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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-30
Bells Have Played a Great
Part in History Of the World

swarmed to repel approaching In
vaders, or townspeople rushed to re-
pair breaking dyke.
"Ship captains today, blowing
through a heavy sea, listen for the
ominous changing of bell buoys. rock
ing in the heavy surf, which warn OF
dangerous reefs.
Bells Given as Rewards.
I'm Russia, during whirling snow
storms that sblot out house lights Wiz
layers ring bells to guide lost trav-
elers. Siberian carriages and sleighs
are drawn by teams of three, or even
seven horses, the middle horse gal
Looping beneath a big wooden arch
from which hang numerous bells.
although old Russia was called
The Land of Bells it did not have
monopoly on them. Our pioneer
forefathers rambled over the prairies
in Conestoga wagons to the lifting
chimes of bells swaying above their
horses shoulders. These bells fire.
quently served as rewards. IL a
wagon broke down, its driver often
gave its bells to the wagoners who
assisted him."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-30
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-30
Academic Ability First,
Then Athletic Proves

In the Southeastern Conference this
will not happen. A mans athletic quail
ifications will be judged only after he
has proved to the faculty that he is
a worthwhile prospect as a student and
worthy of help.
Finally, there will be established
through these athletic scholarships a
means of admitting a boy who hasn't
the means at his own command to at
tend the college he really wants to at
tend. All of us in our lives have known
boys who went to one school when they
really wanted to go to another They
went only because the undesirable col
lege offered better opportunities for
aid of athletes than the one which
they wanted to attend.
Now some one has mentioned the
possibilities of competition. These
critics have advanced the notion that
if one college offers $500 a year to
cover the requirements of a collegiate
year another and better financed school
will bid higher. My answer to that is
simply this: The educators of the
South are very honest and upright
body of men and do not fear for the
Southeastern Conference as long as the
administration of these scholarships is
left in their hands.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-30
Says Scholarships Exist
All Over, Though Denied

These scholarships are in existence
in all parts of the country. Even
though there will be denials, say this.
What is the result? Nothing more than
a football coach, backed by business
men with money, and free-spending
alumni, going into the field and liter
ally buying a football team.
Perhaps we of the South are more
frank and honest in admitting the ex-
istence of this evil. And IL is an evil,
have no doubt of that. 1t prohibits the
college which is not backed by free
spending alumni" from fair competi-
ton. 1t engenders and encourages the
paid athlete. This particular breed is
not confined to the South, though our
section of the country was the first to
admit its existence in the open.
Now just what will be accomplished
by this new regulation which the
Southeastern Conference adopted last
month that furnished board, room and
tuition for deserving boys even if they
are athletes?
(First) 1t will completely eliminate
the paid athlete.
(Second) 1t will bring aid to ath-
Ietes under the supervision of the in
stitution, thus Improving the admin
istration.
(Third) 1t will virtually end the
competition for boys, turning one from
a college he desires to attend to one in
which he has no interest, because the
Iatter's offer is better than the formers
The first step will be accomplished
by the simple process of sending all
athletic scholarships through faculty
board that rules on all scholarships,
regardless of the qualifications.
In the past, it is common knowledge,
athletes have gotten into all manner
of schools by the most devious routes
because they were financed and spon-
sOred by school supporters of great
standing. In many cases men whose
credits would not have gotten them by
the admissions board in a correspond
ence school have entered and been
awarded" degrees from really first
rate colleges because they were talent
ed football men.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-30
cQuillan's Alligator
Cot in Wrong Berth

Also I would like to know If train
rides are as exciting now as they were
years ago when the Giants left their
st. Augustine camp with Zeke Barnes
and his alligator.
Zeke took lot of pride in this pet
even though it measured only seven
inches long and was not much for
looks even for an alligator. He planned
to give it nice home out in Kansas
after the season was over, and he
probably would have done it, too. That
is he would have if Hughie McouilIan
had not also been Giant.
Hughie had invested in the Florida
staple, too, and alligator proprietors
are just like horse owners. Whenever
two of them get together there must
be competition. So, since beauty con-
tests and marathon dances were out
race.
1t was a prospect that stirred the
speculatiVeIy inclined. Hot news from
the paddock indicated that Zeke's aIli-
gator could break fast but tired badly
in the stretch and preferred the going
in hotel Hobbies.
Hughes entry lacked early foot but
could travel the route and his canter
from one drug store corner to another
in Jackson, Tenn, had impressed all
beholders.
Bets were down and a puse-strum-
ming contest was in sight when the
younger Barnes became worried. To
convince himself that everything was
all right he decided upon an early
morning workout in the aisle of the
Pullman which was speeding through
the cold, gray mountains of western
Georgia.
Three minutes later the air was agi-
tated by one of the most magnificent
renditions of free and fancy comment
that it has ever been the good fortune
of any ball player to hear. The alli-
gator had broken loose and had not
shown much sense even for an alli-
gator.
With "a berths to pick from he had
crawIed into the one occupied by John
]. McGraw.
Probably l am just a Dodger at
heart as well as an eX-baseball writer
but. Well, at least, this ought TO
give the business office hint as to
where to forward the expense money
next month.
What Big Ten coach used to equip
his basketball players with stiff leather
nip pads so that they could play rough
without fear of injuring themselves?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-30
Served as Harbingers of
Both Good and
Bad Tidings.

