Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-05-26
| Would Say
BY A. w. CONAWAY

You know folks, the Duluth Herald
was printed Monday My subscrip-
ton has run out since the strike began.
Pickets stopped publication of the
paper on about April 2, and my sub
scription ran out the fourth. So the
way 1 have it figured l helped pay
for that strike, just the same as the
management, the strikers and others
within spending distance of the idle
workers. You would think that the
paper management and strikers would
have been so anxious to print papers
after so long a layoff that when they
started Monday they would have
printed one for everybody; but no,
the old sharp pencil was working and
costs must be adhered to.
Well, when l see who's going to
run the paper and if see it is going
to run 1 will send in my little pittance
Somebody lost by that strike and I'm
sure it was others beside the owners
The leaders of it had their wages
but the strikers didn't. Those are
things to consider and workers have
to figure a way to have the labor
organizers pay stop when strike
is called; that will make every one
equal. And when every one is equal,
everybody is happy.
The power of the press is recog-
Nj ho. <0I 70 L
printed word to shame the Japs. That
nations airplanes recently carried
leaflets to Japan and dropped them
among the rank and file of the people,
The leaflets plead that the Japanese
people oppose the war of their mill
tarists against China. Now just think
what could have been done to the
japanese people if bombs instead of
paper had been used. l was awful
thankful one time when 1 played
'join the little red hen society,"" that
the egg l was hit with wasn't rotten
That little incident bears out the
Biblical advice that when one cheek
is slapped turn the other Some
weeks ago Japanese aviators dropped
bombs on China.
l laughed at this one A fellow
told me that he attended a high
school play recently and between
two of the acts, period of two years
was supposed to have elapsed. AT
the close of one act stocking or
something was but partly knitted and
''two years later" an actress picked
up that knitting and it did not appear
to be any further toward completion
than when it was laid down. That
reminded me of the time during the
World war when men, children and
women were knitting socks for the
boys at the front I'll bet some of
those socks the men were knitting are
not done yet.
Furthermore, the incident in the
play (wholly the fault of the author)
teaches us that nothing is perfect
even though many times great pains
are taken to perfect The perfect"
crime many, many times gets the
perpetrator in penitentiary for life
or perhaps costs him his life. How
ever, it is well that it is so difficult
to reach perfection for that is what
makes this old life of ours interesting
and worthwhile If our golf games
were perfect, why shucks, we would
1Dco IF ofI
vocabulary.
What is an automobile driver going
to do when approached by a car
whose driver is drunk or asleep? If
one goes as far to the right shoulder
as he can, he gets hit, or if he goes
to the left to miss the oncoming car
he gets hit. Well, as 1 see it, if
you're going to get hit by reckless
driver anyway and you are FORUM
ate enough to survive the ordeal, then
make it your business to rid the
highway of that person who hits you.
The dog fight" in Minneapolis gets
rather warm at times and 1 was
amused recently to read in one of the
dailies what certain dog lover said.
Quoting from his six cylinder SEN
tence we find, ''The more 1 see of
human beings, the better like dogs"
Now isn't that fine sentiment? Come
to think of it, l never heard dog
wish he were human being.
Well folks, am still little breath
less for l just learned that there is
count of too much-that is, there
should not be any more than enough
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