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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-08-17
Who's The Safest Driver?

For several years it has been the
favorite by-word of we private driv-
ers or, in other words, drivers of
passenger cars that if the roads
weren't infested with those trucks
and large buses there would be fewer
accidents. However, this contention
has been proven false by statistics
on the percentage of accidents COM
piled by the National Safety Council
with headquarters in Chicago. For
years we have called this same truck
driver road hog or worse and we
have screamed that there ought to
be law to keep trucks off the road
But times have changed, says the
National Safety Council, and statis-
tics now show that the commercial
vehicle driver has greatly improved
his safety record in recent years while
that of the private car driver has
become worse.
Since 1927, say the statistics, the
number of trucks involved in fatal
accidents has decreased 20 percent.
The number of buses involved in fatal
accidents has dropped Al percent
during that same period. But the
number of passenger cars involved in
fatal accidents since 1927 has in
creased 81 percent.
Is it any wonder, then, that the
truck and bus drivers feel that they
are entitled to toss back few opin-
ions of their own at the private
driver?
There is such thing as being too
"cocky" about our driving and at the
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-08-17
Fair Time Is Our Time

With the season of local, county
and state fairs at hand comes the
season of great Importance to the
citizenry throughout the country.
Fairs are good measuring sticks of our
accomplishments during the year and
their educational value to us has un-
limited possibilities.
BY the products of our efforts dur
ing the year we are able to judge
their degree of excellence and by
judging that degree of excellence we
are able to map our plans for pro-
gresS.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-08-17

which the average citizen thinks,
rightly or wrongly, have more to do
with his life
The addition on the Frances Grout
building is needed, as is the rest
of the long-range construction pro-
gram which the east school board
has worked out. But it would have
been sign of greater health in the
body polite if the vote had been 6,4O0
to 300 instead of 81 to 8.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-08-17
DEFENDS CAPITALISM
Editor ASkov American:

Charles D. Egley of the Farmers
Union Live Stock Commission, is run
ming around the country feeding us
farmers Communist poison under
non-communist labelS-standard ar
guments of the Communist Manifesto
For example, in citing the surplus"
of the Ford Motor Company, he de-
picts it as something taken away from
the workers and therefore responsible
for their reduced purchasing power
in this depression. But Ford has
maintained higher wages and stand
ards than even the Red labor unions
demand, hence his surplus" can
hardly mean something taken away
from the workers.
Indeed, it is Ford's judicious use
of SURPRISES or profits that has made
him an outstanding benefactor of the
laboring man. He used his profits
to expand his industry in such way
as to drastically reduce the cost of
automobiles, thereby bringing them
within reach of the laboring mans
pOShStOOOh, III dOuillOu W giving
laboring men thousands of jobs which
they would not have were it not for
his judicious use of SURPRISES.
Since Ford has thus been practicing
the capitalistic system properly, for
the benefit of the common man, he is
a thorn in the side of the Reds and
the reactionaries, both of whom are
seeking to destroy the competitive
system of private profit and to re-
place it by system of monopoly
control or autocracy.
Autocracy is the real meaning of
the kind of cooperatives that Mr..
Egley is preparing for. For years
we farmers have been succeeding
with various kinds of cooperatives
built on the profit system. Now we
are supposed to junk the profit mo-
tive and just wait for someone to
pull white rabbits of honesty out of
hat, as if all our past cooperation
has been dishonest. No, the way to
build honest cooperation is by per-
sistent correction of abuses at the
top. But the Marxists, whose poison
Mr.. Egley is pouring down our Threats,
do not believe in correcting any
abuses; they are after the system, not
| the sinners.
LEWIS o. ANDERSON.
Osakis, Mimi, Aug. 9, 1889.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-08-17
FEW INTERESTED IN THE
SCHOOLS

