The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-02-15
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
A Baby Grows Up
Senate's Good News
Five Little Girls
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Five Little Girls
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Fifty-three years ago a good Amer
lean mother, weak, but happy, received
In her arms small baby, with pink
face and little hair. That baby now
lives In the White House, face bronzed
by ocean air, hair thick at fifty-three
years of age.
The baby has grown to be Franklin
d. Roosevelt, President Of the United
States.
One hundred and twenty-five million
Americans are grateful to his mother,
who, happily, has lived to see her son
move up, from the cradle in which she
first placed him, to earth's most Inn
portant place among men.
Congratulations and thanks, first Of
all, to President Roosevelt's mother;
good wishes, congratulations and q
long life to President Roosevelt.
The people Of the United States are
to be congratulated that by the de-
cision of the senate they will not be
pushed into the back door of the
League of Nations through the World
court.
Mr.. Hull, secretary Of state, wanted
the United States to go into the World
court and submit important matters
affecting this country to foreign judges
appointed by nations that have swim
died this country out Of ten thousand
million dollars. Why, In heavens
name?
Those marvellous Canadian babies,
the Dionne quintuplets, eight months
old, are healthy, happy, each one
separate little lady of intense individ-
uality. All pretty, all intelligent, with
good foreheads, well-shaped heads.
What a wonderful family! It seems
almost pity that they cannot remain
babies, now, and above, through all
eternity.
The house of representatives, 800 to
70, gives the President four thousand
eight hundred and eighty million dol
lars, to be spent in accordance with
his best judgment to fight depression
and unemployment.
In early days the little, ''sman
change" eighty million dollars, tackled
on at the end of the large figure, would
have astounded the country, for in
those days millions were respectable
units. Now our government unit is the
billion-one thousand millions When
will the trillion start its career? The
printing press could bring it.
Not content with being reduced from
a great empire to small backyard"
by the last Hapsburg, Austria thinks
1t wants another emperor and Prince
Starhemberg will say when little Prince
Otto shall mount the throne. That
will mean unhappiness, eventually for
the young prince, and q good actor
spoiled for Hollywood.
Gen. William Mitchell, commander
Of all our flying force in the big war,
knows more about national defense
than anybody in this country. He
writes to friend seventy years old, as
follows:
During your lifetime have come the
electric telegraph and telephone, the
gasoline engine with its accompani-
ment of automotive vehicles, the air
plane and submarine. The world is
now only one-sixth as large as when
you appeared. If this development
goes on, it is difficult to say what may
take place in the next seventy years.
Will the biological supremacy of the
yellow races dominate, or will the mill
tary supremacy, so far, of the white
race be able to maintain our culture
and standards? The world is growing
so small and so increasingly popu-
lated that one or the other will I'M
doubtedly become master"
Mr.. ]. Pierpont Morgan, whose IA
ther collected pictures and other works
of art, has decided to sell six pic
lures. The price asked is said to be
$1,5OO,O0O. The older j. P. Morgan
evidently bought good pictures. Two
of the six pictures, already sold to the
Metropolitan museum, are a portrait
Of "Anne of Austria" by Peter Paul
Rubens, and an altar piece by Filippo
Lippi. Nobody knows how much was
paid originally for either picture.
A rare ten-dollar gold piece, that
sold at auction for $3.50, might offer a
suggestion for government profit. At
that rate, our $4,000, 100000 worth Of
gold could be changed into 100000
100000 worth. nearly all profit. Who
could contradict the government II IL
said that was the value7
Industrialists that put 25.0O0,OO0 au-
tomobiles on the roads in this country
helped their government last year.
The federal tax on gasoline alone paid
more than s170OO0,0O0.
Col. Roscoe Turner, who does all
sorts Of things with airplanes. plans
a real flight around the earth. 25.0O0
miles, following the equator all the
way, starting at Panama.
This will be the first real "around
the world" flight, the others having
been flights around the northern end