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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-12-18
CATHOLIC CHURCH NOTES

A4
FIR. Stanley A. Libold, pastor.
st. Mary's Church, Willow River
Mass Schedule.
LIST and 3rd Sunday of each month
at 8 a. m.
End, 4th and 5th Sunday of each
month at 10 a. m.
Holy Days of Obligation at 8 a. m
Daily Mass at a. m.
st. Joseph's Church, Split Rock.
Mass Schedule.
LIST and 3rd Sunday of each month,
at 10 a. m.
End, 4th and 5th Sunday of each
month at a. m.
Holy Days of Obligation at 10 a. m.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-12-18
Sturgeon Beach

Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Burmayer of
Moose Lake, called at the Clarence Bur
mayer home at Camp Edelweiss recently.
Leo Waletzko spent Saturday night in
Duluth visiting his folks.
Bob Esbold of Wells, is visiting at the
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-12-18
First Presbyterian Church,
Willow River.

Anton Markus home as was her son Otto
who is stationed at Fort Smelling Mr.
Markus expects to be transferred soon.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E. VERIFY of Duluth, spent
Mrs. Julianna Doboszenski and son Car
roll
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-12-18

Mr. and Mrs. H. o. Gustafson were
Sunday dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Pearthree
Mr. and Mrs. H. o. Gustafson and son
Charles were callers at the H. Thennis
home Sunday evening.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-12-18
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NOTES
Markville- ClOvertOn Parish.

Markvtlle-C lOvertOn Parish.
A. E. Mclean, pastor.
The services of worship in both
Cloverton and Markville Sunday, De-
cember 81, will be Christmas serv-
ices. You are invited to join u.s.
Markville, 10 o'clock; Cloverton, 11:15
o'clock. Sunday school will be at 10
o'clock in Cloverton and IL o'clock
at Markville. Special offerings for
foreign missions.
The evening of December 81 the
Christian Endeavor society will hold
a special Christmas meeting at the
church. Special music.
Tuesday evening, December 81, the
Sunday school program and party
will be held in the church in Mark
vile.
Friday evening, December Is, fell
lowship meeting of Cloverton church
in the community house. 1t will be
in the nature of a Christmas party
with tree, Christmas carols and a
jolly good time.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-12-18
Peace English Lutheran Church
H. SpOrleder. pastor.

Divine worship, 9:45 a. m; Sunday
school and Bible class following the
service. Subject: "What Think Ye
of Christi"
Final Christmas rehearsal for the
Sunday school Saturday at one o.
clock in the church.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-12-18

Basil z: Doonan NEH of swA 2
Elmer o. Dietz Lot 9, Aud. Sub. of
NJ Of NEA 29-43-19 $4,000.
Charles Uhler SEA of NWA 4 sen
Geo. W. Ekberg NwH Of swN rs
40. sWA Of NEA. wy Of SEA. &
Claas n Johnson NWk less acres
Settlement applications continued:
Gust johnson NWK Of NEN $500
$500.
The following applications were laid
Joseph Engsl North SIS #. Of Lot
II and 8. q It. Of Lot "a. Blk. I.
Princes Addition.
& q, 1 sSSS. SwE Of SIX : 81 Nv
The following civilizations were or
dered sent to Town Boards:
Stanley Genedek. Adm. 1t Z 1-4A-O.
VIM. F. Pottsmith M Of sen a
r. J, Bolen sM of sen and NrX
Of sen 1-E-16.
s. B. Wells M 26-l1-14
Julius Koechsr WI Of NEA Of
The following applications were re-
N. Bullis. Agent VIZ of sen 2o-42-2o
Settlement Of taxes
N. Bulls. Agent VIZ of sen 9o-l2-20
Reduction Of current valuation.
Tom Ryan VIZ of NWN 11-41-17.
NWA of SEA 2O-41-17.
T, =; Ryan. NEh Of sen. SA Of
The following bills were audited and
ordered maid
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-07

