happier and more significant life.
A Flexible Constitution.
do not fear tomorrow in this coun-
try. You have been given a great
heritage. You can pass this heritage
forward. to your children. This nation
was founded in time of emergency. 1t
was founded by men who were bold
and who were not afraid to move for
ward in new ways. Is there anyone
so stupid as to deny the right of a
free people under our form of govern
ment to better their lot, to change
their condition by change in theil
laws and the Constitution? The franz
ers of the Constitution and the found