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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-16

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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-16
Mothers, Don't Yell

The woman who has the common
sense to talk Of her children's mis-
demeanors in low. controlled tones.
has just twice the chance Of making
them come to the desired end.-Amer
lean Magazine.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-16
Reason for Badness

The Idea that bald men are more
intelligent than those with plenty Of
hair has no foundation In fact. The
reason so many students are bald II
because they work too close to the
heat of electric lights.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-16
Where He Fail.

DE man dat starts an argument"
said Uncle Eben, never turns out &c
be de one dat kin bring de fuss to :
satisfactory Observation-Disclosures Star
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-16
Wake Up, Brother

Wake Up, Brother
College professor who says women
will be rulers of the next generation"
Is already quite a number of genera.
lions behind the times.-Philadelph
Inquirer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-16
Ancient Talisman

Ancient Talisman
An Egyptian scarab in the Toledo
museum was originally placed in the
tomb Of sacred bull as a talisman
to insure the animals entrance into
the realm Of the god Osiris.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-16
Discouragins Builders

Never build after you are five and
forty; have five years. income In hand
before you lay brick, and always
calculate the expense at double the
estimate.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-16
Acme of Faith

Acme Of Faith
Greater faith hath no woman than
this, that she trust her husband to
take something out of the oven at q
certain specified time in her absence
Ohio State Journal.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-16
Three Good Suggestions

Help to preserve the good of the
past; try to select the best that the
present offers; strive to transmit to
others what is worth while.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-16

worldamous hei Allie nd born
Minnesota and consigned the recent National Sale at the State
Louis noted Hostein
will outstanding animals shown at the Northwest
Show, Minnesota State Fair Aug 81 to Sept
history LIVESTOCK cattle,
quality the North
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-16
Desirable IMMIGRANT

The first chrysanthemums were b
ported from China into England
1870, and soon made their way to q
er parts of the world.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-16
when performance counts
products Of the Standard Oil
Company Qndiana)are chosen.
Their dependability is proceed.

The planes of the Universal Aviation Corporation Of
gers and mail regular schedule The ubcaon of their
Wasp, Hornet and Wright Whrwnd engines is vital matter
this Company because it offers Specialized
Lubricating Service and Quality of Oil unequaled
Day in and day Stanolnd Aviation products faithfully
protect aipane engines of the Universal Aviation Corpora
ton against friction.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-16
Grain Sorghum

Darso Is grain sorghum Of I'm.
known origin. 1t is probably cross
between a saccharine sorghum and a
nonsaccharine sorghum.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-11

through environment, circumstances or
necessity, will find that nature by no
means makes such large demands, es-
pecially when one has passed the magic
age of 81 years.
A review OF the Oldest men who ever
lived will show. that in almost every
case such men have been abstemious
eaters. Corllaro, the Venetian, ate no
more than IA ounces of food a day.
Not alone, however, is a great bulk
of food not necessary; what is neces-
sary is food which contains the vital
principles of life. Milk, vegetables.
grains. fruits-these are held by mod
ern science to be both nourishing and
cleansing. both nutritive and healing.
The sedentary city worker, above all
persons. should think twice before bur-
dening his system with an unnecessary
amount of daily food under the mis-
taken idea that he must keep up his
strength" Afternoon sleepiness, COM
mon with many workers, in part re-
suits from such mistaken feeding.
The majority of city men and women
will discover, as the result OF laH
trial, that they are in better health
when they eat lightly-for them-and
take particular pains to get III their
diet the various foodstuffs which help
build up the resistive powers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-11

