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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-09-16
Duck Out for Walk
Is Taken for Ride

Springfield "Yessir, it's getting so a
duck can't go for walk any more with
out getting a ride" said Master Spoon
bill when he joined his brothers and
sisters in the river one evening last
week after making tour of the city
of Springfield as far as the Bill Frank
residence. 1t seems Bill Frank was
sitting on the porch of his home one
evening about dusk when he noticed a
small figure tottering about on the
boulevard. Upon investigation it proved
to be small wild duck of the SPOON
bill species. Being unable to fly, the
small feathered creature was easily cap
tured. Bill returned the bird to the
river where it swan happily down.
stream, no doubt in search of its COM
panions.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-09-16
Ten Plaques of Egypt

The Bible mentions ten plaques
of Egypt, although it is common to
speak of the "seven plaques Of
Egypt" The plaques were as fol-
lows: The turning of the Nile into
blood, covering the land with frogs,
turning the dust into lice, sending
swarms Of flies, killing of the cattle
by a murrain, affecting the Egyp-
tians with boils, raining fire and hail,
covering the land with locusts, COW
ering the land with a thick darkness
for three days, and the destruction
of the first born of man and beast.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-09-16
Ear Held Imperfect Organ

From the scientists point of view
the human ear is an imperfect mi
crophone which adds harmonics to
the notes it hears. Actually, physi-
cists say, it is difficult to prevent
any sound detecting device from
adding overtones which were not
present in the original sound. The
ear does not pass sound vibrations
on to the brain exactly as they were
received, but adds other higher
tones.-Popular Mechanics Maya
zine.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-09-16
st. Therese Club Met
Wednesday Evening.

The members of the st. ThereSe Club
met Wednesday evening and elected Of
ficers for the ensuing year. The Of
ficers chosen were as follows:
President-Dorothy Kobe.
Vice Observation-Disclosures Chimzar
Secretary and Treasurer-Mary Kure
Standing Committee-Helen Stefan
ich, Headrene Lenich and Mary Grahek
Publicity Chairman-Julia Marolt.
Meetings will be held the second We'd
nesday of each month in the club room
of the Junior High School.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-09-16
The Widows Stone

In the Greek language the word
amethyst meant not drunken. The
Greeks believed that this gem
protected them against drunkenness.
Any man who placed an amethyst
under his tongue might drink any
amount of wine with IMMUNITY, they
said. Placed under the head of a
sleeping person it produced pleas
ant dreams. 1t restored lost mem
DRY and turned away wrath.-Pear-
sons London Weekly.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-09-16

is sure liberal. And the latest, he says,
is in Chattanooga, which is a rich and
fine town, and the Govt. it has donated
2 million there to build power house.
So says, gee whiz, thought Chat
tanooga was already lit up in fine style.
And this accountant, he took a long
breath and he says, well, it is easy to
see that you don't know an awful lot
about figures-or politics.
Yours, with the low down,
10 SIERRA
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-09-16

NEW YORK STATE also con-
tributes fve-eighths of the
United States bank clearings, pos
sesses one-fourth of it's bank de-
posits and produces one-seventh
of the entire country's manufac-
lures.
Iron is distributed over large
African areas. The richness Of
the ore makes extraction a SIM
pie process. In many sections
whole tribes exist through iron
working. Next to bronze, iron
is the most anciently used of COM
mon metals. The Pyramids of
Egypt have given up iron-made
articles that are believed to be at
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-09-16

least 5000 years old.
1t is believed that Edsel Ford
is now the richest man in the
world. His father, John D. Rock
efeller, Sr. and Andrew Mellon
take 18th, 18th and 18th places
respectively.
a HARDWARE dealer in Day.
4 \ ton, Ohio, offers free packs Of
flower seeds to get people inter-
ested in his spring garden tools
sales increased some 10 per
cent for a Salt Lake City phar-
macist when he installed an open
display self-service counter in
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-09-16

place Of the old-fashioned closed
case /. and another drug store,
down in Texas, provides a snappy
phone service to fountain and
restaurant customers when a
customer gets a phone call
portable" phone Is plugged"
into a nearby electrical outlet.
No customer need leave his or
her chair to answer the phone.
Invented, in England, an auto
matte pillow which can be set to
pillow a certain size field. 1t OPP
crates without any human aid.
A German scientist has invent
ed shoes that permit the wearer
to walk On the surface Of water.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-09-16

