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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-03-25
(Too Late for Last Week)

Sam Haines left Monday for Canada
where he will be employed in defense
work. Sam spent the past two months
here with his family.
Miss kriStine Kohleppel left Sunday
for st. Paul where she is employed after
spending. two weeks with her mother
and brothers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Peterson returned
home Sunday from Duluth where they
had gone Saturday to attend the wedding
of niece.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-03-25

Sunday evening at the L. Sheehan
home near Askov and helped Mrs
Sheehan celebrate her birthday.
Mr.. and Mrs. August Vogt went
to the Twin Cities Friday to attend
the funeral of a relative.
Frank Hobbs spent from Monday
until Wednesday on jury duty in Pine
City.
Mrs. Tony Faudskar spent the past
weekend in Minneapolis with her
daughter, Mrs. Kenneth Payette, and
family.
The Misses Marian Scott and Ange-
line Jacobson spent the weekend
visiting friends and relatives in the
Twin Cities.
There will be American Lutheran
church services Wednesday evening
March 81, at p. m. Rev. Paul Doe
of Superior, will have charge. Ev-
eryone is welcome.
Sunday evening callers at the Joe
Koenings home were Mr.. and Mrs
George Heino, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Michaelson, Jr., and Henry Wall
baum.
Frank Kaeder came from ST. Paul
Saturday to get Mrs. Kaeder and chill
dren after they had spent last week
at the Edward Kaeder home. Other
Sunday callers there were Mr.. and
Mrs. Alvin Ladd.
Pfc. and Mrs. Stanley Laska and
daughter spent Saturday afternoon
and Sunday at the Vincent Laska
home. Stanley was enjoying short
furlough with his family. He left
Wednesday from Duluth for Fort
Benning, Ca, where he is stationed
Other Sunday dinner guests at the
Laska home were Mr.. and Mrs. Ern-
est Aim of Hinckley. Mr.. and Mrs
Bud Laska and Mrs. Albert Nelson
and baby. Afternoon callers were
MIR. and Mrs. Russell Hills and Bev-
erly of Hinckley, and Mr.. and Mrs
Henry Scheeler
Weekend guests at the Chas. Hen
Erickson, Sr., home were Mr.. and
Mrs. Elmo Hendrickson and Lois,
Jackie Thompson and Hugo Teras
all of Duluth, and Miss Harriet Lar
sen of Lake Eleven.
The public is invited to attend the
free program and movie to be held
at the school auditorium Tuesday
evening, March 81, at 8 p. m.
Anyone having photograph they
70 uix fha Of ho
armed forces may bring it to the
schoolhouse at any time.
George Whitman and son Roy left
the latter part of last week for South
Chicago. They will be employed on
the Great Lakes.
There will be church services Sun
day, March %, at st. Johns Finnish
Lutheran church at 100 p. m. AT
this service there will be dedication
of the new service flags. The Luther
League will meet after the service.
Daniel Miller, who spent last week
here with relatives, left Saturday for
ST. Paul. He will be employed there
Urho Raunio came from San Fran
cisco, Calf, Monday to visit his
sister, Mrs. Urho Tapanila, and fam
lily before going on to Cleveland,
Ohio, where he will be employed
on a Great Lakes boat.
Mr.. and Mrs. Werner Haapanen
and baby were callers last Thurs
day evening at the Urho Tapanila
home
Mrs. Ray Norman returned home
Friday after spending week with
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-03-25
(From Another Correspondent

The Markville Community club is
sponsoring box social at the school
house Wednesday evening, March 81,
proceeds to be given to the Red Cross.
Ladies bring boxes, lunch will be
sold to those not getting boxes. A
program beginning at $50 o'clock
will precede the sale of boxes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-08
Galveston the Gateway
Of Immigrants to Texas

Virtually every nation in Europe
has contributed to the population
and development of Texas during
the last hundred years, and Calves
ton provided the gateway through
which this stream of immigrants,
people of many tongues and cultures,
flowed into the vast expenses of the
state to establish farms, ranches
and settlements.
Perhaps no other state, not even
those of the Atlantic seaboard, has
had blended into it's character and
culture so many diverse elements,
nor has felt the influence of so many
radically different and, to some ex-
tent, conflicting pressures.
The result is something unique,
even in this melting pot that is the
United States, says the Galveston
Daily News. Of the Old world thou
sands who streamed through Gal
weston in quest for freedom or
wealth many have fingered on the
island and together they have given
it, incidentally, that peculiarly cos
mopolitan character which makes
it notable among cities of its size.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-08
No Cheyrons Available

