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St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1935-08-16
AT 2 O'CLOCK P. M.

l Mahogany Linen Press with drawers
] Concert Schiller" Piano with bench
in first class condition. Mahogany
writing desk, l Set Wicker chars and
table. l Large Mahogany Glass Press. !
small Mahogany Glass Press. l Maho
gany liquors case. l Mahogany Uphol
stery Sofa. l Administer" Rug 9 x Is,
l Child's Crib. Large nlaid mahogany
press with Trays and Hangers, Rugs,
Mahogany Rocking Chairs. Press with
full sized mirrors in doors. l Dinner Set.
l Food Safe. Ferns with stands. Finger
Bowls. Mirrors. Consoles. Pictures.
1 Couch. Small Mahogany table with
marble :op Mahogany Dining Chairs,
l Mahogany round Center liable beauti'
fully carved with brass trimming Maho
gany Wardrobe Press, small Mahogany
dressing table with marble top, l Brass
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1935-08-16
The ChTiStIdnSted Auto Garage

takes pleasure in announcing to the
motoring pubic that they are prepared
10 vulcanlze tubes by the SHALER
GUARANTEED BOT PATCH VUL
CANNING METHOD
Christiansted, July 10th. 1885.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1935-08-16
Victoria House

No. 6 and Strand Street. Frederiks
ST. Croix
Saturday, August II 1895.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1935-08-16

j. F. HENRY
District Court Commissioner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-20
De PAW LEAGUE
PICKS OFFICERS
FOR NEW TERM
Industrial Democracy Unit
at GreenCaStIe Headed
by Illinois Youth.
b. Times Special

b. Timcs Special
GREENCASTLE, Ind, Sept. 20
Arthur Bnrks, Batavia GllJ has
been elected president Of the De
Paw chapter Of the Student
League for Industrial Democracy
during the present school year.
Others elected: Raymond Warden,
Greenfield Ind, secretary-treasur-
or. Allan lister, Convoy, O.. liter
airy agent; Paul Ttner, Modoc,
Ind, and Eugene Bonecutter, Wat
erloo. Ind, executive committee, and
Ernest Hey, Methuen, Mass, United
Front committeeman.
The league is a national organi-
zatiOn working in alliance with she
workers. The local group also
focuses attention on campus affairs.
With Ralph Ulrich, Logansport,
heading the staff as editor, the first
fall issue of The De Paw appeared
this week.
Robert Daniel, Plainfield, is bust
ness manager Of the paper, which
Is published three times a week.
Construction on the new publ
cations building, started in the
summer, has not yet been finished.
Completion is expected this fall.
Until then the old editorial offices
Will be used.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-20
MRS. MCCORMICK LOST
VAST SUMS IN MARKET
Shrinkage of 50 100000 Due to Real
Estate Drop.

BV United Press
CHICAGO. Sept. 20. - The late
Edith Rockefeller Mccormick lost
81 100000 year in Chicago real es-
tate during the nine years preceding
her death in 1892, attorneys for her
estate contended today.
The estate is appealing s5O,558
income tax assessment before the
United States Board Of Tax APP
peals.
Mrs Mccormick, favorite daugh-
ter of John D. Rockefeller, turned
over to the Edith Rockefeller Nc
Cormick Trust, realty company.
s5232,000 worth of Standard Oil
Co stocks in 1923 and subsequently
added 100000 in additional CAPT.
tai funds, a petition stated. The
recorded losses of S9500.OO0 were
due to the shrinking real estate
market.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-20
.FLIERS ARE INDICATED
IN KOENECKE Staying
Acted in Self-Defense in Killing
Baseball Star, Jury Decides.