10, he says, did you
see where Uncle
Sam is givin' away
millions to the rich,
that don't need it,
and I says, help no,
I never saw that.
And this neighbor,
he is an accountant,
and he knows fig
ures, and they don't
scare him. So he
saws, vest. the Govt.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-09-16
THE LOW DOWN
-trom-
HICKORY GROVE

Big figures kinda stall me, and any
way I have always thought they was
for somebody else besides me. And al
so, the ones you see, they are mostly
Uncle Sarnbo's and I always imagined
that his figures was o. K, and I didn't
need to check up on 'em, even if I
could.
But a neighbor Teller he says to me,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-09-16
Gases in Sea Water

The water of the ocean, like any
other liquid, absorbs a certain
amount of the gases with which it
is in contact. Sea water contains
dissolved oxygen, nitrogen and car
bonic acid absorbed from the at
moSphere.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-09-16
POliteness

"Politeness can't be put on all of
sudden" said Uncle Eben. "Some
men tryin' to be polite makes you
think of a swallow-tail coat hurried
on over suit of overalls."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-09-16

World Map in Sixth Century
Anaximander, a Greek of the
Sixth century B. c., is credited wpth
having designed the first map of
the world.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-09-16
Most Even Precinita tinn

New England, has the country's
most even precipitation, a little
more than three inches a month,
total of forty inches in the normal
wear
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-09-16
Pacific Tides Higher

Tides on the Pacific coast are GER
orally higher than those on the At.
lantlc coast, partly because of east.
ward winds.
Evening star., 1937-11-20

primarily for British youngsters, the
stress in both volumes, naturally
enough, is on British and European
types. In the military airplane book,
for example, so pages are devoted to
British fighting planes, SO pages to
the airplanes of all other nations.
There are, nevertheless, many of the
latest and most important of the
United States military and commercial
airplanes included. In addition to the
brief descriptions of the various types
of airplanes shown photographically,
there are concise histories of the
various general classes of aircraft, of
air transport development and of
competitive flying and other features
of aviation progress.
The photographs, generally, are
good, showing much detail. There
frequently are two or more views, from
different angles, of each of the more
important types of aircraft. This
feature will delight the builders Of
model aircraft regardless Of ma
tionality. USE.
Evening star., 1937-11-20
Brief Reviews of Books

Lives.
THE RECTORY FAMILY. BY John
Franklin Garter. New York. Cow
ard-McCann, Inc.
A very pleasant little story of a
pre-war New England family.
Politics.
ROOSEVELT-AN THEN? BY STAN
ley High. New York: Harper 81
Bros
A popular political writer predicts
what lays ahead of America as a
result of the Presidents social doc
trines. Optimistic.
FcOnOmics-SociolOgy
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING FOR
TODAY AND TOMORROW. Ed
tied by Henry c. Metcaf New
York: Harper & Bros.
A series of lectures designed for
business men to present TO them the
best practices in negotiating collec-
tive agreements
THREE THEORIES OF SOCIETY.
BY Paul Hanley Furfey. New York
The Macmillan Co.
A work designed to show that men
are animated by three desires-for
success. for beauty and for faith. Well,
there seems to be reason in the con-
tention.
Natural Resources.
THE WASTED LAND. BY Gerald w
Johnson, Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press
The condition of the South. with
relation to natural resources and
what may be done to save the land
from total wreck. Scholarly.
Freedom?
LET FREEDOM RING. BY Arthur
Garfield Hays. New York: Live
right Publishing Corp
Violations of civil liberties in Amer
ica. Old stuff and some new.
The Arts.
SIX CENTURIES OF FINE PRINTS.
BY Carl Zigrosser. New York: Co.
vici Friede
A history of the art of print max
ing With 488 reproductions of IA
NOUS etchings, Autographs. aqua
tlntS. WoodcutS and engravings Worth
having
ENCORE. BY Daniel Frohman. New
York: Lee Furman.
The veteran producer reminisces,
Ships.
LAST OF THE SQUARE -RIGGED
SHIPS. BY J. Ferrell Cotton. New
York: G. P Putnams Sons.
A handbook of square-rigged sailing
ships which still survive. Detailed and
informative.
Inheritance.
YOUR WILL AND WHAT NOT TO
DO ABOUT 1T. BY Rene Wormser.
New York: Simon e. Schuster.
A book of advice about bequeathing
property. Useful.
Canning.
THE CANNING CLAN. BY Earl Cha
pin May. New York: The Macmil-
Ian Co.
The story of the pioneers in the
canning industries of America.
Yoga.
YOGA EXPLAINED. BY F. Yeats
Brown. New York: The Viking
Press
An explanation of the theory and
practice of Yoga. Informative, though
not profound.
Fiction.
WHITE HE'LL OF PITY. BY Norah
Lofts New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Unhappy tale of an English girls
struggle to rise above a mean environ
ment.
SWIFT WATERS. BY Christine Whit
ing Parmenter. New York: Thomas
Y. CroWell Co.
The serious story of two women's
lives in an old New England town.
Worthy
Evening star., 1937-11-20

