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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-05-21
ClOVertOn

Through an error the name of A. E.
Mclean was omitted on the bridge
crew last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Sperling of
st. Paul, spent the weekend in
Cloverton.
Mrs. Dale Austin and daughter
Barbara arrived Sunday from Zion,
ILL.,, for few weeks visit.
The baccalaureate services will be
held at the Cloverton school Sum-
day evening, May "a, with Don Carl
son, student pastor of the Lutheran
church as speaker. Everyone well
come.
The seniors recently gave their
play, "Plain Sister," About $50 was
realized.
James Whitney arrived by plane
from Escanaba, Mich, last week.
He has been in the hospital for some
time with rheumatic fever but is now
recuperating at home His mother
accompanied him home after six
weeks visit at EScanaba.
Mr.. and Mrs Wheelock of New
Boston, ILL.,, arrived last week and
are living on the property purchased
from c. P. Whitney.
The C. E. Van family were recent
supper guests at the Austin home.
Vernon Goddard and Don Byerly
were up from the Cities over the
weekend.
Wednesday afternoon of last week
lightning struck the Harry Clapper
home. 1t seemed to enter on the
telephone connections and made an
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-05-21

exit through the ceiling and upstairs
roof. A curtain caught fire but was
soon under control. Considerable
damage was done to the plaster.
The c. L. Austin and c. E. Wander
Linden families were callers at the
Robert Feigum home in Kingsdale
Sunday afternoon.
Rose Tollefson and Betty Van were
callers at the Kinbloom and Hal
sted homes Sunday afternoon.
A number attended the Red Cross
meeting at the John Brow home last
Thursday evening. The following
officers were elected: President, Mrs.
R. E. Ballantine; vice president, Mrs.
o. S. Halsted; secretary, Mrs. Paul
Babcock; and treasurer, Mrs. G. L.
Austin. After the business meeting
lunch was served.
w. F. Clementson was assessing in
the village Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. J.. Hahn spent
the weekend with Grace at Pine
City.
Several car loads drove to Super
ior to the junior-senior banquet We'd
nesday evening of last week.
The Presbyterian session met at
the Austin home Tuesday evening
1t was planned to have a harvest
sale in October and every one should
plant with the idea in mind to died.
icate something to the church sale
The H. L. Clapper family made
business trip to Danbury, Wis,
Monday afternoon.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-05-21
Hay Greek

L. L. Shew, Erwin Phinn and Mr..
and Mrs. Joe Chatelle were in Askov
and Finlayson on business Wednes-
day of last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Elliott and
Melvin and Erma were in Sandstone
Tuesday.
Erwin Phinn and Mr.. Byerly were
in Askov Friday on business.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-05-21
(Too Late for Last Week.

Miss Sylvia Guessing spent Monday eve
ming visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Over
becke.
Mrs. w. w. Ogilvie entertained the Gar
den club last Thursday afternoon. There
was good attendance and plant ex-
lem of identifying and caring for the
Willow River cemetery. A delicious lunch
was served and a three-layer birthday
cake served in honor of Mrs. Earl Wilson.
Friends extend sincere sympathy to the
Novak family in their bereavement.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-05-21
FinlaysOn

Don't forget the rummage sale at
the Isaac Walton League cabin by
the Peace Lutheran ladies Friday
and Saturday, May % and %.
Evening star., 1942-01-23
THIS AND THAT
By Charles +. TrdceUeH.

