The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-28
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
No, No Cash Money
Won Their Reward
, To Discourage Murder
No Surnrise Possible

Il
No Surprise Possible .
According to solemn agreement.
made between gallant allies" which
the British call themselves and US, the
United States should receive from
Great Britain the sum of $500, 100000.
Another considerable sum on account
of war debts of honor" is due from
France. Will these amounts be paid
to maintain, spOtless, the honor of ma
tons that borrowed in their troubles?
They will not be paid. Nothing will
be paid. Three hundred and sixty mill
lions Of dollars are more Important
than "spotless honor"
To the announcement that she would
pay nothing Great Britain frankly adds
that sit would be useless, and there
fore unwise," even to attempt nego-
tiations.
Little Finland, on the contrary, an
nounces her intention to pay the in
stallment. Napoleon called England
"a nation of shopkeepers." which an
noyed the English and was inaccurate.
Shopkeepers make it a habit to pay
their debts in order to keep their
credit.
Two life convicts have earned free
dom by submitting to medical expert
ment, with tuberculosis vaccine" or
preventive" The preventive with
which the doctors have experimental
on Carl Ericsson and Mike Schmidt for
months past, is not tuberculosis cure
1t prevents those inoculated from con-
tracing tuberculosis, as ordinary vac
cination prevents contracting small
pox.
Doctors of the National Jewish hos
pital, who have worked on the new
serum for Is years past, warned the
convicts that they would risk their
lives in the experiment, now proved
successful.
Both braved death in hope of pos
sible recovery of liberty as the re-
ward. They have won the reward.
On both sides Of the Atlantic at
tempts are made to discourage murder.
President Roosevelt takes the lead
here, summoning all forces Of the coun-
try-state, national and local-te fight
private crime, banditry, traffic in mar
cotics, lynchings, kidnapping, plain or
binary murder.
Private crime worries US here.
Doctor Dafoe is in New York, first
visit, and surprised reporters note that
he shows no amazement when gazing
on skyscrapers and canyon-like streets.
The reporters need not have been
surprised. Doctor Dafoe is the man
who introduced the five Dionne Quin-
tuplets to the world, and kept them
alive, breaking all records, after they
got here.
When you have ushered five little
girls into the world, one after the
other, you can no longer be surprised
by a mere skyscraper.
Doctor Rosenbach, book specialist,
thinks New York city needs build
ing devoted exclusively to the works OF
Shakespeare. 1t is shame, says he,,
that scholars have to go 5000 miles
to see a quarto of Hamlet For
tunately, they can get better Hamlet
than that "quarto" in any good book
store for one dollar.
To do justice to Shakespeare, you
might have one building devoted en-
tirely to books written about Hamlet.
who never lived.
Rev. Joseph A. Davis, colored, sixty
five years old. very eloquent preacher
who operates garage between Sun
days, says he is the New York repre-
sentative of Senator Huey Longs
"share-the-wealth" idea and already
has 10000 members willing to help
share the wealth in Harlem.
He's only waiting word from Sem
ator Long to start .n earnest. Me
and the senator will take this town
like an epidemic" SAYS he.
epidemic" is what the French would
call LIE mot juste ("Just the right
word"o.
Fifty men were arrested at cock
fight near Los Angeles. Six hundred
watched the fighting. Two fighting
ROSTERS were named Greta Carlo and
Marlene Dietrich, singularly inappro-
pirate names, If you know anything
about fighting ROSTERS.
The extraordinary thing is that adult
Americans, not semi-savage Malaysp
should actually enjoy watching roost-
ers driving steel needles into each 9TH
er's brains.
DR.. Leo Wolman, intelligent, level
headed young man, with Nicholas Kelly
and Richard L. Byrd, is in Detroit to-
see that employees in the automobile
industry have a chance, without fear
Of intimidation, to elect their own rep
resentatives to bargain with employ
ers."
II this means that the automobile
Industry through the power of the
United States government is to be put
in charge Of organized labor leaders.
the experiment will be interesting.
An inquiring alderman in New York
discovers that ninety-one men working
on "relief work" eliminating mos
quitoes were supervised by ninety-fve
bosses. On account of cold weather
the ninety-one mosquito exterminators
were laid of. but ninety-five bosses were
kept bossing imaginary exterminators.
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