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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-04-01
DANGER FOR WHOM.
Editor AskOv Americans:

Editor ASkOv Americans:
| We read of late how the steel trust
| fleeces its employees and the figures
not include billions of dollars of profit
lost in the steel trusts own double
bookkeeping and accounting system.
Even during the depression period, the
corporation profit shows 1914 100000
and during the last 20 years from
1916 to 1885 the average wage paid
per emplOye shows $1,577.75, that in
cludes the salaries of all the officials
who get a quarter of million or so
each. Harvey OConnor found in 1924
the average wage for the unskilled
| were S423. For an example the net
earnings for 1929 were $500. 100000.
Had this sum been divided among the
workers, each would have received
$1,156 in addition to his regular
wages. This would have made up the
difference between living wage and
bare subsistence and often a sub
subsistence for the workers family.
On the other hand we farmers paid
it through tools and machinery that
we buy, but the Iaboring man didn't
get it. Who did?
Here is another report: Reversing
the decision of the Internal Rev.
enue Bureau, the United States Board
of Tax Appeal, in to decision
held that the General Motors Corro-
ration does not owe the government
15.342, 1863 in back taxes. Previously
the Bureau ruled the corporation made
profit of S106.000.OO0 on stock deal
in 1926 where the taxes were due TO
the government. Of the nine per-
sons who voted to override the In
ternal Revenue Bureau all but one
were appointed either by Coolidge or
Hoover. and the six dissenters were
Roosevelt appointed, so the farmers
and wage workers will have to make
up the $15,342,369 through the sweat
of our brows, owing to the Coolidge
and Hoover appointee vote lean you
see something0
One of the supreme court justices.
James c. McReynolds, one of the
justices who voted against IA New
Deal measures, is quoted in the Mine
Old Men, as having said: There IS
only one movement in this country
which | consider dangerous to it and
which must be destroyed at all haz-
ards. That is the labor movement,
and the (so-called rights. We must
wake up the people to the wonderful
things done for them in the passive
must awaken the citizens to their
obligations, rather than their sO-called
rights" If the people suffer by
the steady stream of reactionary
decisions of the court, they should be
good sports and take these decisions
without complaint.
"McReynolds said why is labor so
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-04-01
Voice From Senate
BY SEN. C. ELMER JOHNSON,
From Pine and Chisago Counties

Last week the state Legislature had
its equilibrium rocked by the sensa-
tional and horrible case of Laura
Kruse. One result of this tragic in
cident was the introduction in the
Senate of a resolution calling for an
interim committee to study the proper
means and possibilities of protecting
society from a repetition of similar
crimes.
Last Sunday thousands of people
held protest meetings and signed petit
tiOns and resolutions demanding that
action be taken by the city and state
authorities in safeguarding its women
and children.
The state board of control has a
staff of trained psychoanalysts who
have made an extensive study of peo-
pie of criminal, weak or subnormal
minds. Their findings are very in
teresting. Their work should be con-
tinued and proper steps taken to fol-
low up the recommendations made so
that persons of subnCrmal mentalitieS
may be assisted to better enable them
to become self-supporting, useful
members of society and to place those
of criminal tendencies under proper
restraints. Some steps recommended
are: Continuous census of feeble
minded special training for feeble
minded sterilization of persons unfit
for parenthoOd; legalize union of ster-
lie feeble minded persons; registration
and classification of dangerous char
acters and strict supervision or parole
of persons who have served time or
found dangerous.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-04-01
FOR NEW WAYS
Editor AskOv American:

Editor Askov American:
Scientists tell us that when man
had reached a stage of development
around him and available to over
come his environment the first stage
of civilization had begun. An animal
submits to its environment; it cannot
utilize anything but it's own powers in
the struggle for existence. Through
out life men use all means available
to overcome obstacles which arise if
they are to progress. When old age
had arrived most people submit to
their environment, ceasing to strug lie
against those things that appear to
them to be unSurmOuntable; when a
person or nation has reached this
stage it is the beginning of the end.
Old men are by no means the only
ones to submit to their environment
in many cases men become passive
through inactivity. Lacking of in
centive and necessity they accept the
idea, that which is to be will be-"
so what is the use trying to stave off
TIE inevitable. However, study of
history will plainly show that civilfza-
ton only advanced for definite rea-
sons. 1t was not left to chance, the
reason being that some people were
willing to try new things in order to
improve the methods of various hui
man endeavors and institutions. Ma
ture in itself is cold and Indifferent
and only through it's own efforts can
mankind advance.
Two distinct political pl ilosophies
have developed the past generation
The reactiOnaries including most Re-
publicans and few Democrats hold
the view that it is impossible to reg
ulate economics and industrial con-
ditions. They believe that the Laws
of nature will regulate these things
better in the long run and to try and
legislate to regulate ecc nomic and in
dustrial conditions of the country is
futile. In the long run it will ag-
gravate the trouble which they admit
actually exists. Ex-President Hoover
more than any other man persOnified
this idea and thought. His was a
waiting policy; let nature take it's
course-the survival of the fittest, etc.
This philosophy is not new. The
cynics of the old Grecian Empire held
the same philosophy; as a result
Greece succumbed to the more active
and energetic Rome.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-04-01

dangerous? 1t is because of big wa
ses." Judge John p. Devaney, for
merly chief justice of the Minnesota
supreme court, who resigned last
month, said before the senate judici-
airy committee: THE Presidents pro-
posal is by far the most conservative
remedy available to meet the needs
of the public in the preservation Of
constitutional democracy" And if
any group in the country stands in the
way of progress, in real danger OF
being taken to the whipping post, it
is the lawyer and his court And
they probably won't be let off as
easily as the bankers were during the
depression. And he pointed out I'M
der President Harding the leaders of
the American Bar Association recon-
mended the enlargement of the court
to II members; they were willing to
trust President Harding to appoint
three new members at the time be-
cause they thought the court too lib
eral majority.
The writer believes our lawyers
and courts (as rule) are the tools
of the international bankers, have not
kept pace with human progress and
held alOft stop" signs that have i'm
peded civilizations march for the bet
terment of the masses which is mostly
the cause of the present disarrange-
ment of the nation, and unless they
step off their so-called safety valve
the boiler may explode. which may
cause even greater disaster than a
few sitdown strikes.
LAURENCE V. UBL.
Route I. Hinckley, Mimi, March 81.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-04-01
CONSERVATION BILL LOST

| Editor ASkOv American:
Representative Stockwell's bill pro-
viding for a so million dollar bond
| issue to conserve and develop Mime
sofas water power failed to pass.
1t is not surprising that thinking
men shudder at the alarming increase
in the public debt, and call halt on
bond issues, even for worthy projects
of this kind.
The national debt increased from a
little over one billion dollars in 1916
to more than 26 billion dollars in
1919. And again from 16 billion dol
lars in 1881 to 35 billion dollars in
1897.
Since June 80, 1917, we have paid
more than Is billion dollars in I'M
earned tribute (under the guise of ir-
terest) on this debt.
That would finance 800 conservation
projects of $50,OO0,0OO each.
The outworn, orthodox system of is
suing interest-bearing, tax-exempt
bonds with which to finance public
improvements is serious impedi-
ment to public progress, because in
doing so. the improvement must be
paid for twice. First, in hard-earned
wages to the men who build, and
again in unearned tribute, in the form
of interest, to those who own our
monetary system and control our fiscal
policies.
AS time rolls on, the interest on a
bond issue nearly always amounts
to more than the principal. and it is
this interest burden that devours the
nation.
Instead of issuing interest-bearing
bonds. the government should finance
these projects by the issuance Of full
legal tender currency. to be repaid
by the state at the rate of or per
cent annually, without interest. The
government, in turn. would retire the
currency at the same rate Thus, in
20 or 25 years the improvement would
be paid for, and the currency would
be back in the U. S. treasury ready
for another job like it.
In this manner we could afford
the improvements and keep every
man, able and willing to work, en-
ployed full time at a decent living
wage.
S. o. SANDERSON.
Rochester, MINI.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-04-01

