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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-08-26
The Debt Problem

Many newspapers now are making
much ado over the national debt
which is estimated at 81 billion dol
lars or when dissected into many
parts totals $295 for each man, wom-
an and child in the country. The
latest lament comes from the Min
neapolis Star That newspaper states
that the worst of it all is that the
figure won't remain at S295 very long;
that during the fiscal year the gov
eminent spent one billion dollars,
which was $50 millions more than
it spent the previous year.
The Star goes on to say that If a
person, already in debt, continues to
spend more money than he earns
there is only one result-bankruptcy.
If nation already in debt continues
to disburse more money than it re-
ceives, there can be only one result
national insolvency.
That all sounds like good bust
ness judgment and it is true that a
pay-as-you-go policy is good rule
to follow, but when "a country gets
too good for its citizens, or rather
we should say when a government
gets to be controlled by the money
powers to the extent that millions
of its citizens have barely the neceS-
sites of life and when many are
actually starving, then it is time that
that government should step in to
aid them at least in getting jobs for
a livelihood.
Especially is the national debt
bugaboo laughable when one peruses
the statistics which give the indi-
vidual bank deposits for even year
like 1884. In looking at these figures
it is seen that during that year {
total of over 40 billion dollars was
on deposit in all of the banks of the
United States.
Now if we go back to the S295 pei
capita debt which the Star bemoanS
then we could likewise divide the de.
posts into amounts for each of the
country's citizens, but we won't fol
those deposits do not belong to all o.
the country's citizens; they only be.
long to a portion, very small por.
ton of them. But now if we art
nation of mathmeticians such a.
the Minneapolis Star would be, ther
we might find a way to pay tina
national debt, or at least pay NOR,
of the cost of government from thos,
deposits belonging to the better-able
to-pay few. That is what the ne
income tax and other taxes on abil
ity to pay can do and then we d.
not need to ''holler" so much abou
the mounting national debt
A nation of people who have NOR,
bank deposits than its national deb
certainly is not living beyond it
means, but is rather overlooking al
unfairly divided national wealth.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-08-26

crystal gazing during the depression.
They claimed he could see prosper
ity just around the corner.
The prices for nearly all farm COM
modities are good; that is, compare
lively The wheat storage is the
lowest in years and there is not much
danger of overproduction on this &C
count coupled with the Federal Farm
policies of the normal granary and
soil improvement project. During
the drouth many farmers lost their
herds, others had to cut them down.
1t will take years to over-produce
and to affect the price of beef. But
ter can be kept around 35 cents and
maybe raised to 40 during the WIN
ter months. Corn is high in price
and hogs are very high. The high
price of corn and the governments
policies will prevent overproduction
in hogs, and generally will assure the
farmers of good prices. Of course it
is possible to over-prOduce in hogs
quickly. With other prices high the
farmers can look forward to fairly
prosperous times, and the industries
depending on him can also prosper.
The banks in Minnesota are in good
condition; interest rates are low. With
government insurance up to $4,000
guaranteed depositors and strict fed
eral and state inspection and super
vision, there is little danger of bank
bloW-up.
The danger is over-expansion and
in general muskrat, mushroom and
wildcat development and financing.
A slow normal continuous growth
is always better than a spasmodic
mushroom development. An even
prosperity is better than continu-
Gus cycle of depressions. A return to
old wildcat ideas, where everybody
will get rich, can spoil everything.
S. J. SIMONSEN.
Pease, MINI.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-08-26
DIFFERS WITH GRATING
Askov American:

