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Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1939-12-15

vati v uzivani techto pozehnani i v
letech pristich.
Behem vanocniho obdobi S jeho
prijemnymi hOstinami a veCirky,
mnozi z mas snad budou jisti prilis
mnoho bohatych a sytych jidel. Phi
rozenS, " takovem priiemnem slav.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1939-12-15
Navod ma vanocni Cookies

(TsntO nivod vyda asi 100 ''cookies')
] koflik cukru, 8 vejce, nastrouha-
0 kuru l ~citronu, l polevkOvou
lkici skofice, 2 unce citronu a v
cukru nalozene pomerancove k1ry,
trochu muskatoveho orechu a 2
kofliky mouky.
Michejte cukr a vejce u hodiny a
pax pfidejte vsechny ostatni pFisady
< teto smesi. AZ Dude testo dobFe
propracovano, dejte je v malych
kouscich ma namastsny plech a
peGte, al Cookies" Sc stanou kfeh.
kymi a zahnedlymi.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1939-12-15

minuly rok nam pFinesl, zdravi,
stSsti a bezpeGnost. Doufejme a
pfejme 81, abychom mohli pokraco-
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-30
Defeat Them All The Time

The proponents of bill which
would turn percent of the school
trust fund revenue into the state
revenue fund for administration costs
was defeated in the state legislature
this week and thus again the chill
dren's education is saved from an ele-
ment which seems to have no desire
except to get tax relief at the ex-
pense of the schools irregardless of
how we were gotten into such mess.
If these fellows are defeated enough
times and honest publicity is given
to what they are trying to do to the
schools of the state, then they will
perhaps eventually learn that our
school funds are not to be tempered
with.
If our commonwealth is facing in
solvency, then we say that we might
as well face it with an educated
people as an illiterate generation.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-30
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS. REVIEW
Continued from Page u

While Poland clamored for a Brit
ish guarantee, other smaller coun-
tries like the Netherlands, Norway
and Switzerland let it be known
that they felt they could no longer
have faith in any British or any other
big-power guarantee. There are OBJ
vious reasons for such distrust.
The Other Side.
Pending the outcome of the dis
cussion of democratic grouping,
Germany and Italy planned to inter-
est Japan in military alliance
These three countries are already
united in a treaty against Commun-
ism," but Berlin and Rome want
Tokyo to make it a definite military
agreement, and the japanese Diet is
difficulty, for it seems that there is
a good deal of opposition to addi-
tional military commitments on the
part of Japan already deep in war
with China.
But there is nearer possibility
of Spain joining Germany and Italy
Spain now for all practical purposes
under the complete rule of fascist
General Francisco Franco. Early this
week there were rumors that Madrid
had surrendered to Franco, and while
they were not confirmed at the time
of this writing, they are likely to be
when these lines are being read.
Francois triumph complete, he will
probably feel so deeply indebted to
Mussolini and Hitler that he will
refuse no favor they ask of him, and
Spain standing sentinel at the en-
trance to the Mediterranean-a fas-
cist Spain menacing Britain's access
to it's own cherished "Life-line'-is
no joke. 1t is, however, to a con-
siderable extent of Britain's own
making, and therein one finds again
an illustration of the irony of history.
Another Conquest.
While talk goes on and speculation
covers more or less fantastic fields,
Hitler continues his onward march.
He doesn't exactly have a new coun-
try served him for breakfast every
morning, but he is doing pretty well,
for all that. A couple of weeks ago
he annexed Czechoslovakia Then he
took Memel back. And thereupon he
forced the kingdom of Roumania to
sign with him treaty SO one-sided
that it spelled the end of Roumanian
economic independence. King Carols
realm has put itself under obligation
to furnish Hitler with nearly all its
oil, nearly all its wheat and many
other things; in return, Roumania
gets arms and munitions Chose treas
ured articles lifted out of Czecho-
slovakia by the hefty hands of Ger
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-30

