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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-21

/ don't like the Bund. told them in Washington we
could have only trouble with the Bund because the people
Of the Bund are American citizens With their stupid
speeches they can give only troubCapt Fritz Wiede
mann, German consul general Mt San Francisco.
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kind is the use Of vitamin d in
the prevention and treatment -
ricketts, that il stands as on ~f
the 10 Magic Bullets upon which
modern medicine so greatly d.
ponds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-21

The League Of Nations may
not kick out Russia after all.
Probably afraid the insult would
20 over Joe Stains head
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And thy brother be POOR and fallen In decay
with thee then thou shalt relieve him: yea though he be
sraneer, or sojourner; that he may live with thee
Leviticus Is :35.
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TT. LEWIS FIREslEN
WIN GRTITUDE

Editor. The Times: Please
thank Fort Lewis fire depart
ment in responding 10 fires IN
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Incidentally. wasn't there an
other war somewhere along the
western front.
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DEATH WRESTLING
Strange as 1t seems, wres-
Ting was a fight unto death in
ancient Greece when Milo Of
Croton, 9Th century B. c., was
recognized as worlds champion.
Boxing, too. was dome to death"
in the good old days. One IA
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recently devised an underwater
robot pillow to plant the cables
where they would be safe.
Dragged half a mile behind the
cable ship. the pillow digs
trench, buries the cable and
covers it up
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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-10-24

over. The first thing hei showed them
was his strong army and defense
works. to14
After his neighbors went home they
talked the thing over and prepared for
eventualities. This was enough reason
for Wilhelm to start hOstilities, in
vading neutral countries.
After all his shooting was over
with, it had landed him as a refugee
in Holland and his people into the
Versailles treaty. Now the lamenta-
tiOns started. Prosperity and the
Kaiser were "gone with the wind.
Hitler stepped in, donned a brown
shirt with a swastika painted on the
sleeve, rounded up some communists
and Jews and had the ball rolling for
his "drang mach Osten", "Leben-
sraum", corridor to East Prussia,
Austria, three million u d e t e n S,
Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark,
Norway, Holland, Belgium, France
and last but not least, England.
Deutschland uber allies. The blitz-
krieg was on and where it will stop
nobody knows.
Therefor America is preparing for
nothing else than German aggression.
If somebody wants to camouflage the
German aggression, so that your Wis
ion is not clear, do then what Emile
lola always did, use your nose.
So far it has cost millions of dollars
to stop this aggression. England alone
spends more than &C million dollars
per day to keep those hyenas off it's
body.
How many cows did it cost the
German nation to build that Frank
enstein monster? Maybe that is the
reason for their stomach trouble in
stead of the Versailles treaty. The
Kaiser was bad yet worse is Hitler.
JOHN NIEBOER
Sandstone, Mimi.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-10-24
Editor AskOv American:

Editor Askov American:
| observed the comment in your
last issue relative to the Roosevelt for
president, Petersen for Governor or
ganization being sponsored, with Erwin
l.. Nelson, Pine town farmer, as chair
man. This organization meets with the
approval of a large number of farmers
and citizens in Pine county as we well
remember the years 1929, 80 and 81
before Roosevelt was elected.
There was lack of effort on the
leadership of the Republican party to
aid the farmers, workers and small
business men and Hjalmar Petersen
at that time was using the columns
of his paper to show up the Hoover
administration and gave his contri-
button in his editorials to the election
of Franklin Roosevelt.
Representative Hjalmar Petersen as
member of the Minnesota Legisla-
ture carried on a militant fighting
campaign in behalf of the farmers and
average man. His work was credit
to himself and the many people who
supported his candidacy. The state in
come tax has netted we'll over $780,
900 to the schools of Pine county since
it was passed, with practically no tax
on the rank and file farmer of this
county; at least l am not familiar
with any farmers who are compelled
| to pay a state income tax.
| Hjalmar Petersen for Governor
serves we'll to get the support of citi-
zens of Pine county, regardless OF
political affiliation. Let us all coop.
crate to elect a Pine county fighting
editor as Governor of Minnesota.
ALFRED WALBERG
Ri. 2, Braham, MINI.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-10-24
NOT PRO.BRITISH
. AskoY American:

Editor Askov American:
A word or two to S. j. Simonsen
In your letter in a recent Opinion OF
Others" you say that this country is
mostly pro- British. You are absolutely
wrong, it is neither prO-British MOI
pro-German. They the people, are
pro-American, pro-demOcratic. That is
why they sympathize with the British
They have seen one little country
after the other trampled under the die
tator's heel. I know, Mr.. Simonsen,
you call them only small fry caught in
the net of war. You wrote that once
this summer in one of your letters.
presume when a German submarine
sinks an English boat with its ref
ugees, women and children, bound for
safety in Canada, they were also only
small fry caught in the net of war.
Mr.. Simonsen, you don't seem to be
human. Don't you think that the peo-
pie of Denmark, Norway, Holland and
Belgium loved their peace, their free
dom, just as much as you CIR 1? Don't
you think that they have a soul just
as you and l? They tried their utmost
to avoid trouble to save what was
dearest to them. But they are only
small fry, Mr.. Simonsen, are they not ?
Thank God. the people of the United
States don't think so.
We have sympathy for these people
and feel for them and that is why we
hope and pray that England may win
for the sake of these people or small
fry as you call them and for the sake
of democracy.
No, Mr.. Simonsen, the American
people are not pro-English but they
are pro-American and pro-democratic.
JORGEN JUHL
Blooming Prairie, MINI.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-10-24

Republican party was shunted out
by the people at the close of the
Great Engineer Hoover's term, there
were about 100000 unemployed,
whereas today there are about 81a
or million.
1t may be that the government is
responsible for taking these or
million men and women who want
to work into employment. That may
be.
The Republican party, Wendell
Willkie included, says that if they
were given free hand every man
that wants to work will be given a
job; absolutely he will. Does the
record of previous Republican adj
ministrationS for 16 years past prove
this? How are they going to do it,
and if so why don't they give us some
thing specific on how it is going to
be done?
The main theme that Willkie is
harping on is the third term which
may come about by President Roose-
welt being reelected. Why should he
not be reelected? So far as being
president of the United States is con-
cerned, Wendell Willkie would be
an infant, baby, nothing more. He
has not even held public office yet,
and now he is aspiring to be presi-
dent of the United States.
Who put him in as candidate for
president on the Republican ticket?
The people? No, 1 should say not.
Morgan, Kuhn, Loeb, Lamont and
other big eastern bankers and in
dustrial so-called captains. So what?
Does that mean that the ordinary
man, the man who produces and
does the work of the world, gets any
thing, even square deal if Wendell
Willkie is elected to the presidency?
G. L. WAHLQUIST.
Kerrick, Mimi, October 18, 1910.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-10-24
is NOT TRUE PATRIOTISM
Editor Askov American:

l note that DR.. Townsend is in
favor of Willkie. This cannot be true
patriotism. 1t appears to me like per-
sOnal prejudice towards Roosevelt.
Harboring personal grievance is not
true patriotism. 1t is alleged that
McNary is in favor of the Townsend
plan and the Republicans have en-
dorsed him as running mate fer Will
kie. This is bait for the Townsend
ties and it appears that DR.. Townsend
has swallowed bait and hook and is
advising us to do the same.
l am a member of the Townsend
club and sticking to it. l believe it to
be feasible. But do not believe that
personal desires should supersede
patriotism.
In WILKES speeches he often says
that when l am president I'll do
this and that" and if he becomes
president we will have Utopia over
night. 1t appears that he thinks he is
"it".
President Roosevelt we know is a
friend of the common people-and our
safety is assured with him at the
helm.
N. K. NELSON
Thief River Falls, MINI.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-10-24
AROUSING FEAR
Editor AskOv American

When l was a boy about the only
way | was agreeable to live with was
when advised to be good or the bad
man would get me. This bad man as
| was sometimes informed, had horns
and spear-shaped tail and after this
BILE to get my dog upstairs without
mother seeing it and with my head Sc
curely under and the dog on watch
above the covers, l was a brave boy
all night.
OF course all this is old-fashioned
| imagine if mother were to mention
the bad man to a child of today she
would receive an answer such as
where do you get that stuff" For the
child of today with the fine unpaid
for" schoolhouses, buses, etc. is really
taught to reason.
But, let mother mention Hitler in
stead of the devil and father and
daughter will drop their cigarettes ON
the rug. Sonny, just fresh out OF
school, will arouse from sleep and
babys four little teeth will chatter
so that the dishes on his tray will
rattle. There you have a real bad
man. | am not in favor of him as a
bedfellow and would love to stretch
the hair on his lip and tie it behind
his neck but as the German people
are willing to sit back and Let the
| hoI will NV CfioL r.
out?
OF course the intelligence of the
people in America would not tolerate
any DOGGY or bad men. We are going
to fix Hitler. Although he cannot get
across a channel and defeat nation
about the size of Minnesota at the
mention of his name you duck under
the covers while our high-salaried
flunkies in Washington appropriate
few billions to divide with more
flunkies for ornaments and also make
monkeys out of our sons. But why
blame the youth when the parents, at
mention of Hitler, sleep with heads
covered, two dogs and a shotgun
handy?
| Of course with a spineless people as
we are today possibly large army
will be handy as l do not doubt but
what one-half the number Indians
that our ancestors fought could easily
scalp everyone in the United States
With all the wind escaping those run
ming for fat-salaried job no doubt
we will have another tornado. Then
some one can steal a few more thous-
and dollars. Of course we are a civil
lized people. We would not tar and
feather or really make use of the New
Deals fancy jailhOuses for some OF
our grafters even if they confiscate
your property through taxation.
r. L. RIEHM
Kerrick, Mimi, Oct. 9, 1910
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-10-24
Editor ASkOv American.

