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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-05
Ring Titles Yours
if You Have $4,000

If you can make the weight and have
$4,000 to spare you can become a
world champion. One of the pugilistic
titles is for sale at that price. Jack
Curley claims that in a wrestler versus
boxer match the boxer is sure to have
80 per cent the worst of the going.
n. Y. U. students do not hold ex-
elusive squawking rights about not be-
ing able to get into their own basket
ball games. Neither the Brigham Young
U. nor the Colorado U. gyms are big
enough to hold all the excited student
ticket holders. At Brigham Young re-
Gently they had to rig up loud speak
er gadget in the university assembly
hall so that the students could find out
what the players were doing in the
nearby gym.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-05
Build-Up Spoiled by
Poor Preseason Showing

Obviously the real purpose of long
and expensive spring training periods
is to build up the expectant excitement
of the home town fans. 1t is an ad-
Vertisng means for creating a definite
demand for the product before it is
placed on the market.
This theory is excellent, and yet in
practice the results sometimes are I'M
fortunate. Having gone through years
In the belief that the home town fans
will stand for anything, the club own.
erS naturally do not have any higher
opinion of SO-called tank towners.
Therefore they request bunch of real
istic young men, who do not get paid
until the season starts, to give per-
Torrance which means nothing before
people who mean even less to them.
Occasionally some owner or man.
ager, hopeful that the victories of
March will cause the home town ferVor
to endure we'll into the defeats of May,
insists upon a spirited performance.
But such urgency is rare and the real
istic young men very we'll know it.
Perhaps this would be all right if the
training teams did not have to take
much the same routes to the North
each year. AS it is, though, the small
town folks, from long and sad expert
ence with pitchers who take too much
care of their arms, and intields, who
do not take enough care of their field
ing, also have become realists.
Baseball, jelly beans and movies all
cost money. 1t is true that in Macon,
in Jackson, or in some such town, you
can get the same jelly beans or movies
as you can on Broadway, and often
the price is less. So if the natives,
with full knowledge of what big-time
baseball offers them and asks for it,
decide to stick to jelly beans and
movies there seems no
"Hold on" interrupted the gentle
man. 81 get part of it. but isn't it
u. L.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-05

But the banking gentleman no longer
was listening. Some things are too
much even for one of his hopeful call
ing. He rose and darted into the other
room. He can still be heard shouting
frantically to the clerks to warm up
a dozen new subtracting machines.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-05

does take permanent Jack Dempsey
possession of the title?
And if Jack Dempsey wouldn't do bet
ter if he stuck to his cooking?
Whether that Puerto Rico training
trip of the Cincinnati Reds really is
such swell publicity and money get
ting stunt as the National League pres
of the club seem to believe? And isn't
it true that the Reds usually have
wound up overtred even during those
recent seasons when they did not start
training full month ahead of the
other teams? Or are the Cincinnati
fans supposed to GO on forever being
satisfied with a second division club,
adorned with night baseball and other
trimmings.
Why racetrack pari-mutuel betting
is supposed to violate the lottery laws
in a state where the constables never
chirp about the prize contests regu-
larry conducted at small neighborhOod
movie houses?
Why the American League does not
sign Dolly Stark, the best of all pos
sible umpires, who recently cut him.
self loose from the National Leagues
bed and board?
Why the flag waving A. A. U. sent
such an inferior hockey team to the
Olympic Games? Could it have been
because the departure of Sam Babcock,
Reb Russell, Ty Anderson, Frank
SpIaine and other recognized stars
would have cut too deeply into those
weekly $4,000 amateur gates at the
Garden?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-05
Sinecure

"Are you a clock watcher" asked
the employer Of the candidate for
Job.
'No, i don't like inside work" re-
piled the applicant, without heat. I'm
a whistle listener. Troy On. 70
Times Record.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-05

T WONDERS: II most of the over
L grown lambs set in front of Joe
Louis during the past year were really
jttery because of his punching prowess
and his we'll press-aeented fighting
face? Or whether they might not have
been in anguish because they knew
their own defects made them pushovers
for any reasonably able citizen?
If Jack Dempsey thinks he has been
divinely appointed to rescue the white
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-05
Human Life Precious Thing;
Recklessness Not Courage