Most Of the insects eaten by the red
bellied woodpecker are bad insects, from
the human viewpoint.
This is good score for the bird.
Some persons insist on calling the red
bellied bird "sapsucker," which Is all
wrong, since the bird does not indulge
In that taste.
Trees are safe from this woodpecker.
Even the real sapsuckers do not do as
great damage as Is sometimes thought.
Yet 1t is probably good thing to
chase the genuine yellow-bellied sap
sucker away from trees which it attacks.
especially from the various naples, Of
which it is very fond.
DR.. Frank Chapman has the following
to say of the cries of the red-bellied
woodpecker: 1T ascends a tree in a
curious, jerky fashion, accompanying
each upward move by hoarse chu-chu.
1t also utters k-r-r-r-ring roll and, when
mating, a whicker call like that of the
flicker"
Farmers Bulletin, No. sos, Of the Bio
logical Survey, says Of the food habits Of
this bird:
THE red-bellied woodpecker ranges
over the Eastern United States as far
West as Central Texas and Eastern
Southern Ontario, Michigan and South
ern Minnesota. 1t breeds throughout
this range and appears to be irregularly
migratory. 1t appears to go North of its
breeding range sometimes to spend the
winter.
-Four stomachs. collected in November
and December, were received from
Canada, and in eight years residence in
Central Iowa the writer found the species
abundant every winter. but never saw
one in the breeding season. 1t is rather
more of forest bird than some OF the
other woodpeckers.
"Ants are a fairly constant article of
diet. The most are taken during the
warmer months. Evidently this bird does
not dig all the ants which it eats from
decaying wood, like the downy wood
pecker, but, like the f1ickers, collects
them from the ground and the bark Of
trees.
In Florida, the bird has been observed
to eat oranges to an injurious extent.
It attacks the overripe fruit and pecks
holes in it and sometimes completely
devours it. The fruit selected is that
which is dead ripe or partly decayed. so
that 1t is not often that the damage Is
serious.
"The bird sometimes attacks the trunks
of the orange trees as well as others
and does some harm. The content OF
the stomachs, however, show that wild
fruits are preferred, and probably onlv
when these have been replaced by culti-
waited varieties is any mischief done"
The yellow -bellied sapSucker, previous
ly mentioned, is larger than the downy
woodpecker, but smaller than the red
bellied. Both birds are barred in some
what the same fashion, but the head Of
the sapsucker. in addition to having red
on 1t, also has broad black-and-white
stripes, extending down to the neck.
Evening star., 1942-01-23
Fall of Mozhuisk

In retaking the key stronghold of
Mozhaisk after eighteen days of
bitter fighting, the Russians have
demonstrated beyond any possibility
of successful contradiction that their
counterattack is not mere follow
ing up of a planned German with
drawal, but full-hedged winter
offensive which the Germans have
been unable to stop.
With the fall of Mozhaisk, the
center Of the German line has been
smashed. yet it is obvious that Hitler
had intended and had hoped to hold
this position at all costs. Mozhaisk
had been converted by the Germans
into veritable fortress. An esti-
mated 100000 men had been thrown
into its defense, behind a ring of
land mines and formidable en-
trenchments. It had been stocked
with provisions and equipment for
siege. and the tenacity of the de-
fense is indicated by the fact that
the streets were piled high with both
German and Russian dead before
the last of the Nazis had been driven
out.
The remnants of this force-the
German Ninth Army and part of the
Fourteenth-are now fleeing toward
Vyazma, fighting desperately to
escape entrapment by the Russian
columns that by-passed Mozhaisk to
the south and which are now trying
to bottle up the routed Nazis.
How significant this Nazi disaster
will prove to be depends, of course,
on the extent to which the Russians
can exploit the victory. But one
thing is clear. Hitler intended to
hold Mozhaisk. He has failed, and
the failure is the result. not of plan,
or strategy or weather, but Of the
ability Of the Russians to concentrate
Evening star., 1942-01-23
Rail Rates Advance

AS was to be expected, the Inter-
state Commerce Commission has
granted the passenger fare increase
sought by the railroads to help meet
the cost of the wage raise obtained
by the brotherhoods. In consequence,
the public shortly will be called upon
to pay 10 per cent more for travel,
or at the rate of $45, 600, 900 annually.
Still pending is the application of
the carriers for $312,000 900 boost
in freight tariffs, and while the in
duStry might not get all that it seeks,
1t virtually is a foregone conclusion
that some concessions will be made.
The higher wage scale calls for an
annual expenditure of 1891, 700 900,
and the commission tacitly admitted
in its annual report that mounting
operating costs would make it neces-
sary for the railroads to get more
for their services.
The rail wage increase, obtained
under threat of a Nation wide strike,
is water over the dam, but that does
not make it any more palatable to
those who must foot the bill. It was
granted in part against the better
Judgment Of the Emergency Fact
Finding Board appointed by the
President to compose the differences
between management and labor
which threatened to paralyze traf1c.
That 1t was not justified in view Of
the condition Of the industry is dem
Evening star., 1942-01-23

superior forces against him. At the
moment 1t seems doubtful that
stand can be made by the Germans
at Vyazma. The probability is that
they will fall back on Smolensk, and
that would mean the substantial
notification of all the Nazi successes
gained during the past seven months
at such fearful cost in human lives
and military equipment.
Smolensk is 230 miles from Mos
cow, while the Germans, as long as
they held Mozhaisk, were but sixty
miles from the Soviet capital. At
the least, this means chat Hitler, as
suming him to be capable of muster
ing the men and equipment for a
spring offensive, must come back the
hard way, fighting a third time for
battle-ground that he won but
could not hold.
Evening star., 1942-01-23

