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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-08-16

Economic reprisals against all
German products after the war
is suggested by Premier Lloyd
George. Anything made in Ger
many is to be considered as made
in Hades. 1t listens good today,
but after the war is over, Amer.
leans will soon forget it and the
Made in Germany" trademark
will be as common as flies. In q
few years more, if there is any Of
them left, we will be patting them
on the back and regretting that
we had to trim them so severely
during the late unpleasantnesa
0, we are the softies and the
weakened sisters, alright, al
right. Remember how we told
Bernstorff goodbye, and hurry
back old boy? Wow, and no one
took a shot at him as he went up
the gangplank for home. This is
America, and we are sportsmen,
is the why of it perhaps. And
Girard was not home yet. The
first shipload of German stuff
landing at New York should be
ordered home at once-but il
wont, and many Of our pro-Ger-
mans will fall off the dock trying
to reach the ship for the German
made goods. The melting pot
should be fred up a trifle hotter.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-08-16
Fl at 100 Per Cent
Child Welfare Committee Re
ports.

After weighing. measuring and ex
aiming 1866 children in Ely we find
only 81 Of these that are 100 per
cent. perfect and IL abnormal. We
also find two very bad cases of cross
eyes; three cases of infected eyes; one
very bad heart case: one tumor: one
deaf and dumb; one deformity of
toes; four deformities of legs. two
with goitre; fifteen cases of eczema ;
252 underheight and 355 underweight.
After inquiring we find that 80 per
cent of these underweight children
are given black coffee to drink in
place of milk.
Where child is found to be nota-
bly, below the average in this devel-
opment it may mean. in many cases,
that he is not sufficiently anourished,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-08-16

After the war is over how
would you like to go out with the
mules and pillow over a few acre.
of battle-ground soils Even the
mules would kick on a Job OF
that kind. Someone is going to
be late for dinner some day when
blowing time comes around again.
Long after the Civil War people
were blown to atoms in trying to
see it an unexploded shell was
good" yeti was.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-08-16


Germany's mineral wealth is
placed at $l,l83, 800, 100000 by
London statisticians who claim
that a defeated Germany can
yield a handsome indemnity. In
mineral wealth alone they esti-
mate Germany can give forth
423, 356,O0O,0OO tons Of coal val
ued at $1,O5s, 800, 100000, 4,OOO,-
100000 tons of iron ore valued at
S., 1000, 100000 and 5O,OOO,-
100000 tons of potash valued at
1926, 100000, 900.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-08-16

Our war expenses are now run
ming at about billion month.
Still it is worth it just to read
about Our Boys in action. They
are the sons of their fathers, al.
right alright and the traditions
made by their grandfathers are
certainly being polished up for
several generations yet to come to
read of and enjoy. Too bad Our
Boys are fighting an enemy
without any honorable princi.
pies. But note this-Germany
prepared forty years for this
thing. We turn out soldiers in
ninety days that chases the legs
off a Hun. The lunkheads in
cised off more than they can mas.
ticate we think.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-08-16
Those who have shouted.

Those who have shouted
Look out for Japan" have an
other shout coming. The Japs
are busting suspender in their
preparations to. aid 1.-THE Allies.
Trust them to see which side of
the bread has the butter ON it.
Hobson, he of Santiago fame,
toured the country once telling
us that Japan was making bear
traps for us by the million and
some day we would wake up as
subjects to these slant-eyed ter
ros. But how now Hob?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-08-16

1t has been advised us that all
dogs should be killed as a matter
OF food conservation, now that war
is on and the eats are scarce. The
man who advocated that has no
dog. His childhood was shriv-
eled up because he had no dog
companion. His soul is atrophied
and his heart inhuman. A dog
any dog, is an angel to some little
tot. Any eur with a bark in him
can find a friend in most anyone
having human attributes. Any
family with children void of the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-08-16

