Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-04-01

A movement among college students
to nominate President Roosevelt IS ing
Franklin | has subsidized after a short
ing rapidly from one campus to an
other, 90 colleges responded with
movements which, it was frankly ad-
mitted, were aimed to ridicule the
Presidents proposals on the Supreme
Court. The movement evidently col
lapsed of its own weight.
An interesting sideli.ht on t e
Chrysler Shutdown strike may be found
in Chrysler corporate n figures, which
show that the company earned $62,-
100000 in 1886, out of which it put
$1O,0O0,0O0 back in the company treas
ury and paid out the remaining $751;
100000 in dividends. Chrysler pro-
fits doubled between 1885 and 10 6,
the net income in 1885 being only
$34, 100000. But the wages it paid
its employees did net double. In 1886
it paid out to it's workers only $780,
100000 making a g. per cent profit
on the transaction.
One group of MinnesOta's organized
teachers, the state Federation of
Teachers, held its first regular en-
vention this week in ST. Paul. 1t
should be recalled that free public
education in America came as a re-
suit of the demands of the labor
unions 100 years ago. Now that or
ganiZed big business has seen the
danger of an educated working class
and has begun deliberate attempts to
curtail the public school S. stem, it is
encouraging that teachers, too, have
organized and joined the great labor
federation in order to throw their
support behind the peoples drive for
more and not less education.
Quick aid for MinnesOtas drOuth-
stricken farmers was asked by G v
ernOr Elmer A. Benson in a telegram
to Harry l.. Hopkins, Works Progress
administrator, last week.
Urging Hopkins to do everything
possible to employ the most needy on
WPA, thereby increasing their month
ly aid to tide them over until next
harvest" the governor termed re
settlement grants to farmers in the
drOuth area wholly inadequate for
subsistence needs, let alone livestOc
feed and Seed"
Every major piece of legislation in
vOlving farm aid has been knocked
out by the Supreme Court, says Farm
Research, Inc. The decision written
by the Court on the AAA stands out
as the most sweeping opinion ever
handed down in the courts. Net only
did it obliterate the AAA and give
millions of dollars to the professors,
but it practically ruled that no fed
eral aid to the farmers can be called
constitutional.
Unless President Rocsevelt's pre-
posed reform of the Supreme Court
goes through, it is commonly admitted
that the substitute AAA, the Soil Con-
servatiOn Act, will also be killed by
the nine justices.
Tribute to the late Governor Floyd
B. Olson was paid by senate conserva
tives in a memorial service last week.
Senator Charles Orr delivered a
eulOgy of the late governor in which
he said: Il think we can say that
Floyd Olson helped UNNECESSARILY to
give Minnesota a new and broader
social vision. The causes which he
championed and the vigor and zeal of
his leadership have helped to turn our
thoughts to a greater concern over
ways to improve the lot of the great
mass of our citizens. Floyd Olson was
truly great tonic for Minnesota"
1t would appear that even medieval
Georgia has some suggestions to offer
Minnesota state senators. County
commissioners of Bibb county, Geor-
gia, have just recognized the 44hOur
work week for convicts on chain
gangs, but the state senators of Min
nesota have refused to recognize it
for women.
Resentment against conservative
methods of delay which have slowed
up the progress of legislation on cap
itOl hill reached a climax last week
as HOUSE Sneaker Harold Barker FL