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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-02-25
Flea Bites

We like the story about the two
fleas who fell in love and got mar
ried. Being young, industrious and
ambitious, they worked hard for a
long time and saved their money.
He never drank or stayed out late
nights. She was thrifty, loyal and
economical. They didn't have much
fun, as we might think of fun, but
they loved each other dearly and
besides. they had the satisfaction
OF working for the future. One day
they counted up all the money they
had saved. Imagine their surprise
and JOY to find they had amassed
the sum of five dollars.
Did all this money turn this
thrifty couples heads? On the con-
trary, it gave them an idea. If
they could save five dollars, why
not ten. A firm resolve was born
in their minds. They would have
something that no other two fleas
bad ever dared to even hope for.
From that day on they redoubled
their efforts to save. They tOiled
and scrimped and economical, sac
rifced all the pleasures ordinary
fleas indulge themselves in-fOr
purpose. Months went by and at
last came the day when the last
penny was deposited in the stock
ing. That day they went out and
bought a dog.
The Pioneer.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-02-25
PURPOSE OF FARM BUREAU
SET.UP

Editor Askov American:
In reply to Mr.. Sandell's letter III
the last issue of the county paper $
Farm Bureau which is being organ
lied i'm Pine county, we would like to
give this Inflammation to the public
and if meeting is desired it can be
arranged.
Under the Soil Conservation Act we
are required to have county agent
in order to get soil payments. Under
the present set-up we have an emer-
gency county agent whose only duties
are to attend to the soil conservation
activities. His salary is paid by the
state extension service from state and
federal funds. but there are other eX-
penses that have to be taken care OF
by the county. The county board APP
propriateS $3.50 each six months to
take care of these expenses.
At the county organization meeting
of the committeeman on the sol $
program the question came up. 1t
was thought that as long as the cOun-
ty had this expense anyway. we could
have a regular county agent at about
the same cost and we would then
Club work and all other actiy tiles that
20 with county agent work. There
are now only nine counties in the
state that do not have a regular coun-
ty agent and Pine county is one of
them. In the past year eight counties
have changed from the emergency
county agents to regular county
agents.
We therefore decided to invt sti
gate and find out what the require
ments and cost of a regular agent
would be so we consulted with the
extension service and found that the
requirements were as follows:
First the law says that we must
have an organization of 200 members
and 5000 on deposit and the Orsani-
reau. After this we can go to the
county board and ask fer an appropri
alton of $500 for year instead OF
$3.50 for six months. If this is granted.
the state takes care of all other
expenses including the agents salary.
This $500 appropriation will not nee
essarily be spent.
In other words we could have 4
regular county agent work at about
the same cost as under the present
set-up. 1t was decided to try and or
ganiZe The Pine County Farm Bureau
The membership fee was
set at ST. This is to be a strictly To-
cal organization and it is to be abso-
lutely Independent of all other farm
organizations. Its sole and only pur-
pose is to meet the legal requirements
in order to get a regular county agent
and regular extension work in Pine
county.
At present there are seven counties
in the state which have county agents
under a local farm bureau similar to
the one being organized in Pine
county.
Signed by the temporary committee.
Chris Frederiksen, As kov.
Charles Beavers, Pine City.
Nern LOken, Sandstone
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-02-25

