The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-02-13

that he wanted wife, saying, Il have
hazel eyes," nothing else about himself.
Already $50 English girls have offered
to marry him. The 249 disappointed
may find comfort in a better marriage,
picking out somebody with blue eyes
1t annoys many, but it must be said
that practically all the great men in
history had blue or gray eyes, even
men from dark-eyed races, like Ma
poleon from Corsica, Caesar from
Rome.
To save answering questions, here
is a short list: Washington, Jefferson,
Lincoln, Roosevelt, Edison, Henry
Ford. Look up the others.
Near Tampa, Fla, a schooner loaded
with men, women, children, on the
way to establish a nudist colony in
the Virgin Islands, ran aground. Nav
igators were unwilling to sign for a
nudist enterprise, afraid, perhaps, of
catching cold, so the ship ran ashore.
Nudism is a queer atavistic craving.
The human race began that way in
the Garden of Eden, and each of us
starts out as nudist at birth. The
struggle is to keep clothed thereafter.
1t is a strange Generalization that
makes some long to run about I'M
dressed; the more strange because
they look so hideously ugly.
Discouraged by incompetence that
wrecked two dirigibles, this country
decided that lighter than air machines
are not necessary. 1t was necessary
to borrow a small privately owned
blimp to take food to 5000 Tangier
Islanders, cut off from relief by ice.
No heavier than air plane could land
there before the blimp, which landed
easily.
Mussolini threatens to leave the
league If 1t includes ban on oil in
its sanctions. In modern war, no oil,
no war. Mussolini may buy old Amer
lean ships to use as floating gasoline
storage tanks. Had he come a little
sooner he could have had plenty of
them at a bargain, about one thou
sand million dollars worth Of expen-
sive steel floating Junk" built when
this country's foolish entrance into the
World war found it unprepared.
England and Russia were getting
along nicely, and now the Russian en-,
voy, Litvinoff, attending the late Kings
funeral, commits the British unpar-
donable sin.
After talking with the new king, Lit.
vinoff instead Of expressing admira.
ton for the overwhelming royal in.
tellect, remarked that the new king
Edward VIII, was lust a mediocre
young Englishman" and repeated what
the young king had said to him, some
thing mot DONE"
Mr.. Norman Thomas of the Social
list left wing runs for President some
times and says the "New Deal" II
leading to Fascism, dictator.
In Italy Socialism, and doctrines ever
more radical, led to the rise Of Mus
solini, aided by castor Oil and othel
methods. If our dictatorship comes
some radicals will look back sadly t.
the good old days when you coult
speak your mind without being sho
or put to work.
One mans frostbite is another man
good news. New Jersey fruit grower
say the extreme cold, freezing tn
ground two feet deep; will destro
orchard pests, including the gypsy an
coddling moths. The cold. which ha
not injured trees, is expected to dis
courage larvae of the Japanese beetle
Some day scientists will show frui
farmers. including this writer. how I
penetrate the earth by radioactive!
or otherwise, to the necessary dept
and kill the alternating pests. A rem
edy for borers would be welcome. RI
dio power should solve the insect prot
: lem.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh spent hi
: thirty-fourth birthday in Wales, hi
: wife and one son with him. He mus
have felt as though he had alread
lived 100 years. and have wished. a
most, that he had been content to r
D main in the airmail service. apart fro
the limelight
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