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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-05-19

home. They were supper guests at
the Albert Osterkamp home We'd
nesday to visit Lenora Rupp who is
attending school at Duluth. Last
Thursday they visited at the Jack
Edwards home as supper guests and
on Friday Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Rupp
left for Waseca to visit their sister,
Anna, who teaches there and also
stopped in Minneapolis to see their
sister, Louise, who is a nurse.
Vern Gage helped at the E. j. Gage
place the past week.
MIR. Patrin of Willow River, was in
this neighborhood recently.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-05-19
Sandstone
(From Another Correspondent

Hjalmar T. Walden and Dot A.
Schafer were married at the home of
Rev. R. Deursen Saturday, May IA.
The witnesses were Mr.. and Mrs. w.
Walden of Sandstone.
Mrs. J. Brennan, missionary from
Borneo, Dutch East Indies, called at
the home of Rev. and Mrs. R. Deursen
Friday. She is on her way back to
the Mission field.
The Bible church of Sandstone, will
celebrate its fifth anniversary Friday
evening at p. m. with real spiritual
and social program. All the members
and friends are invited. Special pro-
gram.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-05-19

attended the Lutheran Centennial
convention in Duluth Tuesday.
Henry O'Day drove to Minneapolis
Sunday and returned the following
day with a load of lumber
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Hammer re-
turned home Sunday from a visit
of several months with their son,
Halle, in California.
Sheridan Greig was in Bruno one
day last week.
Floyd Forsyth was in Pine City
Wednesday of last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carlton Stafford were
in Finlayson Tuesday afternoon.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-05-19

South of Louisville, in the southern
part of Kentucky, is the famous Man,
moth Cave. 1t is the most extensive
cave known. 1t has streams, water
falls, many large rooms and $50 miles
of passages.
Evening star., 1938-06-17
Building Big Warplanes.

from the san Antonio Express.
Private and commercial flying play an
important part in the national defense
Again that has been demonstrated by an
announcement from Dayton (Ohio) that
the Douglas Aircraft Company is building
the largest bomber yet ordered by the
Army Air Corps. The specifications are
kept secret, but the Dayton report indi-
Gates that the plane will be designed for
long distance flying and high attitudes
An mixing as to its size may be gathered
from the description of a single wheel
Tor the landing gear that is being tested
at Wright Field materials laboratory: It
is eight feet in diameter, forty-two inches
wide, and. without the brake-drums,
weighs approximately ton.
Evidently the Army Air Corps is adapt
ing the results Of recent experiments in
civil aeronautics to its own uses The
new bomber will be designed for opera
ton as high as 10000 feet-well beyond
antl-aircraft fire and present types Of
pursuit planes. Such an altitude calls
for special "air-conditioning," in order
that the crew may survive and maintain
Its enclency in the rarefied atmosphere.
Inc Douglas engineers have achieved
considerable progress in that field. The
new De- Qately completely has q
pressurtzed cabin, which means that pas
sengers and crew will be subject to the
same conditions in the substratosphere
as at much lower levels The Boeing
plant at Seattle, which builds the Army's
famous flying fortresses," also is con-
structing planes with pressure-sealed
cabins and is conducting further expert
mentS.
Evening star., 1938-06-17
New Chain Bridge.

The turgid tides and swirling eddies
OF old man Potomac have seen bridges
come and go on the site of the Old Chain
Bridge in the years since about l795, but
certainly nothing comparable to the
$685., 900 three-lane span to be dedicated
today.
Until the 1906 number of wooden
bridges rotted or were carried away by
the angry waves and ice jams below the
Falls, but those days of the Capitals
financial bankruptcy saw the rise of
suspension bridge supported by a cable
chain which became known to inhabi-
tants as Chain Bridge.
But old man river took his toll on
this span and the frequency of the need
for repairs prompted the building of still
another bridge through a 500 900 appro-
priation by Congress.
Grant was in the White House and
France was paying off debt to trium-
phant Germany under Bismark when
Engineer Theodore B. Samo completed
the Murphy -Whipple truss by which
Georgetown and Virginia were connected
and upon the piers of which the current
edition of Chain Bridge is founded,
A fine structure to its users, to the
river it is just another bridge.
Evening star., 1938-06-17
Frightful Situation.
From the Hartford Times.

