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Evening star., 1935-06-29

building material dealers, and the
only requirement for entry is submis-
sion of a letter telling how the dealer
has taken advantage Of the interest
created In title I Of the national hous-
ing act to sell the materials that nor
mally 60 into remodelng and repair
jobs in his community. The enter
prise and ingenuity. plus measured
results, of his merchandising plan will
be the determining factors in judging
the entry.
Thus there is An equal opportunity
for the dealer with small sales Or
ganization to win capital prize
Skill in writing will not be a factor
In judging entries.
Evening star., 1935-06-29

concrete block dwelling, 4025 South
Dakota avenue northeast; to cost
$1,000.
Wesmond Building & Investment
Co., 9l6 Fifteenth street, owners and
builders; Elmer Cappelmann, de-
signer; to erect one 2-story brick
frame-and-stone dwelling, 631S Thir-
ty-first street; to cost $4,000.
Evening star., 1935-06-29
Nodded Electric Fixtures.

A new line Of Lighting fixtures Is
made Of nodded plastic. The fixtures
are available In variety Of pastel
shades, are said not to fade, peel or
crack.
Evening star., 1935-06-29
PRIVATE BUILDING
TOTALS &34,622
District Government Obtains
Permit for $215,OO0 Ad-
ditionaI Construction.

Continued From First Page.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-12-05
DO NOT KILL
Giese. MINI.

Editor Askov American:
In your issue of November I you
quoted that the Askov American is
still open to discuss public problems.
Some time ago you requested net
to use the open forum to discuss re-
ligious matters as it would hurt the
feelings of those who were brought up
with it. does that mean for pro and
con or only the last ones? Are the
contras considered of having no feel
ings. or do they not complain when
hurt? Excuse me for asking this. be-
cause l am foreigner, and while in
Rome they want me to do as Romans.
That l am not a citizen is caused
by being born too late. l arrived with,
the "Mauretania" and should have
come with the "Mayflower;" inst
thought about this on Turkey day"
The time the Mayflower made her
voyage there was no flagkissing or
stick-ups for a country. whether right
or wrong. Neither was the country
beautified with Wall street gardens
or the freedom and liberty camou-
flaged with mortgage paper.
We left the old country in 1913. Just
in time not to become subjects of God
Mars" We are sympathetic with he
idea of socialists, pacifists. free
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-12-05
FROM EXCHANGES
Editorial Comment From Other News.
papers. Which May or Nay Not
Conform with the Opinions
Of the AskOv Ameri-an.)
ROADSIDE IDENTIFICATION
Mort field NeWS)

Highway Commissioner E'sf ergs
advocacy of roadside Identification
and development will find cordial SUP
port throughout the state. IN the
past, highways have been built with
too little regard for conservation or
development of natural beauty along
the way. Some highways must be en-
tirely unitarian, to be sure, and rat
means cutting down distances and
providing straight ribbons of hard
surfaced road. but, on the other hand,
all use of the highways is by no
means restl icted to business. Hecre-
ational and pleasure motoring is a
large factor, and in this connection
the steps that are being taken TO pre-
serve and enhance natural beauty ard
to create public interest in local and
historical points of interest are high
ly important. With the emphasis
coming from so important source as
the head of the great system of state
highways, real results in the direc-
ton of more beautiful. more restful.
more interesting highways may be
expected in the future.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-12-05
CHRISTIANS TORTURED IN
RUSSIA
Hinckley. MINI.

Editor Askov American:
l was rather surprised that the
Askov American granted space for
Helen Jensen's clipping under the
above headline. on Nov. q.
They remind me of the hysteric
propaganda running in our press he
fore our U. S. A. entered the World
war. You will remember the story
of the German Soldiers chopping the
hands off Of babies in Belgium and a
few days later it was stated that one
of these babies was adopted by Amer
leans and arrived in this country
1t is stated in Helen Jensen's clip
ping that Mr.. Schwarz was a preach
er and sent to Siberia. facing death
for want of food he went in search
OF potatoes. Red soldiers caught him
digging in the frozen ground and beat
him so he died a few hours later.
Please notice that the ground was
frozen. and he was digging potatoes.
A. Vorsky. who it is stated has
been in the United States less than
three months, says. "Other Christian
preachers whom I know personally
have been made to stand straight on
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-12-05
PARKING METERS
WOULD SET FEE ON
DULUTH VISITORS