1t personifles, was the exception that
proves the rule, just as recreant off,
Gals who became implicated in its mall
odorous course were themselves the ex-
ceptions proving the rule that for every
crook in public life there are thou
sand honest.
But in our highly commercialized age
there is urgent call for unblemished
probity at the top. Unless there is
scrupulous square-dealing there, it IS
too much to expect it to be universal
lower down. The men higher up carry
not only the burden of directing policy
along lines designed to be remunera-
tive for stockholders. They shoulder
the no-less-grave responsibility of see
ing that the business from which divi-
dcn6s are derived is conducted by lead
ers so true to themselves that they cam
not be false to any man.
The American business world justly
resents a program Of growing Federal
encroachment upon private enterprise.
The surest way of arresting that move
ment is the method Mr.. Rockefeller jr.,
is adopting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-11
"Eourishiug Food. "

There is a great deal of misunder-
standing about this common phrase.
Now that the country is undergoing its
annual crops of bad colds, and is
further inflicted with the influenza,
physicians are advising plenty OF
"nourishing food" as one of the best
preVentives.
The sad thing is that many persons
are likely to jump to the conclusion
that they know exactly what is meant
by the phrase, when the fact is that
their conception of what it means is
mostly erroneous,
This occurs not because they do not
know what words mean, but because
there has grown up in this country a
widespread belief that plenty of food
will help prevent sickness. Nothing
could be farther from the truth.
This belief had its origin in a coun-
try and in a day when agricultural pur-
suits were paramount. Those living
close to the soil, who go out to labor
at 4 am, who think nothing of man
ual toll for IA or more hours at a
stretch, may we'll believe that much
and hearty food is necessity for them
Those who insist on eating like farm
! hands, after all necessity for such
amounts Of food is removed. whether
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-11
Too Much Darkness.

Thousands Of early riSers who leave
their homes and start to work an hour
before sunrise have experienced the
shock of witnessing well lighted city
suddenly plunged in Stygian darkness
as long rows OF stately electric lights
withdraw their friendly beams and go
out. If the early risers are pedestrians,
they plunge ahead through the thick
ened gloom and seek the safety OF the
sidewalk, and if they are automobile
drivers they apply brakes and slow
down to adjust their eyes to new
strain. For a long period the city
streets, through the night so brightly
lighted are hidden in inky blackness
until a lazy sun peers tardily over the
horizon and takes up his daily task.
Those who have witnessed this phe-
nonenon of daily recurrence through
out the Winter may envision some
sleepy Waterman somewhere in the
labyrinth of electric switches controlling
street lights. who decides that his
nights work is over and therefore turns
off the lights and goes home and to
bed while there is still work for him
TO do. But this is not the right pic
ture. An automatic clock controls the
lights. and this clock is set by human
hands to turn off the lights, or begin
turning them off, forty-five minutes
before sunrise in the morning and to
begin turning them on fifteen minutes
before sunset in the afternoon. Some
times the clock does not function per-
fectly, and the lights go off much too
soon. But more often it obeys the
hand that sets it, and turns the lights
off as directed
Forty-five minutes before sunrise on
any Winter morning finds the city as
black as blacklist night. The clock
should be instructed to- leave the lights
on until fifteen minutes before sunrise,
at least And there is another thing
the clock should be told about. If it
is raining, or showing, or if there is
an ugly fog rolling up from the Poto-
mac, the clock should be told that lights
are needed longer than ordinarily: per-
haps they are needed even after the
sun is alleged to have risen.
What Washington needs, in these
days of dark mornings. is wise hand
to set the clock and lights that burn
as long as light is needed. Turning the
lights on and off according to table
showing when the sun rises and sets
is excellent in theory, but daily ex-
perience shows its fallibilities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-11
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Chauyeln was his favorite courtier.
Just how close to actuality Dumas stuck
only the special student of the period
would know. but, after all. 1t makes lit
tie difference-he was close enough.
The King, who was IS years old, had
grown sad under his dissipation, COM
bined with a prophecy that he would
die two months after NJ de Chauvelin.
Both of them were struck with melan-
cloly on the same morning.
The lever" or rising OF the King,
was attended by all the courtiers. The
King couldn't go to bed or get up with
out a crowd. Poor King! M. de Chau-
velin. of course, being the monarch'S
boon companion, of necessity had to be
there.
This morning, however, he asked
Louis to be permitted to retire to his
,, home, where his wife, whom he had
seen but once a year for 10 years,
awaited him. The King with reluc-
lance gave his permission.
M. de Chauveln was so glad to get
home that he ordered his household
notary to make his will at once. He
had premonition. The worthy no
tary drew it up in good form. and
asked M. de Chauvelin to sign it, but
the latter said he would do it in the
morning.
Just then a horseman Numbered into
the estate. crying I'm the name of the
King!" 1t was a courier summoning
M. de Chauvelin back to Paris. The
King couldn't get along without him.
Smiles wreathed the face of M. de
| Chauvelin. He had been hoping for the
summons. secretly, and now it had
| I1;c or,,to no
and away he posted to Paris before his
astonished wife and sons could remon-
strate.
| Two nights later. while the King and
M. de Chauvelin were playing at hom-
bre. the fashionable card game of the
day. the courtier pitched forward on
his face, struck with apopleXy.
Take it away! Take 1t away!"
cried Louis. leaving the room, followed
by his court. At the same hour, at M.
de Chauvelins estate, events were
transpiring.
| Nine de Chauvelin saw ghostly f1g-
ure turn into the great gate, and pass
out of sight to the house. The two
boys saw him, and came forward call
ing. Father! Father"
An old servant heard steps in the
library, and a great tearing about, as
of one in haste. He went up to the
room with a gun, thinking it might be
burglars, but there was no one there.
When the notary investigated few
minutes later. he found that M. de
Chauvelin's will, which had been care
fully placed away, was stretched out
on the desk. and
M. de Chauvelin's signature was at
tached. He had come back to sign his
will, and then had gone away. 1t was
later ascertained that the mysterious
appearance at the chateau had COIN
cided exactly with the moment OF M
de Chauvelin's death. 80.
Alexandra Dumas then goes on with
his final chapters. narrating the END
of the King, none too pleasing story
but in keeping with what has gone
before, certainly.
Thus the reader proceeds from the
pleasantly personal picture of the Old
collector and his books, through the
/. ghostly tale of the strange signing OF
the will, to the horrible death OF the
great King.
After laying the work aside, the read
err is likely to say to himself that the
| whole is better than he realized at hrst
| It would make a great play.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-11
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

