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Askov American., 1941-10-30

which were impossible. They de-
MED children were being stunted due
to malnutrition, yet only about 10
years later these children are physi-
cally so detected that they cannot
pass comparative simple army ex-
animation and this to the extent of
about so per cent.
Just what it was that possessed the
people who ran the country from 1929
to 1888 is hard to understand. I
know for one saw the results and
so stated to the best of my humble
ability. This, however, should be a
lesson to anyone actually interested
in public welfare. 1t shows how to-
tally stupid and mean people can be.
It shows how much they rely on or
thodox knowledge. The orthodox al
ways hate the radical. This ac-
counts for the intense hate orthodox
sources always have for anything
radical; by the radical I mean, the
fundamental, going to the root of the
evil. Many years ago being product
of the orthodox I also criticized and
condemned the radicals. An old school
teacher told me, "You don't want
to criticize the radicals because the
radicals have accomplished about all
the progress that ever took place" f"
Humanity is in way large clus-
ter of human beings held together by
magnetic force. AS whole it re-
sents anything trying to break away
from it and its first instinct is to try
to draw anything breaking back into
the cluster. However, people cling
ing together in sort of family group,
like flies in cold weather or hive
of bees, are not likely to progress.
The unlike and radical break away
from the mass, with new ideas and
action; after these ideas have been
accepted they are Joined by the inert
mass and progress results. In union
there is strength but too much union
also has its drawbacks. Who could
imagine the mass on agreeing to leave
its SNUG ball of comfort, venturing
out into the cold and unknown. 1t
takes initiative and raw courage to
do that. .--
In this terrible catastrophe, the
tendency of course is to 60 back in
stead Of the venture out, to try to
save that which has already become
defective and obsolete, that which
too many people have lost confidence
in after it has failed them. Yet it is
the venturing and raw courage of
the radical spirit which will even
tually solve the matter. The ortho-
dox can not, because it has already
failed, lacking both courage and in
telligence.
S. j. SIMONSEN.
Pease, MINI.
October II, 1941. ".
Askov American., 1941-10-30
Importance Of Raw
Materials

Senator Wheeler said last spring
that he did not believe Hitler in the
long run, can keep Europe enslaved.
Quoting the Senator: 81 don't be-
lieve that for any length Of time Hit
ler can completely dominate France,
England and Italy. 1t never has been
done and I don't believe the French
and English people can be kept en-
slaved. Hitler's great need will be
for food and land and he will desire
these more or less adjacent to his own
country. The logical place for him
to turn for them would be the Russian
Ukraine, right next door, and not
South America, thousands of miles
away"
Senator Wheeler's prophecy ap-
parently was not far wrong.
Askov American., 1941-10-30

In short-have only one political par
ty between elections. Would Gov
ernor Stassen agree that all elected
officials should be New Dealers, as
step toward unity?
Who can draw line between what
is foreign policy" and what is "do-
mestic policy? A policy in interna-
tional affairs that leads toward war
is not foreign. 1t is decidedly do
mestic. So domestic, in truth, that
it comes into the dining room of every
home in the country to influence what
shall be on the table and to decide
whether one of the chairs at the
table shall be vacant for a short
time, or longer.
The United States will be the bet
ter protected and the more strongly
defended if it has a fearless, honest
loyal opposition. 1t seems to us
that Governor Stassen wrongly reads
the signs of the times when he con-
cludes that the function of all public
officials is to join the me-too brigade.
He has, it can be added, done some
of his fellow Republicans the injustice
Of insinuating that their opposition
to some policies of the Administra-
ton is political and selfish. If this
sort of talk is to be indulged in, it
may be permitted to ask if the Gov
ernor himself can be accused of
politics.
Askov American., 1941-10-30
AID WOULD HELP GERMANS
Editor ASkov American:

