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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
JUST SOME SUGGESTIONS

An electric fan in. the sedan to pro mote better circulation of air when a heavy rain makes it impossible to drive with the windows let down. Enough current is. generated to run light fan for the time required to stir up the air.
 A gas line lock so that even though the engine, may be started when the machine is left. in public garage. it can not be run longer than it takes to consume the gas in the vacuum tank. This allows garage people to move the car if necessary, and drive it out into the street in event of fire. But joy riding is prevented.
 A tool compartment. to fit in the waste space surrounded by the spare tires.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
Go and See Why Studebaker Leads

Studebaker is now the worlds largest builder of quality automobiles.
 Last year, 145,167 fine-car buyers paid $2O1, ,OOO,O00 for them.
 There are 13 models.
 Prices begin at $1,025. syt
 Go see the reasons for this trend. See why sales have almost trebled in three years. Why these cars have become the sensation of Motordom.
 You owe that to yourself before you buy fine car.
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and America.
 You will respect the Studebaker methods when you come to know them. You will admire the cars they create. You will delight in the values,
 Remember that last year 145,167 fine-car buyers. after comparisons, chose the Stakeholder models. So many people could not be wrong.
 Learn why they did so before you buy car at $1 ,o00 or over. You owe that to yourself.
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Where saVings come

Then how do the Studebakers so far undersell any comparable cars?
 Because we build so many. The fixed costs are divided by enormous output-15o, 900 cars per year.
 Because we build our own bodies. The saving to you on some types is up to $500 per car.
 Because we make our own forg- ings, saving another profit there.
 Because our plants are modern and efficient. We have spent $3S, ,0o0, 900
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on them ln the past f1ve P years.
 Because we keep our men, make them part ners, pay them large bonuses to stay. Chang ing men is expensive. :,
 Because we conductthis business in every way on the best modern lines.
 What b,syers saVe<
 The Studebaker Light Six Touring Car sells for $1,045. Under ordinary manufac turing condi- tions it would need to cost you from $1,200 to- $1, 400.
 On our Specialist the difference might be $40O to $700. ' On our Big-Six type the difference may run into thousands, depend, ing on the number pro- duced. For this car conn pares only with the high est-priced cars in Europe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
SOMETHING WR0NG

Proud Father-Well, Tommy, what do you think of your new bouncing brother? -
 Tommy-Something the matter with him, paw. dropped him as hard as I could on the floor but he wouldn't bounce.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09

{" HE Studebaker name guaran-
 tees to you the utmost in fine
 car construction. For 72 years fl. has, stood for quality, for honest workmanship, for square dealing.
 It has always stood for style and class. Remember Studebaker car- riages s- supreme examples of fine coach building. ....a.
 Consider our facilities-lnark what we have at stake. $o0,O0o, ,o00 in as- < sets, $50, ,ooo, ,0oo in plants and equip rnent, $10,0oo,0o0 in body plants aln,ra }" ,Fft
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To, the purely visual collection of the vocal collection of the British museum. This includes photograph records of the voices of King George and Queen Mary, Patti, Melba, Caruso, Chaliapin. Among the statesmen whose voices have been taken are MT. Asquith, Mir. Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, Admiral Peary, Sir Ernest Shackleton and vari- ous others.
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OIL ON CLUTCH Too much oil on the clutch reduces the coefficient of friction, and conse- quently the. ability of the clutch to transmit power to the driving mechan- ism.
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USE CANS FOR GAS
 Gasoline pumps are practically un- known in England. The motorists fuel, petrol, is supplied in two-gallon cans.
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A fine car means fine engineering. We spend $500, 900 yearly on that de- partnent, employing 125 able men. It means careful construction. We have 12,500 up-to-date machines. 1,l2o of our operations are exact to : 1LlOOO of an inch. 360 are exact to one-half of 1/10o0 of an inch.
 It means infinite pains. For in- stance, we machine all surfaces of our crankshafts as was done in Liberty Airplane Motors. We are
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09

