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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-04-29
OF THE PEOPLES LOBBY
AND PROGRESS

Editor ASkOv American:
There is a certain class of people
who like to carry progressive label;
possibly because they think it pays to
do so, but who actually are reaction
aries of the worst kind. | would like
to give timely warning against this
element. whose tactics is of the great
est comfort to reaction and big bust
ness, and which invariably is found
among persons who at least for the
present are so fixed financially that
although they claim to see the neces-
sity of reforms in our social system,
always try to counterfeit any move to
do anything now, but instead advance
the idea of doing something about it
in the future.
We see this element taking a stand
against the so-called Peoples Lobby
on the grounds that we have another
election a couple of years from now
and this will be the golden opportuni-
ty for the people to retire the reac-
tionary Senators, in the meantime the
three months tranquil sleep of the
Senators should not be disturbed by
folks from farm and factory with I'M
polished manners and direct ways Of
addressing those gents to which they
are not accustomed.
Fellow Progressives! If you would
be known as such, here was your
chance to put pressure on the Legis-
Loft 70 in 70
unfortunate than you, now right away;
by risking your pelt just little you
could have shown where you stand,
many did so, and from those we
should choose our future leaders and
not from those lukewarm elements
tiOnaries in their song of injured dig
nifty.
Many people believe the stories
printed in the reactionary daily dope
sheets at three cents a shot, but ii
you will take those papers and COM
pare the different issues you will soon
find plenty contradictions in them.
Their sensational stories were simply
a smoke screen, behind which the
broken fences were hastily mended,
the effect of the Peoples Lobby coun
teracted as we'll as could be done.
One of the dope sheets, the st. Paul
Dispatch, l think it was, reported in
its headlines that the Peoples Lobby
was flop, only 200 attended. Anyone
who was there knows better, as 1000
was conservative estimate, and let
me in this connection point out that
thousands were so poor that they
could not spare the money for the
trip, or they would have been there.
1t is also a well known fact that the
so-called sitdowners in the Senate
chambers did not break in nor leave
the room in such a mess as to stop
the Senators from getting their GUS
tomary sleep next day, but instead the
Senate leaders refused to let the jan
itOrS clean up as usual before the Sem
ate was to convene, so as to make as
much of q smoke screen as possible.
1t is up to those who were there to
nail those lies, and | for one am very
disguised with the stand some of the
so-called progressives take in regards
to Governor Benson and the Peoples
Lobby, because | feel that they know
better and therefore their tactics are
rotten.
LARS P. JENSEN.
Askov, MINI.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-04-29
AGAINST LOBBY

Editor Askov American:
l am just an ordinary dirt farmer
trying to make my living on mort
gagged farm, and so far l have been
successful in making both ends meet.
have never had relief, and do not
want any! 1t irritates me not a little
to hear about some of the acts of our
present governor. This past winter
some agitatOrs started sO-called
lumberjack strike. Now, before go
any further l wish to say that l have
worked at various places throughout
the United States and Canada up until
the past IS years. My age now is 53.
During my occasional stops at any
seaport" town in the western states,
either in summer or winter there al
ways were a number of seemingly I'M
employed men. But it is found upon
closer Investigation that the majority
of those men are not in search of work
and personally l have known of men
that would accept only certain kinds
of employment.
Imagine my surprise when / read
in my daily paper that Governor Ell
mer Benson had declared that all
those so-called strikers were to be fed
and housed at the expense of the
public. Now again. a group of dis
satisfied farmers combined with some
aSitatorS from some So-called labor
unions descended on our state capitol
and took possession, with the approval
of the governor. if what | read is
true. Such acts are a disgrace to the
fair name of our state.
CARL 0. PAULSON.
Hinpklay Mimi
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-04-29
UNFAIR CRITICISM
Editor AskOv American:

