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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-11-12
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Editor Askov American:

Editor Askov American:
1t seems to me that if there is
any one thing our present national
and world condition should teach us,
it is that certain social and economic
conditions that we have labored un-
der in the past, are to say the least
out-moded. The present war effort
proves the old idea of rugged indi-
vidualism, while maybe nice
sounding phrase to the strong, under
certain conditions doesn't work out
in time of national or world crisis.
Today we are calling on the aged,
the women and the youths of our
land to put forth their efforts toward
a certain goal. In the past they were
no part of the effort but were con-
sidered load to be carried in some
sort of charitable manner. The
aged as a duty, the women as more
or less luxurious necessity, and the
youths as future safeguard to that
way of life.
OF course this condition has been
broken down to degree in the past
generation, but up to the time of
our entrance into the war, it still
existed. The aged partially cared
for under old age plans, the women
considered mainly as the mothers
of the future and home makers, and
the teen age youths being cared for
in youth movements and CCC camps.
To these groups the great crisis has
existed for ages. The present crisis
has been to them an opportunity to
prove they have a place in the gen.
eral scheme of things, that is more
than just a nook to live in or to
die in.
Why in our postwar figuring can't
we take into account the ability of
all people and the needs of all peo-
pie, in the same manner we use in
our war figuring.
We know these needs have been
just as great in the past as the pres
ent or we wouldn't have this condi-
ton now.
We have now to 60 all out to win
this war. My hope and prayer is
we will all see the need of going
all the way after the war; that the
little people of the world will not
again be pushed aside by the big, the
weak ones by the strong.
There should be just as much room
for each of us in peace as in war.
EARL F. JONES.
Cloverton, MINI.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-11-12
Cattle Market
Continued from Page II

figured largely so cents lower for the
week, with the bulk selling from
$3.50 to $3.50.
Mondays record run which num-
bered $4,000 head was the largest in
six years. Fat lambs followed a
higher price trend, gains effected
ranged from Is to IS cents. Fat ewes
were rs cents and more higher, and
feeding lambs sold on a steady to
strong basis. Good and choice fat
lambs cashed at S14.50 to S14.65.
Choice fed clipped lambs with No.
pelts brought S14.25. Small lots of
fat ewes turned at $500 to S5.75,
while one load of westerns reached
the $6.25 mark. Good and choice
yearlings were noted at $1,000, also
one load at $3.50. Good white-faced
feeding lambs cashed up to SIPS,
and small lots of natives and Da-
kotas were noted up to S11.50 to
Sl175
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-11-12
FREEDOM MEANS EQUALITY
AND JUSTICE
(The Wesley News)

We have been tossing the word
freedom around quite loosely these
days, as if it were something we
could fire out of guns or drop with
bombs like leaflets behind the front.
But freedom isn't like that. We
should have learned this in l918-19
when we proclaimed that most of
the world must now become demo-
cratic-nobody much took up the idea
and those who did used it as false
face to gain favors. Guns and bombs
can defend freedom but they cannot
create it. Freedom is texture of
the mind and heart woven by the
spirit of God. 1t is an order of life
made possible by the teachings Of
Christ which for all time established
the supremacy of the individual soul.
There is no real freedom unless there
is equality and justice.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-11-12
Thanks The Voters And
Congratulates Winners

The election is past, the winners
have been declared and congratula-
tions and best wishes are extended.
1t is, however, to be regretted that
a substantial percentage of the vot-
ers did not exercise their precious
privilege of franchise that we are
fighting to maintain.
1t is we'll that we have minorities
as well as majorities. With only one
political party we would have the
same condition as in the dictator
nations.
There are disappointments in tenn
porary losses but there need be no
regrets when the campaigns are in
behalf of sound principles of good
government. l fought the best fight
l could for the office of governor
with the support of hundreds of VOL
unteer workers to whom l am deeply
grateful.
Well founded criticism is ever in
order and it is up to the majority
to heed the urgings of the minority
on sound proposals.
have offered my best for the
public welfare in the elective posi-
tons held and in the political cam
paigns waged. hope that my work
has compensated for the vote have
received on various occasions and
for which 1 am very thankful.
HJALMAR PETERSEN.
Nov. S, 1912.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-11-12
PUBLIC INTEREST
Editor Askov American:

Editor Askov American:
In the everlasting struggle between
labor and capital there enters re-
Gently a third party, the right of the
consumer called public interest"
Of course in a strike public in
terest is as much involved as that of
labor and capital Everybody likes
to live in comfort and that conven-
fence is much interferred with in
days of strikes, is true.
However, to make the wheels of
industry turn smoothly it not only
needs lubricating, these wheels, small
or big, but also those that make
them turn, labor.
"All these wheels are standing still.
If his (laborsO mighty arm it will"
In strikes, the striker depends on
the worker that sticks to his job.
In a general strike labor itself suf-
fers the most. But let us now see
who is that agitator in the public
interest affair.
Private ownership as we all have
known it is abolished, not the way
Socialism wanted to see it into COL
lective or government ownership, but
has turned into corporation or CO.
operative ownership, both controlled
money controllership in one hand,
it now is in the hands of multi
tude of shareholders.
This shareholder, who owns shares
in different branches of industry and
mainly derives its livelihood from
the interest and dividends of those
shares, is the agitator in strikes for
public interest.
AS a two-in-one theoretical, pro-
ducer and consumer, practically a
parasitical consumer, he is interested
in low wages, long hours, for the
worker and big profits for himself,
which is very detrimental to labor
as a whole.
The only one who should have a
voice in the public interest affairs
is the worker-consumer, especially
those who work more hours and earn
less than striker.
Furthermore the same Mr.. Public
Interest is trying to burn the bridges
behind labor so it can never return
to the 40-hour week, regardless that
reducing hours of labor keeps in
step with the trend of improved pro-
duction and has proved so very es-
sential in times of periodical un-
employment and it also prevents
labor from becoming a victim of
public charity.
Mr.. Public Interest keeps himself
also busy blaming the farmers for the
high cost Of living. While professors
of farm commodities are more re-
sponsible for that than farmers.
JOHN NIEBOER.
Sandstone, MINI.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-11-12
HINCKLEY TOWNSEND CLUB

The largest club in Pine county
and growing larger.
The election returns proved one
thing, according to Rep. Frank W.
Boykin of Alabama, Townsend lead
er in the deep south. The south is
coming to its own and there will be
real gains for the Townsend plan in
Dixie. This heartening situation,
said Boykin, is due to the fact that
the election revealed thousands of
new voters and just exactly where
they are, and how they can be
reached.
81 am sure" he said, ''that DR..
Francis E. Townsend's mutual insur-
ance proposals will fall more and
more like seeds on fertile ground in
the south and will develop into ire
mendous support from down in Dixie.
We are bound to get more endorse
ments-yes, and more signers on
House Discharge Petition than we
have thus far.
Zone thing we must remember;
that is, the south is now coming into
its own. Everybody down there has
a job. There is money to be earned
and money to be spent-by every
body but the old folks!
But we are making progress.
81 tell you, we in the south are
going to do something about this
situation, for it affects us with spe-
cial hardship. We must and will
have results"
Townsend philosophy: Altruism-
The desire and effort to help others
lis good business. It will make you
money. Try to beat the other fellow,
to hinder his success, and you make
an enemy of him and lose customer.
Try to hold any class of human beings
down and you do the same thing;
you lose many customers if you sue
coed in holding them down and you
build up a mass of hatred that will
grow and grow until it will engulf
and destroy you.
Plant love and kindness and good
will wherever you 60 and every word
you utter in the process will produce
a dollar.
KATE JONES, Reporter.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-11-12
Rev. r. Deursen To
Talk At Sandstone

Rev. Richard Deursen of Duluth,
we'll known former Sandstone pastor,
will present a unique lecture on the
life of the Moody Bible Institute of
Chicago, Friday night at p. m. in
the Sandstone Bible church. The
lecture consists of color film with
electrical transcription, depicting the
life of the school from the days of
it's founder, the great evangelist, D.
L. Moody, to the present administra-
ton of DR.. Will Houghton. Everyone
is cordially invited. Young people
especially being urged to attend.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-11-12
DEATH STILL RIDES ON THE
HIGHWAYS
(The Hastings GaZette)


