Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-01-16

elected to Congress. The voters de-
MED Miss Rankin a second term be-
cause of her having voted against
Americas entrance into the World
war.
During the time she was out of
Congress Miss Rankin devoted her
self exclusively to the promotion of
international peace and probably
knows as much about the subject as
any living American. To those of
us who served with her twenty-odd
years ago, her election last fall seemed
merited vindication She returns
to Congress gray-haired woman.
ripe in experience, who will be able
to do much to keep America out of
the present war. Probably no men,
Der of the House took greater pleas
ure in her election than 1, who, since
the late Senator Lundeen went to the
Senate, have been the sole remain
ing member in the House of Repre-
sentatives of that little band of so
who voted mo" on April 6, 1917. Now
again there will be two of us.
Another change in times whirli-
gig is the retirement to private life
OF John Nance Garner, Vice President
OF the United States during the two
Roosevelt administrations. Mr.. Gar
ner is an institution in Washington.
First elected to Congress in 1904,
when Theodore Roosevelt was presi-
dent, he soon attained a prominent
position in that body, finally becoming
Speaker of the House in 1881. After
two years in that capacity he became
President of the Senate and l NAV
say that he filled both positions with
distinction and ability. While sharp
horse trader he was uniformly fair
to the minority.
Mr.. Gamers lot has not been a
happy one the past few years as he
has disapproved of much of the New
Deal program and on more than one
occasion has acted as advisor to in
surgent Democratic Senators and Rep
resentatives. Newspaper reports last
fall had it that he went fishing on
election day and for the first time
in his life failed to vote. No doubt
the President will be happy to have
Garner back in Texas but those of
us who served with him for any
length of time and know the man for
what he really is, feel that his with
drawal from public life is a great
national loss. AS matter of fact,
he was more of Republican than
Democrat because he believed in pro-
lection of the American producer.
Mrs. Roosevelt Chides G.. O.P.
The First Lady recently told a press
conference that she experienced "pro-
found shock" when the minority
members of Congress did not even
applaud the four points raised by
her husband, in his estate of the
Union" message which he delivered
In person before joint session of
Congress on January 6.
I do not know how my colleagues
felt about the Presidents message but
in my opinion it amounted to a per-
sonal declaration of war. I feel that
ne should nave made that kind of a
speech in the campaign so that the
issue m g ht have been presented
squarely to the voters, although it
probably would not have made much
difference in the result as the Re-
publican nominee for President con-
sistently followed in Roosevelt's foot
steps and approved of practically
everything in the New Deal, except
the third term, which is not surpris-
ing because the nomination of both
candidates was in large measure
dict ted by internationalists who
wanted to make certain that the next
president would be right.
1t is my recollection that I ap-
plauded one or two points made by