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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-18
Health Ward
Information furnished by Pine County
Nursing Service

Have you planned your garden
for this year? If not, do so now and
be certain that you select plot
which is large enough to adequately
supply your family with variety OF
vegetables throughout the summer
and permit you to can and store
enough for winter use. Since the
rationing of commercially canned
foods, home canning is more i'm
portant than eyersz
To provide a, year around supply,
plan to can at least 33 quarts of
tomatoes, so quarts of other vege-
tables and 20 quarts of fruit for each
member of the family. In addition
to the above canned food, plan to
store the following for each member
of your family: Three bushels of
potatoes, one-half bushel cabbage,
one-third bushel carrots, one-third
bushel of dried beans and peas, and
one-fourth bushel of onions, beets
and rutabagas. These figures are
quoted by the U. S. Department OF
Agriculture and are designed to help
you plan your garden as well as food
storage. Remember, if you grow
your own supply of vegetables this
year, you will be actively contribut-
ing to the war effort. IL.
Perhaps you have a young son or
daughter who would like to have a
garden as All project.
This week the nurse completed
health inspections in the Brook Park
school and started inspections in the
Bruno school, The Pine City home
nursing class had completed half the
course on Monday. The Bruno home
nursing class had its first class Fri
day. It is edifying to see the ladies
come to these classes in spite of bad
roads and cold weather.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-18
Merchant Marine
Seeks Enlistlnents

Under arrangements with the
United States Employment Service,
the war shipping administration, to-
gether with the newspapers of the
country, has begun campaign to
line up marine engineers and other
men with sea experience to man the
fast-growing victory fleet which is
being added to at the rate of three
ships day.
The shipping manpower problem
is vital one. The reason the mer-
chant marine needs experienced men
is explained by the administration
as follows: eve are building ships
at the rate of three a day. BY the
end of 1913, over 1900 new ships
will be added to our merchant ma
rine. These ships need an average
crew of AZ men, hence $4,000 men,
not now employed in the industry,
will be needed this year. The train
ing program will take care of num-
Der of our needs but for every new
man there must be an experienced
man to guide him.
"The big need now is for marine
engineers, able-bodied seamen, mates,
cooks and bakers We are produc-
ing the best ships in the world with
the finest protection, the best guns,
the best lifeboats and life RATS, and
the finest safety devices for our men,
that our technical skill can produce.
The men we are asking for will be
we'll paid The average ALB. sea-
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-18
Full Membership In
Farm Bureau Asked

Pine county folks interested in
maintaining the splendid All Club
program which has developed wide
ly during the past six years under
the county leadership of Miss Violet
Hecker, are urged to act now to see
that a full quota of Farm Bureau
memberships are turned in, accord
ing to local Farm Bureau officials.
Although a county club leaders
salary is paid from state and Fed
eral funds, her expenses are paid
from county funds, part of which
come from Farm Bureau member
ships. This year young people trained
as county club leaders will be scarce.
Those available will be sent to coun-
ties maintaining the most extension
All Club programs and meeting the
necessary financial arrangements.
The only way Pine county may
be assured of county club leader
this year is to build large club
membership and see that every farm
family takes out membership in
the Pine County Farm Bureau.
Four-H members already enrolled
should see that all children in their
neighborhood have chance to join
club, and that each All family has
Farm Bureau membership.
One dollar pays for Farm Bureau
membership for an entire family for
1943. Memberships may be obtained
from one of the Farm Bureau direc-
tors, Almer Ecklund, Askov, presi-
dent; julius Waletzko, Willow River,
secretary; or from the county agents
office at Sandstone.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-18
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
CONTINUED from Page -

CONTINUED from Page -
European continent will be opened
for the United Nations.
Always Victorious.
AS for a long time past, Russia re-
mains the one really active battle
front, and the Soviet armies are
going ahead all the time, registering
victory after victory. 1t has simply
become a habit with them.
The Nazi retreat is one which
battles even the leading men of
Berlin, including-so It seems
Hitler himself. It not merely
battles him. 1t worries him ire
mendously, and he seems to be
beginning to see that his con-
sistent defeats on the east front
are the beginning of the end, the
warning Of the final doom to
come.
Great cities like Kursk, Belgorod
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-18