"Bells have played no small part
in history" says bulletin from the
Washington, d. c., headquarters of
the National Geographic society.
Among the many renowned bells
whose ringing has ushered in new
chapters in the story of mankind is
the Liberty bell, most beloved his
torical relic of the United States"
the bulletin continues. prior to Its
cracking, the Liberty bell had very
active voice in the affairs of the ma
ton. It's most far reaching utter
ance was that of July s, 1776, when
1t announced the public reading of
the Declaration of Independence
which had been formally adopted by
the Continental congress on July /,
1776.
Liberty Bell Hidden Under Floor.
Threatened with British capture,
it was removed from the tower of
Independence hall on September Is,
1777, and hidden beneath a church
floor in Allentown, Pa, for almost
year. Rehung in the tower, ii
pealed for festivals and anniver
saries until it's fatal accident in 1881,
when it cracked as 1t was being
tolled for the funeral procession of
Chief Justice John Marshall.
"Other historic bells treasured by
Philadelphia are the chimes which
ring from the steeple of old Christ
| church.
'In Sicily, in the Thirteenth CEN
fury, nearly 5000 Frenchmen lis
tened stolidly to the ringing Of the
Sicilian vespers, unaware that the
bells were signals for their cold
blooded massacre. In the Sixteenth
century France, clamor of bells cried
the beginning of the murder of thou
sands Of Huguenots.
Bells Warned of Floods.
among England's most appealing
legends about bells is that of the
Bow bells in London. When young
Dick Wilmington, hungry and desti-
tute, was leaving London to seek his
fortune elsewhere, it is said the
bells of this old church rang out
and seemed to say: Turn again
Wilmington, thrice lord mayor of
London 1t is a familiar tale of
how, cheered by them, he returned,
found work and later. actually be-
| cama lord mavor
William the Conqueror enters the
history Of bells through being the
first to strictly enforce the rule that
all lights and fires should be extin-
guished when the warning bell rang
at eight o'clock. As late as the
Nineteenth century, in many Euro.
pean towns, ringing of the curfew
(couvre-feu or cover fireo was stimuli
taneous with the squealing of nu
merous door hinges as shopkeepers
fastened to obey the law.
"But bells used to strike terror tt
the hearts of people in the Neither
lands. When, in the silence of the
night, bells tangled madly from thu
sentinels watch tower, soldiers
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-30
Let Dixie Mentor
Tell About Sane
Scholarship View
@ New York Post-wNU Service.

Some months ago there ,Uds q futtering
IN the temples Of higher education be-
cause one of the more important college
groups had decided to take an openly
sane attitude totoard its football obliga-
tons. Hugh Bradley has asked South
ern coach to discuss the raps and breaks
that hare come from such an enlightened
deal. For reasons-that, at least, will be
apparent to most college presidents-ihe
name used here is phoney.
BY r. II. {. MCCOY
WHEN the Southeastern Conference
w took Its stand concerning paid
athletes" ! naturally was delighted.
still feel that way about ii and so you
have two very good reasons why !
agreed to take over this space.
One of these reasons is that it pro-
Vides the chance to get in the first
blow before reformers commence classi-
flying all "beIow the Mason-Dixon
line" elevens as professionals. The
other reason is that | may thus be
able to offer some light and encourage
ment to those who see this new deal
of 1886 as a truly forward step in in
tercolleaiate athletics.
First it must be admitted that even
the most self-righteous college in the
country is not fooling anybody taking
a stand against the Southeastern Con-
ference regulation that prohibits the
buying of football teams on the hOof
There are objections, certainly. We of
southern football heard plenty in New
York. But those are taken with a
smile.
In the South we feel that the men
In charge of our NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Der, this rule was not adopted by ath'
Ietic directors or football coaches
wrote into the books of the Southeast
ern Conference a measure with vision
when they Iegalized athletic scholar.
ships.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-30
Homesick Rookie Lost
Control; Got No Help

