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Askov American., 1942-04-09
APPROVES, SOLDIER VOTE

Many state senators and represen-
tatives have expressed themselves as
favorable to the vote for all Min
nesota military men in the service.
So far none have expressed them
selves as against eliminating the 80
cent charge for absent votes of the
soldiers.
Among the letters received is this
one from Senator E. L. Tungseth of
Thief River Falls, who writes:
"Dear friend Hjalmar Petersen: I
agree that this is very vital matter
for the democratic state and certainly
not least at this time of mortal COM
bat between popular government and
tyranny. None of our men should
lose the opportunity to cast their bal
lots because they are outside of our
national borders" e., ..
Askov American., 1942-04-09
LIABLE TO BACKFTRE
(Waseca Herald)

Governor Stassen's surprising an
nouncement that he intends to join
the navy some time next year has not
brought very favorable reaction.
We always thought that when a can
didate filed for office, it was an i'm
piled contract with the public that
he would serve the full term if
elected. The wartime governor of
great state has very important duties
to perform. If he gives full time
to the performance of those duties,
he will be doing his state and nation
a much greater service than he could
as an unframed member of any
branch of our armed forces. While
it is true that the Governor is of
draft age, it is also true that he
would be granted a deferment on
account of official duties. We may
be mistaken, but the announcement
appears to us like a political stunt
which is liable to backfire.
Askov American., 1942-04-09
Lawrence ki1ninski

Lawrence Kiminski, 86, of Bremen
township, passed away at his home
Monday evening, March 80, follow
ing an illness of three weeks, death
being caused by bronchial pneumonia
He was buried from the st. Mary's
Catholic church at Willow River We'd
nesday of last week with Father
Stanley Libold officiating. Pallbear-
ers were John Balut, Walter Price,
Stanley Price, John Nalezny, William
Smiglewski and Chester Waletzko.
The deceased was born in Posen,
Poland, July Is, 1855, coming to
America 81 years ago. He lived at
Winona six years and was married
there to Martha Walczak Jan. %,
1888. They moved to Bremen town.
ship 81 years ago and have since
made that their home.
Surviving are the widow and eight
children, Martin of Denham; Peter,
Bremen township; Joseph, Duluth;
Victoria (Mrs. Walter Smiglewski)
Walker; Cecilia (Mrs. Total Price)
Willow River; Mary (Mrs. Ben Zy-
wicki) Willow River; Rose (Mrs.
Chas. Adamczak) Willow River; and
Katherine (Mrs. Frank Katchmark)
Sturgeon Lake. There are 48 grand
children and five great-grandchildren.
Mr.. Kiminski also had brother and
five sisters in Poland.
Askov American., 1942-04-09
IF THEY ENTERED SERVICE
"NEXT YEAR"
(Brainerd Journal Press

Governor Stassen's decision :, to
throw his lot with men of his own
age by entering the armed service
of his country is worthy of hearty
commendation. And there can be
no question but that brainy and
alert young man like the states chief
executive will fit in well with our
nations scheme Of national defense
1t would have been a far more
effective gesture, however, if the
governor had offered his services
subject to call not year hence
when the legislative session is fin
ished-but subject to the same con-
sideration that would be given any
other young man offering his life
to his country.
Thousands of young farmers would
have been tickled pink had they been
allowed to sign up with Uncle Sam
under the proviso that they need
not enter service until "the work.
all done next fall" But enlistments
are not taken on that basis.
Harold Stassen has been a good
governor and his state is proud Of
him, but if he deems it his duty to
enlist in the navy he should do SO
unqualifiedly. His services as gov
ernor are not indispensable.
Askov American., 1942-04-09
ON RADIO COMMENTATORS
Editor ASkov American:

