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Askov American., 1943-10-14
Markville

A party was held in honor of Mrs
Clintin Coveau at their home east
of Markville last Saturday night. The
house was completely filled with her
many friends who wished to greet
her before she returns to Mr.. Coveau
at Coquille, Ore.
Richard Ballantine surprised his
folks when he arrived from Peurto
Rico last Friday for furlough. His
life in the navy seems to agree with
him. He is looking fine.
Walter Shew who has been home
on furlough left again for camp Fri
day afternoon.
A number of Markville high school
students went to Cloverton Friday
night to participate in the initiation
of the freshman class. From all re-
ports they had very enjoyable even
| ing.
The Arna Community club met
Tuesday night of last week. The spe-
cial feature was a reception for the
new teachers, Miss Johnson and Miss
Christianson. Following the business
meeting and program a social hour
including lunch, was enjoyed by the
large crowd that gathered for the
occasion.
The Luther League is sponsoring 6
missionary festival Friday night OF
this week. A missionary from China
will be the speaker. Everybody is
welcome to this gathering. 1t will be
at Zion Lutheran church.
The annual harvest sale of the
Markville Presbyterian church viii
be held in the church basement Fri
day night, October %. Preceding tho
sale a play entitled "The Courage Of
Consecrated Giving will be given.
Mr.. and Mrs. Erling Monson anC
son, and Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Green
wald of Jordan were visitors at the
M. J. Monson home over last Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Grevious anC
children of Minneapolis were visitor:
at the Mclean home Saturday anc
Sunday.
Dwight Hayden of Minneapolis wa:
home for visit with his folks Sun
day.
Virginia Kelck fell and sprainec
her arm Wednesday night of las
week while participating in a game
at the weekly "fun night" at the
Presbyterian church.
A sewing meeting was held by the
Presbyterian Ladies' Aid at the J. T
Ballantine home Thursday night ot
last week in preparation for the an
nual bazaar.
NJ J. Monson who has been VISITING
his son Erling at Jordon returned
home Saturday.
Askov American., 1943-10-14
melon, VIM. Kelch, VIM. Kelch; dry
beans, A. Mclean, Perry Roatch;

melon, VIM. Kelch, VIM. Kelch; dry
beans, A. Mclean, Perry Roatch;
green beans, Perry Roatch, A. Hollo-
way; parsnips, A. Mclean; peppers,
Mrs. Holloway; winter squash, Fred
Breezley, Ralph Ballantine; sorghum,
Fred Breezley; oats, Lee Ballantine
Rudolf Kelch; millet, Lee Ballantine;
soy beans, Ray Chipman; peanuts
Ray Chapman, Rudolf Kelch; swiss
chard, Perry Roatch; celery, Rudolf
Kelch; strawberries, Mrs Coleman, A
Mclean; grapes, Ed 'Monson, A. Nc
Lean; plumS, VIM. Kelch; crab ap-
Piles, Ed Monson, A. Mclean; large
apples, Ed Monson, Wm Grace; rhu-
barb, Ed Monson.
Fancy work: Table covers, Mrs
Walter Grewe, Mrs. Clare Anderson
pillow case, knitted lace, Mrs. Mer-
leen; pillow cases, embroidered, Mrs
VIM. Koech, Mrs. VIM. Kelch; pillow
cases with lace, Mrs. VIM. Kelch, Mrs
Clare Anderson; pillow tops, Mrs. w
Grewe, Mrs. VIM. Kelch; holders, Mrs
VIM. Kelch, Mrs. Clare Anderson
lace table covers, Mrs. Clare Ander-
son, Mrs. VIM. Kelch; dresser scarf
Mrs. w. Grewe.
Flowers: Pansies, Mrs. Coleman
lone GreviouS; roses, lone Grevious
dahlias, Mrs. Mclean, Mrs. j. Bal
lantine; hydrangeas, Mrs. A. Mclean
gladioli, Mrs. j. Ballantine, Mrs. Nc
Lean; blooming house plants, Mrs
Mclean, Mrs. w. Grace; foliage
plants, Mrs. j. Ballantine, Mrs. w
GreWe.
Canning: Fruit, Mrs. Perry Roatch
Mrs. Walter Grewe; vegetables, Mrs
H. Smyth, Mrs. P. Roach; mixed COL
lection, Mrs. J. Ballantine, Mrs. P
Babcock; pickles, Mrs. H. Smyth
Mrs. P. Roatch; jelly, Mrs. P. Roatch
Baked goods: White bread, Mrs. H
Smyth; dark bread, Mrs. p Pahos
Mrs. H. Smyth; cookies, Mrs. w
Grewe; doughnuts, Mrs. Jane:
Roatch; angel food cake, Mrs. j
Roatch, Mrs. R. E. Ballantine; white
butter cake, Mrs. Pahos; dark butter
cake, Mrs. Smyth, Mrs. P. Roatch
pie, Mrs. James Roatch, Mrs. Ralph
Ballantine.
All department.: Baking, Lylaf
Roatch; canning, Lylah Roatch; sew.
ing, Elizabeth Babcock; onions, Lylaf
Roatch; rhubarb, Rodney Barge; po-
tatoes, Lylah Roatch; Swiss chard
James Pahos, Lylah Roatch; squash
James PahOS Tv1ah ROatch. squash
James Pahos, Carol Ballantine, Lylaf
Roatch; field pumpkin, Rodney Barge
Rodney Barge; grapes, Rodney Barge
cabbage, Carol Ballantine.
Poultry: A. Mclean.
Hops: VIM. Kelch.
Askov American., 1943-10-14
Pleasant Hill
(Too Late for Last Week)

