The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-04-14
Howe About:
Making a Fortune
Problem for Stenographers
Reading
BY ED HOWE

out OF ten this Is the process:
young man hnds himself with a wife
on his hands. and a family of children
coming on. GLOW universally children
keep coming on y He works and saves
with view of providing for them
From an expert workman he becomes
foreman, superintendent. proprietor In
small way. and works long hours
he discovers that the more reliable
he u.s. the more he helps In community
affairs the more his business prospers
In course OF time his little business be
comes big business. If he continues
to manage il we'll Finally. along TO
ward old age. he becomes weil-tO-do:
occasionally rich. And at forty. tifty
or sixty ne is more reliable than he
was at twenty or at thirty. when a
small business man. foreman or super
intendent There is nothing In the
general belief that as soon as good
workman is advanced. he becomes
more careless In his morals.
A man In Florida. separated from
MS wife. employed woman as his sec
rotary. One day when the secretary
came out of her office she was shot
and killed by the wife; FIVE balls were
fred, and although women are sup
posed to be poor pistol shots, every one
was deadly. Was the trouble between
the husband and wife due to the bad
acts of the secretary? If the secre
tary was actually an honest woman.
seven newspaper readers out of ten.
and the twelve jurymen to be called
later TO decide the case, will believe
she was not II is an exhibition of
human unfairness that the millions of
good girls who study stenography at
business colleges must consider.
Books. newspapers, magazines and
pamphlets have become so numerous
many say they are pest.
Still. In the stream of print Is all
the wisdom the race has accumulated,
and all the good writing; the problem
is to find 1t In the pile of rubbish.
have friend of reasonable taste
who is an enormous reader. He gets
his start In selecting books of possible
value by belonging to book clubs In
New York. and has accumulated
great number of such selections. |
lately visited him, and came away
with ten he specially recommended.
Only three of them actually interested
me, although | looked over the others.
and found some curious things In the
process.
Books are like men: so many of
them do not amount to anything. |
know an old fellow who walks occa-
sionally, for the benefit of the exer-
else and fresh air. and during these
walks he looks straight ahead, in or
der that be may see as few men as
possible.
"The English" says Canadian writ
er, "seem to have world perspective,
a world outlook and world philosophy,
uneQualed by any other people on
earth" | neither deny nor accept the
statement. but it causes me to wonder
Just how much truth there is in it |
should say France and Germany are
close rivals of England as possessing,
on an average, the. wisest and most eff
ticient Inhabitants. Up to the time of
the war Germany was crowding Eng
land for frs place; since the war
France has shown itself smarter than
either of its rival; The United States
l., entirely ont of the competition, not
because of lack of efficiency, but be
cause lack of common sense has be
come orr national misfortune Some
say the island of Java is the Garden
of Eden so far as ease of making
living Is concerned, and that the rule
of the Hollander. comes near being the
wisest and best Denmark. Sweden.
Norway. should be considered in pick
ing out the country best managed.
Switzerland. although it has far better
scenery than SOIL has long attracted
attention as specially well managed so
far as public affairs are concerned.
In my home In the country l have
heard no show commended as much as
"Of Thee | Sing" The show has not
come within two or three hundred
miles of me- but travellers to the big
towns have seen it. and told me of its
unusual cleverness.
The writer's of the play have made
great fortune. Soon we will be
hearing of their yachts. their strings
of race horses. of their being sued
for alimony.
Can anyone doubt they have won
their distinction and money honestIyi
Any poor man who abuses them be
cause they do not divide with him, or
charges we need q new form of gov.
eminent because these men have sue
ceeded. Is unfair and mean.
These men spent many day and
dollar In drilling dry holes; now that
they have struck oil. they are fairly
entitled to all a gusher may bring in.
The old soldiers seem to love decla-
rations that they saved the country
and to quarrel with citizens who doubt
il. Why do they not confine their quar-.
reling to other ex-service men who are
opposed to thu bonus? read that
in one neighborhood eleven American
Legion posts have denounced the
bonus; one ex-service man prints q
statement in he papers that the bonus
is plain graft. and gives his name and
address. in case anyone wishes to ar
que or shoot II out with him. He says
his future taxes. on account of the
bonus. will cost him more finally than
his bonus payment will amount to. fr
addition to probably wrecking the
country. | have also wondered and
hot do do 1of