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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-09-10
BUDDY MYER WINS
COMEBACK STUNT
Shows Much Improvement
in Fielding and Batting.

Once In a while there comes to the
big baseball show young fellow who
seems to have everything necessary to
the making of brilliant player Yet
this same youngster, after fair trlal'
fails utterly to measure up to the ma
jor league standard and drifts back to
the minors, writes John B. Keller in
the Washington Star.
Rarely does the youngster after his
failure get a second trial the same
season, and he who redeems himself
is, indeed, rarity. The Nationals are
fortunate to have one of these rarities
in Buddy Myer.
This youthful product Of the South
ern association, such q bitter disap-
pointment during the early part of the
campaign, since his return to the
game after month of bench-warm-
ing promises to develop into one OF
the fiashiest shortstops of the Ameri-
can league. Today he is rated as one
of the best hitters occupying the short
field position in the circuit and he is
improving steadily afield.
During the training season Myer
| showed so much ability at bat and
afield that Manager Stanley Harris
thought he had the find Of seasons. So
/ Buddy was installed as regular Ma
tional shortstop at the outset of the
| championship campaign. He was given
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-09-10
Decapitation Adds
TO Insects Lines

At a recent session of the Academy
of Sciences Professor Bowler read a
curious paper written by r. p. Cam
bouet, noted entomologist and for
many years a missionary In Madagas-
car. The purport of the paper was to
the effect that the lives of butterflies
could be prolonged by cutting their
heads off in such way as to avoid
hemorrhage-an operation which, it
would appear, can be performed by an
expert.
Cambouet declares that he has tried
the experiment successfully with
eighty butterflies and that his patients
If that is the word-not only re-
tanned "all their faculties and were
able to reproduce their species, but the
average span of their lives in every
case was prolonged by from one to
two weeks"
Decapitation as a means of prolong-
ing lifei What do the many clients of
Monsieur Deibler (the guillotine) think
of this?-From LIE Petit Parisien.
(Translated for the Kansas City Starr
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-09-10
RiUeting Hammer Has
Electrical Connection

Is the voice of the riveting ham,
mer to be stilled? For years it has
ranked close to the fiivver's cough
as "the great American sound" but
now a new method of fabricating
steel frames is rising. Electric weld
ing, which erects the skeleton Of a
building as many members melted into
one piece instead of as collection
of beams riveted together, is looming.
A two-story garage of this type has
been built in Canton, Ohio, and now
contracts have been let in Pittsburgh,
Pa, for two fve-story buildings-the
first in the world whose members and
joints have been designed especially
for electric welding. The speed of
construction is far greater than by
the well-known catch-hot-rivets-in-a-
et-and-hammer-'em-h method,
and the cost is estimated to be less.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-09-10

every opportunity to make a perma-
nent job for himself, but after seven
weeks Of effort he had failed to make
good.
So the shortstopping business was
turned over to the veteran, Roger
Peckinpaugh, and young Myer was left
on the bench to reflect upon his fall
ure.
Fortunately for Buddy, and the Ma
tionals, too, Manager Harris did not
altogether lose faith in the young fell
low. The pilot could not rid himself
Of the idea that the player who had
performed so smartly during the
training season must possess big
league quality. And so instead Of cast
ing about for a minor league farming
spot for Buddy, Harris put the short
stop on the Nationals schooling list.
After q month Of grooming, back to
the game Myer came on July l and
almost Immediately he began to re-
veal his real worth as ball player.
He went about his work In the short
field in more intelligent manner and
with smoother style and, above all, his
hitting improved wonderfully.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-09-10
SIS and Still Champion

Fifty-ive years old and still WIN
ming walking races from men con-
siderably his Junior is the achieve
ment of Fred Emmett of Calgary,
Canada, who has been champion at
any distance from ten to fifty miles
In Western Canada for many years.
Recently he won the Calgary Herald
ten-mile race, covering the distance
in 40 minutes "a seconds on a boiling
hot day. Emmett attributes his sue
cess to constant training whether a
race is In sight or not.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-09-10
Trudie Is No Flapper,
Can Cook and Milk Cow

Gertrude Ederle, first woman con-
queror Of the English channel, is
"home body" whose tastes would al
most classify her as old-fashioned in
the world of the modern fapper.
She is a good cook, milks cows oc-
casionally when she is in the country,
and does not smoke or drink alcoholic
beverages of any kind. She does not
go in for late parties, and, according
to her mother, she has never allowed
romance to interfere with her career
as a swimmer. She does not even have
a regular hoy friend" her mother said.
Swimming has been her chief inter-
est, and she spends as much of her
life as possible In the open air.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-09-10
Grapedispers Rob Dead

