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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12
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Lindbergh flew high and low but
spurns the jack.
Rowing at Columbia university this
season will cost $4,000
There are 26,700 sporting clubs in
England with membership of 1,42O,-
600.
The Longwood Bowl tournament at
Boston is the oldest of all tennis COM
petitions in the United States.
Dartmouth college has a rule that
no student can obtain degree un-
less he has succeeded in swimming
the length of its pool.
One by one our drug store cowboys
are coming around to the hard histor-
ical truth that America never had a
great national hero with patent-leath-
er hair.
Eben nj. Wells '2S of Winthrop,
Mass. holder Of the world record for
the 45-yard high hurdles, has been
elected captain of the Dartmouth col
lege 1923 track team.
Newer and lighter football raiment
will probably be adopted throughout
the country next fall and as a result
players will only be weighted down
about seven pounds instead of fifteen
or twenty.
Bert Bates, Toronto youth who is
stationed at Talara, Peru, with an
oil company, has taught the natives
how to play lacrosse and league COM
petition is now in progress there.
Columbia university has re-engaged
Daniel Meenan as head coach and
Paul Mooney as assistant coach of
basketball for next season.
Sunny Jim" Coffroth, owner of Tia
Juana, the famous Mexican race track.
is said to be planning $125,000 purse
for the Coffroth handicap in 1928.
Aviation has brought forward the
fact that an immense amount of pub
licity may be developed without the
promotion of Tex Richard or the SUI
pervision of Judge Lands.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12
African Caddies Using
Heavy Iron Golf Clubs

Native caddies in South Africa be-
come crack golfers with imprOvised
clubs made of heavy iron wire bent
at the business end into the correct
lie. The club head is a short piece
of iron pipe. The grip is of old rags
or cloth wrapped with fine wire.
With only one club of this crude
nature, Joseph, native caddie at
Bloemfontein club, won caddies'
course measuring 5000 yards in A
strokes. Bogey for the nine holes is 3S.
The native caddies often return bet
ter scores than do the players who
carry the regular assortment Of driv-
ers and irons.
The secret Of it is that the native
boys play the game from the time they
can walk; they have fine, natural
swings and, having only the one home
made club, learn to use it to perfec-
ton.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12

thus attempted to tack on to their
opponents proved to be a boomerang
and undoubtedly had something to do
with Blaine's defeat by Cleveland.
When the political star of Wood
row Wilson rose into the ascendancy
the power of the slogan was again
demonstrated. In 1912 the appeal for
"an honest dollar for an honest Presi-
dent" gave every American a chance
to make an individual contribution to
campaign funds and gave him an in
dividual interest in politics. In the
close race of 1916 who can say but
that the slogan "He kept us out Of
war" swung the scales in favor OF
Woodrow Wilson over Charles Evans
Hughes, even though the next six
months saw us in the war? Although
Wilson was as different from Roose-
welt as two men can well be, like
T. r. he had the gift of apt express
sion which the average American was
quick to appreciate and appropriate.
So "watchful waiting" make the
world safe for democracy" and "open
covenants openly arrived at" became
a part Of the current speech.
When a war-weary and disillusioned
world began to take stock of itself
and learned again that there can be
defeat in victory, the Presidential
campaign Of 1920 found America al
ready eager to forget war and every
thing connected with war. So Warren
G.. Harding's "back TO normally"
slogan was one well-calculated to APP
peal to the popular fancy after all
the turmoil of the past two years and
anything savoring of calmness and
serenity was looked upon with favor.
So the American voters elected Hard
ing, a calm man, who sat comforting
with the 'best minds on the conduct
of his front porch campaign" Four
years later the same appeal to the de-
sire for calmness, for letting well
enough alone, this time summed up
in the slogan keep Cool With Cool
idge," again won an election for the
Republican party.
What will the spirit of the campaign
of 1928 be-one of rest or unrest, sat
isfaction or dissatisfaction, and In the
words of what slogan will that spirit
be expressed? Will the slogan writ
ten by Maryland woman help put
Democrat in the White House after
eight years of Republican rule, Will
the country continue to keep Cool
with Coolidge" and enjoy Coolidge
Prosperity" or will there be other
standard bearers in both parties for
whom new slogans will have to be
coined? The answer to all of these
questions will be written by History
on the first Tuesday after the hrst
Monday in November, 1928.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12

