Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-01-16
HOLIDAY HEARS
MRS. lie SUEUR
Prominent Woman Speak
er Talks at Public Meet
ing in Hinckley.
S t a t e Holiday President
and Grain Grading In
SpectOr Also Heard.

The Pine County National Farmers
Holiday Association held it's regu-
lar monthly meeting at Hinckley last
Thursday. The forenoon was given
over to business session and dinner
was served at noon. In the afternoon
Hemming Nelson of the Duluth Board
of Grain Exchange, John Bosch, state
president of the Holiday, and Mrs.
Marian LIE Sueur of Minneapolis,
| spoke before those in attendance. N.
P. Nedegaard, county president of the
| Holiday Association was chairman of
the meeting and introduced the
speakers.
Mrs. LIE Sueur was the principal
speaker and talked on the subject,
Where are We Going From Here?"
In launching her talk, Mrs. lie Sueur
tolci humorous story of three drunk
men boarding train and waving
| goodbyes to lone figure on the sta
ton platform. When the train had
pulled away, the station agent asked
the one left what the occasion was
and he was told that the three on
the train were supposed to have been
on the platform and he was the one
who was going to California. The
speaker compared this to the AAA
which was organized to "send the
| farmers to California" but instead
they were left on the station plat
form and the processing taxes went
to California.
Mrs. lie Sueur paid tribute to the
rank and file organizations such as
the Farmers Holiday, saying they
are the ones that will solve the prob
lens of the common people. The
wrong kind are the ones who demand
the producers name to a check and
then go ahead and run the business
to suit themselves.
Mrs. LIE Sueur, who was a former
member of the State Board of Edu-
cation until as she said, mfr. Rockne
got around to fire me-" told of the
course OF study laid out by the Board
of Education to be studied in the pub
Tic school system. After assuming Of
flee as a member of the Board of
Education, she said she looked over
the course of study and could find
nothing about farm organizations and
cooperation. When she INQUIRED as TO
this from one of the members of the
department, she was told that Com
missioner ]. M. Mcconnell had once
said that as long as he was at the
head of the department. not one word
would go into the course of study to
tell the children anything about CO.
operation.
Explains Cooperation.
Mrs. LIE Sueur stressed the fact that
cooperative education is needed
throughout the country and told in
stances where some did not know the
difference between the corporate or
ganization system and cooperation
She said the corporate organization
system is one in which money votes
If person owns 60 per cent of the
stock of such an organization he
votes 60 per cent Of the policies. In
cooperation, one person has one vote.
In the corporate system, money does
the hiring anG in cooperation I'VE
hire money" If any profit is made
in the cooperative system the ones
who purchase the commodities get it
at the end of the year. 1t is an elm
ination of the profit system.
Advises Education.
I'VE must raise new generation
to think and our children have a
right to know both Sides" said the
speaker. She told how the ScanCi-
navian people had come over here
and in rs years had built up an en-
pire in the state of Minnesota equal
to what the old countries have done
in 1000 or 1900 years. But where
is the wealth of that empire?" asked
Mrs. LIE Sueur. In the north we have
the cut over timber regions, the iron
ore is gone and other resources have
disappeared into the hands of private
monopolies. The Republican politi-
clans have done that for us, Mrs.
lie Sueur said
In Minnesota we have over COG. 900
families and among that number a
little over 10000 have what we call
the exemption limit of income on
which an income tax is assessed. The
remainder of the population has an
income of less than that or barely
subsistence living and some not
even that. The common people do
not want power, all they want is
enough that they do not need. to be
afraid of what will happen tomorrow.
I'VE are not hard to satisfy said
the speaker.
She said that if we start out with
the right premise in view we can do
good reasoning and in this connection
told of the campaign promises of Her
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