The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-11-01

perity"
No buildings were burned down, no
industries have died, no mines, rail-
roads, steel plants have vanished.
Paper profits have been reduced to
scraps Of ticker tape. That's all.
And, as one solemn banker said,
Many win now do more useful work
than watching the ticker or the brok.
ers' blackboard"
The most pathetic were the women
SPECTATORS, amazed to learn that
prices can 60 down.
Chicago describes them weeping
hysterically In La Sale street.
Scientists ask what has become Of
the Leonids, a swarm Of meteOrs that
have appeared in dazzling brilliancy
about once In thirty-three years for
more than a thousand years past.
They failed to come around when
last due, and there is no sign Of them
now.
Our giant neighbor, Jupiter. may
have absorbed them, as whales with
wide open mouths absorb tiny crea-
lures in the ocean.
Big things live on little things, even
iH cosmic space.
President Hoover's plan for q great
system Of inland waterways realizes,
in prospect, the hope OF those that
welcomed an able engineer to the
White House.
Total expenditures planned will
amount to $525,O0O,OOO. and every dol,
lar spent will pay for itself ten times
over.
The President observes that the an
nual increase in expenditures Will
amount only to the cost Of one-half
of one battleship.
The President might have added
that In modern war the whole of one
Dattleship would be worth less than
one-half Of 10 cents, since battleships
are now merely targets for submarines
and airplanes, worth nothing, except
to battleship builders.
The Carnegie foundation says
college football is tainted with
money" Free teaching and cash
bonuses are given to young men that
can kick hard, run fast and tackle
sayagely.
1t would be more pleasing II COL
leges sought great teachers as eager
~ as they seek great quarterbacks.
But no great harm Is done. The
games and great crowds arouse young
mems interest in college life and give
college education to young men from
rolling mills and rear ends Of ice
wagons, that might otherwise remain
qneducated.
Progress 10 flying advances rapidly
In Europe. A few days ago Germans
showed a gigantic hydroplane With
twelve engines, flying, carrying l80
passengers and crew.
Great Britain Is building q plane
Of the same size. q triplane instead
of a biplane, also with twelve engines,
TO 60 faster.
Henry Ford was the first to talk
about 12-englned plane ito carry 100
people, with machine shop on board"
The Germans and the British build
the planes.
The Swiss parliament, elected By
a moral and serious nation, propos-
ing law to punish blasphemy, sug-
geSts six months In prison for those
that "orally or In writing insult God"
Blasphemy should be punished be-
cause It sets a bad example and shows
want Of respect for the feelings Of
others.
But is 1t possible for any two-legged
human microbe on this planet "to in
suit Cod?
II the mice proposed to punish any
mouse insulting Edison, you would
say. mice, don't worry, you can't In
suit Edison"
How much less can any man insult
the Creator Of the Universe?
The nation read with affectionate
sympathy of Mr.. Edison's visit to-
Dearborn, where Henry Ford has re-
built as 1t was in old days the SIM
pie Edison laboratory to which men
owe so much.
Mr.. Edison was deeply moved when
he saw bis old tools, the chair In
which he sat In his early youth, his
primitive paraphernalia reassembled
as used fifty years ago when he de-
veloped the idea that now lights the
world.
Every old man can share Mr.. Edi.
sons emotions The human heart is
the same with or without genius to
lend II great name.
A million among those that see this
column carry with them memories of
youth-a shellbark hickory tree stand.
ing alone In the field; grove Of chest
nut trees with yellowish green burrs
open, showing the brown nuts within
pond that held SINNERS" and cat.
fish; a swimming hOle-happy mem,