Commerce reports from China tell that radio development is taking place at rapid pace in Hongkong.
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Note our multiplying sales the sensation of Motordorn.
 2 It is fair to assume that we can and do build the finest cars and at Stude- baker prices.
 What is e fine car?
 A fine car means the best materials any cost can buy. We use 35 for Hnulas for stee1s, each known to be best for it's purpose. We pay a pre- r11iur1 of 15co on some to get the formulas exact.
 All Stakeholder models are. equipped with Tim ken bearings. There are few cars in America, re- gardless of price, which equal ours on this point. In our Light-Six, for in stance, we put more Tirlakea bearings than are used in any competi- tive car, within 1,500 of its price.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-02-01
Uncle Sam Shy on Tanning Materials

ed States, it is imperative "that we
face the situation frankly and consider
how we may prevent the rapid develop
ment of serious dependence on foreign
tanning materials within the next If
teen years
Fortunately. it Is stated. the outlook
is far from gloomy il American in
dustry, American capital. the state
governments, and the federal govern
ment viii cooperate without delay.
The report recommends federal leg
islation which viii permit importers
OF raw materials controlled by foreign
menopolies, natural or otherwise, to
form associations for cooperative buy
ing of such imported raw materials.
II is evident that the recommends
ton is along the line OF an amend
ment 10 the Webb omerene act which
as now framed permits the organiza-
ton OF such associations for purposes
OF export only.
The legislation recommended. the
report says. must be most carefully
and wisely framed so as TO prevent
the possibility of these associations
creating a price monopoly.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-02-01

movies. 1t seemed a pleasing pros
pect ar the time The salary was a
whale and the title was to be that
Of GEAR" Napoleon had been only an
emperor. VIII was to be a carl 1t
was golden opportunity.
But VIII rocked not of Hollywood
1t seems that Hollywood was Just
about ready to erupt when VIII took
the helm. Maybe the movie magnates
knew this and wanted a car TO bear
the brunt of it all. In any event,
Hollywood blew of with loud bang.
Several times VIII has been there to
FIX things up, and always every one
promised TO be good, oh, so good in the
future Yet Will can hardly set foot
on Broadway until the patter of bull
lets comes flying over the great open
spaces from out there where men are
men and women are women and chauf-
feurs are shooters, and everything
seems TO go wrong Once more viii
is winging his way TO the bad lands.
and this time he says he is going to
clamp the lid down and rivet il on for
good.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-02-01
Inefficient Production
No Cure for Low Prices

In discussing various aspects of farm
product values. Professor j. L FaI.
coner, agricultural economist. Ohm
State university says:
@Inefficiency in production is no cure
for low prices Experience and re-
search have shown that farmers with
high yields make greater profits than
their sneighbors with low yields. On
high-priced land high yields are more
economical TO produce than low yields
If a reduction in output of particu-
lar crop seems desirable. it would be
better to reduce the acreage or, for
individual farmers. TO abandon the crop
entirely than to reduce the yields"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-02-01
To Meet Changed Condi.
tons New Forms Have
Been Devised.

prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.1
To assist American farmers in or
ganizing their business TO meet the
changed economic conditions of pres
ent-day agriculture, new forms of az
ricultural information have been deyel-
oped. and fundamental studies in farm
organization, marketing and crop es-
Inmates have been expended by the
bureau of agricultural economics dur
ing the past year. according 10 the an
nuai report Of the bureau.
In the period of agricultural re
adjustment experienced during the
past year, it was important for farm
ers TO secure the facts bearing upon
current problems that would give them
the greatest aid in making accurate
decisions In planning farm operations
and in marketing their products" says
the report THE first attention of the
bureau staff has been directed con-
stantly toward these problems in re-
Spouse TO the greatly increased de-
mands upon the. bureau for informa-
ton on the general conditions of supply
and demand, price trends. the effect of
various domestic and foreign factors
upon the farmers returns, and for in
formation bearing upon problems of
crop reimbursement
Live Stock Surveys Help.
Special effort was made TO strength
en- present crop and live stock report
ing methods, and TO supplement- these
methods by surveys designed to give
a more accurate knowledge of future
supplies The semi-annual pig surveys
which give an indication of intentions
OF farmers regarding the production of
hogs, and the reports OF farmers in
tentions TO plant various crops are out
lined as indicating the bureaus activi-
ties along this line. Numerous me-
chanical and other methods have also
been developed to obtain maximum ac-
curacy in acreage and production esti-
mates.
A worldwide crop and market report
ing service was developed by the bu-
reau, to obtain the essential facts con-
corning probable foreign competition
and demand for American farm prod
ucts. Agricultural commissioners in
England and Europe, and the Interna-
tional Institute of Agriculture at
Rome keep the bureau constantly in
formed. regarding the current foreign
agricultural situation. This news is
broadcast by the bureau to farmers by
radio and the press.
A study Of the factors that influence
the market demand in domestic mar
kets, as expressed in the prices and
movement of crops and in consumers
requirements was made. Results of
several years of farm management
surveys were reviewed to secure facts
OF value in the present agricultural re-
adjustment, the objective being shift
ed somewhat from studies with the his
torical point of view to the current re-
adjustment point of view.
A steady growth In the bureaus
work in warehousing, improved farm
finance and in the study Of agricultural
cooperation is required The CORE
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-02-01

