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Askov American., 1942-03-26
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where the Japanese may be MAX
ing mistake, for Macarthur
has made it pretty clear that if it
is up to him, he simply will not
give them a chance to take the
initiative. He wants to take it
away from them. If there is to
be any offensive, it will not be
the enemy who starts it. That
is, at least, the hope of the new
supreme commander.
To frustrate an attack even before
it is started, is the natural ambition
of every good general.
India Endangered.
AS far as can be known, the Jap
anese are planning to attack Austria
liza (if they get the chance) and In
dia, as well. In anticipation of that
latter possibility, Marshal Chang
Kai-shek of China has sent two
armies into Burma to join the Brit
ish in the defense of that crown
colony, for it is realized that Jap
anese victory here is likely to mean
invasion of not only India but SOUTH
western China as well.
It remains a moot question
whether India, in case of aggres-
sion, will defend herself. The
Hindus have adopted the attitude
of being willing to join England
actively if they are assured be-
fOrehand Of obtaining either full
independence or dominion status.
1t is understood that Sir Stafford
Cripps on his way from London
has arrived at New Delhi with
proposals of some sort, but if they
meet the demand of the Hindus
only halfway, India is not likely
to fight.
AT the moment Sir Archibald
Wavell, the general in charge of the
Australia and East Indies defense
until Macarthur relieved him, has
charge of the war in Burma and of
the defense of India, should that
country be attacked.
CONTINUED ON Page y
Askov American., 1942-03-26
Boy Scout Troop
HereTOConduct
Court OF Honor
ssDawn to Dusk" Drive
Conducted i'm North Star
Council Area This Week.

The Boy Scouts of Askov will be
host at a court of honor in the local
school auditorium Tuesday evening,
March 81, when Scouts from Askov,
Kerrick and Willow River will be
present at candlelight service and to
receive advances in the ranks of
Scouting. Six Askov Scouts will re-
ceive second class badges, eight merit
badges will be awarded to three
Scouts, four will get tenderfoot badges
and two boys have signified their
intention of joining the troop.
Scout Executives Coming.
Wayne Bailey, assistant Scout ex-
ecutive of the North Star Council,
Duluth, and several others from the
Council will be present at the pro-
gram as will also DR.. H. D. Stokes,
vice-chairman of the Pine-Kanabec
district. Wendell N. Tjon, Scout
master of Troop 1872 of Willow River,
will be here with his Scouts, three
of whom are ready for advancement.
others have also been invited and
asked to take part.
The Askov community contributed
$60.50 in the Dawn to Dusk" drive
Monday as it share in the campaign
to raise $2500 to be used in promot-
ing Scouting in this area. This $500
will be matched by another $500
from the Phillips Foundation of the
Phillips Petroleum Company.
Quota Attained.
Mr.. Bailey was in Askov Friday to
meet with Scoutmaster Marvin c.
Peterson of the local troop, Anker
Nj. Simonsen and Manford Nelson
of the troop committee, and others
interested in Scout work. He ex-
planned the proposed drive and as
sisted with details of organization.
c. Richard Pedersen, Edwin Sorensen,
Robert Good, Harold Dietz, E. 0.
johnson, Manford Nelson and Anker
NJ Simonsen were appointed as a
finance committee and the following
Monday the drive completed and the
quota attained.
Funds collected will be used in an
expansion program to making Scout
ing available in communities now
without this training for boys. This
would be accomplished by the en-
ployment of one more Scout execu-
tive who will spend all Of his time
working in these smaller communities
and the rural districts of the council.
To Form New Troops.
Communities in the Council which
now have Scouting are Duluth, Two
Harbors, Sandstone, Mora, Moose
Lake, Barnum, Saginaw, Alborn, Rock
Creek, Askov, Holyoke, Cloquet, Proc
tor, Pine City, Hinckley, Carlton,
Ogilvie, Twig, Germantown, Willow
River, Kerrick and Grand Marais.
Communities in the district where
an attempt will be made to establish
Scouting include Scanlon, Brook Park
Rutledge, Beroun, Marcy, Cloverton
Wrenshall, Wright, McKesson, Knife
River, Ellison, Lutsen, Grand Lake
Kroschel, Tofte, Culver, Larsmont
French River, Quamba, Hovland
Cowan, Schroeder, Bruno, Brookston
Meadowlands, Esko, Adolph, Flood
wood, Grasston, Henriette, Bruins
wick, Cramer, Warman, Beaver Bay
Duquette, Atkinson, Wales, Independ-
ence, Isabella, Markville, Blackhoof
Castle Danger, Shaw, Cromwell, Stur-
geon Lake, Denham, Mineral Center
Island Lake, Kettle River, Finlayson
Thompson, Salo, Cotton, Coin, Bur-
nett, Harlis, Mahtowa, Finland,
Sawyer, Canyon, Friesland, Grand
Portage, Little Marais and Arnold.
Askov American., 1942-03-26

