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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-07-28

when he was. signed by the Crookston
Pirates of the Northern League. Ham
son impressed the Crookston manage
ment with his play in a recent game
against the Pirates, and negotiations
were opened to secure his services.
He is the first player to go up from
the Range circuit since its organization
in 1881.
Hanson's going up the baseball
ladder reminds the writer that Ely
has some promising baseball
players, who with experience and
polish, should go somewhere. Base
ball isn't going as it should in Ely
and these youngsters are being de-
prived of chance to show their
wares. The Northern league is al
ways on the lookout for promising
material and in all probability some
of our boys would receive consider
alton if baseball in Ely was on the
high level of several years ago.
80
Several local tennis players plan to
participate in the Range Tennis Tourn-
ament at Hibbing, starting August 9Th.
The tournament is being sponsored by
the Hibbing Tennis Club and viii In
clude mems and women's singles,
doubles and mixed doubles. Tennis
players from all over the range are
expected to enter the tourney.
The scheduled baseball game be-
tween the Ely Moose and Tower
Indian teams for last Sunday was
called off when the Indians failed
to appear for the contest.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-07-28

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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-07-28

The three girls who staged the
blanket finish in the A. A. u. meet
were all members of the u. s.
Olympic swimming team last year.
Miss Rawls won the 1882 champi-
Onship in the breaststroke. The
showing of Miss Govednik speaks
well for her; she is still In high
school and has a lot of years of
competition left. No doubt a ma
tional championship will be hers
in a few years.
Pete Hanson, hustling young thirc
oaSeman of the Virginia Blue Sox ir
The Range Amateur Baseball League
stepped into faster company last week
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-07-28

Dodks "s"-snls 70 slsss-F. O 3. F.ctory. Detroit
Evening star., 1933-01-15
True ales ofthe Courage, Fierceness
and Marvellous Instinct of the "Hus-
kies'' That Make Hunting and Travel
Possible in the Arctic.

the sled, and the dogs braced themselves for the
big run, sensing in way that here was real
job for them.
Over rough sea ice the teams dashed ON, cut
ting down the dis ance day and night The ice
cut their feet The trapper and the constable
were unable In the hurry to take time off for
hunting bear and seal, and the dogs suffered
from hunger as well as pain.
Still they went on, till the mission at Lefty
Harbor was reached. Here the sick man was
left He was unable to go on. The constable
continued with his team.
The dogs with slighter load, and q good
meal in their stomachs, raced on, pulling the
now lghtened sled over the sea of ice and
across country. Day after day they kept up
the same pace, storm and rough going for
gotten in their rush.
They finally made Aklayik having travelled
600 miles at fast clip all the way. An air
plane set out at once for Lefty Harbor, picked
up the sick trapper and brought him to the
hospital
The Arctic huskies are dangerous dogs.
mainly because Of the wolf strain In their
makeup. They must be continually watched.
When on the trail they win Immediately 60
for the man who stumbles, and II he falls down,
the entire team Is likely to be on top of him
in short order. That is why two men usually
travel together in the Arctic
Once the dogs have lost their fear of human
beings it is hard to control them. Especially
Is this so in the Eastern Arctic, where they are
deSh-eating animals. In the Western Arctic
the dogs are fed fish to larger extent, but on
the larger islands making up the Eastern Arctic,
seal and bear and carabou form the main
sources of dog feed.
Evening star., 1933-01-15