1t was bright afternoon, set OF un-
forgettably by a strange cry coming
from q locust tree.
It was harsh, brassy cry, dificult to
put into written word.
It has been tried, many times, by bird
lovers, and as near to 1t as they have
come is chad, chad" which isn't it
at all.
II you like birds. you have guessed 1t.
1t was the tree call Of the famous red
bellied woodpecker, which in some Sec
tions of the country is called the chad,
on account Of 1t: in others. the zebra
bird, zebra back, shamshack and the
ramshack.
This is such an unusual noise that it
will be heard instantly as something
strange by all persons interested In birds.
The suburban sections are the best for
hearing 1t, but it will occur now and
then in the city, too.
The red-bellied woodpecker - whose
stomach is not so very red. after all
Is one Of the best OF his family.
He is about 10 inches long.
His back and his wings resemble
Plymouth Rock.
The red extends from the back Of his
neck over the head down to where the
bill begins.
The female of the species has the red
Of the head restricted to the back of the
head, or neck, and the red Of the abdo-
men is very pale, II there is any at all.
Many observers say they never see any
red on the lower parts of the male, either.
but 1t is there, although sometimes quite
pale, and at others almost non-existent
This is a nice bird, and good one
to have around, although farmers look
askance at 1t, believing it eats much
fruit.
It Is true 1t eats fruit. but there are
not many Of these woodpeckers. after all.
It Is questionable whether as a group,
they do very much damage.
It Is said that they eat oranges in the
South (this might be tip to local bird
lovers. Yet Investigators, examining the
stomachs of these birds down there,
failed to find any evidence OF orange
pulp. Maybe it is too quickly digested
to leave any traces.
Persons interested in bird life, who
happen to have an orange to spare, some
day, might try cutting it in half and
putting 1t out for the birds, especially If
there are woodpeckers in the neighbor-
hood.
AS we recall, no one Of the many
letters which have come to this column
over the years has ever suggested trying
this fruit for the birds.
Perhaps the slightly acid character
would prevent most Of the songsters
which winter here from trying it, and
yet cherries, favorites of many birds, in
cluding the robins in the springtime, are
quite as acid in character.
II any one wishes to try this expert
ment, we would suggest some above
freezing afternoon. The cut orange could
be placed in the grass, not too close to
a feeding station, but not too far away.
either.
Evening star., 1942-01-23
Enchanted Flowers

The moonwort glotDs in the dark
Fragile and pale as a dream,
Luminous as a spark
OF icy fire, or q beam
From a legendary moon.
What spirit smiled to see
Its CLEAN at nights high noon?
What ancient alchemy
Devised a spell that turned
A fo,Der as 1t gretD,
From coloring that burned,
Into q stranger hue;
A pdn and pedrly disc
That glimmers its faint Hight,
A ghostly astertsk
Upon the page of night?
MARY WILLIS SHELBURNE.
Evening star., 1942-01-23
Facts and Figures

Inc nrSt report TO the Nation by
the Office of Facts and Figures,
headed by Archibald MacLeish, is a
well-rounded presentation of the
progress this country has made
toward preparing itself for total
war, while strengthening the hand
of its Allies.
BY and large, the report deals
with what has been and will be ac-
complished, not with what we have
failed, to accomplish. In the main,
however, the picture it sketches is
one filled with encouragement.
Mr.. MacLeish begins with the as
sumption that in modern warfare it
is mot stocks in reserve but pro-
duction capacity in prospect which
makes a nation powerful" Con-
sidered in this aspect, he declared.
the country can take much salts
faction in the facts recorded in the
report.
The brightest aspect Of the docu-
ment is the confident assertion that
the United States, with British aid,
can and will outbuild the Axis in
planes and tanks, which are de-
Scribed as the two most important
weapons in this war. Further, Mr..
MacLeish stated, we now have -four
types of combat planes better than
anything yet produced abroad, so far
as is known" 1t was indicated,
though not specifically stated, that
this reference was to bombers, but
at no point in the report was there
any criticism Of American pursuits.
This is interesting and possibly sig
nificant in view of the Truman COM
mittee's recent adverse comment on
the quality of our pursuit ships.
The report states without hesita-
ton that our hope of victory lies in
the future, yet there is no suggestion
of anything but complete confidence
on that score. The foundations for
a total war effort, Mr.. MacLeish
states, have been laid, and, while
they are good and strong, they are
foundations only. "The President"
he added, "has told us that we must
face the fact of a hard war, a long
war, bloody war, a costly war How
hard war, how long, how bloody,
at how great cost, depends on how
quickly we can erect the necessary
structure upon these vast founda-
tions. The answer will be given by
132,O00,000 Americans who, never
having failed in any crisis, now face
the gravest crisis in their history"
Evening star., 1942-01-23
Archbishop Retires

