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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-03-25
CAPITOL MASS
MEET PLANNED
Farmers, LabOrerS, Bus mess People
Invited to Take Part i'm
Demonstration.

In sending out general invitation
to take part in the mass meeting to
be held at the state Capitol building
Monday, April 5, N. P. Nee egaa d.
president of the Pine County Farmers
Holiday A sociation, issues the follow
ing statement:
las a member of the s. onsoring
committee for progressive legislation
it has been called to my attention
that the legislature is hostile and will
not pass any laws for the benefit of
the common people. You will recall
the legislative session of 1888 whe n
we demonstrated at the Capitol ut
that time. That demonstration e.
abled us to get those bills passed that
we asked for and a CALL likewise, has
been made for similar den onstra-
ton before the legislature on NJ nday,
April B. For that reason | urge every
farmers, laborers and small b 81
ness men-to be on hand at the Cap
itol and show the lawmaking body we
mean business.
I'VE are calling a mass meeting at
Pine City on Tuesday, March 80, at
p. m, at the Swartzwald pavilion
to which we invite all organizations
and political parties to be pres ent. at
which time plans will be laid for the
Capitol demonstration
Following is a brief outline of the
bills urged for passage by the lesis-
lature:
MinnesOta'S "Must" Bills.
l.. Taxation. The Farmer-Labor tax
program. based on ability to pay and
providing for revised income tax Schcd-
ule and increased taxes on the iron
trust. public utilities. inheritances and
chain stores.
,. Agriculture. a bill taking from
the Farm Bureau it's control OF the
agricultural extension funds and maxi
ing 1t possible to spend them under the
supervision of democratic local organi-
cations to which all operating farmers
may belong without fee.
3. COOperatlVeS. \ bill giving CO.
operatives needed protection in organ-
ling Their fight against the POWER
trust.
!. Labor. A bill providing for a con-
Sttutional amendment Civ ng the leSq >
iature power to establish max mum
hours and minimum wages for woI ka' s..
D. Veterans. a bill providing for
consolidation of veterars' bun eauS "a d
agencies into one department carab e
of caring efficiently for the needs OF
eX-SO. diefS.
6. Unemployed. bill provioing
emergency relief for unemployed and
needy. appropriating $17.O0O,000 for re-
Lief needs during the next two years.
Z. Social Insurance. Improvement of
existing state oc.al insurance law by
removal of "Strike-breaking' clause and
by supplementary leg Station to ncI use
the rate and extent of benefits.
s. Power. a bill facilitating the
ownership by municipalities of pub ic
ut ilitieS: and "A bill making it pOSSib e
for the public to control the use of the
states power resources.
9. Youth. The Minnesota Youth Act
(baSed on the Benson Amer can Youth
Act now before CongreSS) pro- l. e
employment and educational Cpportum-
ties for unemployed youth and appropri-
ating $2.000.000 for this purpose.
10. Adult Education. A bill provid n Z
for the establishment of an adult educa-
tiOn program and apprOpria ing SEQ =
900 per year to carry on the program.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-03-25
EGLEY WILL SPEAK
IN ASKOV APRIL :

Charles Egley, manager of Farm
ers Union Livestock Commission of
st. Paul, will be in Askov to speak
on behalf of the Peoples Lobby which
will sponsor a march on the state
Capitol Monday, April S. Mr.. Egley.
who is we'll known to many here, will
speak at meeting sponsored by the
AskOv Farmer-Labor club in the
Askov Assembly hall on Saturday eve
ming, April 3, at o'clock.
The meeting was first scheduled to
be held Monday evening, April 5, but
it has been changed or set ahead to
Saturday evening, April 3. Everyone
is invited to attend.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-03-25
SANDSTONE ROD & GUN
CLUB MEETS TUESDAY

The Sandstone Rod & Gun club held
an informal meeting in the lobby OF
Peggy's Cafe Tuesday night at which
representatives from the Finlayson
Izaak Walton League, Partridge Con-
servation club and the Grindstone
Conservation club were present. The
main item of business was to take
action on resolution to the legisla-
ture opposing the proposed bill which
Will divert the funds of the Conserva.
ton Department into the general rev.
enue fund. All those present were in
favor OF their respective clubs stand
against that bill.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-03-25
HINCKLEY MAN CALLED
ON MONDAY EVENING

Frank Schultz of Hinckley, passed
away at his home Monday evening
at about six o'clock. He had been ill
with cancer for some time. Funeral
services will be held from st. Pat
rick's Catholic church Thursday
morning today.
Mr.. Schultz leaves to mourn his
passing his wife and and two sons,
Frank and Bill, of Hinckley.
Sympathy is extended by friends to
the Borrowing relatives.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-03-25
STURGEON L KE BOY
GRADUATES AT u FARM