and they had to accept the nominees
the men had selected. Not so this
time.
The right Of the women to take an
active part is OF no small concern to
presidential aspirants, their campaign
managers and the political leaders. In
both the Republican and Democratic
parties there are candidates for the
presidency who welcome the advent OF
the women in the primaries There
are others, ayowed or receptive, who
undoubtedly would feel safer if they
had to deal only with the old system.
In states where the old methods
prevail there Is little likelihood that
the women will exert any greater In
ffuence upon the political fixers than
the average male voter has been able
TO do since the creation Of the pres
emit party system.
In the score of strategical states
where the primary laws allow the vot-
ers TO express their will at the polls
with the same freedom that they do
in general elections. a different situ-
alton is presented. There even may
be enough votes at stake in this lat
ter group of states to WELD a balance
of power in both major party national
conventions.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-02-01
WlaS1,ir21forN
VSis3e1isS1rtS
Sucker Lists" From u. S. Patent Office

ed is sent a highly engraved letter
stating that the announcement OF his
success has attracted the attention OF
the company and that 1t might sell
the rights of his valuable patent on
commission basis. Later contract
is sent to be signed. and in 1t Is
found a fiattering figure. ostensibly
representing the sum for which the
company intends selling the inven-
ton. The usual per cent commission
is included.
From time TO time thereafter, the
inventor is called upon by the COM
pany, which asserts the sale of his
patent is temporarily delayed. to de
posit with the firm money for pat
emit abstract" prospectus" and 9TH
er things said to be essential to the
sale. The price for each ranges from
SO upward These fees continue In
series until the inventor is gracefully
disillusioned. by being told the COM
pany was mistaken in its first ap-
praisement and that it cannot sell his
article. Sometimes the inventor is
neglected entirely.
The local headquarters Of the in
ventors' league Is swamped with let
tiers from all parts of the country ask
ing its aid in obtaining redress against
these companies.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-02-01
Vifginie Dare Mystery Again Recalled

by DR.. White Hough, head of the d.
vision Of anthropology of the Smith
sonian institution. in effectively break
ing the theory that the colonists had
been captured by Indians. and upon
the death of little Virginia Dare, the
first child born in America, Charles
R." had left this tablet over her grave,
or how the colony had been fright
ened from their original settlement
and had moved along the Atlantic
coast and up the Potomac river to the
headquarters Of the Powhatan tribe.
there TO perish
Starting with the figure 80" In
1890, Doctor Hoagh explained that
the person who had made the inscrip-
ton had failed TO follow faithfully the
correct formation Of the figure, using
the modern way OF writing it instead
OF the form it is given in type, that
OF the figure 6 turned upside down.
The rapidity with which he de-
scribed other discrepancies definitely
established the fact that the '.histori.
cal tablet" was not authentic.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-02-01
Start Eggplant Early
In Spring Under Glass

