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Evening star., 1941-07-20
He is an officer who never questions the

He is an officer who never questions the
requirement that the Army be subor-
dinate to the civil administration. The
alternative involves danger that an
Army might-as in Germany-gain con-
troll for its own ends. However, there
are difficulties in the path of an Army
commander in a democracy who must
prepare to defeat an Army commander
of a hostile nation whose word is abso-
lutte law on any and every point.
Certainly the Chief of Staff of the
United States is no martinez. Instead,
he is a very unassuming man of demo-
cratic demeanor. He is recognized as
an organizer of the highest capabilities.
He is a natural leader of men. His
abilities were recognized early in the
last war and when still under 40 years
of age, it was his task to organize the
American forces for the Meuse- -Argonne
Offensive.
Evening star., 1941-07-20
Time Is VituI

President Roosevelt'S announce
ment that he will send message to
Congress urging prompt enactment
of legislation which would have the
effect of lifting the one-year restric-
ton on the period of service of
SelecteeS, National GuardSmen and
Reserve officers serves to emphasize
the Importance of the time element
in this connection.
In answering a question last week
by Senator Austin of Vermont, Gen.
George c. Marshall, Chief of Staff,
said that the "deadline" for such
legislative action is August /. Unless
authority to keep the men in service
is granted by that time, he said,
Coast Guard regiment sent to Alaska
will have to start back to the United
States about August 5. An anti-air-
craft regiment in Hawaii, made up
in part of SelecteeS, will have to sail
August Is, and at least one other
regiment on outpost duty will have
to be recalled during the month.
These instances cited by the Chief
of Staff are merely illustrative of the
manner in which virtually the entire
Army will have to be broken up, be-
ginning September /, unless the
desired legislation Is approved with
out any delay.
1t is hardly conceivable that Con-
gress will refuse to grant the request
made by the Chief of Staff. 1t will
have to be approved in some form,
or we are faced with the prospect of
literally wrecking an Army which
we have spent year in building, and
thereby leaving the Nation without
adequate means of defense against
the imminent danger confronting
it. But there would be little purpose
in passing the legislation after weeks
and months of debate, for by that
time the damage would have been
done.
Congress has a clear responsibility
to take up this question promptly
and to settle 1t during the next two
weeks. Time is of the essence. At
this late date, we dare not indulge
in the luxury of putting off until
tomorrow the things that must be
done today.
Evening star., 1941-07-20

getting his arguments before the
people of that city, or before any
other group in the country. Senator
Wheeler has full access to the radio
and to the press, and he will not
be Silenced by closing the doors of
the Atlanta auditorium to him. On
the contrary, it is quite probable that
the net result will be favorable to
him in the sense that persons wholly
out of sympathy with his views will
be inclined to resent any attempt to
deprive him of the traditional Amer
ican right of free speech
The more fundamentally disturb
ing aspect of this incident lies in the
fact that it seems to be Symptomatic
of definite trend toward abuse and
intolerance. This was noted by Wen
dell Willkie last week, when he called
for an end to the bitter name calling
in which both opponents and friends
of the administrations foreign
policies have been indulging.
At this critical time it is essential
that all Americans retain their sense
of proportion, The great issues of
the day cannot be settled by i'm
pugning the motives or besmirching
the character of those with whom
one diSagrees, and the more general
the acceptance of this truth the more
effective will be what must become
our combined and united effort in
defense of democracy.
Evening star., 1941-07-20
NOT THE END
By the Right Rev. James Freeman, D. D., LII. d. D. c. L.
Bishop of Washington.

The tragedies of our world, apart from
the horrors and pains they infiict, are
making men reflective and deeply
thoughtful. The mystery Of life and OF
death are ever present with us, but
under normal conditions and unin-
terrupted occupations and pleasures men
think lightly and less of its great prob
lens 1t is when shadows deepen and
the way of life is obscure that men turn
to consider It's great issues. 1t was a
wise and troubled man of old who
asked the searching question: IF
man die shall he live again?" All the
great philosophers, Egyptian, Greek,
Roman and modern. have speculated
over the great question of life here and
hereafter.
Recently in one of the blasted cities
of England where great losses had been
sustained community service was held
for the many victims of the assault. 1t
was a confused and beWilderee group
of mourners that met in reverent silence
to pay tribute to their honored dead;
relatives and friends stunned by a
leTTlDle catastrophe. lHty we're COuI-
ageous and determined even in their
grief In such circumstances some word,
however inadequate, must be spoken.
Under such conditions the Bishop of
Exeter uttered these reassuring words
I'VE who live are met here today TO pay
a tribute to the dead. Words are but
poor things to convey all that is in our
minds The deepest things cannot be
spoken. We can but mourn with those
who mourn today over the loss of dear
ones. No words can tighten their sorrow.
But with our sympathy, which is sincere,
we can as Christians offer TO them
hope that is certain. All that we know
of God through Jesus Christ makes it
unthinkable that this grave should be
the end Not one of those whom we lay
in this grave, but is a son, daughter of
God. Not one of them fell to the ground
but God knew it. God made them, God
loves them. He will not let them perish
Their souls in hope we commit to God"
Evening star., 1941-07-20
Labor and Initiation

