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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-02

Geo. Nelson of Robbinsdale, was a
caller at the R. Shute home Saturday.
Mrs. McCullen entertained the
Ladies' Aid Wednesday of last week.
Mrs. Max Lampson visited Mrs. r..
Shute Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Matson and
family and Mrs. Max Lampson and
Glen spent Sunday at the Nels Mat
son home near Cloverton.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. J. Shute spent
Sunday at the F. Ogg home.
Mrs. Swanson and children spent
Sunday with Mrs. Erwin Anderson.
Mrs. Ted Konisky is on the sick list
at this writing.
Mrs. Wegwerth and Lennard of
Rutledge, spent Wednesday night of
last week at the Norman Matson
home
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-02
CrindstOne Lake

Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Wahlberg
and daughter of Moose Lake, were
Sunday visitors at the Bert Wahlberg
home.
Mike Nedemeyer is quite i'll at
this writing and is staying with his
daughter in Sandstone Friends wish
him a speedy recovery.
John Zajicek of Minneapolis, spent
Monday with his family here.
Mrs Carrie Tucker entertained Wis
itors from Minneapolis Sunday.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-02
PEACE ENGLISH LUTH. CHURCH

H. Sporleder, pastor.
Services at 1920 a. M; Sunday
school and Bible class, 10 a. M; sub
ject: "The Cross Destroys Loneli-
ness"
Choir practice Wednesday at p M
Confirmation instruction Saturday
at $50 a. M
All are welcome to our services.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-02

70 percent of the livestock owners in
the county. The third bill would
make it unlawful to sell cattle at any
public sale unless accompanied by a
certificate of health showing freedom
from Bangs disease and T. B. It is
also advocated that law be enacted
making it compulsory to test all cattle
to be sold at private sale except those
sold for immediate slaughter.
Taxes.
amending the state net income tax
bill so as to conform to the Federal
law. If this job is completed great
deal of auditing expense will be saved.
Rural Credits.
Several plans have been advanced
for the final step in liquidating the
Rural Credit department. One idea
is that the state should sell its good
mortgages and contracts which would
have to be sold at one-fourth per-
cent discount and turn the balance
of the departments assets over to the
Banking department. The other plan
calls for refundment plan taking
advantage of the present low in
terest rates. The Rural Credit bonds
now cost an average of 44 percent
and the farmer pays percent. So
the department takes a loss of one
fourth percent. These bonds could
now be refinanced as low as per-
cent. AS a matter of information a
large part of the Rural Credit bonds
are held by the State Investment
board so it is purely bookkeeping
transaction from one state depart
ment to another.
Committees.
l have received a number of re-
quests for list of my committee
assignments. They are as follows:
Agriculture, public domain, dairy pro-
ducts and livestock, Rural Credits,
state and county fairs, drainage, re-
forestation, veterans affairs and tax
and tax laws.
Unemployment Compensation.
AS was predicted the Senate adj
vanced to the calendar a bill pro-
viding that only those employing eight
or more come under the law The
House committee recommended an
act covering five or more but it is
thought they will amend so as to
agree with the Senate bill
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-02

The week ending February 25, has
not produced very much in the way
of legislation The Dairy and Pro-
ducts committee heard DR.. Cotton,
the Messers. Moscrip, Jones, Foley,
Adams, Novak and others on the state
Bangs eradication program. That
work, costing about 100000, has
been paid for entirely out of Fed
eral funds. From now on it will be
necessary for the state to meet Fed
eral grants on fifty-fifty basis. The
Importance of the livestock industry
in Minnesota was called to the at
tention of the committee. They gave
figures to show that 80 percent of
the farm income in this state is pro-
duced from livestock.
Three bills which have already re-
ceived favorable action by the COM
mittee in the House are being con-
sidered by the Senate. One bill low
ers the indemnity on reacting ami
mails to SIS on grades and $50 for
purebreds. Another bill provides for
a statewide Bangs eradication pro-
gram by counties upon petition OF
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-02
LUTHERAN CHURCH NOTES
Markville Lutheran Church.