Editor Askov American:
In the Opinions of Others from
August 10, 1887, we find under the
first article: "Resolutions, Resolu-
tons" In my opinion, any one writ
ing in the Askov American and sign
ing their name as 'GratinO" instead
of using their right name reminds
me of Judas who has not got the
color to come out in the open like a
man to attack those who made the
resolutions Regardless if the resolu-
tons come from the Farmer-Labor
club or from any other OF the COM
mon classes club.
In the past two years several reso-
buttons have been made from the
toilers of the soil and also from the
toilers from factories, shops and mills.
Those resolutions were made for the
betterment of the toiling classes, the
masses of our nation; perhaps some
of those l have help to put through,
which were sent to our Congressman
and Senators and also to Governor
Benson, the greatest governor the
state of Minnesota ever did have up
to the present time. Talk about
governors in the goth century, the
state of Minnesota only had two great
governors-OlSon and Benson. Now
l do not believe that the Farmer
Labor party or any other party OF
the common classes are looking fol-
better leader as governor than we
have.
Those reports from all over the
state, Gratino, have reminded me
about the same as the name Gratino
When any one tries to sling mud or
our governor when he is not here
to defend himself, it is a citizen:
duty and right to defend Governor
Benson. While 1 have the pen ir
hand, I would like to say abou
Hjalmar Petersen, that if he should
choose to run for governor he i:
miles behind in the run compared
with Benson. / do not think Petersen
can steer the state ship into smoother
waters. All our states have water il
the waves and it takes a man like
Governor Benson to steer our state
ship through the stormy waves
Those white collar waves of Cap.
italiSm our governor can sail through
In the next election we, the maSse
of the toilers, will give him the RICH
kind of men to fill the ship so tn,
governor can steer the ship int
smoother waters.
M. J. NELSON.
Askov, MINI.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-08-26
Park Township

Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Gavin and fam
lily of st. Paul, were weekend WISH
tors at the o. T. Rudd home Mrs.
Ted Rudd went back with them to
have some dental work done.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. B. Thomson and
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Matthes were
Sunday evening callers at the Roy
Clewitt home near Kerrick.
A large crowd attended the services
held at the Park Center school Sun
day afternoon.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-08-26
PUPPETS OF BIG BUSINESS
(Union AdvOcate)

President Roosevelt's reply to
critics of the National Labor Rela-
tons Board has had the effect of
silencing a lot of the puppets of spe-
cial privilege in congress seeking to
amend the Wagner Labor Relations
Act before it has been given a fair
trial. The President met the sneers
of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce
and the National Association of Man.
ufacturers by pointing out the fact
that many large induStrialists have
violated collective bargaining agree
ments and that most of them have,
at one time or another, opposed the
unionization of their employees in
legitimate unions.
One of the latest so-called liberals
to fall for the bunk of the Chamber
of Commerce is Senator Gerald P.
Nye, who sold his Endorsement of a
scab cigarette last winter and then
took refuge in the claim he had do
mated the money to hospital. Sen
ator Nye recently used his franking
privilege to send out thousands of
copies of a speech he delivered in
congress attacking the National La
Dor Relations Board.
1t would take a lot of imagination
to visualize Herbert Hoover being
bold enough to say to the big inter-
ests of the country that they had
repeatedly violated their agreements
Mr.. Roosevelt has made the charge
several times. 1t would take genius
to imagine Mr. Hoover ever puckering
his lips to denounce the DuPonts, the
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-08-26
FOR EVEN PROSPERITY
Editor ASkoV American:

Editor ASkoV American:
With the best year that the North
west and especially Minnesota has
ever had assured, considering every
thing, a reasonable prosperity can be
maintained for a long time, if the
mistakes of the past are not dupli-
Gated.
Since the war the population of
the United States has increased over
ten per cent, this will offset the loss
of the foreign markets. And with
continuous increase and increased
consumption a new era for the north
west and the farmers-especially-
looms. This is not either the kind of
prosperity Hoover saw when he was
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-08-26
AUTO DEATHS
(The NOrthland Times)

The National Safety Council meet
ing last week in Chicago reported
that there were 2,O40 more deaths
during the first six months of 1887
than there were in a like period
of 1886. Rhode Island, Connecticut,
Massachusetts,, Iowa and Minnesota
were regarded as having the best
traffic laws and one of the leaders
stated that the country would have
$4,000 less traffic fatalities if all states
had the same traffic regulations. One
of the interesting facts revealed is
that driver driving alone travels
faster than automobiles filled with
passengers.
Minnesota's new traffic code is
doing much to slow down traffic in
this state. A number of people have
tried out the one requirement of slow
ing down to go miles per hour on
the best highways and have found
that they get there just as soon and
with the possibility of a serious &C
cident being less when travelling at
this speed rather than going 70 or
80 miles an hour to get somewhere
to sit down.
1t was learned that approximately
5000 cars going at the rate of 23.5
miles per hour can pass a certain
point within an hour being 33 feet
apart. Regarded as the best traf-
fic speed more cars could pass GER
tain point than if they went faster
bringing in the rest of the traffic
hazards accompanying faster speeds
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-08-26
Friesland

