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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-10-27

increase of population and
the expenditure of public funds. II
the individual is entitled to what he
creates, then so is the community; and
when the community collects its own
all you create will be yours-10(
percent-for taxes will be unneces-
sary. Let me quote a few lines OF
verse from my scrapbook by way Of
Chine, Mine and Ours"
That which is yours is yours, and
what is mine,
Cannot be ours save by force or
stealth,
For natures surplus-ground-
rent-her design
Reserved for common use-our
commonwealth.
The power to tax is "the power
to destroy"
A privilege dictators know so
well,
But had it been abolished their
annoy
Had never turned this world into
a hell
The earth is ours-therefore let
the rent
Replace taxation and the tariff
wall:
1t leaves you yours: it gives me
mine, and spent
Shall be the surplus for the good
of ALL
Thine-mine-ours Each define,
And let no interloper cross the
line!
-HORATIO.
"The power to tax is the power
to destroy" No greater truth ever
fell from the lips of man. It is by
grinding the people into poverty SC
deeply that in their desperation they
turn to any demagogue for relief
"any port in storm" Ground rent
is the natural revenue, provided fol-
social use by nature herself when she
made man a social animal, just as
she provides for the infant in moth
er's milk when she made woman q
mother. 1t is up to us to follow ma
lures laws in social matters, just as
the scientist does in chemistry, or
the engineer does in constructing
bridges and buildings. That will get
rid of dictators by removing from
them "the power to DESTROY" It will
give every man his own untaxed,
and that will get rid of poverty.
"You shall know the Truth and
the Truth will make you free" All
else is "sound and fury"-God is not
neither is nature; her laws
are immutable. You will observe
them-or 60 under.
PETER w. SCHWANDER.
121 Pierce Avenue, Houston, Texas,
October IA.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-10-27
New University President

In the selection of DR.. Guy Stanton
Ford as president of the University
of Minnesota to succeed the late DR..
Lotus D. Coffman, the regents made
a popular choice. DR.. Ford has been
dean of the Graduate School in the
University since 1913 and was, dur
ing recent years, known as the closest
adviser of the late President Coffman.
DR.. Ford is reputed to be a lib
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-10-27
GOVERNMENT BY COMMUNISTS,
CONNIVERS AND RACKETEERS
OR GOVERNMENT FIT FOR
MEN, WOMEN AND LITTLE
CHILDREN?

Editor Askov American:
Charles B. Cheney, noted common
tator, wrote an article for the Min
neapolis Journal which appeared in
the September % issue of that news
paper, in which he said:
"a corps of stump speakers for
Governor Benson, numbering about
As, has been sent out in teams to
cover the whole state. They are to
pay particular attention, it is said
to breaking down the influence OF
all the old time Farmer-Labor party
members who are now active for
Harold Stassen. Among those slated
for attack in this smear campaign
are Mrs. Charles Lindquist, for ten
years state president of the Farmer
Labor Women'S clubs; Senator j. L.
Mcleod of Grand Rapids; Julius j
Reiter and S. o. Sanderson of Ro-
chester; r. A. Trovatten and Paul
Peterson of ST. Paul; c. A. Ryan OF
Pequot, congressional nominee in the
Sixth District two years ago; Fran
els johnson, son of the late Magnus
Johnson; the Fritsches of New Ulm;
Gilbert Brattland of Thief River Falls;
Walter Nicholson, Blooming Prairie
and Judge Edward Lindquist OF
Olivia"
From the above statement it is evil
dent that the present leaders of the
Farmer-Labor party will stoop to the
foulest tactics in order to retain con-
troll of Farmer-Labor party machin-
cry and to maintain their position in
our state government. No more posi-
tive proof is needed to show that the
leadership of the Farmer-Labor party
has sunk to the level of things that
creep and crawl That a gang of
hoodlums must be employed as ''shock
troop" character assasSinS in order
to bolster up the standing of the pres
ent state administration is all the
evidence decent people of all polit-
ical parties need, in order to know
that such diabolical outfit should
be driven from power
A. c. Townley, founder of the
Non-PartiSan League and Farmer
Labor party movements, warned us
against being mis-led by this perni-
cious element, so did the late Mag
nus Johnson, so did Hjalmar Peter
sen, so did many other conscientious
Farmer-Laborites, with the result
that in the last June goth Primary
election $4,000 thinking and intelli-
gent men and women marched to the
polls and by their vote said: Benson
and his crummy Communists are no
good" They have Inundated our
people and discredited the fair name
of Minnesota in many ways.
In the conduct of our state affairs
there have been "inside Farmer-Labor
machine" scandals in the letting OF
building contracts, in the letting OF
highway contracts and in purchasing
contracts. Persons of influence have
been led to believe that they would
be given employment if they would
support the inside Capitol Hill crowd.
Others have been threatened with
the loss of their positions if they did
not do so. Their wild and exagger-
ated claims of benefits they have
brought to the farmers, workers and
independent merchants" are now be-
ing extended to include the lawyer,
the banker, the preacher, the saloon
keeper and just about everybody that
votes. What laugh!
In all humility I must confess that
l. yhn
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Opinions of Others