The city of Duluth is consider
ing the installation of the meter
system for car parking. The pro-
posal, which would place 200
meters in the down town blocks,
would charge motorists five cents
for one hour parking.
Under the meter system which
is now before the city council for
action, blocks where cars can be
parked, are divided into 10 or 20
feet sections each supplied with a
meter. AS the motorist parks the
car, five cents is deposited in the
meter slot. 1t then shows the car
is entitled to the space for one
hour, at the end of which time it
also indicates that the time is up
and that the car is not entitled
to be there any longer. The patrol
man on the beat then tags the
vehicle, the meter making it easier
to keep tab on the cars.
The company which installs the
meters, at no cost to the city, col
lects the first $50 of revenue from
each meter and after that all rev.
enue goes to the city.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-12-05

our own door. We have often admired
the fathers and mothers of many
large families for how we'll they have
managed and the individual interest
and love that they hold out for each
of their boys and girls. The children
are dear to them and it is their
greatest hope and desire that they
grow up to be honest and upright men
and women. They do grow up and they
get out into the world where there
are plenty of pitfalls. 1t has happen
ed in the past and it will happen again
that a boy or girl from the best of
homes may fall almost unknowir gly
or without due consideration and COM
NIT a crime which they repent and
will not do again. In such cases 1t IS
always we'll to be charitable for we
never know where it may strike next.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-12-05
YES. ENFORCE 1T!

Sure. we should all be for the con-
stitution. Now that the conservatives
are making the constitution an issue
in the next campaign it might be we'll
to remind them that they should go
all the way down the line and include
all Of the constitution. not just parts
Of it. Let us remind the constitutional
spellbinders that the constitution in
cludes: THE Congress shall have pow
err to coin money. regulate the value
thereof. and of foreign COIN"
To issue a little more currency in
stead OF so many interest-hearing
bonds might not be a bad issue, po-
litical and otherwise.
Sure. let us live up to the constitu-
ton. and all Of it. IL carried through
II will be healthier and might helr
even our individual constitutions.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-12-05
THE REPENTANCE OF A
PREACHER
BY Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick

BY Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick.
have an account to settle between
my soul and the Unknown Soldier.
knew him we'll. lived with him in
dugOutS, in the trenches and on de-
stroyers searching for submarines off
the coast of France. l, Christian
minister. participated in the war. l.,
too, was persuaded that it was a war
to end war. |, too. was a gnllible
fool, and thought that modern war
could somehow make the world safe
for democracy.
have an account to settle between
my soul and the Unknown Soldier.
deceived him. | deceived myself first,
unwittingly; and then | deceived him,
assuring him that good consequence
could come out of that.
If blame anybody about this mat
ter it is men like myself who ought
to have known better. We went out
to the army and explained to these
valiant men what resplendent flu
ture they were preparing for their
children by their heroic sacrifice. o,
Unknown Soldier, however can l make
that right with you?
They sent men like me into the camps
to awaken the soldiers ideali, m. to
touch those secret. holy springs with
in him, so that with devotion. fidelity,
loyalty and self-sacrifice, he might go
out to war. Il o, war, | hate you
most of all for this. that you do lay
your hands on the noblest elements of
human character with which we mig t
make heaven on earth. and you use
them to make hell on earth instead.
You take even our science, the fruit
of our dedicated intelligence. by
means of which we might build here
the City of God. and using it. you fill
the earth instead with new ways of
slaughtering men. You take our 10y
atty, our unselfishness, with which
we might make the earth beautiful
and using these our finest qualities,
you make death fall from the sky
and burst up from the sea and unseen
ambuScades sixty miles away. You
blast fathers in trenches with gas
while you are starving their children
at home with blockades; and you so
bedevil the world that fifteen years
after the Armistice we cannot be sure
who won the war. so sunk in the same
disaster are victors and vanquished
alike.
If war were fought simply with evil
things, like hate. it would be bad
enough: but when one sees the deeds
of war done with the loveliest facul-
ties of the human spirit. one looks
into the very pit of hell. We car
have on the one side this morstrous
thing. or we can have Christ: but We
cannot have both.
At any rate l renounce war. l re
nounce it because of what it does t
our own men. l have heard the erie:
of the crazed and the PRAYERS of those
who wanted to die and could no.. anl
| remember the MANNED and ruined
men for whom the war is not yet over
*s | renounce war because of what i
compels US to do to our enemies
bombing their mothers in villages
starving their children by blockades
renounce war and never again. di
rectly or Indirectly. will l sanction
or support another.
. o. Unknown Soldier. in peniten
reparation l make you that pledge,
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-12-05

