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The Washington times., 1931-12-05
LISTEN, WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson

wonderful but try and find it!
Give it up to an institution
until it's older? No. Give Up
her own little helpless baby.
No-no-NO!
Then-what?
Mamie wouldn't be asking
what if she lived in Russia.
Over there they don't leave
babies or mothers to the doubt
full mercy of shiftless husbands
or faulty institutions. The
Russians VALUE mothers
VALUE BABIES-MAKE A
PLAN FOR THEM.
Care for Mothers
Working mothers, under the
Soviet, get four months leave
with full pay, during pregnancy
two months before confine-
ment and two months after.
They receive. free hospitaliza-
ton with the best possible care.
Newly-born children are pro-
vided with clothes and bedding
if such is needed.
When the mother returns to
work she does not leave her
baby behind her. She brings it
with her to the factory or in
stitution where she works, and
places it in the nursery with
the other workers babies. There
is every modern convenience in
that nursery and the most eX-
pert service. Until it is three,
the baby spends it's day in that
nursery and the mother is given
time out to nurse it and play
with it.
After the baby is three it
goes to the kindergarten. Dur
the summer, the day nurseries
and kindergartens are moved to
the country and health resorts
at the expense of the State.
And during this time, the
Russian mother works at her
desk or bench, doing the same
work as a man, receiving the
same wages.
That is the way they do
things in Russia.
We boast about our superior
treatment of our women and
children.
Those barbarous Russians!"
we say.
But the Russians listen to
our boasts contemptuously. For
they, in turn, are sorry for
American women. They know
that America has the highest
maternity rate of any civilized
country-that more mothers
and babies die through abuse
and neglect. AThey know that
America makes more provision
for her dairy cows, for her
draught horses, than she does
for her woking mothers. Think
ing of Mamie-or the tens Of
thousands of Mamies, the Rus
SLAMS Sneer.
Copyright, 1891, King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1931-12-05
MARRY-GO-ROUND
By Helen Rowland

de-resiStance - chicken with
mushrooms and bamboo sprouts
and water chestnutS: Follow that
up with some preserved star
fruit golden lines, to YOU'D, and
pot of tea served in quaint,
funny little Chinese cups, and
I'm happy!
On Thurdsay my "favorite
dish" will probably be an Eng
lish mutton chop, or a steak
Bernaise, with that lovely French
mushroom sauce. And. on Fri
day, you can't insult me by Of
fering me a cold broiled lobster
with mayonnaise, or a dish of
white bait, or creamed shrimps
or steamed clans!
But, on Saturday night can
eat in ANY language, if you'll
take me to a smart place, where
the music is good and the
people are interesting.
Isn't is AWFUL? Here am
I, with a talent for eating in
seven or eight languages. And
the doctor has got me on a
The Washington times., 1931-12-05
The Problem Is To
pass Prosperity Around

In the symposium at Co.
lumbia University on trust
laws, a professor from Yale
assailed the antitrust laws
intended to protect the
American people from the
domination of the monopolies
that have properly been re-
pugnant to the Anglo-SaxOn
race for centuries. He
thinks these matters should
be left to business" itself.
We don't.
We are more impressed
with the reply of Prof.
Frank Fetter, of Princeton,
who denies that the anti
trust laws have broken down
and he puts his finger on
the trouble when he says:
1T is the enforcement
that has broken down."
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The United States Patent
Office reports it has received
plans for an automatic bumper
which, when a collision i'm.
pends, can be extended beyond
it's normal position by touching
a button, much of the shock
being absorbed as the bumper
recoils from the force Of the
impact.
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"It is q gloomy moment in
history. Not for many years
mot in the lifetime Of most
men who read this paper-has
there been so much grave and
deep apprehension; never the
future has seemed so incal-
culable at this time. In our
country there is universal
commercial prOstratiOn and
panic, and thousands Of our
poorest fellow citizens are
turned out against the ap-
preaching winter without en-
plOyment, and without the
prospect Of 1t.
"In France the political caul-
drOn seethes and bubbles with
uncertainty; Russia hangs, as
usual, like a cloud, dark and
silent upon the horizon Of
Europe; while all the energies
and influences Of the British
Empire are sOrely tried, and
are yet to be tried more SOrely.
"It is q solemn moment, and
no man can feel an indiffer-
ence in the issue Of events.
"Of our own troubles no man
can see the end. They are,
fortunately, as yet mainly COM
mercial. and If we are only to-
lose money, and by painful
poverty to be taught wisdom
the wisdom of honor, of faith,
Of sympathy and Of charity
no man need seriously to
despair. And yet the very
haste to be rich, which is the
occasion of this wide spread Of
The Washington times., 1931-12-05
DO YOU KNOW THAT

