The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1930-04-11


Behold, One Oil King
Our Flying Army
Name 1t Newton
No Mother Love, No Nation
Los Angeles.-The gasoline threat
that worried the big oil men a few
days ago is becoming reality. Here
the price has been cut as low as 10
cents, and deeper cuts are expected.
This is due to disorganized production
and disorganized distribution.
Any buyer who exults In the low
price OF today exults prematurely.
He will more than make up for 1t
later on.
Old royalty, kings, emperors, ETC.,
are going out. In the realm Of finance
kings are coming in. The American
government, interested in United
States prosperity, might make care
full study Of Sir Henri Deterding, head
Of the Shell Oil company.
An able Dutchman, born in Holland,
knighted by the British, with his office
In London, Deterding surveys the
world from the oil mans point Of
view, literally, as an imperial con-
queror.
The other day as lowest bidder he
supplied the japanese navy with oil
for year at 81 cents a barrel, the
lowest price ever quoted, and prob
ably bought 1t from independent Cali
fornia producers for 40 or As cents
barrel.
California produces the oil, Japan
gets the oil, Defending gets the profit,
the United States sees its oil supply
diminished.
On Mather field, Sacramento, Brig.
Gen. William E. Gilmore directs the
maneuvers of army airplanes, greatest
gathering in the history of the army
air corps.
One hundred and fifty-nine army
planes, from small swift pursuit planes
to heavy bombing machines, are TAX
ing part in maneuvers such as would
be necessary in actual war.
Men that have inspected the equip
ment of European armies, including
France and Britain, say the pro
visiOnal wing" commanded by Gen
eral Gilmore, is as efficient a unit as
would be found anywhere on earth.
The small new planet whose exist
ence was asserted by the late Pro-
fessor Lowell continues to agitate
scientists.
Guided by Newton's law, Professor
Lowell knew that disturbances in the
orbit Of Uranus must be accounted for
by the existence of another planet
Officials of Lowell observatory fol-
lowing the new wanderer on the out
skirts of our solar system, say it be-
HAYES exactly as Professor Lowell
would have expected.
A distinguished French astronomer
says it is too small to amount to any
thing, but would change his mind If
1t shifted it's course and struck this
earth in the neighborhood Of the
Place de la Concorde
The Geographical Society Of Mexico
very sensibly suggests the name "New-
ton" for the new planet.
Had 1t not been for Newton and his
law Of gravitation, directly as the
mass, inversely as the square of the
distance" scientists could not have
known Of the planets existence.
Russia, forgetting Sparta's history,
plans human society made to order.
Children, taken from their mothers In
babyhood, will be raised wholesale by
the state. Mothers will enter fac
tories, and otherwise work the same
as men door, rather, as mares do,
on the farm.
Russia should remember that when
mare is valuable, and a fine horse
is wanted, the mare is not put to work
before the colt Is born, or afterward.
Sparta educated its youth; trained
young men to surprise and murder the
miserable Helot slaves on their way
to work at sunrise, that the young
men might be fierce in war. Sparta's
law used iron for money, that no man
might care to have much of it.
Fine theories were worked out there
as in Russia, but Sparta amounted to
little. Athens, where human nature
was allowed to develop according to
rules-not suggested by Draco or Karl
Marx-produced Greek grandeur, art,
literature and philosophy.
We are wound up at birth, to run
in a certain way; our Unborn impulses
are our mainsprings, and we cannot
remake ourselves. To interfere with
the family, with the mothers passion
ate love of her children, with mans
ambition, stimulated by duty to his
family and reverence for his father
and mother, is to insure a nations
downfall.
The government asks farmers, for
their own price protection, to reduce
by two million acres spring wheat
planting In Minnesota and the Da-
kotas. Substitution of barley, rye.
oats, alfalfa and sweet clover is sug-
gested. That might help il other
states reduced acreage. But it Is as
difficult for farmers as for others to
change their habits.
Ours is a marvellous earth dwelling,