davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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III CHECK IN the racine. Inc Jap.
anese are building new ships more
rapidly than we are, and we cannot
increase our construction rate with
out opening new navy yards. Great
expenditures would seem to be
promptly indicated, yet out Of pure
ostrich -headedness Congress has be-
grudged the few million dollars re-
quired to transform the island of
Guam into a vitally needed advance
base in the Pacific. Meanwhile the
time may soon come when we can n
dofand thu Atlantic for 1iS
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HE opinions OF tho Ov1teys page are their ovn not
necessarily! RE stars Such opnsons are presented II The
readers although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
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Nomination
In Grasp Of
Roosevelt
But He Would Risk
Loss Of Prestige
In Third Term
By CHARLES q. ROSS.

II there remained, after the Texas
compromise" that gave the Garner
people the core Of the apple and not
much Of that, any doubt that the
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Every man in the Swiss Army Is
being examined and the number Of
his blood group engraved On his
identity badge.
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which marks Frederic william Vile.
milestone in history. Such triumph
Of political self discipline is the equal
of q decisive battle. The nation
which won it Is capable of surviving
many q Norway The Nazis will
hardly understand it, for they are
not allergic to the processes of de-
mocracy, but the implications under
lying Neville Chamberlain's victory
will plague the Germans, and even
tually, destroy them. no matter how
long the day of reckoning is post
poned.
Principle, Not Personalities.
Chamberlain, Churchill, Halifax.
Simon, Hoare and Stanley, happen
to be the beneficiaries of late events
in london. But the principle which
was vindicated-the right Of free
people to apply the lash of public
chastisement to their official serv-
ants-transcends any personality in
volved. One is almost tempted to
question whether 1T could happen
here. It certainly could not happen
in Berlin, Rome, Moscow or Toxic,
possibly not even in Paris. In
totalitarian capitals 1t would have
sent firing squads, assassination de-
tachments or chopping blocks into
action. Lloyd George, Atlee, Morri-
son, Sinclair and Keyes took their
courage in both hands in Parlia-
ment, because all this was arranged
by the barons with King John in
1915. Magma Charta. temporarily in
safe-keeping at the Library of Con-
gress, sees to it that when Britons
harbor a grievance against their
rulers or their own representatives,
they shall not be abridged in the
freedom Of speech or of the press"
as the first Article of Americas S
Bill Of Rights has it.
4 4
Britain and Ourselves.
Having dof1ed my hat to Great
Britain, I venture a bit of critical
suggestion. It concerns the issue at
the root of much American think
ing-John Bulls complacent disre-
gard of the $4,000, 900 900 war debt.
Once said to British Ambassa-
dor at Washington that his govern
ment's entry into the rank Of debt
repudiationists had undermined
Anglo-American friendship. and if
1t became a fixed policy, it might
destroy that friendship. The AM
bassador explained that because of
his country's financial straits, any
debt curtailments Britain could af-
ford would be like pouring water
down a drain" His Britannia ma
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Washington Observations
Would Allies Hand Over Bases in Africo
And Caribbean as Debt Payments?

BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.
This American is going to be un-
neutral enough today to take his hat
on to Great Britain, which this week
gave one Of the most inspiring ex-
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jesty's excellency also opined that
any token payments" London could
make would not satisfy American
public sentiment. I disagree with
this thesis, but the envoy said 1t
was London's firm belief.
+ X 4 X
II No Cash, Why Not Islands?
Let's admit Britain obviously is
less able today than ever to make
Secretary Morgenthau any pay
ments on account. and that soon
she may be able to finance war pur-
chases only through fresh credits.
The johnson and Neutrality Acts,
and, at the moment, public senti-
ment, prohibit anything but G. o. D.
transactions. That spirit is chang
ing. After the November elections,
1t may have vanished. What can
Britain do to hasten the change?
In my judgment, there's nothing
she could possibly do, approximating
In persuasive power an oher to
transfer tothe United States some
of her surplus insular territory for
air and naval bases on this side Of
the Atlantic.
Africa Now q Factor.
It is. Of course, not a new idea
that the British should hand over
certain Caribbean possessions, Of
strategic importance to our Panama
Canal and "hemispherical defense
plans. But, with rapid development
of air power, the relative nearness
Of territory in Western Africa is q
matter of mounting concern to
American military and naval stra-
tegists. Were the great bulge" in
Western Africa-including territory
now in possession of the British,
French, Spanish, Belgians and
Portuguese to pass to powers hostile
to the United States, they could
control the whole South Atlantic
and keep the American Navy con-
tinually on the defensive. A. Y.
Jackson of Toronto, has just written
Tin the New York Times) that "a
bolder solution of Americas problem
than obtaining control of Britain's S
West Indian possessions would
seem to be to get established on the
bulge in West Africa first" Either
in settlement of existing war debts
or for establishment of new war
credits, Mr.. Jackson thinks, Great
Britain or France would cede us
territory.
West Africa is closer to South
America Tin BraziD than the United
States is. The Germans have con-
Quoted numerous experimental
plane flights over the shorter route.
In addition to the West Indies and
West Africa, Brig. Gen. George v.
Strong. assistant chief of staff of
the United States Army, has Just
pointed to Newfoundland, which
offers practicable facilities as an
air base from which operations can
be launched against vital areas in
the United States as far south as
the Potomac" Gen. Strong says "an
enemy once established in British
owned Newfoundland would consti-
tute a very serious threat against
either Canada or the United States"
In the same connection Strong men,
tions that south of the Caribbean,
"the great hump of South America
jutting out in the Atlantic offers in
Natal "a province of the Union of
South Africa) the nearest approach
to American shores from the Afri-
can continent"
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The Mythical Army

longer rely
defend the tantc for
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-08-01

Only as democracy regains the rev.
dictionary drive it once had can we
meet the assault of totalitarianism.
No Hitler could arise in the midst of
happy, prosperous people. No Hit
Ter could bore from within or defeat
from without great nation at the
peak of its strength, with bold and
generous international policy. No
revolution can succeed where all the
pepole have stake in their own we'll
being. No war could blight the sur
face of the earth if it were governed
by a democratic federation of man
kind.
If we accept as our goal the full
fillment of the democratic ideal,
though aware that no absolute per-
lection can be attained, we have our
direction. If war engulfs us too, we
can at least still hope our sacrifices
will not be in vain. In so far as we
do revitalize our democracy, we can
regain the initiative now lost to the
dictators.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-08-01
TAXES AND DEMOCRACY

The average, moderately successful
Englishman who has a S150-a-month
JOB, wife, and two children, will
find only SIG in his pay envelope
from now on.
British income taxes were raised
yesterday to 1912 per cent. After ex-
emptions that amounts to about 221a
per cent of the total wages of the
middle class Garner.
That isn't all his taxes, by any
means, for while he has no state in
come tax on top of the national levy,
he does have to pay all the taxes,
hidden and otherwise, which Britain
places on such things as his radio set;
his motor car and the gasoline he
uses-although wartime restrictions
keep him from driving much; his beer.
his movie tickets, his books and news
papers.
The Englishman will no longer pay
his income taxes for himself, twice a
year, as in the past. They will be
deducted by his employer on each
payday, and RENTED direct to the
government. That is a new practice
in England, but Adolf Hitler has been
doing it for years.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-08-01
STASSEN'S COLOR IS SHOWN
(Tri-County Forum


It remains to be seen what reac-
ton the people of Minnesota will have
toward Gov. Stassen since he aligned
himself so strongly behind Mr.. Will
kie, the COP public utility candidate
for president.
The people of the state voted Mr..
Stassen into power on platform that
he maintained was as progressive as
that of the Farmer-Laborites. He
has dispelled this impression already
by the sponsorship he gave to the
old-age lien law, the SO per cent loan
shark law and other reactionary forms
of legislation.
Mr.. Stassen took the most active
part of any COP in promoting Willkie
into the COP endorsement. BY so
doing he has definitely affixed him.
self as a reactionary and the sup
porter of the big trusts, which the
candidacy of Willkie typifes.
Instead of spending his time pro-
noting Willkie and the COP in the
country as a whole, Stassen should
rather remain in the state to pro-
mote better business and more in
dustry, which he promised in 1888
but of which we have seen no result.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-08-01
SAILING THEIR OWN SHIP
WATSON Voice.