Palmer M. Dahl son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Peter P. Dahl of Sturgeon L axe,
was graduated from the School of
Agriculture at University Farm, st.
Paul, Tuesday, March 90. In COM
menting on the graduation the author
tiles at the school claimed for Mr..
Dahl that he was a good student and
that he maintained a high average
in all of his class work
He took the general farming course
including such subjects as crop judg-
ing, mechanical work, dairy selection,
marketing, economics and many 9TH
ers offered by the school.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-03-25
LAST RITES FOR
TWO AT DENHAM
John Upgren and Swan Olson, Broth.
Prs.in.law, Laid to Rest at
Double Ceremony.

A double funeral service was held
Wednesday afternoon, March II, at
2 o'clock at the Swede Park church
at Denham, for John Upgren and his
brother-in-law, Swan Olson. John Up
gren was born in Boston, Mass, April
6, 1856 He came to Carver county,
this state, in early childhood with his
parents, and had lived in Minnesota
since. He came to the Denham COM
munity about % years ago and made
his home with his brother. Charles
Upgren. and family, since then. He
was in failing health for several
months before he was taken to the
, Cloquet hospital last spring. There
it was determined that his ailment
was cancer and he died of that dis
ease on March Is, at about $50 in
the ClOquet hospital He had spent
about a half year at the Chas. Up
gren home before his death. He
leaves to mourn his passing four
brothers, Charles of Denham, Albert
of Sturgeon Lake, Mentser and Elmer
of WatertOwn, and three sisters, Mrs.
Burtman of Minneapolis; Mrs. John
son of WatertOwn, and Mrs. Olson OF
! Denham, besides many nieces and
nephews and other relatives. Three
brothers have passed away before.
Swan Olson.
Swan Olson was born in Kiaby,
Christianstadslan, Skane, Sweden, on
April 4, 1854. He came to GoOdhue
county, Minnesota, about 1880. He
afterwards lived in the community of
Hallock, for some time and came to
Pine county about 1891. He was one
of the pioneers of the Denham COM
munity, going there before there were
roads or clearings. He helped with
the building of the Swede Park church
of which he was a faithful member.
On Dec. 10, 1898, he was married
to Amanda G. Upgren in Mcleod
county To this union were born three
children, two having passed away. He
leaves to mourn his passing his wife,
Mrs. Amanda Olson, one daughter
Mrs. Leonard Larson, granddaugh-
ter, Alyce Elaine Larson, and a foster
son, Martin Borg. He was a kind hus-
band and father and a peace loving
neighbor and is sadly missed by his
loved ones.
The funeral service begun with
the song, "Hemma, Hemma ia vi
hvila," by Mrs. Lehet and Mrs. Bur
man. Rev. J. A. Burman read from the
altar, Psalm 103:11-22, and led in
prayer. Charlotte and Marian Amund-
son sang, There's A Beautiful Place
Called Heaven" Rev. Burman gave
two beautiful meditations and the text
for the one in English was taken from
Romans $3.50, and the one in
Swedish was from Hebrews 40, TO-
In closing Mrs. Burman sang, Jesus
ALT betalt."
Those we love truly never die
Though year by year the sad me-
mortal wreath,
A ring and flowers. types of life and
death
Are laid upon their graves"
81 am the Resurrection and the
| Life, he that believeth in me though
he were dead, yet shall he live. =
John 1925.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-03-25
WILSON NEW WILLOW
RIVER POSTMASTER

Earl Wilson of Willow River, re-
ceived a telegram Saturday from
United States Senator Henrik Ship
stead congratulating him upon receiv-
ing the appointment as postmaster of
Willow River village. The appoint
ment passed the House that day.
He will replace E. B. Linsley who
has served the community as post
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-03-25
FORMER GOVERNOR
ON FARM PROGRAM