Editor ASkOV American:
In the "Observations" of October
2 Harold Knutson informs us that
the President asks for six thousand
million dollars lin addition to that
voted before, to be lent to the allied
belligerents in Europe. And he says:
"When the bill comes before the
House we are, going to make an eff
fort to attach rider which will
make any country ineligible to its
benefits" so the starving people in
Europe can all get help, as he has
been informed that the food situation
is desperate and that if early help
is not given millions will die this
winter.
A rider on a bill to be voted on is
a dishonest action. It is to make it
so one can not-vote in favor of one
thing without also voting in favor of
the other, which he would vote
against. That is contrary to honesty
and democracy, so what can we ex-
pect in the line of reform by having
such lawmakers?
Below that, in the same article, he
says: "The President has approved
the new tax measure passed by Con-
gress, and it is now the law of the
land" But instead of 5000 million
dollars he has it down to about $500
millions, but nothing said about the
rider to the bill, which should be a
benefit for any country in Europe.
According to that it should be for
Germany too.
1t is a human duty that the one
with plenty should help the needy,
but it should be taken into considera-
ton what is the cause of the need,
and the cause should be removed, or
help to them could not help. The
cause is that the Germans have
robbed them, so every German sub
ject should be out Of the country be-
fore any help is given, or it would
help the robbers as they are living
on that which the people of the in
vaded countries should have.
Hitler has stopped all exports to
Norway in spite of being in great
debt to Norway, and great num-
Der of Germans are there. So if help
be given to them that would be help
ing the German robbers, and that
should not be done. That is the case
with all of them.
ANDREW RASMUSSEN.
5000 West River Blvd,
Minneapolis.
Askov American., 1941-10-30
FUN FOR SOME
Duluth Herald)

From Washington come the glad
tidings: Senator O'Daniel of Texas,
has already found federal jobs for
four members of his hill-billy band,
and lives in high hope of finding
places in which other members of
the celebrated ensemble can serve
their Uncle Sam and also be on hand
to provide the musical background
which has been such an important
part of the O'Daniel political career.
This kind of happy contempt for
the poor citizens who are expected
to sweat and pay taxes and do with
out and fight and pay for the great
est war in history is real threat
to national morale.
It cannot be kept secret, because
everybody knows about it. The only
way to make things right with the
patient $50 far) American people
is to end this sort of thing wherever
it shows its head.
In these times a party consultation
about why A got a fat public job
and why the others, from B to lizard,
did not, is disgusting to degree verg-
ing on the obscene.
Until this sort of thing is halted
any appeal from any spokesmen for
the administration for a cessation
of partisan politics can only be classed
as a hypocritical utterance of the
cheapest sort.
The waste in Washington, the de-
termination to perpetuate every cost
ly depression agency in this time of
shortages of labor and material is a
worse threat to national unity and
confidence than anything the Nazis
and their unwilling agents can stir
up.
Askov American., 1941-10-30
1t Is Here Again

War and big war preparedness is a
time that profiteers and racketeers get
in their work and put it over on the
people. The Fairmont Sentinel puts
it tersely in these words:
Civilian profiteering in time of
war has always been the soldiers bad
belly ache, and justly so. What's
going on now is enough to kink his
intestines into hard knots.
"When your congressman asks you
to vote for his reelection ask him
what he did, or tried to do to stop
the hellish graft, corruption and waste
in national defense contracts"
Askov American., 1941-10-30

Interventionists and war propa-
gandists maintain that we have come
to situation where something must
be done about it. Is there any sound
reason why England should continue
to control the high seas and why the
sun should never set on British soil?
America does not care for the advice
of Prime Minister Churchill that
America and England together should
police the world. If policing is to be
done, it should be through an organ
ization-League of Nations, World
Court, or some such body represent
ing all or nearly all of the nations.
Askov American., 1941-10-30
ENDURANCE
Duluth Herald)

