The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-04-09

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"a defense of t b ei r
own soil against a
Arthur Brisbane foreign invader"
Lloyd George is bitter in his denun-
citation of the suggestion that England
be dragged into another war. France"
says he, ''can spend $500,O00,000 on the
erection of huge Notifications. We can
vote plans which involve expenditure
of an extra fifteen hundred million dol
lars for protection. But if the Ger
mans propose to throw up even pill
box to guard their famous cities and
their greatest industrial area +. then
measures must be concerted between
the general army stats of Britain and
France"
The fastest" double star is found,
and that is the big news. Irwin suns"
close together, in the constellation Of
Ophiuchus, revolve completely around
each other in twenty months. The
shortest period of revolution for any
OIhCl UlhdIy Sldl 10 hNC years OSuuC
revolve only once in a hundred years.
Nature is both fast and slow; the
electron in the atom revolves around
the proton thousands of millions of
times in second. The lens-shaped
Milky Way above your head, in which
our sun is one of thirty thousand mil
lion specks of light, revolves once in
225,OOO,O00 years. No limit to bigness,
no limit to smallness. apparently.
That naval conference in London
ends, quite to the satisfaction of Eng
land, with the situation about as it
was when Hiram johnson of California
put the situation in these few words:
"Great Britain builds as she prefers;
the United States builds as Great Brit
ain permits"
England actually says to the United
States, "YOu must build no more cruis-
ers with eight-inch guns; we do not
like them" And the United States
humbly says, "All right, then we shall
not build any,"
It is the old story: England has
statesmen, we have politicians-and
some of them are Anglomaniac snobs.
Big business, like little business, has
had its trouble, but here and there it
is still big business. In his annual
report for General Motors, Alfred P.
Sloan, Jr., reports net sales last year
amounting to S1,155,641 ,511, against
$500, 672, $40 the year before; gain of
more than two hundred and ninety-two
million dollars. That means many new
cars. and families made happier. The
company paid out in wages more than
three hundred and twenty-three million
dollars, not including wages paid indi-
rectly to thousands of workers produc-
ing materials of which automobiles are
made.
Sixty of Mussolini's planes have
wiped out Harar, Ethiopia's second
biggest city, one Of 10000 inhabitants.
"Civilized" Europe, England leading,
bemoans the fact that Mohammedan
mosque, the Coptic cathedral and
Catholic church were blasted.
They forget what happened in the
big war, at Rheims, Louvain and else
where, and the German cannon big
Bertha" throwing at Paris shells that
might well have wrecked Notre Dame,
the Madeleine or the Sainte Chapelle.
War is as ruthless as was nature
In the earthquake that destroyed the
great cathedral of Lisbon, killing thou
sands that had gathered there seeking
divine protection.
When Pittsburgh is through with
the disaster that has almost over
whelmed the city, monument should
be erected in a park, or on the noun
tainside, in honor of the courage and
recuperative energy of the great indus
trial city. With lights turned off, wa
ter flooding the streets, many men and
women calmly continued their work,
COdI caps,
like so many gigantic glow worms.
Americans still possess resourceful-
ness and can do what they must do.
"To him that hath shall be given"
even In Wall street speculation.
Beginning May l. If you buy 500
worth of stocks. you must put $50 of
your own into the deal. This will
compel small fish to operate on a
small scale and get rich slowly, If
at all.
1t has been suggested here often
that airplanes might fight forest fires,
possibly by laying down from over
head a soapy layer to shut out oxygen
Utah's officials have planned a new
parachute, instantaneOusly opening.
that would land from one to six fire.
fighters and apparatus from planes,
wherever desired.
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