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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-04-03
Illinois Prohibition Act Chief Target Fight Nufy Eight
FAILURE TO ENFORCE AND PROPAGANDA PART OF PLAN TO
DISCREDIT DRY LAW
Friends of Enforcement Can Help Now Urging Legislators
Resist Repeal Bills

The repeal of all prohibition enforce
ment legislation is the immediate objec-
tive of the wet interests i'll Illinois.
The vets have introduced in the Sem
ate the following bills:
S. B. No. ia. Repeats Illinois Prohi-
bition Act and Search and Seizure Act.
S. B. No. POI. Repeats Search and
Seizure Act of 1919.
S. B. No. 202. Repeats Illinois Prohi-
bition Act.
In the House the vets ilayo introduced
the following bills:
H. B. No. To- Repeats the Illinois
Prohibition Act.
H. B. No. II. Repeats the Illinois
Prohibition Act.
II. b. No. 22S. Legalizing home brew
A resolution introduced March 10Th
calls for a constitutional convention to
repeal the 18th Amendment.
II. B. No. "a. By O'Grady. Repeats
the Illinois Prohibition Act and contains
a referendum clause. This bill was re-
ported from License and Miscellany
Committee on March 18th.
Vets Well Organized
At Springfield it is very apparent that
the liquor forces are desperately deter
mined to put through their repeal pro-
gram. Never were the elements against
prohibition more thoroughly organized
for an attack than they appear to be
now. In addition to the old time wet
leaders backed by their local liquor ma
chimes, and in addition to the always
powerful combination of wcts from Chi
cago, there is now the national Associa-
ton Opposed to Prohibition.
State Leader Active
Mr. Z. Thiele, the state leader OF this
national wet group, is constantly On the
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-04-03
WET FORCES MAKING REPEAL DRIVE
PADLOCKS AND PENALTIES
IN CHICAGO DISTRICT

United States Attorney Edwin
A. Olson has just forwarded his
February report to the Attorney
General. This report discloses
that there were 81 criminal convic-
tions and acquttals during the
month. Sentences of Imprisonment
to penitentiaries, jails, etc, amount
ed to 80 years. Fifty-nine separate
pieces of real estate were pad
locked for a year for violation OF
the Volstead Act. The total
amount of fines, penalties, forfeit
ures, etc., collected during the
month amounted to 83,113.08.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-04-03
U. S. Attorney Olson Explains
Need of Local Action
WELL ORGANIZED CITIZENS
MUST COMBAT CRIMINALS
Local Failure of Officials Disgrace
to Citizens

at IS the duty of local officials to en-
force the law. The mayor, the police,
the sheriff, the states attorney, the state
courts, have the power and it l. their
duty to enforce prohibition" These
statements were made by L. s. Attorney
Edwin A. Olson in an address at Glen
ElIyn in DuPage county. He was speak
ing to group Of citizens ITO ,aei under
TIC auspises OF tne taiorcemeH, commits
tee of the local Woman's Club.
District Attorney Olson pointed out
that the Illinois Prohibition Act under
which local officials can enforce the law,
has more teeth in il than the Yotstead
Act.
State Courts Dodging Duty
Last year we padockcd / 500 booze
joints" said Mr.. Olson, "and not one of
these cases should have come into the
junction proceedings should have been
held in the state courts. In Illinois there
arc only 81 prohibition agents as COM
pared to from fourteen to fifteen thou
sand local enforcement officials in the
state. In Chicago one OF the three fed
eral judges is assigned to prohibition
cases. The other two judges in this dis
trict have their time completely taken
with other cases. At the same time
there are from so to 90 judges in the
state courts in Cook county who could
be and should be doing the work that
now comes almost entirely into the
court of one federal Judge"
Citizens of County Disgraced
Mr. Olson named various counties in
which it has been necessary for the fed
eral forces to act. Recently he said, nu
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-04-03

