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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-11-28
STATE TAX LIMITATION
(St. Paul Pioneer Press)


Campaigning for a tax limitation
law sponsored by the Minnesota Con-
ference of Real Estate Taxpayers,
Harry Fiterman, tax consultant, points
out that real estate is paying 54.4 per
cent of Minnesota's $175,739,OOO tax
bill this year and that personal prop
erty to which similar levies are APP
piled pays another ga per cent. This
brings the total property tax to 63 8
per cent or more than 112 million
dollars.
The result is known to most Min
nesota property owners. In st. Paul
next year the owner of $4,000 house,
which does not enjoy homestead ex-
emption, will pay little more than
5000 in taxes including few dollars
for local assessments. This amounts
to almost ST. a month or about the
total monthly rental that is the objec-
tive of most low cost housing schemes.
The taxpayers conference has de-
termined to ask the Legislature for a
law to compel a three per cent an
nual reduction in real property taxes
for period of ten years, thus bring
ing the total cut to 80 per cent. Mr..
Fiterman states that this type of pro-
gram will work no hardship on exist
ing governmental agencies since the
tax reduction will be gradual and the
agencies will have sufficient time to
make the necessary adjustments in
their respective budgets.
The proposal, however, needs very
careful study. Fixed charges for debts.
pensions and other purposes demand
from % to so per cent of many local
budgets. Consequently the entire 30
per cent reduction would have to he
applied to operating departments,
many of which already have had dras-
tic budget reductions. This might re-
duce operating budgets as much as
40 or so per cent, condition which
would bring the breakdown of local
governments, unless other sources of
revenue were to be simultaneously
opened.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-11-28

ing represents is entitled in every
way to voice constructive criticism
and to continue to point out what they
consider the safe and sane policy for
this nation to follow. We cannot have
unity without tolerance, and tolerance
always means willingness to listen
to the other side and to adopt such OF
those policies as one can conscien-
tiously adopt.
WILKES minority is not danger
GUS minority. 1t is minority that de-
sires what is best for the national well
fare Just as much as does the majority.
And we have bunch that the
President is going to be tolerant and
strive for that unity which Wendell
Willkie asks for, unity that mean;
both parties working together for the
national good, but does not mean
blindly accepting as perfect every
policy enunciated from the White
House. There should be no bitterness
We should all help President Roosevelt
and Congress in their next four years
But we shall not be traitors because
we cannot see eye to eye on every
thing. That is too much to expect OF
ANY people in democracy as enlight-
ened as America is.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-11-28
PENSIONS AND TAXES
Duluth Herald)

This months election saw some vic
tories for the old age assistance re-
cipients and some defeats for prop
erty owners in referenda conducted in
several states.
Washington raised the pension limit
from $50 to $40 for persons over IS
and abolished liens on the property of
recipients. California barred and re-
leased liens on property owned by
those on old age assistance rolls. Colo
RADIO voted not to cut old age allow
ances from $45 limit to $50, and
Arkansas reduced the eligible age
from IS to 60.
Oklahoma voted down a plan to
give small holdings lower property
tax rate and large ones a higher rate.
This was intended to get the farmers
back on the farms, but no one will
know now whether it would have done
so or not.
Arkansas refused to exempt $50
worth of personal property for single
persons and 500 for married. Arizona
voted down homestead exemptions up
to $4,000, and Louisiana defeated a
measure to extend to 1914 the ex-
emption from property taxes of New
Orleans factories and to extend the
power of the state board of commerce
to exempt new industries from tax
alton.
Evidently a big part of the country
favors more aid for the elderly, nc
matter what this aid does to the
taxes which all must pay. Sooner Of
later. though, there must be some
thought for those who are holdins
down jobs. paying taxes and trying
to live. That class is still the hope
of the country.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-11-28
ONE CITY IS NOT LOOKING FOR
DEFENSE PROGRAM PLANTS
Park Region Echo)

Amid the scramble of midwestern
cities for factories working on the de-
Tense program, Mayor Brickley of Two
Harbors announces that his Lake SUI
perior port town doesn't want any.
Two Harbors is in bad enough shape,
he says, without having some indus
try attract large number of workers
and then fold up, creating an addition
al unemployment problem.
The Mayor shows good sense. Range
towns have had terrific load to carry
the past few years because the iron
mining companies brought in thou
sands of workers in the boom times,
and left them to the local relief when
improved mining machinery took their
jobs away from them.
Permanent industries would be d
fine thing for Minnesota but powder
mills, plants making cannon and
even some of the airplane factories will
only make things worse when the de-
Tense program stops.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-11-28

creasingly evident that there were
grounds for the fears expressed. AL
ready the eastern press is beginning
to agitate for further modification
of our neutrality law. They point
out that the intensified submarine
warfare recently inaugurated by the
Nazis is destroying British shipping at
a rate that will soon make it neces-
sary for us to transport food and war
material to the British Isles in Ameri-
can ships, conveyed by American
naval vessels. That, of course, would
be tantamount to a declaration of
war because it is war.
Congress modified the neutrality
law a year ago so as to permit the
Allies to come into the American
market and buy war materials. Since
then France has been subjugated and
Britain is fighting alone. Notwith-
standing that she has taken over
the Norwegian, Danish and Belgian
merchant marine fleets, the sinkings
have been so enormous that she must
have help from the United States
to the extent already indicated. Are
the American people ready to go that
Continued on Page 81
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-11-28
Country Doctor Travels
In Office Trailer Now