Hitler wanted short war. He has
bought himself long one. Why did
he want short war? The best ex-
planation is that he had full conf
dence in the abilities of his fighting
forces, with one exception: He had
no way of knowing how much en-
durance they would have under dis
couraging conditions. He may learn
the answer in the next year or two.
There are a few bits of informa-
ton which we may use to bolster
a guess about the Germans endur-
ance. A story has been brought back
from England which tells why the
guns of the German battleship Bis
marck were silent for the last two
hours of her fight last May, before
her sinking by the Dorsetshire. The
explanation is mutiny by her crew.
British officers are said to have kept
this secret, out of respect for the
German officers who wanted to 60 on
shooting, and who refused to sur
render, even though the crews would
not work the guns. This seems a
warped sense of chivalry, but it
could be.
Something of the same sort hap
pened in the case of the Graf Spec
Her captain evidently wanted to go
out and fight the British, and his
suicide suggests that there was some
strange reason for the Berlin order
against this. There were tales of
mutiny or near-mutiny there, too.
In the current Commonwealth an
old professional soldier in Europe's
armies, j. Paar-Cabrera, says that
the poor diet of the war and post
war years did lasting harm, hidden,
for the time being, to Germany's
youth. He says German generals
warned Hitler to 60 easy for a gen.
Grafton until Germany could build
up the national stamina needed for
a long war, and says one warrior
said in 1886 that if war dragged on
"our young men may prove no good
for it."
The Germans are not going to COL
lapse next week or next month, but
we should not underestimate the role
that endurance will play in this war,
war that was almost two years old
before Germany tackled Russia.
Askov American., 1941-10-30
THREE PAN-AMERICAN TENETS
minneapolis Star JournaD

One of the wisest friends of intelli-
gent pan-Americanism in Argentina
is DR.. Enrique Gil (pronounced-don't
laugh "heel"), who is vice president
of the Bar Association of Buenos
Aires and a leading figure in the
Argentine-North American Cultural
Institute of that city.
Speaking to the American Bar as
sociation at Indianapolis the other
day, he said something worth repeat
ing. 1t was this: That the common
rule of law on this hemisphere must
be:
''To assure civil liberties to the indi-
vidual as human being; to maintain
order in each commonwealth; and to
guarantee reciprocal respect and CO.
operation among the American ma
tions."
That gets the whole principle of
workable pan-Americanism into a
neat and comprehensive nutshell.
Askov American., 1941-10-30

Those who listen and heed the pro-
paganda of the war-minded say that
Americans cannot plead sympathy for
the suffering humanity in Europe un-
less we get into the war with both
feet. Some of them even 60 so far as to
say that non-interventionists are not
concerned with the suffering in Eu-
rope, if we do not get into the shoot
ing war. Americans have volun-
teered to help the suffering in Europe
with food, clothing and medicine.
Who is it that stands in the way of
that help if it is not England?
Askov American., 1941-10-30
RAW COURAGE NEEDED
litor Askov American:

Editor ASkOV American.
The longer some questions are de-
bated the more confused they often
become. Finally the issues become
so confused and mixed up that the
conclusions generally arrived at are
contrary to common sense. BY con-
slant debate we have about arrived
at this stage.
That people generally cannot dis
tinguish between cause and result is
quite obvious. After long maladjust-
ments when distinct evil has devel-
oped on that account, the tendency is
not so much to alleviate the malad-
justments as to destroy conditions
and people who are the logical pro-
ducts of the basic evil.
In the progress of civilization moth
ing but the logical and tangible has
materially contributed. The super
natural and imaginary has in a way
contributed by giving inspiration.
But, the real advancements have
been a direct result of the material,
PCAoOil Soil OIl
and something rational person can
understand. Most pagan religions
have great appeal to the super
natural and the purely superstitious
and imaginary, but this appeal is
generally not carried into logical
action and consequently there had
been little advancement among the
pagans who hold this negative out
look.
If certain conditions are created
which have not the element of Sue
cess in them, chaos is bound to be the
result. Taking an exaggerated ex-
ample: In 1929 we had a condi-
ton which was inherently impossible.
The spectacle of people starving midst
plenty. The people who were re-
sponsible for this condition did not
say people had to starve, they merely
created and tolerated conditions
Askov American., 1941-10-30
We Reap What We Sow

Some people are of the opinion that
if the United States had had a real
peace-minded President in 1899, when
Hitler was moving upon Czechoslo-
vakia and Poland, war might have
been averted. America was then in
a position of much influence.
Likewise if there had been a de-
termined desire on the part Of the
governments of England and France
to make it easy for the German peo-
pie to 60 ahead with their work and
reap the harvest of their labors after
World War I, the situation would
have been different today. In that
move America could also have
welded a guiding hand.
Askov American., 1941-10-30

