The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-04-13


We congratulate Senator Claude
ton as Republican National Commit
teeman to succeed Senator w. F..
Brooks. Claude did an excellent
piece of work in lining up the state
for Lowden and he is deserving OF
the honor the national convention
delegates conferred upon him. He
will have smooth sailing providing
Lowden is the nominee but will have
his work cut out for him providing he
has to line up the Republicans OF
Minnesota if Lowden is not the choice
of the convention. 1t is anticipated,
however, that by the time of the
Kansas City convention the political
fever will have run its course and
Republicans will be Republicans no
matter who the nominee.
Something else to worry about. A
London scientist makes the claim that
the moon is coming in violent contact
with the earth a million years from
now and that the earth will be total
ly destroyed. Don't let this news in
terfere with your regular pursuits of
happiness, nor your liability for your
bills.
Big" Bill Thompson, mayor OF
Chicago says that crime in that city
has decreased 81 per cent and that
the city has a tough reputation be-
cause the newspapers of Chicago
print the crime news while the papers
of the other cities don't. We have
noticed in our 40 years of newspap-
er publishing that crime news is not
printed in the city dallieS providing
there is no crime.
Looks perilous, but not so perilous
as it looks. Last year 164 aviators
were killed in the United States. aOf
the 1874 deaths. 131 occurred in un-
licensed airplanes. Only one air mail
pilot lost his life. More than 81 per
cent of the licensed planes flew thru
out the year without fatal accident.
The air mail flew a total of ,413, 1881
miles. In less than five years from
now private airplanes will be as COM
order in early. The 103 airplane
factories in the United States are
working overtime to supply the de-
mand What we need here in Ely is
a landing field and airdome. The
cities that have a landing field will
get the tourist business. We have
the country, the lakes, and scenery,
canoe routes, hunting and fishing.
Let's have an aviation field.
The grade crossing menace on the
Minnesota Trunk highway system has
been decreased from 1014 to 623 in
the seven years since the system was
inaugurated. 153 of the remaining
crossings are slated for elimination
within a short period by relocation OF
the road. The crossings which have
been and are being eliminated were
among the most hazardous ones,
where traffic was heavy and where it
was impossible to see approaching
trains. There are now, 81 overhead
and 70 underpaSSes on the trunk
routes The most of these are fool
proof yet every once in while some
one runs off the overhead or bangs
into the pillars on the under-pass
ones. Also, fully third of the &C
cidents at grade crossings was by cars
crashing into a passing train.
The drunken driver menace has be-
come far greater than the grade eros
sing danger. There are still those
who think their 70-mile-an-hour
machine can beat the SloweSt freight
train to the croSsing-but, it can't be
done-at least not all the time. The
fellow who gets loaded with moon
and then decides to take a joy ride
is by far the greatest menace OF the
motoring and walking world. This
fellow should be taken out of circula-
ton before he starts on his trip OF
destruction. The StrangeSt part OF
the drunken driver case is that in an
accident he always escapes while the
innocent bystander" suffers. A man
running amuck with loaded gun is
harmless compared with the loaded"
car driver.
Besides stopping the Chicago news
papers in the publication of crime
news and the schools from teaching
history in which some of the accomp-
lishments of the British are enumer-
ated, big Bill" Thompson, mayor OF
Chicago now has another pro-Brit-
ish subject to confront. This is the
st. Lawrence waterway project
Originally he was strong for it, but
lately he has discovered that those
favoring this project were working
side by side with Canada, and
Canada, you know, is closely
related with the British EN-
pire. Some seem to believe that
some New Yorker, opposed to the st
Lawrence route, deducted, and noti-
fled the Chicago mayor OF another
pro- British movement in this con-
nection. Now he has transferred hi:
affection to the All-American route
it is said. bill" thinks he is twist
ing the lions tail when in truth hi
is only biting his own nose.
The Miner is not in favor of the
Superior National Park movement
whereby it is proposed to place the
Superior National Forest and thu
Quetico Forest in Canada adjoining
into a big national park. Only
short time ago we printed the rule'
governing a National Forest and thos'
governing a National Park Unde
the former, the Department OF Agri
culture has the power to sell timber