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Askov American., 1941-03-20
Calls 1t Criminal
Treachery

Some one wrote an article that was
published in the readers column OF
the Minneapolis Star-Journal. We
don't know the writer, William H.
Groom, and that makes no difference.
The point is that it eXemplifies hyS-
terra and may be fair example OF
more such stuff to be fed the Ameri-
can public.
When Americans speak out against
our entry into another World war it
should not be called ''windjamming,"
for certainly America cannot police
all of Europe. If at the time of the
last World war we were all sincere
in making 'the world safe for de-
mocracy" that slogan should have
been followed up after the war, in
order that we might be right and
keep faith with our war veterans
and those who gave all.
What Mr.. Groom and others like
him seem to forget is that democracy
is based on tolerance of minority
opinion. His logic carried to its ulti-
mate conclusion is dictatorship. He
would tolerate only the yes-man, and
that is the philosophy of Hitler.
Located as we are, America has a
wonderful opportunity to demonstrate
to the world what truly indepen-
dent democracy can and should be.
Democracy cannot survive a war
every 25 years.
Here is the article from the Star
Journal readers column:
Universal indignation should be
expressed toward those misguided
politicians who risked a major world
disaster by windjamming for 81 days,
obstructing preparedness for the ag-
gressors' destiny-deciding sprin G
drive.
''If Senator Wheeler, wheel horse
of the blind bats, stumps the coun-
try to oppose all-out aid to the Allies,
he ought to be booed out of every city.
Democracy is long-suffering, but such
criminal treachery to our heroes of
the World war ought to be stigmatized
so that no patriot will indorse thing
so h m ul !-William H. Groom,
Minneapolis"
Askov American., 1941-03-20
MANY FTFTY-ONE PER CENTERS
(Fairmont Daily SentineD

Winnebago Enterprise looks our
way real Grossly and significantly re-
marks that it is getting fed up on
these cracks that there is no such
thing as a one hundred per cent
American"
Well, we still want to see the color
of the hair of such a creature, if
there is one.
Good Americans, yes, lot of them,
81 per centers or better, but we have
still to be shown if there are any
hundred per centers.
In what ways do poor critters fall
short of the visionary ideal of 100
per cent Americanism? So many
that complete listing is impractical.
Here are suggestions of how they fall
down.
If there is fighting to be done for
the preservation of America they
want the other fellow and the other
fellows boys to do it.
They favor taxing the other fell
low first, last and all the time.
Not to mention disobeying laws
themselves, they see others doing so
but do nothing about it.
They don't hesitate to break at
least little" laws themselves if quite
sure it will not become known.
They stand for and support that
which destroys America, such as the
alcohol industry.
They seem to think it virtue to
damn and belittle those not of their
political party, their church, their
race, their nationality.
They don't keep their side walks
clear of ice and snow.
And just look at the personal prop
erty tax listings so recently pub
lished.
They are members of groups and
organizations that foster class and
other divisions.
They not only do nothing to sup
port their government but fail to
support themselves.
They contribute nothing to the
general welfare of community or
country.
So far do they fall short of the full
ness of the stature of 100 per cent
Americanism that this listing could
go on for pages.
Yes, we do pretty well if we are
81 per centers.
Askov American., 1941-03-20

