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Evening star., 1942-06-15

Sns Each chair and SOTO superb decorator
The obes have been chosen emphasize the period
brocotees dooks practical tapestries elaborate
veNets (cotton royon, decorator coos)
Workmanship! The solid mahogany exposed froes beou
fully Many decorative noheod trimming tot requires ory
skill All sofos hair filled with felt topping All
down cushions precious hon rbe odo
And What Vues! Soo and chairs like these seldom sole priced
We've only sofos and so two instances you'll find the
you'll how they look home)
Observation-Disclosures
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-08-20
FARMER-LABOR ASSOCIATION
NOT FARMER PARTY
(Park Region Echo)

Here's what Hjalmar Petersen has
to say about the Farmer-Labor asso-
citation, which is getting into HAL
mars hair recently:
"The Farmer-Labor association has
fallen under complete domination
and control of the Communists and
fellow travellers Because the FL.
association has for number of years
held state conventions, passed reso-
lutions, adopted platforms, endorsed
candidates and published the Mime
sofa Leader, it has, in the eyes of
many, been looked upon as the Farm
er-Labor party. But it is NOT the
party. 1t is simply a dues-paying
organization that has no legal stand
ing as a political party"
1t looks like Hjalmar won that
argument We'd like to hear the
reasons why the FL. association
should be considered party. Doubt
less there are no reasons. Extreme
radicals don't reason.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-08-20

Walter Nicholson, publisher of the
New Ulm Journal, former secretary
to Senator Henrik Shipstead and for
mer assistant to Victor Christgau,
when that gentleman ran the WPA
Walter has filed on the Republican
ticket against Stassen's publicity di-
rector, Senator Joe Ball, and will
fight it out without pulling any
punches and believe you me, Walter
knows how to do just that.
And to top it all off, we have
our good friend and fellow small
town publisher, Hjalmar Petersen
present railroad and warehouse COM
missioner, in the field for the Farm
er-Labor nomination for governor
Hjalmar should have no trouble
whatever in winning the nomination
and we predict that Governor-Lieut
Commander Harold Stassen will dis
cover between September 9th and
the ides of November that he has
been in a battle and that battle right
here in Minnesota.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-08-20

that body on May IL, 1922, mind
you. That chamber is not composed
of wild-eyed radicals but of sub
stantial men-of-affairs in England.
1t has direct membership of 5000
firms and companies, 80 industrial
and commercial associations, with a
total membership of $4,000 affiliate
members. Sniff at that if you like.
Deflation Tin the sense used here),
is sickness and if continued will re-
suit in economic decay and death
or more war! Initiation is life,
growth. General, overall tipping of
incomes, with mass production and
the consequent lowering of actual
costs, and thus ultimately the price,
sends the blood of economic life
pulsing through all the body polite
and economic.
No Fair Comparison.
And please don't drag in Ger
many's experience after the other
war, or Frances after the Revolu-
ton. The former consciously plunged
into over-inflation to liquidate in
ternal debts with cheap money, and
the latter was the malicious work
of expelled royalists to destroy the
Revolution, by flooding the country
with forged assignats. Thus our two
classic instances vanish like mist.
Il refer to the 1905 French Revo-
lution).
But we are warned that Ito quote
DR.. Jesness) "the race (inflationary)
goes on until eventually the situa-
ton is badly out of hand and all
classes are due for bad headache
after the bubble bursts"
Admittedly Soft we let it get
out of hand-or into the wrong hands
which puncture it as they did in
1920. This comes from treating
money as a commodity, in which
private corporations have the power
to create and destroy it. Money
should be controlled by an impartial
overall arbiter, not by money
mongers.
Anybody who drives car knows
that all the tires should be kept
evenly and properly" inflated, not
some over-inflated and one under
inflated-or flat.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-08-20
Government Issues
Honesty Made A Name
For Him
By Hjalmar Petersen.

