The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-10-17

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- ~ q -- Thomas (the So
cialist candidate),
Arthur Brisbane Coolidge, Fl earst,
Karl Marx. Many that reacted favor
ably to the name of Lincoln" did not
approve Lincoln's statement:
Capital is the fruit of labor, and
could never have existed If labor had
not existed"
Those that collected" had sound rea-
son on their side. Capital is not the
fruit of labor any more than labor is
the fruit of capital. Capital and labor
are both the fruit of human intelli-
gence.
The intelligence of Thomas A. Edi-
son supplied labor, jobs employing mil
lions of men and paying billions In
wages, and that Edison intelligence
alone supplied capital to those that
knew how to use Edison's ideas on a
big scale.
The great element in propaganda"
persuasion" in advertising, is repe-
tition. Say a thing often enough and
the average man believes it, not asking
why. Of all human convictions, none
is more firmly fixed, immovable, than
those based on superstition, ignorance,
falsehood and preposterOus credulity.
Encouraging news:
IAN aviation program Of more than
1000 new planes to cost approximately
S60,OOO,0OO has been mapped by the
Army, Navy and Marine corps for
1885,"
If we can afford five thousand mil
lion dollars to prevent the depression
killing too many Americans we may
well spend sixty million dollars to keep
foreigners from shooting at all of us.
The Van Sweringen brothers had
railroad properties that financial writ
ers called "three billion dollar en-
pire."
Perhaps "three billion" referred to
bonds, watered stocks and other "se-
curities" of the empire" In any
case, the Van Sweringens borrowed
forty-eight million dollars on that sem
pire," largely from J. P. Morgan & Co.
They did not pay the forty-eight mil
lion dollars, the whole thing was put
up at auction. the Van Sweringens
bought back control of the "three-bil-
lion-dollar empire" for three million
dollars, one-tenth of 1 per cent of the
three billions and forty-ive million dol
lars less than the amount borrowed
on it.
The hurricane that spread destruc-
ton over Jamaica and Cuba obeyed the
suggestion of Miami's weather bureau
and went 200 miles out to sea. Flor
ida, much obliged to that hurricane,
wonders whether anybody has any
definite plan to control destructive
hurricanes.
William ]. Cameron, broadcasting
from Detroit, able to interpret Henry
Ford's views better than anybody else.
finds economic signs ALREADY changed
for the better" More important, the
American mind has made a remark.
able recovery of equilibrium"
Ethiopia's king has "about" 2,00O.-
600 men massed on three fronts, all
facing Italians, and ready for anything
20 hny
something probably will happen. What
ever starts must go to the end. It 10
not likely, with Hitler preparing for
revenge, that France will sever. her
present relations with Italy for the
sake of distressed Ethiopia.
If dear old England should sally
forth and find herself all alone, she
would probably sally" back again
without firing that first deciding shot.
Mussolini knows that.
In Nebraska President Roosevelt ad.
dressed his first speech of the cam
paign of 1896 to $4,000 farmers gath
cred around the rear end of his car
and 100000 other farmers by radio.
He talked earnestly. with testing; he
understands the silence of farmers who
applaud little while expressing no dis
approval.
The farmer. who lives and thinks by
himself, is not a demonstrative being.
Explaining and defending AAA, an
administration device that tells farm
ers what. where, how much they may
plant, what animals they may raise,
what prices they must charge, the
President chose this convincing state
ment:
Three years ago 1 visited farms in
this state and saw farmers threshing
30-cent wheat and Smelling 20-cent
corn"
With farmers. facts count There
is no 30-cent wheat or 2O-cent corn
now.
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