Mr.. Brown and Charley Kunz helped
Adrian Berglund dig and pick potatoe:
Saturday.
Sunday dinner guests at the Car
Kvasnicka home were Mr.. and Mrs. Car
Hultgren, Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy Ostluno
and Mrs Louis Hultgren.
Edward Mach has purchased a truck
and has taken over a milk route. He hauls
milk for the Kerrick cheese factory.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Kvasnicka and Merlin
were in Sandstone Tuesday.
Charles KunZ, Mr.. Brown and Adrian
Berglund helped Carl Kvasnicka dig po-
tatoes Monday.
Leroy Ostlund. Carl Hultgren and Car
Kvasnicka called on Adolph Larson Sum
day.
The younger Brown girl was on the sick
list Saturday. Friends were glad to hear
of her recovery.
Carl Kvasnicka was a caller at the
George Kalafut home Friday.
Joseph Di Santo of the Kerrick cheese
factory called at the N. G. Nelson and
Carl Kvasnicka homes Wednesday of last
week.
Fredolin Martinek was in Willow River
Tuesday for medical care.
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Prize Winners.

Here are the prize winners at the
Markville fair held early in Septem-
Der. In each case the first mentioned
received first place and the next re-
ceived second place:
Field and garden: Early potatoes,
Lee Ballantine, J. T. Ballantine; late
potatoes, VIM. Stuart, VIM. Stuart;
sweet corn, Bayard Hayden, A. Hol-
loway; field corn, Rudolf Kelch, Bay
ard Hayden; pie pumpkin, Fred
Breezley, Rudolf Kelch; tomatoes,
Mrs. William Kelch, Mrs. William
Kelch; carrots, Mrs. James Roatch,
Mrs. VIM. Kelch; bunch beets, Mrs
Harold Smyth, Mrs. James Roatch;
mature beets, Mrs. Harold Smyth,
Perry Roatch; onions, Perry Roatch;
cucumbers, Perry Roatch; watermel-
on, VIM. Stuart, VIM. Kelch; musk
Askov American., 1943-10-14
Kingsdale