Chemists of the United
States Department of Agricul-
ture have made a new labora-
tory device to measure the ten
derness and texture Of canned
vegetables and fruits. It tests
these products more accurately
and more impersonally than
the expert grader can consist
emily Judge them.
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brow n hair
and pale eyes.
Du r in the
n on hour
rush her flesh
t u r n S a
clammy gray
and her hair
clings in wet
strings to her
cheek. H er
nose is pinch
ed-She moves
clumsily. Two
or three times
lately she has
stumbled and
The Washington times., 1931-12-05
Fight Was Made
On the President

Percy Stewart, the Demo
cratic nominee, is a business
man and banker. He in
dicted the Administration on
the counts of a business man
who knows that the business
of this country has not been
wrecked by any act of God;
who understands that the
stupidities of economic poll
cies in Washington have
played a mighty part in the
catastrophe that involves us
all.
He indicted the President
for his stubborn indifference
to the obligations of a gov
ernment when seven million
breadwinners are jobless and
twenty million are in dis
tress; for the utter lack OF
leadership in a crisis and
the unvarying ineptitude
when attempts to lead were
made; for the petty partisan
opposition of the President
to the Wagner bills that
had the support of press
and public opinion, of eco
nomists and business men.
The fight was made on
the President and not on
prohibition; for >both the
candidates were opposed to
prohibition, and they diff
fered on the President. The
fight was won by Stewart
on economic issues and the
collapse of an Administra-
ton in the midst of human
misery.
The Washington times., 1931-12-05

Those Lucky Russian Mothers
Mamie is going to have a
baby and she's badly worried.
You'd be, too, if you were in
Mamie'S shoes.
Mamie is a waitress in a cheap
restaurant. She's % years old
"a tired, thin girl with straight
The Washington times., 1931-12-05

On Monday, give me nice,
juicy, rare steak. Or a thick
slice of red roast beef, with a
huge baked Idaho potato and
an order of broccoli with Hol-
landaise sauce. Oh, yes, and
endive salad with r0quefort
cheese!
The Washington times., 1931-12-05

TWO interesting items in
Il the news this week-the
brilliant, moving human ap-
peal from the big brain and
the big heart of Jimmie
e Walker for Tom Mooney,
and the astounding repudia-
tion of Mr.. Hoover and his
Administration in a district
ordinarily Republican by 3d.
600 majority.
We wonder if Mr.. Curtis,
the Vice President, would
have announced his candi-
dacy for denomination had
he anticipated the news
from Jersey. Nowhere has
there been a more distinct,
decisive referendum on the
Administration in Washing
ton. The Democratic nomi-
nee for Congress made Mr..
Hoover the issue.
In a district normally Re-
publican by an enormous
majority one would have
thought the Republican NOM
inee would have welcomed
such an issue with unholy
glee. Instead he bitterly
complained that his Demo-
cratic opponent was drag
ging national issues into a
purely local contest" " With
that he reached the peak Of
the humor Of the campaign.
But the issue being made it
had to be accepted; and so
the fight was waged on Mr..
Hoover.
And on that issue a dis
trict normally 10000 Re-
publican goes Democratic.
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calamity, has also tended to
destroy the moral forces with
which we are to resist and
Subdue the calamity.
'But the result of the Eng
Iish difficulty Is even more
dark and inscrutable. England
has ruled India by its prestige,
and in one moment English
prestige in India was swept
away.
Here follow several para
graphs commenting on mu-
tiny, insurrectiOn and much
disturbance in India, causing
sadness in the mother cOun.
try, England.)
"At home we shall have
direct appeals to our sympathy
in the SwarmS Of honest labor
erS for whom there is no work,
Abroad the appeal will be more
indirect, in the extremity Of
a friend and ally.
"GOOd friends, let our con.
duct prove that the call comes
to men who have large hearts,
however narrowed their homes
may be: who have open hands.
however empty their purses. In
time Of peril we have nothing
but manhood, strong in its
faith in God, to rely upon;
and whoever shows himself
truly a GOd-fearing man now,
by helping wherever and how
ever he can. will be as blessed
and beloved as a great light
in darkness"
The Washington times., 1931-12-05
Suffering SYlphs!

what is your favoriTe oilsh?"
inquiries one of my favorite
newspapers-right out of a clear
sky.
Suffering sylphs! My favorite
dish! 1 could no more name my
favorite dish than the father
The Washington times., 1931-12-05

of seven could tell you which
is his favorite child! Just think
ing it over leaves me weak and
perishing with hunger!
The Washington times., 1931-12-05
rigid diet of buttermilk, dry
toast and pineapple! I'm
STARVING!