engineering forces required for them is, at this time of emergency, a serious ob- struction of the defense program and diversion of monies needed and ear marked for vital protection. Pork barrels or pet projects have no place in this emergency and cannot be camouflaged to deceive the people as to their necessity or lack of it.
 Our New England legislators in Wash ington should oppose any such attempts to divert defense monies or any public funds at this time even more than they should oppose such measures in peace time as large-scale projects too expensive for the profits they may or may not pro- duce. The St. Lawrence waterway is a real threat to New England. It is not needed for domestic purposes, but is a world trade project. The future of ex- port trade is so uncertain and chaotic that this presently needless undertaking should be relegated to some pigeon-hole until the world and world-trade are stab- ilized and defined.
 Any other course is not only extrava- gant, but is a true obstruction of the defense program. The Congress and the executive departments should concentrate on defenses. All pet projects should be adjourned for the duration.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-07
Army Opportunity

The Army of democratic United States must be democratic army That doesn't mean an undisciplined army, which is a contradiction in terms. It means an army in which opportunity is open to all in proportion to ability. Britain is find- ing out that an army officered exclusively by wearers of Old School Ties won't do today. The United States Army has never faced that sort of a problem, at least not to anything like the same extent. Never theless it is good to see opportunity broadened still more.
 Eligibility for the officer candidate schools opening in July has been wid- ened to include warrant officers and en- listed men who will have served six months on the date of opening of the course. That means that every man who was in the Army last January is elig- ible to apply; that in turn means selec- tees who were inducted in the latter part of last year. Under the former rule, these were just too late to be eligible. The United States Army wants the most capable officers it can get. The way to get them is to open the way to ability wherever it may be found
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-07
America Needs All Her Strength

Sometimes we Americans forget one thing that sets us apart from every other country on earth. It is thiS we are people made up of many peoples. In that lies strength, not weakness. In European countries where there is a mixed population, one strain usually dom- mates. Others are always less than equal to this dominant strain, a1ways made to feel that they fall short in an effort to adjust themselves to mold Most often they are whipped and jammed by force into that unwelcome mold of late years those esteemed not to fit have been simply murdered.
 That is not the American way Here there is no dominant strain. There is, perhaps, a majority strain, but it cannot be dominant strain in the European sense as long as the rights of minoritieS are protected. Minorities of racial, re- ligious, cultural strains which differ from that of the majority are not made to feel that they are at best inferior limitations of the majority norm.
 We glory in our differences, and we feel that in them is strength, for each group has something definite to con- tribute. The sum of those contributions must be greater than any accomplish ment by single inbred group which shuts a lid down on the abilities of others. The thing that binds all together in the United States is not phony racial doc- urine, but the joyous and spontaneous loyalty of diverse peoples who have learned to live together, and found it good. In the defense effort, equal opportunities to help should be extended so far as prac- ticable to all, not as a grudging concession to moral principle, but as practical recognition of the practical fact that all are equally needed.
 The test is not, "Who are you?" but "What can you do?" It is wise and right that both in the military services and in defense industries, broadening opportun- ities should be gradually opening up (and they are) to Americans of colored blood. It is wise and right that America should not deprive itself Gas Germany has done) of the loyal services of Jews and Catho- lies because of their race or religion. It is wise and right that America, fostering mother of a hundred races, religions, and peoples, should call on all alike to defend her. That is our strength. Let us use it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-07
Why Shouldn't They?