That the Communist party definite
ly has given up "boring from within
the Farmer-Labor party" as hereto
forth is evidenced in the fact that the
party this year is launching it's own
campaign with a candidate for gov
ernor and United States Senator And
that is as it should be. If the Farm
er-Labor party members believed as
the Communists, then they should
be Communists, and sail their own
ship. 1t is a pleasure to know that
in the coming campaign those who
lean towards Communism, can find
their expression outside of the Farm
er-Labor party. Our two state con-
ventions have made it clear enough
to anybody that there is decided
difference, and that the rank and file
of the party will have no more mix
up in this line.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-08-01

In Germany every wage earner's
pay is dipped into by the government,
before he ever sees it--not only for
income taxes and for unemployment
insurance, old age insurance, health
insurance, etc., but also for his dues
to the Labor Front and even for his
supposedly voluntary contribution to
the winter relief fund" of the Nazi
party.
Before the war, a German worker
who earned SOS a month"; fairish
wage for semi-skilled laborer-
found about $42 in his pay envelope
after government taxes had been de-
Quoted. Probably he finds less now.
The trend everywhere is toward
relieving the taxpayer of responsible
ity for paying his own taxes. Even
in this country his social security
taxes and some others are deducted
for him at the governments instruc-
ton. Probably that is the only eff
cient way to collect them.
A citizens responsibility for paying
his own taxes is not necessarily an
inalienable right. But he had better
be sure, when he gives the govern
ment a whack at his pay before he
even gets his hands on it, that he is
not surrendering his ultimate right
to say how much he shall be taxed,
or what the taxes he pays shall be
used for. The axiom that the power
to tax is the power to destroy holds
true as to democracy itself.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-08-01
ALI Livestock Is
Under Pressure
Light Supplies Fail to Boil
ster Cattle; Hogs Off Csc
to SOC; Lambs Decline.

South ST. Paul, Mimi, July 80,
1910: Warm weather throughout the
Middle West paved the way for slug
gish dressed trade, which has been
passed on to the live market Buyers
sought vainly to enforce sharply low
er ideas, succeeding to the extent of
25c, this applying to most classes.
Grain-fed strictly choice light year.
lings lost least price ground, accord
ing to the Federal-State Market News
Service, topping at SLOTS, best heavy
steers stopping at S1025. Choice loads
of heifers and mixed steers and heif-
ers realized STOPS. Dry-fed cows
sold up to $3.50, good grassy offer
ings around $3.50, Gamer and cutter
cows $3.50 to $3.50. Good sausage
bulls stopped at S6.25, beefy arrivals
going from $3.50 to $500. Kosher
weights of vealers cashed at $1,000
sparingly, the bulk widening on good
to choice lots at $500 to $3.50. Linz
tied inquiry for replacement stock
was evident, most offerings common
to medium going at $3.50 to SITS,
few good $500 to $3.50.
Hot Weather Affects Demand.
Hot weather, with the resulting
sluggish and weak tone to dressed
pork, has been the main factor fore
ing hog values Csc to soc below Fri
day of last week. Tuesdays trade
found barrows and gifts selling mostly
soc lower, with a top of $3.50, while
soWs were Csc to 35c off. Most of
the good and choice $50 to 24O pound
barrows and gifts sold Tuesday at
$3.50 to $500, while 24O to 300 pound
cleared at S4.90 to S5.75, and 300 to
800 pound brought S4.65 to S5.O5.
Light lights scaling 40 to 16O pounds
were disposed of at $500 to $3.50,
with 100 to $50 pound clearing at
$3.50 to $500. Good light sows 300
pounds down sold mainly at $500,
while 300 to 400 pound brought S4.35
to $500, and heavier weights ranged
down to SAILS. Feeder pigs in light
supply were Csc off at mostly S4.75
to S5.25.
Slaughter lamb values dropped Csc
Monday but trading gave evidence
that a firmer footing had been reached
when Tuesdays liberal run cleared
readily at steady terms with packers
and shippers alike displaying broad
inquiry. The eastern dressed lamb
market, however, is slow to recover
from the serious slump of the past
two weeks, weak undertone still
prevailing. Range spring slaughter
lambs cleared Tuesday at $500 to
S8.15. The top and bulk price on
sorted fat natives was SITS. Year
lings are Csc lower than Friday while
sheep hold steady. Feeder lambs are
15c to Csc lower with current price
on rangers $780,
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-08-01
CrOningen
(From Another Correspondent

