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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-12-02
RADIANT LIVING
A Tragic Voyage
By Rev. C. NJ. Griffeth
Methodist Pastor of
Deals Island. Md.

The doubter is always searching af-
ter truth. AS the Scripture says, he
is "ever learning and never able to
come to the knowledge of the truth. -"
On the other hand, the man of
faith lives contentedly and radiantly
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-12-02
Beaver Dam

Beaver Dam
Sunday
2:15 P. M. Sunday School.
800 P. M. Service Of Worship.
Everybody welcome. Come and
worship with US.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-12-02
REV. RANSOM p. NICHOLS
SURPRISED BY ROTARIANS

Instead of its usual weekly supper
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-12-02

Essie L. Mariner
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-10-06
Another Dictator In
The Making?

Is there another dictator born by
the giving of cabinet powers to Pre-
mier Edouard Daladier to govern
France by decree until November IS?
The Premier asked for such powers
to help France through financial
straits and the powers were given
him. Democracies of the world might
well ponder the situation. Is the
government of a nation so weak or
inefficient that it cannot, with sew
eral minds, govern and solve prob
lens as well as it can govern with
one mind? If so, then to our way of
figuring there must be something
wrong.
Maybe we don't know the true stu
alton from this distance, but it would
seem that for a republic to give die
tatorial powers to any one person is
to flirt with bad precedent.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-10-06

At a meeting of the National Co.
operative Milk Producers Federation
being held in Chicago, it is about to
be decided to form national COM
mittee to plan a nationwide adver-
Using program such as proposed by
the Minnesota dairy industry. The
purpose of the program would be-
of course, to reduce the present rec
ord high surplus of 202 million pounds
of butter. This is a noteworthy
movement and one that everyone
be it housewife or farm hand, should
get behind and boost for.
Each producer will be urged to
sign up to pay so cents for each 1000
pounds of butterfat he produces to
be used in the program. No one has
to be a scholar to figure how few
cents rise in the butter price will
give buying power to a good share
of our population. And by similar
calculation one can easily see that
such buying power will quicken the
wheels of commerce and industry sc
that the unemployed rolls may like
wise be decreased.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-10-06
A Statesman

The Thief River Falls Times eX-
presses sentiment which will be sub
scribed to by many throughout the
nation and the world for that matter
when it praises Cordell Hull, secre-
tary of state of the United States,
as a great statesman, but the Times
does 60 a little too far when it states
that he stands alone in a gang of
politicians in Washington. Not all
of our Federal officials in any adj
ministration are corrupt nor do all of
them lack craftsmanship qualities.
We publish herewith the Times
editorial:
"We don't know what is going to
happen in Europe and we don't know
what effect the developments in Eu-
rope will have on this country but
we do know that we are glad this
country has such a man as Cordell
Hull handling its diplomatic prob
lens in this emergency. Cordell Hull
is the one man in Washington today
that we have great deal of respect
for Among a gang of politicians, he
alone stands out as statesman and
a gentleman, and as long as he guides
our nation in its relations with other
countries we know we will not be
needlessly involved in international
difficulties by the prattle of foolish
leaders We think well of Cordell
Hull"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-10-06