Mr.. and Mrs. Tony Brogren, Shir-
ley and Leslie, Mr.. and Mrs. Chester
Cornelius and son of Pine City, Chas.
Sandal and Jack, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Sandal and family, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Simon Hedin and son from east of
town, and Mrs. Russell Nelson and
son of Danbury helped Mr.. and Mrs.
Carl Nelson celebrate their 25th we'd
ding anniversary Sunday.
The Kingsdale school defeated the
Stevens school in kittenball game
recently. The score was % to 6.
Mrs. Enock Ekberg will entertain
the Ladies' Aid at her home Wednes-
day, October 20.
Betty Aarlie went to Superior
Wednesday evening of last week to
attend teachers institute Thursday
and Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sven Carlson of St.
Paul visited at the Enock Ekberg
home Saturday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arnold Oredson and
sons and Mrs. T. Profit of Hinckley
visited relatives and friends here
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Enock Ekberg visited
at the Otto Gustafson home Sunday.
Ernest Lund came home from
Zumbrota Sunday to visit his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. c. A. Lund.
Bobby Haines left for st. Paul
Monday.
Mary Haines came home Sunday
from st. Paul to visit her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyde Haines.
Askov American., 1943-10-14

church service, October "a. Each
member is asked to bring short topic
for the program.
Toivo Norlund, who has been
working on the Alaskan highway;
came home the first of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Oltstiel of Viborg,
S. D., spent from Tuesday until Fri
day of last week visiting the latter's
brothers, Carl and Jorgan Hansen.
Two neighboring farms, three miles
south of town belonging to Ben Dan
ielson and Charley Peterson, have
been sold. Mr.. Peterson has rented
the Norkoli house in town, but Mr..
Danielson's future plans are not
known at this writing.
Askov American., 1943-10-14

The shellac coating formerly ap-
piled to oranges to prevent their
shrinkage in transit has been re-
placed by a wax coating to save shell
lac for war use.
Washington Journal., 1943-01-22

What his loyal people thought Of their
Prussian overlords was revealed signally,
while the King still lived, on Bismarck's
seventieth birthday, on the first day of April.
Then a public celebration was called for, but
the citizens refrained from tagging. During
the official fireworks a transparency showing
Bismarck's features was Kissed and hooted
down with cat calls.
Washington Journal., 1943-01-22

for Bavaria's loss of prestige and millions
of guilders for war indemnity to the Prusslans
in 1866. Or was it a thanks offering for their
shedding of Bavarian blood in that same year
on the Franconian battleields of Dermbach,
Hammelburg, Kissingen, Friedrichshall, Haul
sen, Waldaschach and Aschaffenburg as well
as for their military occupation of the Ba-
varian cities Wiirzburg and Nuremberg.
Erwin said his stepfather had pointed out
the offensive article in the newspaper to his
mother with the remark: "See what that
fresh DR.. Siegel has written here! If he keeps
this up, we shall hav to suppress his impud-
dent sheet. The worst of it is that the King
feels the same way. | hope nobody at Court
will draw his attention to that article. DIR.
Siegel gives us enough trouble with his per
sistent back biting at the Prussians. Should
he win open approval from the King, it would
be the limit. We can't afford to buck the
Prussians."
Washington Journal., 1943-01-22

Citizens of German blood in this
war, as in every other war in which
the United States have had q part,
certainly should not let themselves be
out-done by other groups. We are
all American citizens and we stand
as one in the defense Of u nation.
Washington Journal., 1943-01-22

Unsere Regierung hat die Wehr-
macht unseres Landes yum Schutze
ihrer Rechte und Freiheiten aufge-
boten. ALE Amerikaner ohne Inter
schied der Geburt und Herkunft,
darunter die Landesbirger deutschen
Blutes, stehen in diesem Kriege elm
mitig hinter ihrer Regierung. Anne
rika ist unser Land, das Land unse-
rer Kinder, das zu schutzen jetzt
unsere h0chste Aufgabe ist.
Washington Journal., 1943-01-22
We Are All Americans