IRENE weather everybody was extra
cautious and few fires happened. My
own village which like Chicago.
Philadelphia and few more cities)
has definite sensitive point for fire
in its incOrk Grafton chart, had threat
of injury to children or groups of
people through fire in February 1886,
but everybody was determined to keep
safe and the village kept an extra
of danger because of the weather
limitations. We escaped trouble OF
any kind.
AS near as | can understand the
teachings of astrOlogy it seems that
at the time of any event the vibra-
tiOns of the planets-as they are then
plant sensitive points in the person,
business or locality that is concerned.
These are like the stations on radio
dial. Planets move about in space
and when their vibrations fall with
these sensitive points, or across them,
or opposite them, the sensitivity is in
creased. Then along Genes a new
moon and fertilizes the point. GAS
you would turn on the electricity.
The radio is now humming with
power. but someone must tune IN
A human agency turns the knob
drives car, lights cigarette or
wanders recklessly in dangerous
places.)
Years ago laughed at all this.
but as | grow older | know that
it is not safe to laugh at anything.
"Fulton's Folly" brought the success
full steam engine into our midst; the
fantastic story of frozen words
days has since been eclipsed by the
photograph. The radio proves the
power of vibration through the form
less ether. We know telepathy is
pOSSible-for all of us have expert
enced it at one time or another. And
to prove their argument?
AS for the Texas catastrophe,
made out crude chart for the lCngi-
tude of the place but as the book
have does not cover the southern
states, | did not have the latitude
correct and so could only get the gen.
eral aspects over a large territory,
but there were adverse aspects Joint
ed up in the fifth house of the chat.
The fifth house indicates children,
pleasures, love affairs, speculatiOns.
writings. publishings, as we'll as
places of pleasure, education or specu-
lation. BY the nature of the aspect
which came from the place of sor-
row, and from planets denoting death
and accident, one would naturally as
sumo that it would result in an acct
dent in a place of amusement or a
schOOl-especially as Pluto, the newly
discovered planet, was in the fifth
house and he is, supposed to signify
people in groups.
All this section was under the same
aspect to a greater or lesser extent,
but perhaps all our charts did not
have the exact point where a rash
hand could tune in. However, in to-
days paper | read of two bus accl-
dents in the middle section, both in
volving school people. 1t is a time to
be careful, as the aspect is probably
not run out yet.
NJ G. NEWMAN.
Hinckley. MINI.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-04-01
FARM HOLIDAY NEWS

The Farm Holiday News presents
this fact on Minnesota seed loans UNI
der the present law: Apply to your
town board; if it refuses a loan it
is possible to apply to the board of
county commissioners who have final
ruling. These loans may be paid in
kind, cash, or worked off labor. Pay
ment in kind is one and one-half of
grain to one bushel of seed. and the
exception is three bushels of corn
to one of seed.
If the town boards and county COM
missioners are not lined up on this
so as to receive application for these
loans they should take immediate
steps to do so, as seeding time will
soon be here, and there are many
farmers in Pine county who want and
need to take advantage of these loans
and we feel that Pine county should
get its share of money appropriated
for that purpose.
l again want to remind you that
you must organize yourselves in
groups and provide transportation in
cars and trucks and buses, and take
part in the Peoples Lobby march on
the Capitol April 5, to demand the
passage of bills that are now before
the Legislature. Some have already
passed the House but the Senate in
tends to kill or amend them so that
they would have no value so far as
this agricultural district is concerned.
Do you remember that by calling on
the Legislature in 1888 we were able
to secure the passage of many i'm
pOrtant mea sures, including the in
come tax bill which is a great help
to the present school system of the
state. Any one having means of going
down should get as many with you
as you can and meet at Pine City at
900 a. M. next Monday. Also be sure
to attend the meeting at the Pine City
court house Saturday. April 3, at 2
p. M, called by the Tax League
Send your So now for a years SUBJ
scription to the Holiday News and
one year membership in the associa-
ton.
H. SANDELL, Secretary.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-04-01
MORE ASTROLOGICAL
PREDICTIONS
Editor AskOv American:

Editor AskOv American:
A friend wrote me and asked what
good astrology is unless it fOrewarns
us of such terrible tragedies as the
Texas explosion? In the forecast for
March which l condensed for you
find this-"possible serious accident
in place of amusement or education
in the middle west beginning at Chi
cagO.
This same menace lurked over
other places that they did not tune in.
The severe weather of February and
March last year affected all the To-
calities between certain degrees of
the forecast but because of the ex-
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-04-01
FROM EXCHANGES
(EdltOrIal Comment From Other News
papers, Which May or May Not
Conform with the Opinions
OF the AskOv American.
THE STOCKWELLS
THE Minnesota Leader)