Editor Askov American:
Please give me space to express my
opinion regarding the criticism of our
county board for voting down seed
and feed appropriation. From a small
taxpayers viewpoint the criticism is
absolutely unjust and most of us in
this county belong to that class and
for that reason we have to look at it
from that point of view
We have no millionaires, as far as
| know, in this county, that the coun-
ty board can place an extra tax on,
and all those farmers and small bust
ness men who have paid taxes in the
past can not possibly carry any bigger
load in the future as we have no pros
pect of very much better times for
some time to come; so | am of the
opinion that if the county board had
acted contrary to the action it took
it would have added to the burden of
those who already have sacrificed nee
essities of life in order to meet their
taxes.
In my opinion Mr.. Greenwald's ex-
PLANTATION of the matter to the Editor
of the American was very good, but
it must not have been, because of all
the criticism of Mr.. Greenwald and
Mr.. Patrick. 1t is indeed regrettable
if all the facts were not brought out
clearly so that people with a little
common sense could see that it is
case of the state passing the buck to
the small taxpayers of this county as
well as other counties. For that rea-
son think we should give our county
commissioners credit for not bonding
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-04-29
WAR SIT-DOWN
(The St. Paul Daily News)

(The st. Paul Daily News)
Throughout the nation Thursday
undergraduates in various colleges
and universities held peace strike"
Where faculties refused to cooper
ate in programs of protest against
war, the undergraduates walked out
of classes to show their disapproval
The demonstration was larger than
ever before and is worth some thought
by older folk who are inclined to
regard it as unimportant. War is
not going to be stopped by under
graduate demonstrations but war is
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-04-29
SOAK.THE.POOR BUDGET MUST
BE CHANGED

Editor Askov American:
| read an article which | believe
would be of interest to the readers of
the AskOv American. which is as fol-
lows:
But here is the challenge to our
democracy: In this nation | see tens
of millions of it's citizens-a substan-
tial part of it's whole population
who at this very moment are denied
the greater part of what the very
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-04-29
Opinions of Others

(Short timely letters on topics of
public interest are welcome whether
or not the writer's opinions con-
All letters must be signed with the
writer's name for our information.
Signed articles always are more eff
fective, but if the writer does not
wish to have his name used. it will
be withheld.)
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-04-29
From Exchanges

Editorial Comment From Other News
papers, Which May or May Not
Conform With the Opinions
of the AskOv American.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-25
FAIRNESS IN TAXATION

Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, in out
lining tax evasion schemes now in vogue to the
Joint congressional committee made these three in
teresting points,
One. Vested interests grow up in tax avoidance
devices in the course of time, so that they
receive a sem-respectable standard and become
difficult to change.
Two. When tax avoidance devices become an
accepted part of the tax law any attempt to change
them is heraded as persecution of the rich"
Three. The tax devices cost the government
huge sums which congress never actually meant to
give away, and they create continual and expensive
litigation.
Now, there is a great deal of truth on every one
of the above three points that the treasury secrc-
tary made.
How about the statesmen the joint congress
sonal committee doing 100 per cent job and
investigating not only the rich individuals of this
country on the schemes they have devised to pay
as few taxes possible, but also the schemes by
which Mr. John Lewis and his CIO collect tribute
from tens of thousands of unwilling but fearful
American workmen each month"; but upon which
no government report is made and no tax is paid!
1t is, indeed, reprehensible for rich man to try
to duck out from paying his fair share of revenue
to support the government, but it's like patting
crade-snatcher on the back for the government to
absolve union leaders from any explanation or &C
counting or just taxation of the money they re-
ceive from the unofficial but inevitable income tax
they slap on the American workngman today
Boake Carter in Shelby Star.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-25
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
GOVERNMENT AND POWER COMPANIES

