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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-01
UPHOLDS COMMUNISM

Editor Askov American:
In the Askov American of August
Is, Rev. jobs. Knudsen starts out
with, ''The hunt is on. Communism
must be stopped"
I understand that the Communist
party is a party like any other polit-
ical party we have in our unemployed
nation. Some of the members go to
church like any one else does, re-
CARELESS if they are Protestant, Cath
Ollie or of any other religion. You can
perhaps find them in any party just
like we have Republicans and Demo-
Gratis in the Farmer-Labor party.
Askov election. Where did the Askov
Republicans go to? Several of them
voted Farmer-Labor for I am sure
we did not have that many dying
from the past election. Won't Rev.
Knudsen also call this masking be-
hind an innocent front?
1 do not blame the big Capitalist
press nor an individual for driving
against the Communist. Most of those
are Capitalist hirelings and they are
not class conscious. But a minister
who believes in the love of God and
the teaching of Christ and tries to
stir hatred into one class of people
against another must be some degrees
off from the teachings 1 learned in
my boyhood days. l learned that the
human race, regardless of color or
religion, should unite into what is
good and right instead of being di-
vided and stamped out. After all we
are all human. The Good Book says,
"In this world we shall have neither
master nor slave" Today we have
both.
After reading Communist papers
and books 1 learn that the farmers
and the labor classes will get the
full profits of their production; to my
way of looking at it, this would be
fine. Today the master class takes
our profit of production. What little
the 'big boys" leave for us goes to
the mortgage holders of our homes.
The common people do not live like
they should We are not happy when
the mortgage holder sends our county
sheriff out to foreclose. Nobody can
be happy through life when they
are denied their earnings by graft.
When our boys and girls step out
of school they can tramp the highway
and who cares.
l read that under a Communist
system there can even be work and
pay for all. To my way of thinking
this is surely better than to have
millions of men and women without
work. We live in the richest nation
in the word. Yet we live very poorly.
We had one minister in Askov who
had the nerve and spirit to step out
in the open and express his hearts
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-01
SQUANDERING OLD AGE FUND!
minneapolis JournaD

minneapolis JournaD
Nationwide criticism of govern
ment spending of 725 million dol
lars or more received from worker
employe taxes under the old age pen
sion feature of the Security Act, has
met reply. Thomas H. Eliot, who
as general counsel for the Social Sc
curity Board directed the corps OF
ninety lawyers that initiated opera
ton of the plan, defends it in the
Atlantic Monthly. Mr.. Eliot sees it
as inevitable that in the early operat-
| ing stages income should enormously
exceed requirements. Reaching down
to an elaboration of the obvious, he
explains that the Government could
not, with intelligence and any regard
for adverse effect upon the Coun-
| try, put vast sum of currency with
| held from circulation into a box
labeled Social Security, to be taken
out in later years in handfuls or arm
fuls as required.
Any impression that the act pro-
vides an old age fund is erroneous
There is instead an Old Age Reserve
Account. The Treasury takes the
incoming money and gives the CARA
bonds for it. Or, to be technically
correct, the Social Security Board
having the money and no present
use for it, invests it in government
bonds, which is the same thing. So
the plan is as sound, from the view
point of eventual financial depend
ability, as the Government is.
A reader can scarcely avoid feeling
that Mr.. Eliot has skated skillfully
around the hole in the ice, which
is the basic error of presenting these
receipts as taxation income and
mingling them with Treasury cash.
They appear that way in the PreSi-
dents last statement of the Coun-
try's financial condition. There was
no clear offsetting entry, debit against
credit. The offset was buried in the
grand total now lowering around 40
billions that the Government owes,
for as the Treasury took the money
from social security and gave its
promises to pay, the national debt
rose to that extent.
Mr.. Eliot says with some stress,
'It is not true that Social Security
taxes are being used to balance the
budget" If he would show more
convincingly how that is not true, he
would be doing a service for millions
of people, unskilled in the intricacies
of government finance, but nightly
interested in whether the old age pen
sion plan is going to work success
fully.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-01
APPRECIATION

Editor ASkoV American:
Some months ago A. w. Conway
began writing a column in the Askov
American entitled 81 Would Say" and
have been reading it ever since.
A column of that kind, to make
it worthwhile, attractive and instruc-
tive, is not dashed off just in a few
minutes of spare time. 1t requires
continuous study every day during
the week of the situation around the
home town and also of the trends and
conditions generally of the country
both at home and abroad.
Although my views sometimes vary
with the ones expressed in the COL
umn, 1 nevertheless appreciate his
weekly dabble very much. 1t is
newsy, concise and Informative, and
it sets my thinking machine" in mo-
ton, acting somewhat like starter
on an automobile.
It, and the column 'The Church
and the Community" written by Rev.
jobs. Knudsen, are the most valuable
features in the Askov American.
1 believe many of the subscribers
to the American feel the same way;
but most of us take all good things
for granted, forgetting to give thanks
to those that give them to us, hence
these words of appreciation, hoping
that the columns may be better and
better as time goes on.
1 have always thought that the
flowers we bestow on our fellow man
while he is alive are great deal more
valuable than those we heap on his
casket when those last rites are said.
Let us honor men while they live.
The fame they get after they are dead
is of little value and short-lived.
Henry Watterson once described
fame thus:
"a mound a little higher graded
Perhaps upon a stone a chiseled
name;
A dab of printers ink soon blurred
and faded.
And then oblivion-that, that is
fame
ANTON GRAVESEN.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-01
Jens Hyldahl Goes
To Willow River

