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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-08-11

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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-08-11

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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-08-11

The American goes in the mail
each Thursday; want your message
to go along?
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-08-11

One thing we like about Corrigan
is that he is modest with all his
bravery and courage. He is not
like the old darby who advised his
companion thus: DON you all start
no fight wifi me, man. All was dec
Grated fob bravery in de Spanish
Wah." Maybe you wuz," said the
other darby, "but in nah 'pinion it's
giben you sech a swell haid yo' is
bout ripe to be redecorated"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-08-11

One redeeming feature about the
whole Cass Lake matter is that Mr..
Ickes points out something which
many communities can look to and
profit by. They can begin at home
and clean up the spots which are
not what they should be. They
shouldn't wait until something hap
pens, like the tramp did who was
arrested and ordered to take a bath.
Upon throwing his hands up in hor-
ror at the suggestion that he take
a bath, he was asked if he ever had
taken a bath and he answered that
he had not been arrested before.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-08-11

The CasS Lake-IckeS 'Scrap" over
the Indian agency calls us back to the
days when the white man was push
ing the Indians farther back into the
wilderness. The whole matter, it ap-
pears, is just plain bullheadednesS
on Mr.. Ickes' part when he fails to
retract a public statement as to the
little Minnesota community being an
undesirable place in which to live.
Now there may be something to that
statement; chances are lot of COM
munities have many weaknesses if
we would look around, but for Mr..
Ickes to state that the place is not
safe for women to walk alone at
night does seem fantastic; he must
have been reading the. last of the
Mohicans, or something with hair
raising escapades of similar variety.
We haven't seen or heard of a single
instance when a woman has been
molested in Cass Lake and we have
been pretty near to Cass Lake for
several years.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-09-29

jor success had been against New
York's Rep. John j. O'Connor, de-
feated by Observation-Disclosures
James H. Fay, one-legged war vet
eran. Though Representative O'Con-
nor won Republican nomination Che
entered both tickets), Candidate Fay
is a safe bet next November since
he carries both American Labor
party and Democratic endorsement.
Since little John O'Connor was
the biggest fish Franklin Roosevelt
has been able to hook in summers
angling, at best his so-called
purge" was only Is per cent sue
cessful. This means the Presidents
program will not be completed by
1910, also that his tremendous per-
sonal popularity would bog down
if he attempted to choose his sue
cessor. Though he can win votes
for himself, he cannot do it for 9TH
ers.
Apparently two choices remain
open. Either Franklin Roosevelt
will run for Democratic renomina-
ton or he will head a new third
party, step not considered unlikely
in view of his recent promise to sup
port liberals, whether Democratic
or Republican.
O In Massachusetts, ex-Gov. James
M. Curley staged a comeback, won
Democratic gubernatorial nominal
ton over the incumbent, Gov.
Charles F. Hurley. Opposing him
next November will be 46-year-old
Leverett Saltonstan, liberal, Repub-
Ecan, who scored three times the
vote of his three opponents COM
bined.
o In Wisconsin, where popular
Gov. Phillip F. LaFollette could
be beaten only by a Democratic
Republican fusion ticket against the
powerful Progressive party, Novem-
ber's gubernatorial race will again
find three candidates: Governor
LaFollette, Democratic Robert Hen
ry, Republican julius P. He'll. Most
interest will center in the senatorial
campaign, where Democratic Sen.
F. Ryan Duffy must face Repub-
lican Alexander Wiley and Progress
sive Herman L. Ekern, currently
lieutenant governor.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-09-29