Oh well, this world is full Of
starving women! Women who
are starving for butterfats and
potatoes and rice. Women who
are starving for sweets-candy
and cake and ice cream. Women
who are starving for flattery
and attention. Women who
are starving for publicity.
Women who are starving for
LOVE!
But, I'm only starving for
SOLID FOOD! Give this little
girl a hand-out, Doctor!
Copyright, 1881. King Features
syndicate, Incl
The Washington times., 1931-12-05

But, on Sunday, I prefer a
dainty roast fowl. white meat
Of turkey, or a delicious fried
chicken, Maryland, with plenty
of cream sauce and corn'frit-
ters or flaky hot biscuits. Oh,
yum-yum! Garry me back to Ole
Virginny!
On Tuesday, I may have a
yen for a large plate of anti
paste, followed by steaming
dish of minnestrone Or lavioli
with rich red sauce, and a little
broiled squad Qtalian style),
topped off with spumoni, black
coffee and cheese. Good heav-
ems! I'm famiShingD
On Wednesday you can give
me some nice hot pancakes with
honey for lunch. But, by dinner
time I'll be pining for a gen
erous double order of Bor-lo-ga1-
main. That's the Chinese piece
The Washington times., 1931-12-05
ver'sRepudiatiOn;
Walkers S Masterpiece
RI CInude T.. ROzDerS

clearly want a change anG
intend to have it.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-05-29
ALL-MASH FEEDING
NOT GOOD FOR CHICKS

Although all-mash rations for
poultry can be mixed to meet nutri-
tional requirements perfectly, there
are other objections to all-mash feed
ing that make it undesirable for the
average poultry keeper, says Prof. A.
c. Smith, chief of the poultry division,
University Farm, st. Paul.
One Of the chief objections is that
a dry mash makes slow eating, so that
a rapidly growing chick must spend
q good deal of time at the hopper
which cuts down his opportunity for
exercise. Likewise, all-maSh feeding
takes away the incentive for exercise
that scratch feed furnishes.
Exercise makes chicks stronger,
healthier and more vigorous. It also
is essential for the development of
muscle, which comprises all of the
white and dark meat found on the
outside Of the skeleton. A chick that
does not get plenty of exercise will be
poorly fleshed, just as chick that
does not get enough food. AS chicks
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-05-29
ELY-BUYCK TRAIL WILL BE
FINISHED THROUGH THIS YEAR.

The government has considerable
crew on the Ely-Buyok Trail and it
is expected that this very necessary
trail will be finished before snow flies
this fall and be made available for use
of the fire-fghting crews for next
seasons work through to Buyck. Two
camps are located on this end under
the supervision of Engineer Fred Jules
and the road has reached the Hunting
Shack River.
st. Louis County has a crew working
from the Buyck road this way. The
trail is being built under the unem-
ployment money appropriated by the
government and it is expected that
funds will hold out long enough to
finish the same, but should this not
be the case, enough other appropria-
lions will be made to complete the
trail this year.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-05-29

lands nine in their game here Sunday.
The team this year is managed by
Elmo Starkman, an old time ball player
who knows the game thoroughly, and
after he has experimental little he
will be coming out with ball team
that may rival the Ely team Of 1926
when Ernest Madden was manager.
The manager, players and secretary
are doing all they can to put winning
team in the league here and they may
not look very good at the start but
once they find themselves and Man.
ager Starkman gets the men shifted
around little, Ely will be coming
through with several wins and few
losses. There is only one way the
local people can help the boys do this
and that is by filling the grand stand
at their opening game Sunday and
roofing them along.
Bethume and Zebbatt will be the
battery for Meadowlands next Sunday.
D. Starkman will be behind the bat
for Ely. The pitcher has not as yet
been named.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-05-29
X1h|(D|lr1LN
(By Charles Gallagher.)