There was no little chagrin at
Camp Crowder, Mo-, recently when
it was discovered that there were
no chevrons Immediately available
for pair Of privates who had just
been promoted to corporals. The
two soldiers, old friends and close
buddies, when they were notified of
their promotions raced to the COM
pany supply room to draw their first
pair of stripes. The supply room
was closed-it was late in the day.
They next tagged a bus and, went
into nearby Neosho, Mo. They
stopped at one Neosho store-only
one set of corporal's chevrons in
stock. Down the street they went,
stopping in at other stores along
the way. But after combing the
town they still had only one pair
of chevrons between them. So they
talked it over, stepped into tailor
shop and had the stripes sewed to
their sleeves-one on the right
sleeve of Corporal No. 1 and the
other on the left sleeve of Corporal
No. 2. The rest of the evening they
strolled around the town shoulder to
shoulder, hiding two stripeless
sleeves between theml
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-08
Fruit to Be Frozen
Must Be Fully Ripe

Harvest practice in picking fruit
for freezing is different from pick
ing fruit for fresh market sale, the
department Of agriculture points
out. For market sale many fruits
are picked unripe to allow for ripen-
ing as they roll to market.
For finest flavor, fruit for freezing
must be fully mature. It must be
handled rapidly and promptly. A
short storage period may be allow
able, and this will vary with the
kind of fruit, but it will be con-
siderably shorter, than for the same
fruit harvested for the fresh mar
ket. Weather conditions dampness
or dryness-will largely determine
the permissible storage period for
the full ripe fruit intended for freez-
ing.
In the case of berries a further
modification of harvest practice is
important. Pickers should thorough
ly clear the bushes of ripe berries
at every picking. Full ripe fruit
left on the plant may quickly be-
come moldy, especially in damp
weather, and so contaminate an
entire lot at the next picking.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-08
HOW Do You Saw II?

Do you say "Ahnt Nellie" "Awnt
Nellie" or cant Nellie?
It doesn't matter particularly, ac-
cording to Prof. Joseph F. O'Brien
Of Pennsylvania State college, 50
long as your pronunciation is accept
able to educated people in the Sec
ton where you live.
"Too many teachers have become
nearsighted in the matter Of pronun-
ciation," Professor O'Brien said. eff
two or three recommendations are
permissible for a particular word,
children should be allowed to use
whichever is most natural to them.
''Where dictionaries give choice,
there is often a very close margin
in their selection Of the one which
comes first" Professor O'Brien de-
clared. s'It is foolish to insist that
children In the Middle West use a
broad "a in such words as bath,
cant laugh, and dance when
such usage is common only in New
England and among certain portions
Of the population of New York city"
Undue stress on pronunciation
may lead to ridiculous results, he
added. Using ''nate-yure" for '.na-
ture" and .fort-yune" for fortune, !"
for example, is clumsy and is sell
dom heard outside a classroom.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-08
Indian Ocean Islands

Although there are relatively few
islands in the Indian ocean, several
are well known. Most important is
land after Madagascar Fourth larg-
est island in the world) is Ceylon,
close to the southeastern shores Of
India. To the northeast and east,
virtually in the Bay Of Bengal, are
the Andaman and Nicobar islands,
the former seized by Japan. Among
others of the better known islands
are Reunion (French), and Mauri-
thus (British), east Of Madagascar;
and the Seychelles, British group
north of that island. The colorful
island of Zanzibar, ruled by a sui
tan under British Protectorate, lies
close to the shores of British East
Africa. The partly barren island of
Socotra, off the southern coast Of
Arabia, is famous as the "Island
of Frankincense."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-08

