The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-05-25


mind again about Communism. In
an address to Oxford undergraduates,
who thought they were Communists, he
said: "YOu don't know what you are
talking about. No single breath of
tyranny Is missing in Russia. 1t is
carried into effect there on a gigantic
SCALE" Shaw wants to be a
Communist, but is so intelligent he
cannot avoid seeing it's faults. When
In Russia he made fun of the Com
munists to their faces. They were one
day taking him to the races, and he
said to them: II suppose you have
arranged for all the horses to win,
you believe so much in equality"
How do some favorites get their
start? Buddha Is an old-time foreign
hero to whom millions say their
prayers, yet the British encyclopedia
says no such person ever existed. I
think we common people pay too much
attention to heroes; none of them are
as good or great as the shouting of
followers would indicate.
met man recently who lives in a
town Of thousand population in the
South, where there are three negroes
to one white. "We are getting along"
he said, because we have always lived
simply we have known how to produce
our food, and are doing that now"
The same word comes from
rural places everywhere The rush
to the towns has been stopped; the
tide now is the other way. Originally
the first duty of the people was to
feed themselves, and they did it. They
can do it again. The towns and cities
are most artificial, and are being hit
hardest. There have always been too
many agents, judges, colonies, gener-
ais, in the towns. l thank the Lord
they are being starved into going to
work.
Silerius said, in his memoirs, that
his favorites among his generals,
neighbors and wives often annoyed
him with acts and words with which
he found fault; but he recalled that
his generals, neighbors, wives and spe-
cial friends had cause for equal re-
sentiment at times against his conduct
toward them. Men are so constructed
(and women, Of course, are cut in the
same timber) they cannot entirely sat-
isfy anyone. The little good in us all
must be cultivated, and made as
agreeable as possible. Any man of
reasonable candor and intelligence
knows he is wretched bundle of poor
flesh always wearing out, and that a
decent average in managing it is all
he can hope for; that to achieve this
decent average is success. 81 have
been occasionally proclaimed as wise,
strong" Silerius adds, "but am so
weak l am ashamed in my own pres
ence, although l sincerely believe In
exchanging civilities, and such small
assistance as I am able to offer, with
those who are equally kindly disposed
toward me-"
The Beer Bust Head Furnishes me
very savagely. SO does the bust head
following big dinner, but 1 rather
enjoy the Road Bust Head. We have
about ruined the country voting bonds
for good roads, and stolen a good deal
Of the money so appropriated; but we
have the roads.
And fearful as I am of debt, and ma
tional bankruptcy, / find a little salts
faction in good roads when am able
to temporarily forget the future. Re-
Gently I motored 1,400 miles through
country unfamiliar to me. Fine paved
roads every foot of the way. When
able to forget the bond interest con-
stantly piling up, the threat Of ma
tional bankruptcy, was almost proud
of my country again: the Road Bust
Head was almost enjoyable.
No man Is willing to grant others
the right he demands of himself, the
right of choosing his own opinions and
amusements: George Jean Nathan
once wrote of 81. L. Mencken: "How
can a man like Mencken waste his
time upon such idiotic spectacles as
political conventionsT And Mencken
replied: "What keeps man like Ma
than in the theater, breathing bad air
nightly, gaping at prancing imbeciles,
and sitting contentedly for hours with
cadsY
At my home there are three flights
of steps: two from the street, and one
to the porch. There is much COM
plant about them from elderly friends
who call. My excuse is I built
them when young, and my friends did
not find them Objectionable. Ct have
lived in the same house 81 years..
Nothing disturbs me more pro-
foundly than to be annoyed by the i'll
behaved when l am myself willing to
behave, having been finally whipped
into belief In the Importance of good
behavior.
People often say of man In trouble:
"He had is coming to him."
And usually 1t is better for him to
get 1t: men so dislike to behave them