Nicholas High Man of State Meet.
Bob" Nicholas and Mathew Gouze
gave Ely sixth place in the State
meet at Minneapolis last Saturday
when they collected II points between
them. Nicholas carried off most
honors of the meet coping first in
the 100-yard dash; another first and
tieing the state record in the 200-yard
dash and was barely nosed out of first
place in the broad jump by Harry of
Hibbing who beat him at Virginia re-
Gently by only fraction of an inch.
This gave Bob total of IA points
which made him high point man for
the meet. Gouze came through
pretty race in the 100 yard low hurdles
but was nosed into third place at the
finish. However, he added three
points to Elys total.
Mankato won the meet for the Sec
ond consecutive year with Winona
trailing by point and half, Hibbing
was third, Eveleth fourth, st. Cloud
fifth, Ely sixth, Virginia, seventh, Du-
luth Teachers College, eighth, Bemidji
ninth, and Coleraine tenth. Duluth
Junior College and Rochester Juniors
failing to count any points.
Two records were tied and two
broken in the meet all of them by
range teams. Harry of Hibbing,
cracked the broad jump record with
leap of 81 feet four inches. Buyers of
Virginia, established a new vault re-
cord leaping II feet and fraction
inches. The Eveleth relay team tied
the 880-yard relay mark being clicked
in 1:34.1, while Bob Nicholas tied the
220-yard dash mark of 22.9.
HI. S. Third in District Meet.
Ely placed third in the 18th district
track meet held at Evelth last week,
finishing behind Virginia and Aurora
and ahead of the other six schools of
the district Six men qualified IN the
meet for the Regional which will be
held today at Virginia. Krall ran
pretty race to come home first in the
hurdles, while the local $50 relay team
broke the tape far ahead of all others
in their event. The team was COM
posed of Grahek, Bolinger, Brobin and
Riikola. Riikola also placed second in
the discus with a heave of 104 feet
and Cook came through nicely to place
in the javelin as did Grahek in the
broad jump.
These six men will enter the regional
tomorrow to compete with first or
second place district winners from the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-05-29

on just the same. Officials of the
First National and First State Bank,
who cooperate with the school board
in bringing the school savings program
to local children announce that their
savings department will be open as
usual, all summer long, to small de-
positors.
Deposits should be made at the
regular savings department and dur
ing regular banking hours. Any day
of the week will do. Any amount will
be acceptable and whatever it is will
be added at once to the child's school
savings account Interest will be
reckoned as usual. Parents are asked
to cooperate in this movement to fix
the thrift habit more firmly in the
minds of their children, that the edu-
cational value of their school training
in thrift may not be disturbed.
The close of the school year finds
a total sum of $24,5O8.36 on deposit in
local banks to the credit of school
children.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-05-29
MANY AUTO TAX LAW
EVASIONS UNCOVERED

The so-called business GepfeSGioS
has brought with it an unusual crop
of violations of the motor vehicle
registration act, according to High
way bulletin. These take the form OF
using plates on a vehicle other than
the one they are issued for, buying one
pair Of plates and using one on each
of two vehicles, and Somesimes alter
ing old plates or making limitations {
1881 plates.
Driving without plates or with las.
years plates is comparatiy -ly rae, u
though this also happens. But thcs
who try to drive without buying tn
required license plates usually tIy som,
more ingenius method. II they owl
two cars, they will buy orS pair
plates, and use them alternately Q.
either machine, or they will use o.
plate on each, pretending that on
plate has been lost SIEVE. 81 attemp.
at forgery have also been discovered
by the Minnesota Highway patrol.
THE law requires that the tax /
paid on every car in the state, but dr
to the fact that many people are Oh
of work or short of funds, We Ia
been very lenient with deliEquents VIII,
are not operating their cars" Earl
Brown, chief of the State Highwa;
patrol, says. But where the machin-.
are being operated, We cannot condor
evasion of the tax. Where the al
tempted evasion takes the form
using plates on car where they dc
not belong, or forging plates, we fee
that the penalty should be especially
severe.
Some Of these violations are diff
cult to discover, unless public spirited
citizens will report cases which come
to their attention. The man who is
evading his motor vehicle tax is not
paying his just share of the upkeep of
the roads which he uses, and is doing
an injustice to the man who is paying
his share of the tax"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-05-29

on range have more incentive to exer-
else, such as bugs and green feed,
than those in bare yards, all-mash
feeding of grains is better adapted to
chicks on range than those that are
confined
An advantage in sanitation is some
times claimed for al-mash feeding be
cause it keeps the feed off the ground
This would be important, Mr.. Smith
says, if chicks or hens would keep their
beaks off the floor, but they will not
Furthermore, those who feed entirely
by hopper sometimes become careless
of the floor litter and thereby actually
have poorer sanitation than they
would have if hand feeding were
practiced.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-05-29
WASHER SALES INDICATE
BUSINESS GENERALLY.