could live without water. To say
landless men are Gods children or
free men is hypocrisy to both heaven
and democracy. .,;Y-sX ID
Granted that even money-lenders
render service, the land hog is moth
ing more than just pure unadulter-
ated parasitic leech. The land was
here before he was, born. 1t will
be here after he is gone and the
fact that he obtained it through clever
finances (human exploitation) and
then, proceeded to make himself ar
overseer did not in any way add an
inch to the soil or an atom of fer
tilitys When finally every titled deed
to land or industry will have been
written by force through war, vio-
lence, bloodshed and gore irrespective
of whether it was penned in Indiana
India, Toxic, Paris or London. The
natives will by then have been awak-
ened. And surely if there ever was
a one over-towered crime pulled
over on the natives it was that OF
denying men the use of mother earth
AS things stand today more than
half of our farmers are landless. In
the larger cities the percentage OF
freeholders is becoming more and
more negligible. To the overwhelm-
ing majority of Americans, 'My
Country IT'S of Thee" is already q
proven cruel hoax of distortion. Real
izing, however, that the conduct OF
the natives do not become determined
through any scientific notions of their
own but the self-interested class OF
human exploiters that happen to be
in the saddle, they are, the masters
of modern slavery. Let us consider
only the social results from land and
industry monopoly
To start with, American democracy
is the child of free land. The bound
less opportunity that the fools are
still talkative about was nothing more
than the ease with which anyone
might acquire land. The American
standard of living that the genera
tons of politicians have been so So
licitous to save is also rooted to free
land and industrial life. By the same
token the millions of social outcaSts
that are complimentary termed un-
employed are largely the sad lot of
victims from land and industry mon
opoly. 1t is this very reserve army of
labor that constitutes the greatest
menace to the American standard OF
living. For, in the absence of democ-
racy the opportunity for self-employ-
ment and wages do not become de-
termined by the man on the job "but''
more so by the man who seeks the
job of the man on the job.
Unfortunately the great majority
of American natives refuse to think
and remain unorganized while free
land is thing of the past Under
these circumstances the huge farms
and industry become worked by wan
dering slaves who must live in tum-
ble-down disease spreading shacks
in temporary rag towns and being
driven by salaried Representatives in
behalf of the absentee (foreign) own
erS.
- FERN KRYZAK.
Sandstone, MINI.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-10-06
From Exchanges
Editorial Comment From Other News
papers Which May or May Not
Conform With the Opinions of the
Askov American.

Springfield Advance-Press: Six mil
lion acres of land have been taken
off the tax rolls since 1884 because
of forfeiture and the taking over OF
lands for reforestation and game pre-
serves. This has resulted in an I'M
due burden of taxation on lands
owned by individuals. The next leg
islature should take cognizance of
this situation. The state should con-
tribute to town and school expenses
a reasonable proportion of the money
needed. 1t is unfair for those hardy
farmers who have survived the de-
preston to carry burdens of bonded
indebtedness created in war time by
voters who subsequently abandoned
their, farms to the state.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-10-06
tries had begun, day of reckoning

tries had begun, a day of reckoning
came.
In London the British parliament
put Chamberlain on the carpet, and
his policy was fiercely denounced
even by members of his own party,
led by Alfred Duff Cooper who in
protest resigned from his post as
first Lord of the Admiralty; there
was talk of new elections, of a pos
sible cabinet crisis. In France, like
wise, feeling ran high, and Daladier
was stigmatized by some of his OPP
ponents as a "dastardly accessory to
the greatest crime of the century"
It is possible that Chamberlain and
Daladier will survive the storms,
but it will be pretty difficult for their
governments to regain that prestige
which they lost to Hitler when they,
practically speaking, chose him as
the Outstanding Man of Europe, and
did his bidding.
Poland and Hungary.
Realizing that the impact of Ger
man diplomacy would be useful for
them, smaller nations like Poland and
Hungary also assumed warlike atti-
tudes: They, too, had minorities in
Czechoslovakia; they wanted them
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS with the land
they live upon. Poland backed up
its demands with virtual ultimatum,
a direct threat of war, and Czecho-
slovakia, deserted in its hour of need
by its best friends, again had no
choice So, Polish soldiers marched
in and helped themselves to slice
in the north. Hungary, also, was
belligerent, for there is a Hungarian
minority in the Czech country, and
that must be handed over. There
could be no doubt, under the circum-
stances, that it would be.
Yes, for the moment the world was
spared a war. But it is, nevertheless,
true what the famous French observer
of foreign events, 'Pertinax," wrote
the other day:
"No competent observer of inter-
national affairs can share in the pop
ular rejoicing over the Munich agree
ments. The oft-quoted phrase of
Robert Walpole irresistibly comes to
mind-'Today they ring their bells,
but they will wiring their hands to-
morrow"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-10-06