The eggplant is warm-weafiler
plant as yet not acclimatized tn the
North 1t should be started early. un-
der glass. Plants should be "pricked
OFF, when the second leaves appear,
four inches apart. in boxes. -Pricking
or means removing the plants from
their crowded position In the hotbed
and placing al some distance apart in
boxes or IN flower pots The boxes
should be kept In a coldframe and
plenty of light and air should be adj
mitted ON warm. sunny days in order
10 harden the plants After frost dam
ger is past and the soil is well warmed
the plants may be transplanfed. Care
must be taken TO avoid the use OF ex-
tremeiy rich soil or the plants are
likely TO keep up their growth until
toe late in the season TO escape the early
fall frasts- The seed should be sown
about April 10. A temperature OF 6
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-02-01
Hay, Silage and Grain Mix
ture Needed In Winter.

prepared by the United States Department
Of Agriculture.
II dairy cows are TO be fed for profit
able production they must receive a
liberal ration ar all seasons. In sum-
mer, pasture generally is depended
upon. but often il must be supplement-
ed by soiling crops or siiage, and some
times by concentrates as well. For
winter feeding. the ration usually is
composed of hay, silage, and a mixture
Of grains. In properly balancing the
ration the grain mixture is compound
ed 20 fit the roughage with due con-
sideration for cost. bulk, palatability,
and physiological effect upon the cow.
For best results, cows must be fed in
diyidually. sailed regularly, and fur
nished with all the clean wafer they
will drink.
A few simple guides for feeding have
been summarized by the dairymen of
the United States Department Of Ag-
ricuiture as follows: ID Under most
circumstances the cow should be fed
all the roughage that she will eat up
clean, and the grain ration should be
adjusted TO the milk production (2)
A grain mixture should be fed in the
proportion of one pound TO each three
pints or pounds OF milk produced daily
by the COW, except in the case of cow
producing flow of forty pounds or
more. when the ration maybe one
pound TO each three and a half or
four pounds of milk An even better
rrlle is one pound of grain each day
for a pound of butterfat that the COW
produces during the week. CD Feed
all the COW will respond TO in milk
production When she begins to put
on flesh. cut down the grain
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-02-01
How viii Women Vote In the Primaries?

4 NEW and perplexing element
Il enters into the selection of the
4 y party nominees for the presi-
dency of the United States in
the forthcoming campaign For the
first time all the women OF the coun-
Try viii have the right TO participate
In the maneuvers preliminary TO the
choosing OF the standard-bearers In
the national conventions
In 20 states preferential presidential
primaries viii be held in which the
women as Wen as the men will have
an opportunity TO assert their parti-
sanship and Indicate their choice of
party leaders. In the other states. in
Guiding New York. they will have
similar although a more restricted op-
portunity in delegate primaries or in
local conventions.
The women voters generally have
not had this privilege heretofore be-
cause the equal suffrage amendment
70 the federal Constitution did not
become effective until after the ma
tiOnal conventions were held in 1920
and only shortly before the presiden-
tiai election While women in large
numbers did vote for president in
1920, the states were made I'D for
them before they were enfranchised
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-02-01
Business Service
Aid for Farmers

latim OF various research projects con-
Quoted by state and federal Institu-
tons such as in the establishment of
the New England research council on
marketing and food supply is also re-
garded as a forward step. A similar
council has been planned for the Mid
die West.
Market News Service.
The market activities If the bureau
have been extended along the lines of
research, standardization, market
news, and food products inspection at
shipping points and terminal markets
Grades were prepared for hay, wool.
tobacco. rice. rye, peanuts. dressed
meats. and number of fruits and
vegetables.
Farm management studies were ex-
banded during the year to include
studies of farm income ON various
types of farms. farm production in To-
caiities adjacent TO cities. the on s,ani-
cation Of cane sugar farms, a special
survey of cotton farms in boil weeyil
ulSlIlClS, SluultS VI tuc cdflItf ldIIu
management records. surveys of re-
gions on which studies have been
made in previous years 10 discover i'm
portant changes in management. Cost
of production work was expanded to
include wheat. cotton, tobacco, fruits.
sugar beets. sugar cane. and cattle.
This extended service TO farmers
was made possible largely by the con-
solidation of three former bureaus into
what is now the bureau of agricultural
economics. In the new bureau the
identity and the organization of the
various lines of work formerly handled
in the three bureaus has been pre-
served in the associated divisions un-
der the three groups Of production,
marketing, and problems dealing with
the economic phases of both produc-
ton and marketing.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-02-01