Communicable diseases are far
greater problem in wartime than are
injuries incurred in battle. In World
War l twice as many men were af-
fected by mumps, measles, diphtheria
and so-called children's diseases as
by actual wounds.
Askov American., 1942-03-26
Passage OF Old
Age Plan Would
Hasten Recovery
Townsend Plan Would Di-
rect Purchasing Power to
Trade Channels.

For the past half dozen years
leaders of the Townsend move
ment and thousands of members
of what is now called the Town
send National Recovery Plan,
have been making research and
constant improvements in their
program.
At first, it was heralded as
$200-a-month old age pension. 1t
has been worked out in the form
of a gross income tax, which
the Townsend leaders estimate.
would provide now approximate
ly $50 to each of the senior citi-
zens all over the United States,
and that old age pension, or re-
tirement annuity, would be in
creased as the volume of business
and gross income to the nation
increases. The maximum pen
sion to each recipient, however,
would be $500 per month.
Leaders of the Townsend
movement herald it as a measure
to bring dignity and security in
old age, and with no discrimina-
ton to any of the ten million
senior citizens who are past the
age of sixty.
Herewith in part is published
the Townsend plan as national
recovery act, as sent out from
their office in Chicago:
The Townsend Plan is a testec
method of placing adequate purchas.
ing power directly into the hands O.
the people on permanent basis. i
is, therefore, national recovery plan
How Does the Townsend Plant Pro.
pose to Achieve This Purchasing
Power?
The Townsend Plan proposes tt
supply this purchasing power by
means of an old-age retirement an
nuity. This annuity would be paid
to those qualified, throughout the re-
mainder of their days.
It should not be necessary to JUS
tify an old-age retirement annuity
in a country as wealthy as ours
But if such justification is needed, il
exists in the contributions made by
our senior citizens toward the growth
and greatness of our nation. Theil
brains and the labor of their hand:
gave us our factories, our railroads
our farms, our cities and all thai
goes to make America. They are de-
serving of a secure and comfortable
old age.
CONTINUED on Page s.
Askov American., 1942-03-26

About 70 million persons annually
lose over one billion days from work
or customary activities because of
illness.
Askov American., 1942-03-26

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-15
The OnIooker

nURING my highly checkered
~ career as a sports writer, /
suppose / froze TO death in as
many footb ball press boxes,
picked az many losers, and an
noyed as many coaches with
silly questions as any other two
reporters you can name.
Add 10 this the fact that am
shaped not unlike an inflated
football. and you can readily see
why | do not hesitate to speak
with authority on what some in
spired writer years ago de-
scribed as "our annual autumnal
madness" or was that the World
Series he was talking about?
But never mind, it's football I
am going to talk about today.
I've pinned chrysanthemum on
my dress gown, stuck a
feather back OF my ear. yelled
"rah. rah, rah," and here we
go"
Football. along with many
other sports, has come in for its
share Of criticism of late. There
is a school OF thought, and
GU done which believes that
ports have no part in the war.
y believe that as long as football
continues TO be played in war
time, something should be done
about the attitude OF football
coaches.
FOOTBALL coaches, taken As
i n whole, constitute the great
est group of defeatists to be
found anywhere. Proof OF this
is to be found in every pre-sea-
son and pre-game statement
they make. Ask any one OF
them what chance he thinks his
team has and he Immediately
assumes the expression of a bed
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-15
The Brighter Side.