gave him his fame when Morgan, Har-
| riman and Ryan were squeezing the
assets of the big insurance company
at the expense of the policy holders
S47O,O0O,0OO deal that got him the
governorShip with the aid of 100000
contribution from J. p. Morgan, ST..
and other gifts from Andrew Carnegie,
Charles Schwab, John ID. Rockefeller,
Jr., Jacob Schiff and others.
So President Taft found Hughes a
fit man for the supreme court bench.
Owen j. Roberts, who sees red at the
least gesture of reform, is a Philadel-
phia corporation lawyer. Protested
when the Senate Judiciary committee
Investigated the oil industry, Are We
to go into state of Socialism, he
barked at a meeting of the Trust Co..
Division of the American Bankers
Association, 'or are men like you pre-
pared to get out, take off your coats
and root for good old-fashiOned Anglo
Saxon individualism?' This man,
after Herbert HoOver's heart, was APP
pointed to the bench. Trained in the
railroad school are two of the hard
boiled of the Nine Old Men: Pierce
Butler and Willis Van Devanter. Van
Devanter of Wyoming, helped the I'm
ion Pacific railroad keep about 1000
600 acres of coal lands, with any patent
from the government; that's a pretty
big grab. But it didn't faze President
Taft who appointed him. Butler
should be well known to the Mime
SOtans; during the war he also served
as attorney for a mob of vigilantes of
Luverne, Mimi, who kidnapped, tarred
and feathered John Meinty. The
farmer recovered $4,000 damage de-
spite Butler.
On February President Roosevelt
delivered his message to congress ur-
ging to enlarge the supreme court to
fifteen or those over 20 years should
retire. What happened? Stock mar
ket trebled-the sharpest break this
year-On the following: U. S. Steel,
Westinghouse, Chrysler, Bethlehem,
American Can, and General Motors,
which is further proof thai the Nine
Old Men are not working for the ben
eft of the majority of the people. Its
no wonder the Yellow Flower crowds
want to keep the Nine Old "Dictators"
at the head of the nation in order to
save democracy for the reactionaries
who are riding on the nations back.
It's time that the people wake up and
demand their rights before it's too
late.
LAWRENCE V. UBL.
Hinckley, Mimi, Feb. 20, 1887.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-02-25
DENHAM MAN PASSES
AFTER SHORT ILLNESS

Pete Johnson of the Denham COM
munity, passed away at a Duluth hos
pltal Sunday evening, after having
taken i'll very suddenly on Friday eve
ming with a strangulated hernia. He
underwent an operation at ~ o'clock
the same night at the hospital to
which he was rushed, but could not
recover
Friends of the family extend SYM
pathy to it in it's hour of sorrow.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-02-25

Mother: Marcia, what are you do
ing with all that jam on your lips?
What would you say if you saw me
looking like that"
I'D think you were going to a
dance, mother" replied the young
girl.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-02-25
OPINIONS OF OTHERS

(Short timely letters on topics
of public interest are welcome
whether or not the writer's Opin-
ions conform with those of the
American. All letters must be
signed with the writer's name for
our information. Signed articles
always 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, 1937-02-25

If those people who throw bricks
would only start laying them, look
what a prosperous country we would
have.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-10
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
prAsslyRANcEs OF IMMORTALITY

If the Father deigns to touch with divine power
the cold and pulseless heart of the buried acorn
and to make it burst forth from its prison walls,
will He leave neglected in the earth the soul OF
man, made in the image of his Creator?
If He stoops to give the rose bush, whose with
cred blossoms float upon the autumn breeze, the
sweet assurance of another springtime, Will he re-
fuse the words of hope to the sons of man when
the frosts of winter come?
If matter, mute and inanimatc, though changed
by the forces of nature into multitude OF forms,
can never die, will the imperial spirit of man sui
fer humiliation when it has paid brief visit like
a royal guest to this tenement of STAY?
No. am sure that He who, Notwithstanding
His apparent prodigality, created nothing without
purpose, and wasted not single atom IN all HIS
creation has made provision for future lie IN
which mans universal longing for immortality Will
find its realization. l am rs sure that we live
again as | am sure that we live today.
In Cairo | secured few grains of wheat that
had slumbered for more than thirty centuries IN
an Egyptian tomb. AS looked at them this thought
came into my mind: If one of those grams hao
been planted on the banks of the Nile the year
after il grew, and all its lneal descendants had
been planted and replanted from that time until
now. its progeny would today be sufficiently nu-
merous to feed the teeming millions of the world
An unbroken chain of life connects the earliest
grains of wheat with the grains that we SOW and
reap.
There is in the grain of wheat an invisible some
thing which has power to discard the body that we
see. and form earth and air fashion a new body so
much like the old one that we cannot tell the one
from the other. If this invisible germ OF life IN
the grain of wheat can thus pass unimpawed thru
three thousand resurrections, shall not doubt that
my soul has power to cothe itself with body suit
ed to its new existence when this earthly frame
has crumbled to dust.-William Jennings Bryan.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-10
WHAT IS A c. l. o. AGREEMENT
WORTH?