Krasnoarmeiskoye and, most recent
ly, Rostov have fallen to the Rus
slams, who, as these lines are being
written, are moving ever closer to
Kharkov and Orel. This means,
briefly, that they are flattening out
the German lines all along the front,
and breaking the Nazi resistance.
1t means, too, that wherever there
is military movement in Russia,
the Nazis suffer new defeats. They
are still unable, as they have been
for months, to report even an unim-
portant victory anywhere.
American Victory.
On the southwest Pacific front the
United States forces have won a
signal victory by driving away all
Japanese forces from the island of
Guadalcanal; it took half year to
complete the job, but it appears to
have been done so effectively that
the enemy is not likely to try a
comeback"
AS far as the island of New
Guinea is concerned, the situation
seems to be that practically all Jap
anese positions have been elimin-
ated and here, as on Guadalcanal.
the enemy finds it impossible to land
supplies and reinforcements.
AS far as it Is possible to Judge,
all Of this means that whatever
plans the Japanese may have
nourished for an attack on Aus
traia and New Zealand have had
to be abandoned. It means, quite
obviously, the definite checking
of further Japanese aggression
in that part of the Pacific.
There is still huge job to be done,
for stopping the enemy is only one
part of it; the other is, to drive him
out of all the countries and islands
he has taken, and that task consti-
tutes one of the main points of the
program outlined by Roosevelt and
Churchill at Casablanca, and clarified
in the statements which these two
men have published-in the form of
speeches-since their return from
Africa.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-18

union-ite, not non-uniOn-ite. I'm
an end-man, meaning consumer.
I'm not looking at the farmer as a
farmer, the union man as wage
worker, the dentist as a professional
man. I'm looking at them all as
consumers. AS consumers they are
all part of the whole. AS consumers
their interests are identical.
There are different, even conflict
ing, or apparently conflicting facets
of interest to all these classes. There
is also broad, general flat surface
where they can fit together. These
two unitable sides are the consumer
sides. We all have consumer. sides.
The consumer side takes preference
over all other sides, angles, inter-
eSts, facets.
If we had man who, by his own
hands, produced everything from
wheat to cakes, from pigs to little
pig-sausage, from clover to butter
fingers" from cotton to nightshirts,
from beans to bus fares, from eggs
to eggnog, from grain to gin, from
wool to wooden socks, from peanuts
to picture shows, from buckwheat to
books-produced and processed all
this and more all the way from the
field and the forest to the pantry
and the table, then we would have
an independent man.
But since we do not have such a
man, and should promptly kill him
if we did have, it is obvious that
we are all pretty well hooked UP,
tied up or tangled up together. In
stead of pulling the knots tighter
we should set to work trying to I'M
tangle the skein of yarn and see what
makes the dust fly, or at least try
to settle it.
Let's take a look at the two main
groups, the groups which are mar
shalling their battalions for Arm
ageddon, the battle in which both
sides lose. refer to organized labor
and organized farmers. Let's take
them apart (if we can get them
apart), and see if we can find what
makes them behave the way they do.
The farmer wants to sell more
things at higher prices. The union
man wants to buy more things, even
at any price, and to do so he must
get sufficient wages to meet the
higher price. If the laborer is to
sell more labor and the products
of labor to the farmer then the
farmer must get higher price, plus
costs, for his products.
If the laborer (and he is the big
eater, wearer and user of farm pro-
ducts), is to buy more farm products
at higher prices he must get higher
wages. If the farmer is to buy the
finished products of labor, plus
enough increase to buy the higher
priced farm products, he must get
higher prices.
Thus, it would seem to be nom
expert, the interests of the two are
identical l conclude, therefore,
that you can't jack yourself up by
hammering somebody else down. We
must all go up together or down and
out together. Who's big enough to
raise the flag of truce-and talk
things over?
o. Nj. THOMSON.
Willernie, MINI.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-18
ON ROAD SERVICE
Editor Askov American:

Editor ASkOv American:
1t is indeed gratifying to have q
man like Nj. J. Nelson in our COM
munity who is so willing to fight fol-
his neighbors, with no selfish desires
back of it except that he would like
to have people believe that he is q
better man than those serving on the
various boards at the present time
and to get little free publicity now
before the election.
l suppose he thinks by stabbing q
little at the present officers there
will be a chance for him to get in
and show his neighbors that he can
give real service. l am afraid that
under the present circumstances il
will not be much better unless Mr.
Nelson is able to blow out enough
hot air to melt the snow in the win
ter and dry the mud in the spring
Being an old neighbor of Mr.. Mel
son, I know he is not as bad as he
barks and I fully agree with him
as far as bad roads are. concerned
and that the mail and bus service
is not very good, neither of which
can help as the drivers have no wings
so they can not fly.
We can not blame our school board
for poor service. They are doing
their duty as far as I can see, SO i,
must be the town boards that are
poor servants.
Being a member of the Partridge
town board I wish to inform Mr.
Nelson that we are doing all in our
power to get the blocked roads
opened. If we had had the facilities
the roads would have been kept open
from the beginning of the winter
but we have to depend on the county
for plows and the county roads come
first. Then there are breakdowns
and long waits for repairs to con-
tend with
Last Saturday we called for pillow
from the neighboring territory. One
had broken axle, the other bro
ken wing but as soon as they could
get repairs we could get one, sc
there we stand. We have to wait
What else can we do?
You are right, Mr.. Nelson, we all
like to get letters from our boys in
service and we should think of the
hardships that they have to contend
with and forget about our own little
troubles which are nothing compared
to the boys in action.
We should not criticize others un-
less we have a real good reason.
like all the constructive criticism that
you can hand out, but that which is
unfounded I do not like.
Yours for service.
EINAR JENSEN.
Askov, MINI.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-18
Point RatiOning
Continued from Page -

registration board will remove 8
points in stamps from the book for
each container of 8 ounces or more
over the allotted FIVE for each mem
Der of the family
If there was more than one pound
of coffee for each member of her
family Is years or older on Novem-
Der %, the registration board will
remove one stamp for each pound
from the appropriate war ration
book No. l.
Sales to be Stopped.
During the week of registration,
none of the rationed commodities
can be sold Grocery stores will
stop their sales at midnight or the
close of business on February 20.
None of these commodities can be
sold again until March l, when ap-
propriate stamps from war ration
book No. 2 must be turned over to
the grocer for every purchase of
the rationed foods. Notice of the
stoppage is given so that housewives
can obtain enough supplies to tide
them over next week. However,
anything bought in excess of five
cans for each member of the family
must be declared and equivalent
stamps deducted. .z-
The war ration book No. 2 CON-
tains eight pages of "a stamps. Four
pages contain blue stamps and four,
red. The stamps to be used in the
first point rationing program are
the blue. Each stamp has on its face
both a letter and a number. Going
across the page there are six stamps
lettered A, B, c, D, and so on. The
numbers are l, 2, S, and 8. The
lowest line across the page carries
the number l; the second line, 2;
the third line S, and the top line, 8.
These are the points that the house
wife removes when she makes pur-
chases. During the first period she
will use only the "A", "B" and 'C'
stamps. >
The number of points for each
rationed commodity will not be fixed.
The government will set the number
of points for each kind and size
depending upon the supply. The
grocer is required to post promin-
emily the number of points for each
commodity, so no housewife need
become bewildered over the points
she will have to give up for her pur-
chases.
The price of a commodity will
have nothing to do with the number
of points.
In making her purchases, whether
at store or from a vendor, the
housewife should take the right num-
Der of stamps out of her book in
front of the grocer or delivery man
and hand them to him. The house
wife should use no more than the
smallest number of stamps for the
points called for. If food calls
for Is rationing points, she should
take out of the book an and
point stamp, rather than taking out
an 8-point, two 2-point and one
1-point stamps. Stamps from more
than one book belonging to house
hold can be removed to make the
correct amount, if necessary.
Every person in the household
will have a total of 48 points to use
for all the processed foods for one
ration period. During the first per-
iod half the first page of blue stamps
will be spent" This means that
the housewife with FIVE members
in her family can "spend" 240 points
during the rationing period, whether
it is two weeks, month or two
months. The OPA has not yet an
nounced the length of time for the
first rationing period. -
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-18