Last week State Highway Commission CT William J. Cox let it be known that cities will share in the additional $1 ,000,- 900 road grant recently voted by the Leg islature. This is in addition to the $3,- 100000 which has been distributed among the 169 towns of the state for the past ten years This latter grant is split up evenly among all the towns, each one getting about $17,75O. The additional million, however, will be handed out on a pro-rata basis of total miles of unln- proved road.
 We presume that the Highway Con- missioner made his statement so that there would be assurance that some of the money could be expected to be used by large communities which boast we'll organized Street or Public Works Depart ments which provide them with we'll paved thoroughfares and maintain the same all year long We don't see, though, how $1,000,000 can go very far among 169 towns because there will be a great deal of unimproved road mileage claimed from now on.
 In this respect the cities in some in- stances have just as much unlmproved roadway as have smaller towns. Water bury, for example, has many miles of dirt roads, some of them unknown to your average taxpayer. A good deal of tllSs roadway, too, is probably private property where there have been no lay outs or grades established by the city. Allocation of this additional road grant is not going to be an easy matter for the State Highway Department head. But we are glad to note that he plans to treat town and city alike in the distribu- ton.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-07
Stick To Defense

As disturbing to the average American concerned with the emergency as are the stoppages of work in defense industries, so also are the planning and scheming of those legislators and politicians who would inject such sectional projects as the St. Lawrence Waterway or the Flor ida Ship Canal into the present picture as defense measures These projects, If they have true merit, are peace-time projects requiring time and careful plan- ming and offering way to take up slack Id Unemployment when it comes again.
 1t was so argued when Congress turned them down as too theoretical and ex- krayagant even for WPA finansing. To Gpend the money or use the labor and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-07

We don't blame ex-governor Alfred E. Smith and New York City Park Commis- sioner Robert Moses resigning their po- sitions in the Society for the Preserva- tion and Encouragement of BarberShop Quartet Singing in America. This group with the lengthy title has sponsored of recent years annual singing festivals at which quartets chosen through elimina- ton contests in communities all over the nation compete for the national title. A lot of interest has been aroused through the contest and some excellent quartets have come forth through this means. But New York City's entry has just been ruled ineligible for the finals, scheduled for St. Louis, because it is composed of four Negroes, representing the Grand Central Terminal Red Caps, Notified of this MT. Smith, who has contributed a great deal to the promotion of the society, promptly resigned. He was followed by Com. Moses. Such discrimination hard ly seems consistent with the title of the society.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-07

Relations Board, will not be re- appointed when his term expires next month.
 Long under fire from the AFL and at loggerheads with the oth- CT two members of the Board, Smith is definitely slated for re- placement. The White House tried to ease him out last year when the NLRB underwent g. housecleaning, but Smith refused to quit. He insisted on filling out his term, and since 1t would have taken a fight to remove him, the matter was dropped.
 But now that his term is f1n- ished, Smith knows he is on the way out. At an NLRB staff meet ing last week he remarked that it was probably the last time he would address them. CIO insiders predict that he will get a job on the stan of John L. Lewis, with whom Smith is on close terms.
 Topping the list of likely suc- cessors Is John J. McDonough, prominent Boston attorney. A leading New England liberal, McD0nOugh once was regional director of the WPA and for many years . member of the Massachusetts State Labor Board. He is an old friend of Harry Hopkins and has q wide acquaintance in labor ranks.
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 As many as ten men stand or sit behind the President at his press conferences these days. Bodyguard Tom Qualters and a brace of Secret Service men stand directly behind him, flarked by the military aide, naval aide and presidential secretaries Steve Sarly, William Hassett, Lauchlin Curie, Lowell Melltt, Jim Rowe, and Gene Casey. The Army's new heavy tank is equipped not only with machine guns and a 76-nlnl. gun, but also with a nice shiny horn to keep soldiers them selves from getting in the way. Curly-haired Senator Berk- eley Bunker of Nevada, who suc- ceeded to the seat of the late Key Pittman, never misses a Senate session and is assidiously study. ing parliamentary procedure. Vice President Wallace has called him to preside during his absence more than any other senator. <. Hard working William Mo- Reynolds, one of the six "ariony- nous" White House secretaries, is a chain smoker like his close friend Harry Hopkins. A career man, McReynolds is credited with knowing more about the intraca- cies of government than anyone in Washington.
 Copyright, 1941, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-07