By United Press
ISL-NGTON, Ont, Sept. 20.-Al-
ready indicated by a coroner'S jury,
William Mulqueeney and Irwin
Davis, American filters, were eX-
pected to be freed today of charges
growing out of the death of Leonard
Koenecke. big league ball player and
former indianapolis star, in Null
queeney's plane several thousand
feet above Toronto.
Mulqueeney beat Koenecke to
death with a fire eXtinguisher, be-
cause in a drunken rage, Koenecke
attacked Davis, threatening to send
the plane down in a crash fatal to
all. A coroner's jury heard 10 wit
nesses last night and decided that
Mulqueeney and Davis acted in self
defense.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-09-26
THE CORNERSTONE

The surest and safest way to build
up a good community, state, and ma
tion is through the home.
1t may seem a little slow at times
but it is THE big thing that really
counts as time goes on.
In the home in which there is UNI
derstanding, intelligence and regard
for one another is built a sense of
security that is wonderful asset
throughout life. With good fOunda-
ton the boy or girl is in much bet
ter position to cope with the later
problems of life.
The solid background of real home
life where the child has learned the
happiness of work coupled with
schooling that develops intelligence,
vision, and historical insight, practi-
cally removes the danger of demagog-
cry with lot of ranting around with
half-witted ideas.
With malice toward no one, honesty
in our own hearts, and desire to
serve and enjoy friends and neighbors
we have some of the greatest assets
for fruitful life. Add to this UNI
Outstanding gained through expert
ence, and we will not be taken in
by the slicker nor will it occur to
us to be cunning and conniving.
The home is the cornerstone of So
ciety and this fact should certainly
not be lost sight of even in these
trying economic times when big
changes are sought and needed also
at the top.
True democracy and freedom be-
gins with the home and develops with
good home life. and that being we'll
preserved and guarded, it is wonderful
the influence and force it manifests
in the economic, political, and social
life of nation.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-09-26
The Fear of Initiation

Those who are against initiation of
currency always try to make out that
if we have initiation it will go to ex-
tremes. One dollar will become two
dollars and each of those will become
two dollars and so on.
Senator l. ]. Dickinson OF Iowa,
speaking in Minnesota recently said
that when there was initiation in Ger
many a farmer could take can of
milk to town and receive enough
money from that milk to pay off the
mort gage on his farm. The senator
put this question:: But what good did
that do the farmer when his farm
like all other property had no value?
The farm was worth but a can OF
milk"
True enough, in one sense of the
word. the farm had no value be-
cause German money had become
almost valueless. but for all prac-
1 teal purposes the farm had as much
value as prior to the initiation. II
was still the farmers home. The soil
could produce living for man and
beast and there was shelter for the
farmer and his family as always.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-09-26

pension acts. Every advancement that
has been attained has only been won
after long and bitter struggle be-
tween the socalIed radicals and the
moss-backed conservatives.
1t should not be strange then to
understand why the conservative e1e-
ments of the country are making a
desperate effort to defeat all advanced
ideas. They fear that any develop
ment may hurt them, they fear that
their offsprings may have to go out
i'm the world and earn a living like
the common herd. The very idea that
their dear daughters and sons should
have to go out in the world and COM
pete on a fair basis, with other men s
daughters and sons is something the
secured do not relish.
All economic laws are based on
good old common horse sense. There
is nothing about economics that any
person with good sense can't under
stand. Some of the sOcalled econO-
mists of our time are trying to pro-
stitute economics and make people
believe that by some manipulation
that you can force a balance
IF people can not make a living
through intelligent work and effort,
they will live some other way. The
day of reckoning will come and all
the abuses of industrial and govern
mental economics will have to be cor
rected. The thing to do right now is
to abandon all unavoidable ideas and
get back to brass tacks, recognize &C
Qualities and take the necessary steps
to remedy the flaws in our present
setup. To believe in Santa Claus,
superstition and childish ideas is
silly. The party that has the cour-
age to formulate plan, that can and
will work, and that everyone can see
can work, is going to win in the long
run. To believe in the indefinite and
the unreal can only end in total
chaos. To think that there is not suf-
| ficient intelligence and courage in the
country to bring the country out OF
its slump is cyniciSm.
S. J. STMONSEN.
AskOv, MINI.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-09-26