(Waterloo, Iowa, Daily Courler)
Complimentary, probably, to the
Waterloo east school board is the fact
that only ~ persons voted in the
election on the expenditure of $4,000
to build an addition to Frances Grout
school, and that the proposition car
ried "a to 8.
The inference might be that the
thousands of voters in Waterloo east
have confidence in the good sense
of their school board, believe that a
proposition submitted by that board
is worthy of approval, and believe
further that that opinion is so general
among residents of the district that
it is unnecessary for friends of the
board to make any special effort to
60 to the polls.
The same reasoning would hardly
apply to regular school election, at
which members of the board are
named. But these regular elections
too, in recent years in both Waterloo
school districts, have drawn very few
voters. Perhaps all the candidates
were good ones and the electorate
thought it made little difference who
got the job.
What is more probable is that the
voters generally take less interest
than they should in school administra-
ton.
Yet in most years the school boards
spend more of the taxpayers money
than the city council, the exceptions
being when million dollar sewage
disposal plant is being built or there
is some other extraordinary city ex-
penditure.
The school boards control a far
bigger payroll than the mayor and
city council do. Waterloo's two school
superintendent each is paid consid-
erably more money than the mayor
The business of the schools is big
business just from dollars and cents
viewpoint, to say nothing of the effect
on the lives of the children who will
be tomorrow's citizens.
No doubt the public lethargy re-
garding school affairs is due to the
fact that school boards do nothing
but run the schools, whereas the
council and supervisors and city and
county officials have their fingers on
parking limits, road paving, beer per-
mits and zoning, strict or lax law
enforcement, and many other matters
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-08-17
WHY NONRESIDENT ?

Just recently the Civil Service
Board, appointed by Governor Harold
E. Stassen following creation of a
Civil Service department by the last
legislature, selected Civil Service
director. This man is a native of
Michigan and undoubtedly is well
qualified for the position which he
will hold
The law creating the Civil Service
department reads that a director shall
be selected, regardless of place of res
idence, from list of applicants who
have taken an examination for the
position. Of course, according to
news announcements, the man Sc
lected was the highest ranking appli-
cant after the examination had been
given but no mention has been made
as to the standing of Minnesota appli-
cants, if there were any, for that job.
The purpose of this editorial is
ton in selecting a nonresident for
one of our leading governmental posi-
lions but it is, rather, for the pur-
pose of pointing out the necessity
of adhering to home selection in our
fulfllment of employment vacancies.
Certainly we can find well qualified
and worthy men and women in Min
nesota who are contributing their
share in building the state and upkeep
of the various departments requiring
employees.
School districts in many sections
of this state and in municipalities
together with private employers, gen.
orally speaking, adhere to the policy
of hiring local residents wherever
possible and in these times of stress
that policy is certainly worthy one.
For, after all, with the acute relief
problems facing the taxpayers it is
only natural that each local employe
will tighten the taxpayers load.
We realize, of course, that the pur-
pose of the law in regards to the
Civil Service director was meant SC
that the best man obtainable could
be secured for such an important
position without having confinement
within state borders. But with every
thing being equal, as we have stated
it would be well to adhere to the
policy of local residents when we
fill positions.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-08-17
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, 1939-08-17
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
Continued from Page -

matter of public knowledge. There
have been guesses, speculation, con-
lectures. But no one outside the
immediate and inner circle definitely
knows anything.
The impression that the Danzig
problem will be solved peaceably
spreads, however, in spite of excited
stories in part of the daily press
Monday and Tuesday to the effect
that Hitler would challenge Poland,
Great Britain, France and, possibly,
Russia, by carrying out with light
ming rapidity military occupation
of Danzig. There have to date been
no actual indications that Hitler would
adopt such method.
Danzig War Unlikely.
Since the Salzburg and Berchtes-
gaden talks the war fear cannot be
described as having increased, for,
so far, that is, until the time of the
present writing, there has been Moth
ing indicating war with Danzig as
its nucleus. That Hitler wants Dam
zig, is no secret; but he wants it in
his own way, and one may be fairly
certain that that way does not lead
through war, one decisive factor here
being Hitler's obvious and under
standable fear of far stronger and
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-08-17

ply with the japanese demands at this
time is generally characterized as
new humiliation-for Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain and his govern
ment
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-08-17
States Tourist
Trade Is Good
World Fairs Did Not In
fluence Falling Off of
Tourist Trade.

