The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-11-24


thing or grows any
Recovery a thing, in short, every
CTo,, proree. producer, wants to
get as high a price
as he can for anything he sells. II
applies to those who work with their
hands and sell their services. Those
who sell want as high a price as they
can get and those who buy want as
low price as they can force Hence,
labor is making much noise that Its
wage Is not high enough and that It's
hours are too long. while in the same
breath labor Is saying retail prices are
too high. Farmers get wrought up at
this. They say that retail prices are
high as compared with the returns they
receive, but the attitude of the farmer
also includes a sideswipe at labor for
demanding so much.
So 1t seems to me that there Is need
for the patience which is now being
urged. In the first instance, this
thing called recovery admittedly can
not be made an accomplished fact over
night 1t is slow process, and 1t
seems slower than 1t is. 1t appears
to take such long time for benefits
to reach the man in the street after
there has been Improvement in basic
conditions and among the so-called key
industries. But 1t is to be remem-
bered that when the depression took
hold, there was a shrinkage in income
of those who had put their money into
the great factories or had invested
them in stocks and bonds or tangible
property quite while before the shock
was felt by the man in the street.
Washington observers are expecting
to witness some fireworks to be set of
In the next congress by the diminutive
Senator Carter Glass (Dem.) Of vir-
ginia. The senator Is small of stature,
a mite Of a man, but that does not
apply to his mental capacity.
OF late years, Senator Glass has not
enjoyed health. And that Is one rea-
son for relating the story that am
now to tell and which only lately has
come to light. During the administra-
ton Of President Hoover and while
Ogden L. Mills was secretary of the
treasury, Senator Glass was very much
disturbed by their policies involving
government loans through the Recon
struction Finance corporation. He
was not physically in condition to at
tend regularly to senate duties and
spent considerable time on his farm
near Lynchburg, Va. 1t was to that
place that DR.. Cary T. Grayson was
called for a consultation.
Doctor Grayson found the senator
with high fever. He also found him
surrounded by sheaves of newspaper
clippings, telling what the Hoover adj
ministration was doing. His temper
AZURE seemed to rise higher as he pc
rused those clippings, and Doctor Gray
son thought there must be some con-
nection. So he suggested that Senator
Glass make a speech, which he did,
over the radio. After the speech, Doc.
tor Grayson Congratulated the senator
and added:
Senator, you certainly gave them a
lacing!"
"Lacing, eh?" replied the senator.
81 eviscerated them"
1 had to consult the dictionary on
that word, but when I did l under
stood what the senator did, or tried to
do. The word means ito remove the
bowels and other vital parts" but his
fever was gone.
Sometime In the future when the
next generation has grown to matur-
ity, the users Of
CCC Doing lumber, and that is
Useful Work about all Of us. will
look about them and
observe fine growing timber awaiting
the ak Of the woodsman. The picture
before them will be the matured re-
suit Of program about which Presi-
dent Franklin d. Roosevelt dreamed
before he was elevated to the highest
Office In the land. Whether one agrees
with the expenditure of public funds In
this manner or not. none can say that
his reforestation program will not pro-
duce lumber for the future, and none
can say that it will not be sadly need
ed by the time the saplings now being
planted have developed to the point
where they are ready for use.
Mr.. Roosevelt started out In execu-
ton of his reforestation program as
means Of alternating unemployment.
He proposed that congress create the
civilian conservation corps so that up
wards of three hundred thousand un-
employed men might be given work
that was Of character of which they
would not be ashamed. He believed
the money paid to them would reduce
suffering among their families and. IL
not among their families, would take
that number of men off of relief rolls
or lift them from the almshouses
And such it has proved to be to the
extent of some two hundred thousand
families and about one hundred thou
sand individual men.
They are working; they are clothed
well and they are fed well Their
morale is high, according to all per-
sons who have visited the conserva-
ton camps. The men feel that they
are not burden on society, for the
work they are doing is useful. Conse-
quently, it is the view Of those with
whom have discussed the corps that
these men feel life to be worthwhile.
was reminded Of the scope of the
conservation program. the tree plant
ing plan. the other day when one Of
the numerous boards and commissions
around Washington announced ap-
prevail of purchase Of land for use Of
the conservation corps. The commits
sion approved recommendations for
the purchase of 954,632 acres, scat