We hold all wars to be
deplorable. Once a nation
is drawn into war, however,
unless an honorable peace
may be secured betimes, it
would be disastrous to be
beaten in that war. There
fore we hold it the duty Of
all loyal American citizens
to do all in their power to
help our country, the United
States of America, to win
its present war.
Washington Journal., 1943-01-22
Wir sind allie Amerikaner

Wir betrachten ale Krie-
ge ais bedauerlich. Aber,
wenn elm Volk NIT Krieg
iberzogen wird und bis es
einen ehrenhaften Frieden
erringen mag, ware es YER
heerend, zu unterliegen. Da-
her halten wir es fur die
Pficht aller treuen ameri-
kanischen Burger, allies in
ihrer Macht zu tun, unserem
Lande, den Vereinigten
Staten Won
Washington Journal., 1943-01-22
In the Shadow of the Mighty

Timidly we drew up to the waiting group
of civilian gentlemen, most of whom wore
swallow-tails and carried top hats in their
white-gloved hands. Happily their attention
was fixed elsewhere than on us. A kindly
gentleman with a massive gold chain around
his neck recognized Erwin and beckoned us
to him. Erwin, doffng his cap, greeted him
as "Herr Oberburgermeister." He was DR..
Ehrhardt, the burgomaster of Munich.
Erwin introduced us as his schoolmates.
eff you behave yourselves" said DR.. Ehr-
hardt, "you may stand behind me until /
am summoned to their Majesties. Don't talk
loud and be sure to take off your caps when
His Majesty, our King passes by! So soon
as the Eperor's special train arrives you
must shout: "Hoch Kaiser Wilhelm!'' and
keep shouting ''hoch' until the band strikes
up the Kaiserhymne'. When | am hidden
to their Majesties, you may follow toward the
reception room and then stand to one side
of the door, with your caps off and keeping
your mouths shut. Then, when their Majesties
come out presently, you can get a close view
Of them. | shall tell the secret agents on guard
to let you stand there, so long as you behave
yourselves
Soon we heard the distant foot of an engine.
Hans father (whose red cap among a small
group Of railway men on the outer platform
Hans had pointed out to Erwin and me) blew
a whistle. A loud bell rang. A garlanded
Washington Journal., 1943-01-22
Malcontents in Munich

Besides the f~anatical Catholics, known as
Blacks or "Ultramontanes" because Of
their adherence to the Vatican across the
Alps, there were other malcontents in Bavaria.
There was DR.. Siegel, the editor of "Das
Vaterland'', a newspaper in Munich, which
lost no chances Of digs at Prussia. This visit
Of Emperor William and his highest Prus-
sian councillors, Bismarck and Moltke offered
such a chance.
Erwin showed me that mornings issue of
ssDas Vaterland'', a copy of which his step
father had left On the breakfast table. It's
leading article, marked with a red pencil,
commented adversely on today's official flag
raisings and the request to the citizens to do
the same. The writer asked with biting sar-
casm whether this was intended as a requital
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-03-11
DISPROvES CONTENTION
(The Independent, Northfield)

We are often told that in govern
ment service the incentive to pro-
gress and invention ceases, but every
SO often a notable discovery or in
vention is made by someone in gov
eminent service to disprove this
contention. Latest of these instances
is the perfection of a device of COM
plete mechanical thinning of sugar
beets. The thinning of beets has been
a back-breaking job, done mostly by
i'll paid semi-peon Mexican labor,
which now has come into position to
demand decent pay for its work and
at that is almost unobtainable. The
new Improvement in thinning was
brought about through research work
of the agricultural research admin
istration, U. S. department Of agricul-
ture, and the equipment was devised
by engineers of the bureau of agri-
cultural chemistry and engineering,
working with other engineers at the
California and Colorado experiment
stations. Use of the machine reduced
the man hours required for thinning
from 27.2 hours to only 2.45 hours,
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SECURITY AND PROSPERITY