Disclosures in the municipal GENE
terry at Levallois, France, have be-
come CHASTITY. For a time FIVE dig
gers were capable of handling the
work, but they fell so far behind
that a sixth was engaged. Great
was his chagrin to learn that the
other five spent much of their time
in rifiing the graves of jewels, cruel.
fixes and other valuables.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-09-10
.2|SiI,s4C[!121

A polo team from India will visit
the United States in 1927.
1t costs between $4,000 and $4,000
to stage the English Henley regatta
each year.
New York and Philadelphia probably
are the two greatest boxing centers In
the world.
Charlie Weinert, the veteran New
ark heavyweight, is the latest recruit
to the fistic colony on the Pacific
coast.
We wouldn't be surprised to read of
Bobby Jones putting on a kilt and
taking the women's golf champion
ship, too.
Jack Stewart, golf professional at
the Thornburg (Pa.) club, established
record of 81 for the nine-hole course
on his birthday.
The British open golf entry list pre-
fixes the names of amateur players
with "Mr" This Is omitted in the
listing of professionals.
One doesn't fully appreciate what
fine boilermaker Jim Jeffries must
have been in his younger days until
one sees him on the stage.
Paul Berlenbach has changed his
mind about advancing to the heavy
weight division-or it might be more
accurately stated Mr.. Delaney changed
1t for him.
The belt won by Jake Kilrain when
he defeated Jem Smith in England
weighs about 300 ounces In silver and
gold and is the most valuable ring
trophy in history.
The more Walter Hagen thinks
about the British and U s. open re-
suits. the less satisfaction he gets out
of the 12-up victory he hung on Bobby
Jones' eye last winter.
Four "best dressed" golfers at the
recent national open tourney are go
ing to receive their clothes free from
a clothing concern for year. Who
said clothes don't make the man?
Tom O'Hara of the Denver country
club has been caddy master at vari-
ms cluhs throughout the country fol
the past % years. His code for the
regulation of caddies is used as Q
model by many clubs.
Macdonald Smith, American gol1
pro, and Abe Mitchell of Great Brit
ain, are generally recognized as TIVE
of the foremost professionals in the
world, yet both have been unable t.
win the open title.
King George of England leads al
European monarchs in devotion to out
door pastimes. He rides horseback
plays golf, is an enthusiastic yachts
man and is particularly fond of spor
in the field during the shooting season
The morals commission of the Fed
grafton of French Sporting Clubs l
prohibiting French women participai
ing In public sports from wearing nj
breviated running trunks, skin-tigh
swimming suits and sleeveless tenni
dresses.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-09-10
Improved Rhetoric

"That man used to be canal mule
driver-a most profane person."
"Humphr exclaimed the traffic Off
Ger. "You ought to hear him since he
began learning to drive fiivyer."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-09-10
Those Dear Girls

"Tell me just what sort of man
your fiance is, Clara"
"Oh, he's everything that's nice"
I'm so glad. You know I've al
ways said that people should marry
their opposites."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-09-10
Likes His Old Bus

ST see the French are expected to
make coup d'etat."
Maybe so, but the OF fiivver Is
good enough for me-"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-09-10
w. N. u, Minneapolis. No. s7--1s2e.

Those VINO are greedy of praise
prove that they are poor In merit.
-Plutarch.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-09-10

A man may be short Of ideas and
still be able to hand out long line
of talk.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-09-10
DeceiUing

"Did you write those jokes your
self"
"Yes"
"Then you must be much older than
you look"-Buen Humor (Madrid.)
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-09-10
Fasteners "Tote" Guns

Yellowstone park officials find that
nearly all the gun-toting visitors ara
from the sedate East, says the Dear
born Independent. Regulations pro-
hibit the carrying of guns within the
park boundaries.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-09-10

Always put off until tomorrow the
unkind act you want to do today.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-09-10

Why was there never woman Rob-
inson Crusoe?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-09-10

The way to be proper is not to
be too proper.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-09-10

Figures may not lie, but figures OF
speech are often misleading.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-09-10

Men are born with two eyes and
one tongue that they may see twice
as much as they say.-Colton.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-09-10

Their Fauorite Selections
Question-What are those girls do
ing who sit on the library steps?
Answer-Outside reading.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-09-10

BY attention ideas are registered
In the memory.-Locke.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-09-10
WHY DENY YOURSELF
THE BEST IN MOTOR CAR BODIES

The finest of the new cars all price classes have
been announced-Cadillac, Buick, Chevrolet, Oakland,
Oldsmobile and Pontiac.
All offer vastly greater values than before in motor
car history.
All register amazing advantages in performance and ease
and economy Of operation.
But the greatest factor Of their glory described in
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Here is their supreme beauty setting absolutely new
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Here are unequaed factors Of safety which add much
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Here are exclusive convenience and ncetes which do In
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No what mechanical developments may allure you
il the BODY of your car with which you live init
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With the finest of the market choose from there is no rea
son why you should deny yourself the safety beauty
1hich only a Body hx Fisher give.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-09-10
PontdIo0n