What DR.. Niebuhr, OF course, was get
ting at is the pacifist theory that a
strong Navy is an incentive to agrees
sive war If he has the United States
in mind, which pacifists sometimes do
not have, the learned doctors sugges-
ton is not altogether sound. America
has had great power on land and sea
for many years. but the psychology
of Uncle Sam is additionally opposed
to pulling the trigger OF his gun Tor
aggressive purposes.
It probably is not generally known to
people out in the United States that
the citizens of Washington are dig
ging into their own pockets to defray
fhe costs of the Hoover inaugural cele-
bration. When it is brought to the
attention of enfranchised Americans
that the voteless District Of Columbia is
putting up the money for the Nations
uuadrennial show, it may occur to them
that it is the height of poetic injustice
that 100000 patriotic men and women
should bear such burden. 1t is sug-
gested that inauguration visitors from
the four quarters of the republic Will
be in mood to listen alphabetically to
Washingtons tale of suffrage woe.
n X X
Labor, Washington organ of the rail-
road brotherhoods, in its account of
the recent railway valuation case before
the Supreme Court. paints the following
picture of 1.-The most interesting figures
on the bench. those two towers of lib
eralism, Holmes and Brandeis': Holmes
is a walking miracle. He is 81 years
old. He served through the Civil War.
It. is more than IS years since he was
desperately wounded, many thought ia
tally wounded Yet here he is, the razor
edged brain as keen as ever, writing
opinions that are literature as well as
law and doing a full share of the heavy
work of the court. Brandeis is a diff
ferent type. His personal resemblance
to Lincoln is startling, but it is an
older, and. if possible, a gentler Lincoln.
He probably has greater knowledge of
present. day economic conditions than
any other man on any bench. His
learning is prodigious-like that of
Holmes, but on rather different lines.
Both are liberals, but Holmes has more
scorn for the oppressor, and Brandeis
more sympathy for the oppressed"
tCopyright, 1929
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-11
Death of AdamsOn
Loss to Southland