The government, if really desi-
rous of saving news print could
cut out tons and tons of useless
pages from its Congressional Rec
ord. 1t could save many more
tons by disseminating the dupli-
cation of various publications
printed supposedly in the inter-
est of winning the war. 1t could,
with no loss to the country, cut
out three-fourths of the stuff
printed by the Sunday newspa-
pers. It's attempt to lessen the
force of the country papers is
short-sighted because the country
town papers are those that create
the real sentiment Of the commu-
mites they serve. There's per-
sonality about them that the met
ropolitan press does not contain.
The country papers are regarded
by keen business men Of the
country as the most important in
reaching the people and impress
ing them with their duties to the
government and themselves. II
the government really wants to
save news print it can do it with
out Furnishing the country papers
that all have an important mis-.
sion to fill.-Ishpeming Iron Ore
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-08-16
New Allotment

The Federal Trade Commission
is investigating the price of iron
ore, to prove or disprove whether
the independent producers have
properly represented the cost of
production to the price fixing
committee of the War Industries
Board. Cost sheets are being ex-
amined by government exports,
and in due time they will report
and the price fixing committee
may authorize another advance.
The As cents advance which
was authorized early last month
served to keep some of the indie
pendent producers from being
forced out of business by the adj
vance in the freight rate, and af-
forded a tiny margin to offset
heavy increased costs in other di-
rections, which have been accu-
mulating ever since the ore prices
were established in the usual way
late in the fall of 1916 for the sea-
son of 1917.
The present prices Of iron ore
are in effect until Oct. l, so that
there is no prospect of any new
advantage to be gained this sea-
son. The present prices are not
retroactive. Ii the government
finds that the independent iron
ore producers have not had fair
price for their commodity this
year, and orders another advance,
it will help the 1919 operations,
even though the war is ended by
then. If the government finds
that higher prices should prevail
the effect under any circum-
stances will be favorable in it's
tendency for fair prices next
year.
The tendency Of the times in
the iron ore industry is to in
creased activity, but there are
three things which are calculated
to cause a slowing up. One is
the narrow margin of profit. An
other is the Minnesota tax laws
as applied to non-producing but
proven properties, and another is
the scarcity Of labor. Generally
speaking the large consumers Of
iron ore, though they control
mines, do not discover them.
They purchase their leases and
leave the discovery business to
the explorer. If the explorer is
to continue in business there must
be some incentive, and that can
be furnished only by a fair degree
of prosperity in the Independent
production of ore, or by active
demand for leases. The present
situation is conducive for the for
nation of new indepedent con-
Germs equipped to mine and man.
ufacture the ore, which always is
a happy solution Of the handicap
of the mineless furnaceman, and
the mine operator who depends
on a precarious market for his
commodity, when they can get to-
gether.- Skilling's Review.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-08-16

Czecho-S lovaks-what a name
to gum the saw with. If they
can fight as one naturally would
with a name like that, let them
become one of our allies, as they
wish. Help the poor fellows to
understand what the American
word LIBERTY" really means.
1t is found in this country out
side of the dictionary, too. 1t
should become a universal house
hold word. Why is King or
Kaiser or Royal Family? Royal
hi.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-08-16

"That little shrimp Of an Amer.
lean soldier who put hand gre.
made in the vest pocket of a huge
Hun had just the right and ex,
act method of scattering Kultur
we can commend. Any other
method is wrong in our mind.
Sort Of gave the Hun a taste OF
his own doctrines, that shrimp
did. And there are millions more
like him on the way to help in
distributing the Hun doctrines
that way. Aea
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-08-16
Yes, we certainly bellows In

