The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-16
On This
Occasion
Just few thoughts by the Edior on things
Material and Immaterial.


million new cars in 1928 will make
an addition to the school curriculum
of ''car lodging" course a neces-
sity. Already the streets and eros
sings are crowded and the yearly
output of new cars will still further
aggregate the congestion. Flying
will probably become a necessity on
the part of the average human with
out a car in a very few years.
An old fashioned cabinet with a
mirror on it was recently sold at an
lshpeming, Michigan, rummage sale
for rs cents. The drawers were
locked and when the purchaser broke
into one of them he found two quarts
and a pint of thirty-year old Haig q
Haig-if you know what l mean.
The church, holding the sale, was
out about $50 on that deal. The
purchaser probably gave it back?
Winter and summer, Minnesota IS
it and has 1T" in large quantities,
and especially is this northern end
blessed with an abundance of every
thing that goes to make life pleas
ant, both winter and summer. Sew
eral things that bother other states
we are short of, viz: floods, eartn-
quakes and summer pestilence. Our
summers are warni and pleasant
with nights cool and hit for sleeping.
Our winters are thermomeretically
cold but with healthy and lariiied
air. No wonder Santa Claus warts
to make his hone in duluth.
Over twelve hundred memberships
in the American Red Cross were
registered in Ely during the recent
roll call. This speaks remarkably
well for the people of this city.
Those who solicited memberships
make the statement that very linn
tied number refused to enroll and
these only because of financial
stringency and not because they
thought the object of no import
ance. Everywhere the work of this
noble organization is known and the
prompt action in the several emery
encies that arose last year made the
quest for members not difficult.
Some of the western sections are
hitting Hoover for being friend of
Wall Street and in that part he is
being hit for being in favor of the
deep waterway to give the western
farmer low rates for his output.
The st. Cloud Journal-Press thinks
sit would not be a bad idea to try
out a big business man for president
who is not politician" Sounds
good. Hoover is almost too valuable
a man to take from the channels of
industry and business and put In
presidents position to be dictated to
by congressman and Senators with
seeds to give" for votes instead of
services for their country.
There is no opposition to st. Louis
county getting in on plan for bet
terment. There seems to be OPP
position however to the plan of TAX
ing from the county commissioners
that for which they were elected,
viz: doing the business of the county.
The st. Louis county commissioners
do more business every year than do
several states of the Union. 1t may
be good plan TO put the road build
ing in the county under one head
the same as the state has done.
However, the commissioners were
elected to attend to affairs of their
several districts. If a county man.
ager is wanted, why districts and
why commissioners?
While pubic examiners and the
daily papers have been attracting al
tention to the range towns as ex-
amples of extravaganza and the
home of graft and every other I'M
aginable i'll, they have strangely
overlooked other places. Now comes
Commissioner Evens of Duluth with
the statement that the city has been
overcharged a mere matter of $307,-
2S4.71 in gas tolls by the corpora
ton furnishing the gas. This seems
strange in view of the fact that the
taxpayers league has been on the
Job continuously and has discovered
leakages of WORKOUT trucks, valued
at $500 or less) in the county COM
missioer districts and raised some
what of hullaboo thereat. The
Zenith City body of seekers into
peoples business, evidently failed to
find the beam IL the Duluth eye
while looking for the mote in the
range eye.
Commissioner Evens quoted fig-
ures to prove the overcharge in the
gas payments for Duluth and Geo.
M. Jensen, a West End publisher
printed the story in detail with con-
vincing credit and debit tables to
prove the assertions. Commissioner
Phillips jumps right up on his hind
feet in meeting and says the whole
thing is a canard and a joke, pure
and simple. Geo. Jensen sticks to
his statement and is relying on fig
ures. The old saying is figures
never lie" We might also add that
editors never lie. They can't print
newspapers and tell things that
aren't so. Some readers seem to
imagine that editors only tell lies
in their sheets and the reader is par
TALLY right. Suppose the bare truth
was told in everything? How long
would an editor last? An editor is
only an editor as long as he don't
print everything he knows about you