You could take all the currency in
America, all the government bonds
and securities. and mortgages on all
the land, and destroy them in a big
bonfire and there would still be just
as much land and as many homes and
other buildings between the Atlantic
ocean and the Pacific ocean. All that
property would still have the same
value for all practical purposes.
When the Indebtedness of the mas
ses of any country becomes too great
and most of the property is owned by
absentee landlords and coupon clip
pers then something in the way of
reducing that Indebtedness must take
place. 1t may be far better for the
wealthy interests to accept mod
crate initiation controlled by the gov
eminent than to be stubbOrnly fight
ing it all the time and then later
have to accept crushing inflationary
measures such as took place in Ger
many.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-09-26
BE WITH THEM WHEN
THEY ARE RIGHT

Many of the efforts and actions of
the Roosevelt administration are COM
mendable.
The work of President Roosevelt
in his expose of the abuses of the
power trust with it's holding compa-
mics is one of the high lights of his
administration. The Tennessee Val
ley Authority, Grand Coulee and Bon
neville dams in the neighborhood of
Spokane and Portland. the Fort Peck
dam in Montana, and such projects,
we believe, will contribute great
deal toward the development of the
surrounding territory and bring down
the cost of electricity to the consumer
so that it can be used to advantage by
everybody.
The administration is also entitled
to commentator for its efforts in the
elimination of child labor and devel-
opment of our national park system.
One of the greatest problems in our
country. however. is that of unem-
been a failure. 1t is most unfortunate
that the immediate benefits of the
tremendous works funds is to be re-
stricted to those on relief, with no
regard for the other millions of I'M
employed. many of whom have put
forth most valiant efforts to be self
supporting.
America today needs sound public
works program which will materially
aid in relieving unemployment, a pro-
gram which offers jobs and wages
whereby the workers can retain their
morale and self respect, and a pro-
gram through which the workers will
gain a buying power that will con
sumo the products of agriculture an6
industry and thus make for a gen
orally distributed buying power.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-09-26
RECOGNIZE ACTUALITIES
Editor Askov American:

Sometimes when / read about all
this pump printing, printing the in
dustrial pump, etc, / am inclined to
believe that some of the sOcalled
brain trusters really have not had
any actual experience with pump
printing. / remember number of
years ago back on the farm we had
an old wooden pump which had to
be primed every time you wanted to
get any water out of it. You could
prime it but it would not stay primed.
Finally it got so bad that you had
to pour about as much water into
it as you could get out of it. 1t was
finally decided to repair the pump
and in the long run it was easier
than to be forever printing it.
We are now in the seventh year of
the socalled depression. We have
seen the Superman Hoover trying to
save the situation by giving the top
plenty water. He thought that if
plenty of money was furnished those
on top the lower crust would always
get few crumbs and be satisfied and
live in hopes for better days which
were bound to come. If you waited
long enough prosperity was always
around the corner. but just like the
rainbow it seemed to fade away as
fast as it was approached. 1t was
the old philosophy Of hope. Hope is
always the trait of weaklings, they
hope but never act
Next we had the new deal. Why
it is called the new deal am unable
to understand as most of the new deal
ideas were borrowed either from Rus
STA. Italy or Germany. The relief
ideas had already been in force in
England and practically all the Euro
pean countries for some time. The
new deal was an improvement over
Hooverism but there was not any real
Throughout plan that could roSsibly
work and whether it can last for four
years more or not is of no great con-
sequent as it is bound to fail to solve
anything basicly wrong. 1t will fall
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-09-26

while you are reforming the fighting
spirit out of them?
You know well enough, or any eco
nomist should be able to show you
that with the interest piling up, the
debts of the people can never be paid.
Under so-called prosperity the income
of the farmers could not keep them
from going into debt. How do you
figure the farmers can live and pay
interest and their debts in these
times of depression? Even if the
farmers could entirely abolish all
living costs, the total amount of his
income would not pay his taxes, in
terest, and other expenses in prob
ably one million cases today. 1t is
my conviction that the only action
feared by the money lords" today
is mass action, which you confuse
with Mob Rule All other roads
are blocked long ago.
Oh, yes, vote too, but hardly the
same ticket as you, and try every
other way to stem the tide of onroll-
ing Imperialistfc Capitalism, but at
amy rate when it comes to mob Rule
you can count on me to line up on
the side of my own class where I
belong against the "mob rule of
money"
LARS P. JENSEN,
Giese, Mimi.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-09-26
ACTION WANTED-NOT WORDS

