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New Britain herald., 1926-12-04
EMPLOY MENT
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New Britain herald., 1926-12-04
FIN ANCIAL
Business Opportunities


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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-05-21

James +. Davidson, president of
the National Electric Llgnt Associa-
ton, TO-DAY took issue with welfare
ana soclai leaders VINO have stated
Cnat electricity, by uolng ali the
household WORK, will make the
housewife lazy and fat. Mr..
DavIuson specincally referred to this
III his presidential address gwen at
the Iorry-nInth convention of the
elecIrlc industry of America. mo
doubU if electricity continues to de-
veiop as 1t has curing the past de-
CAGE, there will be no housekeepers
IN America, sand Mr.. DAVIDSON.
They Will be homekeepers instead. T"
Il do not believe that the newly
made homekeeper Will spend her
time getting lazy and fat attend
ing sociaI functions, ct cetera. She
VIII spend the additional time saved
by electrical servants IN developing
a happier home environment and IN
betterng living conditions"
Mr.. Davidson made plea to the
power and light industry to take al
vantage of printers INK in trans
forming the housekeeper into a
homeNveper. "fower anu nght COM
panies should use as much advertls-
ing space, especially in newspapers,
as they can possibly stand" he SAID.
The Old advertising Pays
lis as SOUND today as it ever was.
BY this means companies can in
crease their sales of electricity and
electric merchandise and at the
same time give the public an oppor-
tunity of taking maximum advan-
tage of our service"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-05-21
CONGRESSIONAL LETTER
VIM. L. CARss Member of Congress, District.
May Is, 1926.

May Is, 1926.
1t now looks as though the SEN
ate cannot complete its legislation
program until the middle of June.
If the House is through sooner, and
it isbelieved that it will have COM
pleted its program by June LIST, it
will have to mark time with three
day recesses while waiting upon the
Senate. Neither house of Congress
can adjourn sine die without the
consent of the other.
Action on the French debt settle
ment cannot be taken until the
French parliament, which meets
May 9th, has agreed to the terms.
1t is believed a week or ten days
will ~ necessary for Congress to
debate the matter.
The predictions for constructive
permanent relief to agriculture are
becoming poorer every day. Three
conflicting measures are being dis
GUESSED in the House. After five
days and 2 night sessions the House
has covt red about one-third of the
items in the Haugen bill. The Bill
is being read for amendments which
much opposition on the part of those
who seek the enactment of the
Tincher or Aswell bill. An attempt
will be made to combine the Aswel
and Tincher bills, which are offered
in opposition to the Haugen Bill. 1t
is impossible to predict at this time
just what the outcome will be. The
indications are that no constructive
legislation for the relief of agricul-
ture will be enacted at this session
of Congress.
A joint Committee of the House
and Senate has agreed to changes in
five classes of temporary postal
rates approved last year. They are:
Reduction in the rate on post
cards from 2 cents to / cent.
Reduction of the rate on transient
second class m afl matter-news-
papers mailed by individuals, to one
cent
A rate of not more than cents
on return postal cards sent out by
business firms with the collection to
be made after their return.
REIMBURSEMENT of the special hand
ing rdUe on parcel post packages SO
that in place of the standard 25
cents charge there will be a varying
scale, with 15-cent rate for pack
ages weighing not over 2 pounns;
% cents for packages weighing from
2 to 10 pounds, and 35 cents for
packages over 10 pounds.
A penalty of l cent for each
ounce of mail matter on which post
age is short-paid more than one
rate.
The report of the committee has
been made to both the Sen..te and
the House.
The so-called Black Bass Bill,
which was introduced at the request
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-05-21
NON-POLITICAL"

