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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-06-28

bought thrift stamps and Liberty
Bonds you need do nothing else,
you are Stacker. Bonds and
stamps help, but they are a good
investment for you. Do some,
thing that means sacrifice.
If you spread ugly stories about
the government (such as that we
are sending food material to the
brewers of England-which is a
lie), you are hindering war eff
cheney and hindered war eff
cheney means more American lives
lost. You are worse than a
slacker-you come near being a
traitor. Germany is counting on
spreading just such stories, and
has got all kinds of false state
ments and evidence disseminated
by clever means. Are you going
to help her?
What are the war services that
the United States asks of it's
women?
Red Cross work.
Food production and conserva-
ton.
Patriotic education and Ameri-
canization of aliens.
Protection both physical and
moral of the thousands of women
who must be pushed into new in
dustries through the departing of
men.
Don't imagine that your COM
munity does not need it
Child conservation, that the
child shall not suffer by the up
heavals of war. Don't imagine
that your community does not
need it
Registration for war service.
Making ourselves more eff
cient and faithful in home service
-sanctifying the daily duties by
the spirit of sacrifice and Of pa
trioism.
Giving our money and our
strength, our devotion in no
grudging spirit, but with fervor
and gratitude for our great OPP
portunities.
The Woman's Committee of the
Council of National Defense is
authorized by the Government,
created and organized all over
the United States to help this
work. 1t wishes to include every
woman's organization and every
individual woman's organization
and every individual woman in
team work for patriotism. Don t |
be Stacker. Come in and help. |
The Government calls you to SER
vice and every woman in America
can do her part.
You have your choice whether
you will be drag or whether yon
will join and be a part of the
Army of American women.
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saved us 160,OOO,OOO car miles a
year. Then, too, our insistence
upon clean coal has made 10 per
cent more coal available.
Lt.-COl. Raymond F. Bacon,
head of the gas service in the
Ordnance Departm en- t, said
eve are of the opinion that gas
will win the war. 1t is more and
more becoming something of
prime Importance. We are find
ing greater protection against
gas and better gases. In time we
will be able to hand the Boche a
little bit more hellish gas than he
has ever handed us" William
u. Saunders, chairman Of the Ma
val Consulting Board and former
President of the American Insti-
tute of Mining Engineers, said
that his board has already re-
ceived, studied and acted upon
more than $4,000 plans and sug-
gestions.
Pope Yeatman, in charge of
non-ferrous metals of the War In
dustries Board, stated that there
is hardly business in the coun-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-06-28
PASSING OF Mr.. JOHNSTON
BY IsoBEL FIELD
of the XiuiIantes.

The traditional Englishman, he Of
the eyeglass and the haw-haw man
ner, has been thrown into the discard.
The last four years have changed our
views on many things and today when
we think Of Britisher it Is not as
we used to see him. in caricature, but
as he Is, simple, nkable, friendly
chap, and "a first-class fighting man."
gained nothing. Instead he has lost
much.
And he will lose more. If necessary
the whole world will rise to put him
down. Something in the soul of man
could not tolerate subsection to any
thing SO visibly monstrous.
What will Germany be when the war
Is over? Industrially and. commercial
ly a cripple and mendicant.
And how many centuries must pass
before the German people by right iu
ing and fair thinking can wipe away
the stain this pious devil has put upon
their name?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-06-28
CONQUEST
BY HENRI CHAPELLE.
of the VjujIantes.