The grubs of ants are fed by the
mother ant. She touches her mouth
to the mouth of the grub, when they
suck the nectar food from her own.
The ant mother carries her grub
babies out into the sun, and back into
the anthill at night. She washes them
with her moist tongue. When the
grubs are well grown they spin them
selves into silken cocoons, individ-
ually. When ready to hatch the moth
er ant makes two holes close together
into each cocoon, tearing away some
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-10-06
AGAINST LAND HOGS

Editor ASkOV American:
'The land shall not be sold for
ever, for mine is the land sayeth
the Lord"
The answer to this divine injunc-
ton has been loud and hilarious
"oh yeah" from all Judaism and
Christendom. And yet if there ever
was such thing as moral, natural
or divine rights surely it should be
the right of every child born into
the world to be able to use of Gods
green earth. For man cannot liveth
without land anymore than a fish
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-10-06
REPLY TO A. GRAVESEN AND
REV. KNUDSEN

A0AsOA <AoHNoN <AiiiSAiNoii.
Governor Olson said, "carry ONT!
He picked Elmer A. Benson above
all other men in our state to carry
on in Washington as Senator. Gov
ernor Olson had faith in Benson to
carry on as Governor of our state
and today he carries on for the best
of the masses. We that stick to the
Farmer-Labor program, will carry on
It's not a surprise to me that Mr.
GraveSen will vote for Stassen. Why
not? You were banker for so long!
But can you explain about the Farm
er-Labor racketeering you write
about, or is it just another blind alley
from the Republican press? You also
stated that the news of Rev. Knudsen
and A. w. Conaway's 81 Should Say
is fine to you. To my opinion the
81 Should Say" is there to fill up
the opinion page from the time
Hjalmar Petersen got into his head
he wanted to be Minnesota's Cover
nor. This 81 Should Say" is a pie
filling so not too many can use the
column of opinions of opposing Peter
sen. It's propaganda against the
masses, mostly one-sided If Mr.
Conway wants the whole column
it's OK with me, he can also have
the Askov American when my sub
scription is run out if this is the
case. 1 am not the only one with
such ideas.
In regard to Rev. Knudsen's state
ments, they run on the Fascist side
to my idea. On September 8, Rev
Knudsen, you stated labor unrest to-
day, using tactics and weapons that
rightfully should be condemned. Let
me tell you the labor class and the
farmers have produced and made all
our nations wealth, why should they
not have the right of their earned
wealth without being condemned by
ministers. The master class takes
possession by force of the markings
of the masses. Human life is not
considered if it stands in the masters
way of taking all the wealth. That
statement of yours is master prop
uganda used by the money class and
their faithful tools to keep the work.
ers and farmers divided.
On September 8, in reply to me
you stated Communism has many
fine ideals which it shares with all
people who have a sincere desire
to better the lot of mankind" Now
Rev. Knudsen, if this is the desire
of the Communist to better the LOT
of mankind, why do you want the
| Communist stopped?
Christ had the sincere desire to
better the lot of the human race
The Communist teaching is freedom;
it's brotherhood of man, sisterhood
of woman. This was also the teach
ing of Christ to the masses. On
September Is you stated Christ was
not conformer, but a throughout
revolutionist. He demanded a COM
plete change of human relationship
which was change from false realism
of fascism and slavery to human
brotherhood. It was the masters
and the hypocrites' realism at that
time, which stood united together
They crucified Christ for His teach
ing of freedom and human brother
hood. If Christ only preached for
human soul like the religion OF
today, He would never have been
crucified.
MI. NELSON.
Askov, Mimi, Oct. 3, 1888.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-10-06

silken threads. Then she puts a
sharp jaw into each hole and cuts
the cocoon; her jaws cut like pair
of scissors. When a hole is large
enough she pulls out the grub that
is covered with skinlike sack. The
grub has developed into an ant, and
must work itself out of the white
skin-bag, with the help of the mother
ant.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-10-06
Gardeners Nook
BY GARDEN CLUB EDITOR
independence.
", E1oonor Crohoro

