The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-09-14

The Miner is under obligations to
Supervisor Hamel for a handsomely
bound album of photographs taken on
the Superior National Forest. The book
is a counterpart of the one presented
to the senatorial party which recently
visited us on matters pertaining to
the Shipstead-Newton bill.
Our recent story relative to the cow
question in the city has had the effect
of more or less discussion among sew
eral of the garden owners. Should
we be allowed to live for few weeks
longer and not fall a victim to some
of the self-styled champions of the
poor mans cow" we will say several
more things in regard to the cow sit
uation and produce figures to prove
the McNary-H Hagen bill rank anna
teur in the matter of equalization
when the benefits accruing to the COW
owner at the expense of the several
hundred taxpayers who are compelled
to build high priced fences in addi-
ton, are considered.
Just a little more on the subject
before we show the figures to prove
that each COW now in the city costs
the city more money per capita than
90 permanent Improvements or any
room in our schools. Why should the
city council, after trying to help the
dairymen in this vicinity who are up
building the agricultural possibilities
OF this section by passing milk ordi-
nance and other ordinances, put all
their efforts at naught by allowing
cattle to run at large and live of the
neighbors garden or the city boule-
wards?
A gentleman dropped into the office
a few days ago and asked us to regis
ter kick on the indiscriminate dump
ing of waste paper in the alleys only
to be blown about the street. The gen.
tleman mentioned in particular, the
alley in the rear of our handsome new
Forest Hotel and the alley west from
there. He stated that travellers mar
yeled at the cleanliness of our streets
and alleys and also maryeled over this
paper litter and wondered why it was
allowed A few refuse boxes placed
at accessible points would remedy
much of this.
While talking about the paper litter,
the gentleman also called attention to
the weeds and thistleS on the vacant
lots. Yea, this hit The Ely Miner a
slap right in the face. The lot in the
rear of the office has some of these
and we have made arrangements to
have them cut and burned at once
and do not feel hurt little bit by
having attention called to our care
lessness. Hay fever sufferers who come
here for relief, state that these thiStles,
golden rod, dandelion and other weed
pollens are irritants for the ailment
and in order to furnish immunity for
the patients, should be eradicated, or
kept under control.
Such kicks as these are good for
the soul and constructive towards
city building and the maintenance OF
health. People see the mote in the
neighbor's eye but fail to see the beam
in their own. We have laws to regu-
late everything under the sun and on
and under the earth beneath. Then
we sit supinely by and expect these
laws to regulate everything without
our effort or the effort of those en-
trusted with their enforcement. Paper,
weed, cows and a hundred and one
other things are all covered by laws
and ordinances when just town pride
and common decency should govern
You can't make saint by law nor "a
silk purse from sow's ear"
SilaS H. Strawn of Chicago, preSi-
dent of the American Bar Association
in checking over the several acts, etc.
has discovered that there are 10000.
900 laws and ordinances in Theoretical
effect on the statute books of the
United States, with 100000 new laws
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