public be kept informed of measures
adopted in carrying out the provisions
of the act it is desirable that some
owerful organization should be
maintained to keep check on Ad-
ministration activities. The Ameri-
ca First movement is in a position to
perform this duty-not as a super
critical undertaking, but as con-
Scientious effort to see that this
country is not unknowingly swept into
the war on the wave of hysteria like
ly to accompany the dictatorial pow
ers given Mr.. Roosevelt to cripple
our own sources of defense in ef-
forts to aid Great Britain, Greece and
China.
Askov American., 1941-03-20
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and one-sided kind which hates to ad-
NIT that the other side might, after
all, possibly be right. We are on the
verge of entering into another period
of hysteria and intense nationalistic
passion which will make it difficult
for even clear minds to preserve their
sane GOODNESS and poise.
Greek War.
In certain way it is natural that
emotions are aroused in a time of
crisis. 1t is very natural, for in
stance, to become incensed about the
Italian war of unjustified aggression
against Greece.
The Greek defense against the
Italians goes on as cOurageOusly
as before, although there is rea-
son to remember the fact, al
legged by several newspaper cor
respondents in the Balkans, that
one may not trust too literally all
the radiant victory bulletins
which emanate from Athens. 1t
may, for all we knOw-which
isn't much-be wise to read
Greek and other triumphant war
kilograms with some reservation;
admit, say, that perhaps fifty per
cent may likely be true.
This week there are new reports
to the effect that a lot of British
troops have arrived in Greece in
anticipation of Germany, perhaps
joining Italy in the war against the
Hellenes. We do not know whether
adequate help has arrived or will
soon be Forthcoming, but we do know
that the British government, for
reasons of its own, may make an at
tempt to protect Greece, for so very
much depends on what happens there
African Wars.
Records of the war as far as it has
now proceeded show that the Brit
ish soldiers have been less success
full in Europe than in Africa. Down
there they have been doing effective
work. They have practically driven
out the Italians from Libya; they
Askov American., 1941-03-20
MESSING THINGS UP
(Park Region Echo)

T. A. Eide, who made strong run
against Mayor George Leach of Min
neapolis two years ago, has filed
again and has a good chance to win
this time because the church people
who supported Leach before, are
against him now because of vice
conditions in the city. But the left
wing Farmer-Laborites did not en-
dorse Eide at their convention Sun
day. They don't want to beat Leach
evidently. They don't want to beat
Stassen in 1912, either. They just
want to mess things up in both city
and state.
Askov American., 1941-03-20
Broadway Alien (NO. 81

He didn't bring along a press
agent Ito see that the, papers got
his picture) when he registered for
the draft. He considered it chance
to serve his country-not to adver-
tise his patriotism He doesn't
pride himself on his ability to kite
a check. To him a kite is some
thing he used to fly in his back
yard or from the roof He at
tributes your success to ability and
his own to good breaks The
circles in which he mixes are crowd
ed with square guys He doesn't
need night club m. c. to put him
to sleep every night. He needs the
rest too badly to be caught any
place but in his own bed after a
hard days work To him a
sucker is a lollypop. y
He doesn't know what it means to
have "a bun on" To him a bun
is something you eat in the morning
with your breakfast He has
never gone to a psychiatrist for any
sort of trouble-such as a COM
plex, broken heart or the d. It's
"a. When he has broken heart,
you can betcha your life nothing
can mend it but the gal who stepped
all over it He doesn't even
know what schizophrenia is!
He's never had trouble getting a
date with his girl the week Fran
chot Tone got into town He's
never been invited to a private
screening of the latest picture. He's
already seen it at popular prices in
his home town weeks before it hits
Broadway He doesn't impose
himself on you with burdensome
conversation when you're busy or
concerned with private troubles =. b.
He thinks an individual has a right
to himself, and need not be an ever
available sounding board for his
probable empty and tiresome ideas.
To him the word character" is
a description of moral fiber rather
than an eccentric individual
The books on his shelf weren't Or
dered by the yard to match the col
or scheme of his room He's
never backed a night club because
he liked being with showgirls so
much-or because it was cheaper
to pay the weekly deficit-than
playing stage-door Johnny and all
around yap He has no enemies
and so many friends that the New
Yorker can't get enough stuff to-
gether to do profile series on him.
Askov American., 1941-03-20
Still Work To Be Done