All this talk and shouting by groups
and organizations against the farmers
paying now in dollars and cents for
seed loans made last spring instead of
paying bushel for bushel suggests that
if there were little more fore
thought and less hindsight we would
fare better.
Some of the organizations and its
leaders jump at the opportunity &C
pass resolutions and make a lot of
sympathetic" noise in behalf of the
farmers, partly for political reasons
They act as if this were an entirely
new thing. 1t has happened before
that seed loans to be paid in cash re-
quire five bushels in the fall to pay
for what one bushel cost in the
spring.
The time to have done it up prop
erly was before the federal seed loans
were made to the farmers. The loan
should have read plainly, for one
bushel loaned one bushel is to be
returned.
Instead of shedding so many croco-
ollie tears now and passing resolutions
at good dinners those wise" fellows
should have secured proper action
at the right time. Actions are more
effective than words.
u S. Senator Shipstead will prob
ably come along and save the situa-
tion by at least staving off the judg.
ment day for a while, as he has done
before. He will then get the credit
and the "resolutioners" will be hardly
second fiddlers.
Concerning effort for proposed ex
tension of seed loans The Starbucl
Times, over in Pope county, published
these lines last week:
Senator Henrik Shipstead thi:
week told officers of the government
loan committee recently appointed b.
the farmers of the county at a mas.
meeting that he will consult with
President Roosevelt personally in al
effort to have the seed loans extended
for another year. If he can succeed
in doing this the landlords share o
the crops will be released and the.
will be able to sell it free of the lien.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-09-26
WHICH MOB RULE
Editor Askov American:

Editor Askov American:
In the last issue of your paper,
Andrew Rasmussen goes to the often
sive against Mob Rule" referring to
the feeble attempts of the farmers
to retain possession of their means
of making a living, against the on
slaught of Capitalism, thereby cham
pioning the cause of Wall Street as
against the human rights to live.
Mr.. Rasmussen in his statement
about working for reforms to make
better economical conditions, ETC.,
fails to see that the stopping of fore
closures is only a last attempt of the
debt-ridden farmers to hold their
farms, and that the farmers would
not resort to such tactics if there was
another way out. He fails to see
that the poor peoples Mob Rule" is
only defensive act against the Mob
Rule of Wall Street, which is of far
more aggressive nature.
/ will give you a picture of what
is taking place in my old neighbor-
(and they were good hard working
farmers, too) lost their farms in the
last five years or are under forec1o-
sure proceedings. Just what do you
propose they should do for living
while you are working for reform
Have you a place in industry for
these people, or should they starve
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-09-26
GOING RIGHT AHEAD

The Public Service Commission of
the state of Wisconsin has approved
the Inter-County Municipal Power
townships and villages-in parts of
Burnett and Polk counties of that
state. The approval is necessary UNI
der provisions of the power district
law. The people of the proposed dis
trict voted on August 9th, three to
one, for the establishment of the dis
trict. The district is divided into five
subdivisions. Township chairmen
and village presidents meet to select
director from each subdivision to
conduct the affairs of the district.
The recent vote showed plainly that
farmers want electric service in their
homes and on the farms.
Writing on the decision of the Pub
lie Service Commission and the future
of the Power District under the cap
tion of Doing the Impossible" the
Inter-COunty Leader of Centuria, puts
it this way.
AT the recent hearing in Madison
the utilities attempted to show by
figures that the Power District would
be an impossible venture. They failed
to convince the Public Service Com
mission. But even if they had been
able to make it appear on paper that
it would be impossible. there are other
elements that enter in. This has
been proven again and again in the
past.
For instance, many of us can re,
member when the government inau
gurated the parcel post system. The
opposition, led by the American Elk
press Company, attempted to show
that it would be impossible and moth
ing but calamity would result. Today
as everyone knows. the convenience
economy and efficiency of the parce
post system is universally recognized
and appreciated.
"A couple of years ago the farmers
around Grantsburg who own theil
telephone lines but were paying al
exhorbitant price for exchange service
to the Wisconsin Telephone Compan.
at Grantsburg, decided to put in thei
own exchange. The 'impoSsibility
wall of the Wisconsin Telephone Com
pany was loud and long: it would b.
physically and financially impossible
ETC., etc. But today the farmers hav'
their own exchange. :.
And so it will be with the Powe
District if the right directors ar,
named. If they are 1000 loyal to tn,
public ownership idea and 1000 en-
thusiastic for the success of the dis
!, trict. it will succeed. But of cours'
if they are too much subject to the in
fluence of the private utilities-tha
will be different.
IF hope were to be abandoned ev
cry time the selfish interests shou
impossible there could be no prog
, ress.'
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-09-26
REMOVE THE BARRIERS