PdntdIoOn
First Club Member-There's Hickey.
You wouldn't recognize the old bore
would you? They tell me he's been
rejuvenated.
Second Club Member-Ye gods, IL
he'd only had it done to his jokes In
stead.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-09-10

1t is almost as risky to praise q
woman's husband to her face as 1t ID
to criticize him.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-03

"This education," the A. F. of L..
committee on education reported last
year, lis the witness that the world
Of culture and the world of labor
that seemed to be drawing apart in
our rapidly moving industrialism has,
in fact, found basis of accord.
Because of their reciprocal needs,
they should be joined in a common
bond, for no culture which is achieved
without some form of creative labor
is worthy of the name culture And
no labor which is uninformed on cul-
ture standards as service or use or
beauty dignifies sustained human ac-
tivity. In this linking anew of labor
and learning, labor has disclosed a
vast new opportunity for creative
participation not only in the product
but in the process of education"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-03
EDUCATION MAKES
THINKING POSSIBLE

The value of any education lies in
it's power to develop thinking, says
William Green, president of the A. F..
Of L.
President Green said his experience
has led him to the conclusion that the
value of education lies in it's power to
make people think fright and hon
estly."
"a mind which has been trained
and cultivated, through educational
processes, is better equipped to think
profoundly and search for TRUTH" he
said. Academic, technical or prac-
tical education is of little value unless
it develops the latent power Of
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-03
DEAD LEVEL" OF
TRADE UNIONISM

That ancient absurd and malicious
lie that trade unions limit the earn
ings of their members and that all
the workers in union shop are held
at "a dead level" is blasted in a most
effective manner in an official report
recently issued by the bureau of labor
statistics, which is connected with
the U. S. department of labor. After
investigating thousands of agree
ments made in 1928 and 1924 between
employers and trade unions, the bu-
reau says:
'The wages are invariably stated
in the agreements, always as mini
mum, however, and higher wages are
rarely forbidden"
While the bureau does not specify
the names of the organizations TAX
ing this position, nearly every trade
union having piecework finds it nee
essary at times to limit the output
in order that employment may be
equalized, which differs very much
from limiting straight wages.
The bureaus survey covers $4,000
trade union agreements, and is the
most extensive report of it's kind ever
issued. 1t points out that there has
been much misunderstanding regard
ing such agreements, and, conse-
quently, silly rumors are set in mo-
ton as what trade union workers are
compelled to do or not to do by their
respective unions.
1t was in order to clarity this very
cloudy and greatly misunderstood
condition that the bureau made it's
extensive survey, which surely should
do much to eliminate the ridiculous
! lies that are put in circulation by
| anti-unionists. Following is partic-
ularly lucid excerpt from the report:
MANY unions, probably the major
ity of them, have no written agree
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-03
thought and reason. "

tnougnC ana reason
President Green said there is no
group that stresses the Importance of
education more than the wage-earn-
ing group. He quoted this declara-
tion Of the A.. F. of L. in 1881:
"We are in favor of the passage Of
such legislature enactment as will en-
force, by compulsion, the education
of children; that if the state has the
right to exact certain compliance with
it's demands, then it is also the right
of the state to educate its people to
the proper understanding of such de-
mands."
The trade-unionist referred to the
adult workers education movement
that is sponsored and developed by the
A. F. of L.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-03

ments. They have simply a verbal
understanding among their members,
which is very generally observed.
Frequently the union passes bylaws
or working rules which include many
items ordinarily incorporated into
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-03

agreements, and members are expect
ed to observe them in working for
employers. In fact, such bylaws are
often submitted to employers for
their approval, and even when this is
done many employers recognize them
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-03

in the nature of agreements contain
clauses expressly Incorporating such
bylaws or working rules"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-09-03

The union label program-LOY-
Atty! LIBERTY! LONGEVITY!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-04
SEND YOUR SLOGAN TODAY!

dryasdust bureaucrats ignorant and unmagnatve They
are almost totally without ideasm and proetaran
fighting spirit They receive inspiration from the
masses They altogether untitled lead the American
working class in the great struggles lying ahead of it. This
is because they welded the capitalist system
in reality the agents of the capitalists in the ranks of the
workers
Our strike strategy must aim at the elimination of these
mseaders and the creation of body of militant fighting
leaders, These must be able sway the Masses develop
their fighting spirit They must be honest courageous
sourcefu Especially they be honest courageous
Nothing inspires the workers much as loyal and brave
leaders. Note the wonderful popularity of Alexander
Howat among the miners because of his unwaverng
ton to their interests under any and all circumstances
Though such leaders may make hundred mistakes the
workers will trust them and follow them.
But in developing such body of militant leaders
menacng danger exists in the tendency Of budding left wing
trade union leaders to lose themselves in the Of
day detail work and neglect to give themselves the
sary theoretical training This be checked at all costs
Only those who understand and apply MARKHAM and Lenn
stic principles hope to be trade union leaders of the
highest type
The future great task of the left wing lies primarily in
mobizng the masses of the unorganized workers and
leading them into battle against the employers And il
exactly in this work among the unorganized that the great
est demands made upon individual leadership Leading
strikes of Typographical highydscipned workers is quite
different matter from leading strikes Of the unorganzed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-04

