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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-08-06
TIMES ARE IMPROVING!
Editor Askov American:

Editor Askov American:
1t may be of interest to the readers
of the Askov American to know that
little over year ago school district
No. 80 took care of the biggest part
of 81, 900 of the county's funds so as to
make it safer for our Sunday school
superintendent in the district. And at
the annual meeting In 1885 baseball
bat was brought into service to de-
prive some voters of their constitu-
tional rights and so that the truth
could not be told at that meeting. AS
result of that the county attorney
took up the case for the defendant
and the defendant also tied up the dis
trict's funds. HTvsr-'-
After some of the filth and cobwebs
that were in the holy school boards
minds were shaken out they found
themselves against a stone wall. They
got an idea to call a special meeting
for the purpose of getting advice
from the voters as to what to do
next. To that special meeting Edward
DePover and myself sent note say
ing that we could settle the trouble
they had gotten themselves into If
they would give us the authority to
do so. without any cost to the district.
But no, they couldn't trust anybody
outside of Sunday school boy. and
so they failed getting settlement.
understand they got the authority
from the voters to fight it out by law,
but that special meeting. was not
called for the. purpose of providing
any funds for that purpose. Well.
they engaged an attorney and it was
thrown out. The attorney took $50
for his service which was paid out of
the district funds. At the annual
meeting of 1896 the question was
raised as to the legality. because the
county attorney is a state man and
the school funds are state funds used
to fight the state man. When 1t came
to vote about accepting the report
it was so close that the chairman was
in doubt as to which way it went and
while he was making up his mind,
Ballyhoo Hartland's horn bawled out:
"Mr. Chairman, it's carried to accept
the report"
And again when the question of vot-
ing compensation for the board for
the past season came up there was no
explanation as to the legality of the
$50 and the treasury being responsible
for the funds it should be taken from
the treasurer's salary. Then the Sun
day school superintendent got busy
with the whitewash brush and blamed
me for the whole deal. And so the
district was deprived of $50 Of its
funds which is an improvement over
last year.
If anybody outside of the Sunday
school boys pulled a trick like that.
chances are they would get the same
treatment the darkies get down south.
| l would like to hear from the old
school board through the AskOv
American, whether 1 am right or
wrong on the above.
LAURENCE V. UBL.
| Route 1, Hinckley, MINI.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-08-06

their home at Leal, N. D., Tuesday
having spent the summer here visit
ing at the homes of their grandpar-
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Hedberg, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellick Torell.
ALI Erickson was a Sandstone cal
Ter between trains Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. K M. Stennes of Min
neapolis, Mrs. X. Walters of st. Paul,
and Mr.. and Mrs A. Barquist and fam
lily of Proctor, were guests of the Fred
Hedberg family Saturday and Sunday
Miss Edna Torell of Minneapolis,
came here Tuesday to visit at the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. FL
lick Torell.
Mrs. John Melancon was taken to a
Superior hospital last week, seriously
i'll. Later reports are that she was
somewhat improved.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-08-06

generations they have gone on. tenn
pering the earth to mans fahitation,
making possible all the graces OF liv-
ing which lift man above the level
of the beasts.
The far-called armies melt away.
and the winds carry off the crash OF
their battles. The plain man at the
bottom is eternal, and he has the
world and all its hopes in his keeping
And, if with all of this, he YEARLY
asks the fighting men to get out oil
the way so that he can go on with
his jobs he asking too much?
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-08-06
Sales Taxes and
Other Taxes
Continued from Page ~
Small Income Groups Hit.