This time another Eskimo boy wandered out
of the camp alone. The dogs were after him
hot foot. They jumped on him. dragged him
down, killed him The boys body was partly
devoned before rescue arrived.
Still the dogs were at premium, and they
were not killed. A white man on the trail was
the next victim. They jumped on him, and
would have made short work of him, had his
companion not scared them OF with his whip
Those dogs were destroyed soon after.
At Chesterfield, on Hudson Bay, the post
one day heard an unusual amount of bowling,
snarlng and fighting. Rushing out, those at
the post saw the dogs were mauling something
around
of the police sergeant in the midst of pack
Of hungry dogs. When she was rescued one
leg was so badly lacerated that it had to be
amputated. But the shock of the attack had
been too great. The woman died few days
later.
FORTUNATELY. such cases are few, but they
show the ferocity of these sled dogs, with
out which travel in the Arctic would be i'm
possible in Winter time.
Tens of thousands of miles are covered an
nually by dog teams in the far North. Every
one who travels in the Arctic uses the dog
team. and the exact mileage covered is hard
to .tabulate. The police alone, with 500 dogs
spread throughout the northland, cover more
than $4,000 mils5 year by dog teams.
Trips in the Arctic may be short or long,
varying from few miles to 1900 miles. Long
trips are the order of the day in the Eastern
Arctic the patrols from Bache Peninsula, TOO
miles from the North Pole, the worlds most
northern police post, seldom totaling less than
thousand miles, covering the most northern
of the known Arctic islands.
Dogs pull sleds over all types of country.
There are gravel and rock stretches swept alb
Solutely clear of snow, ice caps and yawning
descents. They pull heavy sleighs through the
bush country, harnessed two by two to a main
line, or across windswept sea ice in fan-shape
formation from the main trace connecting the
heavy sleds.
They travel barefooted-or, over bare sea ice,
moccasin-shod to protect their. feet, which
would otherwise have the skin torn of by the
extreme could of the ice. They must even fight
sand storms in the extreme north where the
fercest winds sweep island shores clear of snow
and choke dogs and men with stinging sand
The value of the dog in the northland can
only be learned ON trip. Travellers win 90 out
of their way 10 see to the comfort of their dogs,
for in that way lies their sure arrival at their
destination.
Evening star., 1933-01-15

guard then relax his watchfulness, one police
officer said. the other dogs would have the pups
eaten in no time.
RUT they attack humans as we'll At Port
- Burwell. at the top of Quebec bunch of
dogs attacked young Eskimo boy. They
Evening star., 1933-01-15
BY JAMES MONTACNES.

RCTIC, dogs are not always born in
~ the Arctic. At Rockliffe Ottawa.
the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
are raising dogs for use on the
arduous patrols of the force in vari-
GUS parts of the North. The OF
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-06-29

One Of the factors contributing to the
general mess in which radio brosdcasting
finds itself IS that people will not say what
they want to hear. Newspapers have some
what the same difficulty. but the payment of
the reader for his daily paper gives them an
index. Circulation rises and falls with the
readers likes and dislikes. Radio must inc
vitality adopt some plan of payment by the
listener. and in other ways extrieate itself
from its present chaos. Ii must come to
means of working with the daily press in
stead of competing with it. Both are needed.
Meantime. Deems Taylor, composer and
critic, puts the matter rather well. People
who enjoy high class programs. he thinks.
refrain from writing their sentiments to the
company because such letters seem to them
like mash notes The applause card is
not mash note. however, but a ballot
citizen who does not vote deserves bad
government. Even So the listener who does
not vote deserves bad programs. He should
keep a pile of postcards and pen beside the
radio and use them freely.
Let him pin a postal rose on companies
instrumental in sending him Damrosch,
Stokowsky and the other great symphony
orchestras; Emo Rapee and other directors
of lighter but really musical enjoyments. Let
him tell decentralization that he is in
terested in its subject matter, but he wonders
why economists have unpleasant voices He
might we'll put on postcard the violets and
valley lilies of which he is always reminded
when he hears those clear and exquisite
tones of Josef Lhevinne. He must not
swear at the ones he doesn't like The Post
office Department does not allow profanity
on postcards But let him be firm as to
what ,he wants and what he doesn't want
and why.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-06-29
A Useful Serpent

