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Askov American., 1941-04-10
the last six months of the Benson re-

the last six months of the Benson re-
gime.
The radio stations, with their GUS
tom OF saying that they have no
power of censorship over political
talks, are going to be in very hot
water if they take the responsibility
for all political speakers accuracy
II Governor Stassen wanted to take
few shots at Senator Lommen or
the Benson administration would
those affected be consulted in ad-
vance?
So far Senator Lommen seems to be
the winner. He is wearing mar
tyrs crown and-if the Stassen ver-
sion is correct-has also been saved
from throwing an oratorical boomer
ang which would have hurt Senator
Lommen more than anyone else.
But if all radio discussions or even
some of them are subject to the gov
ernor'S approval we'd better find
out about it now.
Askov American., 1941-04-10
LET US GO BACK

Let us go back
To the simpler and better things;
Let us retrace our steps
From our greed-born chickering's
Back to the quietness
Of plain, good, friendliness.
Let us 60 back
To the old roads of beauty's quest;
Let us again find JOY
In the fields and the woods, possessed
By the thrill of the spring,
And of summer wandering.
Let us go back
To fashioned content, our wealth
Found in the garden hooks,
And beneath home roofs. Let the
health
Of the trees and the grass
Be ours, as the seasons pass.
Thomas Curtis Clark.
The Christian Century.
Askov American., 1941-04-10
A REMINDER OF THE LOVE
OF FREEDOM
(ROcheSter POSt-Bulletin)

A small ripple on the surface of
affairs in Pennington, Connecticut,
reached the New York papers and
has received a surprising amount of
attention. A rumor has passed through
Pennington that the curfew fund was
running low. Pennington was es-
tablished in 1910, its church is ITO
years old and the bell in the steeple
was purchased in 1871.
Ever since that date, except for a
brief interlude in 1910, the Farm
ington curfew has sounded a nine
o'clock warning to the village that the
day is over and the time for rest
has come 1t has been long time
since the % strokes of the curfew
have served any useful purpose
Townsfolk no longer put out their
lights or call their children in to bed
at nine o'clock. But as one Farm
ingtonian says: "It's tradition. And
we just like to hear it ring"
Fortunately for the peace of mind
of the citizens, the curfew fund was
found to contain ample monies for
the next year or two. 1t only costs
about Sc month to maintain the
nightly tolling of the bell. But the
momentary furore has at least brought
home to the people of Pennington
how much this particular tradition
means to them.
And the fact that the story has at
tracted so much attention outside the
small towns borders is an indication
that Americans, for all their surface
cynicism, are extremely sentimental
at heart. And in these times of
doubt, doubt of events and doubt
of themselves, they are looking back
with a new wonder and admiration
at those early Americans who were
not afraid of hardship or of danger.
The Pennington curfew is tan
gible reminder of courage and love
of freedom. Americans read about
it with added interest today when so
many are asking themselves the ques-
tion: "Are we the men our grand
fathers were?"
Askov American., 1941-04-10
GLAD HE'S A NEGRO, AND WHY

Colored people in America are TAX
ing advantage of the fact that they
look white-and in increasing num-
bers are passing as whites, accord
ing to Ollie Stewart, himself Negro
in the Commentator. Conservative
estimate for 1886 places the number OF
those who powdered up, and were
swallowed up when they crossed the
line, at 10000 he says.
81 have no such leanings," con-
tinues Mr.. Stewart. 81 want to be
just what am. I'm glad I'm a Negro
"How can 1 say this? 1 think ]
get more out of life as black man.
1 know life better, because I am at
tackled from more angles.
"Wherever there are colored people
there's music and laughter 1 wouldn't
exchange that for any honor on earth
"The suicide rate among colored
people is so low as to be almost
negligible" adds Mr.. Stewart. "Why?
We sing away troubles-we sing
loudest when sorrows become heavi-
est. Show me colored man in trouble
and I'll show you a man singing
Show me white man in trouble-and
I'll point out to you an explosion
plus string of goddams. There are
few colored neurotics. We don't have
nervous breakdowns, or run away to
the South Sea Islands, or join the
Foreign Legion to Forget It All. And
for these omissions from our charac-
ter, dear Lord, thank Thee.
"Being Negro keeps me tolerant
It keeps me from being tempted to
say I'm free, white, and twenty-one
and mistaking an accident of birth
for an achievement on my part, ]
would never condemn those who cross
the line, whether they're 10000 or
100000 year, but I'm satisfied.
Being white could add nothing to
my understanding of a group that
after seventy years of freedom not
only refuses to moan its fate but
produces from the cotton fields and
swamp lands Booker T. Washing
ton, Paul Laurence Dunbar, George
w. Carver, a Roland Hayes, Marian
Anderson or Jesse Owens. Pm glad
Pm Negro"
Askov American., 1941-04-10
Sports Show Just Round Corner

