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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-10-24

l. Exactly what do we mean by
the 'system'T asked LaFollerte, and
answering his own question, he said {:
We mean the combination which rules
the coal industry of this country and
which fixes the price of coal to the
consumer"
The fact is that in the bituminOus
coal industry, which comprises So per
cent of all coal production, there is
no single corporation or group which
controls more than per cent of the
total output Eight thousand indie
pendent operators are in active COM
petition, half of them selling coal for
less than cost; bituminous prices are
lower today than in 1916, though
wages are 100 per cent above pre-war.
2. He said: I'VE mean the banking
combine which, through its control of
the FEDERAL reserve board, arbitrarily
fixed interest rates and controls credit
in the interest of the big monopoly sys-
TEN Ii initiated four years ago pol
icy of defatiOn, causing a shrinkage
in farm prices since 1920"
This dehatiOn was inaugurated and
carried out under the Democratic adj
ministratiOn. Interest rates were at
once lowered when the Republican
administration came into office. Fur
thermore the Republican administra-
ton appointed a farmer on the federal
reserve board and created the inter
mediate credit system for the farmers
special benefit.
Mr.. LaFOllette forgets that there
has been a steady increase in the
prices TO the farmer, as we'll as an
increase in the purchasing power Of
his crops, ever since the Republican
administration reversed the policy Of
the Democratic administrator, which
placed the farmer in the economic
situation that he was in in 1921 and
later. This is shown by the following
index numbers Of the average price
OF agricultural products and the in
dex numbers of the purchasing power
of the products as published 10y the
Department Of Agriculture:
Wholesale Prices for Farm Crops.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-10-24
"BOB'S BUNKEM" IN TOTAL COLLAPSE
WHEN HIS CHARGES ARE ANAL zED
Appeal Class Prejudice by Accusing American Business
of Monopolistic Conspiracy Not
Supported by Facts.
BY VIM. M. BUTLER,
Chairman Republican National Committee.

Washngon-SenatOr
Labor
particulars He
speech
based scrutiny
He said gigantic monoposrc conspiracy of American business
Mr.
u the facts?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-10-24
No Tax on Opinio:

Everybody" said Uncle Eben, ais
entitled TO his own opinion, which is
bout de only thing you kin possess
without payin' taxes on It"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-10-24
Natures Comoufnge

The white crab spider, says NaturS
Magazine. assumes the color Of the
flower in which he has taken up his
abode and thus enjoys it's protection.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-10-24
OIdtin1er Speaks

Children had better manners, how
ever, when parents knew less about
psychology and more about apple
sprouts-Duluth Herald.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-10-24
Another Boss.

Once upon time the cook was the
undisputed head OF the family. These
days the family finds itself taking q
back seat, too, for the chauffeur.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-10-24
Uses an Empty Shell

The hermit crab. says Nature Mag
azine. protects itself by inserting its
abdomen into some empty shell which
it carries about in all Of its wander.
ings.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-10-24
Nobody of Inporfonce

81 might use bad language to my
husband, but not In the presence OF
anybody Of Importance" declared q
woman charged In a New York court
with abusive language
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-10-24
Don't Vast. Time.

When man says that he is willing
to change his opinion If you can con-
vince him that he is wrong, it's sign
that you'll never be able to convince
him.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-10-24
Average Annual Consumption i
Pounds Per Person.

1. He said: I'VE mean the meat
packing combination, which fixes the
price OF the products of the farm, >
etc.
There are about 700 independent
competing packers in the United
States. Three Of the big five" to
whom Mr.. LaFollette refers. have had
TO entirely refinance their business
due to enormous losses; and one is in
the hands of a receiver. The five
have earned less than l per cent on
goods handled during the past four
years.
). Mr.. LaFollstte said tariffs must
be reduced. He attacked the whole
FOrdney bill and demanded all-around
reduction.
Take the tariff of dairy products
and you destroy that industry; take
the duty off wool and you destroy the
sheep industry; take the tariff of Cal
ifOrnia fruits and nuts and the Amer
lean growers are at the mercy of the
Mediterranean growers And so on
down the list. Take the tariff off
manufactured goods and the American
worEingman is at once in unrestrained
competition with the sweated labor
Of Europe.
Mr.. LaFOllette said:
6. 1.-The farmer in this country re-
ceives an average Of only 40 cents of
the dollar paid by. the city consumer
for farm products while the farmer
Of Denmark receives an average of so
cents"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-10-24
There's a Difference

