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peeped out at the big black birds
having such a good time he had a
queer feeling that something was
going to happen. All of sudden
Blacky, who was sitting on fence
post taking his turn at keeping
watch, shouted Cav, cav, c-a-w!"
There was great Tapping of wings
and all talking at once and laugh
ing. and having a great time Blacky
and all his relatives few away.
Mite didn't know just what to make
of 1t. He crept out Of his hiding
place and watched them settle
down over on the Green Meadows
stin talking and laughing as If they
thought 1t all great joke. He
wondered Why they had left when
they were having such q feast and
good time. He was 50 busy watching
them that he didn't notice anytime
Evening star., 1942-05-08

that Farmer Browns boy had taken
such pains to make look like man
with a gun. Blacky had been quite
sure from the beginning that it was
perfectly harmless, but 1t is not
Blacky's way to take any chances
and SO he had waited to be positive
about it. 1t was little Mite, the lost
baby of Danny Meadow Mouse, who
had made Blacky positive that that
scarecrow was harmless. Mite had
made bed for himself in pocket
OF the old coat which the scare
crow wore and Blacky had seen him
running in and out of it. He had
known right away then that this
was only a make-believe man and
at once he had called all his rela-
tives to the feast.
Little Mite never had heard such
. noisy crew and Is he tinidly
Evening star., 1942-05-08
else. without any warning . great
voice cried, Hal"

else. Without any warning . great
voice cried, "Ha!"
Little Mite looked up to see q
great giant on two legs close beside
the scarecrow. Without waiting for
a second look he scrambled into the
pocket of the old coat and burrowed
down under the grass and cotton
padding of which he had made his
bed, his little heart humping with
fright so that it almost hurt. He
hoped with all his might that he
hadn't been seen and he held his
breath as he waited for what would
happen next. He didn't have long
to wait. The pocket was opened and
great hand slipped In and lifted
him out, bed and all.
Mite was too frightened to move.
He just sat perfectly still except
-''at he trembled all over. he
Evening star., 1942-05-08
NATURES CHILDREN
CUTWORM

Watch out for the first sign that
cutworms are invading your victory
garden-seedling tomatoes, cabbage,
lettuce and melons cut of close to
the ground. the young plant pros
trate, shriveling in the hot sun.
The culprit is the offspring OF
a night-flying moth a smooth
skinned caterpillar, rather stout
bodied and soft to the touch There
are many kinds of these worms;
the more common ones are smooth
and cylindrical, varying in color
from brown to gray or almost black,
and sometimes decorated with spots
or stripes. All have one thing in
Evening star., 1942-05-08
LETTER-OUT

Remove letter from spell
called for In the last column Print opposite
the which
correctly they make up
o
Letter-Out
(S SIR1VE-RIVET (you make immovable).
CID CHASTER-TRACES Che follows another.
Cd INDORSE-DRONES
tV) ADV1SE-1DEAS of these
(E) DANGER-GRAND dts SWELL.
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In . scarecrow's pocket. I believe
I'll take you home with me-"
BY Will Eisner
BY R. B. Fuller
BY Art Huhto
BY Fronk Beck
Bud Fisher
By Paul Foqorty

Then Mite and his bed were put
into another pocket Just like the
one he had been taken from, only
this one was the pocket Of Farmer
Browns boy. He didn't know where
he was going or what was going to
happen, but somehow he didn't feel
so much afraid 1t WIS his rreet-
est adventure, but somehow he felt
that 1t was going to come out all
right.
Evening star., 1942-05-08

You can't pop corn over . match
fame. You can't build Q house with
discarded barrel slaves. And we'll
never win this with less than an
we've got and the best we've got.
Buy War bonds
Evening star., 1942-05-08
n~eA loa4
Rend UseIe Ray in The Jssior Sta,
Every Sssd0y.