Editor ASkOV American:
Radio commentators posing as dis
interested analysts of the news, owe
to their listeners the same honest in
tegrity they extoll their public to
demand in their government officials.
When Fulton Lewis takes three
broadcasts to drive home the import
ance of the news of Sidney Hillman
working for the government at one
dollar per year and still draws $12 1000
from his union affiliation, one can't
help but think there is something
besides news behind all this emphasis.
Mr.. Lewis wanted his listeners to
understand it was his painful duty
as guardian of the peoples interest
to give them this information.
What Mr.. Lewis did not report
was, while he as a dollar a year
man speaking in the interest of his
listeners, he too was earning his bread
and butter on radio program spon-
Esored by the Association of Manu-
facturers.
Why can't Mr.. Lewis in just one
program tell his listeners how much
his salary is from this source and
allow his public to draw their own
conclusions on his propaganda and
how its color is determined in his
analysis of the news.
If Mr.. Hillman did not respect his
obligation to his country, at least
he did not hide his identity. I be-
ieve we are entitled to the same
frankness from those that analyze
the news.
F. E. WEBER.
Minneapolis.
Askov American., 1942-04-09
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank our kind friends
and neighbors who so kindly lent a
helping hand in our hour of sorrow,
when we lost our loving father and
husband, gone from all earthly sor-
rows to place of restful peace. Spe-
cial thanks to the pallbearers and to
Rev. and Mrs. Oscar L. Olson for the
songs and comforting words.
Mrs. John Lans.
Mrs. John M. Nelson.
Norman Halvorson.
Mrs. James B. McDonaugh.
Askov American., 1942-04-09
John Lans

John Lans, Sturgeon Lake farmer,
was called to rest Saturday, March
%. He had been in i'll health the
past few years, gradually weakening
until the end came peacefully. Fun
eral services were held Tuesday of
last week at Sturgeon Lake and in
terment was made in the Finlayson
cemetery. Rev. Oscar L. Olson Of
ficiated.
He was born on June S, 1878 at
Orslosa, Sweden, coming to America
in 1908. A lumberman by trade, he
worked as scaler at Rib Lake, Wis,
for time, later doing the same work
at Park, Wis, and Hibbing and Vir-
ginia, this state. In 1921 he was
united in marriage to Mrs. Mary
Halvorson of Glenwood City, Wis,
they coming to Sturgeon Lake to
carve out farm In the virgin forest.
Those left to mourn Mr.. Lans' pass
ing are his wife and her children,
Mrs. John M. Nelson, Mrs. James B.
McDonaugh, White Bear Lake, and
Norman Halvorson of International
Falls Mr.. Lans also had three broth
ers in Sweden.
- :, =. nf.-'E ts irH
The deceased was brought up in
the Lutheran faith and was a good
Christian man, a kind husband and
a good father to his foster children.
Friends and neighbors join in ex-
tending sympathy to the bereaved
relatives.
Askov American., 1942-04-09

elected, stay on the job until the Leg
islature adjourns and then hike off
to the navy, leaving the job Of gov
ernor to the lieutenant governor.
That's eating your cake and having
it, too.
|. But look what it does to the boys
OF the navy, Gov. Stassen goes in
as Lieutenant Commander, with its
very fair salary. Boys-like the son
Of this columnist-hold the rank Of
Lieut.. Commander AFTER more than
13 years of duty and following a
4-year course in the Naval Academy
where they studied hard and spent
their vacations on cruises where they
did the work of the A. B. seaman
holystoning the decks and shovelins
coal down in the hot entrails Of the
ship-so they would know how ships
and men are run. These boys, after
20 years, are pushed aside to make
room for Lieut.. Commander Stassen
who will take three months-so he
says-to study up navy strategy, op-
erations, gunnery and put himself on
a par with those who have given
their lives to the work.
Teddy Roosevelt made political
comeback" by organizing his Rough
Riders and ordering them to charge
up San Juan hill, where the boys
were nearly sacrificed on the altar
of Teddy's ambition, and would have
had not the commanding general
thrown in regiment of Negro SOL
diers to rescue them. Lieut.. Com
mander Stassen may get an oppor-
tunity to rival Teddy's exploit. Who
knoWS-or cares?
Askov American., 1942-04-09
A SECOND MACARTHUR

Hitler and Hirohito might just as
well call the war off. Governor Stas-
sen, who says that the men of his
generation will have to fight the
war, has announced that he will join
the forces in April, 1943. How un-
fortunate it is that our state does
not have any men capable of running
the state until we can spare Stassen
a year from now. We might as well
call off the fall election.
In the meantime, 1 am going to
write my son, who has been in the
army for half year, to tell the boys
to hold the lines until Stassen comes.
Stassen should be a second Mac
Arthur the second day he comes into
the army. u
Casper Forbord, Glenwood, MINI.
(In the Minneapolis Tribune).
Askov American., 1942-04-09
sTAssEN's ANNOUNCEMENT
(The Ortonville independently

