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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-01-16
THE BRITISH VIEWPOINT
Editor Askov American:

AShON AIncTlCdI.
In an editorial in a Canadian news
paper, the undersigned and the mid
west gets a good going over. The
writer states that the northwest is
backward in it's British attitude and
the inference is quite plainly con-
veyed that some of us are mentally
retarded. Of course one does not have
to accept all this at face value, but
it is what could be expected from the
British.
The British have been able to bam-
boOzle their own people, and cannot
understand why our leaders do not
do likewise. Unless a person has made
a deep study of the British it is i'm
possible to understand them. Gener-
ally, the British view everything as
good that benefits the British Empire.
The fact that our delegation to Con-
gress looks after our interest is some
thing the British cannot understand;
either they must be pro-Nazi or ignor-
ant in the eyes of the thorough
Britisher
Now, the northwest is neither pro-
NaZi nor ignOrant-the reason the peO-
pie of the northwest view with some
misgivings the plans that the British
have for us in this war, is based on
past history and experience. The Brit
ish writer takes me to task for going
back into past deeds and records. e.,
however, brought all their shortcom-
ings up to date. If l missed any it
was an oversight). After all the only
way to judge the future is by the past.
The foreign policy of most countries
is based on the past. What worked
successfully in the past is tried once
more. In order to make an accurate
forecast Of what will happen in the
future, it is necessary to go back and
see what happened in the past under
similar circumstances.
The northwest for 20 years has had
hard times. Most of the small banks
have been liquidated and farms are
selling for less than the cost of the
buildings. Where 25 years ago we
were prosperous we are now broke, as
q result of the last war. That is the
real reason.
S. J. SIMONSEN
Pease, Mimi, Jan. 4, 1941.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-01-16
THE LIEN LAW
Editor ASkOv American:

AIulIOI AShOt AMERICAN.
Again the Governor lays down the
law-the cid age lien law-commend-
ing its soundness, restating it's sole
purpose to compel child support of
parents. recommending, as a sop to
the old folks, some tinkering by pro-
bate judges and boastfully Dragging
that the law has not so far "in a single
instance" been enforced by fore losure
AS to the laws alleged purpose, let
1t be said that from ordinary obser-
walton and experience any fair-minded
adult should be convinced that filial
charity Child support of parent) is
as practically impossible of enforce
ment by law as was prohibition for the
enforcement of temperance. Fer many
years before the enactment of the lien
law we had a law upon the statute
books, and still have it, demanding
child support of parents, but it's en-
forcement always was and still is al
most as dead as that noble expert
ment' now is. Any one who was ever
county attorney in this state knows 1t.
mot in single instance" enforced
by foreclosure! Let us see why? Let
the old folks go to the bank to borrow
money for taxes, and they will soon
enough find that the lien is in full
force and effect as first mortgage
on their real property, not only for
pensions they have already received
but also for every cent Of pension
money they may up to the date of their
deaths receive-with the result that
their properties are zero as security
and on nonstop toboggan bound for
absolute tax forfeiture, wit h out
necessity or benefit of any other
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-01-16

formal foreclosure, the state getting
what it does not want or need. And
where do the old folks who have no
living children come in or out of in
this exclusive purpose? Does it not
analyze the situation before taking
such bold stand? There is but one
thing for the Legislature to do-re
peal the entire lien law absurdity!
HENRY FUNKLEY
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-01-16

cannot properly take care of this job
it should be given to some other
agency. Many governmental experts
believe it should have been placed
under the commissioner of administra-
ton in the first instance. Without dis
cussing the merits of this theory one
thing is certain. full benefits of the
reorganization act are impossible I'M
til the states accounting system func-
tiOns as it should.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-01-16
Resolutions Adopted
(Continued from PAGE IL

(Conttnued from Page u
Dunn one-min tax on real estate (for
roads).
8. Recommend to the coming legis-
lature that steps be taken toward
enactment of constitutional amend
ment to divert a portion of the gas
tax money to townships for road and
bridge purposes to make possible the
of the township levy for
road and bridge purposes.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-01-16

FairmOnt Sentinel: The thousands
upon thousands of dollars spent in
the recent national campaign is evil
dence that others besides the RoOse-
welt administration can be classed in
the column of prolific spending.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-01-16
Opinions OF Others