Easter is just around the corner and 50
is the Northwest Sportsmen's Shoy which
will be held in the Minneapolis auditorium
April IL to 20. Susan Ann Helm, 81, is
peeking at the Easter bunny which will
have a prominent part in the show to-
gether with hurdling seals, deer, ski jump.
ers, cowboy crOoners. Indian singers, and
full Eskimo village.
Askov American., 1941-04-10
Let Us Keep Cool


citizens desire English victory in this
war, because of England's form OF
vernme ent and other reasons
American democracy wants nothing
of the totalitarian form of govern
ment.
But what picture is painted over
the radio and in the press, should
Germany win the war. People are told
that America will be next, and to
believe some of the commentators
one would think that all of the world
would be against the United States
in the event of German victory.
If Germany should win, how long
would it remain friendly with Musso-
lini? And how about Russia and
Japan? France in such an event
would be under the military heel OF
Germany for a while, but if Hitler
gets too rough there would be revo-
luton in France and other countries
All those countries would not neces-
sarily be enemies of America be-
cause Hitler, for the time being
would be powerful Stain is not
any too friendly to Hitler now. There
is no reason to believe that all other
countries but America would be
friendly to Hitler in the event OF
his victory.
During the past 100 years of i'm
migration to America, we have not
assimilated more than one per cent
of cur total population in any one
year Hitler has doubled or treble6
his population in one year. How
long are those various nationalities
going to submit to Hitler and hi:
military rule?
Let us not get as excited as we
did back in 1917, when we set ou
to make the world safe for de-
mocracy." America can share the
responsibility with other nations ir
not following up that slogan to make
the world safe for democracy" Oul
entry into the present war, if we
acted as we did following the las
World war, would not make for more
democracy.
America has much to do in the
way of building up and defending oul
own democracy. Let us not get tot
excited over what the war-monger.
are telling us. We cannot set gooc
example to the world by way of force
American boys must be kept from
going to the battlefields of Europe.
The Christian Advocate in an edi
torial says that if the nations of tn,
world had followed the Leadership
of Woodrow Wilson back in 1918 thi.
present calamity might have beer
averted.
"There is no question:" said the st
Cloud Times, "but that the famous Il
points, upon the basis of which Ger.
many signed the armistice of Novem.
ber II, 1918, outlined the only basis
can rest. Largely because of politics
the United States refused to joir
the League of Nations, refused ad
herence to the World court No on,
can know how far our refusal t
enter into the covenant between thu
League VI NolioiiS iiioJ NC iSSpoiiSi
BILE for the present upheaval.
"Had we joined the League of Ma.
tons, the United States undoubtedly
would have had great influence il
preventing France and England from
interpreting the Versailles treaty thu
way they did. The treaty itself wa!
not so disastrous for the perpetuatior
of the German republic but it wa.
the avarice of France and England
that brought about an economic con.
dition which forced the German peo.
pie to seek an escape from intolerablt
conditions through nazism."
Askov American., 1941-04-10
A Little Spice

Whenever we buy what we do not
need, we always pay too much for
it.
Have you ever listened to a "big
talker" and gone away wondering
what he said?
Askov American., 1941-04-10

Editorial Comment From Other News
papers Which May or May Not
Conform With the Opinions of the
Aslkov American.
Askov American., 1941-04-10

Scouting as teen-age boy pro-
gram is not militaristic and is patri-
otic and trains for citizenship.
Askov American., 1941-04-10
IIIsl[[l] /
LWNu servicel
Man About Town:
NEW WORKERS ARE
TALKING ABOUT:

Looks current issue, in which
Dorothy Thompson directs an open
letter to Anne Lindbergh The
fat dividend checks Goering gets
from an American munitions firm,
which are deposited to his account
at the Bank of Rio de Janeiro e.
The way those exiled Cuban army
and navy officials are whooping it
up in the Miami spots, oblivious to
trouble FDR's alleged flip
pancy to A. Woollcott: "My family
likes actors-and why not? Doesn't
Eleanor play one-night stands?" =. :.
The tiara the Duchess of Windsor
wears in the Bahamas-made of
beach shells.
Askov American., 1941-04-10
Mood

Our Ho-Hum Dept: All the Os-
cars for the best film acting went to
players who impersonated charac-
ters from best selling novels and hit
plays. Meaning that they had some
life before they were screened.
But those statues they give the ac-
tors are big ones-and they cast
shadows that black out the authors
who merely wrote the prize-winning
roles.
Askov American., 1941-04-10

Observations: The N. Y. Times
points out the difference between the
Germans of 1914-18 and the Nazis
of today. Won Papen, runner of
Hitler's dirty errands" in Turkey,
showed a movie depicting the Nazis'
cruelties to the conquered peoples.
In the last war, the Times recalls.
the Germans tried to lie out of their
atrocities. Now they glory in them.
Askov American., 1941-04-10

Pearson and Aliens table-turning
on Congressman Sweeney of Ohio,
who IS suing them in every state.
He has lost out of 3 already, in
Guiding the case of his home state.
P. & A. have filed against him,
charging "abuse of judicial process"
and ask $500,000 :. The legend that
Virginio Gayda was beaten up near
Rome by two heroes who escaped.
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library called for salary reductions for
both John B. Ritch. librarian, and
Anne Mcdonnell. assistant librarian,
and provides for study OF the entire
library organization by the Montana
State university librarian before the
library Is moved to new quarters in
the proposed veterans memorial build
ing.
DR.. B. L. Pampel superintendent of
the state insane hospital, was ordered
to reduce the number Of persons re-
porting directly to the superintendent
from 10 TO 3 and to group the hospital
staff into three medical,
nursing and business.
The order covering the medical d.
vision directed:
That it be headed by an assistant
superintendent and clinical director to
direct all medical diagnosis and treat
ment of patients and the adjunct
therapies.
That the part-time position of
pathologist in conjunction with the
tuberculosis sanatorium be created
within available funds.
That a drug formulary be adopted.
That consulting medical staff be
created If such can be done without
additional cost
That the medical division be given
complete authority over assignment of
patients to working details and that
these industrial therapy assignments
be clearly recognized as for the good
of the patients and not merely for
the purpose of getting the work done.
That tuberculosis case-finding sur
vey be instituted and ward or wards
set aside for these patients.
That an effort be made to perform
mental and physical re-diagnosis of
all patients once a year.
The superintendent was directed to
create a nursing division to comprise
| the graduate nurses, supervisors and
attendants, headed by a registered
nurse with experience in administra-
ton of psychiatric nursing on a large
scale to direct the entire nursing and
attending care of patients.
Increase of the nursing and attend
ant staff was directed as soon as funds
are available.
Business Manager
Five sections of the business divi-
sion, to be headed by business man.
ager. were set forth in the order as
dietary section. housekeeping, mechan-
ical, farm and office.
Major changes ordered for the diet
airy division, to comprise cooks, BUTCH
er, baker and mattresses, headed by q
qualified dietician with experience in
purchase of food, supplies and super
vision of meals on large scale were:
Keeping Of specified records to be
used to control use of food and pre-
vention Of waste.
Rectifying the present gross dis
crepancy between cost of meals for
patients and employees by providing
better meals for patients and better
meals through adequate menu plan
ming.
That better control be exercised over
the serving of meals to employees as
part of their total salaries. that sys-
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Mrs. Pond Has Been Hamilton
Librarian for 3l-Year Period