man makes from $3.50 to $500 per
month, a cook 5000 to $315, an engi-
neer from $500 to $500. In addi-
ton each seaman carries $4,000
war risk insurance policy which the
government has taken out on him at
no expense to him. There are num-
erous other provisions and privileges.
SIN other words, the government is
attempting to make the merchant
marine into a profession, a profess
sion which enjoys the same secur-
tiles and advantages of other profess
sions."
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-18
Fact And Opinion
A Striking Parallel.
By E. C. Stengelsen.

In some ways, there is a striking
parallel between the situation of the
Democratic party today, and tina,
which obtained in the COS.
In the COS, the Populists took over
control of the party; today, it is in
the hands of the New Dealers.
In both eras, elements whose ideas
were widely at variance with the
principles on which it was originally
founded, captured the party Bry-
ans silver program strayed as fan
from the Democrats conservative
ideas with respect to money, as
Roosevelt has led it completely away
from nearly everything for which il
originally stood.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-18
TALK THINGS OVER

EUICOr hSkOV AIIIeIICdIl
I'm not farmer, not a wage
worker, not white-collar-ite, not
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-18
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 eff
fective, but If the writer does not
wish to have his name used. it will
be withheld).
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-02-18


lies in the independence and clarity
Of sight a considerable section of
Democracy showed in the COS, of
which, today, we see little evidence.
For, they did not then all flock
to the banner of the party's captors.
There happened to be, among them,
a segment which refused to be swal-
lowed. They broke off and formed
a separate party under the designa-
ton, National Democrats ANNOUNCE
ing strict adherence to the party's
original principles.
They ran Palmer as their candi-
date and lost. They probably knew
from the beginning that they had no
chance of winning But, to them,
this was not of first importance.
Made up in large measure of
southerners who had fought at An
tietam, Gettysburg, Chickamauga,
Shiloh, the Wilderness, they had the
courage to fight, even when they
knew their cause to be lost.
But by the time the sos rolled
around, these Stiff-necked old vet
Grams were gone from the scene
Their sons, grandchildren and great
grandchildren were a different breed
1t wasn't only that they lacked the
stubbornnesS of the old fellows They
lacked something more-clear-sight-
edness.
The old-line Democrats of the COS
judged man by what he stood for,
not by the label. Today, if he is
listed on the ballot as a Democrat,
it is enough. He is ipso facto a
Democrat. .
It is far. cry. from the party of
Jefferson to that headed by Roose-
welt.
Jefferson staunchly defe d d
states rights; Roosevelt has consist
emily sought to white them down.
Jefferson's belief was that the
states should exercise the widest
possible self-government. Only by
this means could sectional problems
be equitably and adequately solved
without harm to the whole. He be-
lieved that interference by the Fed
eral government should be held to
minimum.
Roosevelt's theory is exactly the
opposite. Witness, for example, the
anti-lynching bill and the poll-tax
bill. Both are said to have strong
executive approval.
There is an undoubted case for
the need of the reforms at which
these bills aim. But the problems
hardly involve the country as
whole, except by remote indirec-
ton. They are peculiarly local.
Whatever blame there may be for
the continued existence of the con-
ditions these bills seek to correct
should be laid at the door of the states
which tolerate them.
BY and large, northerners are
probably sympathetic toward these
bills. They might not be if they
knew that they were the opening
wedge of interference by the Fed
eral government in their own local
concerns.
It might, for example, be fore
runner of an effort by the central
government to end township gov
eminent Control of education
might be taken over by Washington.
Taxation might be taken out of local
hands and placed under bureaucratic
control. Once interference is per-
mitted to begin, it win be endless.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-04-22