In the so-called settlement of the Chrys-
Ter insurrection one paragraph OF the
agreement was as follows
"The union will not cause or permit its members
TO cause, nor viii any member of the union take
part in any sitdown or stay-n strike or other stop
page in any Of the plants Of the corporation DUR
ing the term Of this agreement"
A similar promise, agreement or settle
ment was made with General Motors Cor
poration; the plants were re-opened and
all employees returned to work go
And within three weeks after this set
Element" became effective, 80 separate sit
downs were pulled in General Motors
plants. r
All Of these were pulled on the most
flimsy ,pretexts; and all of them rolled to-
gether did not afford reasonable grounds
for stoppage of work by one employee
Entire plants, employing hundreds an
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-10
FINES AND DRUNKENNESS

It is apparent that fines do not promote sobriety
Police records show that in January, February ana
March COG persons were arrested for drunkenness
in Spartanburg and that fines imposed in the mu-
nicipal court amounted to $25,447.75.
The record is not encouraging to those who hold
that Drunkenness has decreased since the repeal
of prohibition The facts are not at hand but 1t
may be doubted whether during any three months
prior to the enactment of the present liquor law
there were as many arrests and convictions for
drunkenness in Spartanburg. All OF the sos cases
of drunkenness since the first of the year cannot
be charged to the present liquor law, however, be.
cause it is we'll known fact that bootleggers still
do business in the county
The thought suggested by the report OF the po
lice department is that practically every person al
rested and fined for drunkenness could operate an
automobile. Many of them probably do operate
cars while under the influence Of liquor 1t IS oac
enough to have more than 900 persons drunF
enough to be arrested by city police within three
months. II is worse to think of the damage, they
might do at the wheels of motor vehiefea-spar
tanburg Herald
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-10
PUBLIC OPINION RULES

No group of people can long defy public opinion
That was very definitely shown at Hershey, Penn
the other day when group of farmers joined with
non-striking Hershey employees in chasing from
the plant some Sit-down strikers.
The trouble had been going on for some time
According to reports, only small percentage OF
employees had quit. The others wanted to work
but were intimidated by those on strike. Farmers
facing the loss of sale of their milk each day te
the plant, decided to take matters into their own
hands. They joined with those wanting to wort
and proceeded to clean out the plant The sentt
ment in that section is unquestionably against sit
down strikes and that sort of sentiment seems t'
be growing everywhere; sober-minded people every
where are demanding that lawlessness must BIZ
brought to an end.-Shelby Star.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-10
We. Twiggs First
Prize Fisherman
Brevard Man Hauls in Big
Florida Pompano,

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla,
April 10. - One of the coveted
awards in the annual winter fish
ing contest at West Palm Beach
was won by V. +. TwiggS Of Brc-
ward. n. c., it was announced to-
day by Cecil Cornelius. president
of the West Palm Beach Fishing
club.
Mr.. TwiggS cntcred'a pampano
weighing ) lbs. II on. which he
took while fishing near West Palm
Beach. His fish took first prize
over one, a several pounds lighter
entered by Tom Campbell Of De
troit, Mich.
The summer competition, al
ready opened under auspices OF
the West Palm Beach Fishing
club. will continue until Novcm-
. her /. More than q score of tro-
phies are offered.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-10
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service StnT Correspondent