Editor ASkOV American:
Mr.. Sexton says in his article: "Be-
fore the outbreak of the present war
Neville Chamberlain was trying to
make peace" l would like to know
what he did in trying to keep Ger
many from robbing Poland. That
robbery was the start of the present
war.
AS I have said before, and every
body knows, Poland, England and
France were allied for defense. Ac-
cording to that, declaring and start
ing war on either of them was to
declare war on all the three nations
Germany started war on Poland, and
thereby was the aggressor of the
present war.
The money problem could have no.
thing to do with that, even if Ger
many was ever so angry because
the rest of the world would not &C.
cept her currency in payment OF
debts and for goods when they had
no real money to redeem it.
Then Germany could not have the
desired and needed trade with other
nations, but that was no other nations
fault, and no reason for Germany to
start war. But Sexton says: Ger
many has some cause for taking uI
arms against the allies. She wished
to be rid of the gold-based capital
ISM" He could just as well have
added to it: So German currency
could be circulated unlimited without
coming in for redemption, as Ger
many has no real money. She used
all her money and energy in prepar-
ing for robbery-war so she can rob
intead of buying. She knows that
she could do that.
In hooking, Sexton says: "Al1 the
gold money that both England and the
United States could lay their hands
on was loaned to Germany, thus en-
abling her to build up the Franken-
stein monster that may eventually
destroy them both"
Would Sexton not feel happy il
that happened? Hitler may even ap-
point him to watch us stubborn
Americans. But to destroy the gov
eminent of the United States is easier
said than done. I am sure that Hit
Ter would find that to be a hard prob
lem even with the help of Sexton
Sexton says: "The allies certainly
had Germany down because of the
vicious treaty of Versailles"
I think it was a cheap way fol-
them to get out of it according to
all the suffering they were the cause
of by their aggressive war. The
Germans were down before that
treaty. They were down by the time
they were exhausted, and had nc
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-10-24
CRUSADER FOR WHOM?
Editor Askov American:

f1ShON
Willkie tells the people of Mime
sofa and the northwest that this is
not campaign-it is crusade.
A crusade?-by whom? and against
whom?
Is it a crusade against the money
monopoly and the money manipu-
lators? Oh no. Have any of you
ever heard one word from Willkie
against the money manipulators? Oh
no. That's where the money comes
from to run Wilkes 14-coach cam
paign train and with which to pay
untold millions of dollars for bally-
hoo and other campaign expenses.
Is it a crusade against the power
trust? Oh no. Willkie as the former
head of one of the greatest public
utility holding companies is bitter
foe of the IVA and of public owner
ship of public utilities.
Through Wilkes ballyhoo millions
of innocent, unthinking people will
fall into the trap of the money man.
ipulators and the power trust. To
people who will do their own think
ing and make their own analysis, it
is very evident that the Willkie cru
SADIE is of the money manipulators,
by the money manipulators and for
the money manipulators.
Beware of this crusader when you
go to the polls on November 5.
G n SANDFRCON
Rochester MINI
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-10-24
STICK TO JOB
Editor ASkov American:

Editor Askov American:
l am informed by good authority
that some of our county officials go
to every auction in the county cleo
pioneering. If their work in the court
house goes on whether they are there
or not, then the taxpayers pay for
more help than there is any need of.
Those fellows are hired men so to
speak, and they are supposed to be
on the 'fat" job and not spending
their time electioneering so they can
stay in office and keep their jobs for
ever.
Taxes are high enough without
paying politicians for doing nothing
S. KERN.
Hinckley, MINI.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-10-24

more strength several months be-
fore when they put up the white
flag.
If the allies had been of the same
character as the Germans are, there
would have been no treaty; there
would have been no armistice. The
allies would have fought them down
to finish and dictation as they de-
served for their aggressive war.
ANDREW RASMUSSEN.
5000 West River Blvd, Minneapolis.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-10-24
A TAXPAYER SPEAKS
editor Askov American:

COllOI fASkOV <AIIlcIlCdIl
VIM. Mista, clerk of court, had an
advertisement in the Askov American
of October 10 showing that he saved
the county $4546.OO during his two
terms in office. Here is an item he
did not show:
Amounts received for entering de-
linQuent real estate tax judgments
from 1894 to 1910, $2475.7O. Amount
due him as per chapter 2HS, laws oil
1919, $1O50. Amount received in ex-
cess for the past seven years
$1425.7
This is a salary and fee office anG
for the past seven years the average
salary and fees has been approx
mately $1,000 per year and not 5000
as the misleading statement means to
infer.
STURGEON LAKE TAXPAYER
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-10-24
How Much is a Billion Dollars?