Judge Glenn, in a recent decision, upheld the
right of the federal government to provide Green
wood county, South Carolina with enough money
to build power plant in that section.
Similar loans and grants have been made In
other sections of the country. AS matter Oh 1act
the government has been snping at power COM
panies for long time despite the fact that every
such company operates under strict regulations IN
the various states where they operate.
We believe that the issue should be brought to
a head: that the government should either take
over all the power companies or else refrain from
meddlesome interference and let the individual
states take care of the situation.
Personally, we are not in favor OF federal opera
ton of power companies any other public utility.
We have seen enough in the past to convince us
that private business interests can operate much
more efficiently and economically than can the fed
eral government. If you want an illustration Of
that point look about you and see what some of
the PWA and WPA projects have been costing u.s.
Public utilities should be made to obey the regu-
lations imposed upon them by authority of the
states. Here in North Carolina the power COM
panies have lowered rates four times in as many
years We have Public Utility Commission which
looks after the interests of the people but which,
at the same time does not maliciously endeavor to
chastise and punish the power companies as Mr..
Ickes and his associates seem to take delight IN
doing.
We predict that if the federal government ever
went so far to take over operation of public
utilities, it would be only short while before rates
would be considerably higher than they are at the
present Either that, else it would be necessary
to establish a subsidy of some kind or another
thereby helping to enlarge the deficit which the
government is accommodating at the present time.
The duty of the federal government is to gov
ern: not to interfere with the operation of legit
mate business enterprises. We do not believe that
the people of country want to follow in the
of Russia where the government is in
control of practically everything-State Magazine.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-25
HAS THE TIDE TURNED?

A cloud no larger than mans hand APP
pears on the political horizon. In Mime
apolis, situated in one of the most. radical
of the AZ States, Gen. George E. Leach has
been elected mayor. Gen. Leach is a for
mer mayor of that city. In this recent cleo
ton, running as an avowed conservative,
he defeated the radical Farmer-Labor can
didate by a majority of around twenty
thousand votes. ,.
Surely if a majority of the voters in
radical-ridden Minneapolis have recovered
their political sanity, there is hope for
other sections of the country. -r..
We hope this idea of recovering sanity
takes root in the South and produces re-
suits. Someone recently suggested to The
Times-News that the new deal has played
the people of the South for an aggregation
of suckers. We are compelled to admit the
truth of the statement. The hope of this
newspaper is that big majority of the
people of the South will recover their po-
litical sanity before it is everlastingly too
late.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-25
IN WHICH ACTION Bellies WORDS

"There can be only one Justification for the
modified form of martial law which have ordered
to be put into effect. That is the maintenance Of
law and order Governor Earle of Pennsylvania
That smackS of robustness and savorS of the sort
of patriotism the American people are accustomed
to applaud.
The tragedy of the case, however, is that the
governors words are so much piffle and his action
is so oppositely thunderous that he becomes laugh
able in attempting such brazen camouflage.
The truth is that Governor Earle used the pow
ers conferred upon him to declare martial law for
the obvious purpose: first to keep dutiful workers
who are outside of the union from going to their
jobs: second, to use the armed and legal power of
the commonwealth of Pennsylvania to accomplish
what the union picketeers had been attempting to
accomplish by illegal and lawless usurpations third,
to shut down the plants of industry that is en-
gagged in legitimate enterprise and thus do what
the strikers have by violence been undertaking to
accomplish.
The Governor meant for his high-sounding state
ment to be accepted by the American people as the
expression of statesman1y oracle.
AS a matter of simple fact, it is nothing, in the
face of his official action except gust of political
wind-Charlotte Observer
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-25

only 40 of the original settlers
- at jamestown, in 1907, re-
NAMED by the end of that year,
and these suffered from disease
and starvation. Among them was
Capt. John Smith, soldier OF for
tune and bold adventurer. De-
.ermined to save the colony,
Smith visited the hostile Indians
and gained their friendship, but
not before he had been captured
md saved from death by Poca-
hontas, daughter of the Indian
chief, Powhatan. q He brought
back corn for the white settlers
and increased their farm land'
Additional colonists came ana,
IN two years, Jamestown had
population of 500. Smith was Its
governor, but late in 1909, ne re-
turned to England. In 1914 he
ed another band Of colonists 10
America, explored the coast OF
New England, and was about 10
settle there when a French war
ship took him and his followers
prisoner. He died in 1881, at the
age of 81 years. Z
His portrait appears on the one
cent stamp of the three issued IN
1907 on the tercentenary OF the
founding of jamestown.
Downright. 1897, NEA Service, lncJ
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-25
THE NEW DE AL
IN WASHIN GTOM
.RY RODNEY BUTCHER
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