Morning worship Sunday, March 5,
at II a. M; Sunday school at 10 a. M
Kingsdale Lutheran Church.
Evening worship Sunday, March 5,
at p. m. At this service an offer
ing will be taken for the Sunday
school treasury.
Sunday school every Sunday at
1920 a. M
The Linnea society will meet We'd
nesday, March 8, at p. m.
West Keene Lutheran Church.
There will be no services until fur
Their notice.
PAUL j. R. PETERSON, Pastor.
Evening star., 1939-10-08

colleagues They give US the worlds best pic
lures of world happenings. Their greatest
merit, however, may turn out to be that some
of their productions are starting to get wide
following abroad. A hundred and fifty years
ago in the world of culture we did virtually
nothing but import from Europe. Now we be-
gin to be cultural exporters, in novels. IN
plays and also in current information in sober
words and on the flashy screen.
We do it bit by radio, too, but our main
Evening star., 1939-10-08
AWE ART THU BEST Informed =
~ PEOPLE In THU WORLD "

use of radio is of course for ourselves; and it is
a use that sets our American radio triunl-
phantly off from every other radio in the
world We cannot too frequently or too
proudly realize that broadcasting in th1l
United States is by far by far II the world
least controlled broadcastng.
The Federal Communications Commissio
does not censor. 1t is forbidden by law to
censor. Hence the American radio audience,
more than any other radio audience in the
world hears all political parties and all po- |
litical ideas with fullness that is at times
Evening star., 1939-10-08

peacetime - had to think always of what
their governments wanted. never had to-
could put on European statesman from
European capital in broadcast to the United
States without ever dreaming of consulting
Washington. My European rivals could not
possibly put on an American statesman in a
broadcast to Europe without consulting the
government - or the governmental broad
casting authorities - in the country IN which
the program was to be received. Result: put
on many European statesmen to America and
they put on hardly any American statesmen
to Europe.
The radio interchange between Europe and
America is amazingly onesided We put on
even the European dictators, when we can.
European statesmen can - and some OF them
do - become quite we'll known American ra-
dio personalities. The radio flow from Europe
to America is continuous The radio flow
from America to Europe is by comparison
sporadic Again we get the better - and much
the better - of our European cousins IN the
matter of information.
So let us realize our responsibilities. Pretty
soon we may again have to make great inter
national decisions Even remaining neutral,
we may have to make momentous decisions
that will profoundly affect the whole worlds
future.
We have the data We have the raw mate
rials for wise decisions. But there is one more
thing needed. 1t is cool, calm thought
Whether we remain neutral or enter the
war, what sort of peace should America sup
port as the outcome of it?
We are better qualified to give the answer
than any other people anywhere. Our news
papers, our news magazines, our digest maga-
zines our radio broadcasts have prepared US.
They have given us the truth more amply
than any other people have the truth. A
unique possession of truth imposes unique
duty. We ought now to be able to think better
and more fruitfully and beneficially than any
other nation.
Can we? Will we?
Evening star., 1939-10-08

of the United States so far exceeds the news
sent out from any other national capital to
the newspapers within it's national boundaries,
both in bulk and in variety, that there is no
real comparison. The Washington press gal
lery, both for number of correspondents and
for intense active rivalry among them, is
unique in the world. These correspondents
include radicals, reactionaries, liberals, pro-
gressives, New Dealers, anti-New Dealers and
conservatives. Some have moss on their backs
and some have blood in their eyes. They all
Evening star., 1939-10-08

almost boresome; and it
hears them from the utter
most reaches of the earth
as we'll as from Wash
ington.
As a radio man from
timetot time. | have worked
abroad with foreign radio
men. l speak again not of
wartime but of peacetime.
Foreign radio is always
under governmental sub
lection. My foreign radio
colleagues even in
Evening star., 1939-10-08
1bv william Hard
Fomovs International ond mooozns correspondent

answer questions about America. We need no
longer have any feeling of inferiority toward
the inhabitants of the Old World. Through
our newspapers we know more about our
selves than they know about themselves and
through our newspapers we also know more
Evening star., 1939-10-08