slogan as votegetter, several months
ago the club announced a prize con-
test as the means of securing a rally
ing cry for the Democratic party in
1928. Hundreds of catchy phrases were
offered in the contest, but the one
submitted by Mrs. Wilbur Hubbard of
Chestertown, Md, was selected as the
one most likely to offset the vote
getting powers of Coolidge prosper
ity," which the Republicans are ex-
pected to emphasize
Whether or not they have guessed
right remains to be seen. There is
no denying the power of good slogan
in nation which thinks in terms of
catchy phrases and one of whose pop
ular deities is the great god, Adver-
Using, who utters his Jovian wisdom
in slogans. But to get a good slogan
-ay, there's the rubI
Slogans have won elections even be-
fore the American public became
slogan conscious" Perhaps the earli-
est example of this was the political
campaign Of 1910. For 40 years (since
1900 when Jefferson was elected) the
Democrats had been in power and the
Wings, the successors and heirs of the
Federalists, had longed for the flesh
pots of government power. They nomt-
mated Gen. William Henry Harrison,
a veteran of the War of 1872, famous
for his victory over the Indians at the
Battle of Tippecanoe, but at the time
of his election living on frontier
farm in Ohio. His running mate was
John Tyler of Virginia and early in
the campaign the battle cry of the
Wings became the "three rs
"Tippecanoe and Tyler, too" The al
liberation was pleasing to the ear OF
the voter, but even more effective
was the symbolism Of the Wing party.
Harrison was known as "the Log Cab
in candidate" because of his pioneer
career in Indiana and in all of the
campaign parades there appeared
floats bearing a log cabin with coon
skin nailed on the walls and barrel
of hard cider standing beside the door.
Both the symbolism and the slogan OF
Harrison's ''log cabin and hard CIDER
campaign were such as would appeal
most to the West, which had begun 10
rise to political power with the cleo.
ton of "Old Hickory" Jackson, and
Harrison was swept into the Whlte
House by an immense majority over
Martin Van Buren, of New York.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12
terminating Animals

Ruminants are group of animals
distinguished from all other animals
by the fact that they "chew the cud."
The chief ruminants are camels, deer,
CRATES, antelopes, sheep, and goats.
Their food, after being partially mas
ticated and swallowed, is later
brought back to the mouth to be fur
Their masticated.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12
Columbia Crew Has
Aims for OlVnpic

Columbia varsity crew, which
won the national title at Pough-
keepsie, may not defend its hon.
ors in the intercollegiate regatta
next year.
The Blue and White oarsmen
are anxious to compete at next
years Olympic games, provided
they are named as Americas
representatives, and they will
be forced to forego the Pough-
keepsie regatta unless the Amer
lean Olympic committee chooses
date for the American tryouts
next year that does not conflict
with the intercollegiate race.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12
Land of Paradoxes

Missionaries report that the African
natives are almost always without
anything like written language and
it is generally necessary to teach them
the art of writing. Yet the Oldest
forms of the characters we use today
have been discovered in Africa. Exca-
walton in Egypt has disclosed the fact
that such signs were scratched upon
pottery which dates back to the early
prehistoric period, probably 1900
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12
College Stars Coming

College recruits are beginning to
pour into the majors with the cul-
mination of school years. The Bos-
ton Red Sox have already acquired
three for trial. Washington has two
and other clubs are after them. The
college man Is rapidly gaining more
and more recognition by major league
clubs due to the almost prohibitive
prices asked for minor league stars.
One fine example is that of E. S. Far
rell of Pennsylvania, now playing with
the Boston Braves.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12
One on the Bishop

At a dinner party bishop was
seated next a woman who made a
somewhat lavish display of her
charms. When dessert arrived the
bishop placed an apple on her plate.
She expressed surprise, whereupon
he said, "You must eat 1t. When Eve
ate the apple she knew what she
looked like, and was ashamedr'
The woman was equal to the occa-
sion. She quietly asked the bishop,
"Who gave Eve the appleY-London
Tit-Bits.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12

years ago. What phonetic value is at
tached to these signs Is not known !;
possibly they were mere marks Of
ownership, and no sounds were asso-
ciated with them. Our own alphabet
has had long history, and probably
is in part to be traced to these signs
scratched upon Egyptian pottery.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12
Radios Great Service

