Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-07-22

loans, was staggering protest at
last weeks attempt on the part of
the President to balance the budget
at the expense of the farmer.
president Roosevelt's veto of the
farm loan bill is to me both amaz-
ing and disappointing" asserted Rep
resentative Henry G.. Teigan in the
Twin Cities this week. This bill
was the one measure offered at the
present session which was of some
direct and practical value to the work.
|ers in agriculture"
Representative Johnson, also in the
Twin Cities at the time of the vote
but who was paired to override the
veto, said: 1.-The President has been
i'll advised on this veto. . Unless the
farmers are relieved of the tremen-
dous debt load, they will have no
money left with which to buy products
produced by labor. Balancing of the
budget is one of the Spooks they rat
tie in the Washington closet to JUS
tify such acts as cuts in relief and
increases in interest charges to farm
erS."
The overriding came the very day
after President Roosevelt signed his
veto to the measure which extended
for two years the 3l2 per cent interest
rates on farm loans.
Herman c. Wenzel, commissioner
of conservation, announced two i'm
portant appointments last week. He
named Guy w. Cravens, Milaca, dep
uty conservation commissioners and
Ray D. Nolan, Hibbing, director of
the division of lands and minerals
Cravens is the son of State Senator
Fay CravenS and is well known as
liberal newSpaperman. Commenting
upon the appointment, Commissioner
Wenzel said he is pleased to find
man to assist him who is so well
qualified by training and experience
in outdoor life and who is enthus-
iastically interested in conservation"
Nolan, who has long been active in
Farmer-Labor circles, is a registered
mining engineer and was formerly
associated with the division as chief
engineer with headquarters at Hib-
bing. He has had 25 years exper-
fence in mining engineering and mine
operations. He is vice commander
of the Hibbing post of the American
Legion. Both he and Cravens have
been active in Boy Scout work
Young men in CCC camps in Min
nesota will be given an opportunity to
take voluntary furloughs to permit
them to aid in harvesting MinneSota's
crop this year, if request made last
week by Governor Benson to Robert
Fechner, national director, Civilian
Conservation Corps, is granted Il
would urge that the young men in
CCC camps consider it as an act of
good citizenship on their part to ac-
cept an agricultural furlough of two
months to accept prevailing wages
on Minnesota farms and assist our
farmers in harvesting this years
CROP" the Governor said.
AT the same time the Governor in
|structed State Relief Administrator L.
r. zimmerman to urge county boards
of commissioners to provide fur
loughs for direct relief clients who
desire to accept harvest employment
with definite understanding that
at the termination of their work they
will be returned to the relief rolls
without undue delay and red tape.
The Governor pointed out that many
relief clients and WPA workers have
expressed desire to work on the
farms during the harvest season if
they can be assured that their pre-
vious WPA jobs or their place on re-
lief rolls would be restored to them
without delay when their work in
the harvest is terminated.