From the Fort Worth Rec ord-Telegram
With the passing of William C. Adam
son of Georgia, the South lost an il
lustrious son. There may have been
citizens of the Southland with more of
spectacularity than the former repre-
sentative from the fourth Georgia dis
trict but none supplied more of actual
work and ability to his constituents
and to the country at large.
He is best remembered as the author
of the legislation that averted threat
ened railway strike in 1915 Just previous
to the entry of this country into the
World War. His counsel was wise and
his efforts were untiring.
But his efforts covered an imposing
array of interests. President Wilson
recognized his abilities and gave him
the important post of a membership in
the Customs Court. He was actively
supporting most of the progressive leg
islation of his time, notably the Pacific
cable and the Department of Commerce
and Labor
Legislators of the Adamson type. I'M
fortunately are so few in number as
TO convey peculiar sense of loss at
their deaths. The South has had a
generous share of them, from time to
time, but none more deserving of fit
ting remembrance than William c.
AdamSon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-11
Chang Kai-Shek Sees
Hope in China's Future

From the Asheville Times.
Through the messages of President
Chang Kai-Shek and Foreign Minister
Wang, Nationalist China greeted the
new year and the world with confidence
and with a hope surely better based
than ever before.
These two chiefs recounted the trials
undergone for the sake of the republic
and summed up list of solid achieve
ments. The Nationalist flag now flies
over all the land, even in Manchuria,
where Japan seems to have approached
a working agreement with the new rul-
ers of China. The government has con-
cluded treaties with IL nations, five OF
which have given up the unequal priv
:leges" and all have ratified tariff au-
tonomy for China.
The immediate big problem Is the
rehabilitation of the troops which have
so long SWarmed through the country
and to keep them demobilized. A con-
ference is now working on this queS-
ton, which will provide fundamental
test of the real unification of the coun-
try and the capacity of the central gov
eminent to function in the primary du-
ties of maintaining order and admin
istering justice.
If Chang and his associates can put
down war-lording, if they can put chiefs
and men into useful labor who have for
years lived upon the spoils of war. if
they can administer courts of justice
that will command respect at home and
abroad. 1929 may mean the beginning
of great era for China.
But here hope must wait upon deeds.
China is huge, awkward and until
tored matriculate in the school OF self
government. No doubt there are yet
before Chang and Or. Wang trlbula-
tons which will still more sorely try
their souls and their talents in states
manShip.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-11
Twins.

Birth in the District of Columbia the
other day of five sets of girl twins
seemed to point Enthusiastically to the
passing of the preponderance OF boys
which has prevailed since the World
War.
Nature. whatever one may say OF her,
is a wise old mother, and seems to
know exactly what to do at all times
although sometimes her methods may
strike critical mortals as lacking fore
thought.
Nature. in some moods, seems blind,
laundering, cropping her way along un-
charted paths for one knows not what
ends. In the last analysis, however
it must be admitted that she does
very we'll by her children.
It would seem an unconteStable fact
that the male, although he has seized
to himself various methods of personal
ACKNOWLEDGMENT, is strictly secondary in
the mind and heart of Nature, Z.
The female is so important in the
eyes of Nature that the sex would have
been in universal domination centuries
ago if the universal mother had not
slipped up somewhat by giving the male
more physical power,
This was serious error, in the econ
omy of Nature. because it permitted
mere man to make the best of himself,
thereby consigning woman to a second
airy or inferior position.
Perhaps in nothing is the inherent
superiority of the female better demon
strated than in its sane outlook upon
the whole problem of sex. 1t is a
remarkable tribute to women that prac-
tically all the so-called sex crimes are
committed by men.
In fact, except for a small minority
of criminals, all crime is male crime;
and those women who go in for
crime" are simply the exception which
proves the rule. They are innocent
victims of their male acquaintance.
1t would seem, then, that prepon-
derance of girl babies is matter for
congratulation to community, not for
such long faces as once greeted the
birth of girl child, or such silly jokes
as formerly were heard upon the advent
Of twins.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-11
Newspaper Called
Greatest Educator