Independence.
BY Eleanor Graham
l can do it all myself:
Boil an egg and brew some tea,
Stack the canned goods on a shelf,
Make a kitchen sweet to see,
Wind the clock, put out the cat,
Kneel to say a little prayer,
Sleep and rise and don my hat,
Take walk to get the air.
I can do these things for one,
And yet I often think, don't you,
That there would be lot more fun
In doing things for two?
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-10-06
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
Continued from Page u
The Decision.

What is perhaps the snappiest i'm
portant international conference or
record adjourned in the evening Of
the day when it was gathered. 1t had
reached decision. And that was tC
the effect that war was to be averted
and that Czechoslovakia must pay the
price. Hitler was to get what he
wanted. He got all he wanted, not
only territorially but politically as
well. For while it was agreed that
German troops were to occupy the
disputed territory successfully and
progressively, the occupation being
completed by October 10, Hitler also
succeeded in eliminating for the pres
ent Russian influence on European
affairs and, in practice, burst asunder
the Russian alliance with CZechoslo-
vakia, and paved the way for elm
mating the Franco-Russian alliance
1t was a great day! Hitler got all
that he wanted-and when the other
diplomats had accepted his terms
they were wired to Prague with a
stern: "You sign, or else - j"
And what can you do when even
your friends thrust a loaded gun
against your chest? Czechoslovakia
had no alternative; its government
accepted.
Monday this week Hitler person.
ally led the troops of his army into
the conquered" territory; all "Sude-
ten Land" will be occupied by next
Monday; other districts with a large
German" population will have to
decide through a plebiscite whether
they want to remain Czech or be-
come German.
Betrayal.
There was great jubilation through
out the world: War had been averted!
But sober afterthought made it rea-
sonably clear that the price had been
entirely too high. The countries align
ing themselves with Germany spoke
about their sacrifice while the fact
was that they had sacrificed large
strips of country that didn't belong
to them-as little as they had ever
belonged to Germany.
Great Britain and France had
promised Czechoslovakia their aid in
case of German aggression Now they
made common cause with the agrees
sor and made it impossible for Rus
STA to extend aid, for an order went
out from Munich to Bucharest that
the Rumanian borders be closed to
the Soviet armies should they want
to march through in order to help the
doomed country.
Returning to their respective CAPT.
tails, Hitler, Mussolini, Chamberlain
and Daladier were accorded recep-
tons such as are only given to con-
quering heroes. For-wasn't that so?
they had preserved peace!
They had, indeed! But it is likely
to be a peace of short duration-a
peace whose perpetrators have no
particular reason for feeling proudly
elated about it.
CastigatiOn.
When the ovations had died down,
when rehabilitation of all the armies,
navies and air corps in various coun-
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-10-06

The meeting of Chamberlain and
Daladier with Hitler and Mussolini
was about like the Englishman who
was accosted on a lonely street one
night by a tough looking Individual:
Kindly help a pore, lonely, 'omeless
man, gunner, wot's got nothink in
the world but a loaded revolver and
no conscientious objection to usin' it."
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-10-06

EDITORS NOTE-We are pub
fishing the following opinion
contrary to the policies of this
column which is for the express
sion of views on issues and for
public discussion rather than
TRADES against the character of
persons who disagree.
This letter would not be pub
lished save for its reference to
the author of 81 Would Say"
column and the editor of this
newspaper. However, since that
is much of its substance it is
being given space.
The editor of this newspaper
certainly invites and is very
happy to receive opinions from
any and all readers but they must
be free from personalities and
hatred, otherwise they will have
to be withheld.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-10-06

Premier Mussolini recently gave
orders that the unnecessary blowing
of auto horns in Rome must be
stopped He probably wants to be
heard without straining his voice.
However, an immediate decrease was
shown in the amount of Italian traf-
fic accidents and those fellows who
saved their own lives by obeying
orders from their chief will certainly
make good soldiers.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-10-06
Planting the PhlOx.