The secretary Of the treasury and
the treasurer of the United States
are different officers of the govern
ment. The secretary of the treas
ury is the head of the treasury de-
partment and as such is member
of the Presidents cabinet charged
by law with the management of the
national finances. The treasurer of
the United States is not a member
of the cabinet; he is an important
subordinate in the treasury depart
ment charged with the receipt and
disbursement of public money de-
posted in the treasury at Washing
ton and in the other depositaries
authorized by the secretary of the
treasury to receive deposits of gov
eminent funds for credit in the
treasurer's account. The Office of
treasurer of the United States was
created by the act of September 2,
1889, and Samuel Meredith of Penn
sylvania was the first man to fill
the Office.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-08
Dogs Do Sentry Duty
At Munitions Plant

A German shepherd, Norwegian
elkhound and greyhound, the first
dogs to do sentry duty at a war
plant, now are on duty at muni-
tons factory in the Hudson river
valley.
According to the plant officials,
they are acquitting themselves
beautifully, adding to the effective
ness and the morale of the plant
watchmen. They have not as yet
had any occasion to give warming
of intruders but, the guards are
sure, will give prompt notice of any
spy or saboteur who might ap-
proach the fences which they are
patrolling.
Their assignment is regarded as
especially important for several
reasons. In the first place they
represent the fulfllment of the first
commission which the organization
received. For another thing the
dogs are serving as a memorial to
the late Herman E. Mellenthin, not
ed cocker spaniel breeder, since he
was the one who brought in the COM
mission for these dogs-one of the
last acts before his fatal illness.
Still another point is that these dogs
are the first turned out by amateur
trainers.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-08
Coal Chiefly Carbon

Coal, which is composed chiefly OF
carbon (anthracite being almost en-
tirely carbon, is a sedimentary
rock formed from decayed vege-
table matter. It generally is be-
lieved that coal originated in
swamps similar to present day peat
boys, near the sea level and subject
to repeated submergence. In de-
composing, the substance became
peat; oxygen and hydrogen were
eliminated to greater extent than
carbon. Metamorphosis, or change
of form, due in some extent to pres
sure, resulted in Ignite and coal.
Although coal has been formed in
other geologic periods the forma-
ton occurred chiefly in the Carbon
ferrous period.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-08
Flowing on the Contour

Pastures and meadows which are
subject to erosion and which are
plowed for the production Of corn or
soybeans can often be plowed on
the contour, leaving buffer strips
of sod to mark the contour lines
and wide grass waterways in the
draws that tend to erode. The use
of contour farming with contour buff
fer strips, 10 feet to 80 feet wide,
and grass waterways not only helps
to reduce soil erosion losses, but also
makes contour farming much more
satisfactory by reducing point rows
and making possible turns in the
contour rows and grass waterways.
Furthermore, this practice permits
cultivating the more productive
parts of the field and leaving out
those areas low in productivity, gull
lied or so steep that they can not
profitably be farmed without Excess
sive wear and tear on the machin-
cry.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-08
Must Be Over 30 Years

Cork, of commercial value is not
produced by trees less than 80 years
of age. Since it is strongly advised
that transplanting of saplings and
small trees not be attempted and
that direct seeding be practiced, it
is impossible to bring an acreage
into production in less than 80 years.
The first stripping bark takes place
when the tree is about 20 years old.
This virgin bark or mascalage is
rough and coarse and of little COM
mercial value. It's removal, how
ever, stimulates the growth of cork
so that during the succeeding two
or three years a prodigious amount
Of cork is produced. This growth
gradually decreases in rate until aft
er about nine years scarcely any
further thickening of the bark is per-
ceptible, and at the end of that Pc
riod the second stripping takes pl
The second and all subsequent strip
pings produce a bark of commercial
value.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-08
CASUALTIES OUTNUMBER
THOSE IN OUR ARM
ED FORCES

The natural guess of most per-
sons not statistically minded prob
ably would be that there are more
people killed in the conflict than in
traffic. But mothers, wives, sisters,
sweethearts can all ease their minds
il they have sons, husbands, BROTH.
ers or finances in the armed SER
vices, for figures just compiled by
the National Safety Council show
that, up to November 18th, after al
most year of war, American cas-
ualties in battle, including the first
five days of fighting in North Africa.
were 6,054 killed, 4,485 wounded
and 40,327 missing and prisoners Of
the enemy, while $4,000 in the
United States met death by accident
and 100000 were injured in ac-
cidents. The casualties at home in
cluded the death of 44,500 working
men and 100000 who were in
jured.
The average parents probably will
find it difficult to believe that when
their IS or 19-year-old SON is in
ductel into the army he is in no
more danger, if as much, as when he
uses the family car to keep date.
These figures would indicate that
our nation still has quite dis
lance to travel before we solve the
problem of traffic hazards.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-08
Glycerine Has Its Role
In War and Peace Time

