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Askov American., 1943-05-27

umn for news of their friends. You
can assist greatly by marking down
items of interest on a sheet of paper
and getting them to your correspond
ent before noon every Monday.
A number of Markville people at
tended the Grange meeting at Clo-
verton Friday night.
Ed Shaske of Brook Park was in
Markville on business last Thursday
This part of the county is once more
part of his territory as an investi-
gator for the county welfare board
A boy was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Albert Lund at Sandstone last Thurs
day. At last reports mother and son
are doing nicely.
Mrs. Paul Pahos attended a high
school banquet at Sandstone Satur-
day night. Her son Paul is attend
ing school there.
A supper was served by the Luth-
eran Ladies' Aid in the church base
ment last Thursday night.
Askov American., 1943-05-27
CIOvertOn

Mrs. S. w. Holler returned We'd
nesday of last week from Rochester
where she underwent major oper-
alton.
Mrs. w. F. Clementson returned
recently to her home here after an
operation at the University hospital
in Minneapolis.
The Ladies' Aid met at the H. l..
Hughes home last Thursday after
noon.
Mrs. Sophus Peterson and Quinton
and jeanette of Sandstone were Clo-
verton callers last Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Hughes of Rem
ton Wash, arrived Tuesday evening
of last week for a visit at the Roy
Kendall home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Myron Hughes and
daughter of Renton, Wash, moved
back to their farm near Dairyland
this week.
Last Thursday afternoon a help
call was responded to at Belden. The
Thomas Gust house (former school
house) caught fire and burned to the
ground. Some of the belongings
were saved.
Mrs. Herbert Tollefson left last
Thursday for Duluth for a few days
visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. E. Wander Linden
and Mrs. G. L. Austin and Jean Wis
tied at the Fred Daniels home at Oak
land, Wis, Sunday afternoon.
The faculty and Mr. and Mrs. H.
L. Hughes spent Sunday at the O. S.
Halsted home.
Mrs. E. E. Dilley left Sunday for
visit at the Carlson home at Mark
vile.
Mrs. Geo. Bell and Mrs. Grace Hal
sted of Brainerd arrived Sunday for
a several days visit with relatives.
Sergeant Sidney Matson of Iowa
arrived Friday evening for a visit
at the Matson homes here.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. ]. Frederick mo-
tored to Superior Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs Alfred Profit are the
proud parents of son born May %
at st. Mary's hospital in Superior.
Mrs. Ralph Arnold suffered an
attack of appendicitis and was op-
Grated last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Wheelock and
daughter arrived here Saturday from
New Boston, Ill. They will be here
for the summer.
j. B. Lambertini will be on his
farm here for the summer
The Austin and Van families spent
last Thursday evening at the H. w.
Frederick home in Danbury.
The Sophus Peterson family spent
Sunday at the Herbert Tollefson
home.
Miss Margaret Ables and Clement
son motored to Sandstone Saturday
Mrs. Ida M. Austin made an in
spection tour of the rural route here
Saturday.
Askov American., 1943-05-27
CIOyerdale

Miss Ruth Lyseth, who is en-
ployed at Cokato, spent the week.
end with her parents and sister, Mr.
and Mrs. Harvey Lyseth and Mrs.
Walden Brant.
A large crowd enjoyed the pro-
gram and pie social given by the
Mothers club and teacher of district
80 Friday evening. They also had a
shower on Miss Smithson, the teach
er, who will be June bride.
John Christensen, Jr., and Mag
nus Christensen returned home last
Thursday from Iowa where they had
gone to attend the funeral of rela-
tive.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emil Kottke enjoyed
visit from her sister and brother
in-law of Minneapolis who spent the
weekend here
Shirley Brown was a visitor at the
Geo. Steen home Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Evon Hemming and
daughters spent last Thursday eve
ming at the John Christensen home
helping Linda Lou celebrate her fifth
birthday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Larsen and
daughter spent Sunday at the VIM.
ChriStianson home
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Bach and
daughter of ST. Paul spent the week
end at the home of her sister, Mrs.
Harold Chollett, and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Abrahamson spent
Monday in Almelund visiting her
father, Lee Reed, who was 80 years
old on that day.
Gerald Wolf, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thos. Wolf, is now stationed at Camp
Hill, Farragut, Idaho.
A shower was held at the church
basement last Saturday evening for
the Chollett family whose home and
all the contents were destroyed by
fire Wednesday of last week.
Askov American., 1943-05-27
SOlalla