Men In the armed forces are be-
Ing allowed to purchase a share in
the democratic United States they
are defending. Do you have to be
told to buy . bond?
Evening star., 1942-05-08

business. No one else took his place,
and the idea was given up.
Name Is Shortened.
Omnibus lines were started in
Paris and London more than Q CEN
tury ago. The word omnibus"
means "for ALL" and the carriages or
coaches were for any one who could
pay the fare. Since early times the
name has been shortened to "bus."
The first omnibus line in London
was started in 1929 by man named
Shillibeer. Each bus was pulled by
three horses and there was room for
% persons inside.
The modern omnibus, or bus, is
driven by gasoline power. It may
carry anywhere from q dozen pas
sengers TO 10 or 30. Some very large
ones have six wheels instead Of four
To a large extent the bus has
taken the place of the streetcar in
city traffic. 1t also carries hundreds
OF thousands of persons from one
city to another.
There are many school buses"
which take pupils to school each
morning and home each afternoon.
This a helpful thing to do pro-
vided one point Is watched with
greatest care-the safety Of the chill
dren. Careful school boards make
sure that the buses have excellent
drivers and come to q full stop be-
fore every railway crossing.
Flame Needs Gas.
If water glass Is placed over a
small lighted candle the flame will
go out within a second or two. This
points out an important fact-a
fame needs gas In order to burn.
The air contains gas of several
kinds, and one kind is oxygen. If all
the oxygen is taken from the air
around a candle it will not burn.
The fact that flame needs oxygen
TO feed on has led men to find one
fairly good method of fighting an
oil well fire. BY placing large bells
over the flames fire-fighters have
been able to put out more than one
bad fire Of that type
above candle flame the metal soon
gets coating Of SCOT. Even a very
small candle gives out smoke.
In these days Of big factories and
mills with thousands Of tons Of coal
burned In a city every month, the
air is charged with smoke.
An old saying tells us: Whatever
popS I'm will coYnp dpup Tho +
seems to be true of everything which
stays within the range Of the earth's
gravity. When smoke goes up it
comes down sooner or later.
Smoke plays a part in bringing
about fog and rain. It mixes with
water vapor in the air and this
vapor is present in fogs and rain
clouds. In some cities the people
talk about "smog" This is a thick
fog filled with SCOT. "Smog' is so
heavy that person might almost
think he could cut it with a knife.
When coal-burning increases the
amount of smoke in the air is likely
to increase. This does not, however
always happen. Hard coal does not
produce so much smoke as soft coal
Moreover, 1t is possible to cut down
the smoke evil with smoke con-
sumers."
In recent years hundreds Of thou
sands Of homes have been fittee
with furnaces which burn oil or gas
Very little smoke comes from such
furnaces.
Evening star., 1942-05-08

Ii you want = free copy Of the
illustrated leaflet on the Seven
Wonders of the World" send me
= Scent stamped, self-addressed
envelope In care Of The Evening
Star
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-12-10

date in those techniques which the
United States alone can teach them.
But they believe that through the
cooperative movement, and by ap-
plying the method and spirit of
true cooperation, this goal of tech
nical development can be achieved
without running the risk of having
fashioned imperialism step into
the picture once again to spoil the
process.
Therefore this preliminary under
standing among cooperatives of the
various countries of the Americas
which is already taking shape on
theoretical plane, is but first step
toward cooperative action on a
practical plane And as a matter
of fact, such development is already
beginning, for negotiations are being
carried on between certain Latin
American countries and cooperatives
in the United States for the organiza-
ton in common of enterprises of
considerable Importance. 1t is hoped
that details of this will be available
before long.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-12-10
Washline Is Longer
When Industry HUNS

The American people used last
year. according to the department
Of agriculture, II billion pounds of
fats and oils from animal and vege-
table sources This was an all
time record. but the departments
bureau of agricultural economics
predicts that it will be exceeded
during 1912. Of the 1871 total, 2,3l0
million pounds were used to make
soap, and about three-quarters of
these soap fats and oils came from
American farms and ranches. In
edible tallow, from cattle and sheep,
accounted for more than a billion
pounds. Other impressive amounts
from domestic agricultural sources
were: soy bean oil 24,737 900
pounds; cottonseed oil, 100000
pounds; corn oil. 4,948,00 pounds;
peanut oil, SGT 900 pounds.
While supplies of tropical oils,
especially coconut and palm oils,
will be greatly reduced by the war
in the Pacific. the bureau declares
that production of domestic oils and
inedible tallow for soap making will
be considerably larger this year as
a result of Secretary Wickard's ap-
peal to the farmers to plant more
oil-bearing crops and raise more
fat-producing livestock.
Our consumption of soap last year
was the largest on record. The
bureau attributes this to sharply
higher industrial activity and con-
sumner income in 194l.' Statistics
show that our use of soap rises in
war time. There is more need of
soap when the nation is hard at
work, not only to remove the CRIME
of industrial labor but also to main
tain high cleanliness standards as a
health measure. 1t has been found
also that soldiers and sailors use
considerably more soap per capita
than civilians.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-12-10