Observation-Disclosures George
" Norris of Nebraska is not one
TO look backward, so April of 1887
finds him looking ahead toward
his grandioSe plans for TVA-type
development of every major river
basin of the country. Lots of peo-
pie think Norris is little crazy on
power and flood-control develop
ment. Perhaps he is.
But if Norris cared to look back
ward instead of forward, he would
see himself in other early April
days of 20 years ago when he was
thought even crazier. And yet
after 20 years any unbalance he
might have revealed then looks
a little like the fine frenzy of a
prophet.
Norris is the only man in the
Senate who sat there 20 years
ago and took his political (per-
haps even his PHYSICAL life in his
hands to vote against the declara-
ton of war on Germany.
The Congressional Record pages
of April 4, 1917, are crinkly with
age now, but they are worth re-
reading in the light of an ami
versary that finds the United
States again struggling to insure
neutrality in any wars that may
bs brewing in Europe.
TWENTY years ago, speaking
L before the Senate on Wilson's
proposal for war, Norris said:
Before taking this momentous
step, and while standing on the
brink of this terrible vortex, we
ought to pause and calmly and
judiciously consider the terrible
consequences Of the step we are
about to take.
"To my mind, what we ought to
have maintained from the begin
ming was the strictest neutrality.
If we had done this, do not now
believe we would have been on
the verge Of war at the present
time.
mo close student Of recent his
tory will deny that both Great
: Britain and Germany have, on
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-10
PLAIN TALK FROM CANADIAN
PREMIER

A strike pulled in a General Motors
plant in Ontario province, Canada, and
the plain-spoken comment of Premier Hep
burn in making public the governments
attitude to the matter supplies illuminat-
ing occasion for thought on the part OF all
good American citizens. 1t affords the best
view that has so far been obtained of the
way in which conditions in the United
States are regarded by leaders of an Amer
lean neighbor nation. ...... ...
Premier Hepburn comments that the
c. /. o. instruction in this country has
brought the United States almost into a
state of anarchy" and he issued the warn
ing TO the John Lewis wrecking crew that
no similar situation will be allowed to de-
velop in Ontario. ...
The Premier also asserts in the formal
statement issued as declaration of policy
by his government:
That Canadian industry will not submit
TO foreign coercion or control by paid
propagandiSts" from the United States.
That the whole force of the government
will be used to protect Canadian citizens
of all classes in their rights, but no high
handed parading of dictatorial authority
by any group will be permitted.
That there will be no sit-downs III his
province and that striking, picketng Oh
any other procedure by workers must be
done in lawful and peaceful manner
"rhe entire resources of this province
will be utilized" said the Premier, Ito pre-
vent anything in this country resembling
that which is taking place at the present
time across the line"
Sit-down instructions in this country
and the condition of anarchy which has
developed, the Premier said is due to fail
ure on the part of constituted authority to
take adequate action
The Premier expressed regret that Can
adam workingmen had yielded to the
pressure of C. /. o. paid propagandists'
and is quoted in yesterdays dispatches as
saving that the trouble will be stamped out;
and if General Motors desires to reopen
it's plants in Oshawa, pickets will be dis
persed and protection afforded to all who
want to work, IF we have to raise an army
to do it.
Finally, the Premier said the govern
ment would not give "relief" to the strlK
ers while they lay off work. &c.,. b.. p.
What lesson for the people and gov
eminent of the United States and the AZ
States is afforded by the action OF the pre-
mier of Ontario! ,..,.'
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-10
| WAS THINKING TODAY
BY WICKES WAMBOLDT

ma presented by the federal civil
service system and the political
spOils system.
There is a thoroughly workable,
thoroughly equitable civil service
plan which is now used by a num-
Der of progressive cities. 1t pro-
vides % that to be eligible for
employment applicants must pass
suitable examinations held by a
civil service board or n director
of personnel; GU that employees
must be chosen from the three
highest ranking applicants in any
classification; (3) hat the ad-
ministrative officer may remove
at will any employee who is unsat-
isfactory; (4) that any discharg-
cd employee may demand and get
reasons in writing for his dismis-
sal; (5) that any discharged en-
ploye may also demand and get
4 public hearing on his dismissal
before the Civil Service commits
sion or the director of personnel,
and at this hearing he may have
witnesses and council in his be-
half; co that after the Civil Ser
vice commission or the director
of personnel has ruled on the dis
missal of an cmployc, the admin
istrativc officer may still follow
his own Judgment as to removing
the employee.
The foregoing plan insures that
governmental jobs be filled by
| the merit system and not by the
spoils system; it makes govern
mental jobs career Jobs; it pre-
vents politicians from discharg'
ing workers every time there is
a change of administration ans
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-10

