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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-06-27
Standings of the Teams.

Askov jumped to tie for second
place in the Twilight D-Ball League
Monday night by winning a tight
game from Sandstone, 6 to 5. o. Jen-
sen, pitching for the winners, al
lowed only two hits and boosted his
own batting average with triple
and home run. Sauer of Sandstone
also hit for the circuit.
In the other games, Finlayson lost
again, this time to Friesland, ii to 7
and Hinckley downed the Officers by
a Is to count.
In a game at the Correctional In
stitution last Thursday evening with
Sandstone, the Inmates were not dis
couraged by first inning five-run
spurge by their opponents, but came
back with vengeance in the second
to send IL men over the plate and
60 on to win the game. The final
score was ii to 6.
Continued on Page 81
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-06-27
Achievement DAYS
For 4-H Workers

The dates for the local All Home
Economics achievement days in Pine
county have been set as follows: Gen.
trail area at Hinckley on Wednesday
July II; southern area at Pine City on
Thursday, July Is; and northern area
at Asllov on Friday, July 10.
The county has been divided into
three areas-the southern, central and
northern for these local achievements;
and the winners in these areas will
participate in the county achievement
which will be held in Sandstone We'd
nesday, July "a, when the winners
will be picked to represent Pine coun-
ty at the state fair.
Fourth girls and boys enrolled
in home economics projects have a
fine opportunity to show what they
have achieved in their club work at
these achievement events where they
exhibit the dresses, suits, aprons, ac-
cessories and other articles of wear
ing apparel which they have made.
The girls also model their dresses and
suits in the dress revue which is a
highlight of the program.
Demonstrations showing what All
members have learned in their home
economics project work, such as how
to make bread and cakes, and how to
can by latest methods, also will be
given.
All the home economics projects
must be finished by the time of the
local achievement, and the records
must be turned in to the county
agents office with the exception of
canning which need not be completed
but must be up to date.
The public is invited to attend any
of these achievement events.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-06-27
Extension Worker
To Talk In AskOv

E. M. Hunt, extension horticulturist
from University Farm, has been
scheduled to speak at the Askov Gar
den club meeting which will be held
at the Arnold Sorensen home north
east of Askov Tuesday afternoon,
July 2.
Mr.. Hunt spoke at Garden club
meeting last year on landscape gar
dening and is planning to continue
his talk on this line again this year.
This meeting is open to the public
and all All Club members taking
home Identification are especially in
vited.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-06-27
Early Copy

Correspondents and others hav-
ing news items for publication in
next weeks issue of the Askov
American will please mail their
copy one train earlier than usual.
Since the Fourth of July falls on
publication day the American must
be printed Wednesday night so that
the force may spend the Fourth
at their homes. Be sure and get
all advertising copy and news copy
into this office one mail earlier
than usual.
The American will not, however,
be available in the mail earlier
than usual.
Thank you.
THE EDITOR.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-06-27
County Total Is
Set At 2l,9O9
Census Bureau
Rural Population Decline
Noted; Most Villages
Show Gain.

Figures were released this week
by the Bureau of the Census office
at Brainerd listing the population of
the townships, villages and other
centers in Pine county. These latest
figures give the county a total popu-
lation of 21,909.
According to the census there are
3542 farms in Pine county, compared
with 1914 in 1885 and 1888 in 1880.
The population counts, in compar-
ison with the 1880 figures available,
are listed below in alphabetical order.
There is decided drop in most of the
rural districts while the villages as
a rule have shown an increase.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-06-27
CCC Camps Seek
$500 EnrOllees

Between July l and 20, administra-
tors of the CCC camps in Mime
sofa will enroll $500 young men.
Of this quota Is will be assigned from
Pine county. Information and appli-
cation blanks can be obtained from
the office of the county welfare board
at Pine City. Those interested are
asked to contact the office at once.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-06-27
Rural Graduation
Exercises Tonight

The annual graduation exercises
for the Pine county rural schools will
be held tonight at the high school
auditorium in Pine City. There will
be a program of music and other
selections and Lloyd c. Halstrom will
deliver the principal address.
A total of 231 rural graduates will
be given diplomas admitting them to
Minnesota high schools. A list of the
graduates and the complete program
is given elsewhere in this issue.
The public is invited to attend the
exercises which will begin at 7:30
o'clock.
A man never breaks the laws of
health without being broken by them.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-06-27
Last Half Personal
Property TaxesDue

The last half of the personal prop
erty taxes becomes due June 80. The
taxes may be paid at any local bank
or other connection in each COM
munity or may be sent in direct to
County Treasurer Frank Poferl at
Pine City.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-06-27
Askov Gains Tie
For Second Place
Defeats Sandstone 6 to 5;
Friesland, Hinckley and
Inmates Also Win.
Schedule of Coming Games.

