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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-12-19
HOW WILL YOU?
(By F. r. Gordon. J

If, under socialism, each worker
received the full amount Of his toll,
that is, the full value of the entire
production, who would pay the nom
productive workers?
Will there be two or four times as
many school teachers as there are at
present, and who will pay them?
viii the BARRIERS increase from
400, 900 to 100000 because every
man will have shave a day? And
if so who will pay for such non-pro-
ductive labor?
! If We socialize the railways and es-
tablish four-hour work day as the
socialist leaders claim, we will have
to employ 5,O0O,OOO more men than
are employed at present, without any
increase in wealth production. Who
will pay this extra cost of 30,000,0 900
to 50,OO0,OOQ a day?
If we are to carry out the social
(! istic slogan to the toiler the full
product of his toll, will it not require
million beoards of arbitration and
three million experts to see to it that
hours and skill of each worker are
kept, to the end that the nation will
not rob one set of workers while pay
ing too much to another set?
/ Who but the wealth producers will
pay for all this extra <cost, and all
this red tape? Or will you social
lists pay all alike, pay the highly
skilled exactly the same income as
the slowest and most unskilled? Pay
the director of great plant like the
Bethlehem Iron Works the same
wage as the man who holds the hose
pipe to the wet ground or the man
who is working over red-hot steel?
| If you pay all alike you throw over
board your socialist slogan and if
you don't do this you will burden
labor SO extensively that the net in
come of each worker would be less
than six dollars week. Tell us
how you are to do these things Mr..
Socialist?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-12-19

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Sunday Services: Sunday School
at 1000 A. M. Preaching at IL 100
A. M. Everybody cordially invited.
Strangers and transients welcome.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-12-19
SERVICE NEWS

Relatives of. men buried in France
soon will be able to obtain grave To-
cations from the Quartermaster Gen
eral of the Army. Inquiries should
be addressed to the Chief, Graves
Registration Service, Washington, d.
/ c. An information bureau, to as
sist Americans who will visit France
in search of graves, will be main
tanned by the army at IL Rue Bots
/ sy D'Anglais, Paris.
All records of the American Elk
peditionary Forces will be shipped to
1 Washington by General Conner. Mil
itary activities in England will be
turned over to Colonel Oscar M. Sol
bert, military attache at London, who
succeeded Major General Biddle.
Minnesotans may obtain information
regarding graye locations by apply
ing at the Army Recruiting Office,
1911 Nicollett Avenue, Minneapolis.
Five thousand persons recently at
tended the largest auction sale the
United States has ever seen.
Army officials, at Camp Holabird,
Maryland, auctioned 1908 passenger
cars, trucks and motorcycles in two
days, the War Department an
nounced today through the Army Re
cruiting Officer at Minneapolis.
The lot included 625 motorcycles,
288 trucks, 67 ambulances and %
passenger cars. Bidders paid total
of $355,582. This sale disposed of
practically all unserviceable motor
equipment at Camp Holabird.
Diseases caused more deaths than
bullets in the American Army DUR
i ing the World War.
Figures made public by the Sur
geon General showed that 1I7,151
deaths were recorded between April
6, 1917 and October 81, 1919.
Killed in action accounts for &c.
070, while 1923 are listed as dead
of wounds received in action.
Deaths from disease totaled 58,781,
Including 34,779 in the United States.
The Marine Corps reported 1856
deaths in France. About six per
cent of the total died of accident and
other causes: 43.5 per cent were
killed in action or died of wounds,
while 50.2 per cent died of disease.
HAVE ONLY TWENTY DAYS
IN WHICH TO REINSTATE GOV
EMINENT INSURANCE.
Anyone who carried a War Risk
Insurance policy during the late
World War, and and their insurance
premiums have lapsed for not over
18 months, may be reinstated on or
before December 81, 1919, which is
the time limit on such cases.
The Information Bureau on War
Risk Insurance, at the United States
Army Recruiting Station, 311 Mic
ollet Avenue, Minneapolis, Minneso-
tia, has re-instated and converted
Government Insurance for ex-serv-
ice men and women. to the amount of
over one million dollars The War
Risk Insurance can be converted in
to any one of six different policies,
which are: Ordinary Life, Twenty
Year Endowment, Thirty-Year En-
dowment, Endowment maturing at
age of sixty-two, Unemployment
life. and Thirty-payment Life.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-12-19
OUR STATE NEXT
TO col ORADO
MINNESOTA GAINS 100 PER
CENT IN NATIONAL FOR
EST VISITORS.