Guests who find themselves unable to
identify the ingredients of strange but de-
lieious eanapes had better not press too hard
for an explanation unless they are prepared
to bear the news that they have been eat
ing rattesnake meat. Packing that comesti-
BILE for the market happens to be one of
the occupations which has been thriving in
recent days of uncertainty and is continuing
to thrive
A wholesale grocer calls it one of the
fastest growing industries in Florida right
now. One packer hires trappers on COM
mission. Trapping the snakes is a job re-
quiring skill Fright or shock at the time
of capture has detrimental effect on the
meat. SO the rattlers must be taken with
great care. The meat is usually packed in
four-ounee tins which retail at Sl.25, def
nitely putting the product in the luxury
class.
Mr. Rattlesnake has other commercial
uses. The skin is cured for leather for
pocket books; the teeth are used in making
buttons, rings. necklaces, etc: the bones go
into fertilizer. and the venom is used in
anti-toxins. How's that for getting even
with mans ancient enemy, the serpent?
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-06-29
Comfortable Democracy

One recent event in Washington of
which not much got into the papers was a
press party at the White House. 1t was
the first of its kind. The President seemed
to feel that, as the press boys had enter
tanned him. he ought to entertain them. So
they were invited, somewhat to their con-
sternation. because they were worried about
what to wear. There were 400 of them,
plus a couple of hundred wives.
The function was incredibly informal
The guests just rambled around as they
pleased. There was some singing. and
sandwiches, and Mrs Roosevelt circulated
and fraternized. There was no receiving
line. In their rambles the guests found the
President taking it easy on a sofa in the
East Room. in an old, wrinkled linen suit
that looked as if he had slept in it. Maybe
he had. When some familiar scribe asked
him about it. he explained nonehalantly.
oh. this is my tennis suit" Yes, the
White House has gone demoeratie-lower
case.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-06-29

Reading over the testimony that j. Henry
Rorsback gave before Federal Trade Com
mission examiner in Washington Tuesday
we couldn't help but reflect that the years
have treated the republican state central COM
mittee chairman gently. He is still the same
urbane and accomplished gentleman that he
was in the DAYS when he was merely lobby
ing for the New Haven railroad up at
Hartford It's almost thirty years Gin fact it
must be trifle more than thirty years..
since Mr. Rorabaek started to organize his
first electric light and power company. He
has done rather we'll in this field since then.
The story that could be pieced together
from his testimony and that of Clarence 6.
Willard of New Haven. secretary of the
state central committee. is lengthy one.
1t is also fairly we'll known to the majority
of Connecticut citizens. Despite the fact that
Mr. Rorabaek has engaged in both politics
and big business with eminent success in
both, he has done so openly and without
any intention of covering up his tracks. so
far as we can see. He as much as said so in
his remarks to the examiner in Washington
Tuesday. We have been advised from time
to time of the activities of his electric power
and lighting companies in securing favor
able legislation at Hartford. If we failed to
take action blame it on controlled houses.
A most modest witness, though, was Mr.
Roraback. When asked by Robert E. Healey.
counsel for the Federal Trade Commission.
''Is there any doubt, Mr. Rorabaek, that
your position as a chairman of the state
central committee and as member of the
national committee gave you political in
fuence in the state?" he replied, Il don't
think so any more than any other citizen.
But that didn't satisfy Mr. Healey who
pressed his point further by declaring. All
/ am asking for and know l won't get it.
If you do not feel am entitled to it. is
frank opinion whether or not these posi-
tions gave you some political control. To
this responded Mr. Rorabaek. no doubt with
. trace of smile, Il think it gave some
political influence. Yes.
Let some city like Waterbury try to buy
up few water rights in the state and it
won't take it long to find out just how ex-
tensive are those powers that politically
minded public utility corporation head can
WELD. Waterbury even thinks that it owns
extensive rights to water in the Shepaug
river acquired after much objection on the
part Of the Waterbury Democrat and other
citizens of the town. Maybe there will never
be test of how far these rights 60. but if
they do perhaps some of the arguments that
we advanced years back will be recalled.
Yes. the tiny squabble between two interests
in this city over the extension of our water
rights is linked with the probe into the
power octupus. Unless we miss our guess
Mr. Rorabaek will emerge unseathed. He is
uncanny that way.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-06-29
A RECORD CONSTITUTIONAL
CONVENTION
(springfield Republicanr