Former Governor Hjalmar Petersen
and now Railroad & Warehouse Com
missioner, will speak at the annual
Rural Leadership dinner on Thursday
evening, April s, as a part of the pro-
gram of the annual Northeast Mime
sofa Farmers week to be observed at
the Northeast Agricultural Station at
Duluth April 5 to s inclusive.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-03-25

master for many years and who has
given excellent service to the patrons.
Evening star., 1937-04-05

macy. became political writer, the
editor Of the Gothamite and the
Criterion Magazine, a musical and
dramatic critic, a lecturer on history
at Cooper Union, tax commissioner
Of New York City, secretary for the
Society for the Preservation Of Ameri-
can Rights in the Panama Canal,
prominent in politics, a member OF
exclusive clubs here and abroad and
holder of the decoration Of the
Order of Danilo OF Montenegro.
Along with all this, Mr.. Payne had
time to acquire a reputation as an
epicure. He is famous as host
and as a raconteur. This writer has
enjoyed a pleasant acquaintance with
Mr.. Payne and can testify that he is
one OF the Nations most fastidious
gourmets, an eclectic in his think
ing, flexible, and never obdurate in
his political views, and unbeliev-
ably versatile. He is so years old,
highly urbanized in dress and de-
meanor and ready to go block or
two with anybody who has good
idea or knows of a good restaurant.
His musical comedy was called In
Silver Idaho" and his play The
Lightning Stroke" AS lightning rarely
strikes twice in the same place. it
may hit him this time.
(Copyrisht. 1877
Evening star., 1937-04-05

Most Of them are filed away in pigeon
holes OF the administration, having
been submitted by men who believe
in the institution Of property and
also in the welfare Of the masses. But
the remedies involve often q course
that might possibly seem to be poor
politics, so these are rejected by
the New Deal. The drive against
property will not for two or three
years yet interrupt the inflationary
trend; In fact, 1t may encourage the
tendency to forsake fixed income Sc
curities for equities. cash for pur-
chases Of things such as accumula-
ton of commodities. But the next
two or three years will prove crucial
in determining how many millions OF
voters who own some form Of prop
erty from a cottage or farm to q
fivver, from life insurance policy to
a share in a building and loan asso-
citation, will want to join, not with
the handful of selfish or greedy mil
lionaires, but with the vast number
Of property owners whose savings and
investments are being shaken by the
attack on property rights engineered
by the have nots" against the
"haves."
Statistically speaking, the property
owners far outnumber the indolent,
the poverty stricken or the parasites
Evening star., 1937-04-05


hahes which friends Of democracy
direction
inequality arocracy again penetrate
predicted that this which they will
professional When
q
revolution and refuse altogether for
a 0 moved too far"
aid comfort
Sullivan
thus uccessuy taken each member Of the
fashioned at the
Dhoe
society th network OF small complicated
through which the most original minds
characters cannot penetrate above
Such does not desoy but preDents
but enerrdte
nquishes nation reduced to be
nothing OF mid and ndurtous animals OF
uhich he government the shepherd"
Court fight digging dead
Alexis
Toccuevtle they hrst-rate brickbas
Evening star., 1937-04-05
The Grouse Talks Prices
Part of the Theory That Scarcity Leads Cheapness
Comes Under Scrutiny.

"Uh-huh. 1t seems they are get
ting ready for another war. And to
make wars you need lots Of durable
goods So we passed 4 law and we
said, Well sell you what you want
until you really need 1t desperately,
until you actually get into . war,
and then we'll sell 1t to you only II
you can lay the cash on the line and
haul the goods Well, some Of those
boys are poor haulers, and some Of
them have a long haul, 30 they de-
cided they'd better take no chances,
and began buying now and putting
the stuff away In moth balls"
Prices Go Up Again.
And that 2"
RAISED the prices some more. And
all the time the Government said, In
spite Of the fact that there's now a
demand for goods faster than they
can be produced, and in spite Of the
fact that the factories are clamoring,
many OF them for skilled labor, there
Is permanent chronological unem-
ployment, so we must go on spending
money to keep q few million men at
permanent pottering.' And keeping
people pottering costs money and adds
to the prices, without adding to the
production OF goods.
And we've been restricting the pro-
duction OF wheat and corn, hogs and
cotton, so that a sandwich or ham,
berger or q shirt costs more, and
people who need them must get still
higher wages-and that, again, adds to
prices.
What you're saying is that the
Government started all this itself
That's right, and it had to start It,
But it's hard to stop what you've once
started. Now the Government should
stop. II q woman asks me to hold the
baby for . minute while she shops, that
doesn't mean that undertake to raise
it to the age of Fl with a college edu-
cation. But the Government can't
stop.
It's Difficult 10 Say NO"
"Why not2
Because stopping is unpopular. The
Government ought to say, Boys, get
busy. II you want real things-autos
and houses and radios and canned
soup. you've got to turn EN- out. Lots
Of en- The people who make them
have got to have the money to capi-
talize making them. They've got to
have faith that they'll be doing busi-
ness at the same old stand tomorrow.
Or the Government ought to say.
Boys We are sick OF the capitalist
system and we're going to do 1t all
ourselves
But that's socialism.
Right. And you can make out q
case for it. But capitalism or socialism,
we can't all be rich except by pro-
ducing. At least, that's what I've
always thought.
But, As you say. I'm probably
crazy"
tCopyr.sht. 1871
Evening star., 1937-04-05
Folk
and What
They Do
1910 Candidate Honor
Beckons to George
Henry Payne.
BYLEMUEL F. PARTON.