The rich bachelor who dimes out
daily is called welcome guest; the
poor one a sponger.-Charles Narrey.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-10-24
Odd Idea of Change

In changing styles Of wearing apparel
the Chinese do not alter the cut of
clothing, but the design and color.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-10-24
Played at a Reception

From a concert progam-"The Lost
Cord, by Mr.. Corder. Boston Tran
script
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-10-24

ten DAYS in any daily newspaper
Of general ejaculation In such city
Of VILLAGE. or Il there be no daily
newspaper Of general circulation In
such city or village then for two
successive weeks In a weekly news
paper of general circulation in such
city or village. and accepted by
three-fifths of the qualified voters
of such city or village voting at
the next election and not other
wise; but such charter shall always
be In harmony with and subject TO
the constitution and laws of the
state of Minnesota. The legisla-
ture may prescribe the duties of
the commission relative to submit
ting amendments Of charter to the
vote of the people. and shall pro-
vide that upon application OF Eve
per cent of the legal voters of any
such city or village. by written Pc
tftion. such commission shall sub
NIT to the vote OF the people pro
posed amendments to such charter
set forth in said petition. The board
Of freeholders above provided for
shall be permanent, and all the va
cancies by death. disability to per-
form duties resignation or remov-
al from the corporate limits. or
expiration Of term OF office, shall
be filed by appointment In the
same manner as the original board
was created. and said board shall
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-10-24
esale Prices for Farm Crops.
Purchasing

g. Mr.. LaFollette said: THE con-
sumption per capita of such a staple
food as bread is very much less than
it was a few years ago. :. 1t
means that there are many people in
the United States today who are hun
CRY for bread
Bread consumption has been de-
creasing in the United States in re-
cent years, but Mr.. LaFOllette dis
torts the reason. Every nation de-
creases its consumption of bread when
it increases its consumption Of meats,
fruits, sugar and other palatable foods
demanded by a higher standard of
living. Senator LaFollette attempts
10 conceal the increased consumption
of other agricultural products. Under
the low standards of living in Europe
the consumption of breadstuffs
amounts to 60 per cent of the total
diet as against 20 per cent in the
United States.
The following table shows the in
crease in consumption of foodstuffs
per capita in the United States in i'm
portant lines compared with wheat:
Average Annual Consumption in
Pounds Per Person.
Evening star., 1924-06-01

" o the editor: Summer Is pretty
near with US and city folks
Is beginning to long for the
fresh air Of the suburbs which
means that next thing you know they
will be dropping In on their country
friends along about dinner time Fri
day night Just for a little visit. They
didn't have no Intentions Of staying
over the week end or even all night
and the:- haven't no idear how their
suit case with their nightgown in
IL happened TO be broughten along.
Well friends hope they won't
nobody think amt hospitable but
we country jAkes has got our own
life to lead and Saturday and SUM-
day IL supposed to be the days set
to / side for wedding the garden.
laying around the house in your
kimona and getting acquainted with
the kiddies. They certainly wasn't
never intended to be spent shaking
up cocktails and apoligizing to the
hired gal.
The situation in our little settle
ment has become acute. Just a little
vile ago q young author give UP his
homo here and moved to Europe be-
cause his N. Y. friends seemed to
think he was running road house.
People With the welfare Of Great Neck
at their heart is scared that others
will follow his sample and that in
few years they won't be enough
citizens left to warrant keeping the
constable. It is with view to avoid
ing this crisis and prolonging our
fx,fA ho mi q 1r
tho following suggestions.
People q big mistake In CIV
ing their country homes names that
is too cordial and seductive. Like
for inst. q name like Shady Nook
may sound innocent enough to the
owner OF the place but the passer bys
reads It or hears It mentioned and 1t
listens 50 nice and cozy that they can't
resist from paying you call. Think
how much more impossible 1t Is then
II you have gave your joint some such
sobrtquet as Kun Inn, Uwanta Kum-
back. Dew Drop Inn. Well Kun and
etc. II you have got to nickname tho
place at all, pick out something neu-
trail like any Of the following:
StayawAy, Keepaway, Knot Inn,
Nobody's Home, Nolicker, Key Pout,
No Add Mittens. and etc.
They was one friend of mine that
found 1t very effective to borrow a
lot Of signs from the board Of health
and paste them on the front Of the
house. changing them every couple
weeks. These signs was all in gay
colors and read Small Pox, Measles,
Diphtheria, whooping Cough, Mumps.
Lsprosy and etc. Still another friend
hung q piece Of crepe on his door
mob and left II there all one summer
Evening star., 1924-06-01