Thursday, June 27-Finlayson VS..
Inmates at Correctional Institution.
July 8-Askov at FrieSland,
Finlayson at Officers, Sandstone at
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-06-27

Persistent people begin their sue
cess where others end in failure.-Ed-
ward Eggleston.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-06-27
Rutledge, Lakers
HoldLeague Top
First Half Winners Still
Undecided Because of
Rained Out Games.

Schedule Sunday, June 80.
Sandstone at Rutledge, Denham at
Willow River, Moose Lake at Beroun,
Hinckley at Mahtowa.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-06-27

Family Newspaper
DARE TO DO OUR DUTY
Let us have faith that
right makes might. and in
that faith let us to the end
dare to do our duty as we
understand it,"
Abraham Lincoln.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-10
Miss Idell Vertner
Addresses B. |. Girls

Miss Idell c. Vertner, executive
secretary of the Y. w. c. A., re-
turning from her trip to the Ma
tional convention of the Y. w. c.
A. at Atlantic city, said: Other
races besides our own are making
sincere effort to see that the
anti-lynch bill is passed. A special
effort will be made to repeal the
poll tax laws which exist in the
south and deprives millions of
whites and Negroes of their right
to vote.
She spoke of the achievements
of the Negro in the south, and the
unionizing of colored workers in
New York which remedied their
working and sanitary conditions.
The Business and Industrial
girls of China teach the less for
tunate to read and write, she said.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-10
Social Worker
Awarded Medal For
Work Among Negroes

WICHITA, Kansas = Mrs. Nora
Dillon, white social worker, was
awarded the 1910 Catholic Action
Medal for her splendid work
among the colored people Of WITCH
ita last week when the Catholic
Action Committee of this city held
it's annual dinner.
Mrs. Dillon, self-appraised god
mother of st. Peter Claver Colored
Mission Children of Wichita and
known as Mother Dillon" was
presented at the dinner by the
Very Rev. Leon A. MCNEIL, presid-
emit of the College and pastor OF
st. Peter Claver Mission. The med
al, an annual award, was given to
her for her long and continuous
labors in behalf of the Catholic
Action, and for her almost single
handed gathering, in five and ter
cents, of $4,000 necessary to start
construction of the Catholic Col.
ored Church in the diocese.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-10
Clio Engineers
Award DIR. Carver

NEW YORK-(CNA)-George
Washington Carver, the ex-slave
who is today the South's most
outstanding scientist, will be the
recipient of the highest award to
be conferred by the Fifth Conven-
ton of the International Fedora
ton of Architects, Engineers,
Chemists and Technicians, CLIO
professional affiliate, the organic
alton announced this week.
The Federation, which will hold
its fifth national convention at the
Hotel Pennsylvania in this city,
from May 31st through June End,
has authorized the preparation of
specially designed plaque to
commemorate the many outstand-
ing achievements of Professor
Carver, whose discoveries include
hundreds of new compounds from
he peanut and sweet potato, and
whose brilliant research work re-
suited in overcoming the destruc-
tive diseases which have afflicted
the cotton plant.
Professor Carver has been invit-
ed to be guest of honor at the Fed
eration's convention.
"Above all other considerations,
our organization desires to give
expression to its appreciation of
the selfless devotion which char
acterizes DR.. Carver's career. Our
efforts to overcome the discrimin-
alton exercised against Negroes in
all fields of our profession, has
made us acutely aware of the I'M
terly inadequate recognition be-
slowed by our nation upon sci
enlist of DR.. Carver's stature"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-10
xxx Acts Against
Negroes-Labor
By Richard H. Royero

(f0r Calvin Newspaper Servtce)
Atlanta, Ca, Especially Anti
Negro and labor activity on the
part of the Ku Klux Khan is rife
in this part of the country, where
nightriders have recently killed
three people and flogged many do
zens. 1t is clear evidence produced
at preliminary Investigations here
and in Anderson, s. c., that the
Invisible Empire of the knights of
the xxx, which supposedly exists
only to protect the interests of
the native-born white, gentle, pro-
testant population" is out to
smash labor and terrorize the Ne
groes.
In Atlanta the Fulton County
Grand Jury has already heard the
testimony of P. S. Toney, a mill
hand, of how masked vigilantes
logged him last autumn. Toney's
abductors were members of the no.
torious East Point unit of the
Khan, which has harbored most of
those allegedly responsible for the
killings and beatings in this Vi
cinity.
In South Carolina, the Ander-
son County Grand Jury will short
ly hear of attempts of collision be-
tween Klansmen and mill officials
to stop proper processes of collec-
tive bargaining. have just spent
several days in Anderson and have
positive proof that it is the OBJ
ject of the Khan to set up Trojan
horses within the Labor unions.
County Solicitor Rufus FAINT show
ed me the seized records of the An
derson unit of the Khan. I inter-
viewed James Arnold Colescott, ma
tional head of the hooded order,
and Ben Adams, Khan director for
South Carolina, both there to fol-
low court proceedings involving
seven Khan members for flogging
Lanier Pruitt, white mechanic, last
November.
Adams, a former member of the
State legislature and once candi-
date for governor, is the publisher
of the Free Press, Columbia
newspaper, and at the same time
editor and publisher of the Fiery
Cross, national organ of the Khan.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-10
Hampton Institute
Gets New Prexy