their own feet without touching walls
for six or seven days at time, with
out food, drink or Sleep This is
even more impossible than digging po-
tatoes from the frozen ground.
Here is the third: Our brethren
were put in the hot cell, about 20
men and women were crowded in so
close they could not sit or lie down.
When one died his body could not
fall" Believe it or not. Evidently if
there is a shred of truth about Mr..
Schwarz, he has been hunting for a
martyrium.
There is no end to what stories
hysteric patriotic sentimentality will
find itself justified in spreading, most
often in Gods Name"
War propaganda feeds on patriotism
and so does Proud American" We
were singing in Denmark in four stan
zas: will Danes fight in the world,
but hide face and name. l know his
spirit is false. l will him not support"
so | suppose it is better for all
concerned Proud Americans real
name Is not known.
Webster defines Proud" as possess
ing or showing too great self esteem"
hence, arrogant, naughty" This def
milton fits very, very we'll in all war
propaganda. l am sorry we find it
more or less in all nations, and have
had my part of it in my youth when
we were singing that the Danes were
better and holier than Swedes and
Germans, and calling them names as
towards and brutes. of which any
Danish soldier could lick at least half
a dozen before breakfast.
Would it not be more fitting If we
praised our neighbors for what good
deeds accompli he'd That, l C, mpre-
bend, will create good feeling and
good will between neighbors and
among nations.
l find the following news item in
Common Sense" for December, 1885,
monthly magazine. RUS ian prog
ress continues to demonstrate the ire
mendous inherent strength of a sys-
tenn of planned production for use in
spite of drawbacks of red tape and
dictatorship. In sharp contrast with
other lands where the necessities OF
life are burned, plowed under, or not
produced. The people of the U. S. S.
r. have apparently conquered the ma
jor obstacles in their attack on pow
erty and are enjoying a rapidly adj
vancing standard Of living. Wages of
laborers, who have the shortest work
| ing days in the world, have risen 1870
in the last three years. The grain
harvest is second only to the U. S. A..
New schools, hospitals, theaters. clubs,
scientific institutions, housi g devel-
opments appear with asst nisbing
rapidity. Scientists praise the aid
given by the state to research. Fro m
the schools pour thousands of trained
specialists, chemists, engineers, etc.
for use. and the consequent release of
abundance deems to be mistake proof"
According to this news item il
seems as if we could learn something
from Russia and thereby help 10 Gre
ate better living conditions for COM
mon people in our great U. S. A. than
they apparently are in U. S. ). R..
and there would be no inducement to
adopt Communism.
Speak well of your fellow citizens
and fellow nations in the world ard
you will make them your fri nds
which is more profitable than making
enemies.
LUDWIG MOSBEK.
Askov. Mimi, Dec. 3, 1885.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-12-05
MONEY is POWERFUL

A person who has been observing
with regard to the work of Legisla-
lures will know that there are import
ant reasons for the advocating Of
public ownership of public utilities
and monopolized industry.
Generally the most able leaders in
State Legislatures and Congress are
those taking great interest in behalf
of one public utility or another, or all
OF them. To the casual observer they
appear to be great men. They work
hard on committees, most of them as
chairmen of leading committees. They
have their work we'll organized and
put in many hours of effort daily. To
hear them talk on the floor of the
House or Senate, the casual observer
would think that they apparently are
interested in the public welfare.
But it is not the $1,000 salary every
two years that keeps those leading
Legislators interested and working.
They are attorneys for the utilities
which they represent much more than
their constituency and the general
public A retaining fee from the pri-
vately owned corporation keeps them
on the job and interested in the work
of the LEGISLATURE.
The question might be asked: How
many leading attorneys of the state
would continue to serve in the House
or Senate of the Legislature. session
after session, for the bare pay OF
$1,000 per term if that was all they
got out of it,
Such legislators are there to do
battle for the public utilities and me-
nopolized industry. 1t is their task
to carry through the bidding of their
masters. They may be very fine men
personally, and certainly Intelligent
and able orators or they would not be
on the pay roll of the privately owned
public utilities. They naturally do
the LEGISLATURE. OF course there are
always some good honest plugs in any
Legislature who vote with the re-
dictionaries because they were horn
and raised in that atmosphere and
know no better. and because it is the
path of least resistance.
One Legislature is pretty much like
another with respect to the leader
ship. Occasionally there is an able
progressive who will lead the progress
sive forces. but as rule most of the
ablest men are on the side of private
ly owned public utilities and monOpO-
lized industry.
And that is mighty good argument
for public ownership of public util-
tiles and monopolized industry.
You hear it said that there is graft
and corruption in politics and for that
reason we should guard against more
public ownership. Surely. there Is
some graft and corruption in politics
like in all human endeavor. But who
brings it on? Is it not great wealth
more than anything else that is to
blame?
When there is graft and corruption
in public affairs it usually comes to
the surface and is discovered witt out
much delay. Graft in public owner
ship does not get far. But try tC
catch wealthy men and interests pay
ing for the voice and vote of legisla.
tors for their protection,
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-12-05
OPINIONS OF OTHERS

