Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-08-15
DIFFERENT VIEWS

Speaking before a crowd of many
thousands of people at the Ramsey
county Farmer-Labor picnic at Wild
wood park Sunday, Governor Olson
criticised the federal administration
for cutting down farm and Industrial
production when it has never been
proved that there has been too much
production. The governor made it
plain that it is distribution that must
be solved, and that we must have
production for use rather than for
profit.
Another speaker at the same picnic
was former Mayor William Mahoney
of st. Paul. He quoted the big Bos-
ton merchant and industrialist, Mr..
Filene, as saying that the average
man in industry produces $40 worth
of goods in day of eight hours.
With ten million unemployed that
means a daily loss of 100 million
dollars or thirty billion dollars an
nually. 1t is a terrible waste of man
power said the former mayor and the
system of government must be
plOyed can be put to useful service
for the benefit of themselves and so
ciety. If employed there would be
little need for relief. There would
be an abundance of everything and
more comfort in all the homes.
In connection with what Governor
Olson said Sunday. and utterances
az hE fnrmnr
Hoover at Chicago the same day, The
st. Paul Daily News published an in
teresting editorial Monday. The news
paper sort of SCOTS at Mr.. Hoover's
question if the Roosevelt administra-
ton intends to change the constitu-
tion. Many others will laugh with
The Daily News in that connection.
The paper speaks right up like rad
zeal in the following words:
Two prominent men spoke their
views Sunday and gave a demonstra-
tion of the wide differences which
characterizes erican political
thought today.
Herbert Hoover, former president
of the United States. issued state
manded that the Roosevelt admins
tration tell whether it intends to
change the constitution.
Floyd b. Olson, governor of Min
neSOta, attacked the new deal for its
failure to remedy economic ills and
advocated the overthrow of the pres
ent economic system.
..Mr IJonyar inHiootaJ olaorlx h.,
the nature of his questions that he
diSapproves of the administration
attitude toward the constitution, sees
it making indirectly without popular
approval fundamental changes in that
law of the nation. protests against
trampling upon the primary liberties
of the people and says it is better
for liberty to commit suicide in the
open than to be poisoned by indrec-
ton in the capital of the nation
MIR. Olson says the new deal
started out all right in a mild way
but was stopped by the uproar.' that
both Republicans and Democrats have
failed to meet the problem of distri-
button on the basis of human need
anu bHil dl. SYSTEM TeSuIllUS Ill the
concentration of wealth at the ex-
penSe of the many is a damnable Sys-
TEN and ought to be overthrown'
MIR. Hoover is quite right asking
that the Roosevelt administration
make plain its purposes relative TO
the constitution. If that venerable
document needs changing-and there
is little doubt that it doeS-let's say
so and vote on it. President RooSe-
welt will find many persons who agree
that there is nothing sacred about
it rs such and that much of its regu-
lations. or the interpretations placed
on them by the supreme court do go
back to horse and buggy days But
Mr. Hoover. we presume, will not be
found among those urging approval
of such changes. He's still too far
back in the past ever to catch up
with the modern procession.
No doubt conservatives will writhe
clap him in Jail as communist or
public enemy. if they could. But, as
between the two men, his views come
much closer to expressing what more
Americans are thinking these days
than the Hoover antiques. He is liv-
ing in the present. Mr.. Hoover seems
TO forget that there is a depression
still on with millions out of jobs and