IN ~HE war in Europe has made US all thank
God that we have no censorship here.
d once heard British censor, at the end
of the last world war, remark - with pungent
regret and with bold frankness:
Il do not know who did England the most
good in this war, but strongly suspect that
did it the most HARM"
Every censorship - except of military and
naval secrets - is damage to people be-
cause it limits their knowledge, contracts their
vision, impairs their eyesight, and thereupon
warps their judgment. Only full information
can produce sound policy.
The United States today is the most fully
informed country in the world. 1t is able even
in some degree to break down the wall of CEN
sorship that surrounds the European bellig-
erents. For facts, for data, for the ground
Evening star., 1939-10-08

away country. Inc dip
lomat frightened and said:
"Why, l began subscrib-
ing to your magazine back
home. We may explain
America to our good
friends the foreigners yet.
We are beginning to do
the same thing through
our newsreels. Our news
reel men cover the whole
world with an adventur-
business quite beyond that
of most of their foreign
Evening star., 1939-10-08

a new type of news magazine. 1t appears
sometimes in conjunction with newspapers
and sometimes Independently 1t does not
give itself to theorizing. 1t gives itself to
straight reporting - topic by topic, incident
by incident 1t condenses the newspapers and
it supplements the newspapers.
These news magazines are distinctive
American development. They are so much
better than anything of the sort abroad that
they are beginning to have considerable
number of foreign readers.
The same remark may be made about our
digest magazines They print excerpts and con-
densations of narratives and of thoughts.
They, too, have vitality and vogue here
that never has been correspondingly originated
abroad They carry the cream OF the worlds
events and comments each month to millions
of American homes for leisurely and con-
sidered reading.
Not long ago l introduced an American
digest editor to foreign diplomat from far
Evening star., 1939-10-08

about them than they
know about us.
Indeed, we know more
about the causes of the
present European War
than any European people
know or perhaps will
ever know.
But this is not due only
to our newspapers. 1t is
due also toour other means
of International knowl-
edge. For instance, we
have produced in America
Evening star., 1939-10-08

write every day and they
all get printed somewhere.
Their total is the truth.
This brings US to the
basic reason why in the
United States we get the
truth. 1t is competition.
England has good news
papers but they are over
whelmingly controlled by
a few groups of very rich
men. They are bound to
see the news through those
men 'seyes; and those men,
| repeat, are few. The
Evening star., 1939-10-08


called current intelligence"
This is because of the quite exceptional
character of our newspapers, our news maga-
zines, our digest magazines, our newsreeis,
our radio. Our newspapers, for tullness and
freedom of news, greatly excel those of our
fellow democracies, France and Britain shall
not bother to speak of the relationships. In
peacetime the newspapers of France and Brit
ain are normally substantially free from gov
ernmental interference. Yet they are really
quite far from being as truly independent of
all external influences as most of our news
papers here are.
In France - and say it without any nalev-
olence - the newspapers are largely organs
of special political groups or economic groups.
They operate as agents to express the views of
those groups. Their main interest is not the
news itself Their main interest is their own
Interpretation of the news.
Our American newspapers are overWhelm-
ingly independent institutions operated by
their owners for purely journalistic purposes.
American newspapers, it can be truly said,
exist in order to be newspapers. 1t is charged
against them that they are commercial
that they exist in order to make money. Very
we'll What is the alternative? A newspaper
must make money or else it must be subsidized.
In many countries the press is subsidized and
reports the news as its subsidizers see it. In
our country the press makes money and re-
ports the news as it sees it with its own jour
nalistic eyes, Which is better?
You have only to read the foreign news
papers and then read ours in order to under
stand the difference. Every national capital
sends news out to its country's newspapers.
The news from Washington to the newspapers
Evening star., 1939-10-08

owners of newspapers in the United States
are many, and they are widely scattered over
a vast country. They could not conspire to-
gether even if they desired to do So The out
come is that errors by any element in our
population - errors by business, errors by
labor, errors by agriculture, errors by gov
ernment II get printed in this country with
frankness that would make an English news
paper reader gasp.
The final proof indeed of the freedom and
International leadership of the American press
is the fullness with which it prints those things
that are not creditable to influential persons.
Critical foreigners sometimes say that our
newspapers are scandal rags That is. they
Evening star., 1939-10-08

impressive. In peace we import more than
100000 words of news from Europe every
week. Europe takes from us every week about
100000 words of news.
Moreover often doubt whether many Eu-
ropeans read many of the words that reach
them from our side of the Atlantic. have
met Americans ignorant of Europe. would
nevertheless back almost any of them in a
radio quiz program to answer questions about
Europe better than the average European can
Evening star., 1939-10-08