from tQe dartI0lQ Times.
There are now 10000, 900 civilian refu-
gees in China, by estimation Of Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt national chairman
of the United Council for Civilian Relief
in China. Most of them, he states, are
without food and facing epidemics, con-
stituting the greatest health danger that
the world has known since the black
death of the middle ages"
Perhaps the number is 10000 900, not
60,000,O 900. No one has counted them, but
it is known that the number Is in the
tens Of millions and the suffering in
China produced by Japan's pitiless in
vasion is appalling beyond words. There
Is no effective organized government
within the area occupied here and there
by Japanese troops, except local gov
ernments incapable of dealing with hor-
rifying emergency.
Responsibility for relief falls morally
upon Japan. Practically it would not be
met, even if Japan, whose people are
themselves suffering privation to sup
port the undeclared war, were able to
meet it. international action for relief
is underway, but II it is to have success,
even in ameliorating, rather than effec-
tive degree, the United States must bear
the chief burden, which is so heavy that
it exceeds in magnitude that which our
country met in feeding Belgians, Ger
mans and Russians under circumstances
deplorable but not 50 difficult as those to
which Colonel Roosevelt has referred.
Evening star., 1938-06-17
Disarmament Murmurs.

That hardy perennial, disarmament
talk. Is blooming again. It sprouted in
Commons at London yesterday when
Neville Chamberlain told an apparently
astonished House that the United States
Government had intimated it was pre-
pairing to make definite proposals to Sc
cure world disarmament. Before the day
was over, the State Department cate
gorically denied the soft impeachment.
1t did not go the length of suggesting
that Britains realist Prime Minister was
dallying with the truth. Diplomacy
eschews the uncouther speech of ordi-
nary mortals. It was merely explained
that Washington presumes Mr.. Cham
berlain's statement is based entirely on
Secretary Hulls recent Nashville speech,
wherein it was set forth-by no means
for the first time or by that distinguished
statesman for the first time-that, with
the world groaning under the burden of
mounting armaments the United States
is prepared to join with other nations in
moving resolutely toward bringing about
an effective agreement on limitation and
progressive reduction of armaments"
That commendable If abstract reaf1irma-
ton of fixed American policy is far re-
moved from the definite proposals"
adumnrated by the Prime Minister.
The state of international anarchy"
and of world chaos and lawlessness," to
which both Mr.. Roosevelt and Secretary
Hull have periodically referred since the
Chicago quarantine" speech, persists.
Since then, indeed, those conditions have
spread and become intensified. Japan's
purpose to crush and conquer China has
been manifested by eight months of war
fare which has literally staggered hui
manity. In Spain during the same inter-
val, Franco, aided and abetted by his
German and Italian allies, has waged
war outrance. British shipping, no less
than Barcelona, is getting taste of that
right now. Since Chicago too, Austria
has been raped and annexed by the
Nazis and Czechoslovakia earmarked as
their next victim.
Statesmen may crate disarmament,
but while relationships blast their way
through China, Spain and Central Eu-
rope, defying democracies as they do so
and keeping whole world on tenter-
hooks of anxiety as to the direction their
lusts and whims will take tomorrow, it
strikes the average American as both
useless and undesirable to talk of beating
swords into plowshares. International
banditti, far from being impressed by
such platonic gestures, are more likely to
interpret them as spinelessness.
1t would be considerably more to the
point to emphasize the United States
purpose to proceed full steam ahead with
its s1,150,0oo,0o0 naval expansion pro-
gram, just as Great Britain is apparently
committed to the intention of pressing to
completion with all possible dispatch her
$7,500,0 ,000 900 rearmament scheme There
is no better way to "disarm" aggressor
nations and their force-worshiping
leaders.
Evening star., 1938-06-17

confidence in law enforcement would
have been severely shaken.
j. Edgar Hoover was keenly aware Of
this crisis when he led his men into
intensive action at the kidnapping scene.
Equally cognizant Of the responsibility
resting upon them we're the sheriff, the
states attorney ard the local citizens
who co-operated relentlessly in the in
vestigation.
The results are cheering to every par
ent, to every potential victim of the hor-
rible crime of body-stealing for ransom.
Within two weeks the kidnaper is caught
and trapped by slillful questioning into
making complete confession. There is
no delay in bringing him before the bar
OF justice, and, therefore no incentive for
mob action. Swiftly he is indicted, ar
raigned and given a fair trial. and just as
swiftly the extreme penalty provided by
law is imposed.
Law-abiding American citizens are
deeply indebted to the G-men and the
Florida authorities for this splendid DEM
onstration Of law enforcement at its best.
Evening star., 1938-06-17
Swift Justice.