MIR. and Mrs. Walter Paugh Ed Schlag
George Thomson and o. E. Roonie at
tended school officers meeting in Ait
kin Tuesday of last week
Bert Handeland and j. Lindbloonl
bought Is head of cattle at an auction sale
last week
O. E. Roonig went to Little Falls the
first of the week. returning home We'd
nesday afternoon.
Jean Rose Paugh spent from Sunday
until Tuesday with her sister, Mrs John
Lindquist at Aitkin
Edwin and Gale Paugh returned to their
home after spending a week with their
grandparents. Mr.. and Mrs w. Paugh.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herubin and family spent
Sunday afternoon at the Coolidge home
at Arthyde.
Several from this community attended
the Farm Bureau meeting at Dads Cor
ner Friday evening.
Mrs. r. Robinson and Chester were
Solana callers Saturday evening.
Askov American., 1943-05-27
DallfOrth

Young Peoples meeting will be
at the Elmer Larson home Saturday
evening.
Choir practice Tuesday evening,
June l.
Rev. Lee Bates of Sioux Falls spent
from Tuesday until Friday of last
week at the Verlin White home.
A large crowd attended the serv-
ices held by Rev. and Mrs. Charles
Lukesh Friday evening
The annual school picnic was held
on the schoolhouse grounds Tuesday
The usual good time was had.
Mrs. NJ. l. White, who spent the
Gladbrook, Iowa, returned home Fri
day evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. E. Hendricks ac-
companied Mr.. and Mrs. Philip john
son to Hinckley to attend services
Friday evening.
Mrs. Jerry Person and her mother,
Mrs. Frank Pollock, were visitors
Tuesday of last week at the Oscar
Swanson and G.. E. Hendricks homes.
They expect to leave for California
soon to make their home Mr.. Per-
son and Mr.. Pollock are in California
now
Miss Nina Johnson of Hinckley
spent the weekend at the Philip
Johnson home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Pauline and chill
dren and Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Moore
had supper at the Merwin Moore
home Sunday evening in honor of
little Roger, it being his first birth
day.
Askov American., 1943-05-27
CrindstOne Lake

Sunday dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Hans Myrvold were Mr.. and
Mrs. Erick Skoglund and family OF
Duluth.
Mr.. and Mrs Alvin Haugen's
friends of this community called on
them Sunday afternoon at their new
home near Elbow Lake.
Ray Harris of Groningen and Bud
Griffith and Clark Tucker called on
Virgil Sjodahl Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Sjodahl and
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Sjodahl made
trip to Pine City Tuesday of last
week.
Mrs. John Zajicek went to Hutch
lnson Wednesday of last week to at
tend the funeral of an uncle, Ellery
Williams. She returned Sunday eve
ming.
Askov American., 1943-05-27

Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin Nordholm of
Minneapolis are spending a weeks vaca-
ton with his parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Nels
Nordholm.
Saturday evening Mr.. and Mrs. Eric
Peterson visited at the home of Herbert
Nordholm.
Miss Darlene Ward of St. Paul enter
tanned at her home over the weekend
Miss Melba ChriStopherson of Brainerd
and Miss Mildred Johnson of Sturgeon
Lake
Leonard Lappi of Ely spent from Fri
day until Monday at the Reinhold Lind
quist home. Other weekend guests there
were Mr.. and Mrs. Reinhold Lappi and
daughter. JEAN of Duluth
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Kukkola and
Charles Smith attended a circuit con-
ference" of directors, managers and educa-
ton committee members of the Centra
Cooperative Wholesale at Moose Lake
Monday evening
Askov American., 1943-05-27
Ogenla

Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Theiling and
son and Mrs. Steve Cecora spent
Sunday at the Clyde Busby home
Mrs. J. Linehan and Mr.. and Mrs
Darrell Waggoner motored to Min
neapolis Friday. Mrs. Kenneth Lewis
and daughter returned to the city
with them after spending two weeks
here with her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Swan spent Sum-
day at the Swan home.
Claude and Frank Ramsdell OF
Grantsburg visited at the Frank
Ramsdell home Sunday
Leonard Andersen is in the Fred
eric hospital at this writing. He
underwent an operation Saturday
morning. Latest reports were that
he was getting along fine
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Wise spent Sat-
urday afternoon at Sturgeon Lake.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rudy Stiebner ano
sons spent Sunday at the Benson
home.
Mrs. Delmar Benson entertained
the Ladies Aid Wednesday of last
week.
Saturday afternoon, May 20, has
been set to finish cleaning up the
Ogema cemetery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Curtis Lyon were
Twin City business callers last Thurs.
day.
Askov American., 1943-05-27
kingsdale

MRS. Banks and daughter and Clarence
Lund home Sunday. - ~
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Lund are the par
EMS OF boy born May 20. Eddie and
their, grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. A
Lund - "A
>, A farewell party was given at the Floyd
f1alnes nome Friday for George who left
for the navy Monday
Mrs. Carl Nelson and Ruth and Mrs
Frank Barton visited with Mrs. Russell
day '' S''
Norma Feigum came home from St. Pau
recently to spend few days.
=, Mrs. Dale Austin and daughter and
Norna, CONNIE and Robert Feigum mo-
tored to Webster Tuesday of last week
Mrs. Robert Feigum and Nancy and
Mrs. Dale Austin and Barbara visited
at the Abrahamson home east of town
Saturday
Askov American., 1943-05-27
Markville

The June meeting of the Arna
Community club has been set for
Tuesday night, June 8, and will be
the last meeting until September.
There will be an ice cream social
to raise money for fair expenses.
Clyde Shumway, county agricultural
agent, will be present and give some
pointers on the selection and pre-
paration of articles to be exhibited
at the fair
Mrs. Paul Babcock visited relatives
and friends in Minneapolis several
days last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Monson and
children went to Forest Lake re-
Gently for a weeks visit with rela-
tiveS.
The Christian Endeavor society
met at the J. T. Ballantine home
Sunday night. There will be no
meeting next Sunday night on ac-
count of the baccalaureate service at
Cloverton that evening.
Roy Levin of Minneapolis repre-
senting the United Temperance
movement, spoke at the Presbyter-
ian churches of Markville and Clo-
verton Sunday morning.
William Kelch, assisted by Mrs
Rudolf Kelch, has been making the
rounds of the township this month
assessing personal property.
Mrs. Golden and daughter of Bel
den were visitors at the Buster Col
den home Sunday.
Many of the boys in the service
of our country depend on this col
Askov American., 1943-05-27

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Evening star., 1943-12-02
I'd Rather Be Riaht-

friend at Vichy, it is the under
grounds opportunity; it is the best
possible preparation for the second
front.
Must Keep Doors Shut.
Any expression Of sympathy for
Petain in Britain or America will
mean that Petain's newest expedi-
ent will, to that degree, have sue
ceeded He will have tried a door,
and it will have opened for him.
We must keep all the doors shut,
and let the Fascists battle with each
other in the prison they have made
for themselves.
The best answer to Petain's num-
bic about republic would be a
full-scale Allied conference with
De Gaulle, leading to full settle
ment Of all disputed questions.
Then we shall really see Vichy break
out into rash of new plans, new
schemes, new attempts; and If
Vichyites break each others heads
in the ensuing argument, why should
any democrat weep?
1t is not our business to take sides
as between Laval and Petain. We
have split them; now let us close the
fist tighter, ard continue the inter-
esting process of making little ones
out OF big ones.
Evening star., 1943-12-02
Health Committee Acts
To Expand Activities