There Is deep truth in the lines:
We never can begin to live
Unless we dare to die.
We never have measured life up to
its highest and fullest, never learned
its deepest meaning until we have
learned that there are causes in
which it should be risked. sacrificed
If need be, unhesitatingly. No one
has really learned to live until
he has learned that life here is
but beginning. and is for purpose.
When he really believes that, he is
ready for high emprise even though
it bring him face to face with death.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-05
A Sharp Lot, Down Maine

"Gimme an all-day sucker" the
lad demanded of the candy man.
He was handed one.
Looks kind of small" remarked
the youth looking at it doubtfully.
"Yeah, the days are shortHr."-
Portland Express
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-05
life with a man who begins deceiv-
ing you even during his courtship."
Definite Proof
Flattery?
Prominent Club Man

Teacher-Johnny, who was Anne
Boleyn?
Johnny-Anne Boleyn was a fat
iron.
Teacher-What on earth do you
mean?
Johnny-Well, it says here in the his
tory book, Henry, having disposed of
Catherine, pressed his suit with Anne
Boleyn." Santa Fe Magazine.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-05

true THAT tne rdHNSSS
charge the same prices
as the other clubs and
that they haven't al
ways had the best
team?"
EYES," | told him.
"But, until in a mo-
ment of weakness they
parted with him, they
always had Babe Ruth.
And all you need to
put on a show that
will pack them in is
one ouy like
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-05
Sfss'HI|:IS51g
Secret

"Why don't you like dancing with
George?"
"Oh, George is all right; but he
won't let his right foot know what
his left one is doing"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-05
With Stumng

clearinghouse Misress--What part
of the chicken do you wish?
Freshman-Some of the meat, please.
Pathfinder Magazine.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-05
Qualified

$50 you're going to exercise by
horseback riding? Ever been on
horse?"
"Why, no. But I'm a bit bow
legged"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-05

race from the Joe
Louis peril and so
must devote his pre-
cious time to a heavy
W Ell g h elimination
tournament with a
Jim Crow clause? Or
if Jack Dempsey does
not know that the
world probably will go
along just the same if
the clean-living and
capable Joe Louis
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-05
Sh-sh!

snow that you've tried my voice."
said the girl to the glee club di-
rector, "what do you think 1 should
do with it?'
whisper" was the prompt reply.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-05
Rather Late

1t is not until middle age that
a man becomes interested in his
destination.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-05
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CLASSIFIED ADS

Baby Chicks. Day old pullets or cockerels:
orders booked now receive discount. One
million chicks yearly. Free catalogue. St
Cloud Hatcheries. Dept. VI. St.ClOud. MINI.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-05

Weeks Supply of Postum Free
Read the offer made by the Postum
Company in another part of this pa
per. They will send a full weeks sup
ply of health giving Postum free to
anyone who writes for it.-Adv.
Evening star., 1936-12-20
TREE TO BE LIGHTED
IN MICHIGAN PARK
franciscan Monastery Choir to
Sing Carols at Ceremony for
Christmas Eve.

Plans for O gala observance OF
Michigan Parks annual Christmas
celebration are virtually complete, ac-
cording to Joeeph L. Parkhill, vice
president of the Michigan Park Citi-
zens' Association and chairman OF
their Christmas celebration commit
tee.
The association will light its tree.
located at Michigan avenue. Twelfth
and Shepherd streets northeast. on
Christmas eve. thereby starting pro-
gram which will include carols by the
choir of the Franciscan Monastery. the
distribution Of gifts and a speech by
the Very Rev. Leonard Walsh, o. r.
M, superior and commissary, Fran
ciscan Commissariat and Monastery
Of the Holy Land.
After the program In completed
a Michigan Park Santa Claus will dis
tribute presents to the pupils OF St.
Gertrude's School Of Arts and Crafts
on Sargent road north Of Allison
street, and to the patients Of the
Children's Convalescent Home at
Eighteenth street and Michigan ave-
nue..
Chairman Parkhill, aided by the
members Of his committee, attempted
to secure the planting Of . permanent
tree on the Michigan avenue site, but
he was told by city authorities that
the placing Of lights on . growing
tree was injurious. Feeling the light
ing Of the tree to be an indispensable
part Of the celebration, the committee
decided to stop action for the perma-
nent tree and erect the usual tenn
porary one.
Evening star., 1936-12-20
With the Associations
Abolition OF Dollar Street Car Pass Draws Opposi-
tion-Three Meetings Tomorrow Only Ones
Scheduled for Christmas Week.