A person with a $4,000 income
would spend on food 1920; clothing
10.S%; personal 500, or total of
approximately 1870 of his annual in
come.
A person with a $4,000 income
would spend on food 1850; clothing
S.3%; personal 9.2%, or total OF 1870
of his income which would be taxed
under general sales tax program.
A person with an income of $4,000
would spend on food 1O.4%; clothing
6.4%; personal 1919, a total of a
little over 27%.
A person earning 100000 annually
would spend on food ago; clothing,
1.1%; personal 1920, or a total OF
7h% of his total income.
Easy on High Income Group.
A person with an income of over
a million dollars annually would
spend on food .2%; clothing 10, per-
sOnal 10, or only about " of 10 OF
his total income for which he would
be taxed in a general sales tax plan
1t is therefore very evident that
prOpOrtionately the individual with a
small income would be paying entirely
too much of the tax burden under a
general sales tax.
There are many kinds OF cOnsum-
ers, ranging from the man who
scarcely makes a living, to the indi-
vidual whose expenditures for lux
uries would keep many people in COM
fort The last $1,000 which brings a
mans income to the million dollar
level is not nearly so important to
him as the first thousand to another
person, which represents the differ
ence between starvation and living,
or the second thousand which Is the
difference between subsistence and
some comforts.
Unfairness of the Tax.
The figures given are conservative.
Some statisticians hold that a worker
earning a thousand dollars a year
spends approximately 500 of his
income on necessities of life that
would be affected by a general retail
sales tax. But taking only 50% Of
his $1,000 income he would neverthe-
less pay a tax of $500 if the sales tax
was 20; $1,000 if go and $500 if
80. For every thousand dollars of
his entire income, the million dollar
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-08-06

today of the President that He Is
not fascist" 1t would seem that our
liberties are safe in the custody OF a
President who, for three years, has
resisted the opportunity to assume
a dictatorship. That is the answer to
Father Coughlin, the Liberty League
and the Republican party who seek
to cast the shadow of doubt regarding
President Roosevelt's loyalty to Amer
lean institutions.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-08-06
OPINIONS OF OTHERS

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of public interest are welcome
whether or not the writer's opin-
ions conform with those of the
American. All letters must be
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our information. Signed articles
always are more effective, but II the
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name used. it will be withheld.)
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-08-06
WHO is FASCIST i?

Hc IllS Ills CdhC W thS
American shores more than 800
years ago tosget away from king
doms, crown princes, heir appar-
ents, czars, autocracy, and the
like, to establish a country Of
democracy, where man is free.
Democracy is American, it is the
ideal of our citizens, and while
things have happened that have
not been as democratic as they
might have been, freedom is
nevertheless the true spirit of
vast majority of our people. We
want government from the bottom
up and not from the top and
down.
Therefore if there is anything
Americans will fight against it is
a fascist regime. Our forefathers
declared for the inalienable
right of every citizen to life, lib
erty, and the pursuit of happi-
ness, and our constitution guaran-
tees free speech, free press. and
the right of assemblage.
In the open forum column of
The Minneapolis Journal, What
Other People Think" appeared an
article by Cliff Blanchard of Min
neapolis, the other day. under the
title, who Is the Fascist" The
article pertains to presidential
candidates, their background, af-
filiations, etc., and reads as fol-
lows:
Referring to President Roosevelt
and Governor Landon, Rev. Charles E
Coughlin said in an address delivered
at Hankinson, N. D., go back an(
tell your friends that If either is in
stalled in the White House there viii
be no election in 1910. Fascism will
be here and Communism will be max
ing bid for power"
But Norman Thomas has put thu
finger on Father Coughlin as one O
the leaders who is endeavOring t.
polish off this country for fascism
Mr.. Thomas stated recently that "Mr
Lemke and his assorted hackers
Father CoughLin, the Rev. Geralt
Smith and DR.. Townsend, far NOR,
nearly approach the fascist pattern
Lemke's platform, with its impossible
promises of something for everybod.
under capitalism, closely parallels tn,
Nazi platform. The way in which
Lemke was nominated by himself ant
Father COughlin was fascist and no
democratic" Further, Mr.. Thoma
added that "Mr. Roosevelt never advo
Gated the totalitarian state. H.
is not fascist, and Republican dec
larations or insinuatiOns that he is
fascist arise from ignorance or hypo
crisy."
AS long ago as September 10, 1888
Norman Thomas said of the New Dea
in an article in The Journal: MI
Roosevelt has not yet given us, in an
true and Objectionable sense, a diota
torship. Nor has he tried to make u
drunk or crazy with fascist nationa
emotionalism. The question is, how
ever good his intentions, whether W
can escape these things under stat
capitalism"
After three long, eyentful years MI
Thomas, arch-foe Of fascism, can sa
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-06
New Dangers Beset Adventurous
Pair In Quest Of Sacred Image