MODERN MARRIAGE BY Rob Eden.
New York: M. S. Mill Co.
The story of young couple who
both had jobs. Trash.
WOOLLCOTT'S SECOND READER.
New York: The Viking Press.
Containing the following: Preface to
"All Men Are Brothers," by Shin Mai
an; The Lady's Maids Bell" by Edith
Wharton: Joe" by Gustav Eckstein;
"A Christmas Garland" by Max Beer
bohm The Portrait of M. M" bv D.
H. Lawrence; Two Friends" by Villa
Gather; Cakes and Ale" by Somerset
Vaughan. Boswell and the Girl From
Botany Bay" by Frederick A. POttle;
The Golden Age" by Kenneth Gra-
hame: Peter Rugg, the Missing Man" y"
by William Austin; My Aunt Daisy"
by Albert Halper; three stories by
Dorothy Parker: Big Two-Hearted
River by Ernest Hemingway; The
Self-Help of G.. J. Smith" by William
Bolltho: "All kneeling" by Anne Par
rlsh: "Whllomville Stories. by Stephen
Crane; To the Reverend DR.. HYDE"
by Robert Louis Stevenson, "Rab and
His Friends" by DR.. John Brown:
God and My Father" by Clarence
Day. and Thanksgiving proclamation
issued by Gov. Cross of Connecticut
You make up your own mind.
Mysteries.
THE SOMERSET MURDER CASE.
BY Brian Flynn. New York: The
NJ S. Mill Co.
A family is wiped out Good average
Juveniles.
SING A SONG OF SAFETY. Bv
Irving Caeser Music by Gerald
Marks. New York: Irving Caeser
Words and music to teach safety
habits to the very young. Might be
useful
BEGINNINGS OF EARTH AND SKY.
BY Sophia L. Faks. Boston: The
Beacon Press.
Stories gathered from various ancient
folklores, dealing with the beginnings
of earth and people Unique.
TAKES OF A CHINESE GRAND
MOTHER. BY Frances Carpenter.
New York: Doubleday-Doran Co.
The author of Tales of Russian
Grandmother" continues her series.
Pleasant and attractively illustrated.
JEAN AND COMPANY. UNLIMITED.
BY Helen c. Perry Curtis. Phila-
delphla: John c. Winston Co.
A book-length story about the lives
OF young people in different lands.
UNDER THE JAPANESE MOON. BY
Phyllis Aver Sewers. Boston: L. C.
Page Co.
Young Americans travel in Japan
and learn about the country
BOB WAKEFIELD, NAVAL INSPEC-
TOR. BY Blaine and Du Pont Mil
Ter. New York: Dodd. Mead e. Co.
Young fellows having adventures in
the aviation branch of the Navy. For
older boys
GREEK JOURNEY. BY Lincoln and
Margaret MacVeagh. New York
Dodd, Mead & Co.
A story of life in Greece, by the
American Minister to that country and
his wife. Pleasant and attractively
illustrated.
SAM. BY Edward Quigley and John
Crawford. New York: Stackpole
Sons.
The story of a kitten, illustrated
with photographs. Very nice
GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. Illustrated
by Fritz Kredel. New York: Stack
pole Sons.
A new edition of the classic. Worth
examining
Evening star., 1937-11-20
By NC. X.
" vASHrNGTONIANS