ground at Springfield lining up support
for the wet repeal program. For many
months the state branch of the National
Association opposed to Prohibition has
been intensely active.
Local organizations have been formed
in more than two dozen of the leading
cities of the state. Only recently La
Sale, Ottawa and Rock Island were or
ganized by this wet group. Hundreds OF
members have been pledvett TO lelp up
port the organization ti-4aeia,.Y and to
work for its repeal program.
Cripple Illinois Next Wet Plan
The desperate activities of the booze
forces at Springfield are explained in
part by the determination of the Ma
tional wet organizations to line up Illi-
nois against the 18th Amendment. With
state prohibition enforcement bill ap-
parcntly defeated in New York during
the present session of the legislature of
that state the full power OF the national
wei machine is being directed against
the dry law in Illinois.
1t has long been the strategy of the
vets to first capture New York, with
New York City, and then gain control Of
Illinois, containing the nations second
largest city. This would give them
nucleus of terrific political power with
which they hope to pound away at pro-
hibition until the dry lines break
Foreign Vets Aid Repeal Attack
1t is no secret that the immensely
wealthy alcohol interests of England
France, Spain Portugal and a dozen
other wet countries are giving financial
support to the wet campaigns ON this
side of the ocean. This accounts in part
for the gigantic propaganda and political
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-04-03

campaign that the vets have been able TO
maintain in spite of the fact that their
legalized business has been practically
eliminated.
Within recent months it has been more
clearly revealed that wet legislation is
the primary objective Of those who for-
mulate the strategy of the liquor inter-
ests. The enemies of the 18th Amend
nent are continuing their work to pre-
vent the appointment or election of Off
cial5 who will be loyal to their oath of
office.
Liquor Program Explained
In their endeavor to break down local
enforcement it is nevertheless their pri-
mary purpose to influence legislation by
an apparent failure of enforcement.
Likewise their ever increasing campaign
of anti-prohibtion propaganda is carried
on chiefly to influence the passage OF re-
peal legislation.
Recently the wet plan OF making re-
peal of enforcement laws the ultimate
goal of the wet interests was specifically
explained by G. c. Hinckley, National
Secretary of the Association Against the
Prohibition Amendment.
In memorandum sent to state
branches and active members, he said:
Any work on the part of the Associa-
tion Against the Prohibition Amendment
which does not have for its object in
creasing of the liberal vote in Congress
is largely a waste of time and money
because Congress alone has power to
Continued or Page y
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-04-03

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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-07-31

After everything else has failed,
doctors send men into the outdoors
to get well says a noted Journal
There is tonic in the fresh air,
sunshine, and the play-work Of the
open that has never been reduced to
liquid to heal the body; there is
a quality in the contemplation of
mountain peaks and valleys, spark
ling lakes and dashing streams, col
orful deserts and rugged canyons,
and a sedative in the wading of
streams after fish and the climbing
of mountains after views and the
stalking of game with gun or CAM
era, that never has been reduced 20
a formula of words to heal the iaind
or to keep it healthy. Everywhere
in the outdoors you meet men and
women who have crawled from the
cities with lame bodies or feverish
minds to take the one tonic that
will cure them after all other agen-
cies have failed. In order to manu-
facture medicines that are known as
tonics, men have tried to bottle up
something of the outdoors, and in
trying to keep healthy minds scien-
fists have tried to gather formulas
from the sunsets. But, in the final
reckoning, men must go out to the
source of all these things and drink
from the spring where it issues
forth from the ground.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-07-31

and prolonging the life of Mime
sofa Mining. He points out that
while companies mining ore Of 55,
60 and 65 per cent iron content can
pay almost any taxes, companies
that must install expensive riants
and furnaces to treat and reduce
the lower grade ores will haze such
heavy expenses that the tax blu: den
might easily drive them out ,f bust
ness. For this reason he be.,eves
that the highest craftsmanship should
be resorted to in determining the
states policy toward the develop
ment of this new industry. Canada
and Spain, he says. have gone so
far as to subsidize the business of
extracting lean ores. He believes
that the return from heavy taxes
on high grade ores should all go to
the state to be placed in a general
fund from which a permanent in
come would be derived even after
all of those ores were gone. "This"
says he, "would truly be changing
iron into gold" With that income
assured it might be possible for the
state to deal more leniently with
the struggling concerns that ay
soon attack the problem of utilizing
the poorer mineral resources of the
state.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-07-31
*GIRL SCOUTS;
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The largest and most deliberately
planned summer training camp for
Ely girl scouts opened today at the
permanent scout camp on Burnt
side Lake under the supervision of
Miss Louise Gilfillan local director.
Eighteen girl scouts have register
ed for the first weeks training and
twenty-one for the second. Girls
who have not passed the "Tender-
foot" tests are not eligible for reg
istration.
The camp includes log mess
hall and kitchen, built and main
tanned by the Ely Rotary Club, and
six tents provide sleeping quarters,
officers tent, special hospital tent,
etc. Miss Phillis Sargent of Min
neapohs will give instructions in
Mature Studies" including mainly
Identification of shrubs, flowers ana
birds. Miss Mary Baldwin of the
Massachusetts, general hospital, Bos-
ton, has been obtained as camp
nurse and will also instruct the
scouts in First Aid" and "Home
Nursing.
Swimming instructions will be
given every day by Miss Sauna Por-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-07-31
AND THE KANDIYOHII
REGION.