ing conditions in the small towns.
BY the time depression arrived, it
was clear most factories could op-
crate just as successfully in the
small towns, meanwhile permitting
the working man to enjoy better
life. In short, the smaller commu-
nifty is no longer isolated.
Hedging Against Adversely.
This magic change of American
thought is an amazing thing, yet it
is logical. The bright lights of city
are glamorous just so long, then
their artifciality becomes apparent.
Like siren, the metropolis will lure
men, only to cast them aside in a
few years. To safeguard their fu-
ture, an enormous number of city
business and Professionalism have
bought retreats" in distant small
town or farm areas where they will
move should hard luck dog their
trail. They have realized, as the
entire nation is realizing, that per-
manent security lies very close to
the soil.
Populous centers are characters
tically shoddy and only small mi
nority can hope to escape this en-
vironment by living in the better
residential districts. Speaking of
Chicago again, that city's building
managers recently heard a pictur-
esque description of their communi-
ty by Walter H. Butcher, executive
director of the American Society of
Planning Engineers.
Here" he said, waving his hand
to encompass the area, sis a city
with a gorgeously beautiful lake
front-a beautiful front door but a
filthy back yard The lake front is
like pauper's shroud-all front and
no back"
Consider a point-by-point compar-
ison:
Whether urban or rural, family
life is built around the home. In
any one of a dozen large cities that
home will be a crowded apartment
where youngsters grow up confined
within four walls. In the small
town, that same family would have
its own private home for less mon
ey, equipped with every modern
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-09-29
International

Early in Depression it became APP
parent that permanent recovery
was worldwide proposition. Thus,
since 1881, each year has brought an
International Management congress
which woos international prosperity
through means that have thus far
failed to win international peace,
namely, cooperation.
To Washington for this years con-
gress came 1000 executives and
management experts. But a fort
night ago, after the first days ses-
sion, it was plain that the weight of
American delegates would change
an impersonal discussion of business
ills into field day for protests
against what U. S. industry consid-
ers it's No. / foe, the New Deal.
From Frances Alex Brule came
the simple analysis that most of
management problems are reduc-
ible to human problems. Germany's
DR.. Gorg Seebauer was interested
in "the social aspects of scientific
management" But one U. S. speak
er after another found reason to lay
American business ills at the White
House door. Samples:
Johns-Manville' Lewis H. Brown:
adding to the misunderstanding
between business and government
+. i. is our present confused state of
mind We are torn between con-
tradictions.
Westinghouse A. W. Robertson:
Management ;. must struggle to
maintain the cause of free enter
prise in a world threatened by too
much RECOMMENDATION.
Labor's complaint came from
Robert J. Watt, U. S. workers dele
gate to the international labor Of
fee: "My message to management
!. is that you can have discipline
and responsibility within unions as
soon as you stop waging war against
them and give your workers a
chance to develop their own patterns
of discipline and responsible.
ity."
Soundest advice of all came from
William Allen White, wizened editor
of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette, who
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-09-29
Weekly News Review
Germans, Poles, Hungarians
COuet Part of Czech Nation
w II
AND HER MINoRITIEs DISTRIBUTION
: BY Joseph w. La Bine :

floods. With more than 400 dead,
with property damage standing
above $40O,0O0,000, with thousands
homeless, many communities were
so hopelessly shattered they could
not help themselves. To the rescue
came the Red Cross, U. S. coast
guard and WPA, while from Wash
ington President Roosevelt ordered
all federal agencies to give every
possible assistance.
o Shortly after midnight, South
ern Pacifc's Chicago-bound Califor-
nian pulled onto a siding at Tor
tuga, Calf, making way for the Los
Angeles-bound Argonaut. Though
Brakeman Eric L. Jacobson threw
the switch, Argonaut Numbered
through, crashed head-on into the
Californian to kill II, injure 100.
Told that he had opened a closed
switch, Brakeman Jacobson became
hysterical, shrieked over and over:
"I'm not crazy, but don't know
why I did i'll"
Politics
All summer the U. S. has waited
for Franklin Roosevelt to say yes
or no regarding his third term can
didacy. Only known facts were ~
that he would retire if a strongly
liberal congress approved his legis-
lative program by 1910, and (2)
that, having control over the Demo
cratic party, he would then be able
to name his successor. Thus it was
obvious why he strove to defeat such
"obstructionist" senators as Iowa
Gillette, South Cardinals Smith,
Maryland's Tydings and Georgia's
George.
But by last week, as primary sea-
son closed, the Presidents only ma
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-09-29

spanked both capital and labor while
speaking as representative of the
public"
Editor White to capital: "You
were short-sighted for not see
ing that the eight-hour day was COM
ing You had to fight it, every
inch, and make the consuming pub
lie think you were greedy You
were just dumb"
Editor White to labor: "The prop
er business of labor union is to get
higher wages, better hours and good
shop conditions /. But when labor
en- masse plunks its vote for its own
(politicaD party, then the spirit of
loyalty begins to obscure labor's OBJ
jectives."
Next day, Secretary of Commerce
Daniel c. Roper promised less gov
eminent interference with business.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-09-29
Uncle
~
Says: IN
Already Accomplished

