Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-11-18

How we need men on the national
stage today with the raw courage to
say what is wrong-to say it straight
from the shoulder! Fearless states
manship is needed now as never be-
fore, and Floyd Olson filled the bill.
Olson made the people in Mime
sofa wake up and think about condi-
tons. That is why reactionaries
found it impossible to destroy the lib
eral political movement here after
Olson was taken away so prema-
turely.
Assurance that Governor Benson's
drive to improve the state administra-
ton and institute measures of econ
omy through various branches of the
state government would have the CO.
operation of department heads was
given at a meeting held last week
at the capitol attended by the var
ious state department heads.
Reiterating his detectives in ask
ing for a survey of state offices, the
Governor told the departmental con-
ference, THE people of the state
who have placed their confidence
in our administration have the right
to expect from us an honest, eX-
peditious and efficient handling of
our work in all the departments of
the state government" 1t should
be the aim of progressives, he said,
to furnish such government.
It is becoming more and more APP
parent that Congress will be faced
with a better organized demand for
adequate farm legislation this session
than it has at any time in recent
years. Inspired by the militant eX-
ample provided by the Minnesota
Farm Conference called last month
by Governor Benson, in which a
well-rounded farm aid program was
drafted by the farmers themselves, a
twelve-state meeting of corn farmers
meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, last
week demanded of Congress that the
farm program include parity prices,
cooperative production control, an
ever-normal granary-all items of the
Minnesota program.
1t is this organized support for an
aid program which will be the most
effective means of securing Congress
sional action this winter. The Indi-
ana conference encourages the calling
Of further and even better repre-
sented meetings throughout the farm
belt, in order to show Washington
that farmers are now prepared to
stand together for a program ca
pable of easing their problems.
The Indiana meeting heard Secre-
tary Wallace outline his corn pro-
posals, which includes continuance
of the soil conservation program;
commodity loans on corn to create
stabiliZing ever-normal granary;
and the use of marketing and stor-
age quotas to keep excess corn under
seal if and when the granary over
flows. Attempts will be made, he
told the farmers, to level off a years
corn crop at two billion, four hun
dred million bushels
Ellery A. Foster, who became state
forester November Is succeeding
Grover Comet, is the youngest adj
mlnistrator of department or major
division in the state government He
is only 33 years old and gave up a
$4,000 job as director of the National
Forest Planning division in the United
States forest service to take a $4,000
job with the state because he felt
there is an enlarged opportunity for
service here.
Foster, who was born and reared
near st. Charles, Mimi, comes here
with some ideas of his own on for
estry. He was brought up on a farm,
his folks are still farmers, and he
looks on conservation as a much big
ger thing than just woods. He hopes
to integrate the farm and wood in
dustry in northern Minnesota in such
a way as to give farmers part-time
employment to supplement their
agricultural income. For the farmers
of southern Minnesota he wants to
start something to meet their needs
IN the form of a marketing service
III 1dl III WOOOlOlS.
In order to protect farmers from
another disastrous drop in the price
of corn, the U. S. Department of
Agriculture is making plans to seal
the surplus in cribs, making loans
on it to farmers. Seventy-five thou
sand dollars has been turned over to
the Commodity Credit Corporation
for the purpose of stabilizing the
price at around so cents a bushel
The action was taken after the price
had dropped from more than $1.00 a
bushel to 40 cents.
Convincing and amazing proof that
enormous profits from food the farm
er grows and the rest of us eat goes
into the pOcketS of a small and well