(Short timely letters on topics of
public interest are welcome whether
form with those of the American.
All letters must be signed with the
writer's name for our information.
Signed articles always are more eff
wish to have his name used. 1t will
be Withheld.)
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-10-27

Furthermore, natural formations of
stones along the highway is no place
for political advertisements. Why
shucks, that way of campaigning does
not get nearly as much audience as
does calling up a friend on a party
telephone line.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-10-27

We have a two-faced countryside
d. let's take down the bill boards
and let the tourists see the other one
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-10-27

You know, 1 heard three fellows
reputedly learned ones-argue over
the air waves the other night as to
their varied versions for solving the
nations problems. They had the
same effect on me that one old darky's
wife did on him. He applied for a
divorce and told the judge that he
wanted to be free from "dat woman"
Upon being asked his reasons, he
replied: dat woman jes' talk, talk,
talk, night an day. All CANT get
no rest and dat talk am drivin' me
crazy" "What does she talk about?"
asked the Judge. "She doan' say"
the old darby answered in a bewil-
dered tone.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-10-27

A news item tells us that "Fog
Blacks Out London" and it enlarges
upon the situation to the extent of
telling that it caused darkness so thick
that dogs lost their way; train left
it's brakeman who did not see it slide
away in the murkiness; and fog flares
were lighthouses for coughing Lon
doners who rubbed singing eyes as
chimneys by the millions poured a
barrage of smoke and SCOT into the
city'S twisted streets.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-10-27

That condition is bad but I Won
der what the Londoners think of our
foggy situation here whenever cam
paign time nears; when dogs stay in
hiding under door steps; trains slide
away into blackness of despair
without passengers; and when the
radio is lighthouse for gullible and
cropping voters.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-18
HORSE SHOE

HORSE SHOE, Nov. 18.-Mrs.
j. S. Johnson fell last week in the
yard Of her home and broke her
wrist.
Cleatus Norton, who has been
boarding at Mr.. Gash's, is now at
home with his parents. They have
moved to the William Corn place
near here, which they purchased
recently.
Both Methodist and Baptist
churches had preaching services
Sunday evening. Rev. H. f. Jones,
the new Methodist preacher, will
hold an evening service once a
month in addition to the regular
morning service. .
Miss Pauline Smith is confined
to her home with an ear and
throat infection.
Walter Banks and his family
have moved from the Osborne
place to an apartment over Da-
venport's store.
Jesse Keller, and his bride, who
was Miss Opal Garrett of Spar
tanburg, visited relatives here last
week. -.
c. M. Freeman has returned
from st. Petersburg, Fla.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-18
a INsULT TING AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE


Chronic deficits mean but one thingT77insolvency,
And whether it concerns an individual, business
or nation, insolvency denotes ruin, memorable
and final .. ,.-...
The federal government has not balanced its
budget for neasly a decade. 1t has reached the
Chronic deficit" stage. The politicians, although
they feel that it is dangerous to try to seize any
more of the peoples wealth in the form of taxes,
cannot resist the temptation to spend more and
more borrowed public money on the plea that the
country is wealthy and need have no fear of a
huge debt! Such plea is utterly false. 1t is an
insult to the intelligence of the American people.
Of course the country is wealthy. If it were not,
the squandering officehoders would have wrecked
it long ago But this wealth admittedly cannot all
be coniscated in the form of taxes to pay the
debts of government. The extreme limit of this
kind of seizure has about been reached-hence
government tax income is nearly at the maximum
until the day when more wealth is created
The only alternative is to decrease expenses, if
insolvency of the federal is to be avoid
ed-Shelby Star
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-18
WOULD KEEP THEIR POWER

The Manufacturers Record says that business
will cooperate with the wage-and-hour law Gas it
has with other attempts at reform the majority of
which have brought confusion and vast debt.
private capital will not invest, however, nor will
there be general confidence, no matter how large
the sums government may spend, until restrictive,
hampering laws are amended or appealed.
"People are becoming convinced the politicians
at Washington do not want to see business i'm
prove" .'' ',.-..1 - 90 -..-'
As conditions have been the last several years,
politicians in Washington have exercised power to
the great harm of business and industry They have
had the power of life and death over producing
establishments and have been issuing orders to
their betters -"
Not the able executive who has developed a
great business, but the bureaucratH who has done
better for himself with government than in the
business world is the power in the United States.
The less bureaucrat knows, the more he Processes
to know. Out of ignorance of fundamental laws
oureauerats have wrought conditions which have
made the American people fearful Of the future
Charleston News and Courier.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-18
JEFFERsON'S SUCCESSOR!

Chosen by the Southern Conference for HUI
MON Welfare as "the South's most outstanding
statesman in promoting human welfare along
tho lines of the philosophy of Thomas Jefferson"
vas-prepare for a shock-Hugo Black! Chair
man of the committee which selected Justice
BLACK was our own Frank Graham, president Of
tho University of North Carolina-Charlotte
News.
As chairman of the committee, Dr.
Graham, of course, may have, been anon
voting member and not actually response
HE for the deliberations which resulted in
mining a Jeffersonian badge on Hugo
Black, not forgetting that he was branded
b3 the committee as the outstanding states
man in the South
Therefore, in the absence OF more def
nite information, this newspaper is slow to
nublicize the assertion that the President
of the University is losing his mental acu-
men and intellectual stamina; but we be-
lieve the North Carolina public would be
vastly interested in knowing what caused
DR., Graham to accept the Craftsmanship OF
a committee composed of radical nuts, such
as evidently were the gentlemen who could
SEGA likeness to Jefferson and the calibre
of craftsmanship in Hugo Black.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-18
Plays
Used In Keeping
Book Week Here
Dramatic Skits, Playlets
Part of Observance at
High School

81, In addition to the prize awards
announced in The Times-News
yesterday for projects and ex-
hibits entered at the high school
in keeping National Book week To-
cally, an assembly program OF
skits, scenes and playlets was fea-
tured, with recognition for the
best work in this phase of the OBJ
servance.
In charge of English classes
and contesting in the seventh
eighth grade group and best i'll
sophomore junior senior group
Mrs. Baughman's seventh grade
gave the court" scene from Tom
Sawyer and the Distressing
News" scene from Little Women
and won first prize. Miss Ratch-
ford's eighth grade classes gave a
playlette in the form Of a dream
of Bookland using Dawn Boy,
Emmy Lou, and Here Comes Z er-
mum.
The seniors under Miss Tanner,
won the sOphomore-junior-
group contest giving three cpl
sodes from Tale Of Two Cities.
The most impressive episode was
the "guillotine scene"
Miss Goodman's junior classes
gave skits from two new books in
Guiding "The Family Reunion"
scene from My Sister Eileen and
the "Fort" scene from Northwest
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-18
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
BY RODNEY BUTCHER.