The Kandiyohi Region is far
famed for its DeautiIui lakes. They
extend fifty miles north and south
and form the heauwaters of the Crow
and Chippewa rivers. Inc name
signifies Inat the Dahkotah Indians,
tree to roam everywhere, went
fishing" here. The white pioneers
of territorial and early days, came
here to hunt and fish. Now tour
lists from everywhere stop here to
enjoy the pleasures afforded on the
beautiful shores and to catch the
finny, tribes that flourish in these
limpad waters.
Willmar City is the gateway to
these lakes locally and to all the
Ten Thiusand Lakes from the end
less plains of the Great Southwest.
The Glacier and Itasca auto trails
interseet here. A tourist camp with
in the city limits on Foot lake is
well equipped, electric lighted and
policed. Good roads lead to Green
Lake, Diamond Lake, Norway Lake,
Lake Andrew, Lake Florida, Eagle
Lake, Lake Koronis, Big Kandiyohi
diiu oCOIcS VI JULIET lakes. muse
named have resorts which cater to
summer visitors. The Green Lake
Country Club has its facilities avail
able for tourists, including golf
links, an 18-hole championship
course with par of 70, which over
looks the lake. This region is with
in three hours motor ride from
the Twin Cities, seven hours from
Sioux City, nine hours from Omaha.
Sibley State Park is picturesque
section of morainic hills set aside
for public use with extended shore
line in Lake Andrew, one of group
of the best fishing lakes.
Green Lake, the largest lake in
the Kandiyohi group, is the gem of
all Minnesota lakes. None surpass-
ed it in the wonderful beauty of its
waters. Fed by springs and filter
ed through the washed sands of an
ancient glacial river, the water is
clear as crystal and sparkles with
the sheen of emeralds under the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-07-31
TWENTY-FIVE Of THE LEADING NEWSPAPERS
OF MINNESOTA ARE COOPERATING WITH
THE TEN THOUSAND LAKES ASSOQ CITATION
IN ACOUAINTING THE WORLD WITH
THE NORTH STAR STATE. - -

greatest canoe and outing section
now known. While ELY has the
shortest name of any city in the
country, it has everything to offer
the seeker of health and recreation.
A climate that holds in its pure pine
and balsam laden air the essence of
health; where hay fever is unknown !;
where the nights are clear and cool
and sleep becomes true gift of the
Gods; where your appetite runs the
commissary a race and every minute
spent in this northland paradise adds
years to your life and life to your
years; where in an hours travel you
can leave civilization behind and
practically lose yourself on several
of the 1000 of Minnesota's ten
thousand lakes within a few miles
of ELY in which city 5000 people
1--WE and have their being under the
most modern conditions, the best
school and church facilities and
where the five iron mines within
the city limits distribute monthly a
payroll of quarter of a million
dollars.
All roads lead to ELY. Take the
railroad out of Duluth or one of the
finest auto roads of the state-The
Miller Trunk paved highway, or the
Vermilion Trail through the prosper
Gus Mesaba range cities-or the
North Shore highway to Finland and
then north to ELY. This latter road
leads through 120 miles of wilder
ness where wild game abounds and
moose and deer are daily seen bv
tourists.
ELY maintains Community Cen
ter building equipped for the COM
fort of the public with rest rooms,
library, dining room and kitchen
with full equipment of dishes and
cooking utensils, baths, etc. Tour
lists are cordially welcomed at the
building and the rest rooms and
baths are at their disposal free of
charge. On the banks of Shagawa
Lake, half mile from the center
of the city, is located the tourist
camp ground fitted with electric
lights, cooking house with stoves.
pure filtered water and shower baths.
The merchants of ELY take pleas
ure in Quitting tourists and camp
ers with everything and just what
is needed for trip of hours, days,
weeks or months. BURNSIDE Lodge,
Camp Van Vac, White Iron Beach,
Wintol Resorts, Crawford Lodge
and Vermilion Trail Lodge and the
hotels of Ely offer first class facil-
tiles in case you do not feel like
camping out. Write to Ray Hoefier,
secretary of the Commercial Club
for information and descriptive lit
erature.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-07-31