When on March 81 the Most
Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang sur
renders his Office as Archbishop Of
Canterbury, the Church Of England
for second time in a decade and a
half will experience a change Of
leadership brought about by the
voluntary decision of its head. His
predecessor, Archbishop Davidson,
resigned at the age of eighty in 1928.
Responsibilities of leadership" DR..
Lang said, prompted his relinquish-
ment of his high Office. "The times"
he explained, demand ardor,
vigor and decisiveness Of mind and
spirit" At seventy-seven, though he
was not conscious of any lessening
of his physical or mental powers, he
believed that he should step down
in favor of younger man. The war,
to which he referred as "the greatest
crisis which the country has had to
meet in all its long history" un-
questionably, affected his action.
Great tasks of reconstruction must
await the church as well as the state"
in the period to follow the restoration
of peace, and the Archbishop elected
to retire in advance of that event so
that he who will take up the burden
may prepare, beginning Immediately,
for the era of rebuilding.
DR.. Lang, of course, cannot name
his successor. That privilege is the
Kings, and, if his majesty should
nominate a man as old as the re-
firing incumbent, the church would
not protest. In other words, the
number Of years that man has
spent in the world is not imperatively
a matter of consequence in relation
to appointment as primate OF all
England The Archbishop, himself
proceeding in line with the example
of DR.. Davidson, merely suggests to
his sovereign policy predicated
upon relative youth. That his desire
will be respected issassured.
But in things ecclesiastical as in
things altogether secular and mum
dane, there are exceptions to every
rule and a man is not necessarily
"too old" at seventy-seven. Much
depends upon circumstances having
nothing to do with mathematics. The
Anglican branch of universal Chris
tianity is accustomed to maturity in
its leadership, and the London Times,
commenting upon DR.. Lang's decision,
expresses a sentiment which may be
widely felt when it remarks: "He is
a greater man and more successful
Archbishop than he was a dozen
years ago." at only sixty-five.
In this connection it is distinctly
worthy of mention that the next
archbishop may have the advantage
of the counsel of DR.. Lang at least
in the early portion of his term. The
present crisis furnishes the church
with an opportunity which both men
will appreciate to the full.
Evening star., 1942-01-23

agency with no past of political manipu-
lation and subservience, no present
characterized by evasion or inefflciency
and no future dedicated to selfish minor
ity interests in times of national peril.
Delegating such plenary power to Mr..
Henderson does not preclude either the
necessity or possibility of Mr.. Wickard
acting in a friendly advisory capacity
and surely there is nothing in the public
record which would lead us to believe
that Mr.. Henderson would arbitrarily
refuse to avail himself of Mr.. Wickard's
unquestioned ability and resource.
THOMAS E. MATTINGLY, M. D.
Evening star., 1942-01-23
Discusses Need for Support
OF Hospital Services.
To the Editor Of The Star:

4O INC 6Oltor OF Iue 6tdI.
Residents of Greenbelt, Nd, recently
voted against an annual tax OF 81 per
family to help maintain Greenbelt Hos
pital. That, Of course, is their privilege.
But, being nurse, often wonder If
people in general should not be more
hospital conscious" Only those who
work in hospitals realize the tremendous
cost Of their upkeep.
The wear and tear on linen and equip
ment is severe, due to daily hard usage,
sterilization and laundering.
Likewise, the enormous cost of central
heating, hot water, gas and electricity,
is something which many people would
gasp at.
Then, the personnel must be paid their
hard-earned salaries. And there are
other expenses too numerous to mention
necessary for the proper functioning Of
a hospital. It is true that most patients
pay for treatment in a hospital. This is
merely another reason why all people
should be interested in their local hos
pital institutions.
With the cooperation Of all citizens,
hospitals could become objects Of civic
pride. They should be outstanding
examples Of the strictest hygiene and
sanitation.
New hospitals could be erected when
needed, to take the places Of old, un-
sanitary buildings. Through the proper
interest of all people hospital standards
would be 50 raised that even the short.
age of personnel would be overcome, as
more young persons would be attracted
to the nursing profession.
Hospitals could become places where
not only the body Is brought back to
health, but also where the heart and
soul receive a moral boost to carry on
the strenuous duties Of these troubled
times.
MARY ROGERS GERsTER, R. N.
Evening star., 1942-01-23
Wartime GROWING Poins