The broad, beloved life of a peace.
full, housekeeping nation, is a prod
uct, not an ordinance to be proclaim
ed. Why, then, do we talk of negotiat-
ing peace, when it has been destroyed
by violence? The forces that make
peace must first be reestablished.
One might as well talk Of peace to
a man struggling in the hands Of
murderous highwayman One might
as well talk of peace settlement with
the thief, to man who has been rob-
bed.
Wherever moral issues are involved
the instinct of mankind demands q
clean-cut conquest of evil.
Wherever there is definite attempt
sailed knows he must win decided
conquest to be safe.
Wherever there is man who lives
justly, he is entitled to conquest over
those who attacked him.
Right, safety, and justice all de-
mand conquest over wrong, danger
and brutality. Let conquest be the
word we use in speaking of the dis.
position of this war.
Another figure has gone, never to
return: the dancing, bowling, frog-eat-
ing Alphonse, the very opposite In
every particular to the real Frenchman
we have come to know, whose very
name is the personiication of valor.
Giuseppe, he Of the organ and mon
key, with stiletto in his belt and a
plate of macaroni in the near dis
lance, is displaced by bold Alpini
fighting in the clouds, or a dashing,
gallant Bersegliere defending his coun-
try to the last drop of his blood.
There is q parsonage nearer home
that we must be prepared to lose,
Mistah Johnston, the Darktown coon.
He is no more. Gradually there has
appeared in his place stern young
American, trained and alert, musket
in hand. There is no hyphen to his
name. His forefathers were Africans,
but he is loyal United States.
When the colored troops marched
down Fifth avenue for the last time
before going to France, the newspa-
pers reported that they were given a
"tumultuous ovation" As matter of
fact, there was little cheering. The
dense masses that lined the sidewalks
and filed the windows and overhang-
ing balconies looked on in growing
wonder. Here and there a patter of
gloved hands or bravo was
drowned in the beat of drums and the
tramp of many feet. The sight of the
long, long line. of khaki-clad figures
marching like clock-work; the strange
grim faces that might have been cast
in brOnZe-eyes straight ahead, with
not side glance or CLEAN Of white
teeth; company after company led by
smart, soldierly colored officers, al!
on their way to the battlefront, was
too awe-inspiring for noise. The
crowds gave them the deeper homage
of breathless surprised silence. They
came to applaud Mistah Johnston and
beheld in his place bold warrior who
commanded their respect and admira.
ton.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-06-28
SLACkERS OLD AND NEW
BY CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY
of the ViuiIantes,

The papers chronicle day by day the
steady advance Of the British soldiers
northward through Palestine. Their
lines extend from the Jordan to the
sea and they are slowly but surely
driving the Turks before them in this
latest, greatest and most decisive
crusade.
If the followers Of Mahomet can
make any stand against the followers
of Christ 1t will surely be in the plain
Of Esdraelon, one of the natural bat
tlefields Of the world. It is singular
how some places lend themselves in
evitably to conflict. The plain Of Jez-
reel, to give it another name, is one
of these. 1t has been fought over con-
tinually since Thothmes there defeated
the Hittites in the dawn Of recorded
history. Jew and Gentle; Canaanite,
Assyrian, Babylonian, Scythian, Per-
sian, Greek and Roman contested for
it's mastery in the East; English,
French, italian, German, Arabian, and
Turk from Godfrey and Richard and
Saladin to Napoleon drenched its fer
tile soil with blood in more modern
times. May the forthcoming be the
last Of its many battles, and Allenby
the last Of the long line Of crusaders.
One Of the most decisive of the con-
flicts upon that plain occurred in 1895
B. G. when Barak, the Lightning, in
spired by Deborah led ten thousand
men down the slopes of Mount Tabor
in a successful night onfall and sur
prise of the army of the oppressor,
Jabin Of Hazor, under the command
of Sisera. The Hazorites were disas-
trously defeated, driven In panic ter
ror down the narrow pass cut by the
Kishon, then in full flood, and killed
or drowned in large numbers.
Deborah made great song about
the triumph. One stanza runs this
way:
Curse We Meroz, said the Angel of
the Lord, curse We bitterly the inhabi-
tants thereof; because they came not
to the help of the Lord, to the help
Of the Lord against the mighty"
No one knows where Meroz lay. No
ruined vestiges remain to identify it.
There is no other mention Of it in the
pages of history. There is no ground
even for speculation about it. Yet for |
over thirty-two centuries it has been |
pilloried in it's infamy in that immortal |
song. Whatever its prosperity and its |
works, whatever its hopes and achieve
ments, the loves and hates, the sue
cesses or failures, Of its people-they |
are all forgotten In the blistering, with |
ering condemnation of the singer. 1t |
stands as place accursed forever:
Perhaps its utter oblivion is the re-
suit of the merited condemnation,
Shall there be written against our |
city, against our land, the curse of |
Meroz? Shall we apply to these and
to ourselves this slackers' text? Or
shall we come to the help of the Lord
today, tomorrow and forever, in the
great conflict now, and at all times,
being waged In Europe and everywhere
against sin and the devil?
Curse We Meroz? Non nobis, Domino
Not unto US, Oh Lord
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-06-28
MINING ENGINEERS BUSY

