Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-12-29
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BY A. w. CONAWAY,

L WOMu Day i
BY A. W. coNAwAYs.,;
A good thought: Governmental ma
chinery is a marvellous labor-saving
device, which enables ten men to
do the work of one.
I see where former member of
the American Expeditionary Forces
in France has had returned to him
his mess kit which he lost on the
Argonne battlefield 20 years ago. 1t
was found by comrade who did
not learn of its owner until recently.
Shucks, if some of the American war
makers had had their way the loser
would have had a chance long ago,
to look for the kit himself.
wonder if any of the bread served
to the soldiers during the war is still
in the kit. If so, bet it is as fresh
today as it was then.
1 expect President Roosevelt soon
to name the conservative faction of
his Democratic party, Mules" You
know, an animal which is stubbornly
backward about going forward.
Clyde NJ Reed, the newly elected
Republican United States Senator
from Kansas, says of the Roosevelt
"Most wasteful and
extravagant in peace times" Well,
you can't exactly blame the New
Dealers, for you know they are fol-
lowing the tradition of all human
beings when after a fasting period,
they gorge themselves.
The next administration will have
to use the sign language for their
undertakings as there just aren't any
letters of the alphabet left.
1 see by the paper that the legis-
lature will get the Bemidji college
case. Well, doggone it, there are sew
eral state officials who have been
trying to get rid of it for some time.
Japan has purchased all of the best
United States spruce. Well, don't
mind us common folk, we just live
here. All we have to do when we
sell or buy a Christmas tree is to see
that there is a Conservation tag on it.
They are going to make airplanes
out of the spruce, so suppose we
can tolerate a little discontinue since
their motives are on such high plane
Well folks, the report comes that
Isidoro Ruiz Moreno, Argentine dele
CATION head to the Lima, Peru, peace
conference, at first baked at the Hull
pact declaring for continental solidar-
ity and defense. Let's see, when was
it that all of those Italian airplanes
made goodwill trip to South Amer
lea.
1 see where the United States gov.
eminent has offered 100000 bush.
els of surplus wheat to the Red eros!
for distribution in Spain. The repor
states that the government has beer
gravely disturbed by reports of wide
spread suffering and human miser,
in Spain. 1 wonder when our ill-fet
third moved to Spain.
Oh well, to Americans I don't sup
pose it matters which people starv'
our own or those of some othe
country.
Of course we have the advantag
of everybody else, because in thi
country we can at least StarVe il
peace.
The new year being just arount
the corner prompted me to look VI
a definition of the word r-e-s-o-l-u
t-i-o-n. 1 find that it is proof tina
the good die young.
Expressions from some state EN-
ployes and other political bandwagol
riders now since the election remin'
me of the clerk who explained hi
reason for not laughing at recen
joke told by his boss in the following
words: 81 didn't have to, I'm quittir
on Saturday"
The presidential fishin' season will
soon be here Congress will b.
back on the job in just few days
The rest of us will have to get in on
nets to "pay the freight"
I'll bet ALI Landon is having fin
time down at Lima, Peru, with al
those Democratic delegates. Shucks
that's almost as good as if he hat
won the presidency. He ought to b
a pretty good Democrat when n
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