THE plot-makers for the movies
Il may soon be in sad-case,
what with the way restrictions
on tales for the cinema are shap-
ing up.
These restrictions are devised
by representatives of the govern
ment who worry lest our citizens
and American life be depicted TO
our neighbors and allies in an
unflattering m amer on the
screen, or that any Of our neigh
bors and allies be similarly eX-
posed.
For example, a "stinker," or
villain, in the pictures nowadays
cannot be a South American. a
Russian. a Mexican or even an
EngliShman. He can be a NaZi
or a Jap. of course, and in cases
where those characters are not
appropriate TO the plot. he can
be an American. because while
all other nationalities are as
Sumed 10 be most sensitive 10
presentation as "stinkers. our
own citizens are not attributed
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-15
BY Henry McLemOrt

ridden ST. Bernard. Tears well
into his eyes. his voice drops 10
something between moan and
a whine. and then he launches
into a pitiful description of what
will happen 10 his boys when
they meet their next opponent.
We haven't chance, q single
chance Our only hope Is to
hold the score down They
are too good for us, too smart,
too strong There are too
many Of them They started
practice long before we did -.
They are more experienced -.
Besides, we are all crippled up
Their second team could beat
us Look at their reserves.
They're 10 deep In every posi-
ton and n only one Of our men
gets injured we're sunk"
And on and on and on, as long
as any one will listen 10 him.
Now that sort of talk is great
for morale building, isn't IL?
That's inSpirational leadership,
isn't IL?
CANT -yot-ftst hear General
" Macarthur following the
same pattern in talking TO his
troops in Australia?
It's always been mystery 10
me why a football team, after
reading in the papers how dismal
its coach thought its chances
were. didn't come on the field
with its hands up in the gesture
of surrender, and. using the ref
cree as an intermediary, sue for
peace.
With the band playing Il Sur
render. Dear" the captain would
advance to the middle of the
field TO talk peace with the OPP
posing captain. This. Of course,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-15

going Nth George now
Mrs. President walked in. and
they got up.
please don't get up whenever
I enter or leave the ROOM" she
said graciously.
"You know, have reputa-
ton OF being quite a traveller"
Gregory Ratoff. the dialec-
tician, is in the Capital as the
guest of Litvinov. the ditto.
Capt, Dan Topping. groom OF
Sonia Henie. has healed the
breach between her and Dennis
Scanlon. her former manager.
He recently won his $4,000
suit against her.
Renee DeMarco's most per-
sistent wooer Is N. KarSon, the
scenic designer-producer.
A. Hornblow Jr. and Mona
Maris are on the beam.
I Ill DAMITA has switched to
IL Orry-Kelly Of the Coast.
Enrol Flynn. her ex-groom, is
violating the long distance ban
on unnecessary toll calls TO
Phyllis Adams, the pretty deb
OF here.
Rosemary Coleman. the Pow
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-15
Grid Coaches
Best Soldiers

would end football. because the
other captain. whose coach was
equally peSsimistic. would also
come out seeking terms, hands
up.
The coaches should change
their tunes in times like these.
The men in football togS will
soon be in khaki. playing a big
ger game in which there is no
place for a defeatist.
ODDS mean nothing 10 the
" American soldier. He doesn't
care If he is outnumbered and
out-armed. He keeps pitching
with the conviction that he can
lick anything that walks.
A change 10 an optimistic key
would be welcome relief 10 the
readers of the sports pages. I
doubt II there is a follower of
football who isn't sick and tired
Of reading how Coach Cutback
fears Titmouse u. how Coach
Tapedankle only hopes 10 make
a decent showing against Subsidy
Normals powerful eleven. and
how Coach 1fwistedknee figures
his men will do well 10 come out
alive against their old rival,
Ptomaine Tech.
So. coaches. forget the rules
Of your union which demand
that a coach sing the blues in
order 10 keep the alumni from
expecting too much. The next
time a reporter asks you how
your team is going TO fare, an
swer in this vein: Wen lick
those guys if we have to play
until midnight OF course. if
you are coaches in the Ivy
League you are al liberty TO SUBJ
stitute fellows" for guys"
Distributed by McNaught Syndicate. Inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-15