Mr.. and Mrs Fred Presley re-
turned Saturday night from a motor
trip to Port Arthur.
Miss Genevieve Markholm, teach
er in Columbia Heights high school,
is spending two weeks
with the Oakland girls.
The Cemetery club met last Thurs
day with Mrs. Frank Loken with Is
ladies present and an enjoyble after
noon was spent. The next meeting
will be with Mrs. Nick Hartland.
Miss Aida Nieboer returned last
week from trip to Seattle.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Peterson are
the proud parents of girl born
August %. Congratulations are ex-
tended by friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Berg and
family spent Saturday and Sunday
on trip to International Falls and
crossing into Canada, they went as
far west as Manitou Rapids
J. c. Hanson returned Wednesday
from trip to Minneapolis where he
had visited relatives for week.
Professor Hale of Carleton college,
spent Tuesday afternoon with Eu-
gene Berg. He was on his way home
from trip to the Iron Range.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-08-26

The Eugenics Record Office of the
Carnegie Institution says that broth
ers and sisters are more closely re-
lated than father and son, or mother
and son. Geographically a father
and son have one-half common blood.
while a brother and sister have all
common blood. One contains with
his half brother the same amount OF
common blood that he contains with
his father.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-08-26
Opinions of Others

(Short timely letters on topics of
public interest are welcome whether
form with those of the American.
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, 1937-08-26

No trees are immune from light
ming, but a tall oak tree is the most
susceptible. Some valuable trees are
rodded.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-08-26

In political parlance, "log-rolling"
is an agreement of two or more poll
ticians to further each others plans,
as by each voting for the others bill.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-08-26

1t is computed that 1855 pounds of
by each adult in the United States.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-08-26

time of her death, comprised a COL
lection of more than 5000 dresses.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-08-26
From Exchanges

Editorial Comment From Other News
papers. Which May or May Not
Conform With the Opinions of the
Askov American.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-08-26

The surface of the moon is less
rugged than that of the earth.
Evening star., 1937-09-24

for all classes as against confiscatory
policies and bureaucratic excesses.
Then the tax policy of the admin
istration has proved very inequitable
and destructive, especially the So
called undistributed surplus tax which
is a flop as revenue getter and a
machine gun so far as business ex-
pansion or stability is concerned. The
uncertainties abroad add to the un-
easiness but the basic trouble in
America is "unplanned" as well as
planned" economy and with the
whole economic system threatened by
a Government that keeps an unbal-
anced budget.
Certainly unless communism or
fascism is introduced, democracy
proceeds on the notion that there is
free competition and that the Gov
ernment can collect taxes from
business in sufficient sums to pay
expenses. But the Government now
adays believes in killing the goose that
lays the golden egg, in sitting in
dustry, strangling the producers and
distributors and forcing more and
more workmen out of jobs even As
prices rise and the poor people Of
America find themselves unable to
buy food products or articles of ne
cessity from their meager incomes.
II prices continue to rise, the one
Evening star., 1937-09-24
Solving the Peoples Ills
No State Can Meet Masses Demands if They Set
the Standards Writer Saws