j. Elmer Morgan Editor OF the journal,
National Educational Association.
The educational value of the daily
newspaper is beyond calculation. 1t
is built into the daily lives of millions
of people. 1t supplies the raw mate
rails of thought and action with clock
like regularity and with speed of
manufacture that is one of the mar
wells of modern times. 1t makes the
whole world one and helps to raise the
standard of living by encouraging peo-
pile to dress we'll, to live in better homes,
to drive finer automobiles, to eat
more wholesome variety of food, to let
their interests go out in a wider range
of affairs.
Newspapers have been made possible
by universal education, and as the
schools improve the press will likewise
grow better. Newspapers have made
significant gain during the past year
by refusing to play up scandals as ex-
tensively as formerly. Press associa-
tionS and newspaper syndicates are
giving more attention to education,
health, science. politics and geography
What eyes are to the individual, the
newspaper is to society. They also
teach who follow the reporters beat.
who write against time in editorial
offices, who know not sleep, nor dis
lance. nor fear. nor fatigue in their
heroic search for news.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-11
A Valuable Inquiry.

Plans are shaping up for thorough
Investigation by a presidential commits
sion of the whole subject OF the enforce
ment Of the prohibition laws in this
country. Such an inquiry would be IN
line with the statement made by Presl-
dent-elect Hoover year ago when he
called prohibition noble experiment,
which must be worked out construc-
lively.
The suggestion for governmental
inquiry into prohibition enforcement
came first from Senator Jones of Wash
ington, an ardent dry. He introduced
q resolution at the present session call
ing for an investigation by Senate
committee. Senator Edge of New Jer-
sey. a consistent wet. Immediately pro-
posed that a commission Of nine be ap-
pointed by the President-elect, after he
shall have become President, to carry
on the inquiry. The indications now
are that the resolution, when finally
adopted will call for the appointment
of a presidential commission, with
report to Congress.
The principle of the prohibition of
manufacture and sale of liquor for bev-
erage purposes has been written into the
Constitution The Volstead act has
been spread upon the statute books for
the enforcement of the constitutional
provision. For the first time the sub
ject of prohibition has entered promi-
nently into a national campaign, and
the candidate supporting prohibition
has been overwhelmingly elected.
Enforcement of the law, however, is
o different thing. 1t is a matter of
common knowledge that the law is vio-
lated constantly; that veritable swarm
Of bootleggers are peddling liquor in all
parts of the country. In some of the
States and municipalities the prohibit
ton law is vastly unpopular. This. too.
was demonstrated by the election, and
by elections to the Senate and House.
It is unthinkable that the people OF
the United States shall be willing to
settle down, or to permit large portion
of its members to settle down, to con-
sistent course of law violation. 1t makes
for evil conditions and is breeding
ground for law violation generally. The
probabilities are that the enforcement
of prohibition will become an outstand-
ing issue in this country that will reach
into the congressional and national
campaigns Of the next few years.
The proposed inquiry by presidential
commission should prove valuable. 1t
should reveal to the country what need
there is for new or modified legislation.
Tt should reveal also what steps further
should be taken by the executive de-
partment of the Government to bring
about proper enforcement of the pro-
hibition laws. If the President-elect is
called upon to appoint the proposed
commission, it may be expected he will
pick men well qualified not only to
make the investigation, but also to
analyze the information which they
obtain and to make recommendations
thereon.