can increase in washer sales means
an improvement in employment con-
ditions," declares President E. H. May
tag of the Maytag Company, Newton.
Washers are purchased largely by
laboring classes, and I consider our
business even a better barometer of
conditions than the so-called basic in
dustries. Employment gives the masses
money with which to make purchases.
1t is such purchases that promote high
sales levels.
"Our April Sales" continued Mr..
Maytag, exceeded the average of the
first five months of 1880, and they are
not from isolated sections of the
country, but from all sections. This
indicates that the business improve
ment is not local but general"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-05-29
Ball Team Drops Opener to Tower.

Ball Team Drops Opener to Tower.
The local ball team dropped their
opening game of the season to Tower
last Sunday by an 10 to count The
local team was weakened by the
absence of two infield men and played
ragged ball throughout the game.
Lefty" Hanson of Morgan Park, who
has stood Ely on their heads nine
for the locals but he did not have his
old time control and was relieved
from his duties early in the game
Grahek, a junior Lacquer a couple of
seasons ago, relieved Hanson and
pitched fairly good ball. It was a
hard place to put him in especially
with the bases loaded and in the open
ing game. He pitched until the
eighth when Ballas, another Southpaw,
was given a trial as the game was too
far gone to do much with. The Ely
infield looked considerably weak
around second base, Jokinen an out
fielder, being moved to shortstop Al
though he played nice game he
proved to be too slow for the position
and will probably be used more in the
outfleld from now on. Bouska, a for
mer star of several seasons ago, came
back again Sunday. It was the first
game Jim has played for several years
and he may come back into his old
form in time. Starkman at catch
played his regular steady brand of
ball and gave a good account of him
self as did his two brothers at third
and in the field.
Hoefler and Anderson, the other two
outfielders played nice game but
both showed they need considerable
more polishing before they will be in
their regular form. With Krall at
first base, Alfalfa at second, and a
good fast shortstop, the local team
should be able to back up pitcher in
first class shape, and if the twirler
comes through with his end of it, Ely
should be able to topple the Meadow
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-05-29
SAVE DURING SUMMER
BANKS TELL CHILDREN

When the last book and pencil is
put way for the year, school children
of Ely will be through with lessons for
another summer But not through
with their thrift education.
In spite of the fact that schools
will be closed, school banking will go
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-05-29

four districts in the seventh region.
Any of the men placing either first
or second in the regional meet will be
eligible for the state meet to be held
at Minneapolis on June sixth. If the
local boys can do as well as they did
last week, it looks as though Ely will
be represented in the state meet again
this year.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-06-11
LIGHT AND HEALTH.

Electric lamps of the future will be
health-giving as well as light-giving,
declares an engineering publication.
1t is well known that quartz mercury
lamps which radiate the beneficial
ultraviolet rays have been used by
physicians for some time. But. these
have required expert and careful
handling.
Now, it appears, lamps giving off
these healthful rays have been de-
veloped for use in general lighting,
thus performing double duty. In
fact, such lamps are already available,
but so far their use has been restrict
ed principally to home treatment of
diseases in which sunlight or its
equivalent is necessary.
When the new lamps are adopted
for general use, as it is believed they
eventually will be, it is expected that
they will be of immense benefit, es-
pecially to indoor workers who have
little contact with the health-giving
rays of natural sunlight.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-06-11

yours-c'mon in and I'll show you
something"
followed him into his office, where
he showed me some parchment lamp
shades he had been making. En-
couraged by my interest he thrc~
open further door.
"see whatcha thinka my studio" he
exclaimed proudly"
With my feet encompassed by brake
Innings, light bulbs, nuts, bolts, and
tools, 1 stood and gazed across the
threshold into modern Arabian
Nights setting.
A soft carpet was on the floor; a
davenport with inulticolored scarf
thrown across 1t invited from across