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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-05-16
ODIOUS COMPARISONS
(WatSon VOice)

Sending out the news about Min
nesota's governor being chosen con-
vention keynoter for the Republican
party, the Associated Press dispatch,
which came from Philadelphia, stated
that his choice twas regarded in Re-
publican circles as a victory for the
party's progressive element" The
dispatch further stated: "In some
ways Stassen's early life parallels
that of his party's patron saint
Abraham Lincoln. He was born in
Dakota county farm house."
Too bad that a log cabin was not
built for his arrival. To start COM
parison between the present COVER
nor of Minnesota and Abraham Lin
coin is laughable and distasteful to
the people who live here and have
followed political events.
Stassen's performance as county
attorney of a county that led in gam
bling, his sponsoring of small loan
act with its provision for SO per cent
interest, and the homestead lien law,
and his veto of the bank tax, are out
of line with the political philosophy
of the great emancipation. Do these
acts make him progressive or like
Lincoln?
Let us have no more such odious
comparisons.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-05-16
How To Grow Older
Slowly

Apparently, most people travel
more than judges. At any rate, Dis
trict Judge J. B. Himsl of st. Cloud
cannot be accused of going too often
to Moorhead, less than 200 miles from
his home city.
Speaking before the Rotary Club
of Moorhead recently, the Judge said
Though I've been on the bench
of the Seventh Judicial district for
four years, this is my first visit to
Moorhead in so years. The last time
was in 1890 on my way back from
the North Dakota harvest fields. My
overallS were out at the knees,
needed a shave, didn't have a cent and
slept that night in lumberyard."
AS the above would indicate, the
venerable judge has ''roughed it" in
his youth like so many other Amer
lean boys. With that experience
he gained understanding and vision to
aid him later in the fulfillment of his
important judicial duties.
That he is sympathetic seems also
to be evident in another quotation
from his speech, when he said:
Ninety out of a hundred fellows
that go wrong aren't bad, but they've
got to be given chance. They grad
uate and can't get a job. They can
go riding only when a friend takes
them, they can't 60 to dance, they
can't find work-and then these boys
begin to get sour. Some of them
Is and 10 years old, can't even get
manual labor so to get on WPA they
get married-the WPA will take them
then. They're not to blame for what
happens-we've created the situation
or permitted it to develop"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-05-16
GOING DOWN WITH HIS SHIP
minneapolis Star-JournaD

King Haakon VII of Norway is now
in the most desperate sense fugitive
in his own land, hiding somewhere in
its northern reaches from its NaZi
despoilers, deserted by most of his
own troops and their disheartened
allies, but spurning offers of asylum
while square yard remains that can
be called Norway.
His Viking valor must bring hand
to every heart that throbs to an ex-
ample of high courage, and lump
to every throat. For his decision to
stay with the dwindling cluster of
his unvanquished people brings to
life again, in plagued world, the
days when bravery was the first attri-
butte of kings.
And who, regarding Alfonso of
Spain, growing old in idle BUSINESS
on veranda at Cannes, or Ethiopia S
Halle Selassia strolling aimlessly I'M
der his umbrella along the boardwalk
of an English seaside village, will not
agree that Haakon has chosen with
nobility and wisdom the high road
which he treads toward the twilight
of king.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-05-16
Mission Meetings
For Bruno Parish

Visiting pastors from neighboring
parishes will participate in special
Mission meetings in the Bruno Luth-
eran Parish Tuesday and Wednesday
of next week. The following pastors
have been invited: F. M. Eckman
from Duluth, Reuben Johnson from
Carlton, j. A. Krantz from Saginaw,
R. A. Kindgren from Palisade, O. L.
Nelson from Cloquet, Oscar L. Olson
from Moose Lake, and M. Mikkelsen
from ASkov.
The topic for discussion is en-
couragements for the Individual
Prayer Life" Bruno will have serv-
ices both evenings, Oak Lake at 10:45
a. m. and at p. m. Tuesday and
Duquette on Tuesday evening. On
Wednesday meetings will be held in
Vilstad at II a. m. and at 2 p. m. A
service will be held in Nickerson
Wednesday evening.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-05-16
all the democracies of the Old World
Churchill Prime Minister.