Most of us think of the radio as
source of recreation or pleasure or IN
formation for ourselves. How many
of us think what it may mean TO
some one less fortunate? An old lady
in New York-and lady is the right
worldwide was formerly well-to-do
but is now poor and "shut-in," re-
ceiyed a set as q present just before
Christmas. An employee of the donor
installed it for her. The first sound
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12

she heard was the notes of violin
solo, with an accompaniment. ut is
the first music have heard in years."
she said, when it was ended. She had
neither been physically able to go to
concert nor financially able to pay
for a ticket. Marconfs greatest re-
wards are not in money.-Youth's
COMPANION.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12
Norwegian Magnet
in Minnesota Ring

1t has taken a Norwegian
champion to put boxing on the
map in the metropolis of a
state where Scandinavians
abound. Until Otto Won Porat,
heavyweight title holder of Nor
way, came to Minneapolis last
winter the fistic sport was strug-
Cling along with meager patron
age. But Won Porat caught the
sporting fancy in two matches,
and a capacity crowd of 5000
paid to see him in his third per-
Torrance. Now Won Porat has
headed a card in the new Min
neapolis auditorium which drew
$4,000 spectators and a $4,000
gate, second largest in the box
ing history of Minnesota.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12

Pete Fowler, Atlanta club pitcher,
has been sold to the Chicago Cubs.
Babe Ruth is singing a song that
was popular several months ago. 1t is
"Don't Bring Lou-lou."
Sale of John Miljus, leading pitcher
of the Seattle baseball club, to the
Pittsburgh Pirates is announced.
At last the perfect name for a
rookie. The Giants have come up
with young fellow named Boni.
Carl Mays, Cincinnati pitcher, is one
of the best hitting twirlers in the
game. He has a near 400 average.
And there's Tony Lazzeri, who, like
his famous fellow countryman, Mus
solini, knows the value of printers ink.
Paul D. Dale Of Briercrest, Canada,
ball team, has been elected captain
of the 1928 baseball team.
whitley" Witt, one-time major
league star, has been sold by Kansas
City of the American association to
Reading of the International league.
Douglas Baird, third baseman of the
Birmingham Barons Of the Southern
association, has been traded for Bob
Washburn, Little Rock second base
man.
]. Vincent Jamison, Jr., president Of
the Blue Ridge league, has notified his
umpires that games must be speeded
up and any delay by players or man
ayers reported to him.
Pat McNulty, former Cleveland out
fielder and Ohio State university star,
who was purchased by the New York
Yankees, was released to Hollywood
Of the Pacific Coast league.
Silver Flint was famous catcher
in his day. With the Chicago and In
dianapolis clubs from 1877 until 1888,
he caught 833 games without using a
mask, mitt or protector.
Louis Alfred Legett, twenty-one
year-old catcher of the Greenville
Sally league club, was sold to the Chi
cago Cubs by the Atlanta Southern
league team, which owned him.
Groh is on his way to his thirty-sev-
enth birthday, which doesn't speak
very well for the present crop of third
sackers. Apparently the Braves In
tend to make DOC" Farrell the regu-
lar shortstopper.
The Washingtons have made an
other effort to strengthen their pitch
ing staff by recalling Dick Coffman,
twenty-year-old rookie right-hander
from the Jersey City team of the In
ternational league.
Fortunately for McGraw, he has a
fat bank roll in the Polo grounds.
Jimmy O'Connell cost $4,000, Jack
Bentley $4,000. Wayland Dean $4,000
and Tyson $4,000. These four busts
cost Charley Stoaeham S230,000.
While the fans yelp for their idols
the magnates rake in the financial re-
turns. The recent series between the
Cardinals and Giants in st. Louis; fea-
turing frankie Frisch VS.. Rogers
Hornsby, brought 10000 paid admis-
sions.
Nashville has purchased Outfielder
John (Mandy) Brooks from the Co.
lumbus club of the American associa-
ton. Brooks was star with the A. A.
team in 1925. and was sold to the Chi
cago Cubs during the course of the
season.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12
BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON
Drawing by Ray Walters.

