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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-04-14
West Rock

Mr.. and Mrs Erick Johnson, Mr.
and Mrs. Erick Holmberg and fam
lily, Mr.. and Mrs Art Jacobson and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Pangerl
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Feigi
Mr.. and Mrs Henry Pangerl and fam
lily, Mrs. Godfrey Anderson, Robert
Anderson, Esther Johnson and Mrs
Art Friend and Lena Earhart of Pine
City, helped Matt Youngbauer cele-
brate his birthday Sunday afternoon
Glen johnson is spending his vaca-
ton at the home of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Axel Johnson.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Schlager and
family spent Tuesday evening of last
week at the Fred Feigi home.
A large group of friends surprised
Mrs. Axel Johnson on her birthday
last Thursday afternoon. The ladies
served delicious lunch. Everyone
wished Mrs. Johnson many happy re-
turns of the day.
Mrs. AXel Johnson, Mrs. G. E. Carl
son, Mrs. Nils Anderson, Mrs. Ham,
let johnson, Mrs. John Carlson, Mrs
Erick Holmberg, Mrs. John Swanson
and Ardellt and Miss Viola Carlson
helped Mrs. Isaac Mattson celebrate
her birthday Tuesday afternoon OF
last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nils Anderson were
visitors in Rush City Tuesday eve
ming of last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Feigi and Mil
ton were entertained at a waffle sup
per at the Erick Johnson home Tues
day evening of last week.
Word reached here recently that
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Anderson (nee
Rosie Hansen) will spend the summer
in Alaska. Mr.. Anderson is leaving
Seattle, Wash, by plane Immediately
while Mrs. Anderson will spend some
time visiting friends and relatives in
that city. She will sail from Seattle
later to join Mr.. Anderson who will
be employed on a government pro-
ject.
Mrs. Axel Johnson and LaVerne
called on Mrs. Alfred Johnson at the
hospital in Pine City Sunday. Later
they drove to Greeley and visited at
the Geo. Studt home.
Mrs. P. o. Blost spent Wednesday
afternoon of last week with Mrs
DAHL
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Mattson, Ivar
and Tavern, and Mr.. and Mrs. c.
Edwin Peterson visited at the John
Carlson home Saturday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Fischer and
Joyce of Hastings, Mr.. and Mrs.
George France and Barbara Jean,
Charley and Erick Newstrom and
Mrs. Nils Anderson were Sunday din
ner guests at the John Carlson home.
Mrs. Elmer Blost and Beverly spent
Sunday afternoon at the Lewis Swan
son home.
Nils Anderson left for Omaha,
Nebr., Wednesday evening of last
week and word received from him
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-04-14
Zion Lutheran Church, Bruno.

Rev. S. T. Palm, pastor.
Service with Communion on Good
Friday in the Swedish Lutheran
church in Bruno
Easter day service at Lone Star
district at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
o. Ostenson with Communion, Nor
wegian language, at IL a. m.
Sunday school every Sunday at the
home of c.. D. Hunt.
All are welcome to our services.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-04-14
THE BRUNO LUTHERAN PARISH

Elmer j. Johnson, pastor.
Services on Easter day will be held
as follows: Bruno, 10 a. M; Vilstad,
11:15 a. M; Nickerson, 2 p. M; and
Oak Lake, 8 p. m.
Holy Communion services will be
celebrated in Bruno Maundy Thurs
day at p. m, in Oak Lake on Good
Friday, 10:45 a. M, and in NickerSon
on Good Friday at 2 p. m.
Offerings for missions will be re-
ceived on Easter Sunday at all of
the services. Kindly bring in the
Lenten envelopes for the Easter Of
ferings.
Everybody welcome.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-04-14
Peace Lutheran Church, Finlayson
H. Sporleder, pastor.