A business concern that maintains
a feet of several hundred roadsters
throughout the country found that
it cost Ga cents a mile to operate
a car in California, where roads are
always good for automobile traffic,
while in states where roads are poor
the cost was 81 cents per mile, de-
spite the fact that the original cost
of cars in California is slightly high
err. This forms a real test of the
value of good roads. Good, hard
surfaced roads come high in con-
struction cost, but they save every
car owner real money in operating
expense, the total of which for all
cars on a heavily travelled road will
soon pay for the cost of improve
ment. A comparison of the figures
cited above will show that the differ
ence< is 2.3 cents per mile in favor
of the hard-surfaced roads-less
than what the Minnesota car owner
pays in tax per gallon of gasoline.
Figuring that a gallon propels his
car Is miles, the Minnesota car own
er is saved more than 80 cents in
the operation of his automobile on
a paved road, while the special gas
oline tax which he pays for such
improvement is only two cents
Mortified Independent.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-07-31
BUSINESS STOPPED AFTER
ADVERTISING QUIT.

A generation ago "St. Jacobs
Oil" was one of the most widely
advertised products in America.
1t was a patent medicine enjoy
ing enormous sales. When Chas.
Vogeler, the head of this bust
ness, died, an expert" went over
the balance sheets and saw the
enormous advertising appropria-
ton.
This expert" trimmed the adj
vertising expenditure to little or
nothing, re ason ing that st.
Jacobs Oil was so well known
th.t it was unnecessary to spend
money any longer to advertise it.
Orders dwindled as advertising
contracts ran out; business de-
parted never to return, and it is
safe to speculate that hardly one
in SO who reads this article re-
members or ever heard of st.
Jacobs Oil, one of the best known
products on the continent 30
years ago.
A similar thing happened to
Jas. Pyle's "Pearline"-a COM
pany that used a 100000 adj
vertising fund as far back as
1904 and was one of the best
known products in the entire
world. The ad fund was "lop-
ped off,; the business went
dead. 1t tried unsuccessfully to
make a comeback in 1914, and
sold its plant for junk to large
soap manufacturer. Killing off
the ad appropriation killed both
of these prosperous businesses
and it would do the same thing
to almost any great advertising
concern today.-St. Louis Times.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-07-31

end becomes straight Fe, or iron.
And at the temperature of 1000 de-
grees centigrade the material will
not even have melted.
Presumably this material will then
be removed from the furnace and
crushed so that one Of the magnetic
processes may be used to separate
the iron from the remaining silica.
The metallic iron will then be ag-
glomerated, or pressed into Jumps
like briquets for greater ease in
handling and to prevent the wastage
that would take place if it ware in
the form Of dust.
Minnesota's low-grade ores are of
three types, hematite, magnetic,
and magniferous hematite, which
last contains a varying percentage
OF manganese. A great advantage
of the direct reduction process will
De that any of these types of ores
can be treated in that way with
equally good results. AS the cl en-
ical description shows, the eraatite
becomes magnetic in any case as
the reduction goes on. And mag
netic separation of the iron from the
silica as last step will be possible
because the substance will then be
metallic iron, which is of c.nse
magnetic.
Although some time must pass,
great deal of experimenting De done
and large money investment be
made before an actual steel indus
try grows up in interior Mime sofa
as result Of the development Of di-
rect reduction. Mr.. Davis believes
that the product from a metallizing
plant would find an immediate mar
ket at open-hearth steel furnaces.
These mills already use a tremend-
Gus amount of scrap steel in their
process, and the metallic product
from direct reduction, he says will
have almost exactly the properties
Of scrap. Operators will find it
Immediately desirable in his opinion,
and will buy it at approximately
scrap prices.
Each new process yet developed
at the Mines Experiment Stati n
has found one or more companies
willing to spend large amount, of
money to try it out in actual opera
ton. The Mesabe Iron Company
has spent millions on it's plant at
Rabbit which makes use of the mag
netic log washer. Guyana Range
interests have introduced the s;nter-
ing process for ores of fine struc-
ure, which was recommended to
hem by the University. 1t remains
TO be seen. of course, whether pri-
vate capital will try out metallizing
if it is developed in a way that
makes commercially feasible. But
t is an excellent bet that not only
one company, but more, II well
come the opportunity if once the
process receives the scientific OK.
Owners of ore deposits that have
never been worked because the mat
erial was not quite up to grade will
be eager to try it. Those who own
properties from which the higher
grade ores have been removed and
which, while once very profitable,
have since ceased to yield an in
come, will in all likelihood be even
more eager to try it than will the
others. A fair trial for the process
seems assured if the laboratory
workers perfect the process and
place the seal Of approval on it.
A word of warning that has to do
with the tax problem is sounded by
The superintendent of the Mines Elk
pertinent Station in his discussion of
means for utilizinb the leane: ores
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-07-31
NooNANETTES.
(From the Baudette Region.)