Then, little by little, he lost his con-
troll. Jack Dunn, the manager, fretted
about this change In form but could
not discover the reason for 1t. Neither
could the rest of US. We knew that
the pitcher was "loner," one Of those
lads who keep strictly to themselves,
but such types are not rare In the
minors.
So, when night after night we would
see him pick up magazine and head
for his room almost as soon as dinner
was over, we decided that he was prob
ably only a country kid who was home
sick. Then we would start up our own
card games, or other nocturnal bust
ness, and forget about him.
Dunnie, though, couldn't forget about
him. This was challenge to the man
who was winning more pennants and
developing more bis-time stars than
any other minor league contemporary
He talked and talked to the pitcher.
Each time the pitcher listened intent
Iy, promised to do better.
Next day he would look as bad as
ever but when we watched him sweat
we all felt sorry for him. We all knew
this lonesome youngster was not kid
ding when he told about how hard he
was trying to regain his control and
make good.
One night, when the training time
was almost ended, drove with Dunnie
out past the ball park. The moonlight
sent vague shadows through the low
hung boughs of the trees which sur
rounded the one-room county Jail a
hundred yards away from the park.
1t was a dismal scene. Fifty seconds
later it became even more dismal-we
started ducking bullets.
don't like bullets but Dunnie was
irritated. The Orioles were to play an
exhibition game the next day and he
didn't want anybody messing up his
ball park. We investigated.
There on second base sat the county
jailer, what was left of a gallon Of
corn whisky, and the ailing pitcher.
The poor homesick boy had told US
the truth. He had been trying hard.
Each night, after he had taken his
magazine and wandered Ionesomely up
stairs, he had sneaked out the back
door. Then, for hours after that he
would sit out there on second base with
the jaiIer and the gun and the corn
and practice control by shooting at the
home plate.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-30

THERE is something about Brook
L lyn uniform that causes its wearer
to stand out amid athletes who toll In
less favored cities. Perhaps the player
spends only few days in FIatbush
and improves that scant time by CATCH
ing baseballs on top of his head, but
no matter. From then on, wherever he
goes, his faults are regarded with toll
Grant eye. The axiom "once Dodger,
always Dodger" is his protection and
his alibi.
Perhaps also it is his shirt of hair,
but let us forget that. For some hours
I have been filled with a vague unrest
and now the cause of 1t becomes clear.
The stamp is upon me. Once base
ball writer, always baseball writer.
I am pining to be off to Florida where
% clubs soon will be training and
where so many things happen that are
not usually printed in the papers.
want to find out, for instance, II
there still are pitchers such as the one
who trained with the orioles years ago.
A lanky youngster from the HOOK
worm belt, this pitcher had shown
great promise at the start of training.
he had fast one that made even
Lefty Grove a trifie envious and when
he bent a hook across the corner such
celebrated hitters as Sherry Magee and
lilly Walker merely stood beside the
plate and wondered what had hap
pened.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-30
Casting Is Buried Instead
of Unfortunate Iron Worker

With solemn ceremony a block of
iron was buried recently in the
Catholic churchyard at Alstaden,
Germany. It represented Peter Ber-
mann, foreman at blast furnace in
Oberhausen, who fell into the fur
mace.
Every trace of him was consumed,
and in order that he should have
some sort of a Christian burial, a
small block of iron taken from that
days casting from the furnace was
inscribed with his name and placed
in the coffin.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-30
Wheat More Deadly Than
Dynamite as Ship Cargo

Wheat is one of the most danger
GUS cargoes carried by ocean freight
ers, because 1t may shift and cause
heavy list, or. when wet, generate
a gas that, in the heat of the hold,
is an explosive as deadly as dyn-
amite.
Wheat has caused many ship
wrecks, among them being that of
the British steamer Antinoe, which
sank in mid Atlantic in 1926.-Col-
Tiers.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-30
He-That so?
She-Yes, down to the cards he
leads in a bridge game
Only Works There
Exchange

A standard English actor went int
a sordid hash house in New York for
a cheap meal. In the waiter he was
Mortified to recognize colleague who
had played with him in London:
Actor-Great Scottl You a waiter
in this place?
Waiter with dignity)-Yes, but /
don't eat here.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-30
Disguise
"Raising many potatoes?"

Raising many potatoesw
''Not for publication" said Farmer
Corntossel. MY boy Josh says he be-
lieves education will help us so that
we can bootleg few through the mar
ket by calling them pommes de terre
or kartoffels or even plain p'taties."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-30
4Sl
Number, Please

st am connected with some of the
best families
'By telephone?"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-30
Alta Boyl

Overheard on dance floor the
other night:
Him-Say, little girl, do your eyes
bother you?
Her-No-why?
Him-Well, they bother mel
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-30
The Drawback

Sand you swore you'd always treat
me like a queenw
'Well, 'ang it, I amt 'Enry the
Eighth. "-Bystander, London.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-30
Modern Detective Methods

Waiter-How did you guess we had
a new dish-washer, sir?
Diner-The fingerprints on the plates
are different.-Stray Stories Magazine
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-30
.Irst title Love