A message from Denver Colorado,
of December Ia, says:
'More than million people spent
their vacation in Co1orado's National
Forests during the season May to
October 81, 1919, according to fig
ures recently made public by the Den
yer headquarters of the United States
Forest Service. This is an increase
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-12-19
THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL

THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCH.
Services every Sunday at IL 100 A.
M. and 1880 T. M. Sunday School
at 1000 A. M. Services and preach
ng at Winton at 200 P. M. Every
body welcome
John Blackhurst. Pastor
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-12-19

Remember the Community Christ
mas Tree at the Auditorium on We'd
nesdty, December oath.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25

Sage, who made this project possible.
We can't all live in a community
as pretentious as Forest Hills, but
there is no reason in the world why
we cannot build similar communities
to fit the pocketbooks of the various
classes of people, from the Italian
laborer earning 81 or SO a day to
the man whose income is five or six
times as much.
"But the Italian laborer doesn't
want to live in the suburbs" you
say; che prefers the crowded tene-
ment, where he can enjoy the society
of his kind"
We doubt it. The foreign labor
ing man in nine cases out of ten
lives in the crowded tenement not
from choice but from fear Of isola-
ton. You know how it is in small
town whose population is made up Of
native-born Americans. Let a for
eigner of any nationality come to
live within it's sacred precincts and
he is regarded as an interloper, and
leads q miserable, lonely existence.
Often there isn't even a church Of
his own faith in the settlement. Do
you blame the inhabitant of the
lower East Side for preferring the
discomfort and squalor of that dis
trict to this? But offer this man
little house of his own, set in it's own
bit Of garden, in community made
up Of has ow7 kind, with it's own
churches and schools and shops, and
see whether or not he will still pre-
fer the crowded tenement.
There is no doubt about It, the
community idea is one way-and a
very wholesome and practical way
of solving the housing problem.
Community settlements before the
war were few and far between in
this country. There were a few
located near towns where there were
big industrial plants, but they were
not commonly known outside the dis
trict in which they were situated.
The opening Of the great munision
plants, shipbui,ding concerns and all
the other wartime industries, how
ever, brought the need for housing
the workmen and their families, and
picturesque little villages have
sprung up in various parts Of the
country which will continue to shell
ter the families of the workingmen
long after the Hun has accepted our
peace terms and the need for NUM-
tons is gone
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
By RUSSELL HOLMAN

A S SOON as she entered the
n B. r. T. train at Flatbush
Avenue she spied the little
Cylinder on the floor. She had read
IN the papers that bombs we're
packed with such round things full
:" INT. Too fustered to talk CO.
aefsntiy, she mutely pointed it out
" she conductor and looked around
e1citsdly for a place to 90 from
mere. BE followed her trembling
"hser, grinned, and nonchalantly
''s1eo the little barrel Of metal into
''s compartment near the motor
mans box, as IL that ended the mat
Ter.
Two 1ashionab]y dressed young
sues started az 1t struck the graf
Ss NEAR their feet. Both eyed it
sasaslly. Bombs we're on thei,
minds, too. Maybe, They drew
s'''sf together TO discuss it in ex.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25

to ask his name. "Bobby Haskell,
Lock Box 312," was the ready re-
spouse. "Ain't you comm in,
too?"
Bobby had way with him and a
smile that could have wiled a bird
off a limb. Moreover, his fists were
full Of lovely, brilliant marbles. All
my life I have wanted to learn
about marbles. Also he played a
jew's-harp. Nothing could have held
me back after that. I sneaked in,
unhcsitatingly, after him. The big
"cop" who doomed just behind was
positively affable ii. his welcome as
he spied me among the Riddles.
1 caught him bestowing surrepti-
tious pats upon the sand garden
babies heads and tossing them
(the babies) into the air, and SO
diminished did I feel it would not
have seemed amazing had he patted
me and given me a few "once
OVER losses also.
Bobby, Lock Box 312," I soon
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25