From the Rock County Herald
comes the following editorial on
the lease-lend bill. Striking a
note of caution against possible
wave of war hysteria resulting
from the passage of the bill, it
also lauds the work of the Ameri-
ca First organization for its ef-
forts in curbing the provisions of
the original measure.
With passage of the lease-lend bill
comes talk of disbanding the America
First organization which did such
valiant work in arousing the public
to the inherent dangers contained in
the bill as originally presented. The
forces gathered under the banners
of the America First organization
were unable to prevent passage of
the lease-lend act, but there is no
room to doubt that their efforts were
extremely helpful in the adoption of
the amendments which it is hoped
will curb some of the exceSses of the
first proposals. Not only was public
sentiment as result of their efforts
aroused to the dangers contained in
the original lease-lend bill, but many
members of Congress were encour-
aged to make the firm fight the op-
ponents of the bill staged.
AS pointed out by The Chicago
Tribune, eff the public had not been
aroused to the threatened d a n G e r
there is little doubt that the enact
ment of the bill would have been
widely accepted both here and abroad,
not only as a vote of confidence in Mr..
Roosevelt but as an invitation to him
to proceed with all haste along the
road to war. AS it is, the admin
stration and its congressional follow
ers are pledged to regard the bill as
nothing more than an authorization
to lend material aid to Britain, sub
ject to our own requirements. If Mr..
Roosevelt now leads us into war il
will be in violation not only of his
campaign speeches and his party plat
form but of the solemn promises
which attended the passage of the
lease-lend bill"
But with the lease-lend bill now
enacted into law, there still remains
need of organized and alert effort to
see that the provisions of the new
law will not be exceeded, and that
the so-called "all-out aid" to Great
Britain will not develop the excesses
proposed and permitted in the original
draft of the bill. To the end that the
Askov American., 1941-03-20

it Az cents so that the counties
would lose nothing by the repeal Of
the one mill, but failed I have now
become convinced that we cannot
have even Accent gas tax without
repeating the one-mill, and as the
gas tax means so much more to my
county and all rural counties l am
forced to go along.
Evening Hearings.
There are some two hundred bills
now out of committees and before
two bodies of the legislature. Some
days we go along rapidly, passing
maybe Is measures before we run
into change in fees for bank in
spection, coop bill, or other con-
troversial measures and that winds
up the business of the day.
We are having hearings nearly
every evening each week, the new
mining tax measures, which would
further limit the range expenditures
and increase the state tax on iron
ores probably taking more time than
any others.
Askov American., 1941-03-20

magic of radio giving limitless range,
the magnetic persuasiveness of great
oratory knows no bounds.
Literally and actually the oratorical
and political leaders of the world are
talking us into the devious, uncertain
paths along which, bewildered, we
founder.
Askov American., 1941-03-20
I\'Ia|El
Man About Town!

Ne,o Yorkers Are
Talking about:
The hush-hush divorce of Seth
Parker (Phil Lord) and his current
blaze, Bonnie Doone, former "Hon-
eychile" on the Bob Hope stanzas
The $1,000 bracelet Chaplin
gave a Powers model named Jean
=. The witness in the Hauptmann
case who brought "new evidence"
on the Lindbergh snatch to Dewey's
office President Wilson's
daughter, once active in N. Y. lit
erary circles, who has joined a
Brahman nunnery in Pondicherry,
Indo-China Quentin Reynolds
standing order of posies to Betsy
Cushing Roosevelt every day. He
calls her 'the ideal woman"
The $4,000 month it costs to
keep the Normandie and its crew
docked in NY. The coin comes from
the frozen French funds here
Capt. Patterson's plan to erect the
biggest Independent radio station
due consummation of the merger of
two newspapers (B'klyn and Man.
hattan)-now that they've applied to
the RFC for S2,000,000 touch.
ErSkine Gwynne'S escape from
concentration camp to the Ameri-
can Consulate at Lisbon Al
bert Payson Terhune's appearance
again after two-year illness which
almost killed him The first
subpoena ever issued by the Dies
Committee-to George Sylvester
Viereck, Nazi propagandist. How
come he was never forced to ap-
pear before that group-the sub
poena is still valid-isn't it?
The Oliver Hardys.
Prince Nishbu of Nepal, India,
who wants to return there but can't
get visa for Stephanie Markin, for
mer show gal in American Ju-
bilee." She's his Girl Friday at the
Hotel Madison The Buick
Company which will build 125 mil
lion dollars worth of Pratt-Whitney
engines this year The 200
bomberS month that Fisher
Bodies will make at their new Kan
sas City plant The Frigidaire
firm, which is making so many So
caliber machine guns 'that we
won't know where to store them!"
The Cuban political exiles, some
of whom were responsible for re-
fusing entry of that shipload of ref
ugees on the liner est. Louis" Now
they're in the same fix The
Cuban consuPs denial that he
okayed the bills of those ousted Of
ficials The way intimates will
wager that Ann Sheridan is keeping
her marriage to George Brent Sc
cret ''for the sake of his career"
The 1000 Renoir painting
Billy Rose bought for Eleanor Holm,
his wife, and when he asked her if
she wanted it hung in her room
she screamed: you're not gonna
put any nails in my WALL"
Askov American., 1941-03-20
A Little Spice

