Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-07-21
| Would Say
BY A. w. CONAWAY

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BY A. w. CoNAwAY
I see where Senator George Lom-
men, the fellow who gave the elev-
enth-hour radio address for Gov.
Elmer A. Benson in the primary
campaign, is going to Norway, Swe-
den and Denmark. Senator Lom-
mems mission there is to make an
intensive study of recent economic
and social progress with view to-
ward advising incorporation of de-
sirable phases into the Minnesota
program. Well by golly, it remains
to be seen what side of the situation
over there that Senator Lommen sees.
People who 60 over there are like
people reading newspapers. Some
turn to the funny section while others
will read the paper to see life de-
picted as it really is in the news.
/ hope too, that we can do diff
ferently in the case of Senator Lom-
mems trip than what the father told
the little boy when explaining the
chaplain's functions at the opening
of legislative session. The little
boy had asked if the chaplain prayed
for the Senators and his father an
swered by saying that he didn't pray
for the Senators but that he took one
look at them and prayed for the
country.
A survey by one DR.. Gallup states
that if the American electorate could
vote on individual members of Pres
ident Roosevelt's cabinet, they would
rank Cordell Hull, secretary of state,
as the one who has done the best
job. Didn't DR.. Gallup forget Sec
rotary of Agriculture Henry Wallace?
Why that fellow has done such a
good job that not even Mother Nature
can please him any more. He has
killed little pigs, he has plowed up
cotton, he has cut down on wheat
acreage and now he is calling wheat
farmers demagogic for wanting to
raise so much of the stuff.
At least Wallace and the rest OF
the gang in Washington ought to get
together and make a new set of signals
so that they can at least run for the
same goal. The secretary wants to
cut down on acreage in crop and the
President has just recently completed
fh0 "a
dust bowl and is willing to spend
millions in getting it back into crop
Well, there is nothing like keeping
the Secretary of Agriculture busy
and he can just as well pillow up cot
ton and kill little pigs as anything
else for much of the time since the
office was created it could be counted
upon to do exactly that which the
average farmer didn't want it to do
Yeh, everybody should be busy as the
wit said, who bursted a hornets nest
at an old settlers picnic.
| The cabinet member, who would
according to the survey, get next
recognition, is Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins. Now that is nat
ural and would say is good choice
for we here in Minnesota, especially
realize that labor is pretty well
known. Why, those fellows are sc
well known and value their services
so highly that the farmers 25-cents-a-
pound butterfat can't hire them.
Speaking of ascent butterfat and
realizing the burden it carries in the
world today, 1 am reminded of the
story of fat cab passenger and a
cabby in Washington. 1t was in the
time of horse-drawn cabs and the
cabby whipped his horse into a lather
to carry his fat passenger from the
station to hotel. When they arrived
the fat gentleman reluctantly handed
the cabby a quarter for the trip.
"Would you mind getting out on the
other side, sir?" the cabby suggested
''My horse is blind on that side and
I'd rather the poor fellow didn't see
the burden he has been carryin' all
over town for 25 cents"
A news item tells us that heavy
Federal spending opens a campaign
to aid business. Well, the whole set
up seems to me to be like ferris
wheel at the fair. While we are
up in the darned thing we are sitting
on top of the world and looking over
all of the little fellows on the ground
but when it stops and lets us out
we are back to the size we started
from and 10 cents poorer So it is
with spending too much by the gov
eminent to aid business; when the
money is to be spent is raised by
taxation-on business, and it is
then we can spend until doomsday
to aid business and business will be
just where it started from but with
less in the till.
A news story describes a race be-
tween At rattlesnakes, who were
started on their journey from a box
by 6000-volt shock. They had all
been defanged so that they wouldn't
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