Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-05-22
Notes of an
Innocent Bystander

The Wireless: Authorities on the
Far East expressed the opinion that
Japan is strictly gymnasium fight
er. Lots of form in the workouts,
but stumblebum in the ring
Upton Close called the embrace with
Moscow an admission that both ma
tons know they are 'hopelessly out
classed in the Pacific by your I'm
Gle Samson Edgar Snow doubt
ed that the Japs would do any scrap
ping on the water, realizing that
British and U. S. sea power would
make them velly Solly And
James Young, who was jailed by the
Japs for his dispatches to here, pre-
dicted that some Japanese screw
ball army officer, not the govt,
would get that country into trouble.
If so, he warned, pact or no pact,
Stains planes would be over Tokyo
like flies, dropping pineapples in
their suki-yaki Many reasons
have been advanced for Cholly Nc
Carthy's drop in popularity, but no
one seems to have mentioned the
program on at the same time-Hel-
en- Hayes No Yank-Giant ball
game broadcasts this year. Can't
find a sponsor willing to spend that
sort of coin. Remember last year
how the ball clubs took bows for be-
ing good samaritans-to the poor
Shut-inS?
The Front Pages: The Times
asked sensible question in a re-
cent editorial. Why, it wanted to
know, should Sen. Reynolds of N. c.
head the military affairs commit
tee? In his eight years in the sem
ate, says the Times, the only quail
fication he has piled up for the inn
portant post is seniority. You might
as well argue that the last banana
that hangs on the stalk is the best
when it's only the ripest Even
before Lindbergh, the notorious pub
icity dodger, poured his latest abuse
on Britain, the Herald Tribune had
soured him. That daily called at
tention to Major de Seversky's an
swer to the Lindbergh letter. It
echoed the Majors query, to wit:
where does a peace-time aviator
get off to pose as know-it-a1 on
combat flying, of which he has had
none, YETI" Samuel Grafton
has good suggestion. Let's give
France food on our own terms, he
proposes, and if Hitler doesn't per-
NIT those terms-then the French
will know who's starving them.
The Story Teliers: The REFER
smokers who want to pamper Hitler
in order to help U. S. trade, can
snap out of their pipe dreams by
reading "To American Business
Men," in Harper's. T. Graydon Up
ton, banker who saw and smelled
Naziism grow in Berlin, reports that
the tycoons who backed Adolf were
the first to be burglarized by him.
Remember-it's an American bank
er saying this Spain is sun
posed to be broke and hungry. So
how can it afford to distribute, free
Of charge, an expensive booklet
called Spain? This monthly
reports what's going on in the coun-
try, but carries no word of Nazi
troops budding there to charge on
Gibraltar. Who is paying for this
high priced job of printing?
The Magic Lanterns: "Ziegfeld
Girl' pays tribute to the late glori-
fer by following the pattern of his
"Follies." Meaning it is big, beau
tiful, costly and strictly for the eye.
Just 60 and look-don't analyze j..
"The Great American Broadcast" is
song-and-sentiment picture of the
networks baby days. It's pleasant,
and the melodies will follow you
right home "a Girl, a Guy
and a Cob" is slap-happy slapstick.
It gives you the widest chase since
the keystone cops were falling out
of jalOpieS.