ton" because they failed to yield to
every popular demand and caprice.
The only important failure OF the
late European democracies, their
tragic and enormous failure, was that
they failed to defend themselves
against the encroachments and ag-
grandizements Of ambitious men,
seeking to center all power in the
hands OF state which they could
control.
Neither the italian nor German rep
resentative governments were destroyed
by an authoritative act Of the people.
They were the victims OF coups d'etat,
in which the leaders of powerful
political parties interpreted election
returns as blanket mandates to amend
or overthrow existing constitutions.
The greatest test Of democracies Is
their ability to defend themselves
against such aggrandizements, and
that ability is measured by the public
sensitiveness to unconstitutional usur-
pations. II the German ReichstaR had
not permitted Bruening to suspend the
law and govern by decree, under a
misuse Of certain paragraph of the
constitution, it might never have
yielded to Hitler. If the Prussian state
government had been willing to use
its own police to defend itself against
the absolutely illegal encroachments Of
Chancellor Won Papen, 1t might have
been on hand to oppose Hitler some
months later.
Democracies, being extremely vul-
nerable forms of government, must be
formal, must insist upon the scrupulous
observance OF constitutional principles
and must observe the disciplines of
law. Without high degree of popular
sensibility to principle. procedure, and
law, and a great jealousy of liberty,
they live in constant threats from 4
coup detat.
And, OF course. in democracies
that coup d'etat will always seek to
legitimize itself by the support OF the
masses.
These-if the President had cared
to point them out-are only 4 few
OF the object lessons that might be
drawn from the recent demise OF
democratic governments. Nowhere
did they perish because they failed
to bring the millennium, or be re-
sponsive to popular pressures.
And why this apology for the die
tatorShips anyhow? What material
demands have they fulfilled? The
German people, the Italian, the Rus
sian, do not eat as we'll as the people
in the democracies, nor are they as
safe in their persons or property
leaving the matter of civil liberties
wholly out of consideration. They
have unity, and very tense sort Of
unity; they have no Unemployment
because q large part of the popula-
tion is bearing arms or spades on work
for the state at subsistence The
countries with a high standard of
living are those countries where
energies are released and allowed to
function and produce, not bound hand
and foot by bureaucratic organization.
tCopyrisht. 1870
Evening star., 1937-09-24


mechanism Of the national Demo-
cratic machine. He got a fast run
ming start in his first four years in
the Senate, consistent supporter OF
administration measures, and his
apostasy in the court fight was sharp
Jolt for the New Dealers. He is
big-time, urban citizen, making one
think of Broadway rather than the
sagebrush country. His political i'm
portance is such as to make todays
opener an important kickoff.
The Senator's general eregarious-
ness and easy-going Western friendll-
ness have been disarming. There were
those who had put him down for just
one more of those Western brass
rail statesmen, and then. in the court
fight, he uncorked amazing legal and
historic erudition.
That may be delayed score for the
Cambridge Latin School, Columbia
and the University of Georgetown.
where he was prepared for law. A
transplanted fastener, ne broke in
AS newspaper eporler-lnCloenId44
at the same old pine desk in Boulder,
Colo, where this reporter nearly broke
his arm writing his first newspaper
story, longhand. After work on sew
eral Colorado newspapers, he began
law practice in Cheyenne and pros
pered through the years. in law and
politics. He is So years old.
In his court fight Senator OMahoney
habilitated himself with conserva-
tives. His persistent advocacy of the
oot-hog-or-die licensing plan for
business had mistakenly tagged him
as one of the wilder and woolier Of
sheep range statesmen. He is a native
of Chelsea. Mass.
(Copyright, 1931J
Evening star., 1937-09-24

