The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-09

ence with the AFFAIRS OF every other
committee-after five weeks {
by one faction and
five weeks of vain insurging by an
other faction, the rural credits bill.
House File No. 2, was reported out
in the form in which
it was originally introduced. Where
upon the insurgents, defeated by a
vote of IT to 10 with four not vot-
ing, promptly introduced the Dahle-
Moen rural credits proposal known
as House File No. 511. The two
bills will be considered together.
They represent, their advocates saw.
radically divergent views upon the
proper solution of the rural credits
problem which was laid upon the
legislature as preemptory mandate
by the people when they over
approved Amendment
No. / on the ballot last November
Old Fight Renewed.
House File No. 2 was drawn by
a special committee of ten house
members representing the ten con
gressional districts of the State
This committee was headed by Col
II. A. wilkinson who is also chair.
man of the house committee or
markets and marketing which haz
charge OF the rural credits program.
The special committee of ten lab
ored on the bill during December.
before the opening of the session.
and finally drafted a bill modelled
somewhat upon the South Dakota
rural credits law, said to be the
pest state act of the kind yet pro-
duced. When the legislature met
differences Immediately developed as
to the best method of administering
the act. House File No. 2 provides
for a commission of three members,
Many think, however, that a com
mission consisting of state officers
with single active director deyot-
ing all his time to the work will
prove a better method of admins.
tratlon. This is the method provid-
ed for in the Dahle- Moen bill. AL
though public attention has been
focused upon this interesting cues
ton OF administration, the two bills
nave other fundamental differences
OF Importance which will appear in
detail on Valentines Day.
Meanwhile advice from all sides
is pouring in upon us to stem car
tiously. Theodore Christensen. an
thor of the constitutional amend
ment Tor rural credits, says that the
adoption of the amendment bv tbe
people last November has in very
considerable measure solved the
proDlem OF farm credits by making
money easier and by reducing the
interest rate. Jake jacobson hur-
ries up from Madison and in SEN
atorlan tones thunders a warning 70
beware. Somebody says that South
Dakota has loaned millions to its
farmers, hasn't been able to collect
a cent and doesn't dare to trv
NOW that we farmers have got what
we want we don't know whether we
want it. We are not sure whether
our two valentines will turn ont to
pc comic or tragic or, as we hone
letters OF credit on the Bank of
Prosperity.
Blue Laws Bob Up.
Thus far we have not had much
success In making the farmer pros
porous by law. But we keep on
trying. So Senator George Sullivan
a Representative Grandstrand
have a bill to make us all good by
law. AT least all of us who dance.
AS introduced this bill was regu-
lar he blue law-permits and police
men and various other devices cal
culated to make the dance pure and
undefiled, bunny hugs, the cheek-to-
cheek and suggestive wiggles stern
ly prohibited and the Sabbath day
cut clean out of the dance calendar.
But the bill that Senator Sullivan
a n Representative Grandstrand
drew was a mild and inoffensive
thing compared to some of the pro-
posals vigorously advocated at the
hearings in the senate committee.
One lady demanded that the state
make it felony for any girl under
twenty-one years of age to attend a
dance. Another proposed that writ
ers of jazz be confined in the state
prison at Saltwater at hard labor
for the rest of their natural lives
and that players of jazz be hanged
forthwith. Another thought this
might be going bit far, but moved
as a substitute that no music be
permitted in public dance halls ex-
cept that approved by the National
Dancing Masters association. Mean
while hearings continue, zealots
Dance" does not sound as good to
Senator Sullivan and Representative
Grandstrand as it does to some
others.
Educators Caught Red Handed.
The part-time" bill, designed to
keep young men and maidens be-
tween the ages of Is and Is either
at work or in school, enthusiastic
ally advocated by educators general
ly, is roundly denounced by small
band of radicals and others. Rep
Otto Nellermoe, who
says he is a socialist and whom
some suspect of being an anarchist
and under whose tongue denuncia-
ton is sweet morsel, tears his
hair every time he hears the bill
and shrieks that it is a
"slave act"-because it proposes to
require certain instruction without a
vote of the people. Mr.. Nellermoe
has a platform of two planks which
he mounts and thunders from with
eloquence and not
much discretion in season and out
of season-"the working people"
and a "vote of the people" The
committee on education the other
day voted Is to 1 to approve the
part-time" principle in education
and Mr.. Nellermoe in a splendid
outburst denounced the vote as an
act of tyranny and usurpation. Mrs.
a clever and fearsomely
persistent educational lobbyist, who
thing, and a band of Min
neapolis ladies' to whom "part-time"
education is anathema and then
some, camp at the door of the edu-
cation committee room day and
night with chips on their shoulders
and fight fairly sizzling on the tips
Of their tongues. To them the
'part-time" bill is a dark conspiracy
entered into by educators and en-
ployers to recruit the ranks of the
to GermaniZe the schools