Jens Hyldahl, genial Standard Oil
bulk man for the Askov community,
has been given added territory by his
company and will move with his FAM
lily to Willow River as soon as they
can find house. Mr.. Hyldahl, be-
sides continuing to serve the Askov
community, will serve Willow River,
Rutledge, Sturgeon Lake, Denham,
Arthyde and surrounding commun-
tiles. He succeeds H. E. johnson at
Willow River.
Jens has resided in Askov 20 years
and has been with the Standard Oil
Co. for IA years. He and his family
will be greatly missed in the COM
munity where Mrs. Hyldahl has been
active in Legion Auxiliary circles.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-01
Why Can't 1t Be
Permanent?

A pleasant sight these days are
the loaded freight trains which pass
frequently through our village. We
don't mind their holding us up a bit
on the crossings for they are giving
extra men work and those extra men
will have little more buying power
for the articles we produce. The
oftener the trains run the better we
like it; it is busy season for there
was bumper crop in many sections
of the Northwest. Even though the
price is small the plentiful harvest
will keep the wolf" from many doors
and many people will be placed back
on the payrolls of various industries
as result.
The only discouraging part of the
whole thing, however, is the fact that
we know the activity is not going to
be permanent When the harvest is
past, under the present scheme of
things, many trains will be discon-
tinued, because there will be Moth
ing to haul and many men will again
go to the bread lines or on relief.
1IcIc Will DS IlO eIlO W lildI uIllll
there is an end to financial fluctua-
ton; until, every day, there will be
money in the pockets of the con-
sumers of the country and until, every
day, there will be dinner pals to pre-
pare for the head of each household.
What will bring this new era
about? We don't know and neither
do you, but we are hoping as we
have always hoped. We have tried
relief work and projects sponsored
by the government, but they don't
seem to work for permanent progress,
although they have been essential
and are still necessary to keep vast
number from hunger. There seems
to be lack of confidence in industry
and there seems to be lack of it in
business. The farming population
faces the future with great uncer-
tainty and labor faces it the same
way.
Where is the answer? There must
be more honesty in government;
there must be less racketeering by
those in positions of trust. We, the
people, must use our constitutional
right by wedding out those who would
abuse their trust.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-01

insensible things are being enacted
before their eyes. A few days ago
at Fargo, N. D., James Jeffries Car
away, 25-year-old "bat man" jumped
from an airplane 5000 feet in the
air and fell end over end like stick
of wood to the ground below. His
rip cord broke in his frantic efforts
to open his chute. The writer saw
(maybe it was the same man) do that
very stunt at the State Fair last year
and death almost resulted for only a
few feet separates surprised bat
man" from cruel mother earth.
His death has accomplished moth
ing but he made his living by thrill
ing people. The price of amusement
some times, is high.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-01

thought against those wrong condi-
tons for our young people and for
human righteousness. 1 had very
little schooling in my boyhood days,
but Rev. Knudsen, as minister with
a good education, you should be able
to explain better what the principle
of Communist is, in behalf of the
common producing class of the ma
ton. If you will only give an ex-
PLANTATION as to where the Communist
is all wrong, then some of the people,
even I, can learn the difference, but
when you and others just use the
name Communist, it makes people ask
questions. Some even read books on
Communism like do. Now if Com
munism must be stopped let us know
the full reason why.
M. J. NELSON.
Askov, Mimi, Aug. 80, 1888.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-01
Hinckley Gang Try
Deep Sea Fishing

About 1875 Hinckley people formed
a caravan of 80 cars in an "On-to-
Duluth for Deep Sea Fishing" tour,
last Thursday afternoon. They were
met at the top of the hill at Duluth
by a delegation of Duluthians with
a large truck. The Hinckley band
was placed on the truck and paraded
through town. While a number of
the men went on to Knife river for
the fishing, the remainder of the
crowd toured the city and wound up
with supper at the Duluth Yacht club
and a trip around the horn" on the
excursion steamer, the Montauk.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-01
Does 1t Pay?