filling their places with bench
men and otherwise playing poll
tics with public positions; it han
dicaps the politicians in building
political rings and in compelling
lob holders TO contribute to cam
paign funds; it allows any en-
ploye unfairly discharged to make
things hot for the administrative
officer; yet it permits the admin
istrativc officer to have the final
word as to the dismissal of an
unsatisfactory cmployc.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-10

- Frank p Graham, Of the University OF North
Carolina, and w. P. Few, president OF Duke UNI
versity, are asking the people Of their respective
counties to vote against liquor stores IN 'Ghapei
Hill and Durham on the grounds that these are
college towns and they do not want additiohai
temptation placed before the young men OF ,hese
institutions. Appears to this writer that ieea,
liquor is good thing for older people II shouio
also prove a blessing to college students-tnat II
more liquor and better liquor is the cure LOT our
intemperate ills in towns where there are no nign,
er institutions Of learning, the same remedy snouia
serve to remove the drink habit among college
young mep-Nsrshville Home. @0.as
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-10

thousands of people, were shutdown by as
few as a dozen malcontents, recalcitrants
and professional trouble-makers. The con-
ditions of anarchy holding sway in Gen
eral Motors plants apparently made it i'm
possible for the management to take any
effective action and the so-called union
leaders either could not or would not con-
troll their own cohorts.
So what is an agreement with c. i. O..
alleged labor union worth?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-10

Zy. She came TO work When Sne
pleased and left when she pleas
ed. All he could do was to charge
the hours she missed against her
annual thirty-day vacation time.
She was impudent to him; she
gave him all the trouble she
could; she demoralizcd the morals
of his department. He could only
fumc. All he got for trying to
have her removed was an order
to increase her salary. She boast
ed she had senator back of her.
Such a situation is of course
abominable. Still it is not so
abominable as the spoils system,
since there could not be so much
Of it. However, there is no need
TO grasp either horn of the dilem-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-10
THE NJ EW = T. a L
IN WASHIN GTON
-RY RODNEY BUTCHER.

numerous occasions since the be
ginning Of the war, fagrantly
violated in the most serious man.
ner the rights Of neutral vessels
and neutral nations under exist.
ing international law as recog-
nized up to the beginning Of this
war by the civilized world.
THE only difference is that in
the case of Germany we have per-
sisted in our protest, while in the
case of England we have submit
ted.
1--WE have loaned many hun
dredS Of millions of dollars TO the
allies in this controversy it
has been instrumental in bringing
about a public sentiment in favor
of our country taking a course
that would make every bond
worth 100 cents on the dollar
the greatest propaganda the world
has ever seen. :"
MORRIS cited a wall otree'
" brokers' customer-letter that
said Canada and Japan were az
war and were more prosperous
than ever before.
ITO whom does war bring pros
perity?" he cried.
"War brings no prosperity to
the great mass of common, and
patriotic citizens. 1t increases the
cost of living to those who toll.
"And even if we do not cross
the Atlantic and 60 into the
trenches, we are going to pile up, a
debt that the toiling masses that
shall come many generations aft
err us will have to pay. .
eve are now the greatest neu-
trail nation.
upon the passage of this reso-
luton we will have Joined Europe
in the great catastrophe and taken
America into entanglements that
will not end with this war, but
will live and bring their evil in
fluences upon many generations
yet unborn.
1t was all said so long ago, and
yet in a world preparing frenzied-
ly for another war, 1t mas
strangely familiar sound.
downright. 1897. MIA Shrvlea. Incl