~HE first of the eighty Paumotu
atolls. as We approached 1t on
the morning of the fourth day
Il out from Papeete, Tahiti
Evening star., 1924-06-01
Boat Turns Turtle in Furious Surf and White Traveller

All about seemed to me solid coral
rock or distorted masses of limestone,
covering and uncovering with the
| surging water, but suddenly there
came into my altering view. as the
steersman headed toward it. a strange
pit in the unyielding strata. Into
this maelsrom the water rushed flu
| ricusly. drawn in and sucked out with
| each roll of the ocean. The Tahitians,
| at a word, stopped rowing, while Piri
Tuahine scrutinized intently the on
| rushing waves. He judged the speed
and force Of each as 1t neared him.
| and on his accuracy Of eye and mind
| depended our lives.
X X X x
THE oarsmen tugged with their
blades to hold the bot. against
| the sweeping tide. and abruptly, 0ith
| to pulling like mad, while he with
his long oar both steered and sculled.
"Tamau te palma" all yelled, amid
| the boom of the surf.
Hold on to the wood" And down
into the pit we tore. Down and in,
| the boat raced through the vortex of
the chute, the pilot avoiding mar
| rowly the coff1n-like sides of the men,
acing depression, and the sailors, with
their oars aloft for the few dread
seconds, awaiting with joyous shouts
| the emergence into the shadows.
| All was in the strong hands and
| steady nerves of Piri a Tuahine. A
miscalculated swerve OF his sturdy
| lever. and we would have been
smashed like eggshells, boat and
bodies, against the massive sides. But
spirit and wood were steadfast, and
| l rode as high and dry from the i'm
minent Scylla as II on a camel in the
| Sahara.
| In a few twinklings Of an eye we
were past the reef, and In the moat
in fast shoaling, quiet water, studded
with hummocks and heaps OF coral
| The sailors leaped into 1t shoulder
deep and guided and forced the boat
as far shoreward as possible to cur
tail the cargo carrying distance.
| Capt. Moet. McHenry and I went UP
| to our waists and reached the beach.
The crusader who entered Jerusa-
! lem had no deeper feeling of realiza- :
tion OF a long g-cherished hope than I
when my foot imprinted its mold in
| the glistening sand OF the atoll of
Niau. I stood In my track and
scanned It, as Crusoe did the first hu-
man mark other than his own he saw
| on his lonely island. Not with his
dismay, but yet with a slight panic, a
pleasant but alarmed perturbation. an
awe at the wonder of the scene. The
moment had the tenseness Of that
when I saw my first cocoanut palm.
| 1t mingled a fear that I had passed
one of the great climacterics Of WIS.,
ual emotion.
Here was I in the arcanum Of ro-
nance, the promised land OF chimera,
after years of faint expectation.
was almost stunned by the reality,
and l felt sensibly the need of some
Evening star., 1924-06-01

