Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-12-08

can drive? seems to be Jim Farley's
line of reasoning at the present time.
Jim's manipulations and actions in
recent weeks seem to point toward
presidential aspirations and away
from the left wing tendencies of his
boss. 1t is predicted by some that
he is definitely in the presidential
ring for 1910.
You know folks, Farley had lib
eral disposition in the past presi-
Dental election :. why, you remem-
Der he gave Maine and Vermont to
the Republicans. Now it seems that
he has grown more conservative; he
doesn't even want to give anything
to anybody he wants to keep it
all for himself.
Well, there is one thing sure, who
ever Farley aligns himself with is
sure to know pretty closely the out
come of any election before the votes
are cast and counted. l have often
wondered why that fellow didn't join
the Republican party for he could
make a fortune guessing what they
are going to do next. No one else
knows.
By golly, see where the chickens
have begun to come home to roost.
Now the FL. has decided, accord
ing to news releases, to Dust the
Communists from the party. That
seems to be a case of closing the barn
door after the horses have gone into
the swamp.
The pathetic angle to the whole
thing is that the rank and file have
fallen in the landslide when we should
have been sitting right now on the
peak.
It requires about SIS acres of an
average stand of spruce timber to
produce one edition of a great city
newspaper l wonder how much
was used for recent campaign litera-
ture and doggone it, those big Sunday
papers could just as well spare few
trees from the AK by cutting down
on some of the feature stuff, that
very few read and which clog the
furnace CRATES.
An old rancher, telling of the early
days of the western plains, said that
those were the real days and that
he wished they were back. He said
that when a fellow came to ranch
and found no one at home he would
get meal, wash the dishes and leave
and there was never danger of any
thing being stolen. By. gum, it's
different now. If anyone would stop
in and cook himself meal, chances
are he would be so lazy that he
wouldn't even wash the dishes.
A careful driver, 1 have it figured,
is one who stopped, looked and lis
tened and all he heard was terrific
crash caused by the fellow behind
him crashing into his gas tank.
A preseason warning to hunters
was: 'Yell your head off if. some
one points a gun your way" Gosh,
one might as well save his voice for
his head would possibly come off
anyway.
You know folks, the case of Gov
ernor Langer's political defeat in
North Dakota, after his pension plan
won, is a case of passing the buck
like little Bessie did when after re-
ceiving bright new dime, she started
out to invest it in an ice cream soda
why don't you give your money to
the Missionaries" asked the minister
who was calling at the house. 81
thought of that" said Bessie, "but !
think I will buy the ice cream soda
and let the druggist give the money
to the missionaries"
The price of butterfat has risen
four cents since the election . one
can now almost detect a swagger in
old bossy's walk, she is so important
as she goes about the premises. Well
she needn't be so cocky, for congress
will likely soon take that out of her
An item tells us that proof OF
prosperity's return is the fact that
WPA rolls show slight decrease for
the first time since last year; that
the total employment now is 3,257,
437 persons. Well, by golly that
number must just about represent the
| administrative officials.