Do you like to be thrilled to the
extent of seeing an acrobat climb
to the top of 100-foot pole and
stand on his head? Do l or you get
any good from that? In other words
is there any scientific benefit gained
by pole standing acrobatics, high-div-
ing, parachute jumping, or "bat fly
ing?" We say no to these questions.
They interest some who can only
he interested when the unreal, the
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-01
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 eff
fective, but if the writer does not
wish to have his name used. it will
be withheld
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-01

The advertisements in the Askov
American tell you just where to go
to get the best bargains when you
want to shop, and where to get the
service you want.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-01

eral government, which have more
of tax base for raising revenue.
Why, the first thing we know lot of
county boards might have to 60 on
relief. .
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-01
From Exchanges

Editorial Comment From Other News
papers Which May or May Not
Conform With the Opinions of the
ASkov American.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-01

If you are ashamed of a deed
you've done, you don't tell, but you're
not ashamed of your business; tell the
world you're not through advertising.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-01

The carat GIT. grams) is the unit
of weight used in weighing precious
stones.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-01

Two years ago Governor Floyd B.
Olson, one of the nations greatest
liberals, died in the prime of life.
1t is fitting to quote few utterances
which are likely to last longest in
the annals of Minnesota. Excerpts:
eve cannot continue to exist as a
democracy with part of our people
affluent, and great part of them
poverty stricken"
''The American people find them
selves in a position where their en-
tire welfare is completely dependent
upon the willingness of private in
dividuals to undertake business ex-
pansion or enterprise. In a land of
potential plenty, the American citi-
zen who is willing to work and who
has a capacity to achieve is unable
to find work and unable to achieve
the production of wealth because the
system will not permit him to do SOP
''The greatest disappointment of
my entire public career is that
didn't have, on any occasion, a ma
jority of members in the Legislature
who agreed with the principles of this
movement. To have had that in
one session would have been suffici-
ent qualification so that would have
been willing thereafter to retire from
public life, and 1 want my successor
to have a Legislature that will help
him instead of fighting with him."
That forward-minded elements of
other parties will vote for Governor
Benson in the fall election was indi-
Gated last week when John H. Hou-
gen, outstanding Republican, and Al
bert Pfaender, well-known Democrat,
were announced as president and Sec
rotary of a acknowledgements
Nonpartisan Committee.
Hougen, former Republican candi-
date for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, was
chairman of the Olson-All-Party CAM
paign in 1884. A graduate of ST.
Olaf college, Mortified, and of the
University of Minnesota, he prac-
ticed law in Crookston before NOV
ing his Offices to Minneapolis. He
formerly taught school, was state
Senator, and is now judge advocate
of the National Guard.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-01

Personally in these times, I can't
see how any delegation of citizens
can 60 before the county board and
ask for any increase in expenditures
for anything, considering the finan-
cial condition of most counties right
now. Any increase in relief and other
welfare expenditures should and will
have to come from the state or Fed
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-01

I see where a witness told con-
gressional committee that Congress-
man John T. Bernard of the Eighth
district, in speaking before Span
ish loyalist group during his recent
visit to Spain, gave the regular Com
munist salute-the clenched fist in
an upright position. Now my ability
at deductions may not be so good,
but I wonder if the clenched fist
salute was not adopted so that a
member of that faith could give easy
expression to his true intentions.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-01

You see? When the gun failed to
go off the old keeper was disturbed,
but with us it is different; we are
so accustomed to sleeping that when
the big guns start during campaign
year we are so disturbed that we feel
like flying at each others throat,
because we have been aroused from
our Slumber.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-01

You know, fellow citizens, some
people are always handing out advice
and criticism, but you just try to give
some of it back to them and see the
capers they cut. Why shucks, the
most trivial form of suggestion to
some who hold positions of public
trust, sends them into tantrums SIM
liar to those suffered by a roam
bronco with white spots when some
prankster puts thorn under the
saddle.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-01

I think we should keep wide awake
to the wrongdoings of our elected
officials throughout the year rather
than to await campaign year and
then turn loose all the big guns. 1t
would have more effect and would
not throw the country off balance
nearly so much as did the break in
routine of the old lighthouse keeper
The old fellow had for 80 years been
accustomed to hearing a gun auto
matically fired from his tower every
six minutes to warn ships of danger
Gus rocks. He had become so hard
ened to it that when the gun failed
to fire at one six-minute interval the
"old SALT jumped from sound slum-
Der and cried, what was that"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-01

benefit than discredit the Commun-
list cause.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-01
State Capitol News
BY A. I. HARRIS