In desperate attempt to stave off
that dire possibility the English have
been housekeeping. 1t had long been
suspected that Neville Chamberlain
was too meek and indecisive to re-
main in his post of prime minister,
and the very unsuccessful effort to
save Norway made it overwhelming
ly clear. The well-meaning but inept
head of the British government had
to face most unpleasant barrage of
criticism in Parliament, and although
he did get kind of vote of confidence,
it was so little reassuring that he
deemed it wise to retreat.
He did. In his place, First Lord
of the Admiralty Winston Churchill
was appointed prime minister; he is
as aggressive as Chamberlain is timid,
and as blunt and direct as Chamber
lain is vague and evasive. Churchill,
realizing the Importance of taking
drastic steps, surrounded himself with
a cabinet made up of leaders of all
the major parties in the parliament
ehS SOiioSi "oIi"So, Vic liOCi dis diiu
the socialistic labor party-and in
cluded men who had been outspoken
in their bitter criticism of Chamber
lain-as, for instance, Anthony Eden,
Duff Cooper, Clement Attlee, Sir
Archibald Sinclair, Arthur Green
wood and others.
This constellation, supported by a
likewise strengthened and rejuven-
ated government in France, will
henceforth do its utmost to defy what
Churchill calls Hitler and his Hun
nish hordeS'
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-05-16
The Balance OF Power

During the last two decades, Min
nesota has become known as state
of Independent voters. In the same
election where a Farmer-Labprite
wins for office, Republican may win
for another office, and Democrat
may also be a winner. Sometimes
the Executive branch of our state
government has been liberal and the
Legislative branch had majority
of conservative members. Some
times one of the two Legislative
Houses has been liberal and the other
conservative. Sometimes the highest
offices have been filled with liberals
and minor offices with conservatives,
and vice versa.
A former Minnesota University in
structor, DR.. c. R. WATSON, now sec
rotary of the Midwest Research Coun-
Gil. has taken several polls among the
electorate of Minnesota. In doing so,
he has divided the state up in eco
nomic and political groups, and he has
made thorough study of past cleo
tons.
Out of 1,165,OOO voters in the state,
DR.. Wasson's figures show that the
largest group are independent. They
number 364,000. The number of Re-
publican and Farmer-Labor voters
is nearly the same, the Republicans
having little edge. Of those who
vote the Republican ticket straight,
oloctiOp oftor olaction fboro GRO 900 :
600 in Minnesota, and the Farmer
Labor voters number $4,000. The
Democrats have 10000. Altogether
it totals up to approximately 1,165, 200
voters.
Therefore it behooves strong party
men to do good job or the indie
pendents will do the rest. To be
sure the independent voters in Min
nesota have the balance of power.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-05-16
the highschool student body.


The Askov community is not at
tempting thereby to establish little
Denmark" on American soil. On the
contrary, English is clearly recognized
as the native language of the rising
generation. 1t is felt, however, that
so long as relatively strong Danish
background exists in the community,
the public-school Scandinavian pro-
gram will make for a better under
standing between the younger and
older elements of the social group.
incidentally, it is difficult for these
people to see why their highschool
students should struggle with the
totally foreign Latin, French, or Span
iSh languages when, with the same
expenditure of time and effort, the
children can gain intimate contact
with an abundance of the best Scam
dinavian prose and poetry. 1t is
maintained that where young people
are able to read Ibsen, Bjornson and
Hans Christian Andersen in the orig
inal, it is culturally wise to give them
opportunity and encouragement to
do so.
1t is so easy to cry "Americanize!
In the rush, however, many of our
public schools may have overlooked
opportunities whereby a better par
ent-child relationship, deeper APP
probation of ancestral culture, and
a more genuine federation of the other
fellows ideas and ways might have
been developed in this great Amer
lean melting pot.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-05-16
They Don't Get By

Generally speaking, signed articles
in the readers column are the most
effective. There may be articles
which are acceptable and can be pub
lished without signature, but when
the writer propounds direct criticism,
the article certainly ought to be
signed.
A Winona man recently expressed
his candid opinion about certain types
of unsigned articles. His article ap-
peared in the Republican-Herald and
read in part as follows:
''To the Editor: In reply to an arti-
Gle signed E. w. B., although it might
as well have been signed Zero Minus,
/ want to call that writer's attention
to the fact that l do not belong to
the Republican, Democratic, nor have
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-05-16
WON'T HINDER PROGRESS
Park Region Echo)

"How far would Henry Ford have
gotten if, when he started out in 1900,
he had faced 70 per cent income
taxi" ask the Long Prairie Leader
in plea for lower taxes and less
regulation of industry.
That's about as straight forward
as conservatives ever are in dis
cussing the New Deal. The 70 per
cent income tax applies only to per-
sons having an income of million
dollars or more. Henry Ford did not
have that big income until he had
made million tin lizzies.
The federal government does not
hamper in any way, by taxes or reg
ulationS, persons or firms such as
Henry Ford was until such time as he
achieved almost monopoly of the
small car business. 1t does not dis
courage pioneering in new fields by
either little or big business, until they
get to the point where they are mon
opolizing an industry, seeking to sell
wild cat stocks or bonds, or are piling
holding company on top of holding
company, not to produce more or to
develop an industry but only to milk
the producing companies under them.
Boiled down to its bare bones, the
conservative attack on the New Deal
hopes to get back to the old days
of piracy in business, when the big
fellows swallowed up the little fell
lows, pigeonholed patents that prom
ised improvement and development
of industry and was concerned chief
ly in monopoly and in stock-gam-
bling.
It was that sort of thing that
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-05-16
MIGHT HAVE DONE WORSE
'ditor Askov American:

Editor ASkOv American:
In regards to the comments of my
friend, j. E. Mossberg, of Sturgeon
Lake, I would say that if he had
been in my place chances are he
might have done a worse deed than
I did as he is on the outside look
ing in.
l fully realize what is in store for
the youngsters future in our present
trend of society, perhaps more so than
he does. When the youngster would
not listen to reason 1 did the next
best thing for his own good and
mine too, before things went too far.
LAWRENCE v. UBL.
Hinckley, Mimi, May IL, 1910.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-05-16
LIKES ADAMIC'S BOOK

Editor Askov American:
Thank you for giving us excerpts
from Louis Adamic's book my
America" It is an outstanding book
and one that everyone in our country
should read and ponder. We Danes
especially should be thankful for a
man like Louis Adamic.
I would like to ask the Askov
American to reprint our own Otto
Hoiberg's article which you told us
about last winter.
MRS F. STOTTRUP.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-05-16
MAHTOWA

Summary-Two base hits, Miller 2; three
base hits. Miller, Carpenter; home runs.
Saloka: sacrifice hits, Stanchfield. L.
Schmidt; double plays, Carpenter to John
son. struck out. by Johnson IL, by Rogers
ka by Rogers and Duffey, Eliason by Duff
fey. Swanson by johnson; bases on balls.
off johnson 3, off Rogers 2. off Duffey 3:
2:40.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-05-16
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
Continued from Page ~


knew that. They also knew that
when the time came, Holland and
Belgium would be needed by Hitler
as stepping stones to England and
France. So, they were prepared, and
they are now said to have had almost
100000 men lying in wait for just this
very event.
Two hours after the beginning of
the German attack, the British and
the French started to move in, and
at the same time large transport ships
were sent from English ports with
reinforcements.
The result of all these hectic ma
neuvers is that the first stage of what
is believed likely to become a ma
jor battle between Germany and the
allies has now been reached.
In an appeal to his soldiers Hitler
said that the history of Europe for
a thousand years might hinge on the
the outcome of this particular strug-
gle. Although he is neither historian
nor prophet, he may happen to be
ILLS case.
Methods Resented.
What has especially irked the allies
is the parachute technique which Hit
Ter is developing. 1t originated with
the Russians and was first tried out in
Finland-with disastrous results to
the Russians; Hitler may have pro-
fitted from some of the mistakes made
by the Soviet soldiers, for he dis
guised his own parachuters as Dutch
soldiers, clergymen, business men, Of
flee workers and so on, and the re-
suit was confusion, for the Hollanders
were naturally reluctant to shoot at
people who dropped down from the
sky in their own style of uniforms or
dressed as civilians.
A ruse of this kind is character
lied in London and Paris as a dis
tinct violation of international law,
and condemned accordingly. But
who bothers about international law
when great power finds it necessary
to protect smaller, weaker nations?
OminOus MussOlini.
There is in Sweden some fear that
German attack may be expected
for no apparent reaSon-but as yet
nothing very definite can be said about
it except that it would be an easy
matter for the German divisions sta
toned in occupied Norway to march
into the neighboring country now
that they have practically subdued
King Haakon's realm.
Of far wider portent is the in
formation that the attitude of Italy
is becoming more and more hostile
to Great Britain and France-espe-
cially toward the English. This is
made clear by violent press attacks
as well as by insults and bodily in
jury offered to members of the Brit
iSh embassy staff in Rome-and also
by the statement by one of Mussolini's
closest advisers that Italy now has an
army of two million men ready for
any emergency.
Italy is military ally of Germany,
and Mussolini and Hitler share each
others belief in the blessings of die
tatorship, each others contempt for
democracy. 1t would, therefore, be
not surprising to be told that Italy
very soon will enter the European war
as Germany's full-fledged ally.
If that time comes, and comes
within the very near future, there
will be plenty of trouble ahead for
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-05-16

Scandinavians and their descend
ants have peopled Minnesota. They
have been and are leaders in what
Minnesota has achieved. During more
than century of peace, these small
Scandinavian countries had made
rapid progress in solving social, in
dustrial and economic problems. Sor-
rowfully they now see the greedy
powers of Europe locked in death
struggle for might and control in
which their beloved homelands are
the innocent victims.-The ST. Cloud
Daily Times.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-05-16
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 eft:
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, 1940-05-16

brought the boom of 1929 and the bust
which Immediately followed. Some
day the American people may be will
ing to go back to that system. But
the time has not yet come.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-05-16
HELPS MANY INSTEAD OF FEW
jackson County PilOt)