TN THE early sessions Of the fusion
group, which finally nominated
and elected Fiorello H. La Guar
L dia, mayor OF New York City, the
three leading La Guardia pioneers
were Samuel Seabury, w. Kingsland
Macy, and George Henry Payne. Now,
in the Republican shifting and shuf-
fling which prefaces the selection of
candidate to run against Mayor
La Guardia, Mr.. Payne's name is the
first out Of the box 1t is offered
by Mr.. Macy, former State chairman,
in his publication, the Suffolk Every
week. This writer hears more and
more talk about Mr.. Payne as posi-
BILE candidate-a Warwick fitting at
the throne.
Mr.. Payne Is the only Republican
member of the Federal Communica-
Evening star., 1937-04-05

outside the booby hatch will keep all
three times that rate Banks are
business continues
to improve and good commercial loans be made
homerer. largely technical The field tor
commercial good limited and consequently
bonds which ~t be sold for this cause
In
5errtng from Governments ,rN be brake.
No Secretary Nor
situation he
1t just period
VOL immediate future least.
Mr. Morgenthu forced nd for farm tenancy ho
A. things the face Of his
falling below estmahat entirely different
faith in the treasury No power on earth is This factor
degree in the present condition Of the bond market
That S bill manned the
will
pcespendng President Roosevelt involved
economic justification for Government spend
shift consumers goods he said that to direct relief payments which
into the purchase Of food clothing etc.
A. the SHIFT a and
@ m sh the DEPRESSION n and e az. ronS no~ ha
lately passing the need for synthetic Government
The real extent Of the shift viii be evident when Mr. Rovets
beginning take this cuament
Monday Two Republican Supreme Court justices Of the State
political
No one seems have good dope oha u happen
Republican
justices
ticket
All the other incumbent. OF lesser State
publcans
all back plug for administration candidates
there Republican will nationally
as reputation Of the Roosevelt court and stdowna
Mdest all gentle gratis congressional mileage un.nh
mileage allowance Of each 20
Evening star., 1937-04-05

goods.
DO you mean by durable goods
Supreme Court jutices?"
Yes, In 4 way. Everything that's
not here today and gone tomorrow
Not political platforms, for instance
or chocolate bars. Ships, but not
shoes. Not sealing wax or kings. You
see, such things as steel. copper, all
the main metals and all the things
you make out Of them, such as auto
mobiles, houses, reapers and binders
plows, railroad cars, all machinery
these things called durable goods are
getting to cost too much. So the
theory is that to make them cheaper
you make them scarcer."
"You mean the less you make the
more unemployment increases. 30 the
more people offer themselves for hire
so you pay them less and can there
fore sell for less"
"Oh, no! You pay them more
While you are making less you put
up wages"
you arc crazy.
The Grouse Dbowns Idea.
mot I, my girl, not II That's not
my idea. My idea would be to pro-
duoe = lot. That's the Governments
idea. It's all part Of the theory that
the less you produce the more you
have, the more you spend the richer
you are, the greater number Of people
that are withdrawn from actually
producing goods, the better on We
shall be-"
But the Government says We
must produce more consumers goods
Listen. sister. Durable goods are
used to produce consumers goods
Shoes my dear, do not grow on trees
but on machines. Cloth does not
come of rose bushes but of looms
It happens that 1T this moment w
need more looms for woolen cloth
but We ought to buy moro cloth and
have less looms. according to the
Government. We must ship the
woolen goods, but not build more
freight cars, OF which there aren't
enough Is 1t is"
Are there too many houses, too?'
Aren't those durable goods ?"
Chewing Gum, But No Houses.
:"As houses are built in our great
speculative Nation, not exactly. But
relative to chewing gum, yes. And
there aren't enough houses. MOI
nearly enough. In most towns the
people are clamoring for cottages
apartments, bath rooms. They ash
for a tub and are offered a tube
Of toothpaste. I see by another
section Of the paper that in som<
places there's only per cent Of ~
cancies."
But the prices are high. Too high
why7"
They are high for the followini
reasons: The Government prince
the pump to keep up production
That means that when nobody wa
buying because nobody had any none.
the Government started out anc
bought and bought and bought. Blu
the Government didn't have an!
money. So to pay for what it bough
1t borrowed the money from the banks
and to pay the interest it had to rais
taxes. And the taxes were added b.
the producer to the cost Of the goods
So the factories had to pay the work
ers more, 30 they could buy wha
they produced, and higher wages wer
added to the price Of the goods. Tn
Government paid out the money
borrowed to people who were poor, D
they bought lot OF things that the,
needed. And that increased the do
mand without increasing production
And then those foreigners began
making trouble
Foreigners always make trouble
4 don't they?"
Evening star., 1937-04-05