Our state constitutional convcn-
ton dispensed with all formaIitie;.
except the prayer. and established
a record OF SIS minutes as the
length of the session at tho State
House yesterday.
The time could have been easily
reduced to 40 minutes, perhaps So.
by emitting the prayer. which con-
taincd 90 words, and also Gov Ely's
address, which ran up to 1872
words. The governor was proper
ly present, but no speech was re-
quired of him In order that the
convention might function. Yet II
was neat little address begin
ming with a humorous reference TO
the unprecedented unanimity nj
the delegates. which caused gen
eral mcrriment.
The chaplain innocently fumbled
In asking the Almighty to guide"
the conventions deliberations. For
II was anything but q dclibcratiye
body seeking to draw upon divine
wisdom for it's decisions.
This record breaking convention
missed a point calculated to en-
nance the historical interest OF so
rare an occasion. A militant Meth
odist preacher, instead of a Uni
tartan, might well have been invit-
ed to offer the prayer, in view Of
the fact that the 100000 dry votes
recently cast in Massachusetts had
not a single representative among
the delegates.
Had bone dry invocation been
spread upon the record, as a polite
concession to minority sentiment in
this commonwealth, an original
touch would have been given to
the proceedings, and more worth
preservation would now be the
Printed digest OF the conventions
IS minutes OF business.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-06-29
Orsanized Labor's "New Deal"

Among the tremendous changes which
were slipped into our national set-up almost
unnoticed along with the industrial control
bill, none is much more significant than
the new deal which has been given or
ganzied labor. Even organized labor itself
hardly seems. as yet. to realize what sweep
ing new charter this bill has given it. But
not more than glance at the new system
is needed to convince one that the whole face
Of the labor situation has been most pro-
foundly changed overnight.
A fair sample of the change can be seen
in the bituminous coal industry. Here is an
industry which has been about as essentially
disorganized and competitive as any in
America. 1t has witnessed some of the
most appalling struggles between labors and
capital; it has written some of the ugliest
chapters in American industrial history. To
day while the operators are splitting into
two camps in their attitude toward the i'm
pending governmental supervision the
United Mine Workers of America are work.
ing feverishly to unionize coal miners in
every coal-produeing state.
President John L. Lewis is quoted as say
ing that 100000 new members have already
been enrolled. Union organizers are cir
culating freely in certain West Virginia and
Kentucky fields which they never before
were even permitted to enter. Thus before
the main items on the industrial recovery
program have had time to get their heads
above water. organized labor seems to have
made long strides toward winning battle
that has been fought for generations. Union
ization of the coal fields with its accom-
panying improvements in the distressing
conditions under which the miners have to
live. is in fair way toward being accom-
p1ished as mere by-produet of larger
Struggle.
Il would be hard to overemphasize the
Importance of this. We have moved SO
ST and so far recently that we are quite
nksly to 60 long way beyond the most
advanced of the old-time detectives before
We have realized that we are started A
year ago complete unionization of the coal
IL looked like Utopian dream. Now it
lids fair to be 4 mere incident in program
lit Is infinitely larger and more daring.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-06-29

There'll be new state tax commissioner
after Saturday. State Senator William H.
Hackett takes office that day. succeeding
Commissioner Blodgett The new ap-
pointee holds office for period of four
years and comes to his new duties well
equipped. Of course there are many pro-
tests still being heard at the replacement of
veteran official with an untried one. This
is not quite true. though. Commissioner
Hackett is not novice in the administration
of tax department. He was tax collector for
the city of New Haven for many years. He
held this position after long and honorable
service in the New Haven school depart
ment. He has amplified his considerable
knowledge and experience in local politics
with three terms in the State Senate during
which time he was regarded as spokesman of
the democratic party on matters of finance.
We can recall the praise that was heaped
upon him several years back by republicans
after a masterful discussion of the finances
of this state in which he displayed complete
knowledge of the workings of all depart
ments not to mention the intrIcacies OF
drawing up budget. Let no one feel
alarmed at his accession to an office that
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-06-29
So They Say