"The American Legion shall be
absolutely non-political and shall
not be used for the dissemination of
partisan principles, nor for the pro-
motion of the candidacy of any per-
son seeking public Office or prefer
ment" So states the second sec
ton of the second article of the Lee
gion's National Constitution.
This declaration seems plain
enough, but apparently it isSnot
plain enough to prevent the burning
of many political fingers in the at
tempted twisting of plain declara-
ton into something that it is not.
Out in Colorado Springs, the Pixies
Peak Legionnaire puts up a warn
ing to office-seekers who may be in
clined to believe the Legion doesn't
live up to it's professions. In an
editorial, this publication says:
IF any person attempts to cap
italize his service in the Army,
Navy or Marine Corps, or to The
American Legion; if any person
runs as the candidate of The
American Legion for any position
of honor or profit within the gift
of Tie voters, that person is going
to get gloriously stung. There is
reason behind this warning. In
the first place, voters who saw no
warJime service in uniform will
justly resent such an unworthy
use of what ought to have been
an unselfish service, and they will
place an X in the space which is
not opposite the name of such a
person. In the second place, Lee
gionaires will take pleasure in
voting against member who for
gets the principles on which the
organization is founded and on
which it still stands. If man
has no other qualification for
Office than that he is a Legion
mare, he had better stay out of
the race. This is not written to
discourage Legionaires from run
ming for office. There are many
ought to run for Office because
they are the best men to be had
Many of them will be elected, but
not because they are Legionnaires.
They will be successful because
the people believe that they will
do the jobs for which they are
chosen"
Plain, ordinary frankness, COM
mon honesty and good taste are safe
standards for any candidate,
whether or not he served in the
World War. The Legion's policy is
so well known and so well under
stood within the Legion that no man
dare attempt to run on the Legion's
merits instead of his own.-American
Legion Weekly.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-05-21
FOREIGN DEBTS.

Now that the work of the debt
funding commission is virtually COM
pleted, and most of the negotiations
approved by congress, it is possible
to analyze the results, says a finan-
cial authority.
Settlements have been made in 13
countries. Probably the fairest way
to consider the settlements, on
comparative basis, is to estimate the
present cash value of the annual
payments that are to be made.
When this figure is compared with
the total debt, the actual amount of
reduction given can be appreciated.
Great Britain's total debt, includ-
ing principal and interest to date,
was $4,000, 100000 and the cash
value of the settlement made was
$3,792,35O,15O. That in other words,
was the discounted value of the
British contract although John Bull
will actually pay much more than
that over period of So years. He
therefore was given reduction of
about 18 percent.
France settled a debt of $4,025,-
100000 for an agreement with a
cash value of $4,000, 000, 200, or
virtually on so percent basis.
Italy settled total debt of ST.
042,O00,000 for an agreement with
cash or discounted value of $685.
100000, getting reduction of
about "a per cent.
SALT, 100000 for 1926, 100000 on
this basis.
Jugoslavia, $62,s5O,OOO, settled
for $20,236, 900.
Poland, $17S,OO0,OO settled for
STAT, 900, 900.
Rumania, $4,000, 900, settled for
$35, 100000.
Czechoslovakia, $115, 100000, set
tied for $92,000,0OO.
Finland, $9,0O0,OOO settled for
81, 900, 900.
Esthonia, $4,000, 900, settled for
$12, 100000.
Lithuania, $e,OOO,OOo, settled for
SIS, 200, 900.
Hungary, s2,OoO,oOO, settled for
81, 100000.
Latvia, $6,OoO,OOO, settled for
SIS, 900, 900.
The total settlements made to
date, therefore, have a cash value of
some $6,884, 100000 and they wipe
out debts amounting to Sill ,521 ,00O,-
600. In other words our debtors
have settled for something like so
cents on the dollar. Six debtors,
Russia, Austria, Greece, Armenia,
Nicaragua and Liberia, have made
no settlements yet. Their total OBJ
legations are about $500, 10000 of
which the Russian debt represents
1886, 100000 1t probably will be
total loss.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-05-21