Any man can make a speech,
but a speech is seldom the making
of him.
Business is business but the
business of others is no business
of yours.
Every married woman gives
her husband credit for possessing
good judgment at least once in
his life.
Left in Midair
An unsuccessful marriage pro-
posal resembles an expected
sneeze that failed to materialize.
People who strike in the dark
may mean well, but they seldom
hit the right spot.
The less fighting a man does the
more he is going to boast of his
proves in after years.
There may be a good deal in a
name when it is located in the
southeast section of a check.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-09-29

and the ingenuity of the scientists at
the Yale laboratories has made it
possible to secure the cooperation
of the chimpanzees to such an ex-
tent that they have served as expe-
rimentation substitutes for humans.
Most pitiful of the cases requiring
anesthesia is that of the mother ape
who has lost her baby, but who
clings tenaciously to her dead child.
fighting dangerously any attempt to
remove the body.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-09-29

descendant, Mrs. Cruger, filled the
place with reminders of the Clan
Douglas, family portraits, some by
Sully, and a Douglas tartan rug.
Protecting the rim of the cup from
which Sir Walter Scott once drank
to his hostess health is a silver
thistle.
But Mrs. Cruger is now supposed
to haunt Henderson house because
she is buried in the family plot in
New York and not in the huge
sarcophagus she built near the
kitchen door.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-09-29
Shot Kills Two Foxes

Tom Mackay wasn't so anxious to
save shot as he was to bag two
foxes, so he stalked the renards for
three hours on grouse moors in
Caithness, Scotland. Then he shot
both with one blast of his gun. Mac
kay is gamekeeper on the moors,
and was keeping watch when he
sighted the intruders a mile away
through his telescope. He followed
them. If he fired at one the other
would escape. Finally they drew
close and Tom got his reward.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-09-29
Nation Turns Against Crowded Cities,
Building Its Future in the Small Town
New Industrial and Social
Concept Will Feature
Decentralization
BY JOSEPH w. LaBINE

Main Street.-The same street
that once echoed to a surging,
bonanza spirit of pioneering
America, has again come into
its own. Once more the carni-
val tom-tom is heard on Satur-
day night, where but few
years ago there was gloomy
silence.
New business is springing up
in 1885 small town. New faces
are seen, sallow faces, per-
haps, for they come from the
city, chased away by uncer-
tainty and grasping for a new
chance where life is sweeter-
in the small town.
Here is being built a new
foundation more secure than
the one which crumbled two
decades ago. Gone is the de-
sire to become a big city.
Gone, too, is the pessimisn1
that seized these towns when
the golden lure of metropolitan life
began sapping their strength. Hav-
ing found once more their place in
the sun, they are surely pointing the
way to new and better scheme of
things.
This revolution-for such it is
has been growing since 1929. 1t is a
violent reaction to the cityward
movement that gripped our nation
after the World war, when every
ambitious small town and farm
youth became obsessed with an urge
to seek his future in the city. By
the time depression arrived, centers
like Chicago and New York had
become too large, unwieldy. 1t took
but slight upset to send them tum-
bling, to throw thousands of people
out of work.
A Basic Movement.
Under such circumstances, when
a country lad finds himself walking
barren sidewalks with an empty
stomach, fundamental things like
food and shelter become mighty i'm
portant. Back home, close to the
soil, food and shelter come easy and
a man needn't walk the streets
friendless. From this new basic ap-
probation of mankind's prime ne
cessities has grown today's move
ment. But it's bigger than that; the
thirst for small town security has
gripped all America, starting a
mass flight from the city that will
eventually result in decentr alization
of both population and industry.
The metropolis scored the first
touchdown in this battle of city ver-
sus small town. Industry sought out
populous centers because labor was
cheap and most of it's products were
consumed there. Moreover, these
were the nerve centers of communi-
cation.
But this was false economics, in
part. Industry soon discovered that
cities also brought labor trouble and
high taxes. And eventually mans
ingenuity developed faster transpor-
tation, better roads and better iv-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-09-29
Domestic