vibrating fingers at the oldster and
shouted that something must be done
about him. Now he is never men,
toned. He is never heard of. He is
even too busy playing bunco to think
of himself. Truly, here is the For
gotten Man.
Better wake up, old man. You've
got ten million votes in this country.
Why don't you use them? Why not
start something? They'll be hauling
you off pretty soon.
o. M. THOMSON.
Willernie, MINI.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-12-10
A MESS
Editor AskoV American:

Editor Askov American:
While millions of American men
are fighting and dying in an attempt
to establish the -Four Freedoms"
in every corner of the globe, the
United States Senate recently refused
to give 100000 American citizens
their constitutional right to vote.
Led by the Tory senators from the
south, the Senate shelved the anti
poll tax bill.
Today eight southern states dis
franchise 100000 American citi-
zens, both black and white, by re-
quiring payment of the poll taxes.
The very senators from the south
who before Pearl Harbor shouted
war in the halls of Congress in order
to abolish slavery and establish free
dom all over the world were the
same senators who led the fight to
maintain the vicious and un-Amer-
lean poll tax.
What nice picture for the Axis to
gaze upon! The armed forces of
America fighting for freedom on for
eign battlefields while 100000 peo-
pie at home are denied their con-
stitutional right to vote because a
small handful of southern senators
want to be little Hitlers. What a
mess!
a, DICK B. JOHNSTON.
St. Paul, MINI.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-12-10
Fish Story Coming

In renewing his subscription to
the Askov American, Eddie E.
Clough, Barnum's ardent fisher
man, reports that the fishing sea-
son there is now on and that his
annual fish story will be along
shortly. He also sends greetings
to all his Pine county friends. His
letter follows:
Another year has rolled by
and 1 see my paper has expired.
1t has been eight years now that
we left Willow River, but can not
get along without the paper, so
enclosed you will find the little
dues. Family are all well.
Fishing season is now on so
you may expect a fish story soon.
If not from me, my son Rob is a
chip off the old block when it
comes to fishing. Last winter he
speared one 20 FOUNDER. The best
1 could do was 1914 pounds. (But
larger one got away. More
next time. Regards to all"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-12-10
BUILDER OF MORALE
columbus (Ohio) Evening Dispatc

columbus (Ohio) Evening Dispatch)
A report from Washington says
that there is vague talk" in official
circles about making the 'war use
fulness" of small-town daily and
weekly newspapers the criterion for
the amount of paper for neWSprint
to be allotted to them in the event
it becomes necessary at some future
time to economic on paper to aid
the war effort. 1t is said that some
capital bureaucrats believe that such
newspapers should print more war
news, both local and national, in
order to justify their existence.
This opinion evidences lament
able ignorance of an important pri-
mary function of the small-town daily
and almost the sole raison d'etre of
the weekly-the publication of news
of, by and for the local community.
The little papers do not have the
space or the facilities for printing
more than a skeleton coverage of the
important national and international
news. Nearly everyone at all in
terested in the overall war picture
supplements their service by read
ing metropolitan paper from some
nearby big city.
The small-town newspaper is and
always has been first and foremost
the medium by which people are
kept up to date on happenings in
their own vicinity, the births, deaths,
marriages, social happenings, as well
as the trivia that everyone wants to
know about. -
Whoever it was who first said that
morale is made up of lot of little
things" might have been talking about
a small-town newspaper-at least he
knew what he was talking about, as
any small-town resident will testify.
It will help the war effort more to
allow the small-town press to bolster
morale in its own way than by fore
ing the methods of some Washington
brain-truster down its throat.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-12-10
Markets
Continued from Page u