President Roosevelt has said time
and again that he does not want to
send American boys to war in Europe.
Mr.. Willkie, after visiting England
briefly, reported that they want tools
and not men, and proponents of the
lease-lend bill said that they did not
want to send American boys across.
That should be enough, so let us not
encourage any incidents to involve
America.
Askov American., 1941-10-30

Have you ever met veteran of
any war who knows definitely that
he killed one or more persons on the
other side, and who is proud Of that
feat? There is no personal enmity
between individuals who clash on
the battlefield. They do not know
one another. A war veteran is re-
luctant to talk about the horror of
war and does not boast of having
killed a human being on the other
side.
Askov American., 1941-10-30
Nationality Hates In
Europe

Sometimes we hear people say, ''The
trouble is that the Germans were not
licked enough in the World war of
1914-18; England, France, Italy,
America, and all the Allies should
have gone through Germany and
ransacked everything" Such ex-
pressions one would hardly credit
to men and women of common sense
and judgment, but, nevertheless, the
statements are made in everyday
conversations.
Because Americans had no use for
Kaiser Wilhelm and have no use
Askov American., 1941-10-30

for Adolf Hitler is no reason that the
people of Germany should suffer.
We do not agree with the philosophy
of the like of Hitler and the Kaiser,
but analyzing the situation, we real
ize that they are but the results of
conditions. One war brings on an
other, and the people of Europe have
not yet got away from their nation
ality hates.
Askov American., 1941-10-30
Fact And Opinion
BY E. G. Stengelsen.
ECONOMIC PENETRATION

One of the reasons Mr.. Roosevelt is
assiduously counting the good will
of the South Americans is to secure
their cooperation in preventing eco
nomic penetration of their countries
by Germany. He warns us of the
dire consequences which may follow
if the Axis powers secure an economic
foothold in Latin America.
This column does not profess to
know precisely what Mr.. Roosevelt
means by economic penetration"
because he has never gone into de-
tail. AS the Negro preacher said,
"He argufies and argufies but don't
specify" But in his manner of US
ing the term, he manages to give It
very sinister sound. We are sup
posed to gather that it is something
pretty terrible. When he speaks
darkly of economic penetration of
South America by Germany" his fol-
Askov American., 1941-10-30
BLOWUP FOR DIES
(NeW Ulm Journal)

Martin Dies investigation of anti
American activities blew up in his
face because Germany's invasion Of
Russia stole his trump card, without
which he could not make bid for
lasting fame as an eradicator of sub
versive elements. He was all set to
make public a list of defense officials
who had invested in Russian bonds.
AS matters now stand, it is perfectly
Askov American., 1941-10-30
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 ct.
fective, but II the writer does not
wish TO have his name used. 1t will
be withheld).
Askov American., 1941-10-30

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AS far as is known, no British troops
are on the march to Russia any
where.
No New Front.
It is unlikely that any British
forces will be sent to Russia. It is
exceedingly improbable that any
British army will appear anywhere
on the European continent.
Authorized by the Churchill
government Lord Moyne, Foreign
Minister Anthony Eden, Lord
Beaverbrook and other response
BILE statesmen have declared in
the parliament at London that
cit would be madness to open
new fronts on the European con-
tinent."
That skaters a dream, crushes a
hope. For it had been thought, among
the Englishmen themselves as we'll as
by millions of persons in other coun-
tries, that Great Britain would move
in all its fury against the German
held parts of Europe at time when
Hitler displays more weakness than
ever. But His Majesty's Government
turns thumbs down: No invasion of
the continent; no new front! So
there you are. To Hitler again will
be left the privilege of taking the
initiative.
London has a reason, of course,
and it is that there are not enough
tanks; there is not enough artillery;
there is a stingingly vivid memory Of
the retreat from Dunkirk in June
of last year. And that settles it. Hit
Ter can make his moves. Britain
won't make any-on the European
continent.
Supplies.
But Great Britain, aided by the
United States, will keep on sending
war supplies to Russia. That's pat.
They will send all that Russia needs,
London says repeatedly.
But the sober question remains:
Can all that Russia needs be
sent? And-how?
The Soviets need immense quanti-
ties of tanks, bombers, artillery, and
there is willingness to ship them.
There is, however, no definite indi-
cation as to how they will be sent,
for, after all, Russia is squeezed in
between Germany or German-occu-
pied countries on one and by Japan
on the other side. Can supplies in
sufficient volume be sent in time to
be of decisive usefulness? That re-
mains the unanswered question. A
tentative American plan to use Arch
angel in Arctic Russia as the port for
unloading illustrates itself, for Arch
angel is ice-locked from October to
May-the very time that is of i'm
portance now and in this connec-
ton.
japanese View.
AS for the japanese attitude toward
Russia, the new TOTO government has
made no commitments. Judging from
Tokyo dispatches, Japan wants to re-
main at peace with the exception
that she wants to finish her war
against China) but in this country
some hotheads in high places sug-
gest hostile measures against the
Nipponese at time when it would
be more prudent to use words of
caution and calmness than words of
inflammatory passion. Whatever ir-
ritation may be waited across the
Pacific Ocean would seem IN 0ri o;p ofx,
in the United States-just at this
moment-rather than in Japan.
Askov American., 1941-10-30
From Exchanges

