The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-12-26

unfriendly, melan-
choly five-million-
@ dollar-a-year-man Is
- - --- may not be told.
The law forbids
publishing income
tax names, but the government tells
you there is one and only one.
That "last rose" of depression's sum-
mer must look around him, sad-eyed,
mourning over his old companions,
withered and strewn.
What is important today may be
nothing tomorrow; what was nothing
yesterday may become all important
now. Once man was helpless without
his horse, camel, OK. yak, ass, mule,
reindeer, dog sled or tame elephant.
Now, in civilization, they mean little,
while Lloyd George tells you, "Oil is
the decisive factor in the Abyssinian
campaign" OF all the great powers
whose attitude is being canvassed, that
of King Gasoline is most important
Without oil, Mussolini cannot win his
war; with oil, victory is certain.
Japan at the naval conference will
consider nothing less than a battle
fleet as big as any the United States
may build; no 5-5-3 ratio.
No American should object to that,
If Japan can afford it. 1t is not the
size of the fleet that counts. Unfor-
tunate Spanish grandees in charge of
the great Armada could testify to that,
after they met Elizabeth's small fleet
and big sea captains.
Also, there is the fact that if real
war started, above the clouds and
under water, every fighting nation
would hide its battleship targets out
of airplane sight, in safe harbors;
many battleships or few would make
no difference.
Senator Borah tells over the micro
phone what the country needs:
Support of the Constitution; fight
against those who would undermine it.
The destruction of monopoly without
necessarily enacting new legislation.
An end to crop restriction.
Senator Borah says restriction has
always failed in depression ever since
the days of Roman emperors.
Mr.. Lamont du Point receives the
chemical and metallurgical engineer
ing award for the greatest chemical
achievement of the year-the large
scale production of synthetic rubber.
If war and blockade came, this coun-
try would be at the mercy of foreign
ers for it's rubber supply, an absolute
necessity of modern civilization and
war.
The scientific news, gruesome but
important, tells you that the eyes of
the dead can supply transparent It's
sue from the cornea useful in curing
blindness in the living. Tissue from
dead eyes has been successfully trans
planted to living eyes, and there is
hope of thus curing certain types of
blindness.
England has always acted like one
"walking on eggs" in dealing with Ja-
pan, but she does say that Japan's
proposed seizure Of Chinese territory
charms the prestige of Japan and ham,
pers the development Of friendly future
relations between Japan and her
friends"
Walter C. Teagle, head of Standard
Oil of New Jersey, did not make a
deal to supply Mussolini with all his
oil for thirty years, casually arranging
to finance the Italian oil market up to
S3O0,O00,000. Mr.. Teagle says so, and
1t is so. But when the wise John ID.
Rockefeller once said, 81 want to see
my managers, their desks cleared and
their feet on the desks, studying how
to make money for Standard OIL" he
had men like Walter Teagle In mind.
In Georgetown. British Guiana,
kindly clergyman sprinkled a tiny negro
baby just born, naming him "Roose-
welt Selassie Caleb" The boys parents,
descendants Of slaves, say the name
was chosen to honor "the greatest man
in the world, President Roosevelt"
The little baby may wonder later
why his parents dragged in Halle
Selassie, in whose empire slavery still
exists as major industry.
An official representative Of Russia
said to this writer not long since: ave
have nothing to fear from Japan. They
waited three years too long" While
Japan was waiting. Russia established
a great submarine and air base at
Vladivostok, within short striking dis
lance of everything Japanese.
Since then Japan and Russia have
got along peacefully. This country
may suddenly wake up TO find prob
lens more important than any theory
on how to make everybody happy on
short notice.
@ King Features Syndicate, Inc.
WNU Service.