Franklin d. Roosevelt could
have been elected on a platform
that declared for the repeal of the
law of gravitation.-Rep U. S.
Guyer of Kansas Ca republican,
nevertheless).
History is the narration of a
series of changes, often for the
better, but not always so.-Dr A.
Lawrence Lowell of Harvard.
I can't stay up late and sleep
later in the morning; it's too late
to teach this old dog new and
tricky hours.-vice President
Garner.
Great liars can be counted on
the fingers of one hnnd, and there
is not a woman among them. -
DR. A. S. Rosenbach, bibliophile.
People still patronize doctors
more than patent medicine sales
men because they can stall on doc
tor bills.-Dr J. Cramp, director of
investigations for American Medi-
cal Association.
Graft, Of larger or smaller pro-
portions, seems to be widely ac-
cepted as a more or less inevitable
incident OF government-Presi-
dent James Rowland Angel of
Yale.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-06-29

They're still looking for that, earthquake
down around Greenwich and Stamford.
And judging by all reports it simply wasted
itself away IN the Sound. Now the scien-
fists are claiming that il was bolide. which
much to our surprise is nothing more nor
less than bursting meteor. DR. Edward F.
Biselow. curator of the Bruce Museum in
Greenwich, said. Il am positive the dis
turbanee was caused by bolide for several
reasons. If it had been an earthquake the
seismographs at Yale and Fordham would
have recorded it. Ii was equally felt at
several scattered points, Cos Cob. Spring
dale. and in Westehester county. From that
| deduee it must have occurred in the air
at point equi-distant from the several land
points where it was observed equally the
same. - Well take the doctors word
for it that it was a bolide. Either that OF
Primo Camera stamping foot in prepare
ton for his bout with Jack Sharkey tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-06-29
A Book a Day
by BRUCE CATION
New Corners For
The Old Triangle

II you are going to an uncom-
monty quiet summer resort and
face a long succession of unevent-
full afternoons on the hotel veran-
da, you might want to find room in
your bag for Touch Us Gently"
by Harriet Henry.
Here is light triangle novel
which ought to fit in fairly well
with that mood of suspended ami
nation which comes upon one at
such times and places. 1t has to
do with two women and man,
naturally enough; and just to be
different 1t has one of the women
the stepmother of of the other.
Claire Tenant, the stcpmother.
is an actress, married to man 10
years her Junior. Because she's
afraid he's going to wake up some
morning and discover that this
difference in ages amounts to
something, she insists on, trying to
play ingenue parts for which she Is
no longer suited, and her popular
ity as an actress begins to wane.
Right at this point enters the
stepdaughter, Kit Martin, who Is
young, beautiful and all that sort
of thing. Kit and the husband fall
in love: and. as you might have
guessed, they conclude that 1t Is
their solemn duty to tell Claire
about it. remuneration being unpop-
ular with modern novelists.
So they tell her; and Claire. SEN
sibly enough, finds that 1t is really
more fun to admit that she's mid
die aged and to take the matronly
roles that are suited to her. So she
arranges to get divorce and
marry her manager, and everybody
goes out smiling and IL there
are no further questions this meet
ing will now adjourn.
Published by Morrow. Touch
Us Gently" Is priced at So.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-06-29
Alcoholized Fishes

A new idea has appeared in the utiliza-
ton of alcohol. 1t comes from Chinese
goldfish dealer in Shanghai. He gets his
fishes intoxicated to facilitate shipment.
and finds that it works admirably. The
trick is easy enough. He soaks bits of cot
ton wool in wine and gently stuffs the wool
into the fishes gills. handling them with
silk gloves so as not to hurt their scales.
inhaling the alcohol. they soon grow un-
conscious. Then. the discoverer says, they
can live without water for two days. He
ships them as if they were dead. When the
receiver drops them into new fish bowl
or tank. they revive, showing no i'll effects.
If the process is so safe and simple. it
might be adapted to wider use. 1t would
save ice in commercial shipments. 1t ought
to make a hit with men who fish for the
sport of it. enabling them to get their catch
home fresh. They often have with them all
they need for the purpose