print exposures. - They
print exposures of poll
ticians, of judges, of flnan-
ciers, of labor leaders.
Think it over. A kept"
press does not expose the
iniquities of the powerful.
A free press does.
And it prints these ex-
posures - and also every
other kind of news -
from all over the foreign
world. The peacetime sta
tistics of the matter are
Evening star., 1939-10-08

work of judgment and the
well-spring of sound, sure
policy, the United States
leads the world by an al
most incredible margin.
This is not simply a
wartime condition. 1t is a
condition that exists also
during peace. Even when
Europe has no wartime
censor, we still exceed Eu-
rope anna zingly in the
length and. breadth and
depth of what we moderns
call current information
Evening star., 1939-06-01

pamphlets. broadsides, ETC., written
by Catholics and published in this
country before 1880. It is the most
complete catalogue of its kind In ex-
istence. In its compilation he had
the assistance Of librarians through
out the country.
Since the appearance Of "Bibli.
ographica Catholica Americana" by
the Rev. Joseph M. Finotti, in 1872,
no attempt of this kind had been
made. Moreover, Father Finotti's
list carried the account up to and
including 1920 only. Since his time
the date of early Americana has been
generally advanced to 1880 inclusive.
The list compiled by DR.. Parsons
contains 1,187 titles. Only 295 titles
were listed under the former work,
which has been the standard for so
many years. During the period in
which Father Finotti lists 295 titles,
DR.. Parsons work lists $50 items.
Georgetown library had no less
than 275 Of the books originally list
ed by Father Finotti and has at least
one-half of all the material brought
up to date by DR.. Parsons. The
only known copy of the first Cath
olic Directory" published in 1917, is
preserved at Georgetown. One of
the two copies located of the earliest
catechism, the famous Carroll
Catechism. printed at Georgetown,
D. c.. in 1893 by James Doyle, also
is held in the Riggs Library. Doyle
was one of the leading printers of
Catholic books before the Revolu-
ton.
Early Catholic Americana" was
the subject of a discourse by DR.
Parsons during the academic ses-
sionS of the Graduate School yester-
day. He Is its dean.
The Riggs Library was particularly
suited as the base for this new re-
search in Catholic Americana, since
it is more than 200 years old, having
had its origin at old Bohemia Manor
in Maryland, some thousand OF
whose books are still on the George
town shelves.
Evening star., 1939-06-01
Hard Fighting Turtle
Arrives at Aauurium

One of THE hardest scrappers in
the turtle kingdom has arrived at
the Department of Commerce
aquarium, a macrochelys lacertina,
or alligator swapping turtle. 1t was
shipped here from the Bureau of
Fisheries Station at Lyman, Miss.
While he is said to be 80 years old
and weighs only Is pounds, it was
said that he may reach a weight of
14O pounds, and grow to nearly a
yard in length, if he lives.
Evening star., 1939-06-01

arranged by the Rev. Wilfrid Par
sons. S. j., director of libraries, is
perhaps the most nearly a1l-embrac-
ing collection of American Catholic
Bibles to be found in any library in
this country. Also on exhibition are
many rare first editions of the
earliest European Bibles.
DR.. Parsons recently completed
two years of extensive research, re-
sulting in the publication of work
on Early Catholic Americana
which is an attempt to list all books
Evening star., 1939-06-01

The remarkably extensive collec-
tions of Catholic Americana on the
shelves of the Riggs Memorial Lii
brary at Georgetown University and
old historical records of the Mary
land Colony have furnished material
for many Of the interesting exhibits
for the university's sesquicentennial
celebration. These exhibits are open
to the public, especially to librarians,
during the day and night until Mon
day.
Among the rarest of the exhibits
Evening star., 1939-06-01

been invited to attend ceremonies
attendant upon opening Of the two
story structure built to replace the
old red brick building destroyed by
fire in the winter Of 1887.
Evening star., 1939-06-01
Outing Is Planned

A show by Navy Yard children and
baseball game will high light the
annual day and night outing of the
Joint Retirement Committee of the
employees of the Naval Gun Factory
June 10 at Marshall Hall Park.
Evening star., 1939-06-01
Store to Be Dedicated

The new Hahn shoe store at
Seventh and K streets NV. will be
dedicated at 8 am. next Monday.
Commissioner Melvin G. Hazen has
Evening star., 1939-06-01
At
Camp Let's
On Rhodes River