In less than three weeks from the day
he snatched little Jimmy Cash from his
Florida home, kidnaper Franklin Pierce
Mccall has been arrested, convicted and
sentenced to death in the electric chair,
Deplorable though this crime was, it
has served good purpose. The Cash
kidnapping was perpetrated at a most
critical time, when newspapers were full
of news about financial troubles of the
G-men and about the unsolved Levine
case. In the minds of many worried citi-
zens. law enforcement seemed to be at
the crossroads.
Here was another brazen KIDNAPPING,
constituting a challenge that society
could not ignore. If the law had failed
to meet this challenge, and to emerge the
victor, there is little doubt that public
Evening star., 1938-06-17
Down to the Sea.

While many father must have shaken
his head in apparent disapproval at read
ing reports of three young pirates" ap-
propriating a $25,O0O ketch and setting
forth for adventure on the broad Pacific,
1t is more than likely that tinglc OF
envy and an unspoken bon voyage"
must have tempered the feeling.
For the lure of the sea is not Just
bookish thing stemming from the pens
OF such as Stevenson and Conrad.
Rather is it part of humanity, planted
very deep and never reaching the light
IN some Of mankind, in others close to
the surface. In few. perhaps, even the
seed was never present, but these are
poor unfortunates.
1t is part of the futility of mankind
that so many who feel the call of green
water and salt breezes may never wrest
themselves from the ruts of more prosaic
existence and appropriate for themselves
ketch, even one worth far less than
$25,000, and seek adventure at sea.
But it is also to mankind's everlasting
credit that there are some, perhaps these
boys among them, who are not content
with vicarious adventure and who have
struck out fearlessly where there is
nothing before and nothing behind but
the sky and the ocean"
Perhaps If their mothers are really
broken-hearted, and the owner of the
ketch would like to have his boat back,
those boys ought to return. Still, 1t seems
shame-a sturdy craft-a broad
ocean-!
Evening star., 1938-06-17

60 down as the greatest spending orgy
in peace time, for approximately $l2, 2,o0o,-
100000 has been appropriated. The ad-
ministration hopes to keep the deficit
for the next fiscal year down to about
$500, 100000, but it is likely to be far
more, particularly as the receipts from
taxation are estimated at about S. $780,
100000.
Congress is leaving Washington with
out having done thing in aid of the
railroads, many of which are on the
ropes and gasping for breath. The threat
of special session hangs over the legis-
lators, If there is collapse during the
summer.
Evening star., 1938-06-17

In Defense
OF Mayor Hague.
To the Editor of The Star:
NOW Mayor Hague of Jersey City is
y before the court-for what? For
refusing to allow soap box orator
to expound his doctrine on the streets
by the patriotic citizens of this United
States. In this act Mayor Hague is
backed by the citizen residents of his
city.
Norman Thomas was egged and
tomatoed from his stand on his second
attempt to ballyhoo an audience. hoping
to get converts. Being prevented by
force, Thomas declares it to be pre-
vention of free speech. Two Congress-
men and John L. Lewis Of the C. I. o.
say the same, with the result that Mayor
Hague is defendant in court Of law.
One part Of Mayor Hague's testimony
on the witness stand is sort of cloudy
when he says all Lewis followers are
Communistic. but Lewis himself is not.
That statement is sort of queer, when
we all know that Lewis Is the big
thunder-pumper of the c. I. o.
Lewis has a long, heart-burning want
10 uulOulZe Jersey Olty AdpOT, DuC IL
seems like Jersey City will have none
of it and Mayor Hague is simply back
ing up Jersey City labor. What is wrong
about that?
II it Is the law that all labor must
sign up with c. I. o. Lewis, then that
law is an obnoxious law that deprives
individuals of their citizen right by plac-
ing them under dictator with loss Of
their liberty, their independence and
their freedom. It is bad enough as 1t
is with the unions forbidding the non
union man to work on the same job.
Now there is one Communist, one G.
I. o. Lewis and two Congressman who
have learned by trial that there is one
city in New Jersey where they must re-
spect the law and II they want to bally-
hoo the citizens, let them apply to the
city authorities in the proper way and
If such permit Is denied, they should
courteously retire from the field and
any. attempt to forcibly hold their free
speech" makes them the lawbreakers.
w. j. DERMOTT.
Evening star., 1938-06-17