MIRIAM HOPKINS chums
4'A hear she may elope with
Whitney Warren Jr.
Gerard Lambert Jr. their 10
he Listerine fortune). and Jane
Wells were sealed in st. Loo.
The George Montgomery-Kay
Villains idyll has crashed. with
.ynn Bari picking up from
here.
Lou Clayton 81. Durante's ex-
traight mani and Art Stebbins,
ne insurance man. slugged IL
out at the Hillcrest Country
Club beverly Hills) and both
were suspended for month.
Hedy Lamarr's most frequent
sick-room visitor is Geo. Greg
son. the millionaire.
The day Mrs. George Fielding
Eliot arrived in Reno a tanker
named George F. Eliot was sunk.
Lem Schofield. head of the
u. S. immigration Dept. has
resigned.
The mayors drive against
-bookies has shaved their biz
n of 1TS.
SCOLONEL" T. LUNDBURG,
~ whose sentence will be
suspended il he eniists as pfi-
vate in the army. was turned
down by local recruiters.
The Duncan Renaldos OF
Trader Horn have reconciled.
Oh. Mr.. Ripley! AL Anthony.
a chorus boy in Sons o Fun"
brought his wife, Margie Taylor,
a mink coat.
A one-time wealthy magazine
publishers 21-year-old son mar
ried the 45-year-old nurse in the
family last week.
Sophie Tucker has dropped
her suit lat Equity against G.
Jessel.
Josephine Baker, once a star.
Is stranded in Lisbon, broke.
: Although he has been in the
iron lung for six years. Fred
Snite has (of all thingsD regis
tered for the draft.
T'HE cast OF This Is the
L Army" (350)) dined with
the President and Mrs. Roose-
welt at the White House.
After they all were seated,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-15
Movie PIOfters
Being Hedged In

ture intended for export any
scenes that might reflect any ifi-
stances of disquiet among our
citizenry, as for instance a
lynching bee. unless the bee
came off long years ago. in
which case presume our good
neighbors are supposed to reflect
that we have abandoned such
uncouthness. S
No hoodlum didoes may be dis
played, though to what extent
the government has gone to keep
our newspapers and the FBI I'd
ports out of the hands Of our
neighbors do not know.
No horror pictures, the kind
that entrance our adolescents,
may be exported to England, the
very mother as you might say,
of the horror story.
Fortunately our plotters can
always fall back on Cinderella
in a pinch, though / think IT
rather curious that certain
things that are not permitted in
American export pictures return
to us in English-made pictures.
Some observers feel that the
movie industry, leaning back
ward to cooperate in the war
effort, is definitely being regi.
mented by the governments
cinema representatives, or CO.
ordinators. or whatever they
may be called, possibly be-
cause the screen is the greatest
of all mediums for propaganda
and possibly because IL gives
some of the representatives the
opportunity of presenting their
own personal ideas about cinema
entertainment that have been
fermenting in their brains for
years.
GENERAL OF these representa-
~ tives have already advanced
notions for yarns to the picture
people rejecting their ideas and
one company spent considerable
money on one OF the notions
only to have higher govern
ment authority reject the
thought in some CONSERVATION. =
The government is now usinn
morr film than the movie indus,
try, much Of IL going into short
pictures to be used as visual
education for service men and.
while the value OF many OF
these pictures cannot be
doubted. IL Is a question IL all
OF them are necessary.
Perhaps the situation Is SINH
lar TO that which existed IN the
printed propaganda Of the gov
eminent of which about a tenth
was worth while and perhaps,
too, sooner or later an authority
will come along and, like Elmer
Davis with the printed stufY,
suddenly abate most Of the
government film activity a
Superfuous,
Dar;b1,si by King Features syp1-. M.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-15

any particular feeling on that
point, unless they happen to be
members Of certain classes that
maintain their own departments
to combat mplic tions of
stinkeriSm among them.
Many professions, religions and
other bodies of citizens linked by
some one common thought or
activity make it point to
scream out loud when they are
presented in anything but COM
plimentary light on the screen.
though the presentation may be
accurate and completely truth
full.
/ am sure my readers realize
that this is merely in line with
the strongest element in our ma
tional life. now and always,
which is hypocrisy. currently eX-
emplified by the government
cinema representatives to its
highest degree in history.
THE picture fellows may not
Il at this time present in a pic
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-15
millionaire
Visits Hedy

