Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-11-11

sofa and of all the Midwest states.
A farm conference was held this week
in Indianapolis, called by Governor
Townsend of Indiana, with Commits
sioner of Agriculture Charles ON
modt representing Governor Benson
and several delegates representing the
Minnesota Farm Conference board,
the organization created by the re-
cent farm conference held in ST.
Paul This conference will shortly
be followed by a Midwest confer
ence to be called by Governor Ben
son.
In the meantime, a series of dis
trict conferences will be held in Min
nesota to familiarize farmers with
the program adopted in st. Paul, the
principal plank of which is price fix
ing. Meetings will be held at Little
Falls on November IL; Crookston,
November 13; Grand Rapids, Novem-
Der Ia; Cambridge, November Is;
Rochester, November II, and Granite
Falls, November 10.
Forty-three thousand st. Paul
public school children are in danger
of being locked out of their schools
if the city council does not provide
more funds to pay their teachers.
The city commissioner of Education,
John S. Findlan, has no legal author
ity to employ the teachers during
December unless he has money to
pay them. He has none because the
salary item in the education depart
ment's budget for this year was cut
by the City Comptroller to the point
where Findlan could only do one of
three things: Lay off teachers and
curtail activities, close the schools for
period, or introduce an ordinance
calling for continuation of the 10 per
cent salary cut the teachers have been
receiving for the last four years.
Commissioner Findlan, an active
Farmer-Laborite in politics, insists
that all of these three courses of &C
ton are reactionary. 81 will not
introduce any Wage-cutting ordi-
nance" he says, respectfully since
aries are already rather low" He is
demanding that the City Council vote
the necessary funds, since there is a
surplus of better than S75O,OOO in the
city's general fund"
1t is generally rumored around the
ST. Paul city hall that the refusal
of some of the other councilmen to
vote enough money comes from an
effort to create political embarass-
ment for Commissioner Findlan, since
he is labor councilman, and at the
same time strike blow at the teach
ers' unions in ST. Paul.
The campaign directed against
Fiorello LaGuardia for the New York
mayorality was not unlike the cam
paigns against the Farmer-Labor
candidates in this state. 1t was an
attempt to confuse the voters as to
the real issues by creating the smoke
screen issue of Communism. The
voters gave these red-baiters a loud,
resounding Bronx cheer.
The Minnesota Youth Survey au-
thorized by the Executive council is
now under way in four counties
Pine, Kanabec, Hubbard and Becker.
House to house surveys of all youth
are being made in these counties and
every available job listed. Local
men are hired for the work, which
is done under supervisors from the
main office.
Some of the people in Pine county
were at first suspicious because some
body had gone through that territory
warning the citizens of an impend-
ing war The residents had to be
told that the survey was not in
tended for any military purpose, but
on the contrary, had the highest
thought of maintaining peace. Young
people unemployed and unoccupied
are the material out of which imper-
ialists recruit their armies. The sur
vey will lay out program that will
put as many young people as posi-
BILE at work, in school, or in occupa-
tions fitted to their talents Educa-
tors from all over the country have
praised it.