The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-12-08

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ask for the right to earn their bread
by the sweat of their brow. The charge
that those out of work are the idle
who do not want to work Is the basest
kind OF calumny against these people.
The world certainly owes every man
and woman who wants to work the
right to work. This is beginning more
and more to be recognized as an alb
solute obligation of government
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Old Dobbin is helping many a farmer
and working man bring in some cash
for the farmer by working on the state
highways. The Highway Department
estimates that nearly 1000 horses are
being used on state road projects.
Horses are employed particularly in the
drouth sections where farmers are in
especially bad need.
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The State Criminal Apprehension
Bureau, under the supervision of Melvin
v. PasSolt. has cleared up another bank
crime and three bank bandits last week
were sentenced to state prison for life.
Two Of the bureaus operatives, Herman
Vail and Ira Mallette, after chase
that led into three states, captured the
trio that held up the Merchants State
Bank at Baiaton several weeks ago.
All but $l70 Of the $1,000 loot was re-
covered. The gang, each member hav-
ing previous prison record, was
caught so ''red-handed" that the GRIM
inals confessed the hold-up.
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Nobody Except the gangsters) con-
dones the crime of kidnapping. Here
is where all forces of law and order
must combine to defeat what is un-
queStionably the most dangerous and
the most vicious raid by the under
world against society. But in dealing
with the problem we must not forget
that the laws laid down to protect and
preserve society must be kept sacred
and supreme. Governor Rolf of Cali
fornia has declared himself in favor of
mob enforcement of law. He has lost
his head; he has declared for a doc
trine which, in the end. must under
mine society itself. IF the incident
(the lynching of two men who con-
fessed to kidnapping and murder) had
occurred in Minnesota" Governor Oh
son said, 81 would feel that the state
has been disgraced" Every clear
thinking citizen will subscribe to that
view.
This fall the State Tourist Bureau,
under the direction of George H. Brad
ley, adopted the new policy of advanc-
ing Minnesota not only as summer
resort state but as winter playground
as well. On December End, the Year
Around Club, a statewide organization,
presented a fifteen-minute broadcast
over WCCO setting forth Minnesota's
potentalities for winter sport.
A. G. RuggleS, state entomologist for
the Department of Agriculture, called
ON Secretary Wallace in Washington
with petition for $2,500.000 for grass
hopper relief in the northwest states.
This was the outcome of recent
joint-State hopper conference at Fargo,
where it was brought out that while
grasshopper infestation was on the de-
cline and under control in Minnesota,
1t was increasing to an alarming de-
gree in many of the prairie states.
The conference seemed pleased with the
Minnesota plan used so successfully in
the serious hopper outbreak of two
years ago. Mr.. Ruggles estimated that
out of the $500, 600, Minnesota would
need only about $4,000, ito do little
hopping up
The newly created income tax di-
vision of the state tax commission has
begun to function. To date five per-
sons have been hired and comprise the
entire staff Of the income tax de-
partment. Blanks have been dis
patched to corporations whose fiscal
years do not correspond to the calen-
dar year Returns on 1888 incomes
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