The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-16


cision takes. from
arthur brisbane the government sew
en- hundred million a year of proc
essing taxes that will have to be made
good elsewhere. The manufacturers,
or processing, tax, handed along to
the little people, was, in reality, sales
tax on life's reconsideration cloth,
flour, meat.
The question. is, Who will provide
cash promised the farmers, since the
Supreme court will not sanction the
sales tax, disguised as 'pross" tax?
Whence will come the hundreds of
millions the government owes to farm
ers under its AAA promises and has
not yet paid? The farmers did their
part, the government could hardly fail
to do it's part by paying.
International News Service sports
department shows that out of about
1,S00,OOO,000 human beings on earth
only II are known that can run a mile
at really high speed, OF these not
more than four would have any chance
of beating an individual named Glenn
Cunningham of Kansas.
You would think that the billion I'M
known uncounted among the so-called
backward races" many with native
energy, free of civilizations handicaps,
could easily be trained to beat the II
fast ones, but it is not probable.
The Presidents address ION the
state of the Union" was, like nearly
all Presidential speeches, an address
on the state of the administration.
Discussing danger of war, If it is
true that 1876 or 80 per cent of all the
people in the world are content with
the territorial limits of their respec-
tive nations" that would leave only
10 or Is per cent of the aggressive
type.
Lloyd George, playing little poll
tics with his friend Prime Minister
Baldwin, eXults in the noble moral
uprising of the British, rejecting the
terrible, immoral plan to divide Eth
opia and placate Italy. Something
without precedent" Lloyd George
calls 1t.
Where England is concerned, 'divid-
ing up" is. indeed, almost without
precedent England's custom as rule
is to swallow things whole, as she did
with the Transvaal, India, and other
territories that have kept her old fight
ing flag always in the sunshine.
The Methodist Episcopal church is
proud to announce in Nashville, Tenn,
that it begins 1896 with PISS, 269 reg
ularly enrolled members. an increase
over the preceding year of 31,29S, with
21,361 baptized infants not included.
This is the reply of the Methodist
Episcopalians to the thigh church"
Episcopalians of the English church
that suggests giving up Professionalism
altogether as failure.
Children will learn with pleasure
that it is not necessary to eat spinach
unless you like 1t. Other vegetables
take the place of spinach with
menacing person called "Pop-Eye."
The government, through WPA, will
print a book on what to eat and how
to eat It. One we'll known New York
physician ventures the opinion that
spinach contains an Objectionable
amount Of vegetable uric acid"
! The English, Mortified by Italian
bombing in Ethiopia, would be inter-
ested, If they have forgotten about 1t,
to see photographs of one big Egyp-
tan city after British warships had
| finished its bombardment. 1t was an
exceptionally complete job, nothing
! left standing.
A twenty-year-old Poughkeepsie girl,
''from the other side of the tracks,"
working for Sc week, was invited
by a young man to get into his auto
mobile. want to go somewhere for
| drink, baby?" was the invitation for
mula. In the morning the unfortunate
girl was found In the mans car in a
garage, dead, horribly mistreated and
beaten to death. The excuse for men
tioning so dreadful a crime is that it
ought to warn all girls foolish enough
to accept invitations from unknown
men.
New Jersey says the execution of
Hauptmann, close at hand, will be no
theatrical show. No woman reporter
| will be allowed to witness Haupt-
mann's death, an excellent idea, al
though some young ladies will not
think so. Female reporters, let us
hope, will have babies later on. Watch
ing a miserable creature writhing in
the electric chair would not be good
for the babies, although science no
longer believes in prenatal influences,
as Voltairel did.
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