IGHT Years of Wall Street
Give Main Street a
Chance"
Win that slogan help
bring victory to the Demo-
cratic party in the Presi-
Dental campaign next
year? The members Of
the Woman's National
Democratic club hope that
it will. Realizing the value
of q good, snappy campaign
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12

picture, view it in the proper light,
and from a distance. If you get too
close look, you will realize the rough
way in which it is made.
prefer (now) to also view women from
a distance: never closer than four or
five feet.-E. w. Howe's Monthly.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12
The Higher the Colder

As we ascend In society, like those
who climb mountain, we shall find
that the line of perfect congelation
commences with the higher circles:
and, the nearer we approach to the
grand luminary the court, the more
frigidity and apathy shall we expert
ence.-Colton.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12
Newsprint for Four Years

1t was ascertained in a survey for
interesting statistics that in every
four years there is enough newsprint
to make a strip as wide as daily
newspaper reach from the earth to
the sun and back.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12
Two Kinds of Bores

The man who knows nothing ana
wants to find out everything is almost
as big a bore as the man who thinks
he knows everything and insists upon
telling 1t.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12
His Oath

When asked to take the oath at
Willesden, England, an elderly man
wept and declared he had never
sworn before In his life.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12
Forefeus Earthquake

The earthquake plant grows wild In
Cuba. 1t is said that when an earth
quake is about to occur the nlant
changes In color.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12
Distonce's Lure

have heard it said Of a great
painting, Don't go too close to it"
In order to get the best out of a
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12
Latest in NeedIe,cork

A little boy In Akron swallowed q
needle and got stitch In his side
Farm and Fireside.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-08-12
BASEBALL ~
NOTES GA

Pete Fowler, Atlanta club pitcher,
has been sold to the Chicago Cubs.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-12-17
BLUES DEFEAT REDS

In the prelinary game last nigR the Blues hung it all over the Reds, both girls high school teams, by the long score of 29 to 2. The Blues comprise the first string team and, therefore, even tho one of the first string was shifted over, mad little chance to score. It was very much lopsided and not up to the usual brand the girls hand out
Seward daily gateway., 1927-12-17
THREE SNOW SLIDES
 0N TURNACA|N ARM

Three snow slides came down along the Turnagain Arm stretch of the Alaska Railroad and as a conse- quence there will be no train from the Interior, today, announces local headquarters.
 The Interior train will stop over ard 10 o'clock tomorrow Sunday night at Anchorage leaving for Sew It will arrive in town early in the afternoon
Seward daily gateway., 1927-12-17
TELLS ITS OWN STORY

PARIS. Dec. IT. 'P)-An automo- bile that talks is the latest Boulevard sensation. Strollers admiring a chas- sis in the show rooms of one of Frances most popular makes were startled to hear a hollow, grating voice coming from the entrails of the machine. Before you. you have the famous B IA 1928 model" it said and proceeded to reel off fine line of selling talk.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-12-17

Chocolate and vanilla ice cream. Schallerer's Alaska Shop.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-12-17

WE DELIVER ANY TIME OF DAY YOU WISH. FRYE-sRuHN co.
The Washington times., 1927-01-26
Presidential Widows
To Tour Together

RIO JANEIRO Jan 26Consderable interest is being dis
played here the probable Brazilian ventures of the widows
of two former Presidents of the United States
The Washington times., 1927-01-26
ANTHRACITE COAL STRIKE
HINTED AT BY LEWIS

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 26.-A gen.
eral strike throughout the anthracite
coal area doomed today as one of
the possible results of the speech
OF President John L, Lewis, OPEN
ing the thirtieth constitutional con.
Vention of the United Mine Work
ers Of America. here.
Lewis answered proposals made
by operators at the recent Toledo,
Ohio, meeting, with the assertion
1t is an economic impossibility"
for the American miners to reduce
their scale of living to conform to
the wages paid in non-union areas.
At the Toledo conference it had
been suggested that the pay range
be based on the non.union stand
ards, plus 10 per cent.
Lewis answer has been con-
strued to mean that he will oppose
any such attempts with the entire
force Of the United Mine Workers.
Patrick Pagan, head of the Penn
sylvania delegation, and a power
in the central competitive field,
which governs the scale in all
other fields, today told Interna-
tional News Service that the state
ment of the union president has
thrown down the gauntlet to the
operators.
The thirtieth convention has got
ten away to a smooth and friction
less start, and whatever demands
The Washington times., 1927-01-26
QUARTERMASTERS MEET

are agreed upon will be carried to
Miami with a unified front.
The Washington times., 1927-01-26