spending their lives in worship and contempla-
ton.
The causeway went straight over the moat.
We looked down on water lilies stirring in stag
nant water, the only live things to be seen. Oh,
Bill and Hull Gin and were alive, but you for
get yourself in such place; we went forward
in a dream, small party with tired hairless
horse walking slowly nearer the magnificent
ruins
~ A /HAT pace!" Bill muttered, what a
Wv place!' He didn't think of anything
else to say. 1 felt as if the stiffness would hold
forever if we didn't speak I'd begun to feel
queer, being out of the forest it didn't seem
natural not to have that dark tangle of vines
reaching down at us. There we plodded sedate
an careless of being seen like were heading
for church-which was true. I don't hold too
much with religion, but that vast ruin before
us was sacred place. you could feel it. 1t was
quiet you heard your own feet padding
fiat stones, but without an echo the jungle alb
sorbed every sound, not throwing it back again.
The forest we'd come through never gave up
anything.
ut is well" Hull Gin suggests, ito find what
you seek, and leave. 1 do not like it here"
She pulled Bill to halt the wide steps.
Its cooler inside he said. Lets get out of
this sum-" He prodded the animal up the steps,
and we took refuge behind a square column,
where we could see the causeway. Bill found
package of cigarettes, and passed it around We
sat there smoking putting eisurely, the little
horse leaning against the pillar, and the girl
beside Bill
Out on the causeway the sun shot down
stronger, and low haze rose from the stones
and ground.
"The girls right, Bill" said. Let's study
the map an get busy. We don't know how much
time we have"
DILL crushed his cigarette, got up and
d stretched himself. He went to the horse and
found the parang-a curved, ugly sword, bright
as glass. One of the ASS stuck in his belt, and
he slid the parang down beside it. The other
gun was sung under my arm
'Id like to meet Sin Kew and his gang" Bill
grinned. How about you, my girl?"
Hull Gin laughed softly, and didn't seem
afraid.
you'll have your WISH" said. Now, where's
that map?"
Bill dug down, unsnapped the belt next to his
skin, and brought out the parchment. It was
crumpled an creased but parchment doesn't
wear out. He spread it on the floor between us,
smoothing it carefully with his big hands. You
could see he sort of loved that piece of paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-06

He didn't go in for reading, but the way he
studied that map you'd have thought he was
scholar.
His finger traced the arrow to square spot,
where it stopped.
There" he said. "If we can find that"
According to the map, we faced west-the
main entrance to the temple. Behind was the
square temple, thick walls and towers set down
by builders who knew how the world was made.
I STOOD UP and looked through the grim en-
| trance. Beyond was a court, overgrown with
trees and climbin roots Further on was the op-
posite wall an its towers. The parchment said
well, it didn't seem complicated If you kept
to the left through wide passages along the
walls, turned two corners and kept on few
yards, you'd strike about opposite to where we
sat-just across the court. What was there,
couldn't tell; but that was the place.
Hull Gin said, Listen, please" She held up
her hand, half turned to the passage behind us.
WHAT" Bill asked Are you hearin'
things?"
Then it came. The high, shrill scream of
woman from somewhere behind u.s. Just once
it came. Then stopped dead. like it was cut off
sharp.
Didn't seem possible, cry like that comm
in that silent place. 1t wasn't an animal. You
can't mistake woman's scream if you've ever
heard one. 1t came sharp, unexpected-an was
in second.
black space that led around the court. His head
bent little, listenin' for the scream to come
again. We didn't hear anything more mems
voices no struggle. The stiffness sank down
again like cloud, only you couldn't it.
"Wait for me-" says Bill. The girl got up,
caught his arm.
NO." she said Don't go from here 1t is
nothing"
"Nothin' ?" Bill jerks away. You're crazy!"
He started down a dark corridor, getting
blacker an blacker until it turned corner fifty
yards further on, an you couldn't anything
called, Better stay together, Bill. Don't be
a fool!' But he was gone. looked for Hull
Gin, and saw her runnin' softly after him. She
didn't try to catch him, knowing he'd send her
back but she kept a few steps behind Then
they both disappeared in the gloom.
I'D ILL" said to myself, now we're in for
p it" The parchment was in my hand
Bill, like a fool, forgot about 1t the minute
woman screamed. didn't see any sense in my
following; it wasn't going to be easy to find
anyone in that labyrinth Of ruins The sun had
come up, bright an hot, but there was darkness
in that place the sun never found.
waited beside the column, an won't pre-
tend liked it. 1t got hotter, the sun crawled up
to blaze down straight overhead; the stones
seemed to absorb the heat and throw it out at
me. 1t was an hour, maybe longer when
couldn't stand it any more.
"Hi," shouted Hi! Bill" Nothin' answered
but echo, an I saw what a fool was If
anyone wondered where I waited, now they
knew. didn't know that just plain silence
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The Long Corridor Down Which The
Captain Raced Opened to Side Entrance
On the Court. To the Left Stood Great
Square, Hollow Column, Concealing The
Fabulous Idol
could get mans nerves so. The horse pricked
up his ears when called, but nothin' else hap
pened
In my hand the parchment was sodden with
sweat curled up in ball. opened it, took an
other look at the directions. Queer crcum-
stances make it hard to think calmly and I'd
given way to panic. Then stopped to figure
Whoever was there, would be after the idol.
Where it was hidden I'd find Sin Kew-maybe
the woman who'd yelled Bill and Hull Gin? If
Bill was mad enough to tear into strange places
because girl screamed-I was disgusted with
him.
I STARTED OUT to find the Emerald Buddha.
Down the passage running opposite to the one
Bill had taken, walked into long narrow hall
no one had lived in for centuries. I hurried not
having to feel my way-there was enough light
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-06
SYNOPSIS