Far from discouraged by the fact
that tourist registrations failed to set
new high marks in Minnesota this
year, resort owners and observers
generally look upon the amount of
business done this year in that line
as highly encouraging, judging from
comment reported from many sec
tons.
Early this year fears were fire.
quently expressed that the two world
fairs now in progress on the eastern
and western coasts of the nation
would attract such large proportion
of the country's vacationiSts this
summer that the number of such Wis
itors to Minnesota necessarily would
show material falling off compared
with preceding seasons.
Fears Prove Groundless.
Although the tourist season still
has a few weeks to go, the influx
of tourists has been such as to dis
sipate these fears as groundlesS.
While it is true that in some sections
of the state the tourist trade is slight
ly below last years, other areas re-
port that it has reached approx
mately last years level, while in two
or three instances there have been
claims that registrations have topped
the marks of the two preceding sea-
sons.
Big Attraction to Tourists.
This showing, under circumstances
of such keen competition as have pre-
vailed this season, is viewed by OBJ
servers generally as proof positive
that Minnesota is out in the front
rank as tourist attraction and can
look forward to a tremendous up
swing when conditions have become
normal once more
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-08-17

same time permit ourselves to vio-
late rules of the road while condemn
ing the other fellows action. We
private drivers should 60 out and re-
duce our total of fatal accidents be-
fore we condemn too much the COM
mercial drivers.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-08-17

their land, good radiance; first rain
that came flooded it. Now if I knew
where to get $50 to meet the pay
ment on the piano, I'd be all right.
Bought new automobile today on the
"pay out of income basis" but Uncle
George won't ride in it.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-08-17
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, 1939-08-17

March IA little late with payment
on car this month and will have to
let the radio payment go over until
April as bought a set of books and
paid Sill down. Fine set of books
Had little argument with the wife,
but shucks, she needs to do some
reading so she can meet with my
friends.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-08-17

The New England colleges which
constitute "The Little Three" are Am
herst, Williams and Wesleyan.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-08-17

February paid installments on
car and bought radio set on easy
terms, fine set and the payments will
be small monthly.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-08-17

Summary-Two base hits, Buck; home
runs, Russ Jensen; double plays, Entner
to MortenSon; struck out by Bergseth l.
by o. Jensen 6; bases on balls, off Berg
seth l, off o. Jensen o; left on bases, Fin
layson 4, Askov S; umpires, Johnson and
Dahlin; scorer, M. Jensen.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-08-17

November 10 Income stopped!
Got fired at the office. In looking
for job one has to have suit of
clothes, so I bought one this after
noon. Five dollars down.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-08-17

Summary-TWo base hits, BUCK, B. OLE
sen; three base hits, Russ Jensen Fortier,
Scheeler; home runs, Buck, Anderson;
double plays, Ellison unassisted; struck out,
by Bergseth S; by o. Jensen 5; left on
bases, Askov 3, Finlayson z; umpires,
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-08-17

''The Tombs" is a municipal prison
in New York city.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-08-17

A modern story of a modern finan-
cier has come to my attention. It
reads something like this: January
4-Bought an automobile today, very
easy terms, fine car. Eighteen more
payments and she's mine.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-08-17

Amsterdam is the center of tn,
worlds diamond trade.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-08-17