JOYFUL A |
ACllIUT TAI

AUSTIN, Tex, Jan. ga vic.
tory for prayer" was the way the
Rev. j. Frank Norris, Baptist min
lister, today characterized his &C.
quittal of the charge of numbering
Dexter e. Chips, lumber broker.
in his TT. Worth study last
July II.
Beyond the laconic tribute to the
devotion Of his congregation of
5000 members of the First Baptist
Church and expressions of joy,
Reverend Norris was silent today.
my heart is too full of joy 20
say anything" he said. THE ver-
dict of these II good men is the
answer of IL God-fearing men to
the conspiracy of the powerful
clique in Fit. Worth and the perse-
cution to which I have been sub
ject since the start of this trial"
Arising early today the Reverend
Norris made hurried preparations
to return to his FIT. Worth pas
torate, scene of his crusade against
what he termed vice in political
life which led to the feud with
Mayor H.. c. Meacham and the
staying of Chips who remon.
strated with him as a friend of
the mayor. -
Shot Lumberman
Norris acquittal was won on the
plea that he shot Chips in self
defense after the lunbefman made
a threatening, movement toward
what the pastor thought was a
gun in his hip poc,-et.
Jane Hartwell, secretary to the
Reverend Norris, who was star
defense witness at the trial, was
the bulwark today through which
the fundamentals parson shielded
himself from the throngs anxious
to discuss the verdict.
1.-THE Reverend Norris said Miss
HartwelI, attributes his acquittdI
largely to the prayer service held
in reliefs at his church during the
course of the trial."
When the verdict was announced
Norris was palpably nervous.
Trial To Be Lengthy
It was predicted today by
Peaches attorney that the case
would last a week or ten days.
He said that IL Peaches" concluded
her testimony today, he planned to
put two witnesses on the stand
one woman whose name he would
not reveal and Mrs. Katherine More,
an old friend Of Peaches" family.
Mrs. Mayor, a trained nurse, was
guest Of the BroWniugs for several
days shortly after they went to
Cold Spring and were married.
The Washington times., 1927-01-26
Hobo Chief Reveals
Just What Term
Really Means
BY international News Service


INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 26.-"A
tramp's a guy that won't work.
A buns a guy that can't, and .
hobo is a bird that'll work If
you pay him enough"
This is the official dictum of
the master hobo, participator in
a hundred strikes, veteran of Q
thousand campfires along the
railroad tracks, "King Jeff"
Davis, international Head of
the Hobo's Union"
The dictum was delivered to
the United Mine Workers of
America, as the thirtieth con-
stitutional convention swung
into action here today. ''King
jeff" the man who helped "put
across" the chorus girls strike,
to the detriment of New York's
night life, and who bears scars
from strikes in all parts of the
country. travelled several thou
sand miles" for the privilege of
addressing the miners dele
gates.
II wanted to make plain to
you what a whale of differ
ence a few words make" he
SAID,
The Washington times., 1927-01-26
IN FEAR Of
CLASH
By JOHN PAGE
Copyright. 1877. BY international News

(COpyFlEht. 1877. by international News
serviceD
PUERTO CABEZAS, Mica.
ragua, Jan. 26.-The danger
Of a clash between United
States marines and Liberal
troops was pointed out today
by DR.. Juan B. Sacasa, head of
the. Liberal government, in an
exclusive statement to Inter
national News Service.
Deplores the Situation
DR.. Sacasa deplored the situa-
ton, but charged that the action
Of the Marines, in constantly ex-
tending neutral zones, had. aroused
hostility. He declared that the
Diaz government at Managua
could not stand without American
support and disclaimed any anti
American feeling on his own part.
Tells of Hostility
Hostility has been aroused by the
action Of the United States Marines
in following the Constituencies
and declaring neutral all the cities
wrested from the Diazista army"
said DR.. Sacasa.
Such acts are making Nicaraguans
desperate. The situation is bad and
is increasing in gravity. Creation of
these neutral zones is robbing us of
the places captured by us through
force Of arms"
DR.. Sacasa expressed the deter.
mination to carry. on in spite of all
difficulties. He added:
4 am convinced that the Diaz
government would quickly fall should
the American Government withdraw
its support and resume an attitude
Of neutrality
DIR. Sacasa, after denying any anti.
Americanism referred to the United
States as ais second mother coun-
try" =.
"That Is where I was educated"
continued the Liberal chief. "That
is where I became inbued with
liberalism"