Special Easter service at 1890 a. m.
Subject: "A Twofold Command of the
Angel at the Tomb" Bible school at
10 a. m. The choir will sing "Christ
Arose" A special offering will be
lifted for the purpose of missions.
On Good Friday service will be
conducted in the German language
at 1890 a. m. The Lords Supper
will be celebrated in connection with
the service.
Confirmation class meets Saturday
at $50 a. m.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-04-14
METHODIST CHURCH NOTES
T. C. Olson, pastor.

l. U. OISOII, pdSlOT.
Denham M. E. Church.
Easter Sunday the Sunday school
will give an Easter program in the
morning at 1890 o'clock. There will
be sermon by the pastor and good
singing.
The public is cordially invited to
come to our church.
Windemere M. E. Church.
There will be an Easter egg social
at the church Saturday evening at
o'clock.
Easter Sunday, evening worship at
8 o'clock. All are welcome.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-04-14

chard and Maynard Without homes
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. F. Borchard
spent Sunday afternoon at the Gust
Pearson home.
Miss Irene Sawatzky called at the
VIM. F. Borchard home Monday.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-04-14

Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Chatelle are visit
ing in Duluth and Cloquet this week.
A number of fires have been re-
ported in this vicinity recently.
Funeral services were held Satur-
day for Andrew Olson of Markville
Friends extend sympathy to the be-
reaved relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wedge were in Mark
vile Saturday.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-04-14

Much special Easter music is being
prepared and it is hoped that there
will be good turnout.
There will be an opportunity for
reception of members at both places
If there are Christian parents who
wish their little children baptized
please notify the pastor.
Easter is always a high spot in
the church calendar. Let us make
the most of it in sincere alteration
of the risen Christ.
A. E. MCLEAN, Pastor.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-04-14
RUTLEDGE BIBLE CHURCH
Rev. R. Deursen, pastor

Ten a. M, Easter program given by
the Sunday school; preaching service.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-04-14
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NOTES
Markville

Sunday services April II will be
as follows: Morning worship, 10
o'clock This will be our Easter
service. In addition to several spe-
cial choir numbers, there will be an
opportunity for reception of new
members.
Sunday school at II a. m.
Friday night, April Is, special
Good Friday service will be held in
the church.
ClOvertOn.
Sunday school, 10 a. M; morning
worship, Ills a. m.
Christian Endeavor at the Halsted
home at p. m.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1938-05-01
LIFE AS WE LIVE 1T
BY JOHN STUART HILL,
(For the Associated Negro Press)

Many organizations have strin-
gent rules demanding that their
pledges devote a specified number
Of hours to study each day. 9th
ers have study tables and super
wise the study of their freshmen.
Directly within the organization
there are study groups which
stress the cultural viewpoint.
They also have discussion groups
on the pertinent problems Of the
day and the race.
The school organization permits
the student to learn how to use
parliamentary procedure, and to
contract the business of the orga-
nization. His training along this
line is invaluable.
Fraternity or sorority life does
not end with graduation; many
times the graduate has had to
leave his home town to find en-
ployment, and go into a strange
city. The insignia Of his organi-
cation is often the means Of form
ing desirable acquaintances. 1t
also helps him to find his way
better. Your son or daughter is
not to get the maximum out of
college if you do not see that he
or she becomes a member Of some
organization.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1938-05-01
is THE GREEK LETTER ORGA-
NIZATION WORTHWHILE?

Graduation is close now and
the various Greek letter organi-
cations are beginning to start
their rush activities. The ques-
ton in many parents minds is
should they let their children be-
come affiliated with one Of these
organizations. believe that
these organizations have a very
definite place in the life Of the
Negro student. First, they teach
the person how to live with peo-
pie, and this is far more import
ant than the education he or she
may get out Of a book.
Regardless of the amount Of
education that a person may have
the main purpose in life is defeat
ed if the individual does not know
how to get along with people. 1t
would surprise many parents to
find out just how serious these
college organizations are. They
are not made up Of socially crazed
people. Surely they have their
parties which are wholesome and
adequately chaperoned than to
have them frequent places Of an
unsaVory type.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1938-05-01