Just a Little Love
PROFESSIONALISM is it?
Nurse-A boy, sir!
Professor-What does he want? p
Border Cities Star.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-30
UNTIL THEN

II thought you and the Smiths
were the best of friends"
"We were, until we tried to spend
a month with our families in the
same summer cottage"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-30

Lacerated Heart
"Young Dick says his heart is
lacerated." who's the ?"-An-
swers Magazine.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-30

In the Suburbs
Sailor-How far is your house
from the car line?
Girl-About five minutes walk, IL
you run.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-20
TO-day'S Political SideShOw
C. Wilson United Press Stan Correspondent

WASHINGTON May 19-1nnocent associations sometimes
 made in bad light when they developed in ev- Smith Brookhat discovered the other 1t feels to be on the Congressional gridde only for moment
 THE Military Affairs committee under the heading "ques
 onabe items of expense reported that the Nwby Corpora paned expenditures including $O0 to Bookhart The former Senator explained immediately however that he had been retained by the companies for legitimate efforts widen their markets The implication of lobbying was not subsantiated
 A famous lobbyquor dinner of the midprobon of which Brooart the hero he not depending how Washington lobbyist guests including Republican members of the Senate hotel banquet and placed heart certain money profit distribution It possible the host planted the m effort dilute the rad ca 1owans money philosophy with some conservative ideas WASHINGTON dry during prohibition but drinking with the customer who hid his bottle under the table, reputable hotels never would permit employees liquor and cd each guest with gifts Each received large hip flask which full of unquestonaby prohibition Among a notable on the floor for their votes in behalf of the sh Amendment the Vostead Act and prohibition enforcement gen. eral
 DROOKHART the recalled
 dent He told of the fasks and the drinking and he embarrassed some Of his colleagues no little Some or the angr Senators
 thought Brookha should be ostraczed socially few drys pauded Bookhart just let at that and drinking became almost secret vice except among trusted friends
 DRooKHART only Congress called
 his colleagues to account in public for violating their pledge to support the Constitution Senator Gould Maine fre queny the floor with the story of drinking his tmoros colleagues Gould enjoyed the hypoccal Senators suffered little and Congressional drinkers who voted wet and drank worried much And then there former Senator Cole Bease of South Carolina Bease believed to drink on occasion that he drank He invariably principles explained that his dry vote represented the will of constituency and his glass of beer what strictly his business No other in Congress ever e% ceeded that statement in frank honesty.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-20
Freedom Within the Law

Old-faShioned Americans, reared in liberal tradition, have sometimes been surprised at excessive zeal shown by some war veterans and. other patriotic groups in trying to enforce ''A1nericaniSm" as they understood it. In this new zeal, largely porn of the World War, there mas seemed to be uanger of undermining some of the oldest and most highly prlzeu privileges of American citizenship, plaln- " guaranteed by the ConSTltuClon-Such liberties as treeuom ot press, speech, as- Semblage and petition, and the right of the people to alter their instructions when they choose.
 The founders of our government be- lieveo that occasional abuse or sucn llp- critics is better than arbitrary suppress sion. The matter is clarified for everyoody by the statement made lately in a public address by Commander Ray Murphy of the American Legion, who says: ''rhe purpose of our battle against Commun- ism, or any other foreign principle of government will :=e defeated If we permit ourselves to be swayed by blind passion. The world changes, America changes. The basic law of our land has been amended and may be amended many times. The Constitution was created for the people, The right of the people to change their basic law cannot, and must not, be denied"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-20
They're Still At It

In serious mood last night the Water bury American proceeded to term the passage of an aldermanic bill calling for erection of a new Baldwin street bridge "deal'. In two places was this particu- lar word used We don't know whether it was purposey done or merely the writer's way of expressing something at which he and his superiors had taken umbrage. If so, it might not be amiSS to explain to citizens of this city that use of this word Ideal" involves knowledge of it's various shadings It is used very promiscuously today as in the past, for we have had both the Square Deal and the New Deal.
 We are afraid that the American writer did not mean "deal' in this connection when he wrote this head. Baldwin Street Deal Goes Over" Nor did he have them in mind when he typed these lines -". but as to it's essence it is primarily a democratic political deal. ." The odd part about the whole matter is that once started on this quixotic task of saving the city from the perfidy of a democratic administration, the Leavenworth street papers fail to comprehend that anybody might have some regard (rather high) for Mayor Hayes and his administration.
 That many respected citizens (republi- cans, as well as democrats) have was amply proved in this latest incident, by which the Pape papers chose to smear Mayor Hayes, carefully overlooking the fact that the proposal was strictly an en- ginGering one and not mayoxalty one. Now we get down to ideals. Webster gives a number of definitions, depending upon how you use the word. We choose