coin Parks resolution which Endorsed
abattoir construction.
Summit Park-Asked for funds in
1898 District budget for construction
of Oxen Run Interceptor: asked ap-
preparations also for increased fire
alarm boxes and fire plugs; asked
heated waiting station at street car
bus transfer point at Seventeenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue south
east.
Chevy Chase - Opposed abattoir
construction in Benning; complained
against wet floors in buses; asked
for increased express service to and
from downtown; asked direct con-
nections between Chevy Chase buses
and service to Union Station and
Capitol.
Dahlgren Terrace-Asked congress
sional investigation OF Public Utilities
Commission and United States Attor-
ney's office; opposed abattoir con-
struction in District; asked express
street car service between 8 and
am. from Dahlgren terrace to down.
town; favored memorial to Thomas
Jefferson in form of 100000 sta
dium located east of Capitol: favored
establishment of health center; in
dorsed move to require all public
handlers of food to take annual physi-
cal examinations.
Sixteenth Street Highlands-Asked
more rigid regulation of traffic on
Sixteenth street from Newton street
to the District line.
Civic Calendar.
THE following citizens associations
will meet this week:
Monday, December FL.
Interfederation conference, dinner
meeting. Colonial Hotel.
Lincoln Park, 8 pm, Bryan School.
Sixteenth Street Heights, 8 pm,
A. r. Sheppard School.
Evening star., 1936-12-20
STREET SURF AGING
Project OBTAINED
Sc at Pleasant to Get
$4,000 W. P. A. Grant
for Street Work.

Dreams of the residents OF Seat
Pleasant and members of the Seat
Pleasant and Adjoining Communities
Citizens Association Of having hard
surface street and concrete sidewalks
are about to become . reality, ac-
cording to information revealed by
Councilman william r. Miller.
Councilman Miller disclosed that
the Works Progress Administration
has approved an application from the
town government to grant them over
$4,000 for the work. Although the
town has not been formally notified.
the council will meet Monday night
in the new Seat Pleasant School to
arrange for the bond issue to meet
the requirements Of the Government
grant, Councilman Miller said.
Project to Cost 100000.
The cost Of the project will be
over 100000, according to the pres
ent plans. The work will begin about
January IS, Miller stated, If the town
can float Its bond by that time. The
plans calls for the hard surfacing
OF each street in the incorporation and
the construction of sidewalks.
This will be the largest improve
ment the town has ever received, ac-
cording to the citizens who have re-
sided here over rs years. The
Citizens Association, when it Or
ganized year ago, made Q plea to
the town. county and State officials
for street improvements.
With these Improvements assured
the town oficials and the citizens are
making plans for a number of others
The new improvements sought will
be as follows:
Want Bridge Removed.
!. The removing Of the wooden
bridge over the discontinued WASH
inston, Baltimore and Annapolis Rail-
road.
2. The grading Of q section Of
Chapel road to reduce the hazard
where the children Of the Seat Pleas
ant School have to cross
g. Improving of Chapel road east
Of the railroad tracks to connect with
Eastern avenue. in Washington.
4. To have the District Line School
torn down, since the pupils have
moved to the new school,
S. To have mail delivered to the
homes as soon as the sidewalks are
completed. The citizens at present
have to go to the post office located
near the District line TO get the mail
g. Weekly collection of trash and
garbage.
Evening star., 1936-12-20
KENILWORTH REVIEWS
STREET PAVING PLEA
Group Has Already Urged Sixty.
Third Street Project for
10 Years.

