The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-12-09


cause lot of trouble. A school
girl in Kansan said "damn" when
her pony bolted. The female school
teacher, lacking sympathy ard hum
or, punished her for her very nat
ural vocabulary outbreak. The irate
mother punished the school teacher.
and is now serving term in Jail.
This recalls the comment of school
superintendent who had genial
sense of the ridiculous, when one of
the prim old maid teachers COM
planned that one of her pupils had
been very wicked, guilty of using
a very bad word. "What was it,"
asked the school boss. After some
blushing hesitations, he was told
that the awful expression was 'tOh
Goshw Now isn't that a damn
shame," said the superintendent,
which relegated the incident to a
closed chapter.-St. Cloud Daily
Journal-Press.
1t may not have been necessary
for Henry Ford to spend several
million dollars in one week for the
purpose of advertising his new mod
ell automobile, but he is doing it just
the same. You will find page
advertisement for the new car in
today's Daily News, the third of a
series of six such displays, and the
anne advertisement is appearing in
every daily newspaper of the count
ry-probably the biggest short-time
advertising contract ever made.
Was it necessary to spend such an
enormous sum of money to herald
the coming of the new automobile?
Mr.. Ford evidently thinks it was, or
he wouldn't have done it. The Ford
automobile is probably the best
known ear on the market today, but
Mr.. Ford has the faith that extentive
newspaper advertising is an essen
tial to the furtherance of his busi-
ness, and he goes at it as he does &C
everything else.
There should be lesson in this
for the merchant who is trying to
convince himself that "adve, Using
doesn't pay."-Hibbing News.
Everyone who has er had to
make out an income tax report sim
cerely hopes that the special joint
tax committee now convening at
Washington to simplify the revenue
laws will be able to evolve some
thing understandable to the ordi-
nary mind.
The technical mind may feel it
necessary to include all sorts of re-
strictions and counter restrictions
and all manner of complications in
the law but the layman who has to
make out an income tax ough! to be
able to report simply what he got,
what his deductions can be and what
his net taxable income amounts to
without consulting lawyer or an
income tax collector. The man of
small income usually knows that he
received so much in wages, that he
is married and can deduct so much
for that, and that he can deduct for
children or others dependent upon
him and that he paid so much in
taxes and gave so much to his church
or to charity. That is enough.
Making out income tax reports
has become bugaboo for the best
of US. The government ought to
be able to simplify this annual ment-
al horror without any loss to iteslf
and permit all men to go about their
business instead of spending Feb
ruary and part of March in creeping
through the pages of tax blanks
Albany Evening News.
Tiger Flowers, formidable Negro
pugilst, died in hospital the other
day, following what had been con-
sidered a rather trivial surgical OPP
Grafton. Before inhaling the ether,
Flowers earnestly prayed:
If / should die before l wake,
pray the Lord my soul to take.
Flowers, deacon in his church,
turned prizefghter to earn the big
money with which that vocation COM
pensates its more adept practitioners.
Every time he went into the ring he
prayed.
There were those in Flowers own