Southern cemeteries-here she had
come to the Court Of the Dead with
pansies for her Southern son who
had fallen under the Stars and
Stripes In France.
She had celebrated her old Me-
mortal Day by consecrating Of her
new one. In her the past and the
future had met and mingled and be-
come one. 1t was something more
than an individual sorrow that she
Notwithstanding more than a
personal offering for her dead
something bigger than an individual
sacrifice for the nation. Old scenes
had so tugged at her heartstrings
that the Memorial Day of her child
hood could not pass without it's Of
fering to the heroic dead-but the
future, which for her had also be-
come the past when a boy laid down
his life in France-this future had
swept her far forward and beyond
to-day. In her simple deed was
something typifying the new Amer
lea that is being something
strong and fine and generous, some
thing great and single hearted.
And seeing it, one could only pass
+ on, thoughtfully, reverently-with
his own heart washed cleaner and
re-dedicated to the flag for which
North and, South, East and West
have given their dead.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25

about $50 month and five-roomed
apartment would rent for $40 a
month, a moderate rental in these
days. The rents were fixed by the
Emergency Fleet Corporation as
being the reasonable amount which
the workmens who receive from So
to SIS a day, could afford to pay.
An interesting experiment was
worked out in the interior decoration
Of these houses. Mrs. Alderman,
the wife of the architect Of the prof.
ect, was put in charge of this part
of the work. Mrs. Alderman
teaches. class Of young women in
interior decorationat Columbia Uni
versity, and she allowed her students
to use this work as practical DEM
onstration of the proper decorating
and furnishing of a small house.
Each Of the students was asked to
submit, either by means of origi-
nal drawings or of illustrations
from magazines, her own Idea of
the ideal home, and it is interesting
to note that every last one chose the
Colonial style Of furnishing, which
accorded perfectly with the archi-
lecture Of the settlement.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25

They sit still in the old family car
rage and stare at the passing snow
With grave, round eyes, thankful
to be among those present"
Should they incline to be fussy the
little mother Glerself but a child Of
fourteen or so) sternly rebukes
them, and they quickly subside.
Poor little mother! Lucky is
she if she snatches a few swings
herself, for she must mind the sleep
ing baby, keep an eye on the kid
sister and admonish the small
brothers, vigorously cutting them
when occasion demands. She is
really a genius of q sort-a care
taker who learns early the bitter
lesson Of remuneration.
Looking about for the clerub;c
Bobby, found him in hot dispute
with another lad. Only the big cor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
An Oasis Of Joy
For Both Young
And Old

I came at and have only stayed
about fifteen minutes ESQ it seens)
Bobby waves a fond farewell to
me; Agnes Is being hustled away
by a strenuous, callcus elder sister,
her scant cotton gown reinforced
for the journey home by a big
safety pin cleaning dazzlingly III
the back. But how ! shall long to
return tomorrow to that sunny,
happy bench, with its southern ex-
posure (even in our heavenly man
sions some of us viii doubtless
plead for a southern exposureD.
For I had caught again the lovely,
inlperishable spirit of childhood,
with all its robust optimism and
good cheer. And those lost forty
years-they were as the Good Book
says, "But as yesterday. or as
watch in the nightn'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
War Lessons i'm HOUSING

ME Housing Division of the Emergency Corporation
of which Mr.. Fred K. Alderman of Design, did
work in showing the
Grafton in housing When experiences understood
will do much do with
OF building homes for workngmen When
planned together
economical methods of effect,
designer is able to control the lighting and
units of
of the inhabitants. All of
Of the should be meeting
the STEIN, Secretary of
the Housing Committee.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
By ELEANOR COCHRAN REED
The wind that swept the Avenue

