Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-10-14

lead the way in farmer and labor CO.
operation on a national scale. A
resolution urging economic and po-
litical cooperation between the two
groups was passed.
Labor, awake as it has never been
before, is ready and willing to CO.
operate with the farm population
Scales are rapidly dropping from the
eyes of each group. Tremendous re-
sentiment is growing up against the
forces of darkness which are trying
to keep them apart. Farmers and
workers, realizing they are consider
ably more than two-thirds of the pop
ulation, are learning their power.
The next Congress, whether it is
a special session this fall or the
regular one in January, will give
fine opportunity to make that power
felt The farm program is first on
the calendar Pressure from the
farmers and workers can put the
program drafted by the conference
across.
Seventy-year old Jacob DeVries of
Window, made one of the strongest
pleas for farm unity. 81 am not
pleading for myself, because I am
through" he said They threw me
out of my homestead.in Cotton coun-
ty on February % when the snow
was knee-high-theh homestead where
1 raised my family and spent prac-
tically my entire life working. Now
l am too old to work and l do not
know what will become of me.
But I do want security for 9TH
ers who will spend their lives work.
ing on the farm as 1 have DONE"
he said. ''They can't talk about
farm prosperity to me. They cannot
talk about SURPRISES on the farm be-
cause there are SURPRISES only for
the gambler and speculator.
1.-The farmers problems will never
be solved until the farmers are or
gained; house divided against it
self cannot stand. l warn farmers
who may be able to get along on
their profits this year that their po-
sition now is no better than it was
before-that it takes only one poor
crop and they are done"
In an attempt to regulate the sale
of intoxicating liquors, Commissioner
Mahoney of the state liquor control
commission has issued model or
dinance drafted by Attorney General
William S. Erwin
This contains all the provisions of
the state law and puts strict regula-
tons upon 80 beer places. 1t pro-
vides penalties for the sale of in
toxicating liquors without a license
and calls for automatic revocation of
such a dealers beer license. 1t is
considered that the adoption of this
ordinance would insure more gen.
eral compliance with the state liquor
control law.
A forecast of what municipal own
ership of power may hold for the
I future can be read between the lines
of the IVA report submitted to the
President by the federal power COM
mission.
Studies were made of three sys-
TENS in Tupelo, Miss, Athens, Ala,
and Alcorn county, Miss, all of which
had been served by the Tennessee
Valley Authority for two years. The
studies show that power costs were
cut in half and consumption increased
nearly three-fold as result of cheap
power obtained from IVA and distri-
buted through municipal or coopera-
tive plants.
Figures showing the reduction in
cost to consumers at the residential
rate for Is kilowatt-hours a month
were: Tupelo, old rate, $3.50; new
rate, 75c; Athens, old rate, So, new
rate, Use; Alcorn county, old rate,
S2.13; new rate, Use.
The report also shows the jump
in the use of electricity which these
lower rates afforded In January,
1884, one month before IVA service
was instituted, Tupelo showed an av-
erage residential consumption of 40
kilowatt-hours at an average rate of
7.3c per kilowatt-hour. Two years
later, the average consumption
reached 149 kilowatt-hours a month
at an average rate of 1.7c per kilo-
watt-hour.
Protection for the consumer is be-
ing urged as the cost of living mounts.
Already, finished manufactured pro-
ducts cost 10 per cent more than