backbone Of the strike Upon it falls the burden of educa
ing encouraging and inspiring the Masses of fighting off
the many enemies internal and external of the strike and
of performing the bulk of the muludnous detail work Of
the battle
The organized left wing must make scientific study
and application of strike leadership 1t study
fully every strike other of the workers
and learn their lessons 1t must be courageous militant
and flexible in its policies 1t must know how struggle
for power in the unions before during and after strikes
1t must work consistently for the building up of
getc and capable trade union leadership defeating the
one hand tendencies towards merely opportunistc
BILE for union Office and the other hand the
which looks upon all office holders in trade unions whether
good or bad, parasites and grafters
IL must combat the anarchistic conception that the
workers need leaders and that union officials shall
not than illusion cultivated by the
W. W. which has effectively prevented the growth of real
leadership in that body. 1t must COLOMBO with mtants
those industries and plants entering into strike conditions
which not producing leaders capable handling the
approaching strikes
1t must know how to practice the principles demo
cratic centrasm that is while keeping firm grip on the
strike situation and preserving iron discipline at
time maintaining close with the ma, ses and
securing their support for every thati mad\ Such
organized left leadership must act real general staff
eoncevng and working out its problems largely the sense
of military strategy
ITO be coHtinued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-04

In the first the workers tend to look to the
organization than Individual leaders conduct the strug
gle although the recent spectacular rise of Ben Gold among
the New York fur workers illustrates again the power of
the militant dynamic leader in hidebound trade
ions But when the unorganzed go strike, unframed
and inexperienced they look especially for inspiration and
guidance much their weak union yuceus the
personalities at the head of their movement
Usually they dramatic their hopes, aspirations, and
fighting spirit in the personality of The Of
Weisbord in Passaic is typical And the situation
the at heead of their is real leader
In struggles of the unorganized this tendency be
borne in mind ~
The left wing must carefully cultivate and develop the
strong dynamic personalities who are capable inspiring
the unorganized in the struggle The problem of
developing the strongest qualities of such individual lead
ership must occupy our close attention.
GROUP LEADERSHIP
An effective strike strategy demands only strong
individual leaders, but especially firm wellorganized
group leadership Whether the left wing actually in
control Of given strike whether il is minority force
seeking to influence the general of the strike
must pursue policy of combining in the Trade Union Edu
caonal League and the various other types of left wing
organizations for relief defense knitting together
in an effective group leadership all those militant elements
willing to conduct real struggle. III y
This Of course requires preliminary organiza-
ton Of these bodies possible before the actual strike
takes place This organized left wing must be the steel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-04
STARVATION is
new SCHEME OF
TEXTILE BOSSES
Stop Credit and Begin
Evictions in Passaic

PASSAIC, N. j., Nov. 2.-Having
failed in their most recent effort to
close down the strike relief food stores
by bringing pressure to bear on the
wholesalers to deny the usual credit
courtesies to the strikers relief organ
ization, the local mill barons are
pounding on the strikers from ano-
Their angle.
Evietions.
With the approach of cold weather,
the mills have begun an attempt to
evict striking workers from mill-owned
premises. Botany, the biggest of the
strike-affected mills, has set the lead
in serving eviction notices on its strik-
ing workers. On Mattimore Street,
which is completely owned by the Bot
any Worsted Mills, brutal drive is
now on to put on the street the strik-
ers who occupy the Botany frame
buildings, this irrespective of whether
they are behind in their rent or not.
Taking their cue from the mills, To-
cal landlords have begun to evict strik-
er tenants to such an extent that at
present an average Of twenty families
are evicted day. These evictions put
heavy strain on the relief machin-
cry, for they make it necessary to
find new homes for the evicted fami-
lies and to move their belongings
off the sidewalks. But that is part
of the Botany strategy, of the same
with the exorbitant fines and high bail
set by the so-called law courts, and
is done to harass the strikers and de-
p1ete their funds.
Scores Owners.
In statement issued to-day, AL
fred Wagenknecht stresses this point
and scores this latest strike-breaking
scheme of the mill-owners. He calls
upon all organized labor to support
the gallant Passaic strikers who are
now In their tenth month of struggle
against the most powerful and ruth
less combination of open shoppers in
the country.
1T is significant that the Botany
Mills have waited nearly nine months
before trying any drastic mems to dis
possess the strikers occupying its
houses"