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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-04-15
County Resident
Since 1901 Dies;
'ServicesFriday
Mrs. Charles W. Hellman,
Finlayson Farm Woman,
Answers Call.

Death came Tuesday of last week
for Mrs. Charles w. Hellman at her
farm home southwest of FinlaySon
village She had been in poor health
for a number of years, suffering
numerous strokes.
Amanda A. Nordblom was born
in Finland October %, 1877 and came
to New York at the age of 20. In
New York she was united in mar
riage to Charles w. Hellman in 1900,
the family coming to Finlayson the
following year, this being their home
since.
Leaves Husband, IL Children.
She leaves to mourn her passing
her husband, eight daughters and
three sons. They are Marie, Mrs.
VIM. Kyro, Finlayson; Edith, Mrs.
Carl Seeger, and Esther, Mrs. Einar
Rookie, Chicago; Pearl, Mrs. Elmo
Bukkila, Robbinsdale; Anna, Mrs,
Erwin Strobel, San Diego, Calf;
Edna, Mrs Martin Leinonen, Miss
Ebba Hellman and Reuben Hellman,
Minneapolis; Elmo Hellman, st. Paul.
Bertha, Mrs. Walter Koski and Sven
Hellman of Duluth. There are Is
grandchildren.
Rites Friday.
The funeral services were held last
| Friday afternoon at 100 o'clock from
ST. Johns Lutheran church, the pail
bearers being three sons, Elmo, Reu-
ben and Sven Hellman, and three
sons-in-laws, VIM. Kyro, Martin
| CONTINUED ON mage IL
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-04-15
Do You Haze n
Bike For Sale?

Bicycles appear to be in big de-
mand, according to the results OBJ
tanned when one was listed for sale
in a recent issue of the Askov Amer
lean. The advertiser, Harold Dietz,
Askov barber, reported about 10
personal calls and almost the same
number of inquiries by mail, the
latest being from a subscriber in
Flint, Mich.
Needless to state Mr.. Dietz was
well satisfied with the results from
the classified ad.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-04-15
BY GEORG STRANDVOLD

1t is something new to be told
that the Nazis recognize superiority
on the part of their enemies, but they
did it the other day when an official
Berlin broadcast gloomily conceded
that, after all, the United Nations had
almost ineXhaustible" resources in
Tunisia. ~
This wistful acknowledgment
followed the announcement that
the British Eighth Army had
captured the city of Sfax and
Immediately began to move far
Their north toward Sousse.
A few days before the victory at
Sfax the British and the American
armies had finally merged, and were
thus placed in position where they
could hem in Marshal Rommel and
his army. This means that, very
likely, swift progress will be made
in the direction of Tunis and Bizerte
and, what is still more significant
in the direction of the European con-
tinent
Big rush.
For in just that lies the import
ance of the North African war: II
opens the door to Nazi-controlled
Europe and to the complete smash-up
of Hitler and the brutalizing system
he has built up. No one has stated
yet-for such things just are not
told in advance-that North Africa
will be the only base of operations
when the general offensive begins;
it is very possible that the attack will
begin on several fronts at the same
time, but there is little doubt that
once Rommel has been driven out
of Africa or surrendered, the So
called Second Front will open soon
after.
An American and British VIC
tory in Africa, now almost with
in reach, is one Of the stages that
hasten the end of the war.
But he who would try to say in
advance anything about the approx
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-04-15
TURN IN UNUSED COUPONS

Tom A. Adams, Duluth ODT man
ager for the motor transport divis-
ion, cautions truck owners in his dis
trict to turn in all unused 1T" ration
gasoline coupons for the last quar-
ter at once as required by law.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-04-15
Change In Flyer
Schedules To Be
EffectiveSunday
Great Northern Afternoon
Trains to Pass Through
County Hour Earlier.