Callers at the Ben Nelson home
Sunday were Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Nell
son and Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Ander-
son of Rutledge.
Willard Nelson spent the weekend
at his parental home. Paul Jensen
accompanied him to Duluth Monday
morning.
Mrs. Tollofson, who has been car
ing for her sister, Mrs Chas. Law
renee, left for her home last week.
She intends to return here later.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jewel Nelson of
As1ov, called at the Ben Nelson home
Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Tollofson
spent few days at the Chas. Law
renee home last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Haglin and
son of Duluth, visited at the A. C.
Haglin home Saturday.
Miss Marie Mohelski of Kettle
River, is visiting at the home of her
uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs Martin
Eiffler, and family few days.
Mrs. Art w. Haglin and family &C
companied by Mildred Swanson and
Milton Haglin drove to Jacobson Mon
day evening to attend a Young Peo-
pies rally at the Presbyterian church
where Rev. R. Deursen is pastor.
Mrs. Jim Ankrum, Mrs. Marie Nell
son and Rine Rittle drove to Mime
apolis Sunday. The ladies were to
receive medical treatment at the Uni
versity hospital.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-08-01
Approval Given For
North Pine Project

Approval was given the past week
to the North Pine Electric Coopera-
tive, Inc, by Mr.. Ausen of the Wash
ington office who was present at a
meeting of the project board. The
project engineer, Mr.. Kutcliff, was
also present and arrangements were
made to start stalking the line this
week or next.
Committees were appointed to take
charge of the various items in the
work program and Louis Brabec of
Willow River, was engaged as CO.
ordinator for 60-day period to head
the activities. The men on the var
ious committees are as follows: Labor
John Osladil, E. c. Whitehead, Ben
Erickson, Peter Kiminski and Jens
j. Krogh; office-Louis Brabec, Leon
ard Goranson and Harold Mack; wir-
ing-Mrs. Clarence Jensen, Carl K.
Larsen and Fred Polivka; appliances
E. c. Whitehead, Marlin Smith and
Mrs. Clarence Jensen; poles-Paul
Dubbels, Harold Mack and John Osla-
dill.
Bids are being asked for on car
load lots of washing machines, re-
frigerators and other appliances as
well as the wire needed for the work.
in order to effect saving by buying
in quantity lots.
The labor committee will contact
the members of the cooperative to
ascertain whether or not they wish
to work out part of the wiring costs.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-08-01
Need NYA Workers
In Defense Program

Arrangements have been completed
in Pine county whereby local young
men interested in NYA work in the
national defense program may reg
lister for employment. The Pine
county office is located in the court
house in Pine City and will be open
each Wednesday at 10 a. m. William
j. Stotts will be in charge.
AS the registration gets under way,
major changes have been made in
certification procedures in anticipa-
ton of the part NYA will play in
the defense program.
Eligibility for NYA employment
now is broadly interpreted as the
need of employment, work experience
or training. Heretofore "need of re-
lief" has been the controlling factor.
To be eligible to register, individuals
must be between the ages of 18 and
25 inclusive, be citizens of the United
States and unemployed. Youths at
tending high school or college during
the regular school year, are not elig-
IDLE. Individuals receiving unemploy-
ment compensation benefits also are
ineligible.
Registration does not assume a
probability of immediate NYA en-
ployment, since quotas that cannot
be exceeded will be assigned to each
area. However, any person eligible
and interested should register at once
as local quotas doubtless will take
into consideration the number of ap-
plicants in each community.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-08-01

the American nations to offset what
ever losses they are now suffering as
result of the European war, and CO.
operation of this nature is under
stood to mean also military joining
of efforts in crisis that may face
all the nations.
1t is learned on what appears to
be good authority that the govern
ment-inspired press of Germany and
Italy is furious about the Havana
agreement. They had not expected
it, and they frankly do not like it.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-08-01
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, 1940-08-01
A Little Spice