One of the interesting phenomena
Of the war production program is
glycerine. This bland, clear, water
white liquid, familiar to housewives,
has become war necessity for two
strangely opposite reasons its
value in health products and its
important role in the manufacture
of dynamite and death-dealing gun
powder. There is an enormous de-
mand for glycerine also in the maxi
ing of other war needs, notably
quick-drying, durable paints for
tanks, trucks, ships, guns, and build
ings, and for use in recoil mech
anisms of big guns.
A recent General Preference Or
der (M-58) of the War Production
board reduces the use of glycerine
for all purposes except defense and
health, and prohibits its use for
anti-freeze. "Fulfillment of require
ments for the defense of the United
States" says the WPB, "has Great
ed a shortage in the supply of
glycerine for Defense" Among
these needs the WPB includes spe-
officially ''the manufacturing or
processing of health supplies"
Glycerine is one of the most widely
used items in the U. S. Pharma-
copoeia and is found almost uni
versally in medical prescriptions,
mouth washes, throat remedies,
capsules, suppositories and skin To-
tons.
One of the first appeals to indus
try issued by the government after
our entrance into the war was ad-
dressed to the soap factories, from
which comes SO per cent of our en-
tire glycerine supply, urging them
to do everything in their power to
increase glycerine production.
Glycerine is made at the same time
soap is made, coming from the
same great kettles, the soap rising
to the top and the glycerine sink
ing to the bottom.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-08
OYSTER SURVEY TO COVER
WHOLE BAY AREA

Announcement has been made by
Governor Herbert R. O'Conor, that
the Board Of Natural Resources had
given its approval to the recent sug-
gestion of the Secretary OF the inter-
ior, Harold Ickes, that the entire
Chesapeake Bay area be included in
the proposed oyster survey to be
undertaken by the United States
Fish and Wild Life Service.
He has advised Secretary Ickes of
this decision, the Governor added,
and has requested Edwin Warfield
Jr., Chairman of the Natural Re-
sources Board, to arrange confer
ence between State Conservation Of
ficials and Mr.. Charles e. Jackson,
Assistant Director of the United
States Fish and Wild Life Service,
and his staff, stationed in Washing
ton. The purpose of this conference
will be to decide upon the scope of
the survey, the extent to which the
State is able to participate, and to
determine the cost of the proposed
project.
According to data at hand, oyster
bottoms, within the county waters
of Maryland, cover an area of about
$4,000 acres, as compared with
$4,000 acres available to dredgers.
Secretary Ickes felt therefore that
an investigation conducted on dred-
gers area only, would have only linn
tied usefulness in formulating re-
concentrations for restoring our
deleted oyster resources.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-08

White Negroes and Negresses Cal
binos) are not uncommon In Africa.
. Sometimes the albinism is complete,
sometimes pie-bald. The skin is,
however, pinlzish and not white. In
former days, before European con-
troll, an a1bino male was executed
ut The conclusion of peace terms,
: following warfare. This was at
y onitsha in Nigeria, and there Is no
evidence to show that the practice
was common. There is q record
that the Bokongo tribe required an
salbino OF some hair from one before
they could form q new branch Of q
esecret society. Some writers refer
to albinos as being regarded as re-
j incarnatiQns of deceased chiefs.
literature contains references to
the matrimonial difficulties Of al.
zbino males, who are held In dis.
flavor by women. There is an In.
stance of the usual tribal marks,
which IRE incisions In the skin, be.
ing denied to an albino.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-08
City Of Outstanding Sites

There is not section Of Washing
ton that does not contain any num-
Der Of interesting buildings or sites,
or both, where some incident of note
has not take place. or where some
outstanding person has not resided.
Indeed, Washington unfolds to the
world the history Of this nation for
the last century and a half, writes
John Clagett Proctor in the Wash
ington Star. It is, as Longfellow
once said, the "City of Lost Foot
steps," and since the time the IA
NOUS poet visited the footsteps
the worlds great pc sonages ha e
increased many fold.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-08
Ceiling Calculator