April 15-Borrowed money from
the bank to make payment on the
car, but radio man came for his pay
ment and we put out the lights, pre-
tending we weren't home he
hung around all evening and we
couldn't see to read the books and
didn't dare to turn on the radio.
June borrowed money from
Uncle George to pay the bank the
$50 borrowed and to make car pay
ment. Got behind a little on the
books, but the wife doesn't read them
anyway and knew about everything
that was in them the binding
would not have lasted anyway if 1
had kept them.
August 15-Somehow I don't miss
the radio for bought piece of land
on monthly payments. 1t should
jump in value as it is in new de-
velopment area. I paid $50 down.
Uncle George is working up a sweat
about that $1O0 borrowed from him.
September 30-The garage man is
holding the car for that labor bill.
What right has he to hold the car?
1t doesn't belong to me.
October 1T wasn't any use, I
had to let the car 60. Anyway I'd
rather have that piece of land i. &.
they've given me months grace on
that. Real estate people have more
heart after all.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-08-17
l Would Say
BY A. w. CONAWAY

Sportsmanship, which only news
paper man can show, was displayed
by the Minneapolis Star-Journal Mon
day evening. The newspaper, which
itself came into being just few
weeks ago, issued an editorial greet
ing to new Observation-Disclosures
lis Times-Tribune-on the advent of
its first issue. The greeting said,
"Good luck!" 1t didn't say so but
guess that it also meant . +. you'll
need it."
The greeting was really whole
hearted and sportsmanlike, very
much unlike similar greeting given
from a campaign platform to COM
petitor politician, when we are likely
to hear that the opposing candidate
for office is OK, but that he is a
trifle reckless with the truth, care
less in handling other peoples money
and is corrupt. In other words the
average compliment is the naked truth
arrayed in full dress, but not the
greeting which was issued by the
Star-Journal.
I see where some citizens of Min
neapolis have started custer proceed
ings against the three Railroad &
Warehouse Commissioners. You see
they are mad about not getting a
larger reduction in telephone rates
that they never knew they had COM
ing.
You know, by gum, I never saw
such a group of people, generally
speaking, as our Minnesota people,
who immensely enjoy custer proceed
ings. They actually would rather see
an custer proceeding than five-ring
performance of Barnum & Baily cir
Gus or a Republican political
rally.
Why we really remind me of the
fellow who bought car with wind
shield to keep the wind out of his
face and then broke it out because
he couldn't see through it in a fog.
l see where they are about to bare
three new road fraud cases in Mime
sofa. BY golly they've sure been
doing a lot of road work here during
the past few years.
But there are a lot of rough places
to be ironed out and of course LOT
of boils (not frost) to be dug out
A storm of protest has greeted the
announcement that President Roose-
welt will proclaim Thanksgiving this
year a week earlier than has been the
tradition. Now shucks, we might ex-
pect such action from Browder, g
Bridges or Thomas, but certainly not
from Democrat.
The greatest Thanksgiving the Re-
publicans can have, and it will make
no difference what day or week i
falls on will be when the announce
ment comes that there will be nc
third term.
A modern story of modern finan-
cier has come to my attention. L
reads something like this: January
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-08-17

November 15-Well, they can have
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-08-17

Rip Van Wrinkle is a character in
fiction who slept 20 years.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-08-17

Modern polo was developed in
India.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-08-17

The greatest Thanksgiving the Re-
publicans can have, and it will make
no difference what day or week it
falls on will be when the announce
ment comes that there will be no
third term
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-08-17

l see where some citizens of Min
neapolis have started custer proceed
ings against the three Railroad &
Warehouse Commissioners. You see
they are mad about not getting a
larger reduction in telephone rates
that they never knew they had COM
ing.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-08-17

A storm of protest has greeted the
announcement that President Roose-
welt will proclaim Thanksgiving this
year week earlier than has been the
tradition. Now shucks, we might ex-
pect such action from a Browder, a
Bridges or Thomas, but certainly not
from a Democrat.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-03-17
SYNOPSIS

