The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-07-13
On This
Occasion
Just few thoughts by the Editor ION things
Material and Immaterial.

What Society is wearing" is the
caption of a column in an Eastern
newspaper. 1t is needless TO say that
the column is very short.
An exchange recently in announcing
the seventeenth child in family
stated that all were doing well except
the family doctor.
Last week The Ely Miner passed an
other milestone in its existence and
with this issue begins the thirty-fifth
year. During all this time the Miner
has been under the same management
and the same editor. 1t has been our
policy to overlook local shortcomings
among our citizens and the police
court record furnishes no news for us.
This policy has not met with the APP
prevail of all of our readers but the
majority are satisfied. We have a
large list of friends and also have a
list of enemies. We sincerely thank
both. Our friends for their good will
and patronage and our enemies for be-
ing enemies. Every person or insti-
and also critical enemies. Those who
do nothing, make neither. In the early
life of our business career it was the
policy of competing business to fight
with its competitor. That time has
passed and now all crafts and trades
are united for the betterment of their
business. The Miner is devoted to the
upbuilding of this community and its
people. We would much rather fill
these columns with How to make two
blades of grass grow where one grew
before" than Crime news for the week
in detail" The daily papers handle
the latter phase of human existence
thoroughly and play it up most allur-
ingly. The same would also probably
be news to our readers-providing it
did not concern themselves or i'm
mediate members of their families,
whose history from the cradle to the
grave is generally known by the local
editor.
The Miner circulateS in the United
States and several foreign countries.
Ely is on the map as 1.-The Playground
of Nation" and has a reputation to
sustain. The local paper helps to sus-
tain this reputation and people who in
tend to visit us are more concerned
with the good things offered than the
sordid happenings. The majority of
tourists and visitors before coming in
variably send for copies of the local
papers printed in the towns they in
tend to visit. 1t is bad enough that 10
cal people know of the sordid hap
penings of town without broadcast
ing them to the wide world through
the newspaper. The intention of the
editor for the coming year is to keep
up the even tenor of country news
paper and not dabble into private af-
fairs. We will leave that to the
dailies.
In politics we are Republican but
feel that the man and his record are
paramount regardless of the political
handle in local state and county offices.
We believe that the best interests of
this section of the country and its in
dustries will be conserved by the cleo
ton of Herbert Hoover for president.
Unnecessary occupations. Along side
OF the fellow that eats barrel of sauer-
kraut at one sitting; the fellow who
squats for days on a flag pole; the
coffee drinker who disposes of count
less cups of the beverage; the cam
paign manager of the Socialist party
and several others of these non-es-
sential, unproductive occupations, we
place the marathon dancing, now so
popular and remunerative Ito the pro-
moter) in some of the larger cities. Du-
luth is the latest to get the fever. How