Plans are under way by the
Bethesda Chevy Chase Public Health
Lay Committee to organize a Public
Health Volunteer Corps in an effort
to coordinate and expand volunteer
activitiesaof the committee.
Members of the corps, who will
wear special insignia, will take a
course under the direction OF DR..
v. L. Ellicott, Montgomery County
health off1cer, in the various duties
they will perform in maintaining
health standards in the county.
The course will include instruc-
ton in nursing, venereal diseases,
tuberculosis, maternal and fchild
health work. Actual training will be
done on the jobs to which the VOL
unteers are assigned. Those desiring
to enroll in the corps are urged to
call Mrs. Charles w. Reid, Wisconsin
4528.
Mrs. John w. Cutler. president of
the Lay Committee, pointed out that
the work Of her group and of men,
bers of the Volunteer Corps will be
to assist the County Health Depart
ment and has no connection with
the Suburban Hospital in Bethesda
Evening star., 1943-12-02
This Changing World

armed foe and his people were
collapsing because they could not
get food, medical supplies and
other necessities from the out
side world.
The White House statement
did not say how these major
problems are to be handled, but
1t leads us to assume that some
military steps will be taken in
the near future to open up ave-
nues of supplies for China arm
les and her people. Without them
no solemn declarations or pledges
can be of any real value.
The operations of the Ameri-
can naval, air and ground forces
in the South Pacific are prepara-
tory for general offensive
whenever sufficient men and ma
tterials can be dispatched to that
area. Their success is hearten-
ing to all members of the United
Nations who realize that the Jap
anese are being defeated in every
encvounter, large or small, with
the Americans and Australians.
But it does not answer the i'm
mediate needs of China.
Aid for China Urged.
Major air operations against
the Japanese homeland might
help destroy the Japanese morale,
but they too cannot solve China S
problems unless they are under
taken in the near future. The
only positive step toward help
ing Gen. Chang would be to dis
lodge the japanese from Burma
and open up the road from RAN
COON to the Chinese borders.
Admiral Lord Louis Mount
batten, the most dashing and COL
orful commander of the British
forces, has been placed at the
head of a force to carry out the
operation soon after the end of
the monsoons and before the next
rainy season begins. The mon-
soons ended in October. Prep
arations for the campaign evi-
dently have not been completed
because there is yet no indication
OF major offensive either in
Northern or Southern Burma.
According to military observers.
a real campaign against the Japs
from the Bay Of Bengal will be
possible only if another front is
not opened in the Eastern Medi-
terranean and the British feet
is available to Admiral Mount
batten.
We have to wait for the results
OF q conference with Stain be-
fore we can know whether a
drive is planned in the Eastern
Mediterranean Meanwhile, Gen.
Chang seems to have been ap-
peased and will do his best to
hold his generals together until
such time as we can start taking
supplies to him. And this in it
self is an important result of the
tripartite conference dealing with
the Far East.
Evening star., 1943-12-02

Laval means that French Fascism
is confused, and of divided mind. It
means that French Fascism now has
two plans, instead of one. Splendid! |!
When it splinters into three plans,
or four plans, then will French
Fascism really be burnt out and
ready for the ash-collector.
One commentator reads Petain's
supposed revolt" against Laval as
perhaps a sign of democratic re-
birth in France.
1t Is hardly that. 1t is a death
rattle, not birth cry. What fond
instinct is it which makes us feel
that when Fascism divides into
halves, we must show preference
for one half or the other? Our job
Is otherwise; so to increase our
pressure that the halves may split
into halves, and the halves again
into halves, so that finally only a
political ruin remains, in which
democracy may hope to take over.
Petain is seeking a way out. That
is why he mumbles of new French
republic. 1t has even been sug-
gested that q new, neutral French
Republic" would be of great help
to Germany; 1t would be out OF
bounds for second front.
1t is not our job to help Fascism
find a way out by extending our
sympathy and moral support to any
OF the splinters into which 1t is
disintegrating.
Allied Task Outlined.
1t is our task to compress this
decaying system all the harder. to
force it into ever wilder and more
hopeless change Of tactics, to make
1t shift furiously from expedient to
expedient. until nothing remains for
1t but collapse.
Petain never talked of republic
while we were nourishing and sus-
tanning him with our recognition.
His love of republicanism dates
from our successes in Africa and
Italy. He has a wholly new regard
for our way Of life, since our way
OF life took Algiers from him.
Any show Of Allied tenderness
toward Petain now would only
strengthen him. 1t might SO in
crease his prestige as to enable him
to win out over Laval, and even
re-establish unity in the top circles
Of French Fascism.
But unity in the top layers of
French Fascism Is of no use to US;
quite the reverse. Disunity is our
Evening star., 1943-12-02