cS, NO C04seAy eSOVA -
military. training for our young
men. We believe that a lot of
our young men would be better
men if they had been trained in a
military school. This writer is a
Pacificist in that we will fight
as last resort only and not as a
first resort. But military train.
ing is needed. Look at the num-
Der of reflections by the examin-
ing boards over the country. Had
these young men been under
training they would have been
cared for morally, mentally and
physically. Their lives would
have been scrutinized by someone
besides father and mother and
been forced to be clean and man
ly young men. Their habits Of
life would have been corrected
along lines for their benefit in ev-
cry way. Look at young man of
today and then put your lamps
on him when he comes home on a
furlough. Straight limbed, head
up, CLOTHES carefully kept, an air
of manliness about him which
perhaps he did not have before
the training officer got him. Mil
itary training knocks the conceit
out of young man and teaches
him that there are others in the
world besides himself. You can
pick out the military trained man
in a crowd. If military training
was universal and compulsory
there would be fewer degenerates
and more real men. Military
training does not necessarily
mean war, or a preparation for
war, but school in which real
men are produced. And the world
needs real men. The better we
are educated and trained the bet
ter we are fed, clothed and gov
erned. The same conditions OBJ
tain nationally as well as locally.
Were Ely governed by the Igor
rotes the city would soon lapse
into lgorrotism. But on the other
hand a trained mind at the helm
makes for better city in which
to live. Speed the day when our
public schools will all have mil;
tary training in them. There is
where it should commence and
end. While the youth is pliable
and impressionable then is the
time of the greatest good to him
and later to the rest of the world.
Yes, we believe in militarism to
that extent.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-08-16

Editor Yarick of the Aurora
News is elated over the acquisition
to his equipment of Linograph
type casting machine. The News
is to be congratulated. The Miner
Linotype has arrived and the
Office is being placed in condition
for its reception. We will also
smile sweetly when the machine
gets into working order.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-08-16

companionship of a dog is not be-
ing brought up right. A dog
owner will care for his dog in it's
way as he would the wife and
child in their way. The food the
dog eats can be taken from the
plates of the family at their indi-
vidual loss, and they. will be
happy in the act. Man has no
friend quite so faithful and true
as the family dog. The wag OF
his tail is honest, not camou-
tagged. His welcome at his mas
ter's homecoming is worth all
that he costs in keep. Volumes
have been written about the dog
and no more faithful animal in
the brute creation is found than
"Old Spot" the family dog. Long
may he wave a welcome with his
tail and so long as he does that,
he will not go hungry as long as
there is crust in the house.
Kill the dogs-Not. The worst
has not come yet and this Geo.
nomic suggestion falls fat on the
ears of the children at least. Use
the ammunition on the Stacker
first anyhow before trying the gun
on the dog.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-08-16
Notwithstanding!

Non-Partisan-Huh! 1t is to
laugh how some people make a
collection of gold bricks and
keep on collecting. That sucker
minute story is after all quite
true in this instance at least. The
fool and his money are soon
parted, but what keeps us awake
nights is studying on how the
fool gets so much money to lei
loose of for the bricks.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-08-16

A steel trust government by the
iron barons and their associates
rule Minnesota according to allie
cations of George Andreytchine,
one Of the I. w. WIS on trial On
the charge of conspiracy in the
Federal court in Chicago. George
had ought to know. He hit Min
nesota with the seat out of his
pants and not a cent in his
pocket. Nobody wanted to en-
ploy him. He was not the work
ing kind. In answer to his pleas
an official of the Steel corpora
ton gave him work, credited his
story that he wanted to get ahead
and make a man out of himself,
and helped him along. AS soon as
his belly was filed and he had
clothes on his back and money
in his pocket then Andreytchine
joined forces with those who were
agitating against his benefactors.
1t is natural for Andreytchine to
presume that the Steel trust runs
Minnesota for out of all the en-
ployers in the state the Steel cor
poration was the only one that
would take a chance on a man of
the remarkable ability of George
Andrytchine. Tribune.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-08-16

September 18th is the date sci
for another run on the baby's
bank. The Fourth Liberty Loan
is called for that date. Let us
get ready to go over the top as
IN the past. Come ON fellers, it is
only six billion this time and let &
show the lunkheads we are fight.
ing that we are still in the game
with both pedal extremities.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-08-16

"Kid" Williams, bantam cham
pion of the world, has refused an
$500 appointment as boxing in.
structor at Camp Holabird and
has taken the place at 81 year.
Fulton, Willard and others of the
kopek seeking fraternity please
take notice and follow the exam
pie Of the kid.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-08-16

Editor Hadley of the Winnie
bago Enterprise says he knows
a lot of people who have been
soldering" for years and have
not yet succeeded in acquiring
either a uniform or promotion.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-08-16