(Short timely letters on topics of
public interest are welcome whether
or not the writer's opinions con-
form with those of the American.
All letters must be signed with the
writer's name for our information.
Signed articles always are more eff
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, 1941-01-16
THEY TOOK A NASTY WAY TO GET
RID OF COMMISSIONER ROCKWELL

Park Region EchO)
1t is no surprise that the state
board of education fired Commissioner
of Education Rockwell, whose ap-
pointment still has three years to run.
But the board went about it in a
nasty way.
The board had nothing on Com
missioner Rockwell except that his
ideas on education are not conserva-
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-01-16
A Little Spice

He who can see greatness and
beauty in common things is next door
neighbor to God.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-01-16
From Exchanges

Editorial Comment From Other News
papers Which May or May Not
Conform With the Opinions Of the
Aslxov American.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-01-16
Hauling Bids Let

Continued from Page II
committeeman will be able to furnish
same.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-01-16

Dorothy Thompson was telling Of
a ruse she once used to get rid of
bore He came over to her
table in the Stork Club one night
and started telling her how to write
her next ten colyums =. "I'u never
remember anything you are saying"
she interrupted.
"Why," he asked, sis your men,
DRY that bad?"
cts terrible" replied La Thomp-
son. ''In fact, my memory is so
bad I don't even remember having
asked you to sit at this tablet"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-07-03
sAUK CENTRE HERALD. Sank Centre, MINI.

Of Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Klosner
Of Burtrum.
Robert Delbert Vessel spent
Sunday afternoon at the Ed Won
Wahlde home.
Miss Francis GRADER and Virgil
Quade spent Sunday evening at the
G. GRADER home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jake Sandre, Max
inc and Betty Ann GRADER, of Iowa
spent Saturday evening at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Ronald
Stewart.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Niehause and
family spent Sunday evening at the
G. GRADER home.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Tank and
son, of Keene, North Dakota, left
for their home Tuesday afternoon
Mr.. and Mrs. Jake Sandre and
Maxine and Betty Ann GRADER, OF
Iowa, left for their home Monday
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Budde spent
Sunday evening at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Pauly.
George Sunderman, Of West
Union, was a supper guest Friday
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Car
Pauly.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-07-03
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Ed Bieringer spent Sunday after
noon at the John Bieringer home.
Norbert Schloegle, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Schloegle, returned
to his home Saturday after being
in the st. Cloud hospital the past
few weeks.
John and Ed Bieringer and Ed
win Ebensteiner and Jim Christie
were callers at the Anton Bieringer
home Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Anton Bieringer
and daughter, Dorothy, spent Sun
day evening at the John Bieringel
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Bieringer spent
Sunday afternoon with Mr.. and
Mrs. Lawrence Scheiffer and family
at Browerville.
Jim Christie called at the Joe
Bieringer home Sunday.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-07-03
South Sank Centre

Gust Quade was a caller at the
Anton Bieringer home Monday
forenoon.
Miss Catherine Bieringer is help
ing Mrs. John Bieringer with work
a few days.
Edwin Ebensteiner called on An
ton Bieringer Wednesday forenoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Bieringer spent
Thursday evening with Mr.. and
Mrs. John Bieringer and family.
Miss Elizabeth Bieringer was a
caller at the Bill Schloegle home
Saturday forenoon.
Virgil and Eugene Quade were
callers at the Anton Bieringer
home Friday forenoon.
Elizabeth, Theresa and Dorothy
Bieringer, Robert, Ralph and Joe
Schloegle and Mr.. and Mrs. Winter
spent Sunday afternoon at the Will
liam Schloegle home.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-07-03