Effective Sunday, April ID, the
schedule of the Great Northern eve
ming flyers, operating between the
Twin Cities and Superior-Duluth,
will be changed so that the trains
will start and finish their runs one
hour earlier. The trains will hold
this schedule through all villages
along the route, passing through ex-
actly one hour earlier than in the
past
The streamliners will continue to
carry high grade coaches and par
Tor car, but to conserve food sup
plies and man power, and to release
dining cars needed for handling
movement of armed forces, dining
car service on these trains will be
discontinued.
To Leave at 3:38 O'Clock.
Train No. 10, southbound, will
leave Duluth at $3.50 p. m, arriv-
ing in st. Paul at 7 o'clock. The
northbound No. 20 will leave St
Paul at $3.50 p. m. and at Z O'Clock
will arrive in Duluth. The only
stops made between the Twin Cities
and the Twin Ports are at Cambridge
and Sandstone.
The following tables give the times
the trains will be at a number OF
points along the route:
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-04-15

A single night raid of 1000 bomb
ers over the Rhineland, cost close to
$14 ,000, 900.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-04-15

$6,050 $7,663.58
Evening star., 1943-05-04
Expensive Stone
From the Topeka. Kans., Capital.

From the Topeka Kans.. Capital.
Back in 1850, nearly 100 years ago,
California, just admitted to statehood,
decided to contribute a block of gold
quartz for the Washington Monument
then under construction. With no funds
in the new State treasury due note"
for $975 was issued to pay for the stone
and its transportation to Washington.
Interest rates were high then and the
note bore the usual rate Of SO per cent.
The next year it was decided to replace
the note with small bond issue bearing
a lower interest rate. State treasurers
forgot about this obligation or passed the
buck from one to another. In 1857 the
Legislature refinanced the bonds and
this process was repeated when they ma
tured again in 1873. They came due
again in 1893 and were refinanced once
more. Now the original debt Of 1915
plus compound interest foots up to 32,-
277,550.
Total cost of putting up the Washing
ton Monument was only 81, 800, 900. Now
there is a bill before the California
Legislature to pay of this bond issue as
soon as the State treasury shows bud
getary surplus. AS matter of fact,
there Is such surplus right now, total
ing $25,0o0O00. So if the bill passes this
old account may yet be paid OF before
it is century old.
Evening star., 1943-05-04
The Father of Invention

An ordnance officer in st. Louis
recently was ordered to devise bet
ter method of manufacturing bombs.
The officer tried periodically to
comply, but without success. Day
after day he thought and thought
till he was dizzy, but no inspiration
came. Then during one historic eve
ming, which may mark the turning
point of the war, he ate a mince pie
his wife had baked.
That did the trick Like Lady Mac
beth, it murdered sleep. All night he
lay awake thinking of bombs, espe-
cially delayed-action bombs dis
guised as pies, and along toward
morning he got the answer. The
following afternoon, between yawns,
he worked out the details, and sub
sequent tests proved him right. An
old saw, stating that necessity is the
mother of invention, leaves the
other half Of its parentage unsettled.
Could 1t be that the hitherto obscure
father Of invention is indigestion,
and that good cook book is a drag
on the wheels Of progress?
Evening star., 1943-05-04
Would 1t Help or Hinder?

It Is reported that Chairman
D'Alesandro of the Health Subcom-
mittee Of the House District Commit
tee Is considering a hearing to ex-
plore the sources Of disagreement
which for the time being have
divided the ranks of the District
tuberculosis Association.
Would such a hearing be helpful?
Or would it merely serve to add bit
terness to disagreements over policies
that, If reconciled at all, must be
reconciled through friendly and con-
structive discussion between the Off
GERS, the board members and the
members of the association? Prepa-
rations for such discussions are being
made now by flve-man committee
Of interested members. These will be
! more conducive to agreement than
: the testimony of witnesses in the
{ tense atmosphere of a congressional
: committee room.
The District tuberculosis Associa-
ton Is a volunteer organization of
citizens, drawn together by COM
mon bond. The interests of this
association would be best served, it is
believed, If both sides of the dis
agreement relied on themselves and
not the intercession of committee
Of Congress, to iron out the difficult
ties. There has been general agree
ment to forget personalities. An
: open hearing at the Capitol would
revive personalities and accomplish
little else of benefit.
Later on it would be an excellent
thing for Washington if Mr.. DAles-
andre used his good Offices to ar
range general discussion of what is
being done, and is not being done, to
light the tuberculosis scourge in the
District. In such circumstances the
witnesses would meet as allies
against common foe, not as
disputants.
Evening star., 1943-05-04
CobbIer