ment and other income gave the IL
brary about 5000 a year for support
In later years the income has in
creased to approximately 81 500 q year
Contributions from the Hamilton
Womans club and the old-time Bust
ness and Professional Women's club,
now called the Friendship" group,
have aided materially. The former
clubs work for children's books has
been a consistent and outstanding
help for the library
In the years Of her service Mrs.
Pond has known intimately such well
received American writer's as Dixie
Wilson, Monica Shannon, Carl Click,
Agnes Getty and others. Dixie Wilson
was once a teacher who rode horse
back to her district school duties in
a rural section near Hamilton. Miss
Getty. now Mrs. Sloan of Whitefish,
grew up in the library along with
other Hamilton children of the times
Click was an orchard boom" immi-
grant to the Bitter Root from the east.
Kenneth Romney, sergeant at arms
in the house of representatives in
Washington, was another who grew up
in the shadow of the library. Henry
L. Myers, one of Montana's leading
United States senators for several
years, was another early friend and
patron of the library.
Mrs. Pond is now passing out books
to the grandchildren of some of her
earliest patrons. A fine reference IL
brary and the prescribed reading for
students make that part major work
for the librarian. The average circu-
lation is 1000 volumes a month. with
the wintertime bringing the average
to 1900.
A native OF New York state, Mrs.
Ponds early life was spent in the
logging sections of Michigan, and she
came from that state here. 1t was
following the death of her husband.
Josh" Pond, one-time sheriff of Ra-
valli county, that she became libra
RAN She has called Montana home
for 40 years. and except for one year
all that has been lived in Hamilton.
Along with her ministry as to books,
Mrs. Pond is endowed with "a green
thumb" and there are always pretty
plants and flowers in the pleasant.
big reading room. An old-fashioned
house on South Eighth street with a
yard that is filled with lilac bushes
and apple trees is her home. Carrie
E. Pond Is more than the towns Ii
brarian. Her ideals make her a gen.
eral mother to the community, an
aide to all civic progress.
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TEN Of control for meals to visitors be
instituted with visitors required to pey
for meals.
For the mechanical section the order
directed it be headed by plant engi-
neer with professional training with
the following improvements made:
Installation OF meters and gauges
and log used to prevent losses and
waste OF power and fuel
Investigation OF pumping sand in
the water system.
Instituting a work-order system.
Establishment OF consolidated
maintenance shop as soon as building
is available.
improvements in the fire defenses.
Ordered for the farm section. to be
headed by a farm manager. were:
Increased truck gardens.
Prohibiting working Of any patients
assigned to farm work under super
vision Of private persons not in the
state employ.
Cooperation with highway depart
ment in road maintenance.
Regular tests of milk.
Increase Of milk supply and i'm
provement of dairy facilities when
funds are available.
The order called for creation of an
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-12-19
Crop Improvement Body Names
State Agronomist President

Election of Ralph D. Mercer. extern
sion agronomist at Montana State COL
lege and secretary Of the Montana
Seedgrowers association. to the presi-
dency of the International Crop I'M
provement association, took place at
the associations annual meeting held
in Chicago during the international
livestock exposition.
Mercer, who has served the inter-
national organization as secretary for
the last two years, was elected for a
two-year term. The International Crop
Improvement association membership
is composed of agronomists. seedsmen
and others interested in crop improve
ment work in "a states in this country
and two provinces in Canada.
Before his appointment to the ex-
tension agronomy post in 1886, Mercer
served as Rosebud county extension
agent for 10 years during which time
he developed an outstanding crop
standardization program. Prior to that
he worked for two years with NJ l..
Wilson. present national director of
the extension service, in the farm
management department at Montana
State college. From 1919 to 1922 he was
vocational agriculture instructor at
Fairview, Mont.
Mercer has not only consistently
pushed the Montana crop standard
ization program to bring about wider
use by farmers of crop varieties proven
adapted to Montana soil and growing
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-12-19

Mrs Carrie E. Pond marked 81 years
of service as Hamilton city librarian
in November She began her public
services in 1910. The library then was
set up in a corner of the city hall
and she was appointed by Mayor Mike
Flaherty to succeed Mrs. Jeanette
Mack, who resigned.
In the spring of 1916 Mrs. Pond
aided the council in moving the library
from the city hall to new building
which Andrew Carnegie endowed. A
fund of $4,000 was provided for its
erection. Construction was a job of the
preceding year, the neat one-story
and basement brick taking its place on
a grassy lot at the west end of the
city hall.
At that time the average city allot-
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-12-19