dren, Of South st. Paul, Ed Ritter,
John Schmitz, of Chicago, Illinois
Marie, Catherine and Valeria
Woebkenburg, Of Grey Eagle; Tom
Leavitt and Joe Schoenhoff, of
Sank Centre.
Mrs. Spooner and son, spent Sum
day evening at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Albert Volkmann.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Lloyd, FL
mer, Laverne and Earl Gamradt,
Alvina and Edith Farrow and Mrs.
Minnie Gamradt and son, Gerhard,
visited Sunday evening at the F..
J. Tank home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Moore and
sons, Of Alexandria, visited Sum
day evening at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Martin Peterson.
John Woeste's children, of Har-
vey, North Dakota, AL Woeste, of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Andrew
Woeste spent Sunday evening at
the Adam Orth home.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Tank and
son, George, Jr., of Keene, North
Dakota, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Tank,
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Jacobs and
daughters, Vera and Esther, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Lloyd visited
Thursday evening at the Mrs. Min
ME Gamradt home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Volkmann
visited Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
John Bailey, Of West Union.
Mrs. Thorval Hansen spent Sun
day with Mrs. Henry Orth.
Alvina Farrow visited Sunday
evening with Laverne Gamradt.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald johnson,
of Elrosa, visited Sunday afternoon
with Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Clark.
Henry Lloyd and daughter, Pat
ty Ann, called on Arthur Lloyd
Sunday forenoon.
Theodore Schmitz and Leland H.
gen assisted with work at the Her
bert Jacobs home last week.
The Van Havermaet children
spent Sunday evening at the Ben
Ahrens home.
A large number from this vic
Unity attended the wedding dance
of Hubert Thiesen and Margie
Orth Thursday evening at New
Munich Coliseum.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-07-03
South UNITY

Mr.. and Mrs. Arnold Kind and
sons, Ronald and Dennis, of Sank
Centre, and Miss Peterson, of
Osakis, were Thursday forenoon
callers at the Walter Kind home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Nathe and
daughter, Joyce, were Sunday visit
ors at the VIM. Beste home and
Mrs. Nathe and daughter remained
to spend the week with her par
ents.
Mrs. VIM. Hummer and Mrs.
Chas. Hummer called at the Henry
Below home Thursday.
Howard Goodpaster, of Minnea-
polls, is visiting at his parental
home for a few days.
Mrs. Hulda Hummer visited on
Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Wal
ter Kind.
Ray Goodpaster, of Bertha, called
at the Chas. Hummer home We'd
nesday evening and Alva Ann re-
turned back home with him.
Marcella Kind spent Monday Wis
iting with Lois and Eloise Kun
mer.
Willard Betow, Glen Ritter and
Raymond Warner called at the
Walter Kind home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Kind and
family and Arvin Kind called on
Mr.. and Mrs. John Fritzlar Sunday
afternoon.
The annual school meeting was
held last Tuesday evening with a
fair attendance and John Fritzlar
was reelected clerk and Walter
Kind was reelected chairman.
Mrs. Tillie Ritter and Glen, Ros-
ina and Mildred were Sunday din
ner guests at the Quade Bros
home.
Mrs. VIM. Hummer called Tues
day afternoon at the Henry Quade
home.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-07-03
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daughters, Hazel and Gladys, visit
ed at the Aubrey Payne home on
Wednesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. George King spent
several days of this week in the
southern part of the state visiting
relatives.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-07-03

A man never has too many
friends, but one enemy is too
many.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-07-03

Time is money. Maybe that's
why bandits who go after money
so often get time.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-07-03

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scenic beauty off the beaten path :.
or ground hallowed by historical asso-
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tables cramp your vacation-sryle!
You go Wbere you please, s0ben
you please ;. you see more and do
more, for less =. when you and your
family travel inyour own private car.
Get off to a good start and insure
a trouble-free trip by asking your
Phillips Service Station for these four
things:
1 Phillips 1871 Road Maps with lat
est complete touring information
are FREE, yours for the asking.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-04

est work he had ever done.
Thirty years have passed, ana
now, so wonderful is human lie
and the strange things that happen
to men, it is this same man who
is sending fresh transports full VI
young italians to die in the same
Africa for another Imperial Dreams
1t is this same man who dreams
OF reSurrecting the ghost of the old
Roman Empire, and who filings le-
eions against Greece, and Albania,
and Ethiopia.
Truly, in all history there are few
parallels to this socialist turned
fascist, this worker turned ruler,
this anti-imperialist turned imper-
ialist, this poor, ragged agitator
turned to q rich, uniformed
imperator. this man who tried to
stop the troop trains issuing orders
that the trains shall move again.
Should it happen, as it may have
happened, OF as it may yet hap
pen. that discontinued workmen of
Milan or Turin, watching the cas-
ualty lists that have cost $4,000
dead and wounded and 10000
prisoners, watching the infiltration
OF the alien German, should riot
against authority, one man, at least,
will understand.
Benito Mussolini once stood
where they viii stand.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-04
by Willis Thornton
Remember, Con,rade Benito?