You can't appreciate how truly wonderful Gas until
cooking
They're utterly different ranges may
styled and amazingly they revouoni
day cooking
They and imesavng Conolto
baking
ready Minute Mr which when cooking
We can't begin tell the will make life
dealers
and see the of models display chance summer
with a Modern CooLKtchen Gas Range!
Evening star., 1939-01-17
Commonwealth Southern
To Spend $33,o00,oo0
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. ia $33, ,000,-
900 construction budget for 1899
was outlined today by Common
wealth & Southern Corp. leading
utility system. The total is about
the same as the outlay in 1898 for
capital expenditures.
The bulk of the money was
planned for new generating capacity
and distribution facilities in the
Northern operating properties, most
ly in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan
and Illinois
About 100000, it was said, was
allotted for the Southern properties,
which have held down capital ex-
penditures in recent years because of
the expansion of T. v. A.
Out of $1s,0o0,0oO assigned for dis
tribution facilities this year, rural
line extensions were down for
$5,200,000.
Evening star., 1939-01-17
White Sewing Machine
To Buy Debentures
apecial Dispatch to The Star.

special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. Jan. 17.-White
Sewing Machine Corp. today offered
to buy from holders of its 6 per cent
and participating sinking fund gold
debentures, due November l, 1910
at 102 per cent of the principal
amount, plus accrued interest, the
first 100000 principal amount of
the debentures delivered to the
Chemical Bank & Trust Co.
This offer will expire February l,
1899. The corporation stated that
it may, but is not obligated to, buy
any or all debentures in excess of
$20O, 900 principal amount presented
in accordane with the offer.
The debentures sold on the New
York Stock Exchange during 1888 at
prices between 91h and 1Ol1a, plus
accrued interest, according to pub
nshed figures.
Evening star., 1939-01-17
Mueller Brass Earns
Profit Of $265,920
In Fiscal Year
Net Compares With
$801 ,89l Recorded in
Preceding Year
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 17.-Mueller
Brass. Co. reported today net profit
for the fiscal year ended November
80 last of s265,9 ,92O, equal to 81 a
share on common stock, compared
with $801,891, or S3.O2 a common
share, in the preceding fiscal year.
Company's main plants are at Port
Huron, Michigan.
Sunshine Mining.
Sunshine Mining Co. in a prelim-
mary report placed net profit for
the year ended December 81 at So
653, ,229, equal to $2.45 a share on
capital stock, compared with SIS, ,4Ol, :
457, or 1888 a share, in the pre-
ceding year. The company, engaged
principally in the mining of silver,
has properties in Idaho.
Evening star., 1939-01-17
Stock Averages
80 Is IS 90
Indust. Rails. Util. stks,
BY VICTOR EUBANK,
Associated Press Financial Writer

NEW YORK, Jan. 17-Quiet buy
ing Of utilities, aircrafts and spe-
cialtiaS tended to cushion selling
elsewhere in today's stock market,
and last-minute rally reduced
early losses or established advances
of fractions to point or so in most
departments.
The list slipped at the start and,
at the worst, losses ran to more than
point.
Dealings the greater part of the
time were about as sluggish as in the
preceding session. Lightness of Of
ferlngs provided some comfort for
the optimists. The pace cuickened
near the finish and transfers ap-
proximated 10000 shares.
OF stocks that came in the So
called active class, about half were
quoted under $40 a share.
Business news was more con-
structlve than otherwise, and Con-
gress seemingly was performing to
the liking OF. Wall Street. A cloudier
foreign picture, however, was thought
to have handicapped sentiment.
Much attention was given the i'm
mlnent Spanish war crisis and fears
were voiced that Italo- French reper-
cussions to an insurgent victory
might be far from pleasing market
wise.
Stocks getting support included
Consolidated Edison North Ameri-
can, American Telephone, American
Water Works. Public Service of New
Jersey, United Aircraft, Sperry.
Bendix, Goodyear, United States
Rubber, Westinghouse, Du Pont,
Union Carbide, New York Central,
Southern Pacific. Canada Dry,
United States Steel, General Motors
and Chrysler.
Lacking comeback vitality were
American Smelling, Bethlehem,
SateWay Stores, Pennsylvania, Wool
worth and Western Union.