JOB IS ORDERED
AT INSTITUTIONS
TUBERCULOSIS SANITARIUM AND
INSANE HOSPITAL ARE IN
GUIDED IN ACTION

Gov. Sam C. Ford has written exec
utive orders calling for reorganization
moves to be made at once at the state
tuberculosis sanitarium at Galen. the
state insane hospital at Warm Springs,
the state board of lands and invest
ments and the state historical library
Recommendations for the changes
were made to Ford by his committee
on reorganization and economy
For the state sanitarium, the COVER
nor approved the following organiZa-
ton and staff changes:
Designation Of one physician as chief
physician to relieve the superintendent
Of routine medical work
Making several employees now re-
sponsible directly to the superintend-
ent. responsible instead to one Of sew
eral supervisors.
Establishment Of the position of
housekeeper to relieve the dietitian Of
certain housekeeping duties.
Creating the part-time position Of
pathologist in cooperation with the
state insane hospital and arrangement
for affiliations in tuberculosis nursing
with nursing schools IN the state ~
soon as living quarters are available.
Ford's order to the state land board
provided for administration Of lands
to produce as much revenue as pos
sible and to price lands for sale so IS
to facilitate their purchase and to
retain them on tax rolls.
The order also provided for auditing
Of collections from both crop-share
rentals and mineral land leases.
Salary Cuts Oraered
The executive order for tie historical
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-12-19
Tongue RiUer Survey
Ordered Continued

The Montana water conservation
board has ordered continuation Of
study being made Of additional pos
dble use Of water stored In the Tongue
river and the order was for contin-
uation Of the survey all the way down
the Tongue to its junction With the
Yellowstone.
The survey was intended to compile
Information looking toward construc-
ton Of additional bitches and other
facilities later. when funds were made
available.
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office section to comprise the acsount-
ant. secretary, steward, clerks and
telephone operators. headed by a chief
clerk to direct all record keeping,
statistics, accounting and general cleri-
cal activities.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-12-19
TObOggans Bought

The state purchasing department
ordered two motor toboggans costing
about $3.50 each for the state fish and
game department. The toboggans, pow
capable of speeds up to 40 miles an
hour with loads ranging from $50 to
800 pounds, will be used for winter
patrol work by deputies and for NOV
ing supplies into isolated winter cabins
used by them
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-12-19

The first printed paper labek to be
used on wine bottles appeared In Eng
land in the 18th century. Port was
probably the first wine TO be so Ia
beled.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-12-19
WOOL SHORTAGE SEEN

WOOL SHORTAGE SEEN
The prospect that the 1912 domestic
production of wool will be insufficient
to more than meet military demands
in the United States next year has
been foreseen by the Research In
stitute of America, private business
information service which keeps In
close touch with responsible author
tiles.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-12-19
m SECOND PLACE

After more than 20 years As the
leading tungsten producer Of the
United States, the Nevada-Massa-
chusetts mill at NH City. near Win
nemucca. Nsv., VIII Be pushed into
second plAce when The q. 8. vanadium
OuGptb NV MN q Biah0p. Calf, ests
into R0dag91nn.
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Wanted to Buy

OLD HORSES
On noaS1. friess froa Is b 7ss ~ cvt.
- O.S4A DmA, hunA
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Read the Classified Advertisements
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Wanted to Buy

MISCELLANEOUS
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WANTED: Crested wheatgrass miuet alfalfa
Mail samples Sheldon p. Reese Elevators,
Aberdeen. 30. OAK.
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FOR sALE-Resistered Black Angus Bulls Of
breeding age and younger. Accredited for
Ii and Bangs. Max ooldberg. care Noorhead
Farmers Hevatof Co.. Noorhead. MINI.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-12-19
FARMS. RANCHES AND LANDS

200 ACRES. about million feet Of saw and
tie timber, facing paved state highway,
thirty minutes haul to Kalispell mills, fenced.
old buildings, Is acres has been farmed. land
and timber 1000 per all clear. Submit
best offer for cash. Owner. p. O. Box 1853.
Fullerton, Calf.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-12-19

500 CRO0BBRD eve lambs: $50 sood cross
bred yearling ewes; 800 ewes, two to four
years old. An afe in excellent condition.
walter Grimes, Cascade, Nsnt.