The wind that swept the Avenue
that afternoon was cold and some
how there was something passing
brave in the way the fresh spring
flowers lifted up their soft faces to
meet it--so unafraid of its bitter
ness, SO willing, it seemed, to die
so like those young, young boys who
lie among our dead in France.
Safe to say, not half dozen in
all the passing throng saw the plac-
ing of that little bunch Of flowers
so simply was the little scene en-
acted, SO quietly was it all done that
unless the little group had already
caught the attention the whole pre-
cious thing must have passed unob-
served.
All three of them walked with a
certain unconscious aloofness, as if
in the straining crowd but not of it.
A quiet defniteness Of purpose in
their unhurrying but unhesitating
steps set oddly in the Avenues mad
rushing of feet. The two children
seemed somehow closer to their
mother than the mere holding Of her
hands could explain. Something be-
yond the mere physical seemed
their n+arness to each other and as
they approached closer to the Court
Of the Dead one sensed instantly
that the gold star worn by the
mother was for son who could
have been no more than boy.
Tho sweetly serious eyes Of the
little girl and the straight gaze of
the year-old khaki-clad boy
searched swiftly but carefully the
inscriptions on the state shields be-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25

side which still lay the 27th's me-
mortal wreaths. There was such a
poise about even the children that
ones heart WINGED under the
thought of what a price of long
weeping these three must surely
have paid for it. Only a quick up
ward glance at the mother showed
that at last the shield which they
sought had been discovered. TAX
ing from his sister the little bunch
Of pansies, the boy stepped over the
low railing and barring his golden
head, stopped to lay the glowing
flowers beside the shield marked
South Carolina"
''It is the new memorial" said the
mother softly as the boy rejoined
her and the three passed on, but
not until they had quietly turned
away did the full meaning of it all
flash on the observer.
The woman's voice was the I'M
mistakable voice of the South and
that Saturday was April &c, the
Memorial Day of all Southern
states. Through all her childhood
she had doubtless marched each year
in long professions Of school chill
dren laden with flowers for the
graves Of the Confederate dead. To
the grave of her own father she
had possibly brought violets and
pansies-and here, where she was
no longer little girl, but a sorrow
ing mother, here in her new North.
ern home, though bleak winds blew
about her and the rushing of the
crowds seemed strangely far from
the reverent quiet Of those old
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
typical house built at Newbugh, ~ y,
Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation

overcome in working out his scheme,
but the result Is most satisfactory,
both from practical and an arts
tice standpoint.
The first difficulty was that the
settlement is situated on a hill, and
the second was that according to
government orders the architect was
obliged to use half brick and half
wood in the construction of the
houses. The first trouble was par
TALLY overcome by a judicious lay
ing out Of the streets, thus reducing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
Housing Troubles Over There %

men who fought for France, but not
lucrative for property owners.
Worllingrnen and their families
suffer most from the scarcity OF
places for rent. Before the war. a
workingman's fat could be found
for five or six dollars month.
Not nowl If he is lucky poor man
may rent one room for himself and
his family in one of those fats and
pay S12 a month for til Even in
the suburbs Of Paris, where rents
were always lower than in the city
itself, every rental is above the
poor workingman's purse.
No moving is going on in Paris.
If people have a roof over their
heads they are glad enough to stay
under it! And il they haven't a
roof, no roof is to be found. Port
able houses from America and tents
may be in use just outside the city
during the summer months.
In England, Lady Day, or moving
day, was the dul!est in the history
Of the last twenty-five years. There
are literally no vacant flats to be
had IN London, and available houses
are equally scarce.
Indeed, much CT the western civil
lied world must begin 70 bu:la
again if pecalc are 10 Ike decenNy
and within their incomes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
Home Sweet Home'' AS It Is Bu1t-Not Sung

more than compensated for the
small quarters and the lack of SUM-
shine and fresh air. New barracks
went up by the hundreds, not only
in the great cities but in smaller
communities as well, and the apart
ments were rented long before the
buildings were completed.
And now all of a sudden the pen
dulum has swung back, and the small
one-family house either in the city
or the suburbs Is in favor again,
and, needless to say, there are not
enough of these to go around. Con-
sequently, new houses must be built,
and these are going to be built right
aacay, for people are beginning to
realize that there is not the slightest
use in delaying their building opera
tions in the hope that labor and ma
terials will come down in price.
Those who have studied the situation
and have had long experience in
building matters tell us that labor is
never coming down and that ma
terials will not come down to any
appreciate extent for very long
time to come, so there isn't the least
bit Of use in delaying building in the
hope Of better days.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
In the Bomby Days of May