Editor Askov American:
The global war is taking its toll
in money, material, happiness and
human blood. We are fighting for
democracy over all the world. May
the Lord bless our worthy under
taking, and may we become con-
cious of the responsibilities which it
implies upon our nation, and our re-
lations to our citizens, their economic
welfare, happiness and future sta
bility.
The war has brought us face to
face with issues which have SIM
mered before us for years-national
security for all our people from the
cradle to the grave. We have come
to the parting of the ways. The war
will not bring relief to the old and
people in need-if anything it will
make their position graver, yes, far
more difficult then ever before, and
of vastly more importance to us as a
nation than we realize at the moment
Freedom from want must be one OF
our postwar problems which must
march hand in hand with the eco
nomic reconstruction, and the basic
reform upon which the new order
must be constructed in order to pro-
vide work and national security for
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SEN. GOODHUE WANTS MORE
BUREAUCRATS
(The Faribault JournaD


Senator Goodhue of our county
evidently is for more bureaucracy.
The senator is one of the authors
of a bill which would license refrig-
orator locker plants.
Why in the name of anything holy
do these plants need to be licensed?
They are in many instances operated
by cooperative creameries and they
need licensing no more than the
familiar cat needs nine tails.
All this bill will do is to saddle
the taxpayer with some more in
spectors or keep in office some who
desire more duties to build up a
bigger and better bureau.
Our farmers who patronize locker
plants should acquaint themselves
with this bill thus proposed by our
senator for in the long run it will
only mean a higher cost for locker
rentals.
With the COP charging that New
Deal bureaucracy is menacing our
war effort, it is surprising that Re-
publican Senator Goodhue would be
slipping in bill to increase it in
Minnesota. There's no difference be-
tween bureaucrats whether they are
New Dealers or reactionary Repub-
licans; they are all expensive dec
orations of a system which isn't truly
American.
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DOyAG The LBS That must sc DOVE.

cause she "has everything" And
many an American, musing on the
way this compelling little woman
has taken the country by storm, may
find something dimly rising in his
mind as if the same thing had been
done before. What was it, and when?
Oh, yes! It comes back now in a
flood of Renaissance and rising
warmth of the heart. Benjamin
Franklin at the French court in Yer
sailles, pleading with the king and
his ministers for help to the cause
of American freedom. France lis
tened and sympathized, and gave
generously of money and men and
moral support, and eventually the
fight was won.~-
: America can repay that help now,
indirectly, to suffering China. The
cause of freedom is the same the
world over And in the course OF
these great events the repayment OF
the floating debt of freedom will
come around, full circle, to France
herself May it be soon!
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-03-11
ACCOMPLISHED MUCH GOOD
(The Independent, Northfield)

(The Independent, Northfeld)
The Country Gentlemen and the
Faribault Journal, both critical of the
New Deal in most of its phases,
concede that the FSA (farm secur-
ity administrator has accomplished
much good in getting the down-and-
out farmer on his feet and urge that
this agency be continued. 1t must
be really good to win their approval
Well-to-do farmers, as represented
by O'Neal, president of the Amer
lean Farm Bureau federation, have
no need of the services of the FSA,
and some of them, the large planta-
ton owners of the South, particu-
larly, seem to feel that it interferes
with their vested interest in the
share-cropping system. That seems
to be at the bottom of the hostility
to the agency in congress, many OF
whose members, North as well as
South, apparently figure that wealth
is again in the ascendancy in the
political field and it is well to throw
their lot in with it.
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ASK FOR ACTION
Editor Askov American:


We members of the Minnesota
Conference of the Lutheran August
ana Synod take cognizance of the
fact that our nation is engaged in
total war calling. for the mobiliza-
ton of every material and spiritual
resource. We are faced with an in
siduous acknowledgements within
our gates-eating at the very vitals
of our national life, even going so
far as to prey upon our youth at
army camps and causing untold alb
senteeism in defense industries. The
traffic in strong drink goes on apace
when our nation struggles for its
very life This is national saboteur
number one and must be eliminated.
We plead with our people to
awaken to this present evil and to
use every possible: effort to combat
this industry that even during war
time would spread its nefarious
trade.
We call our peoples attention to
the Inconsistency which rations es-
sential goods and commodities, and
yet permits the liquor industry to
go on practically unrestrained and
to continue its high pressure pro-
motion campaign undated.
We urge our Minnesota Confer
ence constituency to use their influ-
ence in every way to secure the
speedy enactment OF pending tenn
perance legislation in the Mime
sofa state legislature. We ask our
people to write to their legislators
Immediately concerning these bills.
tAddress: State Capitol, st. PauD:
l. Senate File 465, House File 266
(Road House Billy: The purpose of
this bill is to prohibit the sale of
beer in all rural areas and to limit
its sale to incorporated cities and
villages where there is at least some
measure of police supervision
2. House File Is: This bill pro-
vides for local option elections on
the question of the sale of beer in
Minnesota villages.
3. House File 437: The purpose
OF this bill is to cOnhne the sale OF
beer to areas which permit the sale
of hard liquor.
A number of bills are introduced
providing for Sunday closing and
shorter hours during week days.
We ask our people to aggressively
aid every effort in their local COM
munities for temperance legislation
and advance.
We commend the legislators, state
and national, who support temper
ance and other moral legislation.
Rev. Reuben H. Ford.
Victor E. Lawson.
Rev. Ralph Peterson.
Edward o. Serstock.
Rev. NJ William Anderson.
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Farm War News
BY Mrs. ChaS. Krantz
Pine County Farmer Fieldwomar

Congress has so far refused to vote
funds for the $1OO,0OO,OOO incentive
program for war crops, program
originated by Marvin Jones, assist
ant to Byrnes, director of Economic
Sterilization. Farmers are asked to
forget farming as usual" and to
convert to needed war crops which
are: More flax and soybeans for oil,
more hog, poultry and dairy pro-
ducts, and more vegetables, dry edi-
BILE beans and potatoes.
A farmer is taking lot of chances
in expanding production, or when he
starts. raising new crops. He needs
more or different equipment. Ex-
panding always takes greater out
lay of cash or credit. Incentive pay
ments are to reimburse the farmer
in part for the added cost of ex-
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pansion. War crops are desperately
needed to properly feed civilians and
armed forces; S100,000,000 is lot
of money, but it is only 4i10 of 1es
of the total war cost and only drop
in the ocean compared to what the
government has given industry as
incentive to produce ornaments.
Now some one will say, "Why not
just raise the price on the needed
crops? That should encourage farm
ers to respond" The answer is:
Higher ceilings on farm products
would boost consumer food prices
also give initiation another boost
Thus, the governments cost of food
for armed forces and lend-lease
would far exceed the incentive pay
ments to farmers. Those. that con-
tend that consumers have ample pur-
chasing power to pay higher prices
are thinking only of workers in well
paid defense jobs. They are not
considering the majority of the ma
tons consumers-the common labor
ers, teachers, preachers, office work
ers and all white collared workers.
Our AAA program assures consum-
ers abundant food at fair prices.
AAA wants any changes to add up
for the good of the country.
The Pace bill before Congress
wants parity raised IL per cent in
stead of incentive payments. 1t will
increase the price of corn and wheat
which We have an abundance of,
and discourage production of the
things we need, such as hogs, dairy
and poultry products, because Of
higher feed costs. Incentive pay
ments will not directly benefit Pine
county farmers. We are not in the
flax or soybean area. We do not
have facilities for harvesting dry
edible beans, and late blight has dis
couraged potato growing. But farm
ers in Pine county realize that lack
of flax and soybean meal will affect
us as a nation intent on winning the
war as quickly as possible. We also
have the interest of the consumer in
mind. Farmers, too, are consumers.
They want prices kept in control.
Your letter to our representatives in
Washington asking for feed wheat
and incentive payments will bring
results.