man soldiers), the presumption being
that such war materials will not be
used against Germany, should fur
Their march toward the Black Sea
be decided upon.
Modern history is replete with ex-
amples showing that when a coun-
try has surrendered its economic
independence, it is not very far
jump to its remuneration of POLITICAL
sovereignty. Carol must have known
that, when he signed treaty such
as this rather humiliating document.
But he may have had no alternative,
for the story persists that Hitler APP
piled his traditional pressure-that
is, threat of military action-to the
court at Bucharest. And came out
VIGOROUSLY, of course!
And Then?
In the meantime, President Albert
Lebrun of France, accompanied by
Nine. Lebrun, paid a state visit to
the king and the queen of Great
Britain; Lebrun was aware of the
political implications of such a Jour-
ney, for he included his foreign min
lister, Georges Bonnet, in his entour-
age.
The visit was huge social sue
cess and there was a great deal of
INTERVENING of the Theodore and the
Union Jack, lot of give la France"
LA Marseillaise," "God Save the
King" and all that. But as for any
concrete political results, reports are
silent.
Maybe one shouldn't look for any.
For the understanding" between
the two Channel powers already is so
ironclad that it, practically speaking,
amounts to a definite and very mu-
tual military alliance. What the
world looked for was an announce
ment that the Franco-British lineup
had been strengthened by Soviet adj
herence, and by overcoming Polish
objections. Time for such message
evidently has not yet arrived.
In view of the continued helpless
ness of the democracies Hitler seems
to be preparing his next move
that of anneXing DanZig and the
Polish Corridor. 1t is possible that
these steps may be taken this very
week, but it is not yet certain. The
very fact that they are considered
close possibility once more demon
strates Hitler's ability to defy the
democracies, and he will continue
to defy them until they agree among
themselves that it is not enough to
simply say, stop Hitler!" but that
words must be converted into action.
Of that, there has been none. Hit
Ter and Mussolini still stand in the
spotlight of the world while the heads
of the democracies timidly seek the
protection of the shadows of the stage
corners
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-30
Greater Glad Success.

Here's method of growing glads
that has given me better bloom and
larger and cleaner new bulbs. With
a square-end shovel 1 dig a trench 6
inches deep for large bulbs and
for small ones. 1 place the bulbs
close to the sides of the trench and
press them in firmly, and then l cover
each with fine sand and good big
handful of pulverized sheep manure
sold at seed stores Over this scat
ter layer of water-saturated peat
moss and then fill the trench with soil.
The sand is separator. between the
bulbs and soil which keeps them
clean, and the peatmoss is moisture
reserve. l have never lifted bulbs so
clean or larger. A. Curtis, Pa.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-30
Why Stars in Flag ?

HOW many OF us KNOW why
there are stars in the United
States flag? To be sure we are
patriotic, but we possibly have not
gone into the why's and where
forS of our existence. The rea-
son for our flag being what it is
should be made clear to every
one, therefore we are publishing
an article written by Francis
Newton narrating case of for
eigner taking up citizenship here.
The article follows:
/ haven't been here very long.
Technically, am foreigner :. and
/ have married an American :.
must accept the laws and traditions
of my husbands country :. become
citizen.
Changing nationality is not
lightly undertaken. 1 felt l should
examine myself the country
whose citizenship 1 was to embrace
the American flag.
The flag! l looked at it, flying
high in the breeze. Stars and stripes!
The stripes didn't seem particularly
significant, but the stars did.
Stars in the flag! Why stars? I
wondered.
My friends explained, "There is a
star for every state . forty-eight
of them"
But why stars?" I asked.
They looked puzzled. l went to
- ,o,,L1;o 1;lrorx, Loot T found
the answer between the covers
of little book: 1.-THE Flag of the
United States Its History and SYM
bolism," by Col. James A. Moss.
1.-The reason why our Forefathers
placed stars in our National Emblem
is given in the Congressional Act of
June IA, 1777, which adopted the
Flag and which prescribed that the
Union be thirteen stars in blue field
representing a new constellation =. :.
symbolizing as previously stated, stars
in the heavens >. signaling to man
kind the birth of the first nation on
earth dedicated to personal and re-
ligious liberty; sanctuary to which
men and women the world over OPP
pressed because of religious and other
beliefs, might take refuge and enjoy
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Hap
pineSS."
All other nations had been formed
for power, for aggrandizement. This
one was for Life, Liberty and the
Pursuit of Happiness.
It was a star moving ever west
ward that led the Shepherds and the
Wise Men to Bethlehem, to the birth
place of Him who was to teach the
world new philosophy and give to
men a new moral code, a code of
love and kindliness in place of cruelty
and greed.
It was a star by which mariners
set their course across troubled seas
to discover this new land =.
It is a star that heralds dawn and
twilight.
Thirteen stars in blue field rep
resenting the rise of new constella-
ton in the Heavens, signaling to man.
kind the birth of the first nation on
earth dedicated to personal and re-
ligious freedom.
This was the answer to my ques-
ton, "Why stars in the flag?"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-30
Gardeners Nook
BY GARDEN CLUB EDITOR
ANNUAL MIRACLE
BY Edward j. Fitzgerald.