Richard Exon. a poor young English
man. befriends elderly Matthew Gering,
who at his death. gives him statement
claiming he. Gering. Is hudoipn t E,Dss.
an nobility who was BETRAYED ~ years
before by his twin brother. Ferdinand:
whose sentence for forgery ne nmsen
served. Ferdinand appropriated ms I a;as
property and daughter. Before ne ores,
FGering tells Exon there Is family secret,
known only to the head of the house. 10
he found In the great tower az brlei, py ..a
doorway none can ever find. Exon lnnerits
his uncle's fortune and sets out to right
sGering's wrongs. En- route he encounters
Percy Gilbert Virgil son of the villainous
Ferdinand and sees him in conference with
InslSip. diamond merchant. He engages
valet Winter. who hates Percy and meets
by chance at a-garage, John Herrick. who
is linguist and who as youth served az
"A page at Gering's wedding, and had Wis
tied Brief. Herrick agrees to aid Exon
Revoke's farm at Raven, few miles from
Brief and make their plans. They nno the
castle almost inaccessible. they see
closed car occupied by Percy Virgil. q
chauffeur. and a woman. hearf a- 2 uvs
scream, they see the chauffeur logging IL.
just as a horse with girl astrloe pounos
along the path and is felled by strung
wire The girl, unconscious, Is picked up
.carelessly by the chauffeur and woman,
who then run away, after dropping her
Exon rescues the girl and carries ner TO
his waiting car. He identifies the girl as
Elizabeth, daughter of the disowned Gering,
tells her of her cousins plot to abduct her
and takes her to Raven. where he tells
her the story of her father and promises
to go the limit to help her right her ia
theirs wrongs Elizabeth wins faith In her
benefactor. Percy Virgil brings the police
to Raven, announcing that two strangers
are being sought for the kidnapping of Eliza
beth Herrick Discounts Virgil, tells OF the
mornings adventure, names man called
Max and hands the police sealed en-
velope with the name Of the leader In the
abduction-Percy Virgil. Exon and Herrick
suspect Percy Of having sold the family
Jewels through Inslsip. All realize the only
solution is to find the Secret Of Brief
which the impostor Ferdinand does not
know They decide to take possession OF
the Tower.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-03-17
Science Has Ousted Old Time Sourdough;
College Men Now Hit Canada's Gold Trail

The grizzled old prospector, the
sourdough trail blazer through the
northern wilderness, has not dis
appeared from the scene but is
gradually vanishing from Canada's
gold trails, writes a Vancouver (B.
CO. United Press correspondent in
the Detroit Free Press.
Some have followed the modern
trend to the airlanes, while new
tangled gadgets explore the secrets
of the earth and modern aerial pho
Biography eliminates the guesswork
in the present day quest for gold.
Still the veterans and the younger
men swarm over Canada's hinter-
land in search of the '.gold in
them thar hills" but modern min
ing men agree that they belong to
the lost legion.
The yellow metal is still where
you find it, but modern science is
fisding it first. It is the era of the
geologist, the college-trained miner.
8 Geophysical prospectors reveal
what lies under the glacial layer
which covers the dominion. This
year the Canadian government win
send 40 such expeditions into the
northern mining areas.
In the Cariboo district of British
Columbia placer mining is still in
evidence and hundreds Of men have
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-03-17
BANNER SERIAL FICTION

since, before we came in, we had
gathered the scraps which had fall
en- whilst was at work, there now
was nothing to show that the cage
had been tempered with.
Then / joined my lady and Her
rick, who were surveying the stair.
If this was dark by night, it was
dim by day, and we could do nothing
useful without the help of torch:
so, though we had not brought Bren-
da with that idea, she had very soon
to come to Elizabeth's aid: togeth-
er they shed the light, whilst Her
rick and I conducted the actual
search.
That the work would require great
patience was presently clear, for
the walls seemed to be as blank
as an untouched page, yet we could
not believe that doorway could be
concealed in the steps.
"You must 60 UP, counting your
steps ;"
Not until that time did ! at all I'M
derstand the portion confronting the
prisoner of ancient days, who set
himself to discover way to break