Editorial Comment From Other News
papers Which May or May Not
Conform With the Opinions of the
Askov American.
Askov American., 1941-10-30
lowers dutifully shiver and look un-
easily about.

easily about.
AS I say, 1 don't know what he
means by it. He may mean some
thing extra special. He probably
does. According to the ordinary def
milton, however, any country main
tanning business relations with an
other is guilty of this sin. The de-
gree depends upon the extent of the
dealings.
Indeed, on this score our own rec
ord isn't spotless. We've penetrated
the whole world till, economically,
it is as full of holes as a Swiss cheese.
We've even penetrated Germany to
the tune of some 11a billions. This
is-or was-the estimated value Of
American holdings there. That Hit
ler seems unaware of this fearsome
threat is merely proof that, as we've
claimed all the time, he's pretty
dumb.
Anyway, we're going to prevent
oSAAAoiiy liOiii RCllCtI dIulS SOoIA
America. On that, we're determined.
Particularly after the war. It is then
the real pinch will come.
There is, of course, only one way in
which we can 60 about it. We must
prevent all commercial intercourse
between Latin America and Germany.
But what if South America finds
Germany a profitable market for its
coffee, wheat, hides, meat, wool, cop
per and the like, and is able, also, to
buy Jews harps, alarm clocks, ETC.,
more advantageously in Germany
than elsewhere? And suppose South
American businessmen insist upon
their right to deal in these goods and
commodities with German business
men? Shall we, then, prevent this
commercially force, if need be?
I don't know how Mr.. Roosevelt
plans to meet such a situation any
more than I know what he means by
economic penetration. And don't
suppose it'd do any good to ask him.
He'd be pretty sure to say, "Win the
wa-ah, first!" It has come to be the
Administrations stock answer to all
embarrassing questions.
Askov American., 1941-10-30
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW

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AS far az is known, no British troops
are on the march to Russia any
where
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-22
COUNTY MEETING SLATED TUESDAY
Young Democrats to Dis. cuss Plans for Congress.
 siOnaI Campaign

New Haven County Young Demo- crats will meet Tuesday night at the Grand restaurant, on Grand street, opposite the post office, with Coun. ty President Nicholas Zappone of tllis city presiding. Plans will be made for aiding In the Democratic party's campaign In the fifth district special election Jan. %, also for win- ter activities on the part Of the county organization,
 State President Joseph N. DePRola of the Young Democrats will be one of the guests at the rneeing. State and county executive board mem. hers will attend,
 Mir. zappone plans to institute Q series of monthly county meetings, each meeting being held in differ ent town. The December meeting, 1t Is expected, will be held in Anso- llla.
 Once the Democratic candidate for congress in the fifth district has been chosen, the Young Democrats will arrange to aid In his campaign and to supply workers on election day. The club is forbidden, by It's constitution, to take any part in pre- nomination proceedings or to en- dorse any candidate for the noniin- ation.