$500 to $1025, with Gamers and
cutters at $3.50 to S8.75. Bulls held
steady, some good heavy beef bulls
reaching $12.25. Vealers had ten
dency to firm, top choice selling at
$14.00 to $14.50, with bulk good and
choice $l1.50 to $3.50. Stockers and
feeders were, steady to weak, the
easier trend appearing on common
kinds. Choice feeder steers brought
$14.OO. Good land choice steer calves
cashed at $3.50 to $l4.50.
Trading Active.
Trading in the hog division was
active for the most part and all
weights of butchers advanced mainly
10 cents. Sows also moved to higher
levels, this class showing advances
that ranged from 10 to Is cents.
Good and choice butchers weighing
around 240 pounds and above topped
at $500 and 1870 to 220 pound aver
ages at $500 to $3.50, 220 to 240
pounds at $13.10 to $500. Good
sows sold Tuesday at $500 to $l3.05
and stays made mainly $500. Feed
err pigs were up IS to Is cents with
$500 representing the popular price
on this group.
The fat lamb trade was slow early
this week with prices sagging 10
to mostly Is cents. On the other
hand, yearlings were strong to rs
cents higher while fat ewes gained
fully Is cents to extremes so cents.
Replacement classes continued strong.
Good and choice fat wooded lambs
bulked on Tuesday at $500, with a
few making $15.25. Good and choice
clipped lambs with No. pelts sold
up to $500 and choice yearlings
reached $13.75 and $13.85. A spread
of $500 to $3.50 took the bulk good
and choice slaughter ewes. Good
white-faced Dakota and Montana
feeding lambs cashed up to $3.50 and
$13.65 with good breeding ewes
reaching $500 sparingly.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-12-10
ANENT NEWSPRINT SITUATION

New Ulm Daily JournaD
We understand after January l
there is going to be another cut in
the newsprint quota. What's the an
swer going to be-
If we do cut down sometime in the
future what features shall we elm
mate? Shall we eliminate the edi-
torials, the sport page, the society
and personal page, cross word puzzles,
the radio program, the comics OF
what One thing you can count on
sure-your magazines and newspa-
pers are going to get smaller or thin
ner Over in England the biggest
circulation newspapers are down to
four pages a day. 1t was either cut
pages or cut circulation. Most Lon
don newspapers cut pages. The Lon
don Times cut both its size and its
circulation.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-12-10

done provided America enjoys the
same degree of unified, cooperative
effort between capital, labor, govern
ment and people in this happy peace
time objective as it does presently
in the war effort.
This should be the immediate post
war American goal, but it will not
be the only end in sight. Provision
of an ever-rising standard of mater
ial living is seen in the United States
only as sort Of platform from which
Americans can more easily reach
those aspirations of culture and moral
progress that have so long appealed
to them.
Freedom from want is important,
but its attairment is correctly seen
only as a staEting point in the pur-
suit of happi9ess.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-12-10
PINE COUNTY RURAL
SCHOOL NEWS
Recent Changes.
A. E. GUSTAFSON, County Supt.

Our recent vacancies have been
handled as follows:
District IL (West Rock)-Mrs. Alice
Daniels Herdina of Pine City, will
teach this school as substitute teach
err, at least until Christmas vacation.
Mrs. Doris Thompson Guetzkow has
left for an army camp to join her
husband. miss Alice Daniels taught
this same school number of years
ago).
District lib (Windemere)-
Dorothy Silta has taken a position in
the Grand Rapids, Mimi, school sys-
tenn. Mrs. Melva Berg Street has
consented to take charge of this
school for the balance of the school
year. (Melva Berg Street is another
successful teacher retired few years
ago and now willing to help out in
our national emergency.
District LOT (Bremen township
Miss Etoile Jackson expects to take
up other work after Christmas. Miss
Mae Upgren of Denham, has con-
sented to return to teaching and take
over the work at LOT for the re-
mainder of the school year. This
school is not far from Miss Upgren's
home.
District 122 (Bear Creek) four
miles east of Sandstone, has decided
to close and transport their Is pupils
to Sandstone for the remainder of this
school year. Mrs. Elizabeth S. Carl
son has substituted there for a few
weeks, since Miss Phyllis Chaser left
for a job in defense work The
school board decided to accept the
offer of the Sandstone district, which
will take care of all the pupils at a
cost somewhat less than operating
their one-room school,
Programs and Vacation.
Many of our rural schools have
dropped their usual plans for their
annual evening Christmas programs
Many will have short afternoon pro-
grams as most parents will not be
able to attend, due to gas limitations.
According to the State Department
of Education schedule" for the school
year, schools will close for Christmas
vacation on Friday, December ID, and
reopen Monday, January 4. Most all
of our rural schools are following the
state schedule quite closely.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-12-10
GOALS FOR AMERICA
christian Science Monitor)

