The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-10-04
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BY Arthur Brisbane
Intellectual America
Valuable Lives
Mexican News, Good, Bad
All About Strange Man


Valuable Lives
Mexican News, Good, Bad
All About Strange Man
Intellectual Americans paid 100000
to see Mr.. Tom Loughran fight Mr..
Jack Sharkey, Lithuanian who Dor
rows his fighting name.
The gentlemen, who are heavy
weights" in more senses than one,
fought three rounds. Sharkey won,
Mr.. Loughran Technically knocked
out"
The same crowd will pay 100000
more later to see them fight three
more rounds, with Mr.. Loughran win
ming.
After that will come the deciding
match. Sad, dull days for those who
crave brutality.
OF all big business, life insurance
is biggest. Frederick II. Ecker, presi-
dent Of the Metropolitan Life Insur-
ance company, predicts an increase in
two hundred billions by 1910, while
discussing problems involved in the
investment Of fourteen thousand mil
lion dollars, held in trust for policy
holders.
Two hundred billion dollars insur
ance on the people Of the United
orin puT
ages leS1 than $1,000 per inhabitant.
It's poor American that isn't worth
more than that.
Two pieces Of Mexican news-one
good, one bad-fOr Mexico's people.
With excellent intention, Mexico plans
to let Mexican labor raise itself by
its own bootstraps. That is the bad
news.
Employers hiring more than twenty
workers must make collective con
tracts, with all
An employer for any reason letting
men 90, even closing down for lack of
business, must continue paying wages
for three months.
Such laws, If established, would
drive capital and prosperity out of
Mexico.
1t would expel the only automobile
factory in Mexico, which belongs to
Henry Ford.
MexicO's good news tells that the
number Of her schools has doubled
within a year. The government plans
public school education for every
child, on the American plan.
Man Is a strange animal. David
Bernstein, Brooklyn tailor, deliberate
Iy killed a man against whom he held
no grudge, pushing him off an elevated
railroad platform in Brooklyn. No
police.
Insane, probably.
The lawmaking machinery Of New
York decided to kill Frank Plata In
the electric chair. Acute appendicitis
threatened the electric chair program.
A good surgeon, hired at public ex-
pense, restored Plata to the death
house. "Out of kindness" he is al
lowed to play cards with his partner
In crime. Michael Sciafoni, wall sep
arating them.
Strange uses Of science, killing men
by electricity, saving their lives by
surgery that the electricity may kill
them, treating them kindly while
waiting for the chair.
A cat does no worse with its mouse.
Earth's 100000, 900 people are not
QUITE CIVILIZED YET.
Further details concerning the mas
sacre OF 5000 Mohammedans by Chi
nese In Kansu province show that the
human race has still some distance to
travel.
OF late MOhammedans had been
numbering Chinese Then came fam
Inc, most desperate, among the Mo
hammedans, who were invited by
Chinese officials to come to Taochow
for a conference, with promises of
roasted barley.
When they came, men from fifteen
TO fifty were separated from the WON
en-, taken outside the walls and 5000
Of them butchered like sheep" When
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