A reduction in the speed of auto
mobiles and trucks may result in
a decrease in the number of acct
dents and corresponding decrease
in the number of accidents and deaths
to the motorists, but the number OF
deaths for pedestrians does not de-
crease at all along with the decrease
in speed.
That is the way the latest release
by the state highway department
must be read unless there is, some
other meaning to it,
In the first 10 months of 1912, the
figures show that of the 80 pedes-
TRANS killed, % were fatally hurt
because motorists were unwilling to
yield the right of way, while rs were
fatally hurt while "jay-walking" and
% more were killed while walking
on roadways with traffic. Speed
killed only S while playing in the
road was responsible for three more
deaths.
Hitching rides, lying in roadway
and other causes accounted for Is
deaths to pedestrians.
Thus it is that u per cent of
the pedestrians lost their lives be-
cause of their own carelessness.
Of the eight bicylists killed in the
same 10 months of the year, 80 per
cent were killed when they were
violating traffic laws.
Apparently the motorists will have
to do all the thinking and all the
lodging if the pedestrians are going
to keep on living. The slower speed
for the autos thus has not shown
what was looked fora decrease in
the number killed on the road.
Perhaps one answer would be to
have bicycle lanes for bicylists as
in the older countries. Perhaps the
police and highway patrols should
turn in and arrest the jay-walkers
and those on foot or on bicycles at
once upon traffic infringements-and
give the motorist break and some
thing of a relief
Any person, young or old, who
takes chances on foot against NOV
ing vehicles, whether they are freight
trains, trucks on the highways or
automobiles on the streets, is flirting
with death or serious injury. When
to this danger is added carelessness
or negligence, then the death toll
still stays high even with the de-
crease in speed of the vehicles, be-
cause all of them are still travelling
many times the speed of a person
walking or running.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-11-12
MIR. NORRIS is MISTAKEN
MINNEAPOLIS Morning Tribune)

Senator Norris of Nebraska has
referred to his defeat on Tuesday as
a "repudiation of all my life work
by the people whom I love-" With
all due respect for the senator's full
ness of years, we think he is egreg-
iously mistaken.
A combination of circumstances
defeated the venerable Nebraskan,
among them his advanced age and
his belated decision to run as an in
dependent candidate. But the whole
Norris career was not repudiated;
it is simply not possible that the peo-
pie of his state could have been so
insensitive to the rugged honesty that
has underlain that career, or to the
good landmarks spaced SO generously
along it.
One of those landmarks is the
twentieth or lame duck" amendment
to the constitution for which MIR. Nor
ris, more than any other man, was re-
sponsible. In his post-election analy-
sis, Richard Wilson referred in the
Tribune on Thursday to the con-
gress elected in 1880. Under the
lame duck system, this congress did
not convene until December, 1881,
and in those intervening 13 months,
deaths and other changes had wiped
out slight Republican advantage in
the house and allowed the Democrats
to organize it.
That system seems unspeakably
crude and inequitab1e in retrospect.
Yet Mr.. Norris had to wage logged,
uphill fight to persuade congress and
the country that lame duckism was a
monstrosity ripe for constitutional
reform.
The senator has specialized in such
hard fights, whether on behalf of a
unicameral legislature in Nebraska, or
a great government power project
in the Tennessee valley. His 10 years
in the house and 80 years in the
senate constitute, in fact, career so
distinguished as to be beyond re-
pudiation.
Mr.. Norris should not grieve too
deeply over his defeat, because the
respect of the American people for
him is still as solid and substantial
as his lifetime of good works.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-11-12
IN DEFENSE OF IGNORANCE