Floods have arisen in China to block
the progress of the Japanese. The floods
may kill hundreds of thousands of peo-
pie, but that fact will be regarded as
merely a transient and technical ad-
vantage by both groups of contenders.
A strange form of fighting asserts it.
self, in which the loss of people and
the destruction Of property are regarded
as trivial and momentary incidents.
Evening star., 1938-06-17
r STREET NV.

Dear Sir:
"Your remarks are always read with
interest, particularly when you discourse
on birds, books, trees or human beings.
and most Of the time nod approvingly.
But (here 1t comesO it seems to me
that in your reply to the well-worded
letter from B. B. G. that you published
recently Con street widening) you rather
missed the point.
"It may be that vegetation does not
flourish in the city. and that we should
all migrate to the suburbs, but your
placid assumption that the people who
live in town all do so Of choice is hardly
correct.
Perhaps the luckless dweller on
Eleventh street Hor example) would like
to live in Chevy Chase, but cannot afford
to do SO.
mo matter how much he may dislike
noise, glare and the stink OF gasoline,
these are thrust upon his unwilling
senses; no matter how much he may like
trees and grass, even the little that he
has is taken away from him. It seems to
my perhaps prejudiced mind that the
city dweller has borne the domination of
the A. A. A. with great patience-too
much patience. Being unorganized, he
does nothing.
Trusting that my petulance has not
annoyed you. I remain,
IAN admiring reader, ~. W.P."
There are, though, really, a great many
persons who live in the deep city because
they want to!
The convenience of being close to
downtown, with its work and recreation
Is one Of the reasons, but there are 9TH
ers. There is no inconsiderable number
of people who stick to the city proper,
as it is called, because of sentiment.
They have lived in the city, they like
their homes, and they do not propose to
be run out of them by any number of
blignts or other influences.
The average citizen knows little about
"blights," as applied to city properties.
It. is a specialized term. made a great
deal Of by those interested in the great
subject Of what happens to cities as
they begin to grow old.
Every one has witnessed the process,
though. It is not q lovely one. in any
sense. There arc great many people
VIII w AlOt cCClA w AAAA&1O W1ldL 1lhDpCllS
In a residence section after they have
shut their own front door. When to
these are added the persons who some
how seem to think that home ownership
means license to do what they please, q
situation Is rapidly created inimical to
the best sort Of living.
The closeness of the living means that
all inimical influences are forced upon
all the people. This closeness would call
for greater effort on the part of the
neighborhood to make it tolerable for
all, but observation commonly shows
that just the opposite is true, and this
attitude is partly responsible for the
blight.
At times it may seem to the city
dweiler that all forces, both official, and
civic, and commercial, conspire to wreck
the happiness Of the individual.
There seems nothing that he can do to
retain his home and at the same time
protect it against the forces of progress ="
Yet Georgetown, across the creek.
stands as an example of what may be
done by patient work.
Twenty years ago this community was
Evening star., 1938-06-17
Shooting Stars.
By PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Expert Help.
To the menagerie I'll turn
From Nature receiver.
If to build dam would learn
I'll buy myself beaver.
And if profanity I seek
1t shall be eighteen karat.
I'll have no imitation weak:
I'll buy myself parrot.
If should crave distinctions rude
Ill trust no agile flunkey.
For demonstrations neat, though crude
III buy myself monkey.
I shall at last feel glorified
While meeting no resistance,
III bid dumb animals in pride
Join up in my assistance!
Evening star., 1938-06-17
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