And now the agitation has start
ed to make all highways 26 or 40
feet in width in order to care for
the travel. As the standard width
of country roads is 10 to 20 feet,
it has been found that this width is
inadequate to meet the traffic be-
cause there are always those who
wish to-be in the lead and in passing
the car ahead have helluva time
in making it. Road men are in
favor of a wider road bed, say 26
feet, which would take three lines
of traffic. We have always con-
tended that Is feet was wide enough
as road of this width will accom-
modate two cars and will cut out
the possibility of accidents. How
ever, should it be necessary to widen
the main thoroughfares we say 40
feet in width. This will give all a
chance to stay in line or pass, just
as they please. At one time, in this
county it was proposed to build the
road only IA feet wide. Grant Nc
Mahan, at that time commissioner,
fought this to the end, almost alone,
and an Is foot roadway was paved.
We shudder to think what 14-foot
roadway would have done?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-05-21
NOONANISMS.
From the Raudett

(From the Raudette Region.)
Probably soml IF the women who
are kicking at Snort skirts learned
to walk too soon.
Our idea of a well informed man
is one who can tell who is running
for the various offices on the Farm
Labor ticket in Minnesota this year.
The florists celebrated Mothers
Day by doubling the price of flow
ers.
A wet writer claims that it would
take two hundred million dollars a
year to dry up the country. Some
of the old soaks could drink it dry
for less than that.
Slash the trees, kill the game,
fish as you please, use up all natural
growth and material, quickly, care
lessly and without a thought of
those to come. Conserve nothing.
This has been the policy of lot of
people in the past, but it is hoped
that this summer will see change
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-05-21

of sportsmen and fishermen of
America passed the House May 18th.
1t provides that where State pro-
hibits the commercial sale of black
bass, that sale shall be prohibited
in interstate commerce. 1t does
not interfere with the rights of the
State. 1t is a conservation measure,
intended to stop the destruction of
BLACK bass, a favorite game fish
which inhabits all the fresh waters
of America. 1t does not interfere
with the transportation of black bass
captured by the fisherman.
Your Representative in Congress
made speech in the House in sup
port of the legislation. Concluding
his remarks he said:
"In this materialistic age, any
legislation that puts a little more
laughter and joy and healthy amuse-
ment and sunshine into the lives of
our people is good legislation.
"Mr. Chairman. We have been
an improvident people. We have
squandered our great natural re-
sources. Look at our wonderful
forests, cut down and for the most
part wasted. Think of the millions
of wild animals and myriads of birds
that once existed in our country,
many species extinct, and all facing
determination. Let's try and pre-
serve the black bass, the king of
fresh water game fish.
''This legislation is for the poor
and the rich alike. 1t does not cost
the Taxpayers one cent. 1t does
not interfere with states rights. 1t
simply seeks to conserve some of the
wealth owned by all of our people,
and it seeks to pass it on to our
children and our children's children.
81 hope this bill will be passed by
large majority of the members of
the House."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-05-21
STICK WITH THE BOY SCOUTS

There are 100000 Boy Scouts in
America, and about $4,000 of
them are destined to be, decent citi-
zens and men of character. That
fact was confirmed by the statement
of a Brooklyn judge who reported
that out of 100000 boys brought be-
fore him in the criminal courts of
Brooklyn during the last Is years,
fewer than a dozen had been Boy
Scouts.
Not once during the last 10 years
has Boy Scout been brought into
the New Y ork Children's court.
That is something for the luke
warm supporters of the Scout move
ment to consider. If every boy in
the United States were Scout,
juvenile crime in this country would
virtually cease to exist, on this
showing
The Scout movement, therefore, is
something far more than just a
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-05-21

The death in Superior Monday OF
John L. Morrison, publisher OF the
Duluth Rip-Saw, Is regretted by a
large number of frienos OF the for
mer publisher and his family. MI.
MIR. Morrison has been i'll for some
time with pleurisy and on Monday
was taken to a Superior hospital.
Death was due to embolism. He
was 62 years of age apd has been
a newspaper publisher almost all his
life, working with the Duluth. dailies
for many years. He also engaged
In mining IN California and during
the 1894 gold excitement at Rainy
Lake and Seine River he was a
frequent visitor at Tower on his
way to and from the mines. He began
the publication of the Rip Saw ten
years ago and since that time has
had his share of the ups and downs
attending the newspaper business.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-05-21