BY Edward j. Fitzgerald.
This is the brittle season. Darkly
now
The dry trees lift their barren
branches high
And scratch against gray and leaden
sky.
The world lies stiff and frozen. Chill
winds blow
From every hilltop, and the eye can
see
No sign in shrub or grass or leafless
tree
OF slow revolving seasons or of birth
Stirring beneath the brittle shell of
earth
Nor is there hope of change till sud-
denly
The green heart of the world starts
echoing
The distant baying of the hounds of
spring
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-30
WILLIAM o. DOUGLAS
(The Washington Evening Starr

(The Washington Evening Starr
President Roosevelt was confronted
with a singularly difficult task in
selecting a man to fill the vacancy
created on the Supreme Court by the
retirement of Associate Justice Bran
deis The latter, after facing unpre-
cedented opposition at the outset of
his career, won for himself reputa-
ton as one of the ablest judges ever
to serve on the high court, and it
is only natural that the people of the
country, in appraising a successor,
will measure him by the standards
associated with the name of Justice
Brandeis.
In such circumstances, it may be
considered by some that the new
nominee, William Orville Douglas,
now chairman of the Securities and
Exchange Commission, lacks the jul
dicial stature of Brandeis, but it
may we'll be asked whether the Pres
ident could have picked any one who
measures up to it.
Of Mr.. Douglas, it can be said
without reservation that he has the
qualifications to make an outstand-
ing member of the court. Although
only forty years old, he has splendid
reputation as professor of law,
having taught at Columbia and Yale
Universities. When Robert Hutchins
left Yale to become president of the
University of Chicago, he described
Mr.. Douglas as the Nations "out-
standing professor of law and tried
unsuccessfully to persuade him to &C
cept a post at the Chicago institu-
ton.
AS chairman of the S. E. c. Mr..
Douglas has had the job of admins
tering a law that is extremely I'M
popular with most of those affected
by it. A Jealous champion of the
rights of investors, Mr.. Douglas has
nevertheless popularized himself with
the financial community by his I'M
failing industry, his marked fairness
of mind and his refusal to permit
his sympathy for the investor to
lead him into absurd attempts at
regulation. His common-sense out
look in this respect was revealed
when, in stating his determination
to fight market manipulation and
fraud in all forms, he added that eve
cannot provide sound business judg-
ment, nor can we save a fool from
his folly"
Some Senators have said they
would oppose Mr.. Douglas on the
ground he is not a Westener, de-
spite the fact that his rise to promi-
hence was essentially triumph over
the extreme poverty he knew as a
boy in Minnesota and as a young
man in the State of Washington.
The desire for sectional recognition
in the making of judicial appoint
ments is understandable, but it can
not justify vote against confirma-
ton of qualified nominee.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-30