The Kenilworth Citizens Associa-
ton and the Seat Pleasant and Ad-
Joining Communities Citizens Asso-
ciation will 60 before the Highway
Department of the District Govern
n,ent seeking the paving Of . section
of Sixty-thir street to connect two
Maryland highways, it was disclosed
BY an official Of the Kenilworth or
Eanization.
The section Of Sixty-third street ID
located in the District Of Columbia,
vet it separates the Maryland roads.
For the last 10 years citizens of Mary
land Park and Seat Pleasant, Md,
have been before the Highway De-
partment seeking paving. but have
met with no success.
William H Webb. president OF the
Kenilworth Citizens Association, and
Mrs. Mabel White Hubbel, secretary
OF the same organization, announced
Monday that they would plead with
the District officials for the paving.
The street connects New Roadway
b Maryland Park. Md, and Roosevelt
avenue In Seat Pleasant, Md, and is
approximately 900 feet in length. 1t
would give the children Of Seat
Pleasant q direct route to the Mary
land Park High School II paved.
Evening star., 1936-12-20
Weekly Review.

Weekly Review.
Ev1Ew Of the civic week from
Thursday, December II, to Thurs
day, December "a:
Brightwood - Indorsed William
NICK. Clayton for post Of peoples
counsel; named Clayton as candi-
date for Citizens Service Award.
opposed abolition Of 81 street car pass
and any increase in street car and
bus fare. urged increased powers fol
Public Utilities Commission, author
lied Clayton to continue protests
against proposed removal Of Third
and Kennedy street car tracks and
the operation OF shuttle busses from
Fourteenth street and Colorado
avenue.
Mount Pleasant - Appealed to
Budget Bureau and Congress for in
creased school appropriations. urged
all parents to have children inoculat-
ed as protection against diphtheria.
Congress Heights-Elected DR.. G
c. Havenner honorary member for
his civic work for Southeast Wash
ington.
Hillcrest-Opposed construction Of
abattoir in Benning. voted to Cooper
ate with five other civic groups In
effort to secure appropriations for
Oxon Run interceptor.
Kalorama-Approved action OF the
Chevy Chase group questioning leader
ship of the federation in its ''red
rider" fight, opposed abattoir con-
struction IN Benning, opposed three
eight-hour shifts for District fire.
men, favored continuation of office
of peoples counsel. Endorsed Judge
Nathan Clayton's proposed small
claims court, asked an increase o.
500 men for Metropolitan Police De-
partment.
Park View-Indorsed three pla-
tooned eight-hour shifts for flremen
opposed any change In speed lave.
emphasizing objections to proposed in
crease In speed limits; protested
against number of street cars operated
on Georgia avenue.
Piney Branch-Urged William NICK.
Clayton for post Of peoples counsel.
Stanton Park-Reiterated opposition
to one-man street cars, asked con-
tinuation of peoples counsePs ONCE.
Columbia Heights Forum-Opposed
construction of abattoir, protested
elimination Of direct street car serv-
ice with Union Station and Potomac
Park.
Petworth-Opposed abolition of 81
street car pass; protested against
smaller number Of Georgia. avenue
street cars now running on this line;
urged more carefulness by public in
discarding empty Liquor containers
and asked police, refuse department
and District Commissioners to en-
force laws prohibiting this practice;
commended Alcoholic Beverage Con-
troll Board and liquor dealers for not
connecting liquor displays with the
Christmas season to attract children;
opposed proposed increase In maxi
mum speeds which drivers may at
tain before being subjected to reyoca-
ton of driving permits.
| Southeast Councu-Opposed Lin
Evening star., 1936-12-20
ACTION ASKED ON DOGS
CREATING NUISANCE"

The Manor Park Citizens Associa-
ton is seeking, through the Commis-
sioners, a change in the District code
that will enable the pound master
to collect dogs that create nuisance
in damaging property.
1t is the contention Of the associa-
ton that dog owners who fail to
heed the complaints of neighbors
should expect their pets to be i'm
pounded by police and released only
with the payment Of Q small fee.
Present law does not give officials
authority to impound dogs that deface
public property, it was resolved by
members of the association.
Evening star., 1936-12-20
Highway Equity Sought
By Board Of Trade.