| if he banks on the following
states in which his party has just
! gained two or more seats in the
| House:
New York, AZ electoral votes,
| Illinois 80, California q. Indiana
IA, Nebraska 7. Which is 119.
And if you add that to the pre-
vious total the result is 1926 cleo
toral votes.
A CAMPAIGN record appears
"A to have been established by
Senator Homer T. Bone of Wash
ington, Democrat, who won in the
primaries without accepting a
contribution or spending a nickel
and beat his Republican opponent
in the election without accepting
contribution.
Folks at Democratic Senatorial
Campaign Committee headquar-
tiers swooned all over the place
when Bone returned the per-
functory $500 campaign contribu-
ton they sent him. In the cleo
ton campaign he reported no
contributions and S406 for ex-
penditures.
ToDAY's true story concerns a
L young man who got job in
the Department of Labor helping
enforce the Walsh-Healy act,
which requires certain govern
ment wage-hour standards in fac
tories filling government contracts.
He got the job through a con-
gresham, and was sent out to
check on factories. He was
bright boy, but COULDN'T write a
report.
He met the difficulty by pro-
ceeding, on arrival in each new
town. to acquire a girl friend who
could.
The girl friends came through
magnifcently until the day the
iob-holder was required to take
a written civil service examina-
ton. The young man recently re-
turned to New York.
Copyright, 1898, NEA Service, Incl
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-18
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service StafY Correspondent

WIASHINGTON.-You can figure
w an electoral college majority
for Republicans on the basis of
the 1888 election. If states in
which the party made noticeable
gains were to be carried by the
G, o. P. in 1910, a Republican
would move into the White House.
In states where a new Repub-
lican governor or senator was
elected, the total electoral vote
would not be big enough to elect
a President. But if it could be
assumed that, in addition to those
states, each state which elected
two or more new Republican con-
gressmen would 60 for the party
presidential candidate two years
hence, victory by a comfortable
margin would be assured. .
That assumption may be con-
sidered optimistic. But if the
1893 trend toward the Republicans
is. half matched by one in 1910,
the result appears to be indicated
by these figures:
In 1896 Mr.. Roosevelt received
523 electoral votes as against ALT
Landon's eight from Maine and
Vermont.
In 1888 Republican gubernato-
rial or senatorial candidates-or
both-displaced Democrats in
these states: Pennsylvania, SO
electoral votes; Ohio 26, Michigan
10, Massachusetts, II. New Jersey
16, Wisconsin IL, Minnesota H.,
Iowa II, Kansas 9,'Connecticut s,
Colorado 6, Oregon 5, New Hamp-
shire 4, South Dakota 4, Idaho 4,
Rhode Island 4, Wyoming 3, Del
aware 3. ''t"7- !
The total electoral votes of
these states, added to those of
Maine and Vermont, is 206.
But an electoral college majori-
ty is 266. b,
Apparently it hasn't been done
yet, but any smart Republican
IAN figure that majority and more
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-18
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
GHETTO

A ohatto is known as section of city where
Jews are segregated Germany is today engaged IN
an intensive pogram to Segregate all Jews OF that
nation into ghetos of the several cities OF that once
great, but now abnormally little" country
Is il not high time that the powers OF the world
give that name of ghetto new meaning and use
it as term and as place in which to segregate
all "Hitertes'' into the German reich, place apart
from contact and communication with other peoples
of the world?
Praise be to Secretary of State Cordell Hull in
his action to bring the American ambassador TO
Germany back to this nations capital where lmpor-
tant conferences may be held on the serious sltua-
ton now prevailing in Germany. The citizens OF
the United States, Protestant and Catholic as well
as Jew, will stand united in their hope that some
thing drastic will be done to show Hitler and his
satellites that they cannot engage in ruthless per
secution of any class of people without endanger-
ing their own lives and property.
1t is impossible for the United States to honor
ably continue diplomatic dealings with nation
that so disregards the standards of humanity and
the principles of Christianity as has been exhibited
by Germany the past several months.
Hitler must be hosted from his high and mighty
place of egotism and he must be taught that he
cannot associate with civilized peoples until he HIM
self gives some indication of civilization in his own
life and actions-Rock Hill IS. CO. Herald: e,
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THINKING

