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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-10-19
New York Boys
Get A Break

With the recent appointment by
Mayor LaGuardia of New York city,
of Lou Gehrig as city parole COM
missioner, boyhood in the ''big town.
received real break. Lou Gehrig,
as every sportsman knows and as
almost every person who reads the
newspapers should know, has been
for many years baseball star playing
with the New York Yankee baseball
team. Gehrig has displayed that
which all Americans love and de-
d-sportsmanShip and manhood
For many years he delivered to the
game his best and very seldom was
he in the midst of an argument on
the baseball field and never, off the
field.
He took the fan-idolizing of Babe
Ruth, his teammate, with good grace
when many times it was he who was
winning the games. That in itself
is the mark of good manhood. AL
such characteristics will fit him well
for his duties as parole commissioner
of the country's largest city, for his
job will be to look after waywaro
boys. He, himself, was reared ir
New York's modest circumstances ano
during the IA years he was with the
Yankees, he has been idolized by the
youth of New York city and by the
youth throughout the nation.
Gehrig is intelligent and knows the
problems which confront boys O.
small opportunity.
During the next 10 years, which
is the term of his appointment, anc
in years to come, the boys and tn,
people of New York city will fee
the value of Mayor La Guardia's APP
pointment
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achievements, were the crucifix and
the blessed mother, the prophets and
the saints, the schoolmen and the
great popes-and George Washing
ton and Abraham Lincoln and the
signers of the Declaration of indie
pendence.
Unseen by his boys, we knelt at
vespers in that colonial chapel. Be-
fore us, quite unconscious of the
presence of their great patron, 200
American boys in the surplice and
biretta of the seminarian chanted the
age-old vesper service.
We stood in the library of the SEM
mary with its Renaissance colonnade.
The brilliant coffered ceiling bore
his coat of arms of the busy bee. 1t
was lettered with the names of great
scholars of the church. But he talked
most of his pride in one particular
item of that library, the complete
autographs of the signers of the Dec
laration of independence, of all the
Presidents of the United States, of all
the Justices of the Supreme Court OF
the United States.
AS he rode over his grounds he
spoke with unconcealed gratitude that
God had vouchsafed to him, as to
few men, the good fortune to see
really accomplished in his lifetime
a little of the things he had dared
begin.
He talked proudly of how enduring
ly he had built in concrete and steel
and how even more enduringly he
had built in young men.
He talked feelingly of how he had
tried to make a full place in his
young mems lives for flowers, and
music, and art.
He talked of ''the undone vast
that lay ahead of him to give the
spirit of America its full place in
the spirit of the church and to give
the spirit of the church its full place
in the spirit of America.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-10-19

Traditionally the Congregationals and
the Episcopals abound, but others are
also strong. AS yet our acquaintance
with their life is naturally very slight
attend some classes at the we'll
known Hartford Seminary and so far
have enjoyed the information and
the stimulation very much.
1t seems strangely sad that the spot
on the radio dial for WCCO is silent,
but last Saturday we gleefully found
another spot where the Minnesota
Nebraska football game was broad
cast. We were thrilled to hear the
game, but peculiarly enough the re-
suit didn't seem so exhilarating.
So we sign off on this broadcast
with greeting to all old friends
Perhaps we shall go on the air again
at some future date.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-10-19
Croningen
(From Another Correspondent

