The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1930-01-03
FIRST OF YEAR RESUME
Editors Take a Hand
(By National News Service)

1 MlIl16SOLd nave dQOpUeQ LllC
methods that have heretofore been
used by big business, and powerfully
financed organizations in submitting
their demands upon Congress This
time about 800 editors of rural news
papers in Minnesota with the cir
| culation of their newspapers totalling
495, $50, with approximately million
and half readers, have issued
signed Statement to Congress" which
has appeared in a page advertisement
in the Washington newspapers. This
is paid for entirely by the above
Northwest newspapers"
The purpose of the advertisement is
demand that the tariff bill now be-
fore Congress be passed with as little
DELAY as possible" The statement
says that the farm readers demand
the passage of the bill. According to
the statement:
They regard the early passage of
the Tariff Bill, with it's increased and
comprehensive farm rates, as more
important, from the standpoint OF
farm prosperity, than anything else
Congress could do at this time.
This belief of many Minnesota
farmers is based on two things:
"First-The prospect for a larger
American market for farm products
which will come through the operation
of these new farm tariff rates.
"Second-An understanding of how
this large and more stable market will
fit into the prosperity program &C
comparing the new marketing systems
to be developed under the terms and
with the assistance of the Agricult-
ural Marketing Act
The statement expressed disbelief in
the theory that agriculture is fighting
industrial rates. The following par
agraph indicates very clearly that
Minnesota editors are not in sympathy
with the coalition that is seeking to
make a tariff for farmers only. On
this point the statement says:
I'VE do not believe the Tariff Bill
should now be held up indefinitely TO
slash the industrial rates of the 1922
law, as it will be delayed if there is an
attempt to make indiScrlmlnate
changes. There would be delays not
only in the Senate, but in the House.
and especially in the Conference Com
mittee.''
The Minnesota editors have gone to
bat in favor of their views in prac-
teal way, and they are performing a
great public service. Hats of 10
them!
What's the Hurry?
Changing social customs in the
United States constantly result from
the invention and introduction of
more scientific machinery. The in
crease in 25 per cent in the number
of students in Junior colleges has been
pointed to as an indication of the
desire of young people to equip them
selves to meet the highly competitive
social and industrial conditions that
obtain throughout the Natl n.
Strangely enough the total enroll
ments in colleges in the United States
have shown decrease in recent years
and this indicates that the college
students are stopping short OF OBJ
tanning higher education" and are
content to obtain specialized Scien-
tific knowledge that they can turn
into quick dollars in business, or in a
professional way.
Doctor william John Cooper, Com
missioner of Education of the United
States, believes that new customs and
machinery production are crowding
out the traditions of education.
Evidently humanity is in hurry to
obtain its education, just as it is in a
hurry to do everything else in life.
Welcome the Bantam Car
Waste transportation units, not used
transportation units, make the real
problem of road congestion and in
adequate parking space, according to
national traffic experts who are at
tempting to unravel the traffic Snarl
gradually spreading to all our roads.
The real "roadhogs" perhaps, are the
drivers who longest the highways with
large, powerful cars when smaller cars
would amply suffice for their trans
portation requirements. The recent
announcement, therefore, made by the
American Austin Car Company Of
Detroit. that with factory facilities
completed and new body designs
agreed upon, the first bantam Austins
of American design will make their
appearance in the early spring months,
has been received here with the keen
est interest by road and transport
officials.
The bantam Austin, hardly more
than half as large as the ordinary
small car heretofore available to Amer
lean motorists, and familiar sight
in the streets of London, Paris, Berlin
and other European capitals. Because
of it's remarkable acceleration and
speed, it is usually the. record maker
in its class in every leading race or
| endurance event abroad. With an
| American company, backed by Amer
| lean capital, now making the bantam
| Austin in the United States, the four
| leading nations of the world will have
| put their stamp of APPROVAL upon this
| type of transportation
The quick acceptance of the bantam
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seven years record of successful oper-
| alton, indicate it's wider field in the
United States. The new tranSporta
ton unit that would be created by
| the bantam Austin, it has been es-
| timated, would permit 1000 cars of
| this make to occupy the same space
| on the streets which now affords room
| for only 500 of the larger cars. Sim
| liar improvement in parking space
would likewise be effected
Nor will the remarkable economies
| of upkeep and operation made pos
| sible by the bantam Austin come as
bad news to millions of American
| motorists Certainly the facts that
this bantam car will go 40 miles on
| one gallon of gasoline is remarkable
enough. Even more so is the fact thar
| the little car is of such sturdy con-
struction and design that its lifetime
| is equal to that of other cars several
times it's size.
Both because of the fact that it
| promises to be a definite factor in the
| solution of our most urgent traffic
| problems and because of the extra
| ordinary economies that it offers to
| the two-car family millions of Amer
| lean motorists will echo the sentiment
welcome the bantam Austin