| rather because it guaranteed to meet
them, and found that the democratic
mechanism is incompatible with the
blanket mandate to establish the MIL
| lennium.
No state can meet the demands OF
the masses for wealth and security and
| let the masses themselves set the
standard of what constitutes their
welfare and security. For what every
one wants is to work less for more re-
muneration, and there is vanishing
point to this process. Mr.. Hitler suc-
ceeds, where the republic failed, in
actually increasing total production
because he has persuaded. hypotized
or cudgeled the people into working
more for less remuneration and taking
a bonus in national glory. Mr.. Hitler
, could have done no more and prob
ably great deal less than the repub-
lie accomplished If he had not had
the dictatorial eapon--concentratio
camps, espionage, force, suppression Of
all criticism. The suggestion implied
in the Presidents speech that we can
do all the things the relationships do
without dictatorship has been demon
| strated to be false over and over again
in the last 20 years There is not a
single example of democratic socialism
in the world today, whether it is the
MARKHAM socialism of Soviet Russia
or the national socialism Of Nazi Ger
many.
AS far as Germany is concerned
it is the classic example of what
| happens if you encourage a whole
people to believe that the state can
solve all their ills. There comes a
point where the state, in order to
carry on at all under such a load,
must assume complete power, total
power, and be able to tell every man,
woman and child exactly what he
shall do. for what remuneration and
under what circumstances.
AS for the Italian dictatorship
it came about as direct result Of a
deadlock between capital and labor,
brought about by political policies
not unlike those Of Mr.. Roosevelt.
Labor was becoming more and more
irresponsible, because labor leaders At
the top had an eye on political power,
and the leaders of the rank and file
were without adequate experience or
the discipline Of long union training.
The Italian employers became panic
stricken, both at the strikers and at
government whom they considered
hostile, and were afraid to take old
fashioned methods Of dealing with
strikes which demoraliZed not only
| their own industries but the whole
country. Nor were they furnished
with any new, legal arbitration meth
| DDS. Instead the Giolitti government
was trying to be clever and WAS US
| ing the militant workers As . means
/ of extending its own power over
| mighty economic interests. So the
deadlock continued until q man who
had been advocating the most radical
methods of the workers, including
that of occupying the factories, went
and offered his services to the EN-.
ployers and promised to establish or
der. That man was Benito Musso-
lini.
1t Is certainly \ challengeable state
ment that relationships have replaced
"democracies which failed to func-
Evening star., 1937-09-24

got back because still didn't
More important than this
we have reciprocal trade
nalon
result in preferential treatment
Therefore, State Department officials dropping
hints to the effect that the President might
pellknoWn charm the Canadians.
Then a a
sea- gesture as the British trade
an international conference
Although hasn't headlined a
wallace hopes there harder
secretary Wallace about to spring his capturing
COTTON market incidentally
unoer the Administrators banner-or his
before
gather Memphis be of
The Secretary OF
farmer as we'll the big planter
aloments " -
But there has been rift the lutte
farmers least Of
News has reached the headquarters Wash
ngton that the of c. O.
organizer who to the
he beaten
Unless the situation ameiorated oil probability
seised upon either BY John Leus, l.
idoo o1lctdls tor attack the
wha they consider breach Of the
Hitherto Wall Street which loves its
Evening star., 1937-09-24

Ethiopia
of the the Of the French
they
French Lawyers undoubtedly will
Hitler wants all German citizens realize that in
will
Evening star., 1937-09-24

year-old newspaper publisher. now
serving a six-month sentence at Syca-
more. ILL.,, for probation violation.
Tilton, who prior to his commit
ment to prison last June / was pub
Usher Of Rochelle. Ill. paper. was
found guilty in a Federal Court last
May OF violating a five-year probation
imposed for violating the Federal auto
theft law in 1882.
Evening star., 1937-09-24

third of our population who are Gill
nourished, ill-housed and ill-clad"
will have nothing but Mr.. Roosevelt's
words to eat. and they will find also
that they will be joined by a larger
part of the population than one-third.
But the days Of hardship and the
climax of fiscal unsoundness are not
yet. The hypodermic of printing press
bonds and Government funds pumped
into the business world can still fur
nish considerable stimulus-enough,
at any rate, to buoy the stock market
soon and keep the imitation going for
another year or possibly two before
the Nation faces the days of reck-
oning.
(Copyright. 1879
Evening star., 1937-09-24
Fox Turns Tables.

ST. TOWNSVILLE, N. Y, Septen-
ber "a (P).-When q fox chases a
hound, that's news.
George Heath owns the hound
Henry Sanders caught the fox In his
barnyard.
They let the fox out Of the cage;
Sanders shouted Sic 'eml"
The fox did The hound fed
Evening star., 1937-09-24
Headline Folk
and What
They Do
Politicians Are Awaiting
Presidents Comments
on O'Mahoney.
BY LEMUEL PARTON

TINE national political seismo-
graph will quiver sensitively
today to whatever the Presi-
a dent says at Cheyenne about
Wyoming's Senator Joseph c. OMa-
honey-who took one of the heaviest
belts at his court plan-and to the
manner of his saying it, or not say