Announcement by Governor Stas-
sen that he will resign after the 1943
legislative session, if reelected this
fall, to enter the United States Navy
is fortnight statement too rare in
politics. For that we give him credit.
However, we think it would have
been in much better taste had he
announced now that he is not a cam
didate for reelection and let the Re-
publicans put up candidate for
governor.
Certainly there is within the ranks
of the Republican party enough
brains to run the affairs of state
without awaiting the Governor S
guiding hand in the l943 session of the
Legislature.
What if he died in the meantime?
Would we get along without him in
state affairs? Governor Benson at
one time had that same exhalted opin-
ion of himself you will remember.
Only HE could run the state.
We are not taking any credit away
from the governor for past accom-
plishments. In fact this newspaper
has supported his policies and are
happy we did, but we cannot quite
swallow the conceited idea he ap-
parently now has of himself. We of
Minnesota are fully capable of select
ing governor to take Stassen's place.
Another thing about the anno,,nce.
ment that does not set so well, is
that he is to enter the Navy as ia
Lieutenant Com m ander. This
prompts the question: "By what pre-
vious experience, marine or military,
does he rate such a high ranking?"
We all remember the "panning" the
Roosevelt family took when their sons
entered the service as officers.
In America there are countless
thousands who would not wait for the
next train to enter the armed services
of their country to say nothing of
waiting to be reelected and to guide
Minnesota's destiny if they could get
such a deal in advance as a lieu
tenant commandership.
What an idol he could have made
of himself had he enlisted as Buck
private or a Yeoman and worked his
way up from the bottom! It is our
honest opinion that in this matter
the Governor missed the boat
politically.
Askov American., 1942-04-09
UTILIZING ABLE SERVICES
(Waseca Herald)

The best war news of this week
is that Col. Lindbergh has gone to
work in the great Ford bomber plant
at Detroit Lindbergh's long and sue
cessful record marks him as one of
the brilliant and practical men in
aviation and his services should have
been requested the day after the Pearl
Harbor massacre. Whether we real
ize it or not, we are engaged in the
most destructive war the world has
ever seen and our chances of win
ming are none too bright. For that
reason, it is imperative that we util-
ize the services of men of the Lind
bergh type for the duration.
Askov American., 1942-04-09
GOVERNOR STASSEN'S
BOMBSHELL
(New Ulm Daily JournaD

Now that Governor Stassen has
enlisted in the navy as reserve Of
ficer and will sit on land studying
his duties at sea, the people of Min
nesota will come out of their shock
at the surprising news and wonder
where all this leaves them.
The governor declares he would
really like to 60 right away but there
are two important matters OBTAINING
him. First he must put the state on
a war basis which means he must
deal with the Legislature next jan
uary and secondly of course, before
he can really have an opportunity to
do this he must face the people of
Minnesota at a statewide election
and get their approval.
He will ask the voters to do three
things. First, he will ask them to
endorse him for reelection to third
term; secondly, endorse the candi-
date he has chosen for lieutenant
governor and who will succeed him
as governor in the following April
less than six months later; thirdly
he will ask for the endorsement and
reelection of Senator Joseph H. Ball
whom he appointed to office October
1910. The governor is really under
taking big order.
While Governor Stassen deserves
every possible praise for his enlist
ment and nobody has ever questioned
his patriotism or his desire to serve
his country along with the other
young men of his generation, it is
inevitable that his enlistment is going
to have political implications and
repercussions. Nobody is probably
more aware of this than the governor
himself who never makes any move
without careful, calculating consid-
Grafton. In a single move Stassen
has outflanked his opponents, put
himself in position to name his
successor and thus control state poll
tics for number of years, and has
secured for himself service back
ground which may be necessary
should he try for the presidential
nomination in 1914, 1948, 1852 OF
in even later years.
Thus Governor Stassen has demon
strated in one shrewd move that it is
entirely possible for man in public
life to have his cake and eat it, too
There is just one possible question
fleft undecided: This, the final de-
cision, will rest with the people Of
Minnesota in the primary and gen.
eral elections this fall. What will
the people do?
Askov American., 1942-04-09
PINE COUNTY RURAL
SCHOOL NEWS
A. E. GUSTAFSoN. County Supt.