Congressman Martin L. Davey of
Ohio still insists that the federal
civil services middle name is Sin
efficiency. In line with this he adj
vocates the laying off of countless
thousands cluttering up the payroll
of the nation and whose principal
occupation seems to be "going out
to lunch" as Vice President Dawes
once remarked. Senator Smoot of
Utah has also joined Congressman
Davey in this opinion and actually
cracked a joke in his address the
other day on some new government
buildings in Washington. He said
sit is an urgent necessity to get
employees out of these old shacks or
they would fall down altogether"
When asked facetiously if he was
afraid the employees would fall down
or the buildings, he remarked he
meant the buildings, as govern
ment employees don't move fast
enough to fall down."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-05-21

The presence of "the black stone
that would burn" at Nanaimo, on Van
couver island. was known to the In
dams living In that district. One In
dian led Hudson's Bay companys Of
fetal to the spot where ''the TACK
stone" was and this, In April, 1850, was
the discovery of coal in British Colum-
bia. The deposit Of coal visited on
that occasion was on part Of the site
of the present town Of Nanaimo.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-05-21

Last week we received a letter
from a man signing himself Thomas
A. Canty'' from chicago IN which he
took to task the Ten Thousand Lakes
OF Minnesota Association for not
having an exhibit at the Chicago
Outdoor Exposition. We failed to
publish this letter because we be-
lpeve it was inspired by someone
with an Interior motive. In reading
between the lines, 1t appeared as IL
some one was peeved over some
thing the Lakes Association had done
Or tailed to do.
We hold no brief for the Associa-
ton or its executive officer II. G..
Hotaling of st. PAUL, but will say
that we have been cognizant of the
work done by the Association for
the State of Minnesota as whole
for the past ten years or more ana
have always found it up and doing.
So valuable has the Association be-
come to the stale that even Gov
ernor Christensen, who is recOgniz-
ed as one of the most conservative
men IN public office, has recommend
ed and is sponsoring drive for
more money throughout the state to
further increase the activity of the
| Association.
The advertising which has been
| done by the Ten Thousand Lakes
| people has borne fruit especially
when we state that the secretary of
the Ely Commercial Club, which
| Club has been a member of the
Association since its inception, has
received several thousand letters
yearly through the Lakes body for
information relating to the state in
general. These letters were answer
ed and through them thousands of
tourists have been drawn to Ely and
vicinity. Being a state body, the
Association cannot specialize in Sec
lions of this great state, each and
every inch of which furnishes some
thing new for the tourist.
| The writer of the letter probably
had personal axe to grind. We
will also state right here that The
Miner will not turn the grind-done
for any publicity-seeking individual
if we know it, unless it is deserved
The writer in his letter admits that
for several days 81 have been read
ing in local papers lurid display ads
furnished by the Association but
when it comes to putting clinchel
on their advertising they have failed
mserably." Judging from this we
are led to infer that while thousands
see and read the ads presented, the
Association has failed by not bring.
ing the country they are advertising
to the exposition. A little further
along we find this sentence: ere.
calling the display ads, / am tempt.
ed to suggest that someone has been
getting percentage for handling
them" Yea. Probably the printer
| is getting paid for the advertising
which others we know of are trying
to graft.
The state is not doing so bad
thank you. We are now the fourth
best tourist state in the Union and
with a little more money, for adver-
Using, will be the best. When we
consider the paltry advertising fund
of the state compared to that OF
California or Florida, we often won.
der on being fourth on the list and
how we got that way.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-05-21

for the better in this district.
As a hell raiser in a small town
there is nothing that compares with
malicious gossip. Some of the Cos
sips can accumulate more dirt than
vacuum cleaner.
The old saying that nothing is
impossible may be true. but did you
ever try to convince your daughter
that she ought to wear long skirts.
The politicians are telling us what
they stand for, and some of them
are wondering what the people will
stand for.
One reason for accidents at cross
lngs is that freight train won't
jump sideways like a pedestrian.
An exchange tells of a man being
arrested for stealing safe and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-05-21