The recent death of John Peter
son, alderman in the Minneapolis
city council for % years, calls to
mind long and useful career.
Born in Sweden he came to Min
neapolis as young man in 1884 and
followed the carpenter trade. He
became alderman in 1909 and retired
in 1887 after years of useful service
to the public Minneapolis had nine
mayors while Mr.. Peterson was
alderman, the record for length of
service in the council. But most
important was his honest and faith
full service He became known as
Honest John Peterson-a great tri-
butte to his service and rugged char
acter.
Mr.. Peterson was given much
credit for the building of the spa
cious Minneapolis auditorium, the
city market, development of upper
Mississippi navigation, and for city
employees and mothers pensions.
The venerable old gentleman who
was 70 at death, earned his nick
name, Honest john" early in his
council career when, as a member
of the claims committee, he began
scrutinizing municipal expenses with
critical eye.
The Minneapolis Tribune stated
that she discovered, for example.
the city was being charged SIS each
for nurses caps, did some private
investigating, and found they could
be bought for rs cents each.
Gle thought the amount of hay
being purchased for fire horses was
unduly large, and did some more
investigating. Using his carpenter
rule, he measured the hay loft in the
fire station, and found it could hold
only half as much hay as the fire
chief said had been put into it.
"And during the council graft in
vestigation which started back in
1928, never finger was pointed at
Honest John" Peterson in connec-
tlon with any OF the reports and
rumors, some of which resulted later
in prison terms for several aldermen.
"a fighter to the end of his serv-
ice, Peterson said at the time of his
retirement that he had had enough.
political controversy naturally
follows when one is elected to an
administrative and legislative office,
he said, but I feel I have had more
than my share
"a Republican when first elected
to the council, Peterson later be-
came a Non-partisan Lacquer and
subsequently Farmer-Laborite.
HE was a member of the car
penters' union, Grace Lutheran
church, and the Masonic lodge"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-08-20
|;(1!l!!l!!t|;Farfll
war news
BY Mrs. Chas. Krantz
Pine County Farmer Fieldwoman.

An Eskimo would gladly swap his
fur-lined parka and other cold re-
siSting apparel for an army flier's
sheep-lined suit. Scientific tests
have proved that the ordinary sheep
skin is far warmer than other furs-
and that includes bear, beaver, fox,
rabbit and wolverine pelts. Sheep
skins are better able to stand up
under the heavy wear the filters give
them, the skin part of the pelt being
treated in such a way as to make it
flame-proof, wind-proof and acid
proof. These statements were made
by c. L. Harlan of the Bureau of
Agricultural Economics, Washington,
D. c., in recent article which he
prepared in emphasizing the army's
need for sheepskins or "shearlings''
with wool from rs of an inch to "
inch in length.
"There is only one catch to the
story" says Mr.. Harlan. ''It takes IL
'shearlings' to outfit an aviator with
parkahood, jacket, gloves, pants and
boots-or about 80 square feet of
sheepskin. Multiply that figure by
$4,000 (our airplane goal for 1922,
and then multiply by about three
since pursuit ships take about one man
and bombers take more. The result
is big enough to make any sheep
worry about its skin and enough to
make the army wonder if there will
be enough pelts to 60 around"
Mr.. Harlan states that the De-
partment of Agriculture is well
aware of the problems that compli-
cate the shearling situation, but such
problems do not appear to be insur-
mountable. eff we can build IS ZOO
airplanes a year and train pilots to
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-08-20
British Catholics Map
Social Order

News Service of the Post War
World Council reports that joint
pastoral letter, read in all Roman
Catholic churches in England and
Wales, suggested ten point mini
mum for a Christian way of life. 1t
was signed by Archbishops of West
minister, Liverpool, Birmingham and
Cardiff. Included in the ten points
were:
A living wage based on sufficiency
for comfort and for saving.
Determining factors would be an
agreed standard of work, the capa-
city of industry to pay, and an agreed
minimum for an average family.
When the employer could not pay
the minimum, the difference should
be made up by share out of a wage
percentage pool or by the state.
The wife should not have to work
to insure a minimum living income
No one should have to sleep in q
living room; there should be salts
factory sanitation and bathroom
for each family; slums should be
abolished.
The enormous inequality in the
distribution of wealth and control
of the lives of the masses by a COM
paratively few rich people is con-
trary to social justice.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-08-20
THE REAL EVIL
Editor Askov American:

fAShOV
About the time when I first started
to write in these columns about
monetary matters and economics,
some Is years ago, very little cred
ence was placed in my understanding
of the matter. Most people believed
that wealth consisted of a large bank
account, inflated stock values and
high values on real estate, way out
of relation to its earning power, all
pegged by the gold standard. How
ever, most people think now as I
did then. 1t is generally recognized
that the economic welfare of coun-
try is dependent on its production
and distribution of its buying power,
so that the people can buy back the
equivalent of what they produce.
While initiation is better under
stood than then, still many people
do not understand initiation. Infla-
ton is merely an indication of an
evil-the evil being a lack of pro-
duction and unsatisfied natural de-
mand for necessary goods. The real
evil is lack of production and scar
city of goods people need. Many
people seem to think that Germany's
downfall began with the after war
initiation. However, Germany was
ruined by the World war, dissipat-
ing her production for war and not
producing the things she really
needed, food, clothing and other nee
essities.
Initiation is a natural sequence of
war and while it may be controlled
to a certain extent it is inevitable
in various degrees-depending on how
much production has been curtailed,
and the bonded Indebtedness incurred
during the war. In other words, it
is one of the prices people pay for
war. All financial stability in the
Axis countries has been abandoned,
they now depend on loot to keep their
economic and war machines going.
1t is hardly necessary to say that
that won't work long, no matter how
great their military victories.
Economics like everything else
have been distorted and complicated
but it is merely coordinated produc-
ton and distribution.
S. J. SIMONSEN.
PeaSe, MINI.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-08-20
PINE COUNTY RURAL
SCHOOL NEWS
A. E. GUSTArsoN, County supt.

Edwin Bossen enters the U. S.
Army, leaving district No. "A va
cant. We still have ten vacancies.
District No. 1876 schoolhouse will
be moved out of the wilderness to
we'll chosen spot about mile
north on the MISUNDERSTANDING state
road in Clover township.
The school board in district No
"a has notified us that they will try
Transporting their IL pupils to Stur-
geon Lake this year. Roads there
are good and no teacher has yet
been found for No. "a.
A large swarm of honey bees
found their way into the hay NOV
of the barn of Harold Gysbers, chair
man of district No. 80, Hinckley.
They are located in such a way that
it will be impossible to remove them
or coax them out. Has any one a
bright idea?
Mrs. Ellen Frye, clerk of Crosby
No. IS, will teach No. liz. Mrs.
Lillian Glader, clerk of Rock Creek
No. 4, has been selected to teach No.
Is. Miss Ruth Fuller takes the nine
months school No. 80 left vacant by
Miss Mary Pulkrabek's recent res
ignation. Mary expects to 60 into
defense work. Miss Edith Krantz
has signed up for No. 81 our south
east corner school. Leonard Skinner
will teach No. 26 west of Willow
River if Uncle Sam does not need
him too badly elsewhere. Mrs. Nor
ris Nelson has accepted No. 9 and
Mrs. Helga Miller will take care of
No. %. Miss Helen Krech con-
sented to help in this emergency by
accepting No. SO. So things are
happening rapidly. We hope to have
all schools filled by September 8.
According to old state schedules,
nine-month schools should open on
the first Tuesday after Labor day.
This year it would be September 8.
We have not yet received the state
schedule. Just what effect the new
primary election date will have re-
mains to be seen. Many schoolhouses
are used for voting. Many parents
depend upon older children to take
care of things while the parents 60
to vote. Many teachers are old
enough to vote and should vote. So
election days are considered legal
(and schooD holidays when they
occur while schools are in session.
Our primary election September 8,
and general election on November 8;
now fall on school days. So schools
should start on Wednesday, Septem-
Der 9, unless our state schedule ex-
plains differently. School board
should decide too.
Many schools expect to remain
closed until September Is, because
help is needed in harvesting pota-
toes, beans, etc. Our teachers sup
ply boxes will be ready Saturday,
August 20.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-08-20

