The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-10-12
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK

The Cup Stays
Percy Rockefeller
. Never Is a Long Word
J Money Is Useful
! Rainbow has won the fourth race
and the Americas Cup stays In Amer
fca.
Both yachts came In flying protest
flags, but Sopwith later withdrew his
protest.
Next time, perhaps, our patriotic
millionaires, instead of building a toy
sailboat, will set this government q
good example by building a really fast
and powerful flying ship and 60 over
and show Europe that the country that
invented the airplane does not propose
to remain forever last In the air.
Percy Rockefeller, second son of the
late William Rockefeller, who was
John d. Rockefeller's brother, died re-
Gently, only fifty-six years old. He was
highly intelligent man and a hard
worker.
Like other men of great wealth, Mr..
Rockefeller suffered heavy losses In
the 1929 shrinking of values, losses 50
great that he described them to the
senate stock exchange committee as
terrible, perfectly horrible, losses"
The strain and anxiety of depres-
sion years, with values tumbling, may
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Rockefeller's illness and death, not be-
cause Of any love for money, of which
he had plenty left, but because Of the
strain In fighting financial disaster.
Professor Millikan thinks that no
man will ever go twenty miles up into
the atmosphere. 1.-THE present record Of
about twelve miles probably will stand
forever" said he. Forever" is the
longest word in any language, and one
that rarely comes true.
If men want to go up five hundred
miles above the earth, and look around
outside of our atmosphere, they will
do it. Twelve thousand years ago, men
living in the late Stone age had no
weapons but sharp f1ints and bows and
arrows. They have ahead of them hun
dreds Of millions of years on this plan
ct, as Professor Millikan knows. You
cannot limit their accomplishments
with any forever" or never"
Too bad, but what can you do about
It? The great Samuel Johnson said
no man ever wrote well except for pay,
and it is certain that many brilliant
minds have gone to waste because
their owners happened not to need
money.
Byron probably wouldn't have writ
ten If he had not had a club foot. Van
ity made him work. With two good
feet hard work would not have been
necessary.
Marcus Aurelius would probably
have made it shorter and snappier''
and more interesting If he had not
been emperor
At first men work for money. When
once they start working ambition
takes the place Of money and they
continue until the grave swallows
them. Money, which means independ-
ence of other mems orders, the only
freedom In civilization, is useful in It.
self, and useful incentive to hard
work.
o. B. Winters, flying from New York
to California, wires: Flying would
be easier If a prominent roof was
marked in each town" Chambers of
commerce should discuss that. It is
an important kind of advertising now
neglected and the national government
should do something about it, provid-
ing abroad signs for flyers and huge
arrows pointing, "This way, north to
Chicago" 'sThis way to Seattle" "This
way to New Orleans" ''This way to
Key West"
James A. Moffatt, President Roose.
velt's housing administrator, predicts
that 100000 new homes will be built,
and will put $2,OOO,OO0,OO0 of private
funds into new construction, employ
ing many. Three million new houses
will arouse serious thinking in land
lords Of houses already built, especial
ly those that have let their properties
run down.
1t is cheerful news that all cadets
at West Point are to be trained for fly
ing. If they are not to be taught fly
ing, you might as well confine your
teaching of young West Pointers and
Annapolis men to driving hanson cabs
and 'four-wheelers."
The base cruelty of human beings
passes all understanding. When you
read of the horrible tortures that rep
resentatives of various religions have
inflicted upon each other in the past,
all flor the glory of God" you are hor-
Irifed.
1t is more horrible to read of modern
criminals seizing, binding, fastening
to a tree an old man supposed to have
saved money. Vinita, Okla, reports
the details. The old mans hands were
shot through the palms with bullets,
his feet burned with a red-hot poker,
all to extort $50.
Life insurance experts find that
poets do not die young. They live
labout as long as physicians. You are
told that you must not compare stat
listics on modern poets with Chatterton.
dead at nineteen. Shelley at thirtn