The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-02-06

they had never dreamed. For seven
days, ten hours day, they dug ditch,
pounded rock, shoveled snow until they
were sore in spirit and every nerve
and muscle cried aloud. Then from
hour of the day parceled out to mill
tary drill, auto mechanics, red cross
methods, manners, law, and what not.
They never left that barn, they got
plenty to eat and eight hours to sleep,
but during the other sixteen hours of
the day Mr.. Brown kept them stepping.
At the end of 80 days he put the best
IS Of those 40 young men on motor
cycles and they're the young fellows
for whom you have a real liking and
real respect that you thought you
never could have for cop. Sixty-flve
more cops like that on the public
highways wouldn't hurt bit, not a
single bit.
Bonds Bob Up Again.
Other highway proposals confront
the legislature. To bond or not to
bond is again the question. Public
sentiment thruout the state appears
to be against bonding, but in our
opinion, public sentiment is off on the
wrong foot Public sentiment is against
highway bonds because of mistaken
belief that they will in the end add
to taxation They will not. An in
crease in the gas tax to four cents will
add to taxation; perhaps it would be
wise to wait another two years before
putting this added burden on the tax
payer. Putting up public buildings in
order to relieve unemployment will
still further bend the back of the far
mer and small home owner. But
bonds for roads, within the constitu-
tional limit of ten million this year
| and ten million next year, will materi-
ally relieve the desperate unemploy-
ment situation and will never add one
| penny to the taxes. The proof is as
clear as daylight to anyone who will
lay aside prejudice and carefully study
| the matter.
1t is a reasonable statement that the
| legislature can do nothing else at this
| session which will so materially re-
lieve economic distress. Big problems
often have simple solutions. Here is
a simple solution without money and
| without price.
Rush for the Pie Counter.
1t being a question of loaveS and
| fishes, Farmer-Labor Arens party
| parted company with him completely
| Early in the session Lieutenant Gov
ernor Arers gave it out cold that 70
employees were enough for the senate.
Rah! Rah! said his fellow-laborites;
in fact applause was general through
out the state But when the farmer
labor faithful in the senate were faced
with the prospect of going papless,
they left Henry and reform in the
lurch, and stampeded as one man for
the pie counter.
The senate majority appointed
enough employees to run the senate,
II of them, seven more than Henry
said was enough. The farnler-labor
senators looked over the list but failed
to find the names that they wanted
written there. Where they walled,
do we come in?" Well" said the
regulars, I'VE have enough, even more
than your Mr.. Arens has said is plenty,
but if we must put more on the pay
roll, draw your own resolution and go
as far as you like" So the farmer
labor senators, some score or more,
from Spokesman Bridgeman to Spokes-
man Lommen named them each an
employee and signed them each the
resolution and % more were added to
the payroll.
Pop-Ups Keep Popping Up.
The Hennepin irreconcilibles in the
house die exceeding hard. Headed by
that practiced pop-up, Representative
Dewey Johnson of Hennepin, Repre-
sentative S. A. Stockwen of Hennepin
and Representative Charles Mum Of
Hennepin. They sent up long pro-
test, four closely typed pages of pro-
test, voluminous protest against ne
potism. The bulky document set forth