New England had already wealth
cred three days of rain when trop-
ical storm warnings were posted on
Florida's east coast. By midnight
the hurricane was safely past Flori-
da, far at sea. Next morning Jack
sonville warned North Cardinals
capes, but high tides and wind had
already spread the word. By noon
the weather bureau at Washington
ordered storm warnings posted from
Atlantic City to Eastport, Me.
By late afternoon the storm hit
Long Islands fashionable West
hampton with 90-mile wind, 40
foot tidal wave. Luxurious homes on
the sand dunes were blown to sea
and bodies were scattered for miles
along the beach. The storms full
force had struck the island from
Montauk down to Queens and Brook
Ign.
Roaring across Long Island sound,
it brought flood, wind and fire to
Connecticut in a night of horror that
cost $4,000, 900. At Providence, R.
l., waves that broke 1000 feet into
the city left Is feet of water in some
streets. BY the time it reached
Massachusetts, four days of rain
had already swollen rivers to food
stage. AS only hurricane can, it
ripped northward into New Hamp-
shire and Vermont, thence across
to Montreal where it took two more
lives before playing out. Behind was
a picture of amazing desolation that
stretched across six states.
Next day began the biggest re-
Mobilization job since 1875 spring
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-09-29
How Women
i'm Their 4O's
Can Attract Men

Here's good advice for a woman during her
change usually from 38 to 52), who fears
she'll lose her appeal to men, who worries
about hot flashes, loss of pep, dizzy spells,
upset nerves and moody spells.
Get more fresh air, 8 hrs. sleep and If you
need good general system tonic take Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made
especially for lComen. 1t helps Nature build
up physical resistance, thus helps give more
vivacity to enjoy life and assist calming
ijttery nerves and disturbing symptoms that
often accompany change of life. WELL
WORTH TRYING!
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-09-29

Yale Laboratories of Primate Biolo-
gy, to the Journal of Pharmacology
and Experimental Therapeutics.
It is no use to try to dress up the
medicine with orange juice, either;
the chimp is wary. Resort to force
is generally useless-impossible for
chimpanz = . six or seven years
old.
Yet every once in a while it is
necessary to give medicine or an
anesthetic to one of these animals,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-09-29
Business

Foremost among American indus
try's problem children are the rail-
roads, who jointly fell $4,000, 900
short of earning fixed charges. dur
ing 1885 first six months, whose
proposed Is per cent pay cut $780,
600, 900 a year) is met by labor's al
legation of financial mismanage-
ment and overcapitalization. Last
spring, almost simultaneous with the
wage cut announcement, congress
received rail legislation but tabled
it on the insistence of Wisconsin'S
Sen. Robert M. LaFollette, who ar
gued that pay cuts and government
aid do not go together.
Called for October ! was a gen.
eral railroad strike which, under
federal legislation, can be averted
30 days while a presidential fact
finding committee celebrates 80
more days after its report is SUBJ
mitted. Though President Roosevelt
plans to follow this procedure, he
began thinking early in September
in broader terms than strike. To
the White House were summoned
three experts of rail management
(Union Pacific's Carl Gray, Pennsyl-
vania's M. w. Clement, Southern
Pacific's E. c. Norris) and three ex-
perts of rail labor (Railway Employ
ees' B. M. Jewell, Firemen-Engine-
men Brotherhood D. B. Robertson,
Railway Labor Executives George
M. Harrison).
Their job: To draft for next win
ter's congress long-range rehabili-
tation plan for the $26, 900, 900, 900 in
dustry, one-third of which is now
bankrupt. Though the President OBJ
viously hoped to avert a rail strike
by promising legislation, though
steadily increasing carloadings plus
the prospect of business recovery
gave promise of obviating a wage
cut, labor remained adamant. At the
committees first session, its three
experts told management's three ex-
perts that no legislation could be
talked until wage cut demands were
dropped.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-09-29
Believe Henderson House
Haunted by the Builder