Whether it be true, or not, that
serious rioting has taken place in
Northern italian industrial cities,
We do not know. It is more than
likely that indirect reports are ex-
aggerated or even untrue.
And yet-it is not illogical that
there should be such disorders, now
Or later Seeds of socialism. and of
and-imperialism, were sown there
many years ago Later efforts have
been made to root them out, but
deep beheath the soil of the Romag-
ma they may remain today.
Who soWed those seeds? Thirty
wears ago young socialist was
agitating in -Forli, Milan and other
cities, demanding violent sabotage
against Italian imperialist military
ventures into Tripoli. Outstanding
in his advocacy of violence, he urg-
ed that women lie down on the
railroad tracks to bar trains from
carrying italian boys to Africa to
fight for the realization of Imperial
ambitions. He even served five
months in Jail after an affair at
Forli in which railroad tracks were
torn up to prevent the passage of
troop trains.
The name of this agitator? BENZ
to MusSolini, ragged, sick, unsta-
bic workman who had spent hours
agltatlng for every moment of hon
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-04
EDITORS NOTE: The following
editorials are presented as interesting
opinions UOiced by editors elsewhere.
They do not necessarily reflect the
opinion of this paper.
RELIEF BY COUNTIES
IN CALIFORNIA
lSacramentO Unlonl

Some of the larger counties including
Los Angeles. are said to be stumbling
blocks in the proposal to do away with
the SRA and restore the administration
of relief to county agencies.
Relief is such political headache that
the supervisors want to avoid the reSpon-
sibility of handling it. For that reason
doubt exists that sufficient votes can be
mustered in the assembly and the senate
to adopt it as an urgency measure, which
requires thirds vote.
If the defense program continues and
the war goes on, governmental relief will
be diminished until only the unemploy-
ables remain These can be handled more
economically through the county agen-
cies instead of maintaining costly state
relief administration. The work Is dupll-
Gated to some extent anyhow. The state
can we'll afford to finance relief in the
counties as is done with other public aid.
The report showing return of relief to
the counties would increase present
county cost does not alter the argument
in favor of returning relief to county
control. 1t would merely mean turning
SRA funds over to the counties. We are
convinced that county control WOULD
prove more economical in the long run,
because there would be little chance of
expensive political racketeering.
By insisting on work projects and
other special relief provisions the legis
latOrS are playing into the hands of the
Olson administration.
The safest course for the legislature
is to return relief to the counties.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-04
by Bruce Cation -.
The Inside Track in WASHINGTON

United Mine Workers chief. who
represents the c. I. O.; Joseph
keenan,, secretary of the Chicago
Federation of Labor. who repre-
sents the A. F.. of l.. and E. D.
Bransome. head of the American
Vanadium Corp, who represents
industry.
The procedure varies With the
individual cases. If q G.. l. o. union
is involved, Owens goes to work.
If it's an A. F. Of L. union. the
job goes to keenan,. In either case,
if its the opinion of the cOncil-
iation service and of Hillman that
management is chiefly at fault
BranSome weighs in with company
officials. Almost always, the efforts
of these three men are sufficient
LABOR WOULD COUNTER
RESTRICTIVE DEMANDS
Hillman and Steelman work
closely together on all of these
things, and it often is impossible
to say where ones sphere ends and
the others begins The strike
threatened recently in the Ryan
Aeronautical Co. plant at San Diego
is a good illustration On that one,
Ovens part was chiefly selling the
union on the idea of a delay-he
got a postponement three times
when the deadline was less than an
hour aWay-While Steelman put
company officials in touch with TOP
C. I. o. leaders and satisfied them
that union responsibility really
meant something.
This set-up doesn't always work
overnight, as witness the Allis-
Chalmers case. But it works so
much of the time that the COM
missions labor experts are pretty
well satisfied
The present demand for laws re-
stricting the right to strike orig
mates in congress, not in the De-
fenSe Commission. If such laws
should be adopted, both A. F. of L.
and c. I. O. would almost certainly
be found waging a campaign to
restrict industry'S defense profits to
6 cents on the dollar, or there
abouts. Such a campaign has been
talked over by various labor leaders,
and you'll hear a good deal more
of it if restrictive legislation gets
passed.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-04
DEMOCRACY AND YOUR PAPER
(Los Angeles Herald-Express)

