The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-01-11
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
A Pretty Good Christmas
Germs Travel High
We Are Coughing Better
Prairie DOES. Catacomha
Dogs, Catacombs

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transatlantic flights, that bacteria can
travel across the ocean by air. The
winds of the north Atlantic carry
microscopic germs Of life through the
upper air. Disease germs might trav-
ell, thus, across either ocean.
That interests anybody planning to
make war more interesting by adding
disease germs to poison gas and high
explosives.
Scientists already believed that,
since life cannot be created on the
earth. except supernaturally, life be-
gan on this planet probably with
germs that had travelled millions, per-
haps billions, Of miles through space
at absolute zero. They started life on
the earth when it had sufficiently
cooled off, and may have been brought
In the wake of flying meteors
Heat destroys microscopic life, cold
does not
Cheerful optimists, telling you that
conditions are getting better, remind
you Of Meyer Hecht's benevolent friend
who told each tuberculosis patient,
"You are coughing better this morn
ing"
We all are coughing" little bet
ter. 1t has been the best, most free
ly spending Christmas season since the
depression began. Merchants testify
to that The season of grand opera
opened in New York with every seat
sold and demand for seats nonexist-
ent.
Mr.. Hull, able secretary of state,
wants freer trade with foreign coun-
tries. Those that shut their markets
to the outside world are like animals
which burrow in the ground" says Mr..
Hull. That might be true, without
proving that protection is unwise.
Animals burrowing in the ground
prairie dogs, etc.-would regret it If
they came to the surface and sat
around inviting coyotes to eat them.
Early Christians burrowing in the
catacombs were better off than they
would have been on the surface,
thrown to the lions.
It Is better for this country to bur-
row under protection than be thrown
to the lions of free competition of Ia
Dor and manufacturing.
Occasionally you hear what Mr..
Field called ga sour note" in the hope
full chorus of Happy Days Are Here
Again" Senator Dickinson of Iowa
Republican, Of course-says NRA
plans have collapsed. He finds that
monopoly is being encouraged, pri-
vate initiative is being depressed and
| the small business man driven to the
wall-"The rich are becoming richer
and the poor poorer"
That will be news for some of the
rich-they had not heard it. You may
hear many of them say now, eff / can
get together and keep enough to take
care Of my family, that is all ask"
and they mean it.
Projects thus far proposed by con-
gressmen and executives in Washing
ton would cost Uncle Sam, ia addition
to money already spent, 100000 900,
and would double the national debt. If
the money were wisely created, wisely
spent, the country would be better off,
with many employed in useful work.
But If it is found necessary to initiate
with interest-bearing bonds, instead of
simply printing the money and later
retiring 1t as bonds would be retired,
the $4,000, 100000 would cost the coun-
try 100000, 100000.
Is it really necessary to force on
taxpayers that extra load of $30,00O,-
100000 for interest, when interest
bonds are just so much Imitation
money" in no respect different from
greenbacks?
According to dispatches from Nan.
king, China's killing methods make the
efforts of Stain or Hitler seem feeble.
Gen. Kiang Kai-Shek gives proof In
Kiangsi province. Six million people
have been driven from their homes
and 100000 killed in cold blood by
"Red Communist" troops.
The killing championship is now
with China, naturally one of the most
peaceful countries on earth.
Mr.. Irenee du Pont, munitions man.
ufacturer, who knows about war, since
he produces "the goods" tells the NUM-
lions committee "the only way to wage
q war is to have an absolute monarch
at the head of the government" also
1--WE shall have hi of time in case
of war;"
No question about the last statement.
Mr.. Baruch, entering whole-hearted-
| ly into the Presidents campaign to
| prevent profits for munitions makers
in wartime. wisely urges preparation,
says the country should buy and store
thousands of tons of tin for use In the
event of war. 81 think we ought to
buy tin just as we would invest In
a battleship, and keep 1t in storage"
C. King Features Syndicate. Inc.
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| Ohio County Once Large
Some years ago, biologists tell Us