Success is simply keeping on.
Young man:-To increase your in
come, marry frugal wife.
The tongue muscle has this over
the heart muscles: The heart tires
but the tongue, never.
So live that, even in solitude, you
have the companionship of happy
thoughts.
True spirituality may run up into
the clouds, but its feet must be on
the earth
The value of right over wrong do
ing does not need scientific proof
to establish it.
Have opinions about any and all
things, but reserve few strong
convictions about right and wrong
Even a loafer may serve a good
purpose, if young men, seeing him.
resolve to become something.
Keep at it! No clock yet invented
can restrike the hours that have
been wasted.
The acid of discontentment will
corrode the best pleasures life can
conjure up.
Askov American., 1941-03-20
THE ANOKA MESS
Duluth Herald)

Three members of the house mi
nority at st. Paul want legislative
investigation of the distribution of
the Anoka tornado fund.
No doubt their motives are political
in part, but the demand they make
is entirely proper and reasonable.
These charges have been in the air
for months and they are something
more than idle talk. The people
have right to expect the state to
act on these charges in a fearless
manner and quickly.
Minnesota had an abundance of
rottenness in its state government a
few years ago. The Stassen admin
stration promised to clean up this
situation. 1t has done a good deal,
though its prosecutions of various
state officials and their friends might
have been considerably more skill
full and vigorous without causing
Thomas E. Dewey to look to his
laurels.
Now it finds good deal of mud
coming its way, and some of that
mud is sticking. This is prime cam
paign material for the administra-
tion's critics and enemies. The only
decent way out-and the only politi-
cally safe way-is to call for a thor
ough inquiry, with plenty of oppo-
sition members on the investigating
body. If Stassen appointees and al
lies abused their responsibilities in
this Anoka matter the Stassen ad-
ministration owes them no protec-
ton. Instead it should lose no time
in seeing that they are examined and,
if there is justification, prosecuted
and punished.
Every child in Minnesota today
knows that wrong-doing in the more
responsible state positions is almost
as safe as it is profitable. Our laws
are muddy, our law enforcement Of
ficers are neither as brave nor as
bright as they might be, our pub
lie is easy-going, only too willing to
forgive rascals.
The only hope in this kind of situ-
alton is state administration that
fears no one, that is more concerned
about doing its duty than about Win
ming in 1912. A lot of Minnesota
people think we have that kind of
administration, but not as many as
thought so a few months ago. The
Stassen administration is on trial.
Its handling of this Anoka situation
is one of the things by which it will
be judged.
Lady, if your husband tells you that
you are worth your weight in gold,
and you weigh 11O pounds, you are
worth exactly S39, 9,73O2O. But try to
get it.-Baudette Region.
Park Region Echo: A compulsory
auto insurance law has been proposed
to the Legislature, and the insurance
companies are already putting out
propaganda against it. Massachusetts
has such law which, by barring
jalopies from the highways, has made
that state the safest in the union to
drive in. Deaths from auto accidents
there last year were ~ per 100000
population. In Minnesota there were
20 per 100000. Insurance rates, too,
are far lower there than here.
Askov American., 1941-03-20

Editorial Comment From Other News
papers Which May or May Not
Conform With the Opinions of the
Askov American
Askov American., 1941-03-20

The acid of discontentment will
corrode the best pleasures life can
conjure up.
Askov American., 1941-03-20

Keep at it! No clock yet invented
can restrike the hours that have
been wasted.
Askov American., 1941-03-20

Lady, if your husband tells you that
you are worth your weight in gold
and you weigh ITO pounds, you are
worth exactly S39,73020. But try to
get it.-Baudette Region.
Askov American., 1941-03-20