If the legislature intends to get
anything more of value done during
this session then some action will
have to be displayed soon. Where
is the good Civil Service bill as prom
ised during the campaign? Also
where is evidence of the harmonious
theory of government as talked about
after the election?
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-30

1 see in the newspaper where Con-
gresham Barton from New York
state has made the statement that
business had made a net gain of
$11, 1922 100000 because Pre- d e n t
Roosevelt had taken so many trips.
Barton arrived at his figure by check
ing stock market changes during the
AZ times the President has been alb
sent from Washington since he took
office. By golly, if that is the case,
we ought to make our President am
bassador at large and hire clerk to
stay home.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-30

It was not long after the voyages
of Columbus that several of the ma
tons of Europe became interested in
the exploration and settlement of the
New World that he had discovered.
Expeditions were sent out from
France, England, the Netherlands and
Spain, and soon the governments of
these countries began to claim those
parts of North America that their
seamen had explored. That portion
of our country now called New Eng
land was one of the parts of the con-
tinent CLAIMED and settled by people
from England, as its name suggests.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-30

So new there's no common name,
the hardy, perennial verbena, Verbena
bipinnatifida (by-pin-na-tif'-i-dah)
has a June-to-November showing of
blue-lavender clusters, on stems 18
inches high, for your garden. 1t
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-30

But then if they got too far away
from home, they could not get back
in time to win the 1910 election {.
and the Republicans might not be
the travelling kind.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-30
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, 1939-03-30

Of course one doesn't have to pub
lish 820's stuff, neither did we have
to read the Minnesota Leader and
neither do we have to listen to the
high powered advertising of soaps,
Postum and whatnot on the radio.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-30
Plant PanSieS Early.

Many of us forget that pansies are
of the violet family and will give us
their most glorious bloom at violet
time in early May. The moral is
that you should get your young plants
established in the fall or else just as
early in the spring as the ground can
be worked. That means March or
early April.
Don't fear to set out these pansies
as early in spring as possible. Late
froSts won't injure them. They've
been outdoors in the nurserymen' S
frames all winter.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-30
blooms even the first year, the feather
foliage making plants two feet across.

Overhaul and sharpen your tools
this month. A flat file and a little
elbow-grease will put an edge on the
spade, shovel, sickle, scythe and other
"blade" tools. Kerosene, emery cloth
and oiled rags will remove rust. Tur-
pentine or kerosene will break the
rust on bolts and nuts so that they
may be unscrewed. Painting or lac
quering with some bright color or
design will give tool handles distinc-
ton, make them conspicuous and thus
easy to discover when misplaced
Do you know that the onion is a
member of the lily family and that
plant specialists have hopes of de-
veloping it's foliage and bloom for
the floral market, so that people can
wear onions as well as eat them?
With spring in the air and house.
cleaning on the mind, the first warm
day tempts us to put our houseplants
out-of-dOorS. But caution ! House.
plants, like people, have become ten
der from being indoors all winter.
Unlike us, they can't put on a coat to
temper the sudden change.
On warm MONDAY, place them in
the sun outdoors for a few hours,
gradually increasing the time as the
days grow warmer. Don't place them
permanently out-of-doors until all
danger of frost has passed.
When you repot your houseplants,
be sure to select the right size pots.
For example, a plant that's been
growing in to 21a-inch pot should
be shifted to to 31a Inch size, not
to a 5 or 6-inch pot. Plants look best
in small pots; also, excess soil be-
comes sour.
Marigold Early Sunshine is a
dwarfer, earlier blooming selection of
the variety Dixie Sunshine intro
duced few years ago. Dixie Sum-
shine doesn't blossom early enough,
so the new variety has value in
northern gardens. The flowers are
light yellow, medium size, and of the
chrysanthemum type. The plants
grow "a inches tall and are bushy.
Petunia Ladybird is particularly rec
commended for its uniform dwarf,
compact growth and the very deep
rose color blossoms, borne in great
abundance during the entire season.
The color is so deep this petunia
might be called red.
Probably the greatest optimist in
our block is the freshman gardener
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-30

