The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-12-19
WHAT OTHERS SAY.

II Il
If some if our automobile drivers
viii post up on the road laws of the
state they will have fewer accl-
dents. One law of the road is that
the car on the right always has the
right-of-way. Another rule, which
may not be law, but should be, IS
that a car crossing or turning In on
a main road should slow down and
see that the main road is free from
traffic. Another law is that in pass
ing another car one should keep to
the left. Many accidents are caused
by fast driving, but more OF these
result from lack of brains upon the
part of the driver than from speed.
In fact nearly all accidents result
from lack of using ones thinktank
in an emergency. Beating train
to a crossing is fool thing to do
and results in many accidents, but
Ii is Just as foolish to attempt to
beat another car to crossing on
main highway. If one must slow
down for every crossroad while
travelling the trunk highways, the
journey would be prolonged by these
highways instead of being short
ened. In ordinary phraSeology "use
your bean" and you whit get IN
trouhle.-Fairfax Standard
- "Aigoma, little town in Wis
consin, has adopted a novel plan
for heading off some of the moon
shine dumps. Every applicant for
license to operate soft drink "par-
lor" is made to show the probable
cost of running such a place and
! where the profit is to come from.
= 1t il. appears to the village council
that a legitimate living profit is not
lin sight the license is refused, and
mere particularly if the applicant is
ian alien. Hundreds and thousands
Sof soft drink dumps are operated
Smerely as a blind for the sale of
'smoonshine and other illegal drinks,
: and if every municipal government
swere to adopt the Algoma plan it
sthat end of the evil. No alien
SHOULD be allowed to run soft
drink parlor in any community-not
%alone because of the blind pig ikli-
S:.hcod, but for the further reason
: that he is in direct competition with
American citizens.-Hibbing News.
: There is certain class of store
: keepers in Chisholm and they are
not confined to any class of bust
: ness either, who spend most of the
+ waking hours of the day crying and
Z lamenting over the amount of local
: business which goes to the mail
order houses, or whimper about the
!. exceptional advantages their COM
Z petitor possesses.
: IF this class of storekeepers only
would wake up. If they would only
make use of the brains they pride
themselves in possessing they would
!. cease their worry and go after the
business which is theirs for the ask
; ing.
1T IS not an uncommon sight to
see certain store keeper in CHS
!. holm who Immediately after his
;; competitor advertises a sale dress
Z his own windows with the articles
! listed in that sale at a few cents less
: than the competitor lists them in
! most cases offering them for less
: than cost. He does not advertise
i the articles for sale but merely
) places them in his window with
! price cards attached. In the mind
( of that storekeeper he is doing
: something very brilliant, he might
even call it business, but in reality
he is making a ridiculous fool out
!; of himself. He does not draw bust
. ness from his competitor but actual
iy destroys the confidence of the
public in stores Of that class and
: continually adds to the patronage of
, the mail order house.
i, The day is not far distant when
/; the people of Chisholm, the house
wives in particular, are going to de-
: n'and that the merchants who want
ther patronage must cater to their
wants and will refuse to recognize
or patronize the store whose pro-
prietor holds his trade in such low
estimation that he will not advertise
fis wares. 1t is the merchant who
advertises who is the businessman
for he viii get the business.n-
Chisholm Tribune-Herald.
= When a ticklish situation arises
IN town it is quite the fashiin to
remark that the newspapers ought
to say something sharp about that.
! The average citizen feels quite
certain he could run a newspaper
better than the editor, and if he
were publishing that sheet he'd show
'em you can bet. AS a matter of
fact, if he has horse sense, he
would do just as the editor does
put on the soft pedal on family
! rcws, church squabbles, and such
matters of minor consequence which
viii adjust themselves as time goes
on
Don't expect the long suffering
small town newspaper man to adj
Vocate or attack any pronosition