Phlox and delphiniums are other
perennials that seem to have liking
for fall planting In the case of
phlox, especially, one can see just
what colors are being used, so clash
ing combinations can be avoided and
poor colors discarded. A clump of
phlox in late bloom can be lifted,
divided, if necessary, and reset, cut
ting off the tops, without any ap-
parent injury. Bone meal and leaf
mold (from your compost heap) are
fine additions to give the bed, before
replanting them. Then see they do
not lack for water for month until
established.
&c
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-10-06

1 saw a picture of new and dan
gerous looking gun, which will be
used in future wars. But even if
it did look bad pointing out from
the printed pages, it did not seem
nearly so dangerous as screeching
headlines about war threats and
preachments of hatred in many dailies
of the country.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-10-06
Prayer for A Son

He's only three months old, and yet
He has the house at his command.
But when he's tired and shadows fall,
He wants me to hold fast his hand.
1 cannot always go with him;
So when he knows not where to land
Along the weary path of life
Dear Lord, please guide him-take
his hand.
Farm Girl, North Dakota.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-10-06
Opinions of Others

(Short timely letters on topics Of
public interest are welcome whether
or not the writer's opinions con-
form with those of the American.
All letters must be signed with the
writer's name for our information.
Signed articles always are more ct:
fective. but If the writer does not
wish to have his name used. 1t will
be Withheld.)
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-10-06

We should have a Mussolini over
here to cut down on the noise of our
political campaigns so that the num-
Der of business casualties would de-
crease through better confidence being
established.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-10-06
Acclimating HOuSeplants,

If you wish to have an indoor gar
den, you should be taking your plants
into the house, in order that they may
become gradually acclimated to the
indoor atmosphere. Inasmuch as
doors and windows are still wide
open, the plants will have plenty
of fresh air. Humidity also will be
better, making the change from in
door to outdoor conditions less abrupt
than if plants were taken in immedi-
ately before frost.
If you did not take cuttings in
August from plants which were too
large to move indoors, there is still
time to do so. Some cuttings root
better in sand, others in water. Re-
CARELESS of which method you use,
the new proprietary roofing medi-
umS on the market make roofing of
cuttings much simpler than formerly.
After the cuttings are rooted, be
sure in potting that pots and soil
are thoroughly sterilized, q use the
boiling water method); that a COM
plete balanced plant food is added
to the potting soil after it is sterilized;
that you provide for good drainage
in the pot; and that you do not pot
in too large a container.
After the cutting s start growth,
prune the plant properly so that
growth is bushy and not tall and
lanky. This is important if you de-
sire symmetrical plant, pleasing
to the eye and productive of bloom.
Feed houseplants every or
weeks with a complete balanced plant
food. This promotes a luxuriant
growth and makes plants more resist
ant to disease.
The Master Gardener.
After a summer of Juggling in the
lawn furniture whenever it rains,
it dawns on me that the ancient
Greeks and Romans probably pre-
ferred stone benches outdoors because
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-10-06
l Would Say
BY A. w. CONAwAY

The umpires have finally found
out what has been intimidating the
batters in that European baseball
game. It was that funny octopussy
looking emblem on the shirt of Pitcher
Hitler. The game was finally called
and the pitcher induced to change
shirts. He will still carry the same
emblem, however, but it will be in
more dignified manner than it has
been in the past. 1t is not known
at this time when the game will be
resumed, but possibly as soon as the
Pitcher regains his "stuff."