The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-02-22
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Idle Acres, Idle Men
The Townsend Plan
Mrs. Roosevelt's Enterprise
Another Slave of Man

Mrs. Roosevelt's Enterprise
! Another Slave of Man
Ten million idle men and more In
the United States. Ten million idle
acres and more on either side of this
railroad running along the Atlantic
coast from southern Florida to New
York. Two of the acres. intensively
cultivated. would feed a family. Tex
as alone, under intensive cultivation.
could feed the entire population of the
earth as 1t exists now, and oil under
meath Texas would run all the automo-
biles. There is an empire for you, In
one single state.
And we talk about "over-popula-
ton" with so much land not used, and
none of it used with full intelligence.
The Townsend plan. $500 a month
to everybody sixty years of age, is sol
EMMY discussed by congress, which
ought TO be passing a sound, reason
able old age pension now. The Town
send plan is an interesting plan la
many ways. By taxation on every
transaction, on producer, jobber, whole
saler, retailer, manufacturer, buyer, it
would practically absorb all available
money to turn it over to deserving, or
otherwise, persons, aged sixty. 1t
would soon become necessary for some
other Townsend to organize S20O-a-
month plan for all paupers. There
would soon be twice as many paupers
as there are people sixty years old.
Mrs. Franklin d. Roosevelt is mean
ly criticized, because, having interest
ed herself in providing better homes
for poor people, it appears that the
undertaking may involve some slight
financial loss. trifing in United States
finance.
Mrs. Roosevelt caused families to
be moved from miserable novels into
comfortable homes.
A woman with children, living last
year in two rooms without windows,
with nothing but raw carrots for her
Christmas dinner, told Mrs. Roosevelt
that she did not dare tell her children
it was Christmas day.
On this Christmas day, when Mrs.
Roosevelt went to see her, the mother,
with a new born baby, and her chill
dren, all happy, were living In a de-
cent homestead, with modern improve
ments, including cellar full Of
canned goods.
If that did cost a little money, II
was money well spent.
Other ladies and gentlemen who
have spent money for the United
States government have not done so
well.
A steel gate II feet thick, weigh
ing 100000 pounds, was closed one
day recently and the Colorado river,
its water and power, definitely har-
messed, made slaves of man.
The stream that had wandered as
1t pleased for millions of years,
through the magnificent mile-deep
canyon of the Colorado through Boul-
der Canyon and Black Canyon, was
now tied fast In Black Canyon. "The
Boulder DAM is a reality. Hereafter
the Colorado will flow as man shall or
der, lighting cities. irrigating deserts.
supplying power far away.
Man eventually will control the
earth completely. He has made good
start-at Niagara, Panama, Muscle
Shoals, Boulder Dam.
@Ia 1o+ 60 anrfn
type" murder. Thomas e. Maloy, vet
eran head Of Chicago's Motion Picture
Operators union, was killed in the u.s.
ual way, as he sat at the wheel of his
automobile.
The government says Mr.. Maloy's
career as a ''union labor leader" was
profitable. He had been indicted and
released on bail on charge of failure
to report three hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars income before the assas-
sins "slugs" cancelled that and other
accusations.
If the leader of a motion picture
union got that income you wonder how
and from whom he got it, also what
other motion picture operators who got
no such sum think about 1t.
It was time for somebody to say
what Mr.. Richberg says now, that he
"does not propose to put the interest
of the unions above loyalty to his gov
ernment"
1t is a friendly act to remind union
labor again that IL 1t wants to know
what happens when separate Organi-
cations claim the right to run the c0un- |
try they should study conditions in |
Italy. There are no Italian union lead
ers collecting millions a year in dues.
Former leaders are working with pick
and shovel, or tractor, or lathe, accord
ing to their mechanical ability.
Kenneth Neu, killer of two men,
hanged in New Orleans. entertainer
and singer by profession, sang gaily |
the day before his hanging, sang in
the morning before going to the gal
lows, said he would sing all the way
to the scaffold, Love in Bloom" and |
when the Trumpet Sounds" But |
when he saw the hangman and the
moose he stopped singing and only did
feeble tap dance on the scaffold.
It may comfort California, which dis
likes reading about Florida, to be told
that when you buy cauliflower and
many other green things in Florida you
buy things grown in California.
@ King Features Syndicate. Inc.
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