THINNING -.
We are urged to learn to think;
then as soon as we have learned
to think, we wish we could stop
thinking. An overactive mind may
go on thinking, thinking, think
ing, day and night, asleep and
awake, until it drives its owner
distracted.
The thing to do, of course, is
to learn to turn the thinking tank
off and on like water faucet.
But that is easier said than done
but it can be learned.
A friend of mine who can go
to sleep whenever he wishes to,
says he does it by merely stop
ping thinking.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-18
THE POLITICIANS
DILEMMA -'

The people shout with one side
Of their mouths for more govern
mental services and with the other
side for lower governmental
taxes.
"Well, sir, it's this way" said
politician, eff we give them
what they want we must either
cut the graft or raise the taxes.
If we raise the taxes they'll run
us out of office; but if we cut the
graft what's the use Of being in
Officer"
Note: The distinction should al
ways be made between the Ameri-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-18
THE SOUTH CAROLINA CARAVANS

Since South Carolina was settled by white men
26S years ago it has had some hundreds of million
aires, 300 or 500, and we have never heard of one
who was Jew. These Nazis in Germany do not
seem to be able to compete with the Jewish people
although they are only 100000 in 100000 and
therefore resort to guns and bludgeons. In the
United States are considerable number of wealthy
Jewish people, but the ".Aryans" appear to hold
their own The American 'Aryans are hard to beat
News and Courier.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-18

OUCH
The adult foreigner who comes
to our country and learns to
speak our language correctly is to
me always an object of admirai
ton. How does he master the in
tricacies of our system Of pro
nunciation-or, rather, our lack
of system-as it amounts to moth
ing more or less than a gigantic
memory stunt. Take as one in
Stance that group of four letters,
o-u-g-h, variously pronounced
rough, cough, Dough, through,
dough, hough (hock). Most of us
Americans bred and brought up
on it, do not correctly use our
mother tongue. ..
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-18

It's never falr
or safe to esti-
mate a man by
what he was 15
years ago; Is
years may work
great changes in
a character; in
Is years a man
may b &c o m e
either regenerat-
ed on degenerat-
ed.
A persons out
look and prlnci-
pies can chafge
in a year shmen
and Momen have
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-18
LIFE DAY BY DAY
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

With thinking, as with every
thing else, the more we have, the
more is require 'dof US, and the
more trouble we have. However,
the development of the mind and
the soul is the biggest thing we
human beings have to do here. on
earth; so We might as we'll be at
II
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-18

The re-enactmrent of Steve Brodie,s iumn
from Brooklyn Bridge at the New York
Worlds Fair sounds rather flat. It was
hoped Grover Whalen could get somebody
to jump over it.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-18
DRIVER1s JAILED

TAMPA, Fla, Nov. IS. (UP).
Bob Fralic, 22, of Tarpon Springs,
was held in Hillsborough county
jail last night. on charges of
drunken driving and manslaughter
growing out of the death of Ever
EFT Renfroe, II, of Tarpoon
Springs, yesterday.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-18

can politician and the American
statesman: The former thinks first
Of himself; the latter thinks first
Of his country. ~
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-18

Eyes, l know him; l knew him
fifteen years ago s! and I don't think \
much of him."
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-18

gone up or down IN less time.
mo intelligent business man
would grant a person credit on a
report Is years old, OF even a
year old.
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COLDER WEATHER: Thanks

giving is nearly, here and mer-
chants haven't enjoyed enough
winter weather to make buying
snappy. And the coal man also
has his griefs. The farmer is about
the luckiest under the circum-
stances. Soon he will be eating
"freshes" and Dragging about the
weight of big hogs that got too
big for all practical purposes.
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fhe surface Of most of the lakes in the Adiron-
daeks lie at an elevation of 1900 feet above sea
level. = ~ -