His IS realm of fragrant oak-tnn
leather, ......-
OF the bright last and hammer
ringing song. ,.<.
The realm OF bldck-udred thread
and cleaning bristle,
And hauen for the uorn shoes'
trampino throng.
Here broken soles can be erchanted
for reao ones, ,.,,..
And leaning heels made SELF t-yeltdnt
again, n. =
Tongues that are lost can be ,eplaced
Nth Others -. '.t1-
Here old shoes are made ,chole for
paths OF men.
But, oh, my heart 30 Uorn ,ptth
= much OF dreaming,
Weary NTH roaming tin It ts ,oorn
through .
Ho,o glad 'ttoould be to hnd q shop
and cobbler :
And start again a. pholly good a.
ROSE MYRA PHILLIPS.
Evening star., 1943-05-04
Jeff and Bob

If the long standing clash between
the rubber program and the high
octane gasoline program has served
to dramatize one weakness In the
functioning of Washington's war
machine, the good-natured recon
ciliation" between Undersecretary Of
War Patterson and Rubber Director
Jeffers should point the way to its
permanent removal.
1t is to be doubted If there ever was
anything personal in the acerbities
displayed by these two strong men.
Each was intent on carrying out his
own part of the job. But it is obvious
that when they met in the past it
was as antagonists across a council
table, where the man with the most
convincing argument, il not the
loudest voice, would win the decision
of the referee. For one man to win
meant that the other man lost.
Neither Mr.. Patterson nor Mr.. Jeffers
is one to take a loss lying down. They
are sincere and their convictions are
deep.
Their joint tour of high-octane
gasoline and rubber plants, with
Bob" showing jeff" what he is up
against and "Jeff" explaining to
Bob" what he means, may not lead to
any immediate reallocations which
will accelerate one program at the
cost OF the other. But it exhibits a
spirit which is even more necessary in
Washington today than boiled
bulling through with production. In
their friendly, informal meeting at
the home Of a mutual friend, Mr..
Jeffers and Mr.. Patterson undoubt-
edly convinced each other that the
job that must be done between them
is far more important than the job
that each must do alone. Mr..
Jeffers' job is to produce synthetic
rubber. Mr.. Pattersons job is to get
high-octane gasoline for Allied air.
planes. The job they must get done
between them is to get enough high
octane gasoline for Allied airplanes
while producing enough synthetic
rubber to keep America rolling on
rubber tires.
This, it is believed, is what they are
going to do, though neither may
know just how it will be done. They
have set fine example for other
men involved in other conflicts
within the war effort, and Ferdinand
Eberstadt, who brought them to-
gether, can count another star in his
crown.
Evening star., 1943-05-04

that we have been required to work five
hours per week plus holidays for over a
year without ompensation-which is an
injustice that should be corrected. The
cost of living here in Washington has
increased as much, If not more, than
any other city.
Federal employees in navy yards, ar
senals, etc, are paid full overtime.
Postal employees have received a 81 per
cent increase in pay for which they are
not required to do any extra work. The
pay bill as it stands at present grants
only a 1.6 per cent increase in wages
for "a per cent increase in working
hours. This is gross injustice.
AS the President has requested many
times that these injustices and dis
ordinations be corrected, we would ap-
peal to Congress to have amendments
inserted in this bill which would correct
these injustices, especially to the low
bracket Federal employees.
From these facts feel we should have
an increase in pay equal to the postal
employees, plus full overtime pay for the
overtime hours required, which is much
less than the little steel formula"
w Y
Evening star., 1943-05-04
Lesson From the Enemy

FROM the London Sunday Chronicle.
Britain is standing today on her hind
legs" Who, reading of the heavy raids
on Essen and Naples recently, can
doubt 1t? But this description Of
Britain rampant was made not by one OF
our own leaders, anxious to impress the
enemy. 1t was made by the enemy him.
self. One by the name of Hans Schwarz
Won Berg Of the Berlin Propaganda Min
istry used 1t in broadcast warning the
Germans not to underestimate their en-
emy. How often have we, in the blind
ness Of complacency, paid for underesti-
mating the power Of the foe! Now the
Germans, whose armies have crushed
half the nations Of Europe, are being
warned to respect the powers that are
lighting against them. There is 4 deep
significance In the nature and the tim
ing Of this warning. and Of the tre
mendous change "a tbs war situation
wh3eh = hnpliss.
Evening star., 1943-05-04
A Chance to Act

