The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-11-21

e1 Commerce, says the
country is spending
$1,000 a m | n t e,
and thinks 1t is too
# much. Your small
m boy will tell you
"a how much $1,000
"a minute III a kes in
one year. Once "all
the world won
dered," or at least
G IN we did, when there
was talk of spend
e. Ss-:A "A ing one-quarter Of
billion on the
arthur brisbane Panama canal. Now,
any professor could spend that, after
three minutes thinking, and news that
the nations deficit has increased fif-
teen hundred millions in the past few
weeks startles nobody.
The world has passed through earth
quake week. Earthquakes in Montana,
greatest sufferer on this continent.
Severe shocks are reported In Siam.
Earthquakes in Buffalo. N. Y; OF
tawa, Toronto, Guayaquil, Ecuador;
busy seismographic week.
And the moon is partly to blame.
Its power of gravitation exercises
strong pull on the earth, as it shows
In lifting the ocean tides. DR.. Harlan
T. .Stetson, Of Harvard, says the moon
causes 'sub-surface adjustments of the
EARTH"
The new cars of 1886, now on ex-
hibitiOn, are so extraordinarily beau
tiful that every American should see
them, regardless of intention to buy
a new car. Most encouraging is the
determined energy that business men
and engineers Of the automobile indus
try have shown in fighting the depres-
sion, while improving that which
seemed beyond Improvement.
Rome gives confirmation of the
slaughter Of six thousand women and
children by Ethiopian warriors taking
vengeance on the fathers of the chill
dren who deserted to Italy. Rome also
reports the killing of five hundred
Philippians by Italian bombing planes,
and IAN attempt to assassinate Halle
Selassie by an unnamed American ne
gro"
Halle Selassie OF Ethiopia has flung
the last available man into the battle
line," relying on old men, young boys
and women to run his government, re-
minding you Of the late cars an
nouncement that he was going to send
'his last moujik" He did not live to
do that.
The national effort to "buy ourselves
out of the hole" encounters difficult
ties. The President, to make his four
billions cash spread as far as possible,
announced top wages of S93 a month.
But union labor says, mo; you must
pay us full union wages" and New
York may have a statewide strike to
back the demand. President Roose-
welt, 1t is said, refuses to concede that
public relief is branch of union la
Dor, and, even with 1896 looming
ahead, may insist that two govern
ments In the country are one too many.
Heavy windstorms in Florida so late
In the season are disturbing. Inhab-
itants are moved away from the keys.
There is no danger, however, to those
that occupy houses properly construct
ed and know enough to stay in them
during the short time that the storm
lasts.
Greece Is ready to take back her
king and many Greeks are growing
spike" mustaches like his. Many
Germans grew mustaches, curling up
ward, to initiate their former kaiser
There is not much in initiating mus
taches.
You wonder why the Greeks cannot
find a Greek for king, If they must
have king. In days of "the glory
that was Greece" 1t wasn't necessary
to go outside among ''barbarians" to
find a ruler.
You may want to know that In Eng
land, where good times have really
come back, the Tories have made
heavy gains at the present election and
the Labor party sustains heavy losses.
Ramsay Macdonald, head of Britain's
first Labor government, rejoices open
~ at labor's downfall. His work as
prime minister seems to have changed
his opinions. Experience often changes
our minds.
ut Is very great rebuff for labor"
says Macdonald. 1.-The people are not
being taken In by wild and reckless
promises which they know cannot be
carried out, in municipal or national
government"
Ed Howe, an able writer OF Kansas,
Is expected to put aside his pencil
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