The devil uses vacant mind as a
dumping ground.
A good book is a friend who will
not quarrel with you.
If it were not for love there would
be no beautiful language.
We remain small often because we
refuse to acknowledge our mistakes.
Minds rust out through worry fast
er than they wear out from work.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-08-01
POISON FORMULA

Editor Askov American:
l read in your paper last week
about sugar. beet web worms and the
treatment for killing them. The arti-
Gle stated: "a spray of four parts of
Paris Green, four parts of hydrated
lime and 100 gallons of water"
1t doesn't mention what weight of
Paris Green and hydrated lime. Four
parts of each will be equal weight
and this is sold by weight, but water
is fluid measure, so that can not be
compared in parts. Thus the state
ment can not be used as a formula
to go by.
ANDREW RASMUSSEN.
5000 West River Blvd, Minneapolis.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-08-01
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, 1940-08-01

1t is now revealed that P. T. Bar
mum was himself sucker, having
been stuck for $4,000 in a phony
copper mine scheme. Maybe that's
how he happened to think of that
wisecrack.-Appleton Press.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-08-01
ANDREW RASMUSSOTN.
5000 West River Blvd, Minneapoli

NOTE: The weights are four
pounds of Paris Green and four
pounds of hydrated lime.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-08-01
Oppose Failures of Democracy.

Hitler and Stain are the spearhead
of a world revolution not against
freedom and democracy but against
the limitations of freedom and the
failures of democracy. They de-
nounce "pluto-democracy," knowing
that we are most vulnerable in our
contrast of wealth and poverty. They
call for the destruction of the British
and French Empires, knowing that
hundreds of millions of people under
alien rule are seeking freedom. They
proudly assert that in their countries
none is unemployed or adrift or with
out provision for old age and sick
ness. That they would fasten new
slavery on the peoples of the world
does not lessen the explosive power
of their revolutionary drive.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-22

THE HOLIDAY program
planned for vacationing girls and
boys by the Department of Parks
and Recreation includes four
day drama festival. in which 20
one-act plays will be presented.
The productions have been
directed by recreation instruc-
tors with casts from junior girls
dramatic clubs meeting in the
recreation centers after school.
The festival will open with
two-day west side program at
Kronk Recreation Center on
Thursday and Friday. 1t will be
continued on the east side at
the ST. Clair Recreation Center
on December 30 and 81.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-22
Members to 90 Masked at Art Party Recreation Dept
Gives HOLIDAY Show

WHETHER YOU arrive as an
Eskimo Of Gaucho, costumes
and masks are in order for the
annual holiday party being held
al the art school Of the Crafts
Guild on Saturday night. The
affair has been named The
Western Hemisphere Mask and
guests are asked TO select their
own period in history but not 10
venture outside OF the Americas
for their character.
Mrs. William Daniel McCul-
Tough, who heads the committee
on costumes with Mrs. Elmer s.
Lumley. has listed innumerable
possible masquerades. Since no
more than 100 artists and their
friends are being invited there
need nc no repetitions for the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-22

lore and history Of the Western
Hemisphere hold plenty of ma
terial.
One OF the most interesting
parts of the program will be the
selection Of the winner of the
costume prize. II will go to the
person or couple who are judged
10 be the best Interpretation OF
the character they claim 10
depict. The judges for this event
are all Detroit artists. Miss Mil
dred Williams. Roy {. Gamble.
John Cnppin. George Harold
Fisher. Arthur Marschner. Milo
O'Leary, Russ Legge and Rex G.
White.
The awarding Of door prizes. a
portrait, an etching and an oil
painting will follow the costume
selection