Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-03-20

welfare under the reorganization act.
No Saving.
These figures reveal that the di-
vision of the Board of Control into
two new departments has certainly
not resulted in saving, inasmuch as
the total monthly payroll amounts
to $5,746.45 more than the payroll
used to be in the divisions of the
Board of Control On a yearly basis
this amounts to an annual increase
in salary expense of $68,957.40. Of
course, this increase is largely &C
counted for by added personnel in
the higher salary brackets, as is
demonstrated by the fact that there
were only II persons in the board of
control receiving annual salaries of
$4,000 or more. The total yearly
salaries of these II persons amounted
to $42,500 while in the division of
institutions and the division of well
fare there are now 20 persons re-
ceiving salaries of $4,000 or more,
making combined total yearly SAL
airy of $76,70O.
Creation of Division of Motor
Vehicle Insurance.
Three officials to be appointed by
the industrial commission would
make up this new division in our state
government by terms of a bill in
troduced by Rep. Chilgren of Little
fork. No motor vehicle or trailer
could be registered and license Sc
cured unless application and pay
ment of the premium for public liza
bility insurance accompanied the re-
quest for the license. Insurance
would be written by this division on
the basis of $4,000 for the injury
or death of any one person and $1O,-
600 on account of any one accident
resulting in injury to or death of more
than one person. Such insurance
would be obtainable through the state
for 70 per cent of the present cost
of such coverage if this bill passes.
Iron Ore Taxation Reports.
So far two hearings have been held
on the findings of the above COM
mission. ut is regrettable that the
exploitation of an extractive economy
carried on by the lumber barons in
the early days and now by the steel
trust, has reduced section of Mime
sofa which once was rich in both
resources and job opportunities to
what is at present depressed area
with a stranded population where
thousands are unemployed or on re-
lief and thousands of others on
type of part-time employment in
which they are neither employed nor
unemployed" said Senator John Blat-
nick last week in commenting on the
situation.
Recognized by federal agencies and
even by the President of the United
States as depressed area that needs
a program of rebuilding to restore it
to some semblance of being a self
sustaining region, the legislature of
the state of Minnesota has itself
failed to officially recognize it as
problem area. Consequently nothing
has been done toward the basic So
luton of the grave economic and So
cial problems that exist in north
eastern Minnesota. The responsible
ty for the present condition on the
range must in the final analysis be
placed squarely before the legisla-
ture and the administration of the
state of Minnesota, for at no time in
the history of our state has there ever
been made a clear-cut statement of
policy and long-range planning re-
garding the land use and resource
use of Minnesota.
One Mill Road and Bridge Levy.
The House Tax committee last week
recommended for passage the bill
calling for repeal of the one mill road
and bridge levy. In the meantime