There is an old meeting house at
Easton, Maryland, which is said to
have been built in 1853 and is still
in a fair state of preservation.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-30

In Massachusetts,, at Cambridge, is
Harvard, the oldest of American uni
versities. 1t was founded in 1886,
and was endowed by John Harvard, a
graduate of the University of Cam
bridge in England.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-30

Politics! Thou art like a marital
venture. First comes the honeymoon,
when everything is sweet and con-
genial; but after that, in many in
stances, not only the household suf-
fers, but likewise the neighbors.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-30

I dunno, believe that the hus-
band, if what he says is true, would
get bargain if he paid the court
costs and called it square.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-30

An easy way for husband to cele-
brate April FOOLS day is to praise his
wife's new spring hat, if it's reason
ably fantastic
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-30

Invest Is cents in a classified ad.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-30

Probably the greatest optimist in
our block is the freshman gardener
who bought three rose bushes for
$1.40 last fall and expects to give his
wife a dozen roses every weekend
this summer.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-30

Light travels 10000 miles per sec
ond.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-30

Every week missives of varied de-
grees of Importance come out from
the office of the brain trust at 800
New York Building, st. Paul. The
Governor has the mental setup of
the newspaper and all he would need
to have another Minnesota Leader"
would be a press and some sticks of
type.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-30

Deal officials be given a travelling
allowance :. it would probably put
business on parity with WPA.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-30

I make a motion that all the New
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-30

see where the President and Sena-
tor Henrik Shipstead discussed the
st. Lawrence waterway. You know
all this talk about the seaway and
nothing done is disgusting to folks
here in the Northwest. Not that the
Senator hasn't done everything he
can to forward our waterway pro-
gram, but rather that the seasons
have come and gone without material
benefit from all the talk. Therefore
all the talk has been wasted effort
similar to what a darby brought out
to another in his definition of an
orator.
Said the negro who met a friend
all logged out "How come all the
evidences of prosperity" use got
a profession, boy" said the dressed
up one "Whut is it," use an ora
tor" "Whut's an orator." "You
mean you don know whut is ora
tor? Well I'll tell you If you was
to walk up to ordinary niger an
he'd say TO- but if you was to ask
one of us orators he'd say, When in
the cou'se of human events it be-
comes necessary to take de numeral
of the second denomination and add
it to de figger two, says unto you
and I says it widout fear of success
full contradiction, dat de result in
vai'bly be TO- OATS a orator"
While all de talk is goin' on in
Washington about de waterway, we
common niggers" don't even need
rubber boots, we is so dry.
Some radio announcers should be
given a course in diplomacy, it's
seen after Saturday nights broadcast
of the state high school basketball
tournament in st. Paul. Why if our
foreign ambassadors acted with such
partisanism, some Of our now-friend-
ly neighbors across the pond would
be over here on the next train.
Former Governor William LANCER
of North Dakota is being sued by a
Mandan resident for alienation of his
wife's affections. It is claimed that
incidents leading up to the suit date
back as far as 1880. BY golly, that's
one investigation of the conduct of a
politician which waited until after
the election. Yes sir, LANCER lost the
last election against Senator Gerald
P. Nye on his own merits.
1 don't know how the suit will come
out, but from my point of view,
$25, ZOO is an awful lot to sue for. I
believe if I were on the jury would
be tempted to turn down such sum
as exorbitant, because I don't believe
any woman or man with so complete
disregard for the sanctity of marriage
is worth a cent more than $498.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-30

If you haven't grown some of the
dwarf iris varieties be sure to visit
nursery during March or April
where they are growing. The flowers
of these little fellows are so large and
yet so short stemmed that when they
open they seem to have exploded out
of the ground. When planted in
clumps they make fine splashes of
color.