Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-07-12
HAPPY TO LIVE
IN THESE DAYS
So Says Mrs. LeSeur, Speak.
ing Before FL. Club at
ASkOv Monday.
Yoke Must Be Thrown Off,
Industrial MOnarchS Dis
carded, She Said.

Mrs. Marion LeSeur of Minneapolis,
who spoke at AskOv in the d. B. S.
hall before the local Farmer-Labor
club Monday evening, said that dole
and charity are breaking down some
of the good individual qualities in
folks and the masses must grid them
selves for battle. AS usual the able
speaker who has been called Com
munist by political opponents, gave
a good account of herself with excel
lent English and an aggressive force
full talk. She was accorded very
close attention throughout her ad-
dress of over an hour.
Homes are being foreclosed at the
rate of over 5000 per day in the
United States, said the speaker, and
admonished women to be interested
in politics for the preservation of the
home. Women must be interested in
the political game because of their
interest in children.
MalnutritiOn.
Dwelling upon the amount of milk
used in the home and surveys made
in Minneapolis, Mrs. LeSeur said that
the average was but one-third quart
of milk per day in each home. The
surveys were made in three different
school districts in the wealthy
Calhoun district, another in good
working mans district and the third
check-up in a slum district, to ar
rive at the average. They call it
malnutrition-a polite way of saying
starvation-said the speaker.
The consumer pays nine cents per
quart which could be diminished by
better distribution. The minimum
requirement is 80 per cent butter
fat in the milk-the same from all
the dealers, yet in one block there
are five who deliver milk when one
wagon could do the work and save
cost.
Children must have adequate food,
continued the speaker, and people
must have purchasing power in order
to get the food. Plenty is produced
in the land. Folks want opportunity
to work, to do something, to be use
full citizens, they do not want to live
breaking down something in the in
dividual.
Thrift Gets Jolt.
Credit was formerly extended by
the banker on your face and integrity.
There was a chance for the young
man, said the speaker, but not so
today. The question is: What have
you as collateral? The collateral is
diminishing. Folks were taught to
go to the banker when needing finan-
cial advice. A banker advised the
purchase of Cuban bonds. Later when
the customer wanted loan he could
not borrow five cents on his $4,000
worth of Cuban bonds. Thrifty peo-
pie have seen savings lost and it will
take some time to rebuild and re-
store the confidence for prudence and
saving.
There are too many nurses and yet
hospitals are under-staffed. Too
many lawyers, doctors, dentists, ETC.,
and so it seems society has no use
for the young people, said the speaker.
Americans believe in education, but
this is the first depression in which
education has suffered, said Mrs.
LeSeur. Not because the people have
lost faith in education, for they real
ize that the home, the church, and
the school are the bulwark of So
ciety.
Education to Equip.
The ideal has been equality of edu-
cation, and therefore the state aid to
the public schools so that districts
with less wealth to tax might have
as good schools as those in the more
wealthy districts. But city schools
have Jared better than rural schools,
said the speaker. Children and young
folks should be educated to serve So
ciety with less determination as re-
CARDS their years of schooling de-
pendent upon the size of their fathers
pocket book.
Minnesota graduates $4,000 annual
ly from the grade schools but only
10000 complete the high school each
year. Let the child and young per-
son be what he should and wants
to be. Education is to equip the
person for right living and to get
full enjoyment out of life.
The speaker said that the Farmer
Labor platform embodies the printing
of text books by the state-not the
writing of the books-for the public
schools.
Power Trust Propaganda.
In 1919 Samuel insult was sitting
on top of the world as the public
utility magnate. He desired to con-
tinue his position. A committee was
organized to study the text books and
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