Well wager that Our Boys are
already buying guide books for
use in Berlin few days from
now. 1t would be just like the
lads to do this.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-08-16

either by actual lack Of food or be-
cause his food is badly chosen, or
because he has been allowed to fall
into bad eating habits.
Children must have plenty to eat.
Children from two to six years of age
should have three good meals a day,
the heaviest meal being in the middle
of the day. Their day food should
include plenty of milk, not less than
III pints. Skinned milk may be
used If butter is given also. Plenty
of cereals and green vegetables, par
ticularly leaf vegetables such as
spinach, etc. 1t is desirable also to
have a more varied diet and to in
clude sugar, fruits, eggs and meat,
with fish and fowl in the daily meals.
Information regarding these matters
will be furnished to mothers if they
will write to the Children's Bureau,
U. S. Department of Labor, Washing.
ton, D. c..
In a great many cases malnutrition
is not due to lack of food but to q
badly chosen diet. In this group o:
cases the remedy is chiefly in edu
eating mothers in the better selection
Of food for their children.
One proposal of the workings oi
the Children's Year is that classes
shall be established which will give
mothers practical information as tc
the sort of food their children need
and how to prepare it.
The following children are those
who have been found 100 per cent
perfect. The name of the child Is
given and not that of the parent.
Josephine Asahon, 16 months.
Frank Glavan, 8 months.
Molly Botz, 10 months.
Leo Erchul, "a months.
Annie Pierce, II months.
Frank Perusec, % months.
molly Jerlcn, 10 months.
Jean BONNER, Is months.
John Puzel, 26 months.
Glen Allen Rice, Is months.
Molly Benk, Is months.
Emma Peyla, AZ months.
Olga Polyantz, 4 months,
Jennie Kromar, months.
Frank Popisch, IS months.
Chas. Veranth, 80 months.
Robert Kapsch,. months.
Molly Pluth, Al months.
VIM. Maxi, months.
Angela Cernivec, 10 months.
Laurence Golobich, 80 months.
The Child Welfare Captains are
calling on the mothers of children
who are more than three pounds un
derweight If you have not beer
called upon you will understand tha
your children are normal.
MRS. w. E. TREZONA,
Chairman Children's Year
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-08-16

No, Genevieve, "Potsdam'' is
not swearing. 1t is only where
the most hellish plots originate.
You can safely use the word in
your kitchen providing you do
not put the accent on the last
syllable.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-08-16

The Fourth Liberty Loan will
be called sometime in September.
Right now is good time to sell
a cow to get ready for it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06

ton to sec the struggle through was
sounded
nineteen hundred and eighteen must
be the nations year." was the message of
Cardinal John M. Farley, of New York
City. at will be IL year of struggle, a
year OF sacrifice in many homes, perhaps
a year Of sorrow. Nevertheless, it will be
happy new year for this nation, a happy
new year for the world, if during it from
the furnace Of war the ideals for which
the world has been suffering shall emerge
i'll all their golden beauty"
The veteran leader of organized labor,
Samuel Gompcrs, sent forth Il greeting
summoning every worker to put away his
immediate cause Of dissatisfaction and
throw his whole strength into the balance
against the Kaiser. He pointed out the
Importance of the year to labor as follows:
This war is in the last analysis a pco-
pies war-labors war. The final outcome
will be determined in the factories the
mills and shops, the mines, the farms, the
industries and the transportation agencies
CT the various countries. That group Of
countries which can most successfully
organize it's agencies of production and
transportation and which can furnish the
most effective agencies with which to con-
duct the war will VIM"
President Poincaifc of France took &C.
casion to renew the traditional oath of
friendship between the people of '76 and
the peopie Of 1913. His telegram received
in Washington by the Committee on Pub
lie information read as follows:
Gas the year 1917 closes I look back with
emotion to the months just elapsed and to
the successive phases of the world strug-
GLE and in particular to the entrance Of the
United States into the
"Champions OF common cause, the Amer
lean people and the French people, whom
fraternity of arms has united in the past,
whom it is binding still more closely to-
day, contemplate with unsuitable ilrmness
and with the serene consciousness OF their
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06