When bunkum and deliberate mis-
information fly through the ether
as they have done for several months
concerning the state real estate tax
reductions accomplished last year, il
is refreshing to be able to get the
opinion of a man who has stopped
to find out the true facts for himself
Adolph Lovestrand, an Ivanhoe
farmer.
MY tax receipts are proof that
taxes 1 pay on 200-acre farm in
Ash Lake township Nincoln county
have been reduced considerably un-
der the present administration" Mr.
Lovestrand declares. His statement
appears in a recent issue of the Ivan
hoe Times.
That's common sense If you want
to know what the true picture of tax
alton is, Mr.. Lovestrand reasons, get
out your old tax receipts and COM
pare them. Or even better, go to
your county auditor and ask to see
the levies for the past seven or eight
years. The state levy this year is
"a percent less than the year previous
in the average county, although some
counties show greater reductions.
''The states share of the tax ]
pay" Mr.. Lovestrand asserts, is only
about one-siXth of the total paid
In other words, the county, school
district, and the township keep ap-
proximately five-sixth of the taxes
l pay on my farm"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-01

With every indication that the Be-
midi teachers college addition will
be completed within the appropria-
ton set for it by the Legislature last
year, the public is beginning to Won
der what all the hulabuloo was about.
Perhaps the answer was provided
by Benjamin Drake, president of the
state teachers college board, when he
told the architects committee investi-
eating matters connected with the
construction of the Bemidji college
building, that 81 want to help you get
to the bottom of the matters under
investigation, but many of your ques-
tons have indicated sheer, smearing
politics."
''This committee has gone political
and I am not going political with
you," Drake warned the architects,
your charges that the college board
was delinquent in the performance
of its duty is plain libel"
eff the members of the architects
committee are as ignorant of the tes-
timony taken and the records re-
ceived as is indicated by its criticism
of the college board, it can hardly ex-
pect its findings and conclusions in
other respects to carry great weight"
Drake declared.
The architects plan on holding a
final meeting early in September, aft
er which the transcript of its testi-
mony will be turned over to Governor
Benson, who requested the inquiry,
and to the Ramsey county attorney,
Kinkead.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-01

A red scare which appeared likely
to end red scares substituted for the
summer circuses last week as Con-
gressional investigating committee
headed by Rep. Dies (Texas) heard
charges that Shirley Temple, Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt, Clark
Gable, Robert Taylor and sundry 9TH
ers are conniving day and night to
hand over the United States to the
Communists.
The committee listened in all SER
iOuSneSS to SubverSive tales of the
activities of Ex-Gov. Hoffman of New
Jersey, a contender for the vice.
presidential nomination on the Re-
publican ticket but considered too
conservative for the job.
Another Republican singled out for
denunciation was William Allen
White, Kansas editor who was largely
responsible for the presidential NOM
ination of ALT M. Landon by the Re-
publican party. But most startling
of all was disclosure of the insidious
propaganda being spread by 9-year-
old Shirley Temple, who, it would
seem, has set out to become the
American dictator.
While most of the nation held it's
sides over the revelations" Mime
sotans were inclined to a sympa-
thetic view. Governor Benson, for
example, pointed to the heat wave as
a possible explanation for the strange
carvings on, although he did suggest
that Moscow in all fairness should
stand the cost of the investigation on
the ground that it was more likely to
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-01

We hear rather frequently that one
can't be a true progressive because
he was once Republican. By golly,
if there had been no Republicans
there would not now be any progress
sives there wouldn't have been
any need for 'em.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-01

Rural identification marches on in
Minnesota, with six more projects
receiving grants from the REA.
Allotments include: Fillmore Co.
operative Electric Association, Pres
ton; Stearns County Cooperative
Electric Association, Melrose; Kandi-
yohi Cooperative Power Association,
Willmar; Freeborn-Mower Coopera-
tive Light & Power Association, AL
bert Lea; Wright-Hennepin Coopera-
tive Electric Association, Cokato;
Mobiles Cooperative Electric, Worth
ington.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-01

First the Chinese claim they push
the Japs back and win big victory
and then the Japs claim one; then
they both claim the same victory.
That sort of thing is going to keep up
until they get into fight over it.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-01

Well, anyway John is certain to be
excluded from the one-third of the
nations ill-housed His house in
comparison with his income would
resemble the Queen Mary floating
down Kettle river.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-01

Having travelled Trunk Highway
35 in Wisconsin Sunday night and
noting the motorists utter disregard
of using their DINNERS, 1 have come
to the conclusion that it is laziness
they are affected with. They must be
like the lazy farm hand who climbed
all fences with his hands in his
pockets.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-09-01
| Would Say
BY A. w. CONAWAY

Folks, too many of us have wish
bones where our backbones should
be. We want to know that thing,
which will require effort on our part,
is going to be great success before
we start it. We are like the Scotch
man who visited municipal golf
course for a round of golf. He Sc
lected a caddy and asked the apple
checked youngster if he was good at
finding golf balls. The lad replied,
Eyes, indeed, SIR "Weel, thin, y
said the Scotchman, Find one, and
We'll be Startin'."