Hampton, Va-The election OF
DR.. Malcolm S. MacLean, Director
of the General College at the Univ
ersity of Minnesota, as the sixth
president of Hampton Institute
was announced at special meet
ing of faculty and students here
today by the chairman of the
board of trustees, ]. Henry Scat
tergood, of Philadelphia.
DR.. MacLean will take office on
July 1, and will deliver the Com
mencement address on May %.
Our own extensive inquiries"
said Mr.. Scattergood, together
with testimony gathered from all
parts of the country, have con-
WINGED the trustees that we have
found in DR.. MacLean a leader
who will preserve the best of the
Hampton traditions, and at the
same time take Hampton into new
and fruitful fields of educational
service to the Negro"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-10
A. P. Randolph
Meets Red Issue

A. Philip Randolph, Porters'
President and now ex-president of
the National Negro Congress, met
the red issue squarely when he
refused reelection to leadership
of the Congress because he was
opposed to accepting money from
the Communists Party and the CLIO
union. He declared that Negroes
reject the America c. p, not be-
cause it is radical or extremist,
but because it is controlled and
dominated by foreign State"
Randolph proclaimed not less
elequently than truthfully, I be-
lieve, 1.-THE Negroes cannot afford
to add to the handicap of being
black the handicap of being 'red'.".
I have talked with Negro former
Communists and found them Bit
terly disillusioned over their Com
radeS' sincerity IN advancing the
interests Of their black brothers,
especially in the field of labor.
Time will prove whether or not
the benefits of Communist phil
osophy and technique are weighted
under by its obvious liabilities.
The Reds have proven them
selves blind followers of purblind
leaders; their Grass materialism
forever rules out human equation,
and their knowledge of human ma
ture appears to have arrived at
the vanishing point. I cannot rec
oncile the Communist Brotherhood
90 of Man ideal with its brutal
terrorism. Like Randolph, Negroes
must meet squarely the issue of
Communism. We must choose be-
tween Communism and the ideal
American Democracy, and there
can be no straddling!
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-10
New Clio Pamphlet
Hits AFL Jim Grow

WASHINGTON - (CNA) =
Fun rights for all members and
absolute lack of discrimination and
exclusion against workers on
grounds of race or color are one
basic reason for the success of the
CLIO, a new pamphlet, "CIO and
the Negro Worker" issued by that
organization declares.
The pamphlet starts with the
first objective as stated in the CLIO
constitution, to organize regard
less of race, creed, color or ma
tionality," and shows how the fail
ure of AFL craft unions to organ
ize industrial workers as well as
to their policy of splitting them
into small, ineffective crafts.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-10
Back To Prosperity With Republican
Courage And Common Sense
JUST TO REMIND YOU
By E. I. Robinson

The hardest working man in Sc
attic during the past three weeks
is Mr.. Ralph Horn, chairman of
the County Republican Central
Committee. Ralph, as he is af-
fectionately called, has successful
ly ironed out every little difficulty
wherever it has arisen. So well
have Republicans appreciated his
work, he has been unanimously
chosen as delegate to the National
Convention. In some places his
name has been separated from 9TH
er delegates so that his election
could be made by reclamation.
Negroes in King County will never
be weaned in their devotion for
the best County Chairman in the
State of Washington.
Mr.. Prentis I Frazier, County
Organizer for the K. c. C. R. G.
enjoys the distinction of being first
race man to serve on the platform
committee of the Republican party
in this couny. My, how times
have changed. We have seen the
time when a race man could not
even approach that committee.
And now!!
Since his becoming Organizer
for K. c. c. r. c., the race has
seen more delegates in the county
convention than ever before. The
Northwest Enterprise has no hes
itancy in saying that Frazier has
performed his duties well. He has
proven himself a tireless worker
when race interests are at stake.
Mr.. George Wood guarded the
deliberations of the platform COM
mittee, while Mr.. Fred Woodson
and Mr.. Roy Sheffield guarded
everything else at the County con-
vention.
Mrs. Florence Parker, the below
ed district leader of the 37th dis
trict, grows in popularity faster
than weeds in well kept lawn. If
you want to make the 9th district
all ''het up" just say one word
against their one and only Mrs.
Florence Parker.
Some time ago Arthur Grover
Means of Alabama paid cumula-
tive Poll Tax of $4,000 in order
to cast his vote. This contrast is
not less than violent to conditions
in some Northern states where
Negroes are sometimes paid to
cast their vote. The contrast is
more than significant.
Cogent facts on the anti-demo-
cratic poll tax situation, recently
published in EQUALITY MAGA-
ZINE, disclosed that in eight
Southern states, the vicious poll
tax racket disfranchised 8,926,673
adults. In the Presidential election
of 1885 only 2,679,473 out of the
adult population of 11,606,046-
many Of them Negroes but the
majority of them white-cast their
ballots.
While an Alabama Negro pays
$36 for the privilege of voting,
thousands of lazy Negro citizens
in the North, where in some cases
they hold balance of power, neg
lect the most potent weapon for
their freedom in a Democracy
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-10
Civil Service Com. To Hear Petition OF
Convicted But Pardoned Patrolman