after a long shakedown process,
they turned out to be the most
effective and efficient persons
whom Roosevelt had used in their
respective fields.
CoRcoRAN and Cohen have
~ had a very large hand in GER
tain New Deal legislation, notably
the securities, stock market and
holding company legislation. They
had nothing to do with the draft
ing of the Supreme Court bill or
the preparation of Roosevelt's
message to Congress accompany.
ing it.
Critics of the new wage-hour
bill call it the Corcoran-Cohen
bill because among those who
helped prepare it were Corcoran,
Cohen, John Winant, Jackson,
Hugo Black, the late Bill Connery,
Frances Perkins, Sidney Hillman,
John Lewis, Bill Green, Ernest
Draper, the congressional leader
ship and most other interested
parties, with the exception of the
National Association of Manufac-
turers, Gen. Hugh johnson and
Don Richberg.
Cohen wrote most of the legal
phraseology along the lines Of the
New York Minimum Wage act
which he himself drafted-and
the rest of those mentioned de-
cided what the bills provisions
should be. ~
Insofar as Coreoran's opera
tons on Capitol Hill 60, every
one who has known OF his DART
ings here and there knows his
contacts have been only with
those members sympathetic 10 the
Roosevelt program.
One idea behind the JEFFERSON
Island party was that Jew sem
ators and congressman VINO nave
been protesting they were
damned tired of Corcoran and
Cohen" could meet the Presiden'
face to face, get their orders di-
rect and understand that 'he
President knows his own NINA.
MIR. Corcoran and Mr.: Sohen
will be far away from Jefferson
Island.
| {CopvrlGht. 1897. NEA SeF''''' '"''
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-25
"PERILOUS POLITICS"

The New York Times labels the action
of Governor Earle in the Pennsylvania la
Dor troubles as ''perilous politics. The
Times sums up the argument in this para
graph:
There can be only one justification for the
modified form of martial law which l have
dered to be put into immediate effect That is
the maintenance of law and order" With this
theory of Governor Earle none can fail to agree.
When, however, the execution of his order takes
the form of depriving men who wish to work of
their ability to do so, when it fails to furnish the
protection to which each citizen is entitled in
the normal pursuit of his activities, when the
armed power of the State is invoked to furnish
the shock troops for illegal pcketing, the mar
tal law is without justification and the Cover
nor's words become perilous political harangue.
Undoubtedly the Governor of Pennsyl-
vania is playing "perilous politics" in his
efforts to aid his buddy, John Lewis, and
to promote the seizure of the country by
radical labor and the worst elements Of
anarchism. What he is doing is aiding and
abetting and participating Through his
power as chief executive of the State) in
revolution. He is contributing such power
and influence as he has to the destruction
of the "inalenable rights" of millions of
citizens of his own State and the United
States He is no better than any other revo-
lutionary enlisted under the Go banner;
but the fact that he is the Governor of a
State makes his high crimes more shame
full and dastardly than the outlawry Of
frothing radicals in the ranks of the revo-
lutionaries or the small fry leadership Of
the movement. ... 30
"Perilous politics" is mild criticism to
apply in Earle's case.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-25
SHAWS CREEK

SHAWS CREEK, June %
c. n. Cady, missionary of the
American Sunday School union,
will speak at the camp ground
church Sunday night, July 4th.
Everyone is invited to attend.
Mrs. James Smith and small
daughter, Anna Merrill, from
West Virginia, arc here to spend
a few months with her mother,
Mrs. EChcl Merrill.
Miss Martha and Sarah Ellen
Drake from Pleasant Hill spent
the weekend with Mr.. and Mrs.
A. c. Blythe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fritz Merrill from
Asheville visited Mrs. Ethel MGR
rill Sunday.
Mrs. Bessie Mincy from Frank
lin spent Friday NIGHT here with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jake
Young.
Wick Williams from Pleasant
Hill visited friends here Sunday.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-25