Anton Nicholson drove to the Cities
last Thursday, returning the follow
ing day. Mrs. Nicholson, who had
spent few days visiting in the
Cities, returned with him. Miss Fran
els Nicholson also came here to spend
the weekend.
Mrs. E. Erickson called on Mrs.
Paul Rudolph Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Art w. Haglin and Mrs. Chas.
Jabe called at the A. c. Haglin home
Wednesday evening of last week.
Mrs. A. c. Haglin and family spent
Friday evening visiting at the Oscar
Anderson home.
Miss Florence Haglin spent last
Thursday with her grandmother, Mrs.
Mary Swanson.
Callers at the Ben Nelson home
Sunday were Mr.. and Mrs John Mel
son of Duluth, Mr.. and Mrs Rudolph
Bagge of Askov, Mr.. and Mrs Jewel
Nelson of Sandstone, Mrs A. c. Hag-
lin, Gladys Haglin, VIM. Miner and
Paul Jensen.
Visitors at the school this week
were Ethel and Marion Eiffler, Betty
Nelson, Florence Haglin, Arbetus
Miner and Raymond Kruger.
John Bloom left for Duluth Sunday
for few days visit with his rela-
tives. Young Palmer is tending to
the chores while Mr.. Bloom is away
R. johnson spent Friday afternoon
visiting at the A. C. Haglin home.
Sigurd Nelson took load of scrap
iron to Duluth Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Anton Nicholson and
daughter, Francis, visited at the Chas
Jabe home Sunday evening.
Willard Nelson left for Duluth Mon
day to visit and to seek employment
Mr.. and Mrs. R. Johnson and son
Maylon, visited at the John Cotterell
home near Finlayson last Thursday
evening.
John HammerSma, who has lived
on the DR.. Dredge farm two years
is preparing to move onto a farm
southeast of Friesland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dave Karsky and
family spent Sunday in Pine City.
DR.. Dredge called at the Ben Mel
son home Tuesday evening of last
week on business.
Mrs. Ben Nelson called on Mrs
A. c. Haglin Tuesday evening of last
week.
Ben Nelson and sons have been
busy the past few days blowing and
preparing to move onto the DIR
Dredge farm
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carry" is not neutrality because of
England and France controlling the
seas. controlling the seas" where
the water is as thick with German
submarines as the soup is with dump
lings in a soup kettle, and sinking
neutral ships and by that killing peo-
pie in wholesale lots! According to
his judgment, leash and carry" would
be neutrality if it was not for such
control of the seas, but how is Ger
many situated for buying? Germany
is almost surrounded with neutral ma
tons where there can be no hinderings
at all for shipments and short trans
portation; and Hitler having all of
them so scared they will do just as
he tells them.
l think that anyone will be bound
to understand that Germany is hav-
ing all the chance it can. wish for;
while Mr.. Sanderson is in favor OF
taking what little chance England
and France may have away from
them; that he is calling neutrality.
l am in favor of neutrality and
that is to keep out of the fighting
but there is too much impartiality
in me to be in favor of an aggressor
of war to win it, especially when il
is to conquer others territory Be-
fore starting war on Poland, Hitler
knew that Poland, England and
France were allied for defense, and
that when he started war on one OF
them, it was the same as starting
war of all of them. So Germany is
the aggressor, and the other three
nations are the defenders. There
would have been no war if Germany
had not started it.
Now there are people claiming thai
England is the cause of it, but lei
them. They do not believe that them
selves.
think most people are blam-
ing Hitler, but 1 think he is only {
tool in the hands of high-up gen.
erals and junkers. He could no
do thing if they did not want it
ANDREW RASMUSSEN.
5000 West River Blvd, Minneapolis
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of the Russian-Finnish discussions is
the meeting which King Gustaf OF
Sweden opened in Stockholm yes
terday, Wednesday; to this he had
invited King Christian of Denmark,
King Haakon of Norway and Presi-
dent Kyosti Kallio of Finland; the
foreign ministers of the four coun-
tries took part in the gathering.
During the years of the world war
the Scandinavian kings met on sew
eral occasions for the purpose of con-
sidering the neutral position of their
respective countries, and at that time
they maintained frmly-and effec-
tively-their absolute and undisputed
neutrality. They were expected now
again to follow that line, and it was
thought they might have word to
say about Finland in addition to their
consideration of the general war sit
uation.
Lindbergh Speech.
AS the neutrality debate in the
United States senate wakes warm,
Charles A. Lindbergh, aviator and
co-constructor of Alexis Carrell's
artificial heart" has once more been
injected into the debate. The other
evening he delivered a second radio
address, this time expressing fervently
the hope that the supremacy of the
white race would be maintained that
Great Britain would withdraw from
the American continents Canada and
many of the islands in the Caribbean
sea), and that the present neutrality
law of the United States would be
retained, unchanged.
General comment on Mr.. Lind
bergh's speech appears to indicate
that he may know lot about avia-
ton and the technical part of con-
structing an artificial heart.
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Bass Lake