ers darling now in Movietown,
will soon become Mrs, II. VIM.
Denton.
George White and Charlene
Tucker of the Diamond Horse
shoe line are new allies.
Add nice deeds: Ole Olsen OF
"Sons o. Fun" learned that a
charwoman there lost her purse
with. SIG. He replaced it.
Brooklyn Is Like This: Eddie
Ennis. the Aloha Club comic.
flipcracked about the Dodgers
losing the pennant. A patron
hit him with the mike.
Four stitches.
NEWSPAPER editors hear that
~ this problem confronts Elmer
Davis: The German section of
the Owl short-wave division
New York branch is clashing
over United States broadcasts
in the German tongue.
They include Socialist, Social
Democratic. Mona rchist and
Centrist propaganda - each
fighting their own personal
differences over the American
short-wave lanes.
A few Trotskyites are also on
the staff.
1t all messes up The Big Idea,
ORCHIDS to Shield No. 1883
" OF the gendarrnes.
He Strengthened out. but fiat,
West 49th street hotel barber
who charged a sailor 50 for
haircut. shave, shine and
shampoo.
Mel Lee, the Oriental doll.
and her groom. 1t. James Ken
nedy. have reconciled.
Chances of racing again at
Santa Anita (now a Jap camp)
look good next winter because
of the Bay Meadows success.
Whitney Bourne tells friends
she will soon wed 1t. Oren
Root Jr.
Ensign Steve Fuld was on
that Coast Guard cutter which
the Navy announced has been
overdue for a long time and is
presumed lost"
Rep. Elmer ]. Hollands next
sensational charges will be made
in Congress this week. The tar
get isn't publisher. II will be
a famed legislator.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-15

Vulnerable craters of Japan it
would result in the complete
destruction of that country.
l asked a military expert
about this and he said it was
10 some extent true but proba-
bly, would not be done by the
United States because the re-
suits would be too "inhumane.
The following is all that was
in a letter received from a San
Francisco husband:
"Sir, the most unfortunate
of men are those who have
married women who are dumb
but think they are smart.
Ever been in place it was
so hot eggs could be fried on
the sidewalk?
At an army post in Chandler.
AriZ., eggs were fried by the
use of the sun only.
Took 18 minutes for the sun
to cook the eggs completely.
GO JOE DI MAGIC is going
~ TO drive his car from New
York to the Coast.
That is about the only way
you can get car TO the Coast
these days.
For even small car the
freight charge from New York
to California is around $3.50.
DiMaggio says he is going to
keep within the 35-mile speed
limit.
Driving that way on an
average of 10 hours day it
will take him over two weeks
to get home.
l would think the best way
TO solve such a car problem
would be TO sell your car in New
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-15
Gfrps Us Food

The coconut meat as we know
IL has entirely disappeared and has
been replaced by this new growth.
which is very easy 10 digest.
The native broke open the kerr
nelS and handed them TO US. We
snatched them and began MUNICH
ing Immediately. 1 have never
tasted anything more appetizing
than those coconut kernels were
that morning.
As we ate, the native made
signs TO us that he was going for
help He pointed TO my police
whistle, and held out his hand,
smiling encouragingly. I gave him
the whistle. and Immediately he
turned and ran off among the
|coconut trees, footing the whistle
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-15

The natives were still staring at
us. saying nothing but "Oh" and
"Ah."
At length the commissioner gave
an order in the island language,
and the husky. handsome brown
natives gathered us into their arms
like babies and set off with us at
a swift pace.
We went toward the leeward
side of the island. passing through
beautiful groves of coconut trees
and other tropical growth. 1 still
was able TO take some interest in
what saw as we went along, and
l noted numerous taro beds.
Ito BE Contlnued)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-15

IN LONDON, Eng, a man
Il named George Sinner runs
restaurant. And he has a daugh-
ter named Ina Sinner.
The Roosevelt highway which
skirts the Pacific around Santa
Monica. Cal, is named after
Theodore Roosevelt.
And it seems that in dis
patches IL should be referred to
as the Theodore Roosevelt
highway"
1t was Seymour Hicks claim
In his observation was based on
long experience who said:
Look at the lady of your
thoughts and If she has a mother
with pronounced avOrdupois be
sure she will outweigh that
mother at that age"
you refer TO breed Of dog
called the Boston bull" writes a
Vancouver, B. C., subscriber.
"My dear fellow. there is no
such dog as a Boston bull, you
mean a Boston terrier"
GONE people say if bombs
~ were dropped in the in
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-15

vigorously. We looked at each
other in great relief. At least the
natives were friendly.
Our visitor was gone for per-
haps a half hour. He returned
with a party of several natives
and a man who seemed 10 be the
leader. This was the resident COM
missioner. Not knowing who we
were. he had brought assistance
in case we might turn out to be
enemies.
l should explain here. perhaps,
that as this account is written the
events are still so recent that the
navy intelligence considers it wiser
for the security of our country
that / withhold the Identification
of the island on which we landed
and the close location of the par
ticular area of the South Pacific
in which our adventure occurred