The real reason that the New Deal
is in disrepute with the leaders of big
business, is that it helps the many
as well as the few. If greed and
jealousy could only be excluded in
this old world of ours, the New Deal
would furnish little controversy in
the national campaign of 1910.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-05-16
A Little Spice

Watch children at their play, and
then do your work in the same eager
spirit.
Free speech means that you can
say what you like if you don't mind
losing customers.
A writer says that there are more
accidents in homes than on the high
ways. Evidently it is more danger
Gus to make u turn on a cake of
soap in bathtub than it is with an
auto.
Have you ever noticed that there
is usually plenty of parking space
near Libraries?
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-05-16

News from warning countries is
subject to censorship. 1t may some
times be misleading. 1t is the right
and duty of every American citizen
to do his own thinking, hold to his
own beliefs, and not permit himself
or his country to become a victim of
emotionalism or propaganda.-Carl-
ton County Vidette.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-05-16
WILLOW RIVER

PEEK, Writ; double plays, R. Anderson to
Cunningham to Popek. Hutchins unas-
sisted; struck out. by Dolly A., by Hrubes
hit by pitched ball, Peterson and Chris
Jensen by Popek, Dunaski by Bissonette:
bases on balls, off Dolly l.. off Hrubes 2.
left on bases, Willow River 10, Denham Ia
umpire, Danelski, scorer, Norbeck; time,
3 90.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-05-16
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, 1940-05-16
Baseball Season
Gets Under WAY
Continued from Page u
Willow River ID; Denham Z.
nENHANT

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XPeterson SUBJ for Mikrot in 3rd.
xxLehet sub. for Norbeck in 7th.
xXXStrum SUBJ for Christensen.
XXxxH. Mikrot sub. for Strum.
Evening star., 1940-03-31

information, job-hunters can get some of
their best market tips" Here. for example.
are some predictions that will probably be
confirmed directly or indirectly by the census.
We can expect hundreds of similar tips when
the final reports are published.
The amount of silk cloth manufactured has
dropped to a quarter of former levels. But
rayon production is rising to new high.
Between 1929 and 1887. the number of rayon
jobs jumped forty per cent, and produc-
Evening star., 1940-03-31

will show, is having serious trouble in its
search for work. Something like third of the
male job-hmters under the age of twenty-five
are unemployed, as well as quarter of the
job-seeking young women. Jobs are much
scaroer for youths than for persons in any
other age group, although the problem is also
serious for middle-aged workers.
Besides reporting on population. the census
will tell US the recent story of industry, busi-
ness, agriculture and housing. From such
Evening star., 1940-03-31
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE

tons. Now there is very little immigration
(more people have left the country in recent
years than have entered it and our produc-
ton of babies in the eight years after 1923 was
over two million less than in the eight years
before 1923. This year, the number of youths
reaching work age is larger than ever before.
and probably larger than it ever wiA be again.
For the next few years there will continue
to be droves of new youths - the bumper
crop of babies born during the postwar
years - clamoring for jobs. After l945 their
number will begin to slump, because of the
decline in the birth rate from 1923 on.
This generation of youth, the 1910 census
Evening star., 1940-03-31

- RIGHT and early on Tuesday morning,
Uncle Sam is going to roll up his sleeves
- and start to write the biography of the
American people. It's job he does every ten
years, and it's called census taking. When he
and his 10000 biographers are through, the
essential facts about nearly every American
will be registered in neat little code symbols
on about fifty-six tons of note paper.
The facts the census will uncover (they will
fill more than thirty bulky published VOL
umes) will show us what has happened to our
country since 1880. And a digest Of this truck
load of information will be must" reading
for government officials, economists, sociolo-
gists and even ordinary voters who expect
to do their bit in charting the course of Ameri-
can democracy through the troubled years
ahead.
The usefulness of the census is by NO means
limited to affairs of state. It will also tell us
far more than we have ever known before
about the world of work. It will reveal over
crowded occupations and shorthanded ones.
It will give US reliable figures about earnings
and hours of work. From its ominous-looking
StAISIN4 IdUlcS, dlcIl JOV-uulAIIAS SolA OS
many useful tip and lead that will help
them in solving their employment problems.
Just as rapidly as these figures are re-
leased they will be condensed and interpreted
for readers of this column. Meanwhile. it's
risky business to predict the returns. But
since most of the census reports will not be
published for some time, let's do little
''guesstimating" about what those returns
viii probably tell US. These estimates, based
on the best available statistics, may help you
to foresee the shape of things to come
and to plan accordingly.
AMERICAS population, the census will show.
is now close to 100000 people. That is
only an eight per cent increase since 1880.
But tie number Of people working on looking for
,co1k ,ciH hase risen more than tscelee per cent.
The reason our working force is rising faster
than our population is because we are beoom-
ing, on the average, nation of older people.
In the past. immigration and high birth
rate swelled the ranks of our younger genera