on governmental favor. But unhap-
PLY the property owners cling to
the tradition that they must divide
into two political parties, 20 that
the balance Of power inside each party
Is really held, irrespective Of label, by
tho have not" who today are being
taught the philosophy that broke down
ancient republics, namely that the
rule Of the mob is superior to the
rule Of law and written constitutions.
This il really what the Washing-
ton situation u all about, and II OBJ
servers keep their eyes on what hap
pens to property they will learn that
redistribution of wealth is . political
slogan that has for 5000 years made
votes, while its companion slogan
redistribution of poverty-has brought
one-man government, sometimes
called monarchy, or dictatorship, but
ending usually in something that
plainly isn't prosperous or happy
democracy.
(Copyrisht. 1879
Evening star., 1937-04-05

now that Spring
10 coming on"
"A re y o u
crazy"
"E vide n ly.
Somebody's crazy.
It couldn't be the
Government, be-
cause yer n
ments are always
wise. 80 It must
be me-"
The theory"
c on t In ued the
grouse. "H that
prices are too
high in durable
Evening star., 1937-04-05

SELF particular column.
century Europe dreaded democracy as today 1t fears
French arioat whose
family suffered the reign OF terror and Uho felt his
endangered revolution 1880 So persuaded
a junke.
system. returned not uith
Official makngs OF the book Wich today
American and people.
Rockefeller Institute
might study googst might study earthquakes
America" that
unwlngness study the its
oqeve detected hundred the existence and nature Of the
understand deal with
ndiudual1n" typical
rirtues recently 1862 the American editor De
Tocqule readers the
"tndduas" Which the Frenchman inDend De Tocqueple
urtue but refined form OF progressive
all urtue-ndtdudtm,
frs public life but in the long
length absorbed
sefhneH."
President
something readily admit public
q all
Evening star., 1937-04-05
japan Given Plants.

-Four thousand six hundred fifty
plants sent as a gift to Japan by the
Garden Club OF America in January
are being grown IN Hibia Park, Toxic,
and later will be transplanted to other
parts Of that city, Osaka, Kyoto and
Kobe
Evening star., 1937-04-05

tlOnS COMMISSION.
He is a native
New Yorker, of
Long and varied
experience in 10
cal and national
politics, one of
the New York
campaign mana
gers for Theodore
Roosevelt. He is
the author Of six
or eight books, a
play, and a musi-
cal comedy. At
the College Of the
City Of New York,
be studied nhar-
Evening star., 1937-04-05
News Behind the News
Spending Policy Blocked by Natural Forces-Market
Troubles Laid to Recovery.
by PAUL MALLON.

TINE against serner Constitution and
policies blocked the
averages order A. the DEGREES Nasrs
packed alteration reversal OF policy
has been period Of transition has now begun
That is story manifestations OF the
Government bond market
O policy prices and spending.
mans: policy spending
debt be
Evening star., 1937-04-05

375,UUU year. He pointed out It
does not cost the legislators even
10 cents mile to get to and from
their homes these days. They new
at him, bowling such things as
why don't you try to cut down
something Important" and Have
you turned back your extra 10
cents?"
The vote showed exactly 2
favoring the curtailment and 78
against. but YOU will never know
Evening star., 1937-04-05

property.
The drive be-
gan in 1888, with
the public pledge
Of the Roosevelt
administration to
bring about a re-
dLstri b u II on OF
wealth. Most on
lockers, consider
ing that the word
"wealth" was the
same thing as
the word "rich-
es," sympathized
with the move
n1ent, For per-
sons with riches
Evening star., 1937-04-05

CHE opinions OF the 0rtters this their not
necessarily Stars Such opinions presented In
The Stars effort gDe sides questions interest Its
readers although opinions be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1937-04-05
We, the People
De Tocquevile's "Democracy in America Can
Supply Ammunition in Modern Political Wars.
BY JAY FRANKLIN.

other Harold British political scientist
delivered Cutting
Warrington audience calling Alexis de Tocquevies DE
America" books the nineteenth
century other "Das Kapital," by Marx
what
this