EQUAL treatment with the States
- and Territories as to allot-
ment Of Federal funds for the
building of highways in the Dis
trict of Columbia Is sought by the
Board Of Trade. While many mil
lions of dollars have gone to the
States for the building OF high
ways during the last 20 years, the
District has been denied any
participation in such distribution
except during some Of the expendi-
lures for the relief Of unemploy-
ment.
The board has been assured by
Senator King that he considers
the idea sound in principle that
the District should be treated the
same as the States and Territories
In this legislation.
It is an interesting fact, to be
remembered in the consideration
Of this question, that the District
is o substantial contributor In
Federal taxes to the fund from
which these State aid road appro-
priations are made. It Is also i'm
portant to remember that the
theory Is that this State aid Is
designed largely to build the great
through highways that serve inter-
state commerce. But somehow the
fact has always been overlooked
Evening star., 1936-12-20

A farm and home for inebriates
financed by tax on the liquor dealers
in Washington will be sought in the
coming session Of Congress by the
Lincoln Park Citizens Association. 1t
was revealed yesterday.
The proposed bill will be similar
to the one drafted by J. w. Barse. a
member of the Lincoln Park Citizens
Association, last year. it was said.
The tentative draft provides a special
tax on liquor sales In the District to
establish there a suitable home for
inebriates; to maintain dependent
wives and minor children of in
ebriates;. to provide home relief for
widows and orphans of inebriates;
and to pay adjudicated claims for
injury or death. caused. in part or
major degree, by persons under the
influence of intoxicating liquors
within the District of Columbia.
Back Capt. Barnard.
Since Capt. M. M. Barnard. su-
perintendent Of the District Penal In
stitution, has recommended that q
hospital for inebriates be constructed
at Occoquan the civic body believes
that the Washington citizens should
aid him. In Barnard's recommended
ton the tax on the liquor dealers
was not mentioned.
The association has also been in
formed that some of the judges Of
Police Court are in sympathy with
the plan.
Part of the proposed bill is as fol-
lows:
THAT a special tax Of not less than
1 or more than 5 per centum, accord
ing to the yearly estimate Of the
Commissioners of the District Of Co
lumbia as to sufiiciency, shall be i'm
posed on the gross daily sales OF
LIQUORS by the licensees in the District
of Columbia to establish home for
inebriates in the said District and
the maintenance Of the same by the
Board of Public Welfare.
Aid for Dependents.
Section 2. This inebriate tax shall
Evening star., 1936-12-20

quilts to be distributed Christmas.
Under supervision Of the Bancroft
Parent Teacher Association; Miss
Grace Lind. school principal; Mrs.
Mary Mangene, the school oreaniza-
tons welfare chairman, and the
teachers, each child of Bancrofts six
grades has sewed at least one piece OF
a quilt. Each grade has completed at
least one quilt.
The reconditioned toys and the
quilts will be distributed to several
District schools, where they, in turn,
will be distributed just before Christ
mas to the needy families by the
principals and teachers Of those
Evening star., 1936-12-20

TOR the eighth consecutive year
- pupils. parents and teachers
of Bancroft Elementary School
4 are indirectly playing Santa
Claus to hundreds Of Washington's
needy children.
Working together. they have col
lected some 1000 odd toys for distri-
button to the city's less fortunate
through principals and teachers Of
other schools.
Besides numerous dolls. wagons,
doll furniture, kiddie cars. velocipedes
and mechanical toys the children.
parents and teachers have worked
together in making "a piecework
Evening star., 1936-12-20
PROTECTION OF PUPILS
AT CROSSINGS ASKED
Park View Group Wants Safety
Zones and Crosswalks at Four
1nferSer%innG

Cross walks and safety zones at
four street intersections in the COM
munity will be requested Of the traffic
director, announces F. v. Hale, presi-
dent Of the Park View Citizens Asso-
citation. They are as follows: Newton
street, Otis street and Princeton street
at Georgia avenue. and the junction
Of Sixth and Newton streets.
Mr.. Hale cites the need, due to the
consistently heavy automobile trafhc.
as vital for the protection Of school
children who must cross these streets
several times a day"
The Sixth and Newton street inter-
section, Mr.. Hale declared. is pa
trolled by a sixth grade pupil Of
Park View elementary school.
In the annual election there were
few changes in the executive body.
F. v. Hale was chosen for president;
B. J. Kroger, vice president; J. 8.
Cole, secretary: H. H. Moore, treas
urer. Serving on the Executive Com
mittee are Miss Emily Scrivener, Miss
Edith Shannon and B. s. Smith, while
Fred S. White and Mr.. Cole were
elected delegates to the federation.