Mrs. Nystrom Myrtle Overland)
will teach her home school (Winde-
mere 11-B) for the balance of this
school year. Miss Sylvia Graves re-
signed because of an operation soon
to be performed on her eye.
Gerhardt Lutter called on us dur
ing vacation. Mr.. Lutter taught our
rural schools No. rs and No. 33. After
completing his Industrial Arts course
at Mankato Teachers college, he
handled that department at Saint
Francis, where he also coached a
very successful basketball team. Mr..
Lutter is now teaching Industrial Arts
at Rush City.
Clifford Thomson, who taught our
schools No. 1, No. % and No. 46 (Hen-
riette), also visited us day last
week. Mr.. Thomson has completed
four years of training at st. Cloud
Teachers college. He is now teaching
mathematics at Perham. We receive
many letters and visits from former
pupils and teachers. We are always
glad to hear from them.
State net income tax collections
this year will be a million dollars
more than last year. What will be
done with it? Why not use it to help
pay state aids in full, as was orig
inally intended? This would be a
great help to Pine and other northern
counties.
Our school districts will soon re-
ceive more money from our county
auditors office. The last half of 1941
net income tax ($5 per child), also
first half of 1912 state apportionment
aid (about $3.50 per child) and also
some tax collections. This will all
be sent out this month.
Thirty-five Pine county rural va
cancies have now been reported for
next year. Many of these are caused
by teachers moving to other schools
and many because of teachers leaving
for other occupations. We expect to
have shortage of teachers in Pine
county as well as throughout the
whole state and nation.
Two small schools expect to be
added to our list of closed schools.
District No. 8 mission Creek) will
arrange to transport their seven pupils
to Hinckley. District'No. "a (Pokeg-
anna Lake) plan to transport their
five pupils to Pine City. These plans
will not only save money, where road
conditions make it possible, but will
also help solve our teacher shortage.
This year we have % married wom-
en- teachers in our rural field. Many
of these have returned to the work
after a number of years to help out
during the crisis. More are needed
next year, unless many more small
schools are closed and transported.
In order to close schools and trans
port to another school, this must be
voted upon favorably at special
Askov American., 1942-04-09

prisingly good record, and went right
into service.
So honest Republicans are shudder-
ing again over what this delayed
action enlistment bomb may do to
their campaign.
So today the governor was sworn
in as naval reserve lieutenant. The
swearing in" was done amid click
ing of cameras and the glare of flash
lights.
Well, the governors plans are made,
for better or worse.
Askov American., 1942-04-09
HJALMAR, NOT HAROLD, HAS
LAST LAUGH!

saltwater Daily Gazette, March 30)
Who's got the best of the Petersen
Stassen defense bond purchase argu-
ment up to now?
To one who has never espoused the
Farmer-Labor cause, but who, never
theless, can still keep a proper per-
spective in political arguments, it
looks as though honors rest at the
moment with Hjalmar Petersen, and
not with Harold join the navy next
year) Stassen.
Harold crawled far out on none
too-substantial limb when he twitted
Hjalmar on the railroad commission
er's failure to subscribe to the wage
allotment defense bond sale program
Republicans generally shuddered
when Harold walked into position
that allowed him to be thoroughly
enfiladed by Petersen's next salvo.
So last week Petersen turned his
big guns loose, and Stassen was in
the middle of the bracket!
He should have been red to the
tips of his ears over the comparison
of his $18.75 month bond-allotment
on $4,000 annual state pay-and-
allowances budget, against $25 allot-
ment by a $3.50 a month rail COM
mission clerk All this was duly
chronicled as news by this paper last
week. CIn passing it can be noted
that magnifying glass was almost
necessary to find the story in Twin
City papers. And Republican papers
all over the state were inclined to
treat it as if it carried germs OF
leprosy or Bubonic plague.)
But you can't keep our Harold's
ears knocked down for long.
He was all ready with his next
move.
So Friday he announced (and the
Twin City papers went to maudlin
lines over it) that he was joining the
navy!
Joining in April, yes April 1S43!
Which gives plenty of time to wave
the flag through a long-drawn gov
ernorship campaign.
It might be noted here that when
Milwaukee's Mayor Zeidler joined the
armed service, he really walked out
of job in which he had made a sur
Askov American., 1942-04-09
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
Continued from Page -