THE Captain of the "Mary Ann" tells the tale
Of how his mate, Bill Corkey, meets Ter
nate dancing girl who gives him map reveal
ing the hiding place of the fabulous Emerald
Buddha in Angkor Wat a carved idol sought
by the pirate, Sin Kew. They escape from Sin
kew's men to sail for Saigon Word of their ar
rival has come by fast junk, and Frenchman
meets them at the dock. They visit Hui Doom,
money lender, who owes his life to the Captain,
and provides them with pack horse, fresh
clothes, food and rifle and a coolie guide to
take them through the jungle northward toward
Angkor Wat The little party struggles through
the jungle, resting by day, travelling at night.
They reach a rock grotto to find Ii, the "bonze,"
standing in a high-ceiIinged room before a tow
erng Buddha. Ii reveals that their cooe guide
Is girl. He says the Emerald Buddha Is relic
from the sunken Continent of Mu-Goddess Of
Mu, and must be left at Angkor Wat. The party
leaves the grotto, struggles toward Tonle Sap,
a great lake, and reaches the ruins of Angkor,
where they expect to meet Sin Kew.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-06

to distinguish hundreds of carved pictures
the walls, group of princes an their armies
led by elephants; but 1 didn't pay much atten-
tion. UP high, row of bats chung to the arched
ceiling.
I kept on, looking twice at the map. You
couldn't lose your way following the thin line
that wound around the court through the mar
row hall. A gray monkey swung down from
somewhere above and scampered ahead. The
gnome-like head turned once and it ran faster.
A ghost, scurrying out of sight around a cor
ner quiet, scared ghost of the Khmers
who'd lived there? My Imagination turned wild,
racing beside me along that still corridor.
Where Bill and Hull Gin? Who had
screamed? My breath came short, hard; I
turned to the right, sweating like a drunken
man, to the right again and still along the end
less hall. Maybe shouted again for Bill, but
remember only rushing faster and faster to find
out what horrible thing had happened to him
an the Chinese girl. A hot breeze blew into the
corridor, blasted at my face. knew where the
emerald god was hidden-Id find Bill an Sin
Kew. My legs began to tremble under me- not
from fear-but things were happening in those
ruins I didn't know about, things couldn't
guess.
A BIG COLUMN stood in the center of the
- hall, close to an arch opening to the court.
I'd come to it to the place marked on the
parchment. But something was wrong-the COL
umn was set in the exact spot shown. For a
minute I walked around it, then studied the
parchment 1t was clearly Marked but had
someone changed the line on that crumpled bit
of paper? looked into the court, but no one
was about. Another monkey climbed a thick
white root and grunted at me.
Another sound scraping like iron on stone
1t seemed to come from the column itself The
pillar was five or six feet square, holding up one
side Of a tower. slipped the gun from under
my arm, and began tapping. At one place there
was hollow sound, dull, bel-like tone. The
whole length of it was carved with figures of
dancing girls and elephants :. row of cos
TUNED entertainers, then a row of long-tusked
beasts looked at them hard following the in
tricate carvings with the butt of the gum The
tusk of one elephant had broken off short
no, been filed off, 1t was smooth, round, like
knob.
I TRIED to twist it, but it didn't turn Then
] pushed. Tiny cracks appeared, forming a
square-a section Of the column swung inward
Dry air rushed out, sitting, stale odor.
Inside it was dim, a blue dusk that seemed to
flow around an amber glow from the center
small oil lamp on the floor. The circle of color
took in a low stone block, where rested a fig
ure clothed in a rotting yellow robe The dry
air of the place kept drifting through the open
section; it curled the edge of the robe, revealed
toes of skeleton. looked higher, saw the
skull. It leaned forward empty eyes gazing at
green idol that squatted between the legs.
To ha
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-06
By Whit Wellman
Chapter 7.