in no position to 60 against the
whole court and against its re-
cent precedents in such a case.
How ridiculous it would have
made him to vote in the mega
tive in this case! How it would
have fed the fuel Of the recent
fire that had been kindled under
him. Mr.. Black may have been
a Ku KluXer, but he has never
been an ignOramus.
The fight on Black has borne,
and will bear, GOOD FRUIT.
Those Of us who are wise and
have the courage of life in US, will
never miss chance to make a
fight and the mightiest fight we
can make, whenever such case as
that of putting a member Of
narrow fascist gang on the high
est court of the land, or into any
other high public office, comes to
light. If such a fight fails in its
main objective (as it failed in
this case to dislodge Black from
the CourD, it will not fail to
make impressions all around,
which will last.
The fight made against Black
has not only helped him toward
human grace, but it has helped
the appointing power toward
greater care and prudence, and
it will help all those who ever
aspire to membership in the
Court, to beware of connection
with unlawful or disreputable Or
CARNATIONS.
Long live Hugo Black,-and
may those who had the courage
to fight his appointment, live
much longer!
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1938-05-01
CURRENT OPINION

bama the decision would be &C
copied and upheld Gin letter and
in spirit" 1t has been. Some
other states which had practiced
exclusion Of Negroes from juries
also took the cue.
Apparently Kentucky was re-
miss in its duty in this particular.
That state continued indefensible
racial determinations But the
intent of the Supreme Court to
crack down on such practices
which do violence to democratic
principles and constitutional rights
is now unmistakable. Once again
the highest tribunal Of the land
is living up to its tradition as
bulwark of American liberties.
If states still excluding Negroes
from jury service expect to have
their law enforcement efforts up
held in the Federal courts, they
had better get into step with this
liberal Interpretation.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1938-05-01
POPULAR ELECTION IN
AMERICA AND IN
GERMANY

Adolph Hitler claims that his
regime represents the most genu-
inc Democracy on the face of the
earth. In three successive cleo
tons he has submitted his poll
cies to the arbitrament of the
popular vote, which has been aD-
proved by a greater popular vote
than has been given to any adj
ministration since the foundation
of our democratic government.
It is not fair to claim that Hit
Ter overrides the majority by
might and leaves them no choice
but to support himself and his
program. When he first began
to run for Office he was defeated
again and again, and only ga ned
he upper hand after repeated
failure and fresh start.
Adolph Hitler, like other fana-
tics Of history, has hynotized the
German people with charm and
spell under which they are con-
strained to do his bidding and up
hold his degrees. They love to
do his will more passionately
than did the Hebrew of old the
Lord Nazism, notwithstanding
its unanimous popular approval,
cannot claim to represent true
Democracy until the people have
/ recovered from the delirium and
frenzy Of defeat and dispair and
sufficiently regained their sobriety
as to contemplate the t11L1e1 re-
g me, in the light of calm and So
Der elaboration.
In the meantime we might
pause to consider comparison of
methods and results Of popular
elections as conducted by a De-
mocracy in America and a Dicta-
torship in Germany. After our
politicians have exhausted every
device known to political ingenu-
ity to arouse the populace to the
importance and necessity of regis
tering their wills at the polls
scarcely sixty per cent of our eli
gible voters ever register and
vote. On the other hand, Hitler's
appeal to patriotic duty brings to
the polls all but one hundred per
cent of the eligible German cleo
torate. Seventy million Germans
under a dictatorship cast a larger
popular vote than a hundred and
tWenty-six million Americans UNI
der a democracy. Millions of the
American electorate are self-dis-
franchised through Indifference
and neglect; there are no shirkers
in Germany.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1938-05-01
Youth and Taverns