Considering the attitude which
John L. Lewis has adopted since the
Government seized the coal mines,
there is abundant reason for the
decision by Senator Connally to put
some teeth in his previously ineffec-
tive "anti-strike" bill.
Mr.. Lewis, from his New York
headquarters, takes the position that
it is up to the Government, in the
person of Interior Secretary Harold
Ickes, to come to him with satisfac-
tory terms for settlement of the
dispute. And these terms, he says,
must follow the lines of his original
demands-a two dollar-a-day pay
increase, "portal-to-porta" compen-
sation and the unionization of Ger
tain supervisory employees. Now
these are conditions which the Gov-
ernment is not likely to meet in any
circumstances, and it seems most
improbable that Mr.. Ickes is going,
hat in hand, to New York to appease
the imperious Mr.. Lewis.
There is, of course, always the
possibility that compromise will be
reached during the two-week suspen-
sion of the strike. But Mr.. Lewis
seems bent upon doing everything in
his power to make it difficult for the
Government to settle the dispute,
and we ought to be facing the alter
native possibility that May is will
find him engaged once again in an
effort to shut down the coal mines.
Should events take this latter
course, the Connally bill, with the
suggested amendments providing
severe penalties for those partici-
pating in strikes against the Gov-
ernment, might prove highly useful.
There was considerable debate in the
Senate yesterday as to the form that
such legislation should take, and it
may be conceded that this is an
important and difficult question. Yet
the mere fact that the problem is
difficult should not prove bar to
any legislative action.
Majority Leader Barkley took the
view that Congress could not pos
sibly pass legislation in time to be
effective in the coal controversy.
Unless the dispute is settled during
the period of truce, however, this
negative attitude can be explained
only on the assumption that Con-
gress does not want to take effective
action.
This question of legislation to deal
with the problem of strikes affecting
the conduct of the war is not new.
The Senate has had ample oppor-
tunity to act in the past, and its
failure to do anything is not to be
attributed to lack of time. Nor is the
time factor any reason for falling to
act now, if the members want to act.
Perhaps the Connally bill with the
proposed amendments, also will be
laid aside after some futile debate,
But II that proves to be the case,
and the mines once more are shut
down, 1t is not going to be easy for
the Senate to justify it's course.
Evening star., 1943-05-04
An Old Doctrine

The proposition that taxation
without representation is tyranny"
has been a tenet of democratic civil
zation for hundreds of years, but
nobody knows for certain who first
put into language the conviction
expressed in it. Search of available
reference works leaves the question
Of the authorship of the idea un-
: answered. There is no mention of
the axiom in the anthologies of Hoyt,
Douglas, Benham, Bartlett and
Brewer. Not even in H. L. Mencken's
New Dictionary of Quotations" just
recently published, does the oft-cited
sentence appear.
A clue, however, is to be discovered
In "The Dictionary Of American His
tory" where William S. Carpenter
comedies: That James Otis, in argu-
Ing against writs of assistance in
1851, first used the expression taxa
ton without representation is tyr
amy may be doubted" 1t is the
Judgment Of the same authority that
"the phrase in various forms was in
common use during the period pre-
ceding the outbreak of the Revolu-
ton. The Colonists agreed with
Camden and with Chatham that in
the matter of internal taxation they
= were free from parliamentary con-
e troll. External taxes for the regula-
ton of Colonial trade could be levied
BY Parliament but only with the
consent Of the Colonies. Colonial
statesmen admitted the authority of
Parliament over the Colonies but
sought to establish the principle that
there were some things Parliament
could not do. The real grievance of
the Colonists lay in the defective
system Of parliamentary representa-
ton which permitted the manipula-
ton of the rotten boroughs' so that
there was always a standing majority
In support of the ministers"
Nine of the American Colonies, Mr..
Mencken's book reports, had agreed
as early as 1765 in the resolution:
That 1t is inseparably essential to
the freedom of a people and the
undoubted right Of Englishmen that
> no taxes be imposed on them but
with their own consent, given per-
sonally or by their representatives"
The subject, it seems, had been de-
bAted ever since 1872, when Parlia-
ment had passed a law imposing
duty on sugar, tobacco, ginger, Coco
nuts, indigo, logwood fustic, wool and
cotton. Charles Townshend there
fore knew that he would encounter
resistance when he sponsored the
3 coercive procedures which still bear
his name. OF course, he did not guess
that the Colonies would separate
themselves entirely from the mother
country, yet he might have appre-
ciated the danger II only he had
paused to think Of how the case OF
John Hampden had been zone Of the
causes Of the Great Rebellion" In
England itself In 1887.
But Townshend did not hesitate.
without considering the resentment
aroused BY the Stamp Act Of hts
predecessor, George orenville, Ia
Evening star., 1943-05-04
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles L. Trncetuell.