There is some agitation for the
increase of the gasoline tax on mot
or vehicles, and a reduction of the
license tax, but to our way of look
ing at it the present adjustment of
these two taxes is about right. 1t
is true that the gasoline tax is a
very accurate indicator of an auto
mobiles wear and tear OF the roads,
but it is also true that this tax has
no relation to the value of the car
nor the ability of the owner to pay.
With a high gasoline tax and a
nominal license tax the owner of a
Cadillac or Rolls-Royce might con-
ceivably pay less tax than the own
err of a Ford, although ten times
more able to pay the tax. Under
the system we have at the present
time the tax is based on the wear
and tear of the roads and on the
ability of the car owner to pay
Mortified Independent.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-05-21

harmless fad. Apparently it means
something to the members. and GER
tainly it is factor of Tremendous
Importance in the nation. lit is ere
volving fund" Of 10000 boys from
which the nation draws continuous
supply of decent citizens each year.
1t is a spring of pure water feeding
the somewhat muddy stream of pres
ent day civilization. If the output
of the spring increases it may yet
clariIy that stream.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-05-21

pleading that he did it in a moment
of weakness. We wonder what he
would steal in moment of strength.
The best time to kill fly, says an
exchange, is before it has made ar
rangements for lot of descendants.
The, drunken driver is home
wrecker, a life shortener and hos
pital filler. The next legislature
should knit law making the pun
ishment for the offense lot sitter.
Don't believe everything the
politicians tell you. Some of them
would swear that spinach is fruit.
About the only safe prediction
concerning the coming election is
that when it is over Governor Chris
tianson will still be Governor Chris
Hanson.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-05-21

Clarence barrow. eminent author
ity on crime and its causes, has
made the following statement /:
S.Ehere are three prime causes for
crime. ID The brutal state. of
mind resulting from the Gholesale
fiow of blood in the great w1r. (2)
The undue publicity given Sby the
press to brutality. (3) A radically
wrong system of public education.
But the public can take an even
greater stride if it will apply bit
of reason to its management of the
public schools. Now the state in
sists ON training all youngsters to
become intellectuals. whereas most
of these youngsters have no inter-
est or heart for grammar or the
arts. Let the public give the boys
who should be mechanics, a me-
chanic's training. Dy such system
in Ine public schools / believe I can
eliminate nine-tenths of crime, for
criminals are idlers with no settled
interest"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-05-21

The supreme court in its decision
an the Bunl School District VS.. Uhver
Iron Mining Go. case, kind OF Kicked
over the brew kettle OF the mJunc-
ton lover. The court has held that
the District could sue for damages
sustained wnen an injunction Obtain
ed by the company stopped work on
the school building ana according
to the district caused much damage.
This will probably be a test case
and will eventually settle the dam
age liability of those seeking inJunc-
tlons and stopping vital halt-com-
pleted projects.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-05-21
Roses in China

Roses are employed In China for
seeming tea leaves. In Marking they
are also generously used by bakers
for giving aroma to cakes and pastry.
Brewers produce rose-scented liquor /;
a candy made of sugar and rose
leaves is a popular CONNECTION. Dur
ing the Towering season, vast num-
bers Of the petals are preserved.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-05-21

President Coolidge has made a
mark contrary to the Democratic
nress which is trying to lead US 10
believe that nothing has been &C
compIished and that congress mas
practically catapaulted the president
out of the capitol. His three pet
nroiects-tax reduction, foreign
debts and world court-are all
reality. Not SO bad, atall, atall!
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-05-21

And now the candidate Is coming
along The nearby local candidates
are here the year round anu I
a welcome because they are helsn
bors, About this time OF the year GA
those on the state ticket also ans
cover the range country and gao.
hand their way about telling US wna'
a fine country we have, etc.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-05-21

and neighbors for tho beautiful
floral offerings and many acts of
kindness shown us during our sad
bereavement, the loss of our be-
loved son and brother.
MR.. AND MRS. FRANK BENKO
AND FAMILY.