CLEVELAND. - The horse and
buggy, symbol of the country doc
tor in years past, has been forsaken.
In its place is an air-conditioned
trailer, complete with operating
table, sterilizing apparatus, X-ray
machine and Pullman type beds.
DR.. J. D. Love of Ysleta, Texas,
described his streamlined facilities
to delegates of the American Con-
gress of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
convened here.
81 took to trailers three years
ago." DR.. Love said Frankly, I'm
a regular country doctor and cover
radius of some 81 miles. deliver
an average of baby a day. The
trailer certainly has made it easier
for me and l think enables me to
do a better job"
Love said his present trailer is
his third. It contains all the vital
equipment necessary to rural prac-
tice, including a special generator
to furnish electricity, refrigerator
and an oxygen supply.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-11-28
LITTLE BROTHER
minneapolis Times Tribune)

Small wonder that the heads of the
Philippine government are pleading
now for 1O-ysar extention OF the
commonwealth Status of the Islands,
in relation to the United States. The
political cry for independence was
never anything more than politics, as
far as informed public opinion went
over there. The islands have been de-
pendent on the United States for 40
years, not only for defense against
aggression, and for educational prog
ress, but as economic units.
Any hope that they might be able
to stand firmly on their own feet has
been shattered by world events. They
were to develop new trade relations,
new outlets for their products, so as
to be weaned gradually from the
preferential treatment they have had.
Japan has blocked some of that ex-
pansion. Hitler has taken charge of
some prospective outlets. The islands
are more dependent on the states than
ever.
President Quezon and his finance
minister, Manuel RoXas, talk of the
new conditions and plead for extern
sion of the readjustment period, now
scheduled to end in five years. The is
lands stand ready, they say, to aid the
United States in war, and want help
in arming for defense.
Any aid that the little brown
brother might muster would be a
trifle, compared with the handicap
we would assume in guaranteeing
their independence for the trouble
some years ahead.
When Dewey smashed the Spanish
ships in Manila bay, we got our feet
in the orient. When we defeated
Aguinaldo and ended the indepen-
dence movement, we assumed heavy
incumbrance for the years that fol-
lowed. The help we have given the is
lands in men and treasure has been
of vast benefit to their people. They
have been of little compromising
| value to us. AS an outpost of our de-
Tense, they are Indispensable as a
gainst any first class power in the
orient. Alone, they are helpless. We
took them at their word in passing
the Jones bill. Yet it was inevitable
that sooner or later they would ask
for an extension of their role as little
brother under the protecting arm OF
the United States. 1t has come now
because Of the march of world events
1t had to come some time. We shall
not be free of our oriental in.
cumbrance for a long time.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-11-28
Mosquitoes Shun 200 Nazi
Legs in Hosiery Tes,

BERLIN.-A mass test by 200
shapely legs marked a new Ger
man industrial triumph while the
Reich is at war-mosquito-proof
stockings-the testers announced.
The test just has been finished by
a hundred pretty frauleins wearing
play suits. The insect-proof hosiery
successfully withstood the test.
They went out to Wansee, Ber-
Inns vacation playground, where
mosquitoes have been chewing for
years on German calves. They said
even the biggest mosquito was COM
pletely bafaed.
One of the oldest hosiery factories
in the Reich has been working on
insect-and-rainproof numbers for
several years, and this summer
their product is the rage of the Leip-
zig fair.
The makers announced they had
been able to spin a fiber which,
when made into silk-like hose, would
resist the boring of any mosquito.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-11-28
HUNTING DEATHS
Duluth Free PresS)