LODOr Qn0 Infl0tIOn
Declaring that the sharp increases
in food costs during the past two
months plainly indicate that the
country is facing the threat of in
f1ation, the American Federation of
Labor, in the current issue of Labor S
Monthly Survey, stresses the fact
that workers of the United States
have an important responsibility in
helping to prevent runaway prices
That organized labor, as evidenced
by the Surveys warning, recognizes
the danger of initiation and the need
for measures to check spiraling
prices seems clear, and this will be
the cause for justiflable gratifica-
ton
AS the Survey we'll points out,
American labor would lose heavily
by price initiation From 1882 to
1941-a period free from serious in
1ation-labor has won a real wage
gain of tWenty-Seven cents in hourly
earnings. A price initiation compar-
able in magnitude to that of the
first World War, when rises in living
costs outran wage increases, would
wipe out virtually all the wage gains
during the past nine years, the A.
F. of L. warned.
Labor can help prevent imitation,
the Survey asserted. One method
would be to encourage voluntary saw
ingS on large scale. At a time
when the production of consumer
goods is being drastically cut by
priorities, labor's buying power is in
creasing by leaps and bounds. The
income of American workers, in 1941
will be $4,000 100000, or 18 per cent
higher than last year Unless the
greater part of the increased income
is siphoned off into savings, labor's
new buying power, competing fol
consumer goods growing increasingly
more scarce, will inevitably cause
drastic price increases, the Survey
predicted.
The A. F. of L. also suggests that
where employers cannot pay wage
increase unless production costs are
reduced, unions cooperate in every
way toward such reductions.
Though admitting that wage in
creaseS, in many instances, may
cause price advances, the A. F. of l.
takes the position that these raises
in general, have not been an i'm
portant factor contributing to the
current upswing in prices. The va
lidity of this position is open to seri-
Gus question, in view of the recent
wage increases won by large groups
of industrial workers. If prices are
to be stabilized through cooperative
action among the Government, in
dustry and other groups, labor, in
logic and in fairness, must be pre-
pared to withhold demands for gen.
eral wage increases. Without some
means of controlling wages, price
stabilization cannot be fully effec-
tive. In urging the need for further
wage increases, the A. F. of L., in
effect, advocates a policy that will
tend to raise prices, and thus en-
courage inflationary trends, although
hi hi SO hi
that the labor organization wants tC
avoid.
Evening star., 1941-07-20
Political Commissurs

The good American communist
awaits the latest party line from
Moscow, or farther east if Moscow
falls, so that he may quit the rather
hopeless task of guessing, or think
ing for himself, and root only for
lin-approved gadgets. 1t seems
to be only question of time now
until he receives Muscovite approval
on political commissars for the
American army, inasmuch as they
have Just been restored to the Rus
sian forces
They would have no success what
ever here. The American soldier is
far more concerned with such prac-
tical politics as playing ball with the
mess sergeant, to secure extra deli
cacies, than with listening to the
boring speech of some civilian politi-
cal appointee on the glories of the
administration. 1t is more important
to keep on the good side, if any, of
the top kick, and avoid kitchen po-
lice, than to bother with any COM
missar who tried to tell him how to
think. Democracy has already taught
him to think for himself. So sue
cessful is he at using his brain that
he perfectly realizes that he is in
the army for the sole purpose of pre-
venting certain foreigners from COM
ing here and stopping all thought.
Evening star., 1941-07-20
" for Victory!

Colonel V. BrlttOn, in British
broadcast yesterday. summoned the
oppressed peoples of the continent
under German occupation to begin
mobilizing 'V for Victory" army
within the next y-eight hours to
strike at the Germans in every pos
sible way. This militant summons
climaxed week of intensive promo
ton by the British BroadcaSting
Corporation of ''V for Victory"
propaganda campaign. In his ad
dress the Colonel stated: Tomorrow
the v Army-Europe's invisible army
of many millionS-Will come into be-
ing 1t is the date of Europe's mo-
bilization against the Germans"
Behind this brief news story lies
one of the strangest and certainly
one of the most dramatic episodes of
the war. Colonel V. Britton is ad-
mittedly a pseudonym. No one out
side of officialdom's inner circles
knows who he is, but his appealing
radio personality is called THE Voice
of Doom"
This extraordinary propaganda
campaign started quite casually
about a month ago in the course of a
regulation pep talk addressed by
the British Broadcasting Company
to the German people, with the sug-
geStion that anti-NaziS everywhere
use the letter "V' as victory slogan,
the Morse code for the letter as an
identifying symbol, and Beethoven's
Fifth Symphony as theme song be-
cause, like the Morse code, its first
four notes are three shorts and a
long
The suggestion caught on and
spread like wildfire. Each morning
innumerable VS. appeared, chalked
or painted upon houses and dead
walls. The code signal was raped
out on doors or cafe table-tops The
strains of Beethoven's Fifth" filled
the air, hummed, sung, or Whistled
by high and low Village clocks stop
ped, mySteriously at HOS with the
hands making a "V." Fork tines in
restaurants were appropriately bent.
Even German officials often discov-
cred that while they had been walk
ing the streets "V" had been sur
repitiously chalked on their backs.
So annoyed were the Germans
that, after many arrests, they re-
solved to fight fire with fire. Ac-
cordingly, they instructed their ad-
herents to start chalking VS. them
selves, as a symbol for the German
word "Viktoria." That, however, was
rather far-fetched because the word
is a foreign importation previously
frowned upon by the Nazis as part
of their language publication cam
paign. The ordinary German word
for victory is "Sieg," which obviously
does not fit.
Delighted with the success of this
radio stunt, the B. B. c. has been
stepping up its propaganda in every
way, and Colonel Britton's mobili-
zation appeal is the climax to date
1t is interesting to speculate what it
may portend.
Evening star., 1941-07-20
Freedom of Speech

The refusal of Atlanta officials to
hermit Senator Wheeler to speak in
the municipal auditorium carries dis
turbing implications.
Viewed in it's larger aspects, the
real question is not so much whether
an Injustice has been done Senator
Wheeler. The action Of the Atlanta
officials will not prevent him from
Evening star., 1941-07-20

What other words might be spoken at
such time? What other comfort given
to those upon whom so great an afflic-
ton had fallen?
In the severe testingS and strains OF
life men ever turn away from their
conceitS and Speculations to think in
terms of what life may be, and turning
they find consolation and courage. True,
the trials of life take their toll of faith
and hope, but they do not destroy the
deeper yearnings and aspirations of the
human spirit. Tennyson in his grief for
Arthur Hallam struggled long to gain
ascendance over his inconsolable sorrow
and he expressed it at length in these
triumphant words:
Strong Son of God, immortal love.
Whom we that have not seen Thy face,
BY faith and faith alone embrace.
Believing where we cannot prove"
Again he writes:
Thou madeSt man, he knows not why,
He thinks he was not made to die
The world needs and must have
inSoluble, its ills and misfortunes too
overwhelming to attempt to satisfy its
grief with sympathy or a poetic senti-
ment that furnishes no balm to its
troubled spirit. Man. even in his most
worldly moments dares TO cling TO a
conception of life that stretches out
beyond its last horizon. A broken city
with its mutilated dead still clings to
its faith, believing where it cannot
prove"
Into world that had seemed Earth
bound" a new vision has come and it
turns away from its doubts and fears to
hear again the mighty words of the
Risen Saviour of mankind: Because I
live, ye shall live also He that be-
lieveth in Me, though he were dead, yet
shall he live" God made them, God
loves them. He will not let them perish !"
We will hold to this lofty conception
and, holding to it, survive the tragedies
of life.
Evening star., 1941-07-20

will constitute IAN indication of the
willingness of the people of our coun-
try to cooperate with their Govern
ment" That is a factual statement
of the truth, and the significance of
the principle involved is important.
If it should happen that Americans
failed to give voluntarily of them
selves and of their resources, then
indeed the cause of freedom would be
lost.
Evening star., 1941-07-20
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

Half a century ago there was much
discussion over the cable car route of the
Washington g. George
Coble Cor town Co. Its necessity was
Route recognized, but the tearing
up of trees and grass was
deplored Says The Star of July 20,
1891: The matter of the new route TO
be taken by the new Washington and
Georgetown cable line in going up
First street and c street to New Jersey
avenue on the north side of the Capitol
was settled today.
The company will be allowed to run
its tracks upon the parking adjacent TO
the south side of S street between New
Jersey avenue and First street"
This was not the only loss sustained by
those who wished to retain vegetation.
The Star of the next day tells of the
condemnation of more of it. The work
of removing the parking in the middle Of
New York avenue between Thirteenth
and Fourteenth streets will soon be be-
gun, and it is probable that the parking
will be a thing of the past and the
street all repaved by the middle of Sep
tember. The square between Thirteenth
and Fourteenth has of late been so
much given over to Offices that the peo-
pie on both sides have for some time
past been in favor Of having the parking
removed"
1t seems odd these days to hear of
any one who wants parking removed.
On July 81, 1891, a monument to
Gen. Stonewall Jackson was unveiled at
Lexington. Va. The affair was signal
lied by large Yankee INVASION a
good symptom of the heal
Monument to ing of the wounds of civil
'stonewolr war. Says The Star OF
that date: Thirty years
ago today, on the battlefield of Bull Run,
Gen. Thomas Jackson received the
sobriouet 'Stonewall,' the name by which
he is known the world over, and which
the Southern people have since that
time applied to him as term of en-
dearment. Today the honor and re-
spect in which he is held was testified
crates, who assisted in the unveiling Of
a monument to his memory.
Thousands of people from all parts
of the South have been pouring into
Lexington for several days and the
streets of the quiet old town have been
crowded with visitors .
Not less than 1000 Confederates are
in town. They have come from every
State that cast its lot with the seces-
sionists. Probably not less than 10000
of the boys who wore the blue are also
here, and in the throngs in the streets
the blue raiment and brass buttons of
the Grand Army of the Republic are to
be seen on every hand"
At the time, James G. Blaine, Secre-
tary of State, was slowly recovering
from a severe illness. Says The Star of
July 81, 1891: 1T is learned
Mr.. Blaine through reliable sources
Recovering here that Mr.. Blaine is
gradually preparing to re-
sumo charge of the State Department
affairs. He now has his private Sec
retary with him and is getting together
the loose ends of his work, which he let
drop so suddenly when he was first taken
sick" Further Star comment indicates,
correctly as it turned out, that Mr..
Blaine would not be presidential candi-
date the next year.
Evening star., 1941-07-20
Mr.. Blaine
Recovering

sumo charge of the State Department
affairs. L. He now has his private Sec
retary with him and is getting together
the loose ends of his work, which he let
drop so suddenly when he was first taken
sick" Further Star comment indicates,
correctly as it turned out, that Mr..
Blaine would not be presidential candi-
date the next year.
Evening star., 1941-07-20

A New Zealand official recon-
mends a 24-hour day to speed up war
material production. Why not? 1t
Just happens that there are exactly
that number In q day.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-08-07
Hinckley

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Toussaint were
Twin City visitors Monday.
Ed and Earl Freeman spent Tues
day in Minneapolis.
Rev. and Mrs. Hoffmeister are
spending their vacation in and near
Duluth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Slim Nelson and
daughter of Rock Creek, were Sunday
guests at the Fred Roberts home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cliff Chaffee are the
proud parents of girl born last
week.
Milo Salmon of Centralia, Wash,
spent few days last week visiting
at the Freeman, Atkins and Frank
Irons homes.
Miss Vivian Sundwald is visiting
in st. Cloud this week.
Mr.. Wilmarth had the misfortune
to fall on the sidewalk and cut his
head severely.
Claus Toering is improving after
a fall.
Mrs. Chas. Busse of North Branch,
visited old friends in Hinckley last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Fara returned
from their honeymoon to Yellow
stone park Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Shoberg are
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-08-07
Windenere
By EuDhelia.

Well, it's good to be alive and able
to work these days. Folks, we got
lots to be thankful for Twin in this
fine U. S. A. Just came back from
pullin' weeds in the rutabaga patch
and person can do a lot of thinkin'
at job like that.
Have you seen the big smile Tony
and Vincent are wearin' these days?
Little Edward Vincent was born July
"a and Edwin Tony on July 20. BY
the way these babies are double cous-
ms too.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Storm and Patsy
and Herman Storm spent the week
end in st. Paul and while there at
tended weddin' of their nephew.
Mrs. Theo. Schjeldahl, Ellen and
Ralph and Mrs. Tracy Street visited
in Minneapolis Wednesday.
George Nystrom of Duluth, spent
the weekend at his home here.
Viola Swanson is home for two
weeks vacation. On Sunday evenin'
she and her mother called at N.Y.
stroms.
Mrs. Roy Berge (nee Irene Moss
berg) has been visitin' at her par
entail home the past few days.
Mrs. Elmer Mossberg and Mrs. Roy
Berge spent Thursday afternoon at
Nystroms.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Nyberg, Rose
and Fred Nyberg spent Saturday eve
MIN at Ed. OlSonS.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-08-07
Arthyde

Mrs. E. w. Grant entertained the
Community club at her home last
Thursday afternoon.
Richard Carnegie observed his 18th
birthday July 81 and many Of the
children of the community spent the
afternoon with him at the Alrogen
home where he makes his home.
Gerald Emmer is visiting his cous-
in, Bobby Ellison, at Finlayson few
days.
Mrs. ]. c. Emmer and jeanne, Ger
aid, Leona and Dennis were in Sand
stone Saturday afternoon.
Rev. Kenneth Nelson held serv-
ices at the schoolhouse Sunday aft
ernoon. He will be here again on
August "a at 4:30 o'clock.
Miss Virginia Nelson and David
Townsend of Graceville, were visit
ing at the Alfred Johnson home from
Sunday until Monday. Other visitors
there Sunday were Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Larson and sons, Dan Olson,
Frank Mlaskosh, Erwin johnson, Mr..
and Mrs. Art Pince and boys and
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Ova and boys.
Mrs. Annie Thomson and Leon
ard Thomson visited at the Omer
Forsyth home near Willow River,
Sunday.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-08-07
Croningen

Church services will be held Sun
day, August 10, at $50 a. m. Sun
day school at 10:45 a. m.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Gunnick and
family of Milaca, visited her sister,
Mrs. James Ankrum, recently.
The Ladies' Aid will meet with
Mrs. John H. Olson at Bass Lake
Thursday, August 81, instead of the,
18th. Please keep the change of date
in mind. Everybody cordially in
vited to attend
MIR. and Mrs. j. Ploeger and family
visited with the John Without family
in Cloquet a week ago Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. Bagge and daugh--
ter of Askov, visited with the Ben
Nelson family Sunday.
Mrs. Henry Zwiers of Ogilvie, and
Mrs. John Work visited with Mrs.
Jake Ploeger week ago Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Nelson of Wren
shall, visited his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ben Nelson, a week ago Sum
day.
James Ankrum left for the south
ern part of the state where he is
employed.
Miss Martha Greenwal of Duluth.
spent the weekend at the Earnest
Erickson home.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-08-07
Legal Notices
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORE
CLOSURE SALE

Default having occurred in the conditions
of that certain Mortgage: dated the Sec
ond day of January, 1884, executed by
Richard E. Tuenge and Martha Tuenge;
Land Bank of Saint Paul. a body cor
porate, as mortgage. filed for record IN
the office of the Register of Deeds in and
for Pine County, Minnesota, on the thir-
teenth day of February. 1884; at S:SS O.
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN that. by
virtue of a power of sale therein con:
tanned, said mortgage will be foreclosed
and the land and premises therein de.
Pine and State of Minnesota. as follows,
to-wit:
Section Eighteen, Township Forty-two.
will be sold at public auction to the high
est bidder for cash by the Sheriff of Pine
County, at the front door OF the Court
House in the Village of Pine City, In said
County and State, on Monday. September
to satisfy the debt secured by said mort
gage and the costs and disbursements all
lowed by law. There is due and payable
at the date of this notice upon the DEBT
Eighteen Hundred Eight and $500 Dol
One Hundred Thirty-eight and 15/100 Dol
lars ($138.15), taxes paid by mortgage
with interest.
Dated this 18th day of July, 1871.
THE FEDERAL LAND BANK
Mortgage.
attorney for the Mortgage,
ST. Paul. Minnesota.
July 24-August 28)