A dispatch from Washington
ID. c. says: American mining en-.
glneers want to do more war
work. They have come to Wash
lngton during the past week to
find out what greater service
they can render either here or at
their mines. They are being told
that almost everyone of the many
war work divisions of the Gov
eminent can use their technical
training, and plans are now be-
ing considered by the American
Institute of Mining Engineers for
multiplying the efforts that have
already been made.
AT a conference, which has
just been held with 200 of the
leading mining engineers, Her
bert Hoover and other heads of
administration, all members of
the American Institute, told some.
thing of the war service oppor-
tunltles to-day.
Lack Of labor, rather than
transportation difficulties, is the
cause of the coal shortage, said
H. V. Norris Of the fuel admins
tration, to the mining engineers.
He said, in part: eve have the
coal shortage. The situation is
serious and it is going to continue
to be serious. We have pinned a
bouquet on the railroads, but
lack OF labor at the mines is the
trouble. However, with
a shortage of labor amounting to
30 per cent we have increased
production 20 per cent. The
zone system of distribution has
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-06-28
ARE YOU A WOMAN STACKER?

Patriotism is only l per cent
cheering and waving flags.
Patriotism is SO per cent hard
work.
The attitude of the woman with
the soldier spirit is ''Stand at at.
tention, receive Government or.
ders, obey
If you do not realize that you
at home are just as responsible
to your country in it's time OF
peril as are the fighting men al
the front, you are Stacker.
Ten million women each doing
what she feels like, when she feels
like it, are not going to do effec-
tive war work. Ten million wo-
men concentrated on work the
Government asks for are going
to keep America victorious. Ma
poleon told us that two-thirds OF
the strength of an army depends
on the morale at home If you
are not keeping up the morale by
loyal team work, you are a
Stacker.
Are you eating to please Uncle
Sam or the kaiser? Don't wait
until your boy is manned or your
neighbours boy is reported among
the missing in France. Fight
now; fight daily; fight as if you
could see the enemy. This ism t
only war of armies; it is war
of resources, a war of food. You
are on the firing line. SHOOT
Thousands of women have al
ready pledged themselves to use
no wheat in any form until the
next harvest. If you are using
one ounce more of wheat than
your family requires-if you are
using your full amount and thea
adding to it by buying bread at
the bakery-you are a Stacker.
If. your boy has gone to the
front and you write him sad,
complaining letters, you are sap
ping his strength and courage.
He may try to be a hero, but you
are a Stacker.
If you say, ~ have given my
son. | do not need to do Red
Cross work or anything more. :"
You are pushing him into danger
and not supporting him behind
the lines. You are a Stacker.
If your idea Of war work is
holding as many Offices as posi-
BILE, but doing little hard work
if you are criticising everyone
else IN your community and all
the efforts of the United States
workers and boards, remember
that there is only one person for
whom you are responsible-your-
self. Ii you do not keep yourself
at work, you are a Stacker.
If you think because you have
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-06-28

try which can be called non-es-
sential, but nearly every indus
try uses materials and labor
which are of a non-essential type
in time of war.
The American Institute of
Mining Engineers now has $500
members and some 700 are in ac-
tive Government service.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-06-28

War Savings Stamps help pro-
vide that Force, force to the ut
most, force without stint or limit,
the righteous and triumphant
force which shall make right the
law of the world" which Presi.
dent Wilson says must be used
against our enemies.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-06-28

Your common sense will tell
you that you cannot buy now all
the things you bought before we
had a war to win. Your buying
must be restricted and your saw
lngs invested in War Savings
Stamps.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-06-28
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED

RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
Be it resolved-That we, the
Members of the Eighth District
Federated Clubs, now in session
at Ely, extend our sincere thanks
to the members of the Mothers
Club of Ely, for their generous
hospitality and efficient manage
ment that has made this Conven-
ton one of the most successful
we have ever attended.
To the Commercial Club of Ely
and owners of cars, for the pleas
ure trip over the wonderful
roads enabling us to enjoy the
scenery surrounding your town.
To the Board of Education and
Domestic Science Department for
the use of School buildings and
the splendid luncheon we en-
joyed to the Oliver Iron Mining
Company for the use of the pavil-
ion at Sandy Point to the Junior
Red Cross of Ely for the exhibit
and entertainment and to each in
dividual who as member of any
organization or personally has
contributed to our pleasure, we
extend our heartiest thanks and
appreciation
Be it Resolved, that the reso-
buttons passed by the General
Federation of Women's Clubs at
the Hot Springs Biennial be en-
G,)rsed as follows:
Resolved that the 18th Biennial
Convention Of the General FEEDER
alton of Womans' Clubs, repre-
senting two and one half million
women of the United States
earnestly request your honorable
body (the House of Representa-
tives) to Immediately pass Ma
tional Bonedry law, as a War
Measure.
Resolved-That all women of
the country be asked to stand at
attention during the passing of
our flag or the singing Of our Ma,
tional Anthem.
Be it Resolved that the General
Federation of Women's Clubs
pledge ourselves to consume mol
wheat or wheat products until
next harvest.
Resolved-That the General
Federation of Women's Clubs
stand behind every effort to
make clothing artistically better
in line and color, more simple and
practical, economical, sober and
sane; by buying as far as possible
only the best fabrics the govern
ment can allow for civilian use
Be it Resolved the Gen
eral Federation Of Women s
Clubs ask Congress to repeal the
law establishing Postal Zones on
magazines and that the women of
the various states use all possible
effort towards extending the
area which is protected by law
from the influence of harmful
films.
Be it Resolved that the General
Federation of Women's Clubs in
convention assembled, send the
following telegram to the u S.
Senate, care of Senator A. III. |
Jones, Chairman Suffrage COM
mittee.
"The Fourteenth Biennial Con
vention of the General Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs assembled
at Hot Springs, Arkansas, repre-
senting two and one-half million
women of the United States, |
earnestly request your honorable |
body to take immediate favorable |
action on the pending resolution
to submit a Federal Suffrage |
Amendment to the several State
Legislatures, that the democracy
in the United States may be com
pleted for the public good.
Respectfully submitted,
MRS. G. G. MCCARTHY.
MRS. O. A. OREDSON,
MRS. ERWIN LERCH.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-06-28
WINToN MEN IN The SERVICE.

Albert G.. r. Retter
Niels Peter Jensen
Perry Simpson
Knudt Johnson
Joseph Weber
Erik John Helsten
Magnus c. Bjorvik
Geo. Edward Anderson
George P. Williams
Geo. LeTourneau
Matt Berquist
Elmer Reel
Peter Hall
VIM. Hanson
Arthur Henry Sanger
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-06-28

Andy Blackmore
Douglas Nankervis
Dewey Minkel
John Mouser
Vincent Habian
John Schweiger
Emil Erickson
VIM. Maxi
Joseph Markovich
George Porthan
Otto Pussari
William Sletten
Stephen Mizera
Paul Yadlosky
Glen Coffey
Alvin Schaefer
Albert McMahan
Bart Jacobson
Fred c. James
Oscar Heikkila
Matt Spreitzer
Roger Morris
Frank Mullen
DR.. F. D. Cerveny
Howard Burt
Frank Huhta
Arthur Jylha
Joseph Skala
Axel H. Dahlquist
Carl F. Forsberg
Harold A. Vince
Phillip White
Arthur Mattsson
Paul Billings
John V. Kotchevar
Harold P. Mathews
Frank Moravetz
Oliver P. Bell
Aug. G. Gustafson
HJalmar MAXI
Peter Bartol
Melvin Sletten
Frank Horvatt
John Rolando
Chas. Russell Rose
Matt Smuk
Enrico Bernardo
Waino Hegman
Hentrig Latvaaho
Frank Dejak
John Locken
Elias LaBeau
Frank Lozar
Robert Zeller
Howard Schaefer
Abraham P. Bloomenson
Anton Metesh
Eric Anti
Walter P. Sletten
William Mills
Pete Hall
R. Clifford Miller
Carlo Caimi
Jacob Pete
Anton Brula
Anton WulotZ
Willard St. Marie
Matt Pussari
Hugo Sundstrom
Walter Carlson
D. Raub James
Herbert Venner
Arthur Toms
Thos. Murn
Arthur Sikala
Matt Preblich
John Horvat, Jr.
George Sterk
Mike Ohasich
John R. Hanson
Albert D. Hedloff
Joe Moravitz
Urho Salminen
Bert Pearson
Alfred Hanson
Peter Stark
Chas. L. Cecil
Frank Gianotti
Peter Ruotsala
John Koivumaa
Walter Koski
Howard Harrio
John Kerze
Ernest Wolff
Jerry Janezich
Hans Wendell Ojala
Mike Gordon
John Hjalmer Helbakka
Victor Walkeinen
Arvid Hiltunen
Ray Coffey
Frrnk Schweiger
Elmer Kajute
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Alex Written
Ben Martinson
Peter Gylland
Matt Indy
Hans Knoll
Bryan Russell
H. 0. johnson
Clarence johnson
Alfred E. Johnson
Walter last
Frank Barrett
Oscar Johnson
Esten Gylland
d. G.. Terry
Albert Gustafson
Nicholas Kuitunen
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-10-16
Lieut.. VIM. II. Hawkins.