TAVERNS came in for large share Of
u the blame for the present high rate OF
delinquency among our present-day youth
in this city, when a group Of earnest and
well-meaning citizens held a meeting at
which this important subject was discussed
recently. We agree with these interested
leaders in many Of their conclusions, but
we do net see clearly enough, perhaps to
cast the greater part Of the blame for our
present youthful crime wave upon the spots
whose business it is to dispense spurious Ii
quors. And yet, we know that liquor, In its
various sorts, has contributed nothing to the
building of character in individuals.
However, liquor, like fire, will not injure
the one who never gets too close to It. Anu
most Of our delinquent youths are not IN
ebriates If the moral breakdown OF the
youth Of today is due to liquor, w hi c IS
sold in the numerous taverns scattered over
the city, the places themselves are not near
ly so much to blame as are the adults who
make it possible for the youth to possess
funds with which to purchase the democrat
ling LIQUID Let it be understood that we
hold no brief for taverns or other liquor
dispensing ESTABLISHMENTS, Uut Jul GOH'N1
ton is that we as adults, are Sinking our
duty somewhere, in regard to the proper
training of our youth.
"lTrain up a child in the way he SHOULD
co. is as powerful a recipe for building up
right citizens today as it was in the days 1t
was spoken by the wise man. The duty OF
properly training our children rests square
ly upon our shoulders as parents and adults.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1938-05-01
Justice Black Votes Right
BY WILLIAM PICKENS

The NAACP wins the Joe Hale
case, of Paducah, KY, in which a
colored lad was convicted by an
all white jury, under the charge
of having murdered white
scoundrel who was out hunting
colored women in the colored
peoples section Of the town. The
evidence was circumstantial,-
consisting chiefly Of the fact that
one Of the women accosted by the
hunter, was a woman in whom
the colored youth was known to
be interested. That is, the jury
reasoned this way: This is the
Negro who ought to have killed
that white man; ergo, he did kill
him. Guilty.
Judge Black, erstwhile Ku
Kluxer, is said to have voted with
the rest of the court that the
systematic exclusion of Negroes
from juries that try Negroes in
validates the decision of the court
against that Negro. Some might
think that this acquiescence of
Black in the precedents of the
court, which precedents were set
long before Black was thought of
as a member of the court some
might think, who think in inches
that this vote Of Justice Black
proves that those who fought him
made a mistake In our judg-
ment, it justifies those who fought
him. Justice Black is human
being: those who were brave and
consistent in the fight against
having member Of the Khan or
the Court, undoubtedly put HUI
go Black on the spot and he
knows it.
Certainly he knows that he il
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1938-05-01
Kipling Was Right

THAT the female Of the species is more
III deadly than the male has been proven
upon occasions too numerous to mention
But no doubt Todd G. Colbert, a prosperous
Western business man, will say that the fe-
male of the species is also more subtle than
the male. after his bitter experience came
near bringing ruin to his business and deg
relation, and possibly death, to hi m e If J.
However, we are not able to see the subtll-
ity of the 14-year-old white girl who was
the direct cause Of Mr.. Colbert's troubles, as
originating with her. 1t is our candid opln-
ion that this girl was merely the tool Of
white enemies Of the Negro business man.
who were envious Of his success, and who
after exhausting every other known strate-
gy in an effort to arrive at a sure plan
whereby they might nave him 'put out OF
the way" hit upon the diabolcal plot to use
a female to entrap him.
There is no doubt that Colbert will stop
and count before he tries to befriend anoth
e. white female 1t is a dangerous business
in this country for Negroes to offer any SORT
of assistance to white women. The reason
. it is dangerous is not due SO much to the
hatred that white men bear for Negroes as
it is to the lack Of culture and true virtue
in some white females. There are many
white women who will join hands with un-
scrupuIous white men in plots to bring dis
grace and even death to respectable cOlored
men; and they only await an opportunity to
become tools of these devils in human form,
The best thing for Negro men to do is 70
turn deaf ear to all pleas for assistance
coming from white women, especially younG
ones, unless they know them to be Of high
character and unimpeachable reputation. Ii
is far better to be stony-hearted than it is
to run the risk Of frying in the electric chair
T. c. Colbert will tell you that.
And let us not forget that Kipl;ng was
right when he said that the female Of the
species is more deadly than the male. Re-
Numbering this, reputable Negro men will
be wary in their dealings with the female
sex of the white race.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1938-05-01