The biennial deer season is now
on in full swing. Approximately co.
900 hunters are in the woods in the
northern part of the state in search
of the wary Whitehall, with the ex-
pectation that about 60 per cent of
them will get a deer.
AS this is written, the death toll
from hunting is steadily rising, and
will continue to rise until the end of
the 11-day season. The principal
causes of death in the woods are
from shot wounds and overeXertion.
One death has been caused by a
stray bullet, coming from no one
knows where to hit man scaling
timber near Two Harbors. This is
probably unavoidable. and is one of
the chances any one takes in going
into the woods during the deer season.
Other deaths have been caused by
men shooting themselves with their
own guns, taking them from a car or
careless handling of firearms. Still
others are from one man mistakipg
another for deer and shooting him.
This type of accident can be "a
voided, and is the only approach to
cutting down on the number of deaths
Any man going into the woods with
as high-powered an instrument of
death as deer rifle should know
something about how to handle a gun.
Knowing how to shoot is the least
part of the education necessary. The
knowledge of how to take care of
gun so that neither the owner or some
other party is injured by it is the big
sest part of a good hunters learning.
With the amount of red cloth worn
by every sane deer hunter, there is no
excuse for someone else mistaking him
for a deer. We have only seen one
deer wearing red jacket, and that
was tame one which wore the jacE-
ct to prevent it from being shot.
The man who fires at something
moving in the brush without first
making sure that it is deer does not
deserve the right to be in the woods
with rifle. In Michigan, any hunter
who shoots another in the woods is
lol dlIOWcu " puiCNiSc d UiS Sdulo
license for period of five years. This
is a mild punishment, but it might
induce some hunters to be a little
more careful if it were enacted into
law in this state.
If a man is injured by his own gun,
he almost invariably has only himself
to blame. Before he goes hunting, he
should know that carrying a loaded
gun in car is not only illegal, but
highly dangerous. And to pull that
gun out of the car by the barrel is
apt to be the last time that he does
anything. When he leans gun d.
gainst a tree or anything else not
giving solid support, it is his own
fault if it falls over and goes off
when it hits the ground
The great majority of hunting ac-
cidents are preventable. But as long
as there are 10000 hunters in the
field we suppose there is bound to he
certain percentage of careless peo-
pie.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-11-28
FROM RIDICULE TO REVERENCE
pope County Tribune)

Those who listened to Governor
Stassen's keynote speech at the Re
publican National convention in June
will remember how he tainted and
ridiculed President Roosevelt for not
being prepared with national defense
at the time when the world was
bursting into flames. Like others who
were opposed to President Roosevelt
he took an unfair advantage of the
President. 1t is true that this nation
was not prepared, but that was not
RoOsevelt's fault or the fault of any
one in general. We all know that eight
cen months ago, ninety per cent OF
the people of the United States would
not have voted for any armament pro-
gram, and we were all sincere about
it. The records will show that ROOse-
welt asked for an armament program
at the time when the American peo-
pie were very hostile to him.
Those who listened to Governor
Stassen's radio talk after election will
recall how Governor Stassen had
dent. Instead of ridiculing remarks
that the President had made, he read
with reverence quotations from ROOse-
velt's campaign speeches. We give
Governor Stassen credit for being
smart enough to realize what the COM
mon people had to say at the polls
Governor Stassen had lost his bold
egOtism which characterized former
radio talks. For the first time, he ad-
mitted that the pOgram that he spOn-
sored in the last Legislature had its
flaws. He told the people that he
would take the vicious parts out OF
the homestead lien. He also promised
the people that the Anoka scandal
would be turned over to local author.
tiles and that the guilty would be
prosecuted. This is a hard blow to the
Governor because those who haC
charge of distributing the funds al
Anoka were the appointees of the Gov.
ernOr. 1t shows that graft and cor.
ruption can creep into any party. We
| believe the Governor should not be
content with the local investigation
but should make a state Investigation
of it as he did of the irregularitie:
in the Benson administration. Graf
| and corruption should be treated the
same wherever they are found.
Governor Stassen stands at the eros:
roads. He has lost tremendously at tn,
polls and that should be warnin:
to him that he should listen to thu
common people as well as to the mon
ey powers. The war is going to taxi
millions of tons of ore out of Mime
sofa. The Legislature should see t.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-11-28
Monkey Is Forced
To Get Union Card

HOLLYWOOD.-George Wash
ington Peter, ring-tailed, movie
acting monkey, chartered indig-
nantly because the American
Federation of Radio Artists forced
him to take out a union card be-
fore appearing on a broadcast.
George and Actress Brenda
Marshall, with whom he played
in the "Sea Hawk" were invited
to be guest stars on a nationwide
program. George was supposed
to chatter.
On the day of the broadcast,
Georgia Fifield, official of the A.
F. r. A., told Warner Brothers
that George would have to have
union card-or else. So the
studio took one out in his name.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-11-28

ii that the mining interests pay
fair tax to Minnesota because, once
this ore is gone, it is gone forever.
The ore was placed in the soil for all
the people and not for few. If Gov
ernor Stassen goes along and is COVER
nCr for all the people of Minnesota,
he will have nothing but praise from
the Tribune. but if he caters to or
ganized wealth then we shall criticize
him whenever we see fit.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-11-28
WILLKIE URGES LOYALTY
Cottonwood County Citizen)