(The Minnesota Leader)
Minnesota's grand old couple is Mr..
and Mrs. S. A. StOckwell. Steadfast
and true to their convictions and
ideals, they have over a span of forty
years contributed UNNECESSARILY to the
progress and success of the Farmer
Labor movement.
We cannot help but appreciate the
rich feeling of satisfaction that must
be theirs in knowing that they gave
of their best to promote the interests
and happiness of their fellOwman. For
almost a half century Mr.. StOckwell
has been actively and cOnspicuously
identified with the liberal political
movement of Minnesota In 1891 he
entered the Minnesota House of Rep
resentatives. Here, to this day, he
has remained tie standard bearer of
the liberals-sOmeOne to whom young
men go for counsel and guidance
man in whom all have faith and
confidence.
Unselfishly and with a Spartan con-
' iNtipii iiS Pun SuCu CIOlEOllllC anu PO-
litical principles that were scoffed at
by the reactiOnarieS. Never once,
however, did this overwhelming Oppo-
sitiOn daunt his courageous spirit
never once did he lose sight of his
goal. His sterling quality and cut
standing perseverance marked him as
true crusader Even when his own
friends failed to support a measure
he was keenly interested in, he re-
fused to lose heart.
All the while Mr. Stockwell was
rendering invaluable service on the
political front, Mrs. StOckwell was
pioneering for peace. No woman has
contributed more towards arOusing
public opinion against war than has
Mrs. StOckwell. In exposing the i'm
morality and horror of war, Mrs.
StOckwell has rendered an invaluable
service to humanity.
Thousands of people will testify to
the fact that Mr. and Mrs StCckwell
have helped to make Minnesota bet
ter state to live in.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-04-01
Cold Storage Dimes
Buy Cold Storage

Dimes! Dimes! 1860 of them,
came out of cold storage" or what
ever kind of storage it takes to
keep dimes from being spent, into
circulation in Red Lake Falls last
week, when citizen in that town
gave them as payment for an cleo
trio refrigerator which he pur-
chased.
Upon recOunting the dimes it
was found that the person who
saved them will have one with
which to begin his next account,
for the total exceeded by ten cents
the price of the refrigerator.
Eighteen months ago when Mr..
and Mrs. Thrifty Citizen decided
they needed refrigerator but that
payment of it should come from
savings instead of an additional
burden to their budget. the dimes
started their trek into cold stor-
age" They saved all dimes COM
ing into their possession and when
the refrigerator was delivered to
their home they turned them over.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-04-01
IN MEMORIAM

In memory of Andrew ]. Larsen,
who passed away April 1. 1886.
Somehow, life has continued,
Somehow, the clock has licked away
The minutes-till a year has gone
Since you left us that day.
1t was spring when He called you,
So this season stirs anew
A keen and lingering sorrow
In the hearts that loved you true,
And yet this sorrow has its worth.
1t etches sharp and clear
Our memory of all you were
That made us hold you dear
Those who have loved you won't forget
Fen death can't steal away
Your living memOry-or our faith
That we shall meet again some day.
Sadly missed by his wife and chill
dren.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-04-01
! OPINIONS OF OTHERS

(Short timely letters on topics
of public interest are welcome
whether or not the writer's opin-
ions conform with those of the
American. All letters must be
signed with the writer's name for
our information. Signed articles
always are more effective. but If the
writer does not wish to have his
name used. it will be withheld.)
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-04-01

each Thursday; want your message
to go along?
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-04-01

to the life everlasting and the peace
that passeth all understanding. Life
is a matter of choice. Who would
choose life that death can end?
Who would turn from a life that will
continue to sing about the throne
of God after the universe has turned
to dust and darkness?
When the angel by the empty tomb
said to the weeping women He is
not here, but risen. why seek We the
living among the dead?" there was
placed before man the realization
that if he would know the peace and
the victory that God wanted His chill
dren to inherit, he must rise with
Christ and walk with Him through
life and death.
On this Easter morning let us de-
termine to be immortal here and now,
since only so may we hope to be i'm
mortal hereafter. Let us enter into
our divine destiny, casting aside all
fading and dying allurements, cling
ing to the joys that shall not die be-
cause they have been ordained for
us by the love of our Father! Jesus,
our Brother, stands by the empty
tomb as the sun of Easter rises this
morning. Let us go to Him and take
His hand and accept His leadership
and walk with Him into the promised
land.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-04-01
Remote Control.