distasteful to the excellent gentle-
men in question. it is the age Of the
chairmen of the major House
committees.
IL Committees Named.
Let us take a look at the facts.
The IL most important committees
of the House are: Agriculture, Ap-
preparations, Banking and Currency,
Foreign Affairs. Interstate Com
merce, Judiciary, Labor, Military
Affairs, Naval Affairs, Rivers and
Harbors, Rules. and Ways and
Means. Here are IL committees of
which the chairmen are in a very
real sense directing heads. The
average age of these IL chairmen
is slightly under H. Two are over
30. -Four are over 10. Ten will be 10
or more In l945.
The sober questtcs is whether
there should be retSE7ent age for
committee chairmen, as there Is in
other lines of human endeavor. II,
as, the President said so freely in
1887 judge should be retired at a
certain age, the argument for re-
tlrlng committee chairmen is even
more persuasive. A Federal Judge
is free Of the big job faced by all
congressman, which is keeping in
active politics, with all the strain
incident thereto The chairman
ship OF committee is a strenuous
job, involving administering an Of
flee force, managing members,
calling witnesses. presiding at hear
ings and presenting legislation to
the House. This, it is respectfully
submitted. is scarcely a Job for a
man of 10. Never mind the ex-
ceptions: they are notable and do
serve honors. But the rule should
require more vitality, more freedom
from vested interest and more re.
ceptlvity to new ideas.
Methods Suggested.
There are several ways to achieve
a rehabilitation of committees. One
is to break the seniority rule. This
would be undesirable, because it
would open the way to an incredible
amount of log-rolling. Another Is
to retire chairmen from their chair
manship at a fixed age, say 65. In
the present House, and assuming
Democratic control, that would
mean the retirement in le45 of II
OF the IL chairnen now sitting in
the most important committees. The
venerable retirees could remain in
the House as long as the voters con-
tinued them and they could remain
on their favorite committees to
guide. counsel and befriend.
Still another way would be to
elect a Republican Congress. That
would mean, assuming that the pre-
sent IL ranking Republicans re-
main. an average age in 1945 Of
about 81. But they, too, will age,
and so, perhaps the best Of all plans
is to change the rules now for all
future time.
! released by the Associated Nevspsp>pey
Evening star., 1943-12-02

1ssimo Chang Kai-shek in North
Africa. According to reports
from neutral and enemy sources
which have been broadcasting
reports OF the conference for the
past two weeks, another meeting
is now in progress in Iran, with
Premier stain participating.
Last nights statement should
put an end to the fears of many
Washington observers that China
soon may get out of the war be-
cause of the lack of adequate
support from her western Allies.
The United States and Britain
have now gone on record as
promising that Japan will be
stripped of all her ill-gotten gains
since the World War and that
the territories she has stolen
from China over a period of
nearly so years will all be re-
turned to the present Chungking
government. Gen. Chang, who
Is mindful of the rights of mi
norities, has agreed that Korea,
once a part Of the Chinese en-
pire and now a much suffering
Japanese province, shall become
q free and independent country.
Japan to Be Defeated.
The statement ends with the
formal declaration that all those
United Nations which are at war
with Japan will continue to
persNere in the serious and pro-
longed operations necessary to
procure the unconditional sur
render of Japan" This pledges
Gen. Chang to continue the fight
on the side of the Allies to the
bitter end.
There never has been any doubt
in the minds of the Allied lead
ers that Gen. Chang feels that
the future of China is closely
linked to that of the United
Nations. His repeated warnings
to Washington and London that
China might be pushed out of
the war were due to the fact
that his soldiers could get no
war material to continue the
fight against much better
Evening star., 1943-12-02
OphthoImoIoey Meeting
Called Here Saturday

Ophthalmologists in the armed
forces and in civil life have been
invited to attend the semiannual
meeting of the department of oph-
thalmology, George Washington
University school of medicine, at
7:30 pm. Saturday at 1885 H street
NV.
Participating In case demonstra-
tions by the department staff will
be Drs. William T. Davis, Ernest
Sheppard. E. Leonard Goodman,
Ronald A. Cox, Frank D. Costen-
bader, Richard w. Wilkinson, Sterl-
ing Bockoven and c. r. Naples.
At $50 pm. Col Frederic H
Thorne, Army Medical Corps, will
discuss Military Aspects of Oph-
thalmology."