The many Oconee friends Of VIM.
II. Hawkins, who has been at a mil
itary camp at Plattsburg, n. Y, dur
ing the summer, will be pleased to
learn that he has been promoted to
the rank Of lieutenant. He is now
located in Philadelphia, and is mil
itary instructor in the University of
Pennsylvania.
Lieut.. Hawkins is the oldest son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. c.. w. Hawkins, Of
West Union. Before going into SER
vice he was student Of Furman
University. He was home for u
brief visit only recently.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-10-16
The Huns Abroad and
The PaCifiSts at Home

Contributed by CASPAR WHIT
NEY, now at the trout for the IN. Y.
Tribune" to tho National Security
Leagues campaign Of Patriotism
Through Education.)
Although Germany, while yet a
friend" intrigued against our peace
and order, urged Japan and Mexico to
make war on us, and murdered our
men, women and children, there are
those among us processing loyalty and
intelligence who practically say this Is
not our war and appear unable to real
lie that the defeat Of the b0che Is as
vital to us Americans as was the VIC
tory Of 1778.
Then we declared for independence !;
now we fight to maintain 1t.
1t Is not merely that we fight in
answer to indignity and material in
jury done us through attack on our
rights as nation and on the lives
Of our c!tizens--not merely to uphold
our place among self-respectlng peo,
pies-that we are at war but literally
for our self preservation as a republic.
TO muzzlc this war-mad wild beast
We have taken up arms-that the
world shall be safe for the freemen Of
the world.
The world cannot rest in peace while
Germany holds the destiny Of other
peoples In her blood-drlpping hands.
The world cannot live in peace with
a people that commits, or permits her
sponsors 70 commit In her name, the
foul acts Of treachery, Of vandalism,
Of bestiallty, Of murder, that have
marked the trail Of the German army
over Europe.
One doctrine or the other must pre-
vail either the German brutal right OF
might or the civilized might Of right
one or the other-must succumb In this
conflict to tho death. And should 1t
be the GeWman doctrlne-then shall we
fall under the domination of q people
that have robbed and raped and looted
and burned and killed, that the
"kultur" Of military oligarchy shall
live.
Prussianlsm Is devoid Of honor,
truth, justice or mercy. as It's own acts
have proved, and Its defeat Is a neces-
sary first step for tho peace Of the
world and the freedom Of civilizal ZION.
For the safety Of American institu-
tlOns 1t must be destroyed for the
safety Of American freedom, yours ard
mine and Of all OF us.
We are In the midst Of war, our war
the war Of every freeman, Of every
man and woman who docs not indorsc
cowurdly murderOus assault upon the
weak and innocent, brutal Injustice
and atrocious acts; and If we would
preserve the Stars and Stripes and all
they stand for we must fight the Huns
abroad and the pacifists at home with
all our strength.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-10-16
XMAS PACKAGES FOR SOLDIERS
Rules Announced by Post Office De
pnrtmcnt Governing Same.

POstmasters have been notified by
the War Department regarding the
rulings affecting the sending of Xmas
packages to soldiers and sailors who
are overseas.
Only one package can be sent to
each soldier, and it must be of
standard size, which Is three inches
by four inches by nine inches, and no
package will reach it's destination
without the "Christmas Parcel La
BEL" which is being issued each SOL
der or member Of the 4. Il. +. now
in Europe. Parcels must not weigh
over three pounds and must contain
no pcrishable foods.
The Red Cross will have entire
charge Of inspection OF parcels, and
all parcels must be submitted to Red
Cross stations, where they will have
affixed Red Cross seal cvidcncing
to the postal authorities that it has
been inspected and approved.
The Navy Department has advised
the navy must be well packed and
must contain, besides the name Of
the party to whom it is desired that
It, shall be delivered, the name Of
the organization Of the addressee.
Parcels for the officers and men iii
| the navy must be presented to the
post office for inspection and must
be mailed so as to reach tho Bush
| Terminal station not later than No
vember Is, 1918. No mention has
been made Of "Christmas Percel La
bels' being issued to the members
Of the navy.
The moro bonds you buy the
| fewer Of our boys will die.