| Aircraft machinists, pattern-ma- kers and c. I. O. aircraft workers are being invited to sit in with air. craft manufacturers aOnd the OPM so that wages-hours- and working conditions agreements can be stadi- lized for that flighty industry.
 Ford has signed. The San Fran cisco machinists have gone back The home-breW Communists may quit agitating. Coal, steel, rubber, ] glass, textiles, metal manufacturing and other industries have worked out collective bargaining agreements that mean peace for year at least.
 No wonder Hillman feels like crow | ing little about the record of labor relations over the first year of the defense effort. Things looked bad after the December January lull in labor troubles. Febrbuary, March, l April and May were bad ones. Sec- retary Perkins, by the way, attributes a lot of those spring strikes to the fact that corporation earnings state ments, showed so much war profits, which encouraged labor to try to 1 get its share.
 Even the National Defense Media tion Board shows a lighter docket, as at the end of June, than for some weeks. The docket from day to day, but on typical day the list of cases before the board showed but half a dozen disputes, only one was strike and only one involved a defense in- dustry.
 CAP AND GOWNERS GET JOBS
 The 6O0,000 or more June gradua- tes are, according to Washington in snagging jobs than they have for years. Graduates have been drags on the labor market since the class of '32 but now there is demand for them as apprentice labor, per- hitting semi-skilled workers to step up in more advanced jobs.
 The CCC has such rapid turn over that it almost appears to be going out of business. By July l, PAS camps will have been closed, and the enrolment for May was 5000 under that for April and 51,C00 under 8 year ago. In its defense training pro iSt dIAi1 DOyS 4Sd11l q ICW 1Gllsla1AACAAGetAo of auto tinkering, then leave for regular jobs. There are 75.000 eco ! vacancies and no takers.
 Nearly 300 plants have training within n-industry programs. Construc- ton workers being aid off by com pletion of the camp building pro- gram are being shunted into ship yards. National Youth Administra- tion's rolls are down 10000 or more. There may be no shortage of skilled labor after all. WPA is down 119,000. More than 8 third-414.00O of the LAT. 900 on relief-are on defense work.
 The armed services have 1862, GOO men, which at least keeps them off the relief rolls. But here comes a sour note-the number of federal employees, not including Army, Navy or Marine Corps, went up to 57.000 to reach an all-time high of 1.S16.000. Xes, it's sad fact that the United States government has nearly as many civilian employees as 1t has fightin' men.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-07

Calico of larger universe. Shake speare dreamed astno man has ever dreamed. George Stephenson dream ed of the locomotive; Edison of the incandescent light; Robert Fulton of the steamboat Abraham Lincoln dreamed of a united nation; Wood row Wilson looked for the coming of a new world, wherein dwelleth righteousness" There is nothing the matter with dreamers, and we waste our time and reveal our own shall lowness when we scoff at them.
 A dreamer, however, must meet two requirements in order to be a valuable member of society. First, he must dream about the right things: and second, he must point his dreams in the direction of achievement. The impractical folk who day dream about things wholly within the realm of fancy often lead sensible people to scoff at all dream CTS. But constructive dreanieFs give human life its direction.
 If you have a child prone to be a dreamer, don't try to suppress his dreams-try to direct them.
 All Rights Reserved-Ba Babson News
 paper Syndicate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-07

Have you got a boat that you don't want this summer? If you have the Coast Guard would like to use it. Rear Admiral Russell R. Waesche, Comman- dant of the Coast Guard, has just is- sued an appeal for 270 yachts and power boats. The ones desired should be be- tween 40 and 50 feet long and have at least an average speed of 12 knots. Any body who donates his boat automatically becomes member of the Coast Guard Volunteer Reserves. A great many boat owners have already helped the govern ment out in this respect by offering their boats. most of which are used for harbor patrol and other emergency tasks. It's a nice thing to be able to do this.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-07