Wendell WILKES radio message to
45.5 per cent of the electorate who
supported him in the recent election
was a real masterpiece and we have
heard much favorable comment not
only from Republicans but from Demo
Gratis. Certainly he pointed out very
clearly just what unity and loyalty to
the President mean, and you can rely
upon him to show 100 per cent loyalty
to the chief executive and to his coun-
try.
But he just as clearly pointed out
that as large minority as his follow
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-11-28
Extension Dairyman
To Speak In County

Plans have been made to have H.
R. Searles, Extension Dairyman, in
the county on the sixth of December,
according to Max McMillin, county
agent.
The time and places of the meet
ings at which Mr.. Searles will speak
on dairy problems have not been ar
ranged for as yet, but they will be
announced later.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-11-28
A Little Spice

1t is possible to live large life on
a small income.
Many a heavy load has been light
ened by a hearty laugh.
Take off your coat to do your work.
and it may develop into position"
Conscience is the supreme court OF
the soul. Its decisions are rarely re-
versed.
God made us for testings, and
calamities will come to us all. We're
il not for troubles, we would be human
bubbles.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-11-28
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
Continued from Page II
align herself with the other Bal
kan states.


That bit of information is rather
startling because a couple of weeks
ago there was a highly important
RuSsO-German conference in Berlin,
and although no public report was
made of its result, it was taken for
granted that the friendship between
Mos cow and Berlin had been
strengthened There are some reas-
ons to think that the Russian warn
| ing to Bulgaria may be ruSe, and
that that country will fall in line
whenever Hitler DEGREES that the hour
has struck.
Then there is Turkey, friend of
| Great Britain and Greece. Turkey
is definitely wanted as one of the
stars in the German-Italian-Ja Japanese
Slovak- Observation-Disclosures constel-
lation, but Turkey wavers. Ger
many's ambassador at Ankara, Fritz
Won Papen has recently been in Ber-
lin to receive new instructions. He
has now impaired them to the Turk
ish government, and we may look
for results one of these days.
1t may be significant that mar
tial law has been proclaimed in
European Turkey, and that regu-
lar blackOuts of Turkish cities
have started; this seems to show
that something is expected; of
what nature, we know not.
There will, however, be no reason
| for surprise if soon the announce
ment is made that the Ankara gov
eminent has followed the example
of most of the other Balkan states.
Greek Triumphs.
One of the defiant exceptions is
Greece.
The country, attacked without a
| declaration of war or any other warn
ing four weeks ago by Italy has driv-
en- the invader outside her own terri
tory, has, in fact, forced them to flee
into neighboring Albania (now Italian
territory and pursued them relent-
lessly and with such furious speed
that the Greek army couldn't keep
up WIN Ine IuSltlVeS!
To a very large extent, the
Italian attack on Greece had for
its basis the city of K0ritza in
Albania; the Greeks two weeks
ago started to besiege and bomb
that city, and eleven days after
the start of the siege, the Italians
abandoned Koritza, fleeing head
long toward safer places which
| the Greeks are now doing their
utmost to make extremely unsafe.
| The battle of KOritza is the first
real defeat the Axis powers have
suffered, and to them it is no
doubt very humiliating that a
tiny nation should prove itself
powerful enough to spite the
might of MussOlini. KOritza has
necessitated speedy German help
that fact helps to explain the
feverishly negotiated treaties be-
tween Germany and the Balkan
governments.
Aerial Warfare.
Although for many days nearly all
attention has been centered on the
Balkan situation, the real war be-
tween Germany and Great Britin has
not been forgotten. It is still war
of bombs, and they have done in
estimable damage in both countries,
have killed countless human beings.
Artillery and infantry remain per-
fectly inactive-it is the forces of
the air that bear the brunt, but there
is some reason to believe, that, in the
final analysis, it will not be lombard
ments that will determine the out
come of the war.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-11-28

w a I'm e d against
the d a n G e r GU S
trend of our for
eign policy. No
doubt many voters
b r u S h e d S u c h
warnings aside as
being polite a !
propaganda.
Unfortunately, it
., s~
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-11-28
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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, 1940-11-28
Observations
BY CONG. HAROLD KNUTSON
Omitted from publication last is
for lack of space.)
A Step Nearer to War.

During the late campaign the
American people were repeatedly
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-11-28

The Wireless: You could build q
skyscraper with the labor that goes
into a radio comics laugh lines, II
you can believe what you see in the
papers. Fred Allen, whose wit is
faster than a retreating Fascist,
writes solo for three nights max
ing his comedy silky Then you
see Bob Hope, photoed for Spot, con-
fabbing with eleven co-workers on
those things he reels off on the spur
of the moment "Big Town"
remains one of the meatiest melo-
dramas, with Edward G. Robinson
and Ona Muson sparkling it.