The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-09-06

The state building commission have
as yet not reconsidered their stand
on the site for the state Office building.
While st. Paul is divided on the Wa
basha st. and the University Ave. SITES
the commission is holding to its opinion
that the University site viii be the
proper one. st. Paul is basing its
claims on the WabaSha st. site on a
identifying the city" argument and
about half of its citizens are for 1t
while the other half are unfolding the
commission on the University Ave.
site. The first half dub the latter site
as the backyard site" while the latter
half maintain that for usefulness the
other site fills the bill.
From this distance, it must be ad-
mitted that the commission should
know what it is doing. Having been
selected by the legislature Of the State
of Minnesota to select site for
building, they have weighed the pro-
position and arrived at decision As
the building is to be built under the
terms Of an appropriation made for
business purposes, it would seem that
the selection should be satisfactory.
As men were picked on the commission
with business Judgment, the building
is to be a business building with the
usual public structure trimmings. st.
Paul wants a handsome structure TO
match the State Historical building on
the other side of the approach to the
beautiful State Capitol.
In all truth we will say, both are
right The state needs the purely
business building while st. Paul needs
the more ornate structure for beauty.
However there are arguments for both
which should be considered from every
angle. The state built a beautiful
capitol for ST. Paul, located it in a
commanding position The capitol
commission builded well and have
building to show for it second to no
other state capitol in the United States.
Some writer in the Daily News Monday
made the following assertion: For
years now this great state has COM
placently permitted the capitol to be
surrounded by the screen Of ugliness'.
Old shackS, billboards, dilapidated
traps, automobiles and even ashes were
piled up in the very front door OF the
statehouse Yet until you took up the
fight, nobody at the capitol even
noticed it.
Oh yes they have. Members of the
legislature have often remarked why
don't st. Paul as city do something
to clean up and furnish proper set
ting for the beautiful building the
state has built at the expense OF the
taxpayers of the entire state" In
reading the plant Of the writer above
quoted, one might believe that all the
Junk named was located on state
property right at the front door OF
the state capitol, whereas it is not
on state but private property under
the Jurisdiction Of the city Of st.
Paul. If this has been such an eye
sore to the residents of the Sanity
City why was it not cleaned up before
this and thus show the balance Of
the state that they appreciated the
location Of the capitol in their city
for which the entire state paid the
bill?
The city has made some fine i'm
proyements on Third Street when
they removed q whole row Of eyesores
and furnished beautiful view Of the
river and the western section OF the
city. This was done at city expense.
A few years ago Robert Street was
wfdened in the interest of traffic along
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done at city expense. Why now come
asking for the improvement Of eye
sores" mentioned at the expense Of
the state?
A noted British dental authority
makes the claim that strong -chinned"
men and women will disappear from
the earth unless the human race al
tiers its food habits. He claims that
our defendants will both be toothless
and chinless if We cling to our pre-
sent choice of diet. He says that food
cooked to a pulp and cut into small
pieces does not give our jaws and
teeth the exercise they are designed
to have. In a few hundred thousand
years, he maintains, nature will reduce
the length of the human jaw and de-
crease the number of teeth, until
everybody will possess chins like
squirrels and have no more teeth than
chickens.
Notwithstanding the noted dental
authority, this is nothing to worry
about. We will have no use for teeth
in that time and probably where we
are going there viii be no need for
teeth, and if we have no teeth there
will be no use for chins. Another very
sage scientist has also stated that in
q few hundred thousand years We viii
have no use for legs as walking viii
be q lost art. Even in this early date
we fail to walk When we go to the
post office for mail We take the car.
When we go to a dance we ride and
when we dance we move everything
but our legs. Along about that time
we viii have wings and have nothing
to do but pick on harp. Another bad
blow was the statement recently made
by a scientist that heaven was so far
away that if we travelled $4,000 miles
per second-like light and radio-it
would take us several million years to
get there. Scientists are pessimists as
well as men Of brains.
According to advertising in another
column the First National and First
State Banks will on October first exact
q service charge on all checking &C
counts of less than $50 in value. This