The Seattle Civil Service Com
mission set Wednesday, May %
the final date for hearing the pet
ition of Patrick Whalen, former
policeman, for reinstatement in the
police department.
Whalen, F. H. Paschal, and w.
F. Stevenson were convicted and
sentenced to serve 20 years in the
penitentiary for the murder of
Berry Lawson. Paschal and Stew
enson were later pardoned by Gov
ernor Clarence D. Martin upon the
recommendation of Prosecuting
Attorney B. Gray Warner. Both
sought reinstatement to the police
department before the civil service
commission, but the dismissal
made by Chief of Police William
H. Sears was sustained.
Whalen was unable to appear
before the commission at that
time, because of his reported SER
ious illness and imminent death.
At the hearing for reinstatement
of Paschal and Stevenson, Stew
enson testified that Whalen bat
tered Lawson's head against the
stone wall of the basement room
at the station, causing his i'm
mediate death.
Whalen later confessed that he
alone was responsible for Lawson's
death.
Governor Martin pardoned him
just before Christmas.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-10

In ringing tones the King Coun-
ty Republicans in convention at
Eagles auditorium adopted their
party slogan for 1910.
After hearing the most dynamic
keynoter of years, Erick A. john
ston of Spokane, Washington, the
King County Republicans adopted
a platform pledging it's efforts to
purge business of fear and restore
to it confidence, opposed any war
involving the United States on
any foreign soil; pledged the same
protection to the farmer as to the
labor and industry; opposed third
term for any president; favored
compensation for the aged and I'M
employed; pledged a continuance
of labor advances under Republi-
can rule as compared with unfa-
vorable working conditions under
Democratic southern rule; declar-
ed jobs for youth be provided.
The plank which minorities look
upon as pledge for full economic,
industrial and POLITICAL participa-
ton in democratic nation, reads
as follows:
1--WE pledge that unrestricted OPP
portunity be afforded to all for
complete participation in economic,
industrial, civic and political phas-
es of American life in the city,
county, state and nation, and such
that be provided and enforced
thrugh enabling and prohibitive le-
gislation."
Urging that this plank be adop-
ted and nailed into the platform
of the Republican party, commit
tee of leading citizens headed by
the Rev. John r. Harris held a
conference with the platform COM
mittee, presided over by Mr.. D. B.
Trefethen, Friday preceding the
convention. The Rev. John r. Har-
ris presented the committee and
called on Mr. E. B. Squire, Exc
cutive Secretary of the Urban
League, to address the platform
committee in behalf of the commit
tee.
After Squires had finished his
address, the committee stated that
it was the most eloquent and fact
finding speech they had ever lis
tened to by any person. Touch
ing on all phases of the platform,
they said it was SO valuable that
it shortened their deliberations full
ly one-half. Summing up by Rev.
Harris so impressed the platform
Continued on Page Two)
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-10
Business
Opportunity

How would you like to own
and operate a Mills Super Ice
Cream?
We will locate you and aid in
financing responsible and ener-
getic party or parties in the SAT-
est and best business venture
I'm Seattle.
Address Northwest Enter
prise Box 1873 of call Ca. 9779.
Editors note. This is a bona
fide opportunity to create en-
ployment for yourself. A bril-
liant opportunity for the right
persOn.)
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-10
Announcement

At a date to be announced later,
the Northwest Enterprise will cele-
brate its 21st birthday.
FL beautiful Sepias representing
the glamour and romance of the
Northwest will be chosen to guide
the destiny of the finest Race jour-
nal ever published in our sphere.
Watch out for the date.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-10

The Veterans Non-Partisan po-
litical club, formerly the Veterans
Democratic Club, announce applic-
atoms for membership will be re-
ceived at any time at the c. c. L.
Club, 115-14th Avenue South.