Vera E. Bell, Carol Marie Williams,
Betty Beyers, Leonard o. Evett,
Frank Meek, Harold Roberts, Ben
nett Clark, Charles G. Graves,
Robert Evett, D. Franklin Arnold,
Clyde Hoover, and Chris Harold
Hinderer..
Board of directors, White Bluffs:
G. 1. Wright, Patrick Clark, Fran
els Moody; Hanford: George Hast
ings, J. H. Evett, Mrs. Lois Anglin.
School faculty: E. F. Cash, Mrs.
G. P. Merrill, Edith Moulton,
Charlotte Ryno and Eldon D. Wes-
tergard.
The scholarship award was won
by Charles Graves, White Bluffs
Citizenship award was won by
Louise Griffith, White Bluffs. Ath-
letic award was won by Bud Meek
of Hanford, the journalism award
by Jack Williams, White Bluffs
Some of the outside visitors at
tending were: MIR. and Mrs. M
Mahoney, Mrs. Stradling of Pros
ser, MIR. and Mrs. D. J. Wood
nina Griffith Tacoma, and Miss
Evlyn Roberts of Seattle.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-04-22
Extension Service
News
Prepared especially for the Courier
Reporter by Miss Dorothy Reaugh
Home Demonstration Agent for
Benton County
By Dorothy Reaugh

Your washing machine is worth
three times the price you paid Tor
it as far as you are concerned be-
cause you cannot get new one.
Whether your machine is old or
new, run by hand, electricity or
gasoline, the first step toward
keeping it in condition is to read
the directions that came with it.
If you have lost them, write the
manufacturer for another copy.
Even if you have used the machine
many times, reread the directions
to be sure you haven't overlooked
any point that may save the ma
chine and give best washing re-
suits.
To make your machine work
we'll and last long, make periodic
checkup to see that all bolts and
screws in the frame are tight. In
many machines, parts of the motor
and gears are permanently 1ubri-
Gated at the factory and need nc
further attention. In others, lu-
IRRIGATION must be periodically tax
en- care of by the homemaker.
The manufacturers directions
usually tell how much to oil the
machine for use once a week. II
you wash oftener, you may need
to oil more frequently. Learn
from your manufacturers direc-
tons when, where, and how much
oil and what kind of oil to use
Too much or the wrong kind Oh
oil is just as harmful as too little
oil. "
Take care not to spill oil or
any rubber parts because oil soft
ems and ruins rubber. If oil gets
On rubber, remove it Immediately
with soap and water. Before you
start washing get the machine
ready. See that it stands level and
steady at a comfortable height
If the washer has been standing
lin a cold place, the oil or grease
lin an electric or engine driven
machine may be too stiff to lubri-
: cate the mechanism as it runs. In
that case, bring the machine into
: "a warm room a few hours or let
the tub stand full of warm water
for an hour before you start wash
ing. Never pour hot water into
a very cold porcelain enamel tub
Sudden changes in temperature
may crack porcelain enamel.
Put in enough water to reach
the line marked on the inside OF
the tub after the clothes are in
Too. much water may strain the
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-04-22

Kenneth Foraker has been sent
from Madison, Wise, to Las Vegas,
New, where he is attending a
gunnery school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn FELTON, went
to Idaho on business last Sunday.
Mrs. w. L. Foraker entered the
Pasco hospital last Thursday and
underwent an oeration Friday.
Mrs. Jack Crawford entertained
her Sunday school class, the "Kum
Join Us Class" of the Christian
church of Pasco, Tuesday after
noon, with IT present.
Mrs. J. R. Stump had a birthday
party at the home of F. K. Hamp-
ton with Mrs. o. H. Ludington and
family and other friends.
B. E. Claypool, who has been
at the Pasco hospital with pneu-
monia, was brought to the home of
his daughter, Mrs. Earl Reymore.
The Rev. and Mrs. P. j. Luvaas
kere called to Farragut, Idaho,
the first of the week because
of the serious illness of their son,
Harold, who is in the service and
stationed at the camp there.