The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-02-08
On This
Occasion
Just few thoughts by the Editor On things
Material and Immatcrial

Boy Scout Anniversary Week this
year win be Of special significance be-
cause, IN addition TO marking the
nineteenth birthday Of the Boy Scouts
Of America, il also marks the. com
ing of age" of the Boy Scout Move
ment internationally. With a record
of twenty-one years Of worldwide
service, under the leadership Of Sir
Robert Baden-Powell, Chief Scout Of
the world, and with forty-three ma
tons represented in the international
Scout Bureau Of London, England.
the Boy Scout Movement claims 70
be the greatest united effort in be-
half Of and by boys Of which history
holds records AT present there are
more than one million eight hundred
thousand Boy Scouts in the world,
with the Boy Scouts of America lead
ing in enrolment with more than
eight hundred thousand.
Ely being the hub of the northwest
and also the entrance TO the Superior
National Forest, has about everything
any other weIl-regulated community
has We now have a golf course,
first class hotel and next summer will
have an airport providing all goes
well While We are pretty well Or
ganized a little more unity in regards
TO what is good for the citizens in
general should be shown Argument is
good in its place and served as an edu-
cational measure. The man who fails
to argue does not get very far and
the yes" man is at a standstill Talk
things over and consider the next
mans opinion as good as your own
Discussion makes for progress. No
man lives unto himself alone. That
being the case, let US live as one TO-
gether.
The foregoing reference to an air.
port puts US in mind of the trouble
Duluth is having to get an airport IN
der way. The county sold TO the city,
or offered 70 sell. large acreage at
the work farm for an airport. The
site is estimated to be worth $4,000.
The county is giving it to Duluth for
$4,000. Now some in Duluth come to
the front with a request that the
county appropriate $4,000 TO help
put il in shape. As the county has
appropriated every cent of the airport
money TO be made available this year
20 Hibbing. Virginia, Eveleth and Ely.
We cannot see where the city at the
head Of the lakes can get in on the di-
vision until another levy is made. Du-
luth should have an airport, so should
the range towns and especially Ely.
We are the entrance to the wilderness
area sought by tourists and it is ex-
pected that next year and the following
years will see many of these coming
TO the Playground Of a Nation" in
their sky hivvers-
Now while we are on the matter of
airports and flyers, Herb Kurvinen has
seen the handwriting on the wall and
is qualifying as a flyer. For the past
month he has been looking down on
the balance of US at height of from
500 to 5000 feet in the plane of the
Northwest Anyways Company Of Vir-
ginia. as pilot Soon he will blossom
out as the head of a company who
win run passenger plane for joyriders
and TO the lakes and various resorts
In this vicinity. In all probability
plane viii be acquired and a pilot en-
gagged for the season to run the air
taxi service Herb viii apply for
license in the meantime and be pre-
pared to do his own flying Thus viii
another industry be added to Ely and
as this is becoming rapidly the mode
Of travel, Ely will be in on the ground
floor.
The past week has been a busy one
for those taking an interest in public
affairs. In this connection we might
say that there are altogether too few
who pay any attention to the matters
of vital import to this section of the
country The taxation matter was I'D
before the citizens last week and this
week the Shipstead-Newton bill is of
vast import. Some of our people think
that their duty to the country is
about fulfilled when they get out and
vote on election days
The meetings last week on the taxa
ton matters was quite well attended
and quite Interesting. After debate
which lasted for several hours during
which figures were given showing the