1t remained for Stuart Chase, aided
by benefactions of the Twentieth Gen.
fury Fund, to explore what good
things America can gain in the post
war world from the immense eXpan-
sion in production facilities now TAX
ing place. These engagements of
plants and new building are costing
upwards of 1000, 900, 900, or three
quarters of all that was spent for the
purpose during that entire booming
1920 decade.
Yet this gargantuan increase in
plant and machines is obscured some
what by the greater effort of the
total war itself. Few have stopped
to consider that when the fighting
ceases these plants, these machines
will remain; and while some may be
useless and may have to be disman-
tied, the bulk will have great poten-
tialities of useful service.
Mr.. Chase points out, for instance,
that America will emerge from the
war with probably half again as much
electric power to be harnessed for
constructive ends. There will be en-
tire new industries, aviation, rubber,
light metals, plastic and plywoods, to
name but few; and vast resources
of skilled man and woman power.
These can be directed to providing
food, the shelter, the clothing, the
educational and similar basic needs
of the people, and by placing the Ma
tons resources against the basic
needs Mr.. Chase concludes they can
be abundantly met. In terms of food
the answer, granting manpower, is
easy; in terms of shelter it would
require 100000 workers, building
100000 units year for ten years
Tin 1910 some 100000 units were
built) to satisfy the need. Possibly
prefabrication and new materials
could hasten the accomplishment.
Clothing would require 100000 adj
ditional workers in the plants, and
so it goes.
There is, as Mr.. Chase lets it ap-
pear, nothing impossible in the goa:
of employing everybody and in guar
anteeing everybody minimum of
food, shelter and clothing. It can be
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-12-10

Badness, cataracts of the eyes, poor
teeth and inability to father children,
all may result from the lack of one
single food chemical in the diet.
Tryptophane, the necessary food
chemical, for prevention of the four
defective conditions mentioned, is
found in proteins such as meat, fish,
poultry, eggs and milk.-Christmas
Seal Health News Service.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-12-10
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
Continued from Page II
offset a likely Allied invasion Of

the European continent.
He is now paying a heavy price
for this lack of foresight, and all
bulletins concerning his war in Rus
STA emphasizes his ever increasing
losses; the NaZi high command has
no victories, even small ones, to re-
port these days.
Not Quite so Good.
War bulletins from Tunisia have
been less stimulating to the United
Nations than formerly, for it seems
certain that Hitler has been able to
send strong reinforcements to the
region around BiZerte and Tunis, and
that he for some time has had the
benefit of undoubted air superiority
in North Africa.
1t is not denied that British and
American troops have had to re-
treat from some of their positions,
but there is a general tendency to
feel that these setbacks, while SER
ious and embarrassing enough in
themselves, are of temporary ma
ture. No one doubts that the axis
power in Africa will be crushed with
in relatively near future. But ev-
eryone who has close knowledge of
the situation warns that losses and
disappointment have to be expected:
there is no other way of finally WIN
ming war.
Dire Threats.
OF course, the purpose of the war
in Tunisia is for the Americans and
the British to pave the way for a
direct offensive against Hitler in
Europe; to wound him where he is
weakest, Italy is to be used as the
territory of transit, and therefore
Italy will have to, as Churchill has
assured here, either withdraw from
the war now or experience the ex-
IRENE penalty of having all her great
and beautiful cities destroyed by
American and British bombs.
The British prime minister has
served that blunt ultimatum on the
Italians, and there is no doubt that
he means business.
MussOlini, pitiful, helpless, in
efficient Mussolini, felt called on
to break his long period of sill
ence and to reply in a speech to
Churchill, but that oratOricaI
performance added no laurels to
his wilted roses of hopes that
died.
He was in no position to say any
oh hi
were none; he could merely confine
himself to some epithets hurled
against Churchill and Roosevelt and
to give vague promises of final vic
tory for the Italians, but he failed
to state how it could possibly be won
The speech left his fellow-countrymen
cold and unconvinced.