Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-01-18

to each of those seeking the nominal
ton. The one that spends his allot-
ment the quickest should make the
best candidate for president.
This being the season for ping
pong, l find that ping pong ball is
thing that does its best to stay out
of such a silly game =. but then
it doesn't need the exercise to retain
its original shape as do many players
of the game.
A bridge lamp is light enough to
see by and too heavy to throw.
Oh me! We bored Americans +. {.
and the drilled Europeans.
The great Britisher, Alfred Duff
Cooper, former first lord of the
British admiralty, who spoke in Min
neapolis Wednesday evening, is
''blueblood," says newspaper report.
Yep, he can trace his ancestry back
so as to scoop up some royal blood.
Now that we know what's wrong
with him we should be very, very
tolerant of his speech in our fair state.
Mr.. Cooper is a good politician,
though, for he prefers to be called
just plain Mr.. Duff Cooper, especially,
as l see it, when travelling among the
masses. l don't know what he is
called back home for we hear
very little of the masses over there.
But even at that no one has yet
heard Mr. Cooper say he is farmer
Headlines: "FBI Nips Plot Against
U. S." The article goes on to tell
about the arrest of 18 members of a
group operating under the name of
Christian Front" with dictatorship
propensities. They are reported to
have had IL congressman marked for
death and had intended taking over
some of the nations vital works of
industry and transportation.
How the gang could figure out
which congressman were the worst,
l don't know, but they had 'em
marked.
Those marked by the gang were to
be made examples in warning those
who voted against repeal of the arms
embargo. That's bad, for many of
those congressman have already been
marked for the same offense by the
voters and our laws prohibit causing
a person to be in jeopardy twice for
the same offense.
Then too, the gang was decidedly
un-American, for the American way
would not be to shoot 'em with bull
lets, but to beat 'em with ballots
that would be more punishment.
Make 'em come back home and EN-
joy" themselves, the legislation they
helped to make . the torture stake
is the REAL American way.
Last week the Democrats through
out the country sat down to S25 and
S100-a-plate dinners and during Feb
ruary the Republicans will sit down
to $3.50 dinners . the rest of us
will continue to eat the crumbs from
the kings tables.
Admiral Richard E. Byrd and crew
of about rs were expected to estab-
lish a camp in the Antarctic this
week. The report said that it would
take them about two weeks to unload
the ship. Well, shucks, there is no
hurry, they amt goin' no place.
Now the Democrats are divided
into two camps and they are about
as far apart as they can get . at
Matanuska and at the South Pole.
One of the rules which Nazi news
paper gives to its German readers
as protection against the Sub-Zero
weather they are having is to keep
moving, walking or running as that
keeps the blood in motion" By golly
that paper must have been read by
the Russians in Finland
l see where state senator in the
Nebraska legislature appeared on the
legislative floor in a barrel after a
dare had been made by colleagues.
Shucks, that's nothing, many taxpay-
ers have been wearing barrels for a
long time to keep legislators of such
propensities in their jobs.
The Finnish war situation reminds
one that a militant minority might
put an end to . Stain.
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