Mrs. Herbert Olson and Alphild
and Joyclyn and Barbara Peterson
motored to the Cities Sunday to visit
relatives.
Mrs. Ernie Alleman and baby of
Pine Lake, are visiting with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Swan
son, this week.
A number of friends and relatives
helped Anton Peterson celebrate his
birthday Tuesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Swanson and
Evelyn were dinner guests Sunday
at the Victor Carlson home. Mr.. and
Mrs c. w. Sawatzky and Irene spent
the afternoon there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cole and family of
st. Paul, visited at the Alfred john
son home Sunday.
Ben Carlson, accompanied by Bill
Mullins and daughter, Dorothy, mo-
tored to Minneapolis Saturday to get
Mrs. Mullin, who has been a patient
at hospital the past week. Friends
are glad to hear she is feeling better.
Mrs. Nels Nelson and Albert, Mrs.
George Smith and Elaine and Mrs.
Walter Ekdale and Janet spent Sun
day with relatives in Duluth.
Mrs. Ernest Nelson and children
and Mrs. Albert Smith spent few
days last week in Duluth visiting
relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Swanson and
Evelyn and Ruth Swanson visited
at the l. Orstad home near Grindstone
Lake Sunday evening.
Mrs. Maria Swanson and Mildred
and Ruth, Mrs. Clarence Swanson and
baby, Mrs. Richard Swanson, Mrs.
Victor Carlson and Florence Haglin
spent last Thursday afternoon with
Mrs. Lester Schraeder.
Mrs. c. E. Erickson and Orlow spent
Sunday afternoon at the Walter Gus
tafson home near Sandstone.
A number from here attended the
penny and fair carnival in Grind
stone Lake Friday night given by the
Dell Grove school children.
Mrs. Herbert Olson and Oliver
motored to North Branch Wednesday
to attend an auction sale and also
to visit relatives
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KEEP SHIPS HOME /!
.itOr ASkOv American.

Editor ASkOV American:
S. o. Sanderson said in the "Opin-
ion of Others" column in the October
5 issue of the Askov American that
the President contends that the So
called leash and carry" plan will keep
America out of war. Others recon-
mend that we keep our ships out of
the war zone. 1 will add to it, Keep
our ships in the seaports, or do not
care how many of them the Germans
are sinking as the German war zone
is wherever a submarine can go;
and that takes in the whole Atlantic
ocean and they are sinking neutral
ships as well as those of belligerents
and thereby killing innocent people.
That is barbarism, but Germany
doesn't take that seriously. That was
the way Germany brought us into the
World war.
Which nation would start war on
us on account of selling or not SELL
ing, whether cash or credit, if our
government takes no part in it? Let
the seller run his own risk of getting
his pay for it.
Our government should not borrow
money from our capitalists to loan
to other nations, as they used to do.
That is the war debts they still owe
us, so that should be lesson to our
government so as not to place such
a debt on the people of the United
States as we now have from the World
war. A seller of goods should not
take foreign currency in pay, as that
is only promise to pay, it is not
cash. Gold coin of equal weight and
fineness of our money would be the
only cash. That can be exchanged
for American money to pay to the
producer. The picture Mr.. Sander
son painted of the slips of scrap
paper and useless gold, will fade away
if goods sold for real cash is prac-
ticed.
Mr.. Sanderson says that leash and
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INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
Continued from Page u

