The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-05-10

ny ulSedSe germs, Inere is sort OF
"pre-destination" in the length of
life.
Two brothers, fifteen and ten years
OF age, with a young friend, were go
ing to an entertainment last Christ
mas night. George Bond and Carl
McMurty of Poplar Bluff, Mo-,
thought it would be amusing to
brighten the children by running
after them, telling them, "You will
never live to get there"
The two older boys "got there"
The little ten-year-old boy, James
Ainley, dropped dead of fright as the
men pursued him. A sensible jury
decides that the two men shall spend
six months in Jail and pay 500 fine
for their "Joke." The jury might
well have made it ten years, for it
was stupid manslaughter. There is
nothing more brutal, cruel or mora
completely worthy of genuine "ya-
hoo" than frightening children.
Secretary of Interior Ickes, who
| also possesses the gift of forcible
speech, calls Senator Long "a rant
ing demagogue," describes, more
| gently, one other well known broad
caster, and rebukes, without men,
tioning his name, Doctor Townsend,
whom he accuses of arousing false
hopes in the "underprivileged."
| Senator Huey Long, his language
never failing him, able to speak his
mind freely in the senate. addressing
| that august body, describes the secre-
tary of interior as Lord High Cham
berlain Ickes, the chinch-bug of Chi
cago."
Secretary Of Agriculture Wallace
he called the Lord Destroyer, the
| ignoramus of Iowa."
We complain of our depression
with good cause. We might find
miserable inhabitants of FOrmosa,
property of Japan, inhabited chiefly
by Chinese, who made up so per cent
of the sufferers and victims in the
recent earthquake.
In Formosa, men, women and chill
dren have been stripping the bark
from elm trees and eating it and they
may be seen on barren fields, pulling
up wild grass by the roots, washing
and eating the roots, as well as the
grass itself. Many have died from
eating bran mixed with earth and
water, the earth causing death by in
testinal stoppage.
Those poor creatures have real
depression, with no rich govern
ment to pour out billions for jobs,
relief. dole. etc.
The American Philosophical society.
gathered in Philadelphia, learns from
Doctor Slipher, director of the Lowell
observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz., that to
people on the planet Mars, if any are
there, our earth is blue planet.
If those Martians will continue
watching US, until some European or
Asiatic country sends a few thousand
planes in our direction, they will see
this corner of the earth deeper and
darker blue than ever. What lesson
we shall learn some day if we continue
with our eyes shut!
Newspaper editors, that ought to
know something about prosperity, gath.
cred in New York from all over the
country, tell you they see business
pickup" better times are coming. That
is cheerful prediction.
Some boys in high schools, and big
ger boys in colleges, recently organ
lied strike" to express their horror
of war.
War is horrible; it should be, and
eventually will be. unnecessary. But
there is some good in all evil, and
young students and others should re-
feet on past wars and what modern
civilization owes to them.
Germany wants colonies, and is en-
barrassed by the fact that this would
mean taking in great many black
ladies and gentlemen that by no stretch
of the imagination could be called
"Aryans." The German government
announces that. while it could not adj
NIT negroes to German citizenship, as
Britain does in her colonies, black CO.
lonial negroes would be "Schutzbefoh-
lene," with every right except the right
| to adopt Aryan strut.
G. King Features Syndicate. Inc.
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