Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-02-13

l ask that you run T.
the following para
graph:
On May 14-15,
the U. S. Coas = %
Guard will hold its annual COMPETE
tive examination for appointments
to cadetships in the U. S. Coast Guard
Academy at New London, Connecti-
cut. The entrance requirements are
about the same as for the Naval
Academy and the course of instruc-
ton is basically scientific and engin-
eering in character. 1t is a four
year course and graduates are COM
missioned in the Coast Guard with
the same rank as is the case in the
Navy.
The examination is open to all
physically qualified boys between the
ages of II to % years who have the
required educational preparation.
Detailed requirements for entrance
and descriptive information may be
obtained by writing me at I'LL House
Office Building, Washington, p. c.
The Lend-Lease Bill.
In my consideration of H. R. 1776
have been entirely free from any
fear that it is within the range of
possibility that the United States
of America can be invaded by any
single nation or combination of ma
tions in Europe or Asia, or both.
am not one of those who holds such
a poor opinion of the fighting quail
ties of the American as to tremble
with fear over the possibility that the
war in Europe may end in way
that is neither pleasing nor salts
factory to us. Neither am I one of
those Americans who believes that
the navy of foreign country is our
first line of defense. The first line of
defense for America is 1872 million
free men, women and children and
so long as we remain free and fully
protected there will be no danger
of invasion.
A Mighty Nation.
I cannot bring myself to believe
that people, who in $50 years trans
formed wilderness empire into the
greatest and mightiest nation in all
the history of the world, have so
deteriorated that they are incapable
of protecting their own firesides un-
der all conditions and against all
odds. It may be that that feeling
of security is due in measure to the
interior location of the great state
which I have the honor to represent
in part, but 1 will not concede that
because those Americans who live in
the coastal zones of the country are
just as Independent and self-reliant,
just as ready to rely upon them
selves as are their kinsfolk in the in
terror.
There are few left in this and in
the other body of those who served in
the World war Congress "a years
ago. They must be impressed, as
I have been, with the fact that we are
now being subjected to the same
waving of flags, the same beating of
toms that blitzkrieged us into the
World war nearly "a years ago. The
only difference that 1 can discern
is that today a comparatively new
instrumentality-t RADIOS freely
being made use of by both sides.
There is another difference in the
two campaigns to embroil America in
the war. twenty-five years ago the
anger of our people was raised to a
fighting pitch by cleverly concocted
stories of unspeakable atrocities that
we found, after the war was over,
to have been tissue of lies invented
and disseminated by the most ex-
pert propaganda organization in all
the world-the British Foreign Office.
The End of an Era.
Now we know that our expedition
to Europe in 1918 was a tragic
mistake. That war marked the clos
ing chapter of the America that we
had known and under which all had
greatly prospered. 1t ushered in a
new era of wasteful spending and
an ever increasing tax load that will
sit upon the shoulders of unborn
generations like the old man of the
sea.
When we went into that war our
national debt was about 1000 million
dollars. During our excursion to
Europe we spent about $4,000 million
dollars, or let me put it this way
$4,000 for every minute since the
dawn of the Christian era. And it is
estimated that before the last obi
CATION of that war has been paid its
total cost will be in excess of 100,-
900 million dollars.
Now we are getting all set to re-
peat that folly. 1t seems that we
didn't learn much of anything from
our former European experience.
twenty-five years ago we were told
that it was necessary for us to 60
over there to make the world safe
for democracy. When the war was
over there wasn't single dictator
left in Europe. The Car and the
Kaiser had been driven from their