dangerously near to being blighted for
good and all.
Today that danger, it would seem has
been averted.
great deal remains to be done, but
Georgetown is definitely on the up and
up" as the saying has it, rather than on
the down and down.
The convenience of city living is worth
. great deal.
To it might be added as much lawn,
and flowers, and trees as any person
would wish, provided some definite con-
certed action could be taken by all con-
cerned.
The trouble everywhere comes today
because all insensibly, and year by year,
here little, there little, we have be-
come divided against ourselves, we have
become departmentalized, not knowing
each other, and caring less.
1t will not do to regard city blight
solely in terms of the other fellow.
There are experts in this matter who
can advise any group of just what it
might and might not do. tell it of what
has been done and what has been
achieved.
There would seem no real basic rea-
son requiring all cities to 60 exactly
along the same path, with a treeless
business section, buttressed by blighted
area, so-called, with outlying suburbs
comprising sort of heaven earth for
the weary city dwellers as their last
reward.
II there ever was a city which was
planned to avoid this very thing, 1t was
and is Washington, D. C..
The great trees. the wide streets, the
parks, the little gardens
The National Capital gives up a great
deal when it gives up any Of these
And if some of them are gone. whose
fault is it?
And what can be done now?
X **
There has been a great deal of talk in
recent years of pressure groups" some
OF 1t favorable. some of it unfavorable,
but in favor let us say that all such
groups show what may be done by get
ting together.
Those of us who love Washington, and
who have lived here long time, although
not born here. may feel that there is no
particular reason why we should give up
our city.
We vision city of homes where homes
ought to be and business where business
ought to be.
The convenience of the city ought to
be open to all men.
There is no inevitable law in regard
to this "blighting" that we know of. II
people In general would think what life
means, and how pleasant it might be for
all, there would be some real effort to
get together on the things that count.
y
This is just another way of saying that
to date, in too many cities. things have
Just happened. They have "just growed, +"
like Topsy.
No one organization is to blame.
All OF us are to blame We have been
too much interested in ourself and too
little in the other fellow.
The other fellow hasn't been enough
interested in us.
1t takes large number of "us" to
make up pressure group, but some day
the city dWellers are going to get together
and insist that they like to live where
1t is easy to get downtown and that they
see no reason why they should be
driven out.
Then things are going to happen.
Evening star., 1938-06-17
The Evening Star
Offers a New Booklet
On Beauty and Charm.

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Evening star., 1938-06-17
Self-Sacrifce.

What are you going to do when you
get back home?"
I'm going to make my usual effort"
said Senator Sorghum, ito convince my
neighbors that love them SO well that,
as great sacrifice, I'm willing to live a
while longer in the United States
Capital"
L am not going back home,' said Hi
Ho, the sage of Chinatown. 81 have
brought sorrows with me and need not
return for more"
Evening star., 1938-06-17

Nations refer to Others engaged In
fighting as victims Of hysteria. AS formal
reference to war" is no longer favored,
the expansion to word of four letters,
as suggested by General Sherman, may
be considered proper.
Evening star., 1938-06-17

Political prestige is, after all, tickle
quantity and asserts itself oftener for
the man who expresses an honorable
sentiment than for the one who claims
technical approval for personal style
This is one of the facts that has always
made the course of politics more or less
devious.
Evening star., 1938-06-17
Eternal Difference.

Eternal Difference.
Life works for contrast all profound
Upon a scale immense
And disagreements will resound
In accents most intense.
And so no matter what I say,
No matter what I do,
Our friends will loudly shout, "Hooray!"
While others say, Pooh poohl"
II listens to de band wifi great ap-
proval" said Uncle Eben, "and do try to
make ny talk - interesttn' - de mustc.
Evening star., 1938-06-17

Congress always works hard and al
ways succeeds in making its arrival
at an adjournment seem its most arduous
and triumphant exploit.
Evening star., 1938-06-17
Good Front Needed.
From the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
Leaders Of the Communist party in
its New York convention urge "a demo-
catic front" In this country. Nothing is
more needed by the Communists than q
good front.
Evening star., 1938-06-17
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