It Is with a note of genuine regret,
but with a philosophical sense Of
resignation to the seemingly inev-
liable, that residents of Washington
watch the drastic and rapid trans
formation OF their "city beautiful"
into thriving, bewildering center of
accelerating wartime activity. Parks
and recreation fields so carefully
nouriShed and so jealousy guarded
in time of peace are being converted
daily into parking lots or sites for a
multiplicity Of temporary structures
designed to accommodate the thou
sands upon thousands of additional
workers expected to congregate here
in the coming months. But this is
war-war of the grimmest sort-and
II it can be won on the playing fields
Of the National Capital, the citizens
Of Washington are glad to make the
sacrifice.
Latest of the series of encroach-
mentS on park areas is to be found on
the Mall and in Potomac Park. The
famed Polo Field between the Po-
tomac River and the Tidal Basin al
ready has been paved with asphalt
and marked out as an automobile
parking lot for 1900 Navy Depart
ment cars. Four temporary Office
buildings for the Navy are to be
erected south of the Lincoln Me-
mortal Rejecting Pool, in an area
heretofore reserved for baseball and
hockey enthusiasts. Other tempo
raries," in the form of annexes to
the Navy Department, already have
been constructed on the other side
Of the pool, and a penthouse is be-
ing built atop one of the completed
annexes. In other parts of the city
similar changes are being made. The
permanent new building for the Gen.
eral Accounting Office in the block
bounded by Fourth, Fifth, G and H
streets NV. will be deferred so as
to make way for two temporary
buildings. On a site at the foot of
East Capitol street, near the new
Armory, will be placed two more
temporary structures. A service and
maintenance building, to contain a
cafeteria for 4,800 persons, is to rise
at Seventh street and Independence
avenue S.W.
Washingtonians would view this
changing panorama with fewer mis-
givings if they could erase from their
minds the picture of a post-World
War I Washington, afflicted with a
Temporary" hangover that threat
ened to become altogether too per-
manent. 1t was many years before
most Of the unsightly temporary
buildings of that war period disap-
peared from the Mall, from Union
Station Plaza and from other prom
inent areas. One or two of these
frame firetraps persisted through two
decades. Some of the so-called "tem-
porary' buildings were of such per-
manent construction that no serious
effort ever was made to demolish
them. The Navy and Munitions
Buildings on Constitution Avenue are
prime examples
All that Washington asks in all
earneStneSs amid today's growing
pains" is that the temporary build
inPS which of nocecsitv oro ha;o~
scattered throughout the city, with
out regard to long-view plans for the
Capital, be temporary in construc-
ton as well as in name, so that when
q better day comes, this presently
SCARED and dislocated city may be
restored readily to at least some
semblance of its original, carefully
planned appearance.
Evening star., 1942-01-23
Huskin's Answers
To Questions
BIZ Frederic J. Hdsktn.

reader can get the dnstDer to any
question OF fact by ,orittng The Ere-
ming Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric J. Hdskin, director, Washington,
D. c. Please inclose stamp for reply.
O. How long will 1t take to complete
the Trans-Isthmian highway which con-
meets the east and west coasts Of Pam
ama?-T. c.
A. 1t Is hoped that the highway viii b
completed and opened for trafac by
March.
O. How did the secretary bird receive
Its name?-H. r. r.
A. It was named at the time when
clerks and secretaries used quill pens,
from the fancied resemblance Of the
birds crest to the bunch Of quilts stuck
behind clerks ear.
@. Please tell me the correct way to
pronounce Corregidor.-G. 8.
A. The name is pronounced "Corray-
heedor" with the main accent on the
last syllable and a slight accent on tho
second.
@. How much sugar do we receive from
the Philippines ordinarily?-P. D. r.
A. More than one million tons Of sugar
are normally received in a year.
@. Please explain to me exactly what
is meant by 'pure-dye silk."-F. N.
A. The Federal Trade Commission
rules of November 4, 1885, define pure
dye silk as one made exclusively Of silk
fibers. containing no metallic weighing
and no other foreign substances. except
that necessary for dyeing and finishing
which shall not exceed Is per cent for
black silks and 10 per cent for other
Colors and white.