AS far back as Homer's time the
friend of man" was so rare that he
attracted the attention of the ancient
poet In the struggle for animal ex-
istence. first with nature. then with
the greed of the ruling class for
power and pelf. the opportunity fol
man to live the golden rule" has
been limited indeed. A system which
develops ignorant selfishness, in which
tooth and claw are essential to sue
cess, and the Inscriptions prosper
while the transformations who per
form every useful function Of society
net only exc out a beggarly exist
ence. but are looked upon as the
lower" class, is not conducive Il
the development of the higher and
nobler qualities of human nature
Eugene V. Debs.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-09-26
JUSTICE
Editor AskOv American:


In your Sept. 10Th issue the quota
tion under Exchanges from the Min
nesota Union Advocate is not betit-
ting a truth seeking journal of your
kind.
Huey Long was a character needed
to wrest the politics of the state of
Louisiana from the frightening, en-
Shaving system of special privilege
and monopolistic corrupt old time
and years long plutocrat class of man
agement. by their fruits We shall
know them"
The common people gladly support
ed Long because his acts and accom-
plishments were of tremendous ben
efits to them-good roads, good
schools, free text books, free bridges,
freed from poll tax, etc. Those most
ly that were against him were the
gambling and corrupt element of the
big cities, and the railroad, oil we'll,
and other predatory interests. So he
was respected for the good accom-
plished and the sort of enemies he
made. 1t was possible that man as
brilliant as he, with little study,
would see that the principles of col
lecting ground rent as taught by the
master in political economy, Henry
George, in his book, Social Prob
lems," would be advocated and put
into law on the statute books and
drop the idea of "share-the-wealth,
fo, ir,ctino tN tho land
system that would take care of itself.
1t would be more in accord with
doing good did the editor of The
Union Advocate familiarize himself
with the truths of what George
taught, the application of it in law,
so that our fool depression could
rightly be overcome. And what fur
Their would be of vast and much re-
quired offerings to the rising gene
ration, giving them their God-given
rights in the use of the earth instead
of as we now are doing, robbing them
and driving them to tramp. 1t is
most earnestly hoped our teachers
and platform speakers avail them
selves of these vital and fundamental
needs so justice can have sway and
true prosperity be assured. Read in
the Bible at Laviticus 1928, and then
take up George, and learn how the
sages admonition can be fully ac-
complished.
Eye shall know the truth and the
truth shall make We Free
Emil Knips.
A former MinnesOtan
Fairhope. Ala, Sept. %, 1885.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-09-26
OPINIONS OF OTHERS

(Short timely letters on topics
of public interest are welcome.
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 If the
writer does not wish to nave MS
name used. 1t will be withheld.)
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-09-26
GOSPEL MEETING

The Midway Full Gospel Tabernacle
invites you to attend a special meeting
Sunday. September 90. Sunday school
and Bible class at 10 a.. m... morning
service at IL a. M. evening service at
s p. m. Rev. o. NJ Haug. supeIintend-
ent of the Bethesda Stun Mission. Su-
perior. Wis.,. will preside at both serv-
ices. Everybody welcome.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-09-26
Giese, Mimi

I have found that it is easy to be
virtuous, politically speaking, when
you are in a minority.-Mayor La
Guardia, New York, to Churchman'S
Association.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-09-26

Out of sight out of mind holds good
for wars-else the War to End War
would have ended war.-June Purcell
Guild in The Sewanee Review.