 To this end, both General Wavell and U. s. strategists fay- ored the idea of withdrawing British forces from the Mediter- raIlean entirely and establishing a new line of defense across the very center of Africa - from Port Sudan on the Red Sea to Freetown, on the Atlantic Ocean.
 This line of defense meant that about l,500 miles of the hottest dessert in the world would be be- tween the Nazis and the British lines. Over such a desert it is difficult for tanks to operate with out heating up; also 1t is difl- cult for the average bomber to carry load oyer such distances. So it was expected that the Nazis would exhaust themselves in the deep, hot deserts of Africa.
 Part of the plan contemplated highway straight across eQua- toria1 Africa from Freetown and later from Dakar to Port Sudan. CHURCHILL SAYS NO
 However, Churchill was fIatly opposed. So were many other British leaders. They felt that the shock of withdrawal from the Mediterranean, traditional sphere of British influence, and from Suez which had been identified with the British Empire for years, would be too much for the Britt ish public.
 This debate occurred before the NaI attack on Russia and before the British march into Syria. But after the slowness of Wayell's success in Syria, all these factors eliminated in his transfer to India. sn. y
 There Wavell can concentrate on defense of the most important part of the Enpire--if the Nazis creep up on the Indian border in South Russia. Also, he will not be in the Mediterranean, for the defense of which he had no great enthusiasm.
 NOte-Tn view Of the present U. s. demands for 2 separate air force, 1t is interesting to note that one of General Wavell's rows with London was over the fact that the British army, navy and air force all were under different commands, each commander doing what he thought best. Wavell could not command the naval or air forces to correlate their efforts with his. They cooperated with him, but if there was disagreement, they, not he, made the final choice.
 ''MR. SMITH LEAVES
 WASHINGTON"
 Edwin L. Smith, left-wing member of the National Labor
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-07


 More important from the Amer Iican point of view, Wavell had favored the evacuation of all British forces from the entire Mediterranean area. And U. s. military experts agreed with him in fact, urged 1t.
 So although in a sense General Wavell is being denoted, yet in other respects he will be in a. po- sition to command British forces from an area to which he had urged that British forces retreat.
 For some time General WaveIl had cOntended that Britain's position in the Mediterranean was indefensibIe. The British force of only 100000 men in the Near East faced a combined Axis total twice as strong = 4OO,OO0 Germans and Italians i'm Libya, plus 6OO,O0O Naxis in Greece, Bulgaria and Ru1nania. The latter figure has been par- italy diminished by transfers to Russia; but Wavell argued that the Nazi- Fascist troops had to spread out over a far-flung line from Libya to Syria and Iraq. Therefore he disagreed with Churchill on all military moves which had political motive. U. S. WORRIED OVER ATLANTIC
 U. s. military and naval strategists sided with Wavell, were strong for the idea of a com plete British withdrawal from the Mediterranean. The strategy be- hind this was twofold:
 1. The British have lost 40 per cent of their original Medi- terranean fleet. The losses at Crete were much wore than Of- ficially admitted, and even in the Syrian campaign naval losses were considerably. There fore, American naval men, fac- ing the probability of having to help the British fleet in the At lantic, did not want the fleet further weakened.
 2. The United States Is more interested in what happens on the buldge of Africa around Dakar Opposite BraziD than 1t is in the Mediterranean.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-07
PEACE IN THE sHIPYARDs
| Washington GraveI

The 20 million pounds of scrap aluminium which the gOv- ernment hopes to collect July 21 will release enough other aluminium of higher grade to complete 2OOO fighter planes. Department of Labor has issued a study to prove that efficiency of British labor de- clined when hours of labor were over 56 a week. Peak of defense employment is now ex- pected to be reached in March, 1942, when there will be two and a half million more jobs than there are now. Navy Is buying 12O million pounds of canned goods next year, i'm cluding four million pounds of jam. British armed forces are supposed to have lost only One-twentieth as many men as they did in the same period of the first World War. When American Youth Commission conducted a survey to find what young folks do with their spare time, only one answered, "I think"