If you were born today and you
were given one dollar a minute from
the time of your birth, and you could
manage to live ninteen hundred and
ninty-seven and one-half years, you
would have accumulated just one
billion dollars, provided you saved
every penny and did not speculate
with it or receive any interest on it.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-10-24
A Little Spice

Trouble is as a sieve: All but a
few big friends slip through the
mesh.
Alas, vain man! We spend money
for what we do not need, to impress
the people we do not like.
There was once a frog that grew
so great and mighty that it hurt its
pride to remember its tailed tadpole
days.
There is a little kink in each human
being that makes him banker, now
and then, for the taste of forbidden
fruit.
Men with the dictator itch sooner
or later come to the idea that they
are divinely chosen, and that their
sins are not crimes.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-10-24
PREPARING FOR AGGRESSION

Editor Askov American:
When we saw the world war loom
ing on the horizon we left our native
country, Holland, in 1913.
In Germany everything was looking
fine, better than in Holland, regard
less of the fact that our country had
more and richer foreign possessions
than Germany.
Wilhelm Hohenzollern and his wife
Augusta were visiting all cities Of
their empire promising every German
girl beau in uniform.
The Kaiser said he was interested
in nothing more than welfare and
peace for Germany. Therefor he
wanted strong army to protect that
interest.
After he had all this completed he
invited his friendly neighbors to come
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-10-24
Conservation
Or Sport?

The Duluth Herald, in an edi-
torial published recently, puts in
a strong boost for the wild life
in Minnesota, of which m ost
varieties have been getting the
short end of the deal in the con-
flict between natures wiles and
mans ingenuity. A plea for the
protection of game is certainly
in order this fall with open sea-
sons on nearly everything in the
books.
It may be that considerable
pressure is brought to bear on
the conservation department by
hunters throughout the state for
numerous open seasons but the
time to clamp down is when there
is still game left here.
Progressive steps h ave been
made in recent years for the con-
servation of our tural re-
sources, especially our waters and
forests, and fine results are al
ready forthcoming. Lake levels
have been raised, rivers and
streams damned to conserve the
water for future needs, burned
over and desolate areas replanted
into trees, soil erosion checked,
forest fire hazards eliminated, and
many other measures put into
effect. A similar program to help
save game in Minnesota for its
citizens and for future genera
tions would be worthwhile one
and one that would win favor
with all nature lovers.
The Hera Id editorial is re-
printed below.
In many ways fall is the grandes
season of the year. One of the reason
gets people out into the open at thi
beautiful season. For some reason :
large part of the human race need
some specific sport as an excuse TO
spending time in the open air.
The sad thing about hunting is tina
the supply of game is really so scanty
There is no use in foOling ourselve
with the CHEEKY reports from the con
servation department. Highways AM
automobiles have become cOmmOner
guns have become cheaper an,
understanding, and more and NOR
people have found the time and none
needed for the sport. The result i
that the game is taking bad beating
In such a time the man or woman
who does not hunt at all is doini
quite a bit for conservation. If Their
were more of this type there woul'
be more game for the tourists to Sc
and a greater chance that the rare
species would survive.
Too many so-called conservation
organizations are also sportsmen'
clubs. Their purposes are mixed, ant
while these organizations are mucl
more conservation-minded than the,
used to be, the desire for an Opel
season certainly moves some of thei
members as much as the desire to Sc
game given the protection it reall.
needs.
1t would be a fine thing if Their
were a conservation society in Mime
sofa composed of people who loved tn
outdoors but who were not sportsmer
They could be more objective abou
some of these questions than tn
sportsmen could be. And they coul,
keep pounding home fact that tn
sportsmen and even the conservation
authorities tend to forget: The will
creatures of this state do not belon
exclusively to those who have guns o
to those who have licenses, but to al
the people of the state.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-10-24
WILLKIE NOT PREPARED
Editor Askov American:

Editor AskoV American:
Last night heard political speech
by Wendell Willkie, Republican can
didate for president, and to tell the
honest truth, I have never heard SO
many foolish statements in all my
life.
He talks about the increase in un-
employment for one thing. When the
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Opinions OF Others

(Short timely letters on topics of
public interest are welcome whether
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
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