nizing between German and Russian SOL
diers proceeds with great rapidity Trotzky
is reported rs anxious to spread the phi
loSophy Of the Maximalists by fomenting a
German revolution.
Meanwhile Germany begins demanding
more concessions. She demands that Rus
STA give up all the land now held by the
Kaiser, and that she take cognizance Of
the proclaimed independence of Poland,
Lithuania, Courland and portions of
Esthona and Livonia. It is proposed that
general elections be held in these districts
to determine whether they shall be recog-
nized as separate states.
Then suddenly comes the news that
peace negotiations have been broken off
as result of Germany's refusal to with
draw her troops from Poland and other
occupied portionV Of Russia. TrotzHy
maintains that the Baltic provinces are in
reality under military pressure, while they
continue to be occupied by Germany. The
Bolsheyihi, on the very eve Of an expected
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
Railroads

we must bring back peace upon earth. You
we all, arc instruments in the hands of
Almighty God for restoring peace to the
world"
Returning to America, one encounters
unconditional loyalty to the President and
the war measures of the nation pledged in
the New Years editorials Of the press.
"The vast majority Of the civilized people
of the world have only one wish for the
New Year-peace," said 1.-THE New York
World" but it added this must be peace
with Prussianisn1 banished. "Thc New
York Herald' urged that "thc nations
which stand for liberty must be prepared
to make 1918 the greatest of all the war
years" ''Thc New York Sun" declared:
THAT VIC have entered on season of
deprivation which will affect US seriously in
cur individual relations is not cause for re-
greet There are lessons TO be learned in ad-
versity that will profit us in prosperity. The
reforms we shall institute under stress OF var
imposed necessity viii endure after that ne
cessty has passed. the splendid examples OF
seif-denial and self-sacrificc that are encoun-
tered with increasing frequency on every side
will not pass from memory when the occasion
for them disappears, but will exercise per
nanenC lNNueNCe Oh our PUBIC and private
institutions"
In the annual reviews of the military
situation the Allied disappointments Of the
year were frankly admitted collapse
Of Russia, the heavy but not crushing re-
verses in Italy, the embarrassment of the
submarine ravages. The years fighting
on the West front furnished some solace
which Secretary of War Baker summed up
as follows:
's!n the West the British, in the Ypres sa-
lent, occupy the high ground of the Pass
chendaele Ridge and dominate the Flanders
plain.
Their wedge in front Of Cambria, though
blunt, has ripped great gap in the principal
German line OF defence.
"The battle for Cambria proved that the
German defensive positions could be broker
and taken. Though full advantage WAS no.
taken of the early successes gained by the
Il! British. nevertheless. the disaster to German
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
U=BOat Warfare
The Coal Famine

TT AND in hand with record smashing
- cold spell comes second acute coal
famine, resulting in much suffering, many
deaths, and actual or seriously threatened
interruption Of business. In New Yorf.,
where this famine achieved its climax, the
thermometer creeps to IL degrees below
zero. Coal yards are empty. Drivers
threaten to go on strike for higher wages.
Consumption of gas multiplies to such an
extent that a warning is issued, lest gas
resources fail. Director General McAdoo
gives the transportation Of coal priority
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06

ization of all their hopes. In an order to
the army and navy he reviewed the mar
tial achievements of the year and con-
tinued:
"The German people in arms have thus
everywhere, OH land and sea, achieved great
deeds. But enemies still hope, with
the assistance of new allies, to defeat you,
and then destroy forever the world position
won by Germany in hard endeavor They
will not succeed. Trusting in our right
eous cause and in our strength, We face the
year 1913 with firm confidence and iron will.
Therefore, forward with God to fresh deeds
and fresh victories!"
10 contingents of regiments who had
taken part in the Cambria counter often
sivc he said:
"War has been sent TO you and US By God
for publication aud self-examination. For
nearly half century VIC faithfully main
tanned peace. Then we saw our peace dis
turbed by others. Trusting in Gods help,
we have shown them how great is our
strength. But they still have the foolish
hope they can conquer US SO it is by force