cited undertones, all the time keep
ing an eye upon it. Finally they
changed their seats.
The rocking movement of the train
rolled it under the feet Of the mes
senger boy sitting next to them. Alb
sent-mindedly he pushed it back and
forth under the sole Of his shoe.
Something like gasp escaped one
of the girls, and they shifted quickly
to strategic position near the door.
The stout lady who had started the
fuss made q Decline for the exit at
the next station.
That was too much for the genial
old gentleman in the corner seat who
had been watching the whole pro-
cecdings from over the TOP of his
newspaper. He rose and spoke a
few crisp words to the conductor
That worthy, none too willingly
walked through the car and picked
up tho little roublemaker--a triflf
/ gingcrly, to be sure. He was about
to throw 1t over into Fulton Street
Suddenly he gave it second look
Then he grinncd sheepishly ant
fastened the little metal pencil BY
It's Slip into his top pocket, whence
1t had come.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25

IN the distance averted fight. AS
it was, each darlzly muttered his
"opinions' of the other, and no hu-
man language could express what
my father" would do to you" to-
morrow, etc. Bobby had tempera-
ment-any one could see that. No
pastel shades express him. He needs
the primary colors laid on chick
and plenty and being by nature
irrational and partisan, I sided with
him every time. The boys seem so
anxious, secretly, to win the specta-
tors approval that you realize that
your position is very delicate one,
calling for nice impartiality.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25

adaptation Of the Colonial, with
leaning toward the Dutch, which is
particularly appropriate for this dis
trict. There are 1913 single houses
and rs apartments, the latter ar
ranged with three or four to a house,
each having a separate entrance.
Both the houses and the apartments
rent at the rate Of So or SO room,
so that a six-roomed house rents for
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
EXT Friday is Decoration

re- EAI FRIDAY IS Decoration
"a Day. A nation sorrowing
with fresh sorrow will yet
remember to heap high with flowers
the graves Of it's soldiers who fought
fifty years ago.
Just month ago came the Me-
mortal day of the South---celebrated
earlier than that Of the North be-
cause an earlier spring then offers
the full glory Of her flowers for the
graves of the Confederate dead.
Even the dead must feel the new
spirit with which each section
makes it's loving memorial this year.
In so many ways does it show it.
self. In so many unexpected places
are we reminded that the sons OF
these soldiers Of 1873 have lain down
together across the fea in blood and
agony and death.
Amy heart that stopped one Sat-
urday afternoon last month to do
reverence before the Court of the
Dead must have leaped at the sight
Of fresh pansies lying on the ever
greens. No other flowers had at
any time appeared on this Altar
Of Supreme Sacrifice, the green
wreaths placed there by the return
ing 9th having lain us the sole
memorial to tho men who had fallen.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25

One Of the houses and one Of the
apartments were completely fur
nished as a demonstration of what
can be done even in these expensive
times with a moderate amount of
money. These were thrown open to
the public on several Sundays, and
on the last day between 5000 and
10000 persons passed through the
rooms. Time will show what the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-25
A Million Homeless
People in America

A. member of the Reconstruction
Commission recently made the state
ment that there are over a million
people in this country in need of
homes. This being the case, this is
the time to consider the best way Of
housing these people. In other
words, this Is the time to impress
upon the minds Of those who are in
terested the value of the community
idea In building, not only from a
practical standpoint. but from an
aesthetic and ethical point of view as
well.
Do you recall the rest-ul sensation
which you experienced when, after
riding for an hour or more through
settlement after settlement made I'D
of houses Of motley colors and mot
ley styles of architecture, either scat
tered hit or miss over the landscape
or set in straight little rows on
either side Of straight little streets,
suddenly you caught a glimpse Of
the red roofs and restful grays ana
browns of Forest Hills? You drew
long sigh of relief and sang lit
tie hymn Of praise to Mrs. Russell