Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-10-06
State Capitol News
By A. !. HARRIS


Minnesota Farmer-Labor congress-
men ranked high in votes on world
peace issues, an analysis published
by the National Council for Proven
ton of War revealed.
Congressman Henry G. Teigan
scored 100 percent on peace votes.
Congressman John T. Bernard and
Paul ]. Kvale scored eight times,
failed to vote on one measure. Con-
gresham R. T. Buckler and Dewey
johnson voted right on all measures
save the one for continuation of trade
agreements. Congressman M civ n
Mas led the Republican ranks by
voting wrong seven out of nine times.
Twenty-Five thousand members of
needy Minnesota farm families will
benefit directly from Governor Ben
sons recent conference with PreSi-
dent Roosevelt, it was estimated last
week when the Governor revealed
a new program worked out with the
Farm Security administration.
The program calls for grants to
5000 farmers afflicted by drouth,
flood and other circumstances beyond
their control. The Governor said he
had been assured that additional Fed
eral funds have been allocated to
the FSA in Minnesota and that steps
to bring added benefits have been
outlined in Washington and in re-
gional conferences of FSA officials.
The plan is that the FSA will as
sumo responsibility for the emergency
grant needs of persons in this region
who meet the following eligibility
requirements: Cd persons who are
in need of aid and who are farming
in open rural country; (2) persons
who have been individually investi-
gated by Representatives of the FSA
and found to have possibilities of re-
habilitation-that is, where there APP
pears to be for each such family a
definite possibility of becoming self
supporting farmers in the future Ell
Their on the unit they now operate
or expansion of it, or another unit
that will probably be available and
that FSA Representatives will be able
to help get it.
The whooping, roofing Hook EN-
Cows, who have made South st. Paul
famous throughout the northwest,
aren't as hooked on Stassen as the
packing-house clique of leaders would
like to have the public believe.
Membership runs over 800, made up
of South st. Paul boosters. Most
members object to the Hook EN- Cows
being made torch club to boost for
Stassen and his Republican slate
There's talk that the activities of the
packing clique-made up of
straw bosses, time keepers and ship
ping clerks working for Swift, Ar
mour or the Stockyards company
has just about split up the clubs
happy harmony.
Petitions are being drafted, so we've
been told, to have special election
of officers, or at least to have the
present political press-agenting in be-
half of Stassen and the Republican
gang halted.
The horse brigade and drum corps
of the club, it seems have been beat
ing the drum for StaSsen because he's
a home town boy-and perhaps be-
cause the packers want the drum beat
Governor Benson was 43 years old
last Thursday, but the occasion was
just another day in his campaign tour
in southern Minnesota. The Cover
nor addressed several thousand peo-
pie in both st. James and Westbrook
He charged that "the trusts secretly
control the Republican party in Min
nesota, fact proved by Federal
monopolies investigation"
Judging from recent speeches made
by the Republican candidate for Gov
ernor, the G. o. P. camp is running
out of ideas for its campaign.
Four facts stand out clearly about
Harold Stassen's alleged "reply" to
Governor Benson's keynote address.
First, Stassen had no reply to the
detailed list of concrete Farmer-Labor
accomplishments which the Governor
recited in his Appleton keynote.
Second, Stassen did not even at
tempt to defend the record of the
Republican conservatives in the last
Senate, who blocked the attempts
of the Farmer-Laborites to enact a
program of liberal legislation, includ-
ing revised state tax system which
would have brought the budget into
balance by raising sufficient revenue
and at the same time shifting the
means of raising it on to the shoulders
of persons and larger corporations
most able to pay it.
In short, by his reply to the Gov
ernor's keynote, Stassen admitted the
substance of the accomplishments of
the present administration, and he
admitted that the conduct of the Re-
publicans in the last legislature is
indefensible. He couldn't attack the
one; he wouldn't defend the other.
A third feature of Stassen's ere
ply" was his continued attempt to
manufacture issues where there are