(From the Baudette Region.)
Get your gun ready. Agents
selling Evolution" in seven volumes
will soon be calling on you.
When you see fat woman wear
ing a skirt that comes almost down
to her knees you know who's boss
in that house.
A sight that always moves US to
tears is to go down to the lake and
watch man with head as bald
as hard boiled egg in fight with
mosquitoes.
We see by an adv. that woman
claims she lost lao lbs. Probably
she lost her husband.
A fly never amounts to much
after getting hit on the nose with
swatter. Go to it.
Marshall Dundas, who took care
Of the farmers babies on Market
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-07-31

The "Big Three" as the Depart
ment of Administration and Finance
of the newly reorganized state gov
eminent is known, has returned
from the East where they made a
study of the Massachusetts system of
government. During their absence
Ray P. Chase, state auditor and
Ivan Bowen, member of the railroad
and warehouse commission question
ed the authority of the department
and practically told it to go to. Audit
or Chase has ideas and frankly stated
that had not Chairman Rines of the
Department rushed to the news
papers with his case before mention
ing it to the parties affected, things
would have been different. All this
has been just so much nuts" for
the st. Paul Pioneer Press and Dis
patch, who seem to labor under the
Naturalization that they are going to
get Governor Christianson's goat,
but the Gov. goes right along doing
satisfactory business at the old
stand regardless of the P. P. and
Dispatch.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-07-31

Day, says he's through. He claims
it's much easier to operate his Ford
than baby.
The shortest poem in the English
language, so far as we know, is en-
titled "The Origin of Microbes"
The poem is as follows; "Adam had
'em. "-Pathfinder
barrow could have won that
evolution case if he had introduced
as exhibits some of the birds who
do cute little tricks, such as STEP
ping on the gas, rocking the boat
and trying to beat engines to cross
ings.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-07-31

In 1913, $2O3,763,550 worth of
property was destroyed by fire. In
1923, the figure had mounted to
$535,372,782 and the estimate for
1924 places the probable total at a
new. high point-$545,810,639. This
is at the rate of ten million and a
half dollars week which can be
represented by a row of ten-thous-
and dollar residences over four
miles in length set on fire and COM
pletely destroyed every seven days.
Because of their close contact with
the fire loss problem, the insurance
companies realize more clearly than
does the general public, the mag
nitude of the yearly waste of mat
erial wealth and human life. As
underwriters, they view with alarm
the resultant ever-increasing loss
ratio, approaching 60 percent last
year. Cooperation of every inter
est toward conservation, with earn
est coordination, constitutes the best
possible, and indeed, the only means,
for sremedying a situation which is
a discredit to an enlightened people.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-07-31
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY.

We heard man say the other
day that he helped fellow into his
car and started him home so drunk
he could hardly see the road. Both
the drunk and the man who helped
him into the car should be jailed for
life, for "a drunken driver, even
though only partly under the infiu-
ence of liquor is a menace to life
and property.--Brownsdale ~"