(Short timely letters on topics
of public interest are welcome.
whether or not the writer's Optn.
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 il the
writer does not wish to have his
name used. it will be withheld.)
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-12-05
PINE CITY MASONS
CHOOSE OFFICERS

The Masonic Lodge of Pine City,
held it's annual election Monday, De-
cember 2, electing the following Of
ficers: Worshipful Master, Marion
Lones; senior warden, Edward Hakes;
junior warden, Louis Milgrom; secre-
tary. Clifford Perkins; and treasurer.
]. D. Boyle.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-12-05
SYMPATHY AND CHARITY

Even in the best Of families things
may happen that would give the gos-
sirers something to talk about. BIT
1t pays to be charitable for we never
know when misfortune may strike at
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-12-05

The building up of our lives into
substantial purposes which will
weather the vagrant urges and lures
of the present moment is the most
difficult task of education and the
greatest burden imposed on civilized
man.-Dr Abraham Myerson, Boston
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-12-05
COMMISSIONERS
WORK is LIGHT

The board of county commissioners
met in Pine City Tuesday and Wed
nesday and transacted only regular
items of business as their docket was
light for the month.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-12-05

OF course relief is dangerous. bet
so is steam.-The late Frederic Almy,
Buffalo, to the National Conference OF
Charities and Correction, 1916.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-12-05

A total of $4S.00 was contributed
this year from Askov to the Mission
fund of the Danish Lutheran Church
of America. Following is a list of
those who contributed locally and the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-24
And Sports
Drivers Vote Tonight On Taxi Strike
Ickes BaIks Gran
OF PWA Funds for
Municipal Center

Little hope was held today
for development of the District
Municipal Center with public
works funds.
PWA Administrator Harold
L. Ickes is sorry but does not
feel such a project is justified
now in view of the good condi-
ton of building trades here and
the urgent need for starting
building projects in other
Cities"
Referring to the application
of the District Commissioners
for three million dollars to
erect three minor court build
ings as part of the development,
Secretary Ickes pointed out:
II know the District needs
these new buildings badly and
sincerely wish a way could be
found to approve the project,
but can't just now.
"The question arises: Can we
build any more buildings in
Washington just now with
justice to our general program?
Moreover, the National Gov.
eminent has not enough office
space in Washington for its own
employees"
Application for the court
building fund was made by the
commissioners two months ago.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-24
Is Governors Back
Educational Par|ev

Governors of more that twenty.
five states have announced they
approve naming twenty-five dele.
gates each to attend an educa-
tional and economic conference
here August % to "a under the
auspices of the Department of
Education of the Grand Lodge of
the Colored Elks of the World.
The conference will mark the
tenth anniversary of the Elk's de.
partment of education. Major
and educational problems which
affect the Negro will be discussed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-24
Famous Dummy Keep!
Guard at Building
During Changes

ALEXANDRIA, Va, July "a.
Alexandria's famous dummy, Of
ficial Waterman at the old aban-
doned spark plug factory for
more than 20 years, will not
lose its home, although the fac
tory is being remodeled into a
modern apartment house.
John Lougran, owner of the
building, said today the dummy
would be given a home in the
cupola.
Since construction on the old
factory started, the window in
which the dummy sits has been
left for the last part of the
work and the dummy has re-
NAMED on duty in that same
window where it has been seen
for years by many tourists.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-24
Honors for Bolivar
In TodaY's Program

Honoring the 152d anniversary
of the birth of Simon Bolivar, the
great South American soldier and
statesman, a special program has
been arranged by the Pan-Amer-
lean Union this afternoon from
$3.50 to 4:30. Diplomatic repre-
sentatives in Washington from
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Pan
anna, Peru and Venezuela will de-
liver brief addresses over the blue
network of the National Broad
casting Company.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-24
Hunts His First Wife
After 81 Years

Thirty.five years ago Richard
Taylor Bandy married his child
hood sweetheart.
The couple went to Georgia to
live. They lived happily for a
year. Mr.. Bandy, overly jealous of
his wife, he admitted today, began
a marital pickering that ended
shortly afterward in the divorce
courts.
Later Mr.. Bandy married for
the second time. He had two chill
dren by his second marriage. He
was happy, but death cut short
his welded bliss. That was five
years ago.
Works on Trains
Since that time Mr.. Bandy has
travelled back and forth on the
trains of the Southern Railway,
running between here and Atlanta,
Ga. He is a news agent on the
trains, selling papers, popcorn and