Of the coral animals outlandish plants
had found the substance of life. The
lofty cocoanut palm. standing strag ght
as a mast or curving in singular
grace, grew luxuriously-the ever
green banner Of this giant feet Of
anchored ships Of stone. Through q
few hundred yards of this weird
desert-jungle I reach the lagoon
which the inner merge of the great
coral reef inclosed.
sat down under a dwarf cocoanut
and let my eyes and wind dwell upon
the gorgeousness of the prospect and
the insight into natures reticences
1t afforded. Everywhere were the
tombs or skeletons OF the myriad
creatures who had labored and died
to construct these footstools OF might.
Could man assume that these cons of
years and countless births. efforts
and deaths were for any concern of
his? But else, he asked. why were
they? To show the boundless power
and caprice Of the Creator? Was not
the world made for humanity?
The thud OF a cocoanut beside me
stirred me from my reverie. I was
wet with the wading ashore and the
sweat Of my walk, and so I removed
my few garments and plunged into
the lagoon. Going down to test the
declivity a yard or SO from the
waters edge, I dropped twenty feet
and touched no bottom. The water
was llmpid, delicious, and I could see
the giant coral fans waving fifty feet
below me.
As I loitered on my back in the
water and looked down into the crys-
tai depths and at the cloudless sky,
1 had q moments phantasm Of a great
city, its lofty trade battlements, its
crowded streets. the pale, set faces
of its people. the splendor Of the rich
houses. the squalor Of the tenements,
the police with clubs and guns. and
the shrieking traffic. Here was the
sweetest contrast. where man had
hardly touched the primitive work OF
nature. It was long from summer
and far from Gotham.
Eventually McHenry and I caught
the last boat back to the Marara,
Moet having stayed for one trip only.
A current set against US all night.
Now I understood fully the alarms
and misgivings that had caused the
first and following discoverers OF the
"Pernicious Islands" to curse them by
the titles they gave them. Our cur
rent was OF the mischievous sort that
upset logarithms and dead reckoning
and put ships ashore.
This group is a graveyard Of yes
Evening star., 1924-06-01

cup Of coffee. leaped up the compan-
ionway. He called out swift orders
to 60 over on the other tack, and
headed straight for the mirage. The
schooner heeled to the breeze, now
freshenlng as the sun became hotter,
and we reeled off six or seven knots
with all canvas drawing. In an hour
the celestial plot Of green had van
ished. fading out slowly as we ad-
vanced. and we began to glimpse the
cocoanuts on the beach. though few
trees showed on the skyline, and they
were twisted as in travail.
Anaa, as others OF these islands
and Tahiti, too. had suffered terribly
by a cyclone a few years ago. More
than any other island Of this group
Anaa had felt the devastating force
Of the natal rorofal. the wind that
kills"-the wind that slew Lovaina's
son and made her cut her hair In
mourning. Hikueru lost more peo-
pie, because there were many there;
but Anaa was mangled and torn as q
picador's horse by the horns of the
angry bull. A half-mile away we
could plainly see the havoc OF wind
and wave. The reef itself had been
broken away in places, and coral
rocks as big as houses hurled upon
the beach.
Word we got at Anaa of few tons
Of copra at Kaukura sent US hurrying
there. The wind was against US and
we drew long sides Of a triangle be-
fore we reached that atoll, which was,
Evening star., 1924-06-01
THESE SIGNS WAS ALL IN CAY CoLoRs."

a diet and all the meal you have
is noon day lunch but If they are
hungry, why you think maybe they's
some crackers and sardines in the
ice box.
In the old days the most commonest
ways OF giving a guest rollicking
evening was to either set down to
the piano and pick out all the tunes
you ever heard with one finger or
else tell him a full outline of a
play or q novel which you intend
to write when you can spare the
time. Now days however the methods
of torture is much simpler. Either
q radio or a NAH jongg set will work
wonders and the combination of the
both of them hasn't never been known
to fail.
Ten thirty is late enough to stay
up and at that time you remark to
tho guest that you are going to bed
Evening star., 1924-06-01

and the only callers he had was mes
senger boys with floral tributes.
But II you can't keep visitors away
with these kind of hints, why the
best way to do is pretend like you
was ticked to death to see them, ask
them to stay all night and then fix
1t so as they won't be libel to come
again. This can be accomplished by
several subtle little reminders. For
example don't invite them to set down
and when they finely do set down
don't offer to get them any refresh
ments and If they come right out
and ask for something, why give
them some terrible stuff which you
won't have no trouble procuring same
for the purpose.
Along about pm. when they be-
gin to act like they was expecting
something to eat, make the remark
that you ana your Mrs.. u both on
Evening star., 1924-06-01