So far as it Is possible TO estimate
the first race of true men (Homo
sapiens) appeared In Europe some
where between 10000 and $4,000 yenrs
ago. Their predecessors, the Neander-
thai race. a sub-human type, are be-
Heyed TO have lived as race for some
100000 years of time before the APP
pearanee Of true men. Mankind was
a gradual development, apparently,
from sub-human and lower types. and
In that sense 1t Is not possible to
visualize the first man" and. first
woman" But mankind. then, as now.
was born, lived and finally died, as
mankind does today. The first men
and women" therefore met the fate of
all animal life; they were killed or
died in the course of time
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-02-01

There's no satisfyin' wimmen."
bitterly complained Hank Smith to a
fellow commuter. Here's Marie-wife
-naggin' me for months TO let her
have maid. 1 gets her one and thinks
everything'll be hunky for bit. But
Is lit"
Smith snorted. "Now she wants new
china, glass and furniture. Says she's
ashamed before Olga, the maid, of all
our old stuff. It's up TO me to keep
peace, so I'm going to-"
Fire the maid?"
Hank looked pityingly at his friend.
IT'S easy to see. Bill, you amt mar
ried man. New York Sun.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-02-01

IN EVEALING a remarkable hold
X by foreign natural or controlled
IN monopolies. the leather and hide
division OF the, Department
OF Commerce. in cooperation with a
committee of experts from the Tan
ners' Council of America, made public
recently a report on world survey of
tanning materials, the first OF series
of reports TO be made on conditions of
production and marketing Of rubber,
and other essential raw materials for
American industries.
The investigations were authorized
by the Sixty-seyenth congress in order
TO bring about recommendations to
free the United States from foreign
monopolies in raw products not pro-
duced at all or produced in Inadequate
quantities in the United States.
The report on tanning materials has
many striking points and declares that.
owing TO the serious depletion of do
nestle natural resources OF tanning
materials, the approaching elimination
OF oak and hemlock barks, and the Sc
rious devastation which the blight is
causing In chestnut forests OF the Unit
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-02-01
VIII Hays and His Hollywood Troubles

Nv TASHINGT0N scribes apok-
N ing fun at poor VIII Hays!
" Washington, which has
known him so well; Wash
ingtOn whose +. stolid pulse has
never failed 10 iutter at some new
achievement OF this boy Napoleon from
Sullivan, Ind, feels deeply for VIII in
his new hour OF trial That he will
come through it all right, no one who
knows the eternal spring of optimism
which bubbles from his radiant soul
can ever doubt
II seems long time since VIII Hays
was in the cabinet, since he sat in
the tower-like building OF the Post
Office department on Pennsylvania
avenue and emitted daily machine gun
statements OF all that was being ac-
compIished
VIII started in TO build up the morale
of the post office employees. The
country was kept posted daily on the
upIift. and SO great was the admira-
ton of the country that the moving
picture magnates came along and Of
fered Mr. Hays the job of improving
not the morale but the morals OF the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-02-01

u" TASHINGTON. - Employing
" the Official Gazette OF the
Wv United States patent Office
for their sucker lists" fraud
uleRt patent sales and promotion COM
panies have been gathering a rich
harvest from gullible inventors each
year, ii was learned here. when il was
made known that the League OF Amer
lean Inventors had enlisted the aid
of the post office authorities TO COM
bat the evil. The post office probe
promises TO be nationwide. as the
companies already complained OF are
in nearly every part of the country.
Some victims are said to- have been
"bled" OF as much as $4,000 and $1,000
IN small payments. each induced by
the fiattering promises OF the COM
panies.
Tuesday OF each week, the patent
office issues its official Gazette. in
which are carried the names of each
inventor who during the previous
week was awarded a patent. This
organ the sales and promotion COM
panies obtain and use for their mail
ing lists. From approximately IOO.-
OOO such names each year the lists
are kept large and productive.
To each successful inventor select