brown, tinted with greenish; the under
parts, dull gray-buffy.
The painted bunting is favorite cage
bird in Mexico.
The song somewhat resembles the shy
sweet song Of the indigo bunting, which
resembles, in color, piece of the paper
wrapped around surgical cotton as it
comes from the box.
The painted bunting builds its nest
often in low shrubs, but sometimes in
trees; it uses fine grasses and horse hair,
when it can get it.
The eggs laid number either four or
five, and are creamy white, spotted with
reddish brown and lavender
This bird sings best later in the sum-
mer, in July and August, rather than in
spring, as most birds do. 1t is a habit,
evidently, of the bunting family.
~ -
Probably many rare birds visit Rock
Greek Park, and are never seen by the
eye Of man.
Every friend Of birds cherishes several
finds" of his own, which he has seen
once and never again.
If he had not been at the precise
spot, and looked in exactly the right
direction, he would not have seen them.
Therefore, he believes that he may
have missed many more
A least flycatcher, for instance, was
seen once in the Chevy Chase yard of
the writer here. No other specimen has
been seen in 13 years.
The indigo bunting has been seen in
the garden five or six times, and always
on the driveway.
The scarlet tanager has been seen no
more than five times, usually in wild
cherry tree which has since been cut
down.
Two or three springs, the Maryland
yellow throat was seen In the shrubbery
its favorite haunt, but no specimens have
been glimpsed for several years.
The yellow breasted chat is not so rare
in the woods, but has been rare enough
in our garden
There is no real reason why certain
species of bird cannot get several hun
dred miles off its beaten track
Then, if it is seen by person fairly
we'll acquainted with birds, he may in
stantly recognize that he has new
one"
Sometimes such a person is unwilling
to believe that he has mace find
This might happen to other people, he
feels, but never to him.
So it is good plan to check carefully,
after looking carefully, to see the exact
size and coloration Of any bird which
attracts attention as unusual 1t may be
just unusual to the observer-and then
again it may really be rare one' for
the vicinity.
Evening star., 1943-05-04
Germuny's Last Reserves

In wartime it is helpful to take
an occasional look at the enemy's
troubles as an antidote to our own.
Here in America we are confronted
with a serious problem of manpower
and its apportionment between the
armed Services, industry and sagri-
culture. Yet the United States is
approximately the size of all Europe,
with vast natural resources. It is
physically unscathed by the war, has
a population practically double that
OF Germany and has as yet suffered
relatively trifling battle casualties.
IT, then, we are already beginning
to feel the pinch, how much greater
must be the problem of Germany,
whichhas waged war for almost four
years, has suffered millions of cas-
ualties, and must divide its deci-
mated manpower not only between
the land fronts, industry and agri-
culture but also hold down vast oc-
cupied territories and maintain a
great system of home defense against
the Allied air campaign.
1t is true that Germany has allies
in Italy and the European Axis sat-
elites, to say nothing of the indirect
aid of Japan in drawing off United
Nations strength which otherwise
could be concentrated exclusively
against herself. Yet this military
aid is certainly counterbalanced by
that Of our own allies. The same is
true Of the foreign labor conscripted
by Germany in the occupied or sat
elite lands. Those generally unwill-
ing workers cannot average as eff
cient as British, dominion and Rus
sian labor, which works wholeheart-
edly from patriotic motives. Even if
we add all other pertinent factors
such as Germany's central position
operating on inside lines and the
handicap of the submarine cam
paign, Germany's manpower problem
is much more acute than ours and
must become relatively more un-
favorable as time goes on.
The extreme to which the Reich is
being reduced was revealed when
Hitler proclaimed total mobilization
of both man and woman power early
this year. The provisions of this
decree were exceptionally drastic,
amounting to what the French term
a "levee en- masse." Its outstanding
feature was the final liquidation of
the middle classes. Most small shops,
handicrafts and luxury or amuse-
ment trades were done away with,
to the irreparable ruin Of the owners.
Alongside this went . combing out