typhoid fever, have their genesis in these
filthy privies, and the miracle is that the
mortality rate is no higher than it is at
present.
In the rural districts, while the poor are
not cursed with the disease breeding out
houses they are, nevertheless the victims
Of poor housing and undernourishment. The
diet Of a Negro farmers family, and that OF
the poor whites, is but little better than that
upon which the most unfortunate slave ex-
listed during the dark ages of human slav-
cry. Yet, the people live, and we wonder
how. Even the beasts Of the field have bet
ter fare than do some Of the poor farmers
whose task it is to feed them.
The cause of all Of this is that greed and
fraud has been, and still is, the consuming
passion Of the landowners and those who
have grown wealthy upon the unrequlted
toll of the submerged group. A lack OF ap-
probation of the humanity in man, and
desire to bestialize all others for the sake OF
ones own enrichment has so dulled the con-
cept of right and justice, that the South
cannot render itself other than the capital
cf misery and the citadel Of a most degrad-
ed state 81 existence yet known to modern
civilization, despite the munificence Of the
northern states with which that section has
been showered in the last few decades.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1938-05-01
KELLY MILLER WRITES

Frequently in America each po-
lit;cal party threatened the ma
ton with dire calamity unless it
is continued or restored to pow
er. A distinguished President Of
the United States INDUCED in the
direful prediction that grass would
be growing in the middle of the
streets of our most popular cities,
should the electorate choose his
adversary instead of himself, to
guide the helm Of state. The per-
suasion or threat Of Hitler is more
effective than that Of the Demo-
cratic leaders.
There is no charge Of corrup-
ton in the German election, only
that the will Of the people was
overborne by the compulsion Of a
powerfully surcharged personal
ity. On the other hand, twenty
million dollars was spent in the
last election to influence, purchase
or corrupt the American electo-
rate, if we are to believe the
charge which our rival political
parties hurl at the head Of each
other. In Germany there is but
one party; in America the con-
tending rivals accuse each other
of every form of corruption and
sin.
Germany ru.hlessly eliminates
Jews who constitute one per cent
of the nation from the franchise
without apology or shame. Theo-
retically American political pro-
cedure operates without regard
to race, creed or color. And yet
we manage by evasion or denial
Of law to disfranchise a greater
proportion of the American cleo
| torate on account of race and col
or than Hitler does on account Of
race and creed. Comparisons are
odious. The German kettle and
the American pot may indulge in
the duel Of mutual recrimination
without edifcation of either.
Whatever charge you may hurl
at the head Of Hitler on account
of ruthlessness towards the Jews
is easily offset by the retort, you
lynch Negroes in America.
The basis Of true Democracy is
contained in the doctrine laid
! down in the Declaration of indie
pendence-"that all Governments
derive their just powers from the
consent of the governed" This
consent is arrived at through pop
ular election, in which all the
people, not some of the people,
must participate on equal terms.
Both America and Germany have
far to 60 before they reach this
ideal of Democracy.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1938-05-01
KEEPING HEALTHY
By T. JONATHAh COLE, M. D..

Often such foci are hard to
find. Sometimes when they have
been found it is too late to help
matters much by getting rid Of
them; even if further harm is
prevented, so much may have al
ready been done that it is too
late to help the patient. This,
of course, is not necessarily
reason why further injury should
be permitted, even though no
improvement can be promised.
In other words, if a patient has
had arthritis for years, too much
should not be expected from the
removal Of a focus Of infection,
even though the removal may be
desirable to avoid continuing in
jury.
Diet is not known to be
cause of arthritis, but its control
is important in the treatment Of
the disease. Modern diets for ar
Thrills are not as restricted as
was formerly the practice; fruits
and vegetables are ordered lib
orally, and meat is not always re-
stricted. 1t has been recognized
that the patient requires a good
diet to keep up nutrition and
build up resistance. Fruits and
vegetables are especially impor-
tant.
Because Of the chronic charac-
ter and distressing nature Of the
disease, victims constantly live in
hope that they may find some
thing to cure them. This makes
them easy preys to quacks, takers
and sellers of useless remedies.
Money spent for such useless and
hopeless efforts is, of course, not
available for real treatment.