w YASH1NGTONIAN VIII o
~ sometimes spend silent
wv hours wondering what the
police do should read, in
the December Esquire, an article of
enlightenment on this mysterious sub
iect, written by the hand of Pvt. A.
Stanley Moreau. Officer Moreau be-
longs to our own fair city; he Is q
member of the United States Park
Police, National Capital Parks. Fur
thermore, he has been q member Of
this proud body six years. Obvi-
ously he should know what he is talk
ing about. Well, he calls his article
Il Am q Police Officer" and in it
he writes, with melancholy matter-of-
factness, that to be one of the sturdy
boys in blue Is not all apple pie and
cheese.
On the contrary, says Officer Nor
eau, to be policeman is to work hard
at doing nothing dangerously. Figure
that one out for yourself, if you can.
AS Officer Moreau puts it himself:
Most of the time I do nothing No
tice I say most of the time, not all
of the time. And by doing nothing l
do not mean that am leaning against
tree. I am patrolling my beat. I
may not smoke on the street. l
should not hold any conversation that
is not in line of duty. 1 am not go
ing anywhere. That explains my slow
walk. If I race to the other end Of
my beat, have only to turn around
and race back again. If l race my
self, I do not observe all that takes
place within sight or hearing.
Working from 4 pm. until II pm,
making five or six arrests in that time,
spending most of the next day in
court, going back to work again at
pm, and continuing to do that all
week. until I wonder when I'm going
to get any sleep, going to court on my
day off in lieu of Sunday, that seems
hard to me :"
And as for the danger element
Once in a lifetime" says Officer
Moreau, Il might have a pistol duel
Evening star., 1937-11-20
The Public Library

to a Visitor Spending a Month on
the Moon. BY G. P. ServlSs.
LY .Se64S.
Illustrated with complete series
of photographs taken at the Yerke5
Observatory.
THROUGH THE TELESCOPE; A
Story of the Stars. BY E. A.
Faith. LR F26t.
A popular and well-illustrated book
on astronomy which presents the
mechanics of a great telescope and
something of the achievements of
modern astronomers.
THE STARS IN THEIR COURSES.
BY Sir J. H. Jeans. LRJ34s.
Talks written in an informal non
technical style, aiming to provide
readable and not over-serious intro
duction to the most poetical Of the
sciences.
BEGINNER GUIDE TO THE
STARS. BY E, G. Murphy. Based
on "A Beginners Star Book" by
Kelvin McKready LTM954.
The first steps in recognizing the
stars and planets chiefly without op-
teal help.
EVENING WITH THE STARS. BY
Mary Proctor. Illustrated with 81
original charts drawn by the au-
thor LTP939e.
"a simple diagrammatic identlfca-
| ton of the consultations and their
conspicuous stars, with a section on
the history and legends associated
with the sky"
Sun.
THE SUN. BY c. G. Abbott.
LW Ab27s.
Although a comprehensive, scien-
tif1c work not of a popular nature,
there is included much to interest the
general reader.
ROMANCE OF THE SUN. BY Mary
Proctor. LWP95r.
A popularity written work on the
"Wondrous revelations of the sun dis
covered by means of photography and
tr" spectroscope.
Telescope.
AMATEUR TELESCOPE MAKING.
Edited by Albert &. ingalls, -
with foreword by DR.. Harlow
Shapley. LRL.Amla2
Thoroughly practical suggestions by
advanced amateurs"
THE HOMEMADE TELESCOPE. By
Wilbur F. Decker. LRL Dds.
Specifications and directions for
making a telescope powerful enough
to reveal the satellites of Jupiter.
MEN, MIRRORS AND STARS. BY
G. E. Pendray. LRL P37. $50
The story of the telescope from the
discovery of its principle by Jan Lip
pershey in 1903, to the large mirrors
Of the present day.
Evening star., 1937-11-20
BEST SELLERS FOR THE
WEEK ENDING NOVEM-
BER 13:

Fiction.
The Rains Came. Bromfield.
Harper g. Bros.
The Turning Wheels. Cloete.
Houghton Miffiin.
The Citadel. Cronin. Little,
Northwest Passage. Roberts.
Doubleday, Doran.
Enchanter's Nightshade. Bridge.
Little, Brown.
Imperial City. Rice. Coward
McCann.
Non Fiction.
Great Contemporaries. Churchill.
Putnam's.
Why Edward Went. Wells, Nc
Bride.
Augustus. Buchan. Houghton-
Mifflin.
The Arts. Van Loon. Simon &
Schuster.
Andrew jackson. James. Bobbs-
Merrill.
How to Lose Friends and Alien
ate People. Tressler. Stackpole.
Evening star., 1937-11-20
THROUGH THE TELESCOPE.