Editor Askov American:
Serious consideration should be
given to the philosophy of Dr. Fran
els E. Townsend on distribution of
buying power through annuities to
the aged.
This philosophy has been conceived
and promoted in good faith for nine
years now, and some of our leading
national economists have favored
and recommended congressional
hearing on the Townsend bill which
is identified as H. R. 1896. We will
come far short of our enviable demo-
cratic spirit if we fail to have this
humanitarian bill discharged from
the Ways and Means committee for
a just and deliberate hearing before
Congress.
Millions of clean cut American
citizens including thousands of sin
cere Minnesotans have Joined in this
Townsend crusade for better living
conditions among the old folks and
for the opening of new fields for
employment of the youth. We can
not afford to shrink from our re-
sponsibility to the youth and to the
aged, and hope that full weight will
be placed behind the Townsend
movement until our Congress has
gathered the full data and made its
announcement on this issue.
AUSTIN 0. SARFF.
Walker, MINI.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-08-20
Continued from Page y


sions, etc., must likewise take alti-
.tude.
It is at this point that our friend
DR.. o. B. Jesness and his associates,
together with members of all ''fixed"-
income groups, have cause for pro-
test against initiation. Short-sighted
regents, state and federal authorities,
pension boards, etc., are blind to this
law of balance. They neglect, even
refuse to increase pay except under
great pressure and after the payees
have suffered losses. That's the rea-
son DR.. Jesness and most of the edu-
cational profession oppose monetary
initiation. Personally the reason is
good one Socially it is very bad
Whole Thing Cockeyed.
But they are in the same boat with
old age pensioners. The price of
butter goes up, which makes the
farmer happy. Wages go up, which
makes the wage-earner smile. The
cost of living goes up, which makes
the professor see red, because his
salary remains down. The farmer,
even though he knows the middle
man gets the lions share, grins as he
gets up-steen cents for swine. The
professor, the retired policeman and
the pensioned ex-soldier, utter I'M
printable words as they buy chuck
with their diminished down-steen
bucks month.
Of course the whole thing is cock
eyed. 1t is cockeyed because cock
eyed people handle and man-handle
our monetary system. If we could
get it into those cement blocks under
our hats that money is symbol and
that goods are everything - that
money is only a measuring stick and
that goods only possess value, then
we would be on the road to sane
behavior
Equated With Supply.
Let me set down here a quotation
with some parenthetical exclama-
tions), which sums the matter up
succintly:
Instead of trying to equate sup
ply with effective demand (that is
decrease goods to match little mon
ey), the chamber advocates that
future effective demand circulating
purchasing power in peoples pock-
ets), should be equated (made equaD,
with supply. There can be no such
thing (note that, as general over
production, of which complaint was
made after the last war, although, of
course there can be overproduction
Of particular commodity in rela-
ton to others. The real trouble is
underconsumption" due to insult
ficient circulating money, of course).
The Dynamic Truth.
That paragraph, which contains
enough dynamic truth to lift human
ity to an all-high level of civiliza-
ton, was not uttered by savants nor
crackpots, but by practical, hard
headed businessmen. It is the Of
fetal declaration of the London
Chamber of Commerce, adopted by
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-08-20
MADAME CHANG KAI-SHEK
SPEAKS

(Post War World CounciD
Celebrating her twenty-fifth ami
versary from Wellesley College,
Nine. Chang Kai-shek broadcast a
message from China to America.
She said:
81 have faith that from the cru
cifixion experienced in this war the
democracies will learn the lesson
that prevention is better than cure;
that it is better to prevent wars than
win wars. But war can only be
prevented if the world society is so
constituted that all races are given
equal opportunity to develop their
native genius, not hampered but
aided by stronger and more adj
vanced races"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-08-20
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
Continued from Page u