(Los Angeles Herald-Express)
Democracy" said Judge L. Stauffer
Oliver of Philadelphia in a recent case in
Philadelphia, $50 much dependent upon
we'll and quickly Informed opinion, can
not be expected to survive without the.
organized publication and the speedy
and unhampered distribution of news,
protected by the constitutional doctrine
Of freedom of the press"
The case in question sought TO suppress
a newsstand as a public nuisance, which
Judge Oliver ruled could not be accom-
plished as demanded.
That trade barrier was sought to be
placed in one city only, but it comprises
the great principle of free trade among
states, as guaranteed by the Constitu-
ton.
1t also would have struck blow at
our free press, one of the strong bases of
our American freedom and prosperity
Continually such attacks have been
made on the freedom of the press, and
as often the courts have turned them
back
Free speech and free press must be
maintained if this nation is to endure as
the home of liberty.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-04
by Paul Harrison
HOLLYWOOD S Fads, fancies and FoibIes

pear as a woman of 100 years. Story
of her life will be told in flash
backs.
After years of air travel in his
own ships, and of being the ablest
flyer among all directors, Henry
King finally is gong to direct an
aviation picture :. Both the Gables
and Taylors are opping for
large. practical cattle ranches. prob
ably in Arizona.
A RIVER
FOR METRO
Studio back lots hold just about
everything scenic from towns to
ocean liners. but Metro will be
first to have its own river. They're
excavating a 9O0-foot channel of
varying widths, complete with is
land and a lot of costly pumping
equipment which will make the
water flow and return through hid
den pipes
MY greatest ambition said a
prominent actor, "is to be able TO
afford to live the way I do"
Sign on a local apartment: va
No Children, Dogs, Song
Wr-te.s. Tap Dancers or Vocal Stu
dents" Joan Blondeil took g.
year-old Norman to see one of her
pictures. Afterward, asked how he
liked it, all he said was, Mother,
is that why you're so tired every
night?"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-04
ONE THING WE CAN ALL
DO ABOUT 1T
What can we do about it?"

What can we do about it
Again and again. the Imperial Valley
lettuce shed employees who voted 667 to
1OS last Saturday against striking are
asking that question. How can they
break up the strike they don't want?
They have shown conclusively that they
are against striking, yet CIO chieftans
refused to pull off the picket lines that
kept the shed crews from their jobs.
What can we do about it? There is
something all of us can do about it. True,
we cannot remedy the existing situation.
but we-laborers and general public alike
can do our best to remedy the silly
rules which make such strike possible.
Before we go into the remedy, let's
get one thing straight 1t is the interest
of the working man which must be pro-
tected, before there is any thought of
other issues. We do not propose to tell
him, you cannot strike, no matter what
your grievances" We believe that when
the decision to strike or not to strike is
left up to the working men actually in
voved, the decision will be fol ,ne most
part a fair one.
We believe the laborer in Imperial Val
ley should have these rights:
|. The right to bargain collectively
with his employer through representa-
tive selected by himself and his fellows
not through some representative forced
upon him by somebody in New York or
San Francisco or Los Angeles.
2. The right to strike if no agreement
can be reached with the employer, and
if majority of the persons actually
working in his place of employment vote
in an honest, fair election in favor of Z
strike.
3. The right to hear the employers
side of the story before he is forced to
strike.
A. The right to refuse to strike if he
wishes.
5. The right to join la or union, or
not to join labor union, as he wishes.
g. The right to a voice in any strike
vote, whether he belongs to the union or
not.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-04

The airplane never will take the
place of the auto till we can park
alongside a dark cloud.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-04

One-half Of the supply of field
spar in the United States is mined
in North Carolina.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-04

Lamb is the flesh of sheep under
one year of age: mutton is the
flesh of sheep older tnan one year
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-04

North Cardinals growing season
ranges from TIA days in the noun
tains to 295 days at Cape Hatteras