The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-06-08
On This
Occasion
Just few thoughts by the Editor on things
Material and Immaterial

Material and Immaterial. 8:
In screaming headlines covering the
eight columns of the Sunday News
Tribune sport page, we learn that
''Dillner of Denfeld Cops Second
Place Honors at Hibbing" and that
Central High Athletes Fail to Place
in Interscholastic Track Meet Finals"
Then Just below in an inconspicuouS
head we find that Ely Athlete Wins
First Place With 10 Points; Duluthian
has g.. We are only calling attention
to this as it is the general policy of
the big city dalies to overlook any
thing pertaining to the small town in
such matters and only mention just
what they cannot help. However
when some small town boy goes
"blooey'' and runs afoul of the law,
right away the same kind of scream
ing headlines tell the eager world
of the miSstep.
Right here we will digress long
enough to state that the News Tribune
under the new management has be-
come a rafting good paper and we
cannot understand why they slip up
on such matters. The Ely young man
who beat out the sixteen other towns
in this contest and was entitled to
the headlines instead of the man that
only took second place Maybe the
large list of city subscribers insist on
such things but in the interest of news
the headlines should not try to mis-
lead.
Yet and withal The fact remains
that the Ely boy won the meet. While
great stress was laid on the fact that
the weather was not good and this
probably accounted for the sorry
showing made by the other boys, it
must be remembered that the Ely
boy had the same kind of weather.
Had the weather been anywhere near
the customary Playground of a Ma
ton" weather, it would be impossible
to tell just how many more points the
Ely athletes would have rung up on
their less skilled adversaries from the
big city at the Head of the Lakes
And, that's that
The Minnesota press was again hon.
ored this year and honors to
the Minnesota press are not new as
every year has seen several papers
from this state on the roll of out
standing papers in the nation. With
the keen competition occasioned by
the National Editorial Association,
this years honors mean much. H. c..
Hotaling, executive secretary of the
Association for several years has been
reelected The Bemidji Pioneer, edited
by Heinie z. Mitchell, was awarded
the presidents cup. This cup is CIV
en- to the newspaper leading all others
in its class in the nation for general
excellence. The Northfield News,
Herman Roe publisher, was given
third place in this. The News was also
awarded the prize for the best front
page given by the Publishers Auxil-
iary. The third place in this award
was given the Bemidji Sentinel.
Now come the manufacturers and
producers protesting against the scam
tiness of women's apparel and claim it
Is hurting their business and throw
ing thousands out of employment. Art
Brisbane says: "She wears hats the
size of flower pots, made of plain
felt, little profit in them. She has
given up cotton petticoats injuring
cotton growers and spinners. Her silk
dresses would hardly fit an 8-year-old
child Bad for the silk manufacturer.
Sugar manufacturers complain that
business has fallen off 100000 tons.
Women give up sugar to get thin"
Advertising and energy enable the
man to do in a few years the work of
a century. Besides, the public is
guaranteed continuation of values. 1t
pays to build a good name by eff
cheney, quality, value and advertising.
Try it and see. However, you can't
expect to sell a $4,000 article with
25c ad, neither can you expect peo-
pie to remember you because you once
put a small ad in the newspaper.
Persistently and intelligently keeping
at it brings success.
1t is somewhat disconcerting to say
the least when someone sends in puff
for themselves or some of their family
on stationery printed by some peddler
from one of the big cities. Stuff of
this kind should by rights go into. the
waste basket but the ordinary news
paper man is too decent to do this
and admit he is piqued. He prints
the news item in the hopes that the
party sending it in will wake up and
help out the home town by getting
his printing, etc. in Ely where he
makes his living.
The local merchant, or some OF
them, are everlastingly bowling about
the peddler nuisance and the first one
that comes along gets their order for
printing. They do not stop to think
that they are encouraging the very
thing that is putting themselves on the
rocks. The newspaper man writes
columns of stuff calling on people to
patronize home industries and then
along comes the peddler and sells a
bill of goods to the merchant, be it