Remote Control.
Bobby. will you have some more
ice cream?"
mo, thanks. Mother says 1 don't
want any more"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-24
YOUR NAME.
By Edgar Guest.

You got it from your father. Twas
the best he had to give.
And right gladly he bestowed tit IS
yours the while you live.
You may lose the watch he gave yor
and another you may claim,
But remember, when you're tempted
to be careful of his name.
1t was fair the day you got it and a
worthy name to wear:
When he took it from his father there
was no dishonor there;
Through the years he proudly wore it,
to his father he was true,
And the name was clean and spotleSs
when he passed it on to you.
Oh, there's much that he has given
that he values not at all,
He has watched you break your play
things IN the days when you were
email,
And you've lost the knife he gave you
and you've scattered many G
game,
Eut you'll never hurt your father, if
you're careful of his name.
1t is yours to wear forever; yours to
wear the while you live;
Yours, perhaps, some distant morn
ing to another boy to give;
And you'll smile, as did your father
smile, e. owe the baby there
If o clean name and a good name you
arc giving him to wear.
Selected
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-24
I'm not fitted for this life."
:AsEp BY CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION

ways stays in this house. We can't
get him to come to us-We don't
try any more :"
LET him in, jerry" Mimi said,
and l rose and unattached the
screen. The big dog, with a flash
of his eye for me, went straight
up to Mimi and stood by her side,
his ears cooked. He seemed to be
waiting for her to make the first
move in the affair of their friend
ship.
"Jason?" said Mimi, IT wonder
why?"
perhaps because Of his golden
fleece" I ventured.
The big dog still waited.
"Jason?" Mimi said again, and
this time it was an Interrogation,
"How much are you going to love
me?"
He gave q quick bark as if he
understood and answered. It was
his pledge Of loyalty. He dropped
down on the floor by her chair,
laid his head on his paws, his
bright eyes seeming to weigh us
as he watched.
Jason from that day was Minis
dog in a way he was never mine;
although he gave me an unwaver-
ing devotion. He became. >, hel
guardian, the companion Of hel
walks, her protector-there were
times when envied him the hours
he spent with her, and from which
l was shut out.
He followed us this morning
when breakfast was finished, anC
we went out on the porch. l ha6
said, "Come and look at our farm
Mimi" and she had hesitated. But
Dora's eyes were upon us. She
was clearing the table with much
gathering of dishes.
you'd better put on your hat
Mrs. Chandler" she volunteered
you'll get all freckled."
Mimi shook her head, 81 low
the sum-"
Our house stood on the side O.
the mountain, with the ranch lands
on the broad, lower level which
might, in prehistoric times, hav
formed the bed of some grea
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-24
NOTICE.


Pursuant to autho~i Y. conFcrrc" If
vat cc~tvi1 juNg1oc~t ri Su1 le,'
Court of Vance Comfy. in proceed
ing entitled, Lee Bulloc,i vs ji~"''>
s. Bullock, the UNDERSIGNED CONF
soner will offer for sale at ml'-oay
on Monday the 18th. of January 1885,
at courthouse doc" in Vance County
% the highest bidder, for cash, a.
public cutlery, one one-half undlvld,
cl interest. in the following described ;I
acal property in Vance County VIZ:
Begin at a stake and two pointers
in old road, Parker Bullock ana BUR,
.y,r corne~, and run thence along sac sala
nd s 80 degrees W SO poles to STAKE as
~. II. Burwell corner; thence , 90
,oe~ces w 90 poles to 3 pines IN 6u n1
al line; thence S 65 degrees = Luz
.,,,cs TO sourwood and pine; thence
- 10 degrees w ISL poles to the pc
Inn .nC, containing 40 acres more
This nth December, 1887
D. 2. McDUFFEE,
I'd Commissioner.