OccaSlOnally-but Wainwright In the
Philippines is as unable to obtain help
as was his predecessor on Corregidor
and in Bataan, Douglas Macarthur
Record Sustained.
Last Monday it was twenty-five
years since the United States entered
the first World war; it will be re-
membered that they acquitted them
selves with such glory that many
historians, usually not given to ex-
aggeration, have pointed out that the
entry of America into the battlefelds
of the world at that time became the
turning point of the whole war.
So far, wherever and whenever
American forces on land, sea and
in the air have had a chance to
fight in the second world war,
they have sustained the record
established twenty five years ago.
There is no reason to doubt that,
given the tools of war, they will go
on adding new leaves to their laurel
wreaths.
New Fronts.
Like the British, the United States
forces are now scattered on many
fronts, all the way from Iceland and
Ireland to the Philippines and Aus
tralia. And there are likely to be
new fronts opened in other parts of
the world in which case Americans
most probably also will join forces
of other allied nations.
There is still possibility that
a clash will begin between Japan
and Russia-during the Last few
days this matter has been dis
cussed more frequently than ever
before.
It is almost probability that Japan
will attack India if she succeeds in
overrunning all of Burma, and with
that in mind Sir Stafford Cripps, a
member of the imperial British gov
ernment, is carrying on negotiations
with the leaders of India who have
declared themselves willing to fight
with England if they obtain political
independence, in some form, now at
once. London has been unable to
offer only a promise of dominion
status to be granted when the war is
over. India has rejected that, and
now an attempt is being made to ef-
feet compromise.
Waiting.
AS spring becomes more of a GER
tainty, signs increase that Great Brit
ain plans an invasion of German
held continental Europe. If that is
being carried out, it is not improb-
able that decisive action will take
place this year, and that it will hasten
the defeat of the combined axis pow
erS
Askov American., 1942-04-09
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
ALI letters must be signed with the
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Askov American., 1942-04-09
Commander in the United States
navy. Three years ago he died.

navy. Three years ago he died.
A close personal touch with that
one navy career somehow gave the
impression that the rank of lieutenant
commander was something to be
achieved Son merit and long train
ing-the hard way. The rank came
to signify something earned in naval
activity. It went along with all the
traditions of the navy that have such
a high place in American history and
achievement. That the rank of lieu
tenant commander was hard to
achieve, and it was, and even though
it was far from the top gave lay
man and land man like myself an
intense respect for the navy and its
strength and its traditions.
That's a story of the past. A story
of one mans route to a lieutenant
commandership. Today's story is ap-
parently different-far, far different
Things have changed, decidedly.
=
If Governor Stassen has any knowl-
edge of seamanship it has never been
mentioned in his public record. In
fact, his record given for political
purposes in campaigns for election to
public office do not allow for any
time for naval training, unless polling
a duck boat through the reeds in
hunting season can be rated as naval
operations.
To assume that he is qualified in
any way to take his place beside men
who have earned equal rank through
years of naval service or to assume
that even if he applies every minute
of his time from now until he takes
up his "place in the armed forces
after the next legislative session" is
just plain silly.
Yet yesterday he was a civilian
with no naval experience. Today,
the press announces, he is lieutenant
commander in the navy, with all that
was once supposed to mean.
Let due and proper credit be given
to Governor. Stassen for his evident
intention to join the armed forces
and ''be with the men of his genera
tion," even if that intention for the
present appears restricted and very
limited But let no credit accrue to
him for fo;l,,ro <o c<orf Of fho hot
tom with confidence that his ability
will carry him up; let no credit accrue
to him for mixing his patriotism"
with his personal political welfare;
and let no credit accrue to him for
his willingness to let place of power
in civilian life. take him over the
heads of hundreds of thousands of
deserving men of long service in the
navy.
And let no credit accrue to the
directors of navy personnel and en-
listments who permit this situation
to arise. 1t proceeds on the mistaken
assumption that taking men out of
high places in civilian life, putting
them into uniform with high rank,
and finding safe, non-combatant
berths for them if and when they
ever actually do 60 into active service,
is going to help build a strong Amer
lean navy.
That is not the true American way.
Lieutenant Commander Walter Win
chell was much too much, Lieutenant
Commander Stassen is going too, too
far.
At least the boys who came out of
Pearl Harbor alive, may be inclined
to think so.
Askov American., 1942-04-09
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