~ OPULAR interest in astronomy
u has been growing by leaps and
bounds III recent years. stim-
a ulated by such events as the
recent total eclipse of the sun. which
lured astronomers to tiny island in
the mld-PacifiC and the transit of
Finsler's comet which proved eSpe-
cially exciting to amateurs. Out of
the local interest aroused at the time
of the comets appearance has grown
the National Capital Amateur Astron-
omers' Association.
To meet this demand for informa-
ton on astronomical subjects the
technology division of the Public
Library presents a short list Of out
standing books. A longer list will be
available at the central building at
Eighth and K streets NV and at
all branches later in the month.
The sky
Is that beautiful old parchment
In which the sun
And the moon
Keep their diary"
Alfred KreymbOrg.
odd Manuscript"
General Astronomy.
ASTRONOMY FOR THE MILLIONS.
BY G. van den Bergh. LR RB455.
The phenomena of the universe
made intelligible without sacrificing
the scientific significance of the SUBJ
ject.
THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE. BY
Sir Arthur Eddington LR Ed2.
The author deals with the view that
the galaxy of stars is dispensing, scat
tering apart so as to occupy an ever
increasing volume
UNIVERSE AROUND US. BY Sir j
H. Jeans. LR.J34u2.
"a brief account written in simple
language, of the methods and results
of modern astronomical research, both
obServational and theoretical"
SPLENDOUR OF THE HEAVENS
Edited by T. E. r. Phillips and w.
H. Stevenson. LRP544s.
A popular authoritative astronomy
s* containing l,l04 black and white
illustrations and 25 colored plates.
A SOURCE BOOK IN ASTRONOMY.
BY Harlow Shapley and H. E. Ho-
warth. LR.4Sh2.
Significant excerpts from the
writings of SO great astronomers from
Copernicus to G.. H. Darwin
Moon.
ROMANCE OF THE MOON. BY
Mary Proctor Illustrated with
charts and photographs taken at
the leading observatories. LYP94.
A pleasantly discursive book dealing
with a wide range of subjects con-
nected with the moon.
THE STORY OF THE MOON; A De-
scription of the Scenery of the
Lunar World as 1t Would Appear
Evening star., 1937-11-20

. OPULAR interest in astronomy
= has been growing by leaps and
bounds III recent years. stim-
ulated by such events AS the
Evening star., 1937-11-20

Orestes Ferrara. Translated from
the Spanish by William E, Shea
New York: The Paisley Press.
THIS is the history of the diplo-
matte moves which preceded the
Spanish American War. The author
former Cuban Ambassador to Wash
ington, should be we'll known to manv
Star readers. His brief scholarly
work. though a history of a highly
involved and complicated situation.
is as interesting a narrative as the
reviewer has had to read in a long
time.
The account begins in 1896 with
the circulation among the Ambassa-
dors of the various powers to Spain
of the O'Donnell memorandum. :"
which had as its object to induce the
European nations to intervene in Cuba
in the interest of the principle of
monarchial government From this
1t moves on to the entrance of the
United States into the Cuban revolt.
An amazing number Of intrigues and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-08

man children have been set up;
and teachers are imported from
the Reich, by these Nazi school
authorities, to implant anti
Semitic and anti-religious venom
in the hearts and the minds
Of young German-Americans.
For example. Hitler and his
associates have set up. as of
February IS. a school for Nazi
officials. Hitler's government
pays all of the expenses.
Hitler agents have also estab.
lished Nazi military camps in
New York, New Jersey, Penn
sylVania, Ohio, Illinois, Texas,
Wisconsin and California, and
other States.
Such Nazi influence in this
country seems limitless, and
efforts must be made sooner or
later to label it, so that Amer.
leans can be forewarned.
MR.. MCCORMACK quite
agree with you. In common par
lance, the Nation does not know
the half of it." Up my way in
Boston, and even in your New
York district, all manner and
kinds Of concessions and induce
mentS are offered by the Ger
man government to influence
and spread Nazi propaganda in
the United States. The HAM
burg-American and North Ger
man Lloyd lines were shown by
our special committee to have
been involved in transporting
agents here and supporting the
movement in this country. Many
German firms doing business
here have been commanded 70
finance Nazi agents. MANY
New York. Boston. Chicago and
Philadelphia firms are hot-beds
for Nazi secret and anti-Amer.
lean activities.
Numerous private American
travel bureaus furnish all man.
ner and kinds of information to
the Nazi government. Nazi gov.
eminent spies abound every.
where.
/ Ito Be Concluded Tomorrow