Chapter 7.
"A JED COME to Angkor. When you'd said
moats an water lily lakes surrounded it, an
broad stone avenue led to its center, where CEN
turies before dancin' girls had entertained the
emperor an his wives. I saw four walls, each
long temple itself-four high towers at each
corner, an in the middle tower bigger still.
Guess the spoils a man. for I'd forgotten
men could imagine a temple great. Green
waves an rolling surf fine enough, an
wouldn't go far from a ship an beating wind.
But what looked at that morning was finer
sight than I'd seen before.
Standing there, didn't much care If we ever
found the emerald goddess We'd come upon
ANCHORS western entrance-an open space be-
side the moat, which was some 200 yards across
Two stone lions with curled names guarded the
causeway, and sacred carved serpents with
heads curved upward like waving ferns I'M
wound themselves across the moat
"Nagas," Hull Gin said, breathessly THE
great half human reptiles which once inhabited
this country
"Glad they died out" Bill said, and led the
horse up that ancient way to Angkor. The tenn
pie seemed deserted or it was too early for the
bonses to move about. These Buddhist priests,
we'd heard, kept the ruins in some kind of re-
pair, living inside the cool tomb-lke place,
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-06
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SUPER SUCKERS

world right at home. and we, the
suckers, buy their junk while our
own factories are idle and won
der why our own workers cant
find job.
We let them come in, take our
land, gang up, elect by force OF
numbers, some crummy wran-
glers of their own breed to hold
office and make laws to govern
us-Americans and get away with
it.
Then to avoid contamination by
our Americanism, they publish
newspapers in their native tongue
for those who come in to take
our money and our jobs, but do
not care to learn our language.
They borrow our money and
are mot at home" when we try
to collect; ship us their criminals
when they can'tuse themany more,
and we let them vote; they set
up foreign-owned business in our
midst, take our money and ship
it back home, while our own
business pays the fiddler.
And now-to add insult to in
jury, they send over a mob OF
morons to force their lousy form
of government down our threats,
whether we like it or not, and
tell us we will like it "or else =
and we fall and fall and fall. Are
we suckers? Super Suckers!
It's quite a little while since
those days of the Boston Tea
Party, Yorktown, Valley Forge
and Bunker Hill; but we still
have time to reclaim Our right to
be rated as real Americans, but if
we wait too long, we may as well
crawl in alongside the Mummy
too bad he can have a ring-side
seat. He hasn't had a good laugh
for more than five thousand
years.
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1936-03-28

If it were not so disgusting, 1t
would actually be amusing to
witness the homeopathic
cooperation between the var
ious organizations, associations,
clubs, leagues and what have
YOU (not to mention the
mayors Greater Minneapo-
lis Committee") who are all
anxious to direct Minneapolis
into their "only road"-provid
ing all other groups accept their
leadership and adopt their re-
ligion.
| have half a dozen of these
groups and organizations in mind
but as the shoe fits all of them
perfectly, III refrain from men
tioning names-for a few issues
A short time ago we had a
"Good Government Week" which,
naturally, gave birth to other
groups and synthetic leaders, al
with high ambitions, some intel
ligence, no sense of direction
and an axe to grind.
There are various reasons fol
these numerous yens to take com