from rage
pretty hard blow to British naval
prestige.
Immediately thereafter other Ger
man submarines destroyed two
French vessels, "Bretagne" and
'Louisiane," and one British freight
er, ''Lochavon" - "Bretagne" with
some loss of lives and Louisiana"
under circumstances which prompted
the vessels skipper to report that
the Germans had fired shells at men,
bers of the crew trying to escape
in life boats.
German airplane activities took
place on the Scottish coast having,
it seemed, for their purpose whatever
damage they could inflict on Brit
ish dockyards and warships in the
waters not far from Edinburgh.
Offensive Expected.
But things were strangely "Quiet
on the Western Front; very little
happened, except that the French re-
ported huge German reinforcements
on the way toward the Siegfried line
where it is now reported that two
million men are waiting for the signal
to go ahead and start an offensive
movement against the French. Of
course, no plans are announced in
advance, but there is pretty general
opinion that someone will have to
start soon, and that it is likely to be
Germany who will make the first hit
During the last few days there
have been a number of inconsequen-
tial patrol fights, also a few skir-
mishes between airplanes, but nothing
of any Importance has taken place.
The air is filled with expectancy
rather than with shells.
Finnish Problem.
Russia has, as has been reported
in these columns, forced Estonia, Lat
via and Lithuania to accept so-called
mutual-aid treaties which, in prac-
tice, reduces these Baltic states to
mere protectorates.
Finland was next. But the Firms
were not as easily cowed as were
the other Baltic nations, and they
appear to have formed a strong OPP
position to Russian demands which
seem to them to be too far-reaching,
too humiliating to Finnish national
pride.
Nothing whatsoever has been an
nounced as to the nature of the
negotiations which took place in Mos
cow after the arrival of Finnish
delegation invited" by the Soviets,
but whatever the cause was, the dis
cussions were abruptly adjourned in
definitely, and the Firms went back to
Helsingfors, apparently to acquaint
their government with the details of
the Russian demands. It is, of course,
very possible that the negotiations
will be resumed.
Scandinavian Background.
It has been learned that President
Roosevelt sent a personal cablegram
to I. Kalinin, president of the Soviet
expressing the hope that
nothing would happen which would
disturb the friendly relations be-
tween Russia and Finland.
At about the same time the govern
ments of Denmark, Norway and
Sweden directed similar expressions
to the Russian government, and to
Finland they said, in effect, that
whatever the situation might be, cir
would make it impossible
for the Northern countries to give
the Firms any military assistance.
They might help in several other
ways, but generally recognized con-
ditions and limitations made it i'm
possible for them to promise to go
to war because of Finland.
Stockholm Meeting.
A more or less direct outgrowth
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A Life Well Spent

In this America, where we have
tolerance in religious faith; in
this America, great deeds, no
matter by whom done, are ex-
tolled. We always classify life
as we judge it by its accomplish
ments. In this regard one of the
fullest lives whose achievements
death has brought wildly to our
attention was that of George
Cardinal Mundelein. He, like his
Catholic superiors, has exerted
every effort, every influence for
peace.
An outline of his achievements
which was offered on October 2
in a radio address by the Most
Reverend Bernard Shiel, D. D.,
auxiliary bishop of Chicago, are
printed herewith and speak fully
the full life of the late Cardinal
of the Catholic Church. The re-
marks, worthy of print in the
Congressional Record, follow:
This morning came the news that
would almost strike dumb every lover
of America, every faithful son and
daughter of the Catholic Church,
every man and woman of good will
hoping in these dark days for the
reign of intelligence and wisdom and
justice in the world.
George Cardinal Mundelein, arch
bishop of Chicago, is dead.
Yesterday afternoon 1 was with
him and the symbolism of moment
of harvest-of reward for a life
grandly lived-is today so startling
as to be incredible.
He asked me to come out to his
home at St. Mary's of the Lake.
There, in the little town of Munde-
lein, he had built the most modern
of all our Catholic seminaries to train
American youth to be servants of
America and of the universal church.
There, 20 years ago, with the i'm
agination and the courage of youth
he had begun to build out of swamp
one of the great institutions for the
education of youth in America. There
he determined to blend all that was
timelessly beautiful and inspiring in
the art and the philosophy of demo-
cratic America, as an eagerly well
coined part of the timeless and uni
versal art and the timeless and uni
versal philosophy of universal
church.
His own villa was an architects
replica of George Washington's home
at Mount Vernon The chapel at
which his young seminarians prayed
and sang Palestrina was an adapta-
ton of an American-Coloni church
in Lyme, Conn.,, which he had adj
mired for it's beauty and its simpli-
city as boy There side by side in
a joyous sense of the mighty place
of the art and the thinking of demo-
cratic America in the unity of mans
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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, 1939-10-19

Just think if that device were to
be manufactured, we could turn our
navy into fishing fleet for not only
the president, but for all of our
government officials :. and the army
could dig angle worms for them.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-10-19

The woodpecker accomplishes much
by continually pecking away. 1t
works the same way in advertising.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-10-19

the heaviest experienced in the live
stock industry of today.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-10-19

might encounter more obstacles than
did Columbus when he first came
here.
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| Would Say
BY A. w. CONAWAY