Henderson house, in Herkheimer
county, N. Y, is equipped, even to a
ghost, in its duplication of an Old
World house. The ghost is the shade
of the woman, Harriet Douglas
Cruger, who built the house after
the home of her uncle, Sir William
Douglas.
Built on the land granted to
James Henderson by George. II in
1877, then some $1,000 acres, his
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-09-29

Any mother who has had a stormy
session with Junior and the castor
oil spoon will give generous sympa-
thy to those who have struggled with
the problem of giving medicine to
apes.
The problem of giving drugs by
mouth is considerably more difficult
with the mature chimpanzee than it
would be in the case of strong
man, determined to resist treat
ment, reports DR.. J. H. Elder, of the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-09-29

BELOW-Chicago from the air, an
impressive, glamOrOus sight from a
distance, but far less thrilling to the
man who must work, eat and sleep
within its confines.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-09-29
LIFE INSURANCE EVIDENCE

the Northwestern National Life
investigations policy applicants for the first months
uavOra found
unavorable
refused against 81 app
cants. The other figures:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-09-29
Foreign

After 20 years OF peace Toe tCere orer-
taken by violent crisis. Dynamic Potiti-
cal forces from neighboring states
threatened our lands England and
France, ttoo deniocracies, informed us
that arbitration could NOT Solue the diff
Guilty 3. The government could do moth
ing but accept the suggestion OF the f,0o
potCers Nothing else remained, be-
cause tUe tOere alone.
Thus, to her angry, downhearted
populace, little CzechoSlovakia ex-
planned why Sudeten borderlands
were being ceded to Germany. Two
days had passed since faithless Eng
land and France had capitulated to
Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler's de-
mand for immediate release" of
the $500, 900 German Czechs whose
protests have kept Europe in dith-
er all summer. Further delay would
bring invasion; it was the better
part of valor to surrender. The
terms: Predominantly German
areas would be coded Immediately,
while part German areas would be
given a plebiscite. In return, Adolf
Hitler would join in guaranteeing
Czechoslovakia' future.
But even while Europe began
breathing easier, new troubles were
brewing, mostly caused by the hope
less conglomeration of nationalities
from which the Czech nation was
carved 20 years ago. (See Map
The troubles:
In Prague itself, democracy gave
way to semi-dictatorship as Pre-
mier Milan Hodza's cabinet re-
signed, replaced by that of Gen. Jan
Syrovy, one-eyed army chief. Mean
while, blood splattered throughout
Sudetia as Czech troops quelled
Nazi riots.
In Warsaw was heard a growing
cry for liberation" of $4,000 Poles
in the Silesian Teschen belt which
Poland lost to Czechoslovakia in
1920.
In Budapest, Hungarians demand
ed annexation of 700, 900 Magyars in
Czech territory contiguous to Hun
gary.
In Treviso, Italy, Premier Benito
Mussofini decided treaties mean
nothing in modern Europe, therefore
urged complete split-up of Czecho-
slovakia to satisfy Czechs, Germans,
Magyars, Poles, Ruthenians, Slo.
walks.
Meanwhile, Britain's Prime Min.
lister Neville Chamberlain and
Frances Premier Edouard Daladier
ate crow. In Paris, crisis threat.
ened in protest against the Franco
British scheme whose stencil almost
paralleled that of the notorious
Hoare-Laval plan for Ethiopia's par.
tition. Three cabinet members re.
signed. In London, where the "sell.
out" created equal protest, Neville
Chamberlain had good reason tt
worry about his job.
AS the prime minister boarded his
plane for Godesberg, Germany, anc
his second conference with Adolf
Hitler in weeks time, there were
some indications that Der Fuehrel
might eventually reject the Sudeter
settlement, might demand complete
division of Czechoslovakia among
Germany, Poland and Hungary.
Only definite fact was that Ger
many had bluffed her way into Eu
ropes No. l position, RELOCATING boil
France and England to the classifi
cation of Second-rate powers.