BY throwing patch of light on a
cloud at night it is possible to cal
culate the height of the ceiling"
over airports, according to the Bet
ter Vision Institute. Recently a de-
vice has been developed in the Unit
ed States for use during daylight.
A rotating sector disc is placed
before a light beam, thereby form
ing a flashing patch of light on the
cloud surface. This patch is invisi-
BILE to the human eye, but it can be
picked up by an electric eye."
This daylight method, it is reported,
gives accurate results up to 5000
feet.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-08
INDEPENDENCE In sYNTHET1cs

The nations chemical engineers,
under the impetus of war, have
made rapid strides in their effort to
make the United States indepent in
the field of synthetic and substi-
tute products, in the opinion of two
officials of the American Chemical
Society.
Prof. o. A. Haugen of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin asserted that the
tpuntryis chemical engineers in
their war effort made greater pro-
gress in the last two years than
Germany had made in the eight
years of war preparation under
Hitler.
Haugen and F. H. Van Antwerpen
of New York City, representing the
society, spoke at the annual meeting
of the society's chemical engineer
ing division.
Van Antwedpen told the delegates
that the country's chemical plant
capacity has been doubled in the
two years of American war effort
and he said that when peace comes
again the possibilities of American
chemistry, both in the new products
developed and in the industry's ca
pacity to produce, will give to the
United States undisputed world
leadership in nearly every field of
chemistry"
He said that outstanding among
the accomplishments of the coun-
try's chemical industry will be the
synthetic rubber program, which he
described as 1.-THE biggest Industrial
chemical development ever under
taken in the history of MANKIND.
Although American chemistry
held world leadership before the
first World War, Van Antwerpen
said it was not independent in GER
tain vital chemicals, notably dyes
and drugs. -
1.-THE Kaiser forced us to make
ourselves Independent in those
chemicals, he said.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-08

Shrub to Be Grown
As Rubber Source


A native American plant, which for
years has been of minor importance
as source Of rubber, may be COM
ing into its own in the emergency.
The lowly desert shrub guayule (the
pronunciation ''wy-OO -lay" is about
as close as English can come to the
Spanish word) got the green light in
March, 1912, when congress author
lied the department of agriculture
to develop the plant as source Of
rubber for the United Nations.
Cultivation of guayule-now almost
entirely wild plants the essence
of the program, says DR.. E. w.
Brandes, in charge of rubber ir1-
vestigations, writing in the depart
ment publication, Agriculture in the
Americas" A substantial acreage is
planned, but DR.. Brandes points
out that guayule can be grown sue
cessfully only in the western and
southwestern parts of the United
States and in the countries south of
it.
The immediate program, he says,
calls for maintenance of the present
$50 acres of paintings in the Salinas
valley of California; additional COM
mercial paintings as soon as an in
creased seed supply permits; and
test paintings to find suitable produc-
ing areas in California, Texas, Ari-
IONA, New Mexico and in Mexico;
also tests in Argentina, Chile, and
possibly other countries of the West
ern hemisphere, where natural con-
ditions seem favorable.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-08

Touring in the gasoline-rationed
East this summer will have to be
limited to the distance which motor
lists can travel with the gasoline OBJ
tanned with their IA" ration cards,
the Office of Price Administration
has warned. This applies to auto
mobile owners who live outside the
!. IL eastern states where rationing has
been put into effect, as well as to
those who reside inside the rationed
area.
In order to save as much Of the
East's limited petroleum supply as
possible for essential use, the card
rationing plan must drastically re-
strict the travel of the pleasure, or
non-essential, driver, OPA officials
pointed out.
Tourists from outside the II
rationed states will be subject to the
same regulations when they enter
the rationed area. Signs along the
highways at all entry points will d.
rect visitors to apply at the nearest
rationing board for a ration card.
Service station attendants will be
able to give information regarding
the location of these boards. The
board will be authorized to issue
such visitor an GAP ration card
promptly, except in the case OF
those entering the area on business.
Such exceptions will be eligible for
cards that will provide for their
needs. But the vacationist, as well
as all other pleasure drivers, will
be able to obtain no more rations
than do the same class Of drivers
in the rationed area.