| sels," said McHenry. And there'd
be ten times as many wrecked II they
come here. Wait till you see the
county OF Roxburgh At Takaroa. I've
been cruisin' round here more'n
twenty years and I never saw the
current the same. There's no leeway
to run from a wind past beating. It's
lee shore in some bloody direction all
the time. There's foot or two be-
tween high and low, and it's low In
the lagoon when the moon Is full.
It's high when the moon rises and
when 1t sets. In atolls where there's
a pass into the lagoon there's q devil
Of current In the lagoon at the
'owerin' tide, and in the sea near
the lagoon when the tide is risin'."
We battled with the current and q
fresh wind during the long, dark
hours. Jean Moet never leaving the
deck and 1 keeping him company.
A NAA, or Chain Island, as Capt.
Cook named 1t because Of its
eleven motus or islets, strung like
emeralds and pearls in q rosary, was
not visible at daybreak. but as ]
studied the horizon the sky turned
to q brilliant green. l thought some
dream Of that Tir-na'n-Og spoken Of
by Tome in Niau obsessed me.
turned my back and waited for my
eyes to right themselves. One sees
green in the rainbow and green In
the sunset. but never had known
morning sky to be OF such q hue.
McHenry came on deck in his pa
jamas and looked about.
Erin go bragh" he remarked.
ireland is castin' a shadow on the
bloody heaven
Some curious relation OF tho lagoon
to the sky had painted this hazy lawn
on high. 1t was like a great field Of
luscious grass, at times flmy, paling
to the color OF absinthe touched with
water. and again q true aquamarine.
as have seen the bay OF Todos San
tos. at Ensensda OF Lower California.
Probably It is the shallowness Of the
waters. which in this lagoon are
strangely different from most Of the
inland basins Of the South Sea Isles.
To these mariners, who moved their
little boats between them. the mirage
was famed: and the natives had many
legend OF It's origin and cause. and
of their kind being saved from star
walton or thirst by its kindly CLINT.
McHenry called down the compan-
ionway. Hey. monster. you can see
the grass on Anaa- vite-vite!"
Moet. who was below. drinking .
Evening star., 1924-06-01

Among the man Caucasians who
have responded to the lure of the
South Seas since the earliest
navigators touched their mys-
terious shores. Frederick O'Brien
is distinguished for his success
in catching and interpreting the
color and atmosphere-the very
essence-of Polynesia. He is
widely known for this remarkable
ability, through his books, White
Shadows of the South Seas"
Mystic Isles of the South Seas"
and "Atolls of the Sun; and
particularly for his spirit of ad-
venture. which so thoroughly
pervades the present series of
articles.
In the following article. the
first of four. Mr.. O'Brien is start
Ing from Papeete, in Tahiti, for a
voyage to the myterious atolls
of the Paumotu Archipelago. He
set forth in the schooner Marara,
or Flying Fish. commanded by
Capt Jean Moet. Frenchman.
Among the passengers were Capt
Meets wife, Virginia. two monde
script characters of the South
Seas, Lying Bill and McHenry
Kopcke, quarter-native. and
Chocolat. a brown pup. The
sailor at the wheel. Piri Tu-
Anime. a Tahitian, was an expert
boatman. on whom the success OF
landings depended.
Evening star., 1924-06-01

one to share the pathos that op-
pressed me. I did not forsake my
love for Tahiti. That was fixed, but
this atoll was not the same. Tahiti
was an adored mistress, this light
O. love, a dazzling. alien siren. with
whom one could not rest in safety; q
fanciful abode for a brief period, as
Incompatible to Tahiti as an ice field
to a garden.
What the DEVILS eatin' on your"
exclaimed the irked McHenry, ques-
tioningly as he glared at me. Aren't
your feet mates?"
II X X
T STRUCK off the road toward the
i center Of the island, through
fields Of broken coral, mysterious in
it's oppositeness to all other terres-
trial formations. There was no earth
that one could see or feel, but a
matted vegetation in spots showed
that even in these whited sepulchers