Even a loafer may serve a good
purpose, if young men, seeing him.
resolve to become something.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-30

of practice and the uniforms for
that group of about sixty cost in the
neighborhood of $1,500-we happen
to know. That band and those drum
maiorettes are like anything else
that's good-it usually takes a lot
of both time and money.
Whiskers which blossomed luxur-
iantly at Bluffton college last week
disappeared as if by magic Saturday
after Coach Burcky's battling Beav-
ers soundly trounced Ashland college.
Following defeat at the hands of OF
terbein a week previous, the Bluff
ton college football squad agreed not
to shave until they had won a game
and last week barber business was
fiat at the institution as other male
members of the student body joined
in the movement. Now, however,
the bans off-thanks to Buttons
topside score.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-30
Button High School Notes

body in the morning during which a
marching and stunt demonstration
was held by girls of the 7th grade
class. Joan Clark and Helen Burk-
holder gave a demonstration of
twirling the drum major baton.
Several students in the high school
home economics course are planning
to attend the home economics con-
vention to be held at Arlington, Sun
day. Arrangements are in charge of
Miss Edythe Cupp, instructor.
Plans are already being made by
various departments in the school
for the students to participate in ex-
hibitions at the Mid-Winter fair to
be held December to 5.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-30
Mt. Cory School News

On Tuesday evening, Nov. A, the
Public Speaking class will present
the play 1.-TWO Minutes to Go" by
Charles Quimby Burdette. The play
will be directed by Miss Olive Obee.
The senior class held a skating
party at the Green Mill rink in
Findlay on Wednesday evening.
All the seniors are anxiously
awaiting the proofs of their pictures
which were taken when they made
their annual trip to Tiffin, Monday.
During the afternoon the group en-
joyed theater party.
According to the recent plans all
juniors and seniors desiring to see
an Ohio State game, will do so Sat
urday, Nov. 8.
Mt. Cory's colors are still flying
high as far as football goes. They
kept up their record by taking Lib
erty 39-7 Friday.
Forty-nine pupils in the Mt. Cory
School District were listed on the
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-30
East Orange

Mrs. Frances Bamugartner and
daughter Janice of Oakwood were
dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Charely
Agin and son Evan, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vern Dillinger and
Mary Clark of rex McComb were
Sunday dinner guests in the B. j.
Boutwell, home.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Nonnamaker
and son Jimmie of Bluffton, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Carts and Miss Arlene Car
is were Sunday dinner guests of Mr..
and Mrs. 0. w. Nonnamaker and
family.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. J. Boutwell, and
son Byron Leo and grandson, Lyman
Ray spent Thursday evening with
Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Agin and son,
Evan.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-30
Red Mans Legend Places Time OF
Indian Summr Early In November

Most of the leaves have fallen
from the giant trees of the virgin
forests, and on every hand there are
signs that winter cannot be far
away.
A few lazy folk in the Indian COM
munity, however, have wilfully
closed their eyes to the advance of
the season and are leaving for the
morrow work that should have long
been completed.
Then some night sudden gusts of
cold wind go storming thru the
village, and in the early morning
sunrise the frost maidens brightly
glisten from the roofs of the wig
vans.
As another warning the Great
Bear of the sky opens his mouth and
the first flakes of snow drift earth
ward.
In desperation the lazy farmers
appeal for another chance, and the
kindness of the Great Spirit is man
ifested in a short season of warm
suns in early November. For the
Indians the season was known as
"lazy-farmer moon", for it was the
last chance of the tardy caretaker
of crops to complete his harvest.
Indian summer, as judged by In
dian legend, therefore falls during
the time of the full moon in No
vember, This year the moon will
enter its full phase on Monday,
Novernhar 2
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-30

Mild October weather with little
trace as yet of the approaching
winter season has brought to the
fore a perennial argument often
heard this time of the year-When
is Indian Summer?
This fall the question is whether
the Indian summer season already
has been here, or if it is due to come
in November.
According to early American In
dian folklore, from which the story
of Indian summer has been handed
down to present-day inhabitants of
the North American continent, In
dian summer comes about the time
of the full moon in November, after
the first hard frosts.
The reason can be found in the
legend of the Great Spirit who gave
the lazy Indian farmer a Second
chance.
In the primeval setting of the
early American wilderness, the ap-
proach of winter was heralded by
the departure of bluebirds and rob-
ins for the land of the south wind.
In the smoky haze of the evening
the honk of the wild geese could be
heard.
Gathering of the ripened corn in
the cleared land beyond the Indian
village has been completed by most
of the villagers, and squirrels have
laid in their customary winter store