tCOntlnueO from rage ~
war may be the Russo-German bat
tie for the Caucasus. 1t does not
look very bright for the Russians,
therefore, not for the other United
Nations. The NaZi armies are bor-
ing their way deeper and deeper into
the Caucasus, and are, at the same
time, getting ever closer to Stain
grad.
1t will be as bad for the Rus
slams to lose Stalingrad as it was
to lose SebastopOl and Rostov,
but the most menacing feature
of that war is the possibility that
the enemy may cut off Russian
access to both the Black Sea and
the Caspian Sea.
There is the further possibility that
if the Nazis do march through the
Caucasus, they may attempt to get
into neutral Turkey, into Iran per
sia), and into Afghanistan in a prob
able effort to reach India. The Brit
ish, foreseeing that eventually, long
ago placed strong forces in Iran and
Iraq, and neutralized Nazi efforts
in Afghanistan. Turkey remains
neutral nation so far, but little
matter like formal neutrality doesn't
bother Hitler if it is in his way, so
if he needs passage for his troops
through Turkish territory, he will
do to it what he did to Denmark and
Norway-that is, simply march in
and occupy it.
Second Front.
For several days, in connection
with the acute Russian crisis, rum
ors have been circulated to the effect
that British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill is-or has benin Mos
cow, carrying on conversations with
Premier Stain and Foreign Minister
Molotov. If the rumors, not denied,
not confirmed, are true, they mean
that the Second Front is still mat
ter for deep study among the men
who direct the affairs of the war;
That Second Front simply
means the general offensive
which the United Nations may
be planning to start against Hit
Ter wherever he has his positions
on the European continent.
But not word comes out about
such plans. This is natural. They
cannot be revealed in advance, for
that would mean their defeat be-
fore their realization had begun.
The projects of the major strategists
must of necessity remain the deep
est of all deep secrets.
End Not in Sight.
When you look at the war close
to Australia, the war in Europe, the
war in Asia, you inescapably come
to the conclusion that the end of the
war is not yet in sight.
In few days it will be three
years since it started, and ordinary
reasoning will make it clear to you
that it cannot be finished until the
axis powers are ground into the dust.
There is no other possible outcome
of the whole sorry mess, and there
can be no security awaiting future
generations unless what Mr.. Church.
i'll has stigmatized as Hitlerism goes
down forever Just now, we have
dark moments, but, after all, there
is some profound truth hidden in the
old saying about it always being
darkest just before dawn.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-08-20
ANDERSON'S BIG VOTE
(Mapleton Enterprise)


All this fuss and fume on the part
of various Republican factions to
promote candidates for the lieutenant
governorship is caused of course by
the prospect that the winner will
probably become governor if Stassen
is reelected. The rush to offer the
voters what one politician called ga
candidate with the stature and states
manship necessary for Minnesota
governor" strikes us as somewhat
silly and senseless. Just what sound
arguments are there for the Repub-
lican voters to desert c. Elmer at the
primaries this year?
If young Anderson was good
enough to fill the lieutenant COVER
nor's chair in two previous cleo
tons, why not again? After all he
was twice elected with the full
knowledge of the voters that he
might be called upon to be governor
if anything happened to Stassen. His
vote was, in fact, larger than Stas-
sens in the 1910 election. He pleased
the state by taking seriously his job
of presiding over the State Senate
and studying for the job so as to do
it well. His election in 1888 might
be Laid to chance, one of the quirks
of political year that was full of
them. But his reelection in 1910
looked like a definite expression of
voters regard and confidence Why
should he look any less desirable this
year because the always present
chance that he might become gov
ernor is greatly increased?
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-08-20
MINNESOTA BATTLES
(Chaska Weekly Valley Herald)

Our old friend and neighbor, Hon.
Henry Arens, of Jordan, former SEN
ator, lieutenant governor and con-
gresham, has filed for the United
States Senate on the Farmer-Labor
ticket. Whatever may be said of
Henry Arens there is no man living
who knows him who can say that
he is other but an honest and honor
able man and whether he makes
the grade or not you can count upon
it that he will make a clean cam
paign and come out of it with his
honor unimpaired and unimpeached.
We have another from this district
who aspires to that same high honor,
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-08-20
Meeting Date Set
By Fire Survivors

W/H TINS war

The annual meeting of the Hinck-
ley Fire Survivors Association will be
held Sunday, September 6, in the
high school auditorium at Hinckley
according to an announcement by
Florence B. Dunn, secretary.
The business meeting will begin
at 100 p. m. and the program at
2:30 o'clock. Attorney M. B. Hurley
of Pine City will speak.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-08-20
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.
All letters must be signed with the
writer's name for our information.
Signed articles always are more eft.
fective, but II the writer does not
wish to have his name used. it win
be withheld).