The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-07
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
News of Astronomy
Japan Underestimate
Air, Water, Power
Paradise for Killing

Paradise for Killing
Astronomy marches on. Recent dis
coveries include LOO new variable
stars, used as 'yardsticks" to measure
the depths of space, also a new twin
star, a double sun, of which there are
many in the heavens, as there are
many double protons and nuclei inside
of some atoms. The double sun has an
eclipse lasting thirty days. Professor
Shapley of Cleveland tells all about it.
Some of these 'yardsticks" Of space
have light fifteen times as great as
that of our sun. Try to imagine that.
Other suns are one million times as big
as our sun, which is a million times
as big as the earth.
Japan and England are friendly.
Japan will not demand naval equality
| with England, only with the United
States. Japan suggests 5-44 ratio,
five for England, four for the United
| States, four for Japan.
In 1776 our Japanese friends were
locked up in their own islands, no
American having gone to dig them out
and introduce them to the West.
Had they been around this neighbor-
hood in that year they would now COM
pare, differently, the United States
and Britain.
Also, If they knew Franklin D. Roose-
veft, they would know that he will
build, on behalf Of the United States,
whatever he thinks the United States
needs, asking no permission from Eng
land or Japan.
President Roosevelt's words, prais-
ing workers in the Tennessee valley
for their efficiency, made one of the
most important speeches that he, or
any President or ruler of a country,
ever made.
He promises cheap power. Not all
the plans to drive away depression
could do one-tenth as much as really
cheap power for all.
Nature gave man free air and free
water; not much else is free. If
science and wise government can add
to free air and free water power UNI
limited, as nearly free as possible, that
will mean another step toward the
desired millennium.
Cheap power for farms, factories
and homes, cheap power giving the
| light necessary for study, power that
means conquest of nature and her
! hardships, will free men from slavery.
1t is planned, Washington says, to
convert millions of acres of uneco-
nomic land worthless for farming, into
hunters paradise"
On the millions of acres wild ami
mails will be encouraged to raise their
families, that noble white men may
have the pleasure of shooting them.
Civilization does progress, but slow
1y, when the richest and an allegedly
highly intellectual race plans an earth
ly paradise for killing. initiating the
red Indians heavenly hunting ground.
What should we think of our alleged
cousins, the gorillas, if they set aside
a million acres of land in Africa for
the purpose of breeding and killing
human Africans?
Wise ones tell President Roosevelt:
''You can't expect prosperity until you
balance the budget"
What Is the magic in balancing the
budget? What is balancing the bud
get? Do individuals always balance
their budgets in times of emergency?
If a capitalist is building gigantic
hotel, to cost millions, does he balance
his budget that year or next, or does
he borrow, build, pay. back when re-
turns come?
Must the government, trying to build
prosperity at cost Of billions, spend
no more than it takes in?
Isn't 1t enough to avoid spending
what you can't pay ultimately? What
Is the great magic in budget balancing?
The way to solve railroad problems,
serious In the United States, with rail-
road trains empty, automobile, motor
trucks taking their business, is to do
something.
In Germany, where stream-lined
trains were built and run, as they were
in Switzerland, long before anybody
built one here, the director of the
reich railways announces stream
line, Diesel-powered freight engines,
running at so miles an hour"
France considers modification of her
method Of fixing the price of wheat.
| This country endeavors to increase
| wheat prices, and the farmers income,
| by paying farmers not to plant SO
much. Make wheat scarcer, thus make
1t dearer. The French, apparently,
have some other plan, which included
encouraging the farmer to plant, all he
could, France being sometimes wheat
| importing country.
In London, Anthony Eden, Lord
Privy Seal, tells the house of COM
mons that British troops will not be
used to help the French maintain order
| In the Saar, soon to decide whether ii
wants to be German or French.
The British want their dear CONT
mental friends to be as happy as pos
sible, but in this decision about the
Saar they say to France: eff you get