VTASHINGTON-One result OF
w the Jefferson Island pow-Wow
between the President and Demo-
cratic members of Congress IS
likely to be an explosion OF the
Corcoran-C Cohen myth.
The myth is chanted along TWO
themes:
THAT Roosevelt is a nice,
easy-going, well-meaning gent,
but is completely bambooz!ed and
pushed around by Tom Corcoran
and Ben Cohen, who tell him what
he ought to do and what Con-
gress ought to do. And that Tom
and Ben are radicals of a dan
gerous type.
2-That Corcoran and Cohen
write all the New Deal legislation,
sell it to Roosevelt and then 60
high-preSsuring around Capltoi
Hill to get it passed.
All of which is just as silly as
it sounds. 1t ought to be fairly
plain to everyone, no matter how
thorough is ones dislike of the
President and his policies, that he
is nobody's fool. Corcoran and
Cohen take their orders from
Roosevelt and carry them out
with large measures Of ability ana
devotion.
A SSISTANT Attorney General
IA Robert H. jackson, another
relatively young man, has 1olnea
up with the Corcoran-Cohen duet
to make it practically a trio: JACK
son is acknowledged to be the. adj
miniStratioa's stas trial lawyer
and legal orator. Cohen is known
as its most ski!lful legal drafts
man. Corcoran is a brilliant, all
around handy man who keeps the
troops popped up, writes speech
es, serves as White House liaison
man with sympathetic members
of Congress, does an amazing
number of odd-and frequently
important-jobs for Roosevelt
He is an unofficial presidential
secretary and, like Cohen, Gus
tomarily begins his working DAY
at 9 a. m. and concludes it arounc
midnight or thereafter.
Corcoran, Cohen ana JACK
son occupy their present 30
sitions in his encourage because
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-25
LIQUOR HEADACHES

The State Liquor Commission is having many
headaches these days. Johnson county recently
voted for ABC stores but four or five precincts
which went dry are opposing liquor stores in their
townships 1t presents problem to the liquor COM
mission.
The people Of this state will soon realize that we
are in "mess' on this liquor question. Some
counties dry, some wet, while one or two towns
have opened liquor stores, in the state, without a
vote of the people.
The only solution to the liquor problem is to get
rid of liquor and the quicker learn that in this
state and nation, the better off will all be- Let's
elect legislature next year that will give us a
decent Temperance law.-Rutheffordton News.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-25

vile each summer, writes for lit
erature about the Hendersonvillc
community for general distrlbu-
ton. He says he has boosted Hen
Jacksonville SO much that his ac-
quaintances look to him as "A
source OF publicity material.
These staunch boosters here and
there do HerdersonviIlc a great
dCal of good.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-25
ONLY A BROOM

ONL1 A bKOOM
"I'll take broom to you" said
she playfully. :
A broom is a deadly weapon.
| have known two dogs to be kill
cd-one accidentally, one pur-
posely-by a blow from a broom.
A friend Of mine, hearing a
racket in the street, observed his
pet bulldog in fight with u
strange dog. Grabbing broom,
my friend FASTENED to his pets
defense. He aimed lick at the
enemy, hit his own dog by mis-
take and cracked its skull.
Hearing menacing sound an
acquaintance of mine looked up
and saw mad dog with foaming
jaws, swapping and snarling,
charging red-cycd directly at him
across the yard. CHANGING hastily
around for some means of de-
Tense, my acquaintance seized IA
broom that stood by the cellar
door and brought it down on the
head of the rabid beast, killing it
as dead as real estate.
But" protested my friend af-
ter telling me he had accidentally
slain his pct bulldog, chow in the
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-25

a grievance against Dealcf NO. l.,
for last winter when he went to
buy a plug fuse from Dealer No.
/, he was charged ten cents for
it.
81 never paid more than nick
ell for il before in my life" re-
monstrated the man.
"Nobody in town carries EN-
now but me-" complacently re-
piled the dealer. -,
In other words, the man could
take it or leave it. He had to
have it, so he took it and paid
ten cents for a five-cent plug
fuse.
On account of that five cent
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-25
THE GURLEY CoNSTRUC-

ton company has a unique display
of wood flooring and effects Of
different treatments in its front
window on Third avenue west.
The display runs from fair sam
pie of pine and some extra good
quarter sawed heart of pine up
to the higher grades of native
woods. sanded and with the other
usual treatments with Shellac, var
nish, wax, etc.