SCC "iiSiC NIoNSiiioi ooihii NAooSS
of North Dakota, has fatty denied
that he has any intention of leaving
his gubernatorial chair to accept ap-
pointment as U. S. district judge, if
Federal Judge Andrew Miller re-
signs. The district judgeship, dear
readers, pays a salary of $4,000 per
year, while the governor of North
Dakota gets $4,000.
Use your own judgment as to
whether or not the governor will re-
sign if offered the judgeship . in
the meantime wouldn't you like to be
lieutenant governor of North Dakota.
l see where Alfred Duff Cooper,
prominent political figure in Eng
| land, is about to come to the United
States for lecture tour. No hint as
to the subject matter of his talks
has been given, but it wouldn't be
difficult to guess, since this country
is neutral and his country is at war;
| We have all seen advance men for
circuses going the, rounds-they don't
talk about the weather, either .
well, the show is going on over there.
A fish story, but it fits most of us.
1t was a day of good fellowship on
one of Minnesota ten thousand lakes.
The fish were biting, but in leisurely
manner. A boat was idly riding the
waves. Its occupants were fisher
man from Luxury-inn lodge and his
special fishing guide. Speculatively
they were whipping the water with
enticing, expensive lures. Then it
happened-something grabbed the
Luxury-inn fishermen's bait and prac-
tically bent the rod double, bringing
him to his feet.
Tense excitement spread from one
| nearby boat to another as the battle
began. Fishermen pulled their hats
to shade their eyes and braced them
selves that they might better offer
advice and criticism. The fisher
man, deluxe, removed his shoes, his
socks, his pants and stepped hip-deep
into the water so that he might, I'M
hampered, draw the fighting giant of
the deep to shore.
reeled in his quarry and then while
perspiration rolled down his face,
while the neighboring boatmen held
their breath and WITHOUT the
accompaniment of cameramen, he
gave the final jerk which landed his
catch-a five-gallon can full of water
English news reports are to the
effect that Adolf Hitler has discon-
tinued the entire monthly allowance
of Kaiser Wilhelm, who is in exile
at Doom, Holland. Maybe the old
fellow will go home now and work
for his keep, like the former king
of England.
IT'S said that Premier Daladier of
France, has summoned his cabinet for
a general review of the war I
suppose to see how much they helped
Poland; a sort of post norton, as it
were.
Danger, Vicious Dog!" The dog
has been dead several months, but
the sign still serves its purpose to
strangers and tramps. So it is with
a report that here in our own United
States we have man who claims
to have the secret for creating a
death ray" apparatus, which could
be set up within four or five hours
through the use of any high grade
X-ray machine.
l hope that news has been circu-
lated over in the foreign countries
so that any who might have future
fhof fhnV |
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l hope that news has been circu-
lated over in the foreign countries
so that any who might have future
designs on us can see that they
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Passing the Buck.
The cattle king swore when he saw
the bill,
AS some taxpayers always will,
But the bookkeeper soon assuaged
his grief
BY adding the tax to the price of beef.
The butcher who came for beef next
day
A part of that tax was compelled to
pay;
But what did it matter? If folks
will eat,
Let them swallow the tax when it
comes in meat.
So the cattle kings tax and the
butchers, too,
Mixed in the meat of an Irish stew
For the widows children; yet some
will say
The poor have no taxes at all to pay
The tanner came next; but he had
been
Too long at the trade to be taken in;
So, adding his tax, all three together
Are dumped on the man who buys
the leather.
With all three taxes the leather went
To the great shoe-making establish
ment;
And what happened there made mat
tiers worse
They slipped in the tariff graft, OF
course.
Loaded with taxes and swelling ur
Like the corpulent corpse of a pois-
oned pup,
Comes the leather at last to the
Where (sure enoughD it is taxed
once more.
And the poor consumer, the last in
line,
Must bear the brunt of each fiscal fine
That falls on his shoes at every stop
From the cattle range to the Main
Street shop.
And yet there are people with brains
so lax
That they say CONSUMERS pay nc
| tax
! That the landlord-poor patient soul
| -forgets
To add his tax to the rent he sets
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