Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-11-01

icipal judges have been inclined to
fine a bootlegger rather than send
him to Jail. "Fines will never end
Bookkeeping" Commissioner Arundel
has repeatedly said. He has prom
Used to make recommendations to the
1885 Legislature.
Residents of Cannon Falls and vi
entity will have a new playground
next summer. The playground will
be built by two hundred members of
transient camp which has been es-
tablished on the fair grounds in Can
non Falls. The Little Cannon river
will be damned, and the area around
the resulting lake built up as a recre-
ational spot.
The Minneapolis truck drivers
strike produced one permanent insti-
tuition. During the labor walkout
the state department of agriculture
helped establish a cooperative mar
ket for truck garden farmers. This
met with such a great success that
it was continued after the strike
ended Now it is regarded as a per-
manent factor in Minneapolis trade.
Both the buying public and the farm
ers are enthusiastic about the project
as it permits the former to buy their
garden stuffs at lower price and
it returns the latter a higher per-
centage of profit. The r. F. C. has
looked the new market over and may
advance funds for the erection of a
building open to all co-operatives in
the state at the site of the market
on 10th street and first avenue north.
The panel from which IL good
men and true" will be chosen to de-
eide upon the guilt of the 20 accused
Banco officials, was selected in Clay
county recently. Most of the men and
women are farmers or wives of farm
ers from out in the county. OF the
six city residents one is newspaper
man, one the wife of a mail carrier,
another the wife of local justice of
the peace, another bill collector and
the last two are housewives.
New York's Greenwich village may
soon have to take a back seat in the
art world-for free adult art instruc-
ton has been made part of the SERA
emergency education program. Six
art studios will be set up in st.
Paul, with instructors hired on a
work relief basis at salaries ranging
from SIS to SIT weekly. Fifteen art
teachers will find employment in this
new phase of the education program.
Because Minnesota's Department of
Conservation was ready with definite
plans, this state now has 81 CCC
camps and has shared exceedingly
we'll in the emergency conservation
work that has been performed under
the federal program. Through July
81, the Civilian Conservation Corps
had completed reforestation, conser-
walton, erosion prevention and flood
control work valued at $236,000, 900.
E. V. willard, commissioner of con-
servation, also called attention to the
fire prevention activities and the ex-
tensive studies made in control of
diseases and insects effecting trees.
The five-man system for cOnserva-
tion coordination as set up in Min
nesota by the 1881 state Legislature
has been approved in a model law
devised by special committee of the
International Association of Game,
Fish and Conservation Commission
ers. The commission plan, inaugu-
rated in this state, is proposed with
five members representing different
geographical sections of the state and
not more than three to be of the
same political party. In Minnesota a
wider scope is covered by the COM
mission members insofar as politics
is concerned.
Minnesota is leading the way among
the states in adopting a statewide
land utilization policy as part of the
program of planned economy. Through
Governor Olsons committee on land
use, with DR.. Lotus d. COffman, pres
ident of the state university, as chair
man, a comprehensive study has been
undertaken which will be of untold
Importance to improved economic con-
| ditions.
The Minnesota Conservation Com
mission recognizes that there is an.