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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-01

order, the doors at the rear
of the chamber opened and a
doorkeeper announced: ST h e
vice president of the United
States and the members of the
United States senate" In the
midst of a hushed silence Vice
President Marshall and the elder
statesmen of the republic filed
into the room and took their
seats. Then, as the slight figure
of a scholarly-looking man ap-
peared, congressman and spec
tators alike surged to their feet
in a storm of handclapping and
cheers.
Wilson'S Momentous Message.
1t died down as Woodrow Will
son stepped to the reading desk
just below the dais where
Marshall and Clark sat. He began
to read.
ST have called the congress
into extraordinary session be-
cause there are serious, very
serious choices of policy to be
made, and made Immediately,
which it was neither right nor
Constitutionally permissible that
I should assume the responsible
ity of making"
His hands trembled slightly as
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-01
Origin of Chinese Laundrymen

CElSAu VI SA1lAICSc LduIlOE ItieH
T HE Chinese are admittedly the
l. best hand laundrynen in the
world. No American town would
be complete without it's ''Chink" and
his hole-in-the-wall laundry.
The Chinese first got into the
embarrassing business through a
queer set of circumstances. Back
in the years around the California
gold rush of 1849, miners on the
west coast found they were unable
to hire people to do mental labor
for love or money. Everyone had
come to California to dig for gold
and nothing else. So desperate did
their straits become that many sent
their clothes all the way to Hawaii
and even to China to have them
washed. This was China's original
contact with the American laundry
business.
When the first transcontinental
railway line was being built many
years later, whole shiploads of Chi
nese were imported because of their
cheapness and industry to work on
the road bed. After the line was
finished, many Chinese wanted to
remain and make their fortune in
the new land of opportunity.
But they quickly found that due
to temperamental and language
barriers, the doors of most bust
nesses were closed to them. They
had to find a business requiring
little capital or education, an d
where they would be their own
masters and have few contacts with
Westerners.
The laundry business was one of
the few which met these require
ments. Many of the original
Chinese and their descendants have
become well-to-do in it.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-01

of representatives they were
electing a speaker and other Off
GERS and ratifying committees.
After eight hours and ten roll
calls they were ready for bust
ness. In the White House tn e
President was dining with mem
bers of his family. AS they fin
ished, a delegation from congress
arrived with the message that
the senate and the house were
ready