EQlIOr ASkOV
A mountain viewed from a dis
lance seems to awe a person with
its grandeur and majesty; approach
it and this spell becomes less and
less the closer you approach. Men
are often the same way-the closer
you get to them the less mighty and
great they become Long ago people
knew THAT no man is a hero to
his valet"
Hitler capitalized on this phenom-
enon and built up the legend of in
vincibility. However, the Russians
with only one generation of general
education behind them had not yet
heard of the invincibility of Hitler
and fought back and stopped him,
bringing him down to earth with a
sickening thud.
Usually around saloon person
will find one who is all powerful
and has his way much as he likes.
However, as general rule, some
stranger or ignorant person takes
him on and soon everybody will take
him on, after his initial beating.
In the early days the Indians were
quite ignorant and the white mis-
sionaries and others put out the leg
end that they were immune to fire.
However, the Indians were so ignor-
ant that they had never heard of
this and consequently the mission
aries burned at stake about the same
as anyone else
In observing politics much the same
is noticed. A politician builds him
self up until he becomes all mighty
and powerful. People wonder how
they would or did manage without
him. After while some doubter or
ignorant person comes along, kicks
the props out from under him and
down to earth he comes, much the
same as anyone else.
A person who does not know so
much, especially things which are
not true, believe is better off. He
has the advantage of being free to
use his common sense and ingenuity
against the other fellows conceit
and illusions. While the other fell
lows time is occupied by maintain
ing his reputation, the unorthodox
can plan for the future and make
the necessary adjustments to meet
the present situation. Education is
only valuable when it confines itself
to the truth. Science is the same
way; when it pertains to reality,
the laws of nature, it is doing serv-
ice. When it starts talking about the
man in the moon, or Mars, it is
equivalent to the boisterous politi-
clan who talks too much. Columbus,
when he defied the wise men of his
age and said the world was round,
was considered ignorant. The pio-
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-11-12
A PATRIOT PASSES
Duluth Herald)

When George M. Cohan died this
morning a really outstanding Amer
lean departed. It is rare in these
days that the passing of song writer
and actor leaves a vacancy, but the
death of Mr.. Cohan does just that
His life was dramatic from be-
ginning to end. Born to the stage,
he steadily advanced in its fame and
was one of the principal entertainers
of several generations, first coming
to real attention as one of the famous
Four Cohans, comprising his father
and mother and his sister Josephine
That combination ended, he went on
to greater roles and successes; and
added to his accomplishments by be-
coming the most prolific writer of
patriotic song hits the country has
ever known.
His death came under circum-
stances that maintained the dramatic
caste of his living, for his great war
song of the first World war, "Over
There" still remains as the only
war song worthwhile in this Sec
ond World war. It has not yet been
equalled and is still as widely sung
as it was "a years ago. And still
current is the picture Yankee Doodle
Dandy" based on the life of Mr..
Cohan, one of the great cinema hits
of several years.
We venture to say that Mr. Cohan's
life and success will be a measur-
ing stick by which to judge many
future actors and song writers of
this and following generations.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-11-12

neers who made farms out of the vast
wilderness were considered ignorant.
For not knowing it could not be done
all pioneers in their day were ignor-
ant.
S. j. SIMONSEN.
Pease, MINI.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-11-12
Opinions OF Others

(Short timely letters on topics Of
public interest are welcome whether
form with those of the American.
All letters must be signed with the
writer's name for our information.
Signed articles always are more eff
fective. but II the writer does not
wish to have his name used. it will
be withheld).
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-11-12
THE VEIL BEING LIFTED
(Red Wing Daily Rep-Eagle)

It is growing more and more ap-
parent that nations, even as indi-
viduals, usually have to learn the
hard way in order to make lesson
stick. Piling up reports of what has
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-11-12
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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-11-12

A part of Japan's ability to scrap
comes from Americas scrap iron.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-11-12
A Little Spice

When someone has done you
dirty deal:-Try doing him a good
turn. Sounds crazy, but it isn't.
A person is not quite certain
whether he learns more from doing
than from being "done"
The Ely miner., 1942-09-10

This photo obtained from enemy source shows German soldiers
fields
crossing rubber the soldiers who
mil OIL
The Ely miner., 1942-09-10
BALL BROTHERS MPANy
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the pride and sense of security that comes with a
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pantry shelves. Fill in the coupon on the printed
leafer from carton of BALL Jars and mail it to
us for free copy of the BALL BLUE BOOK
complete instructions and more than 500 tested
canning recipes. If you do not have the printed
leaAet, send l0f with your name and address.
The Ely miner., 1942-09-10
MERRY-GO-ROUND

q Tennessee mountaineer Cordell
Hull never forgets. Recently he re-
fused a job to a prominent New
York publisher because some years
ago he had signed a petition de-
manding that the state department
stop sending scrap iron to Japan.
q Good sport Evie Robert, after los
ing a $1,000 bet that Senator jim
Mead would get the Democratic
nomination for governor of New
York, telegraphed triumphant jim
Farley: "You sure were right-and
howl"
q U. S. army officials suggest that
headlines on American participation
in the Dieppe Commando raid were
misleading. Our part was insight
icant.
d Various American citizens of JAP
anese descent are urging a second
front now and volunteering for front
line duty.
The Ely miner., 1942-09-10
! PATTERNS
! SEWING CIRCLE !,

If you are ever stumped by the
question of what to send a friend
or relative in one of Uncle Sans
armed forces, here's a tip. If
he smokes pipe or rolls-his-own,
nothing would please him more
than a pound of his favorite to-
bacco. Surveys among the men
themselves show that. Prince AL
bert Smoking Tobacco has long
been known as the National Joy
Smoke-it is the largest-selling
smoking tobacco in the world. Lo-
cal dealers are now featuring
Prince Albert in the pound can as
an ideal gift for service men who
smoke a pipe or ron-their-own.-
Adv.
The Ely miner., 1942-09-10
ASK ME- y
ANOTHER Z
A General Quiz

100000. @. @. @. g. @. @. g. @. e-c-e-eoe-
l. How many people lived in the
United States at the time of the
first census in 1870?
2. 81 am escaped with the skin
of my teeth" comes from where?
3. What was Commodore Oliver
H. Perry's middle name?
4. Which of the Great Lakes are
connected by the Welland canal?
5. Where is the zenith in the
heavens?
6. What material was used in
making Queen Elizabeth's we'd
ding dress?
The AnsDers
/. There were 1923, ,214 people.
2. The Bible (Job 1920.
8. Hazard.
4. Lakes Ontario and Erie.
5. That point directly overhead.
6. She never married, so she
had no wedding dress.
The Ely miner., 1942-09-10

At left men who pioneered the air
craft industry are shown meeting
with Henry j. Kaiser, dynamic shil,
builder who has joined forces wit J
Howard Hughes in a plan to mass
produce giant sky freighters. Aske I
by Donald Nelson to sift Kaiser's
proposal from practical manufac.
turing standpoint, these leaders sat
down with Kaiser at the Douglas
Giant in Santa Monica, Calf. L. to r.
Grover Looming, war production
consultant; Glenn l.. Martin, Dom
aid w. Douglas and Henry ]. Baiser
The Ely miner., 1942-09-10
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Washington, d. C.
u. S. GENERAL IN ACTION

Maj. Gen. Charles L. Scott, U. S.
tank expert just back from Libya,
is not talking about it in his lectures
to American armored forces, but he
did more than almost anyone to
stem the onrush of Won Rommel's
tanks when they broke through
the British lines and started their
mad dash to Alexandria.
General Scott was in Egypt help
ing out with the American tanks
which had been sent to the British.
And he happened to be in the thick
of it during that part of RommePs
attack when the British seemed
most disorganiZed.
So Scott, though an American,
jumped into the battle, actually took
over temporary command, and or
ganiZed a counter-attack. All the
details can't be told yet, but when
they are it will be great story.
The Ely miner., 1942-09-10
NAVAL CENSORSHIP

Nobody is advertising it yet, but
Elmer Davis and his Office of War
Information have their toughest Job
in prying news out of the navy.
Stacks of reports are cabled every
day to Admiral King, commander
of the fleet. But nobody outside the
President and one or two top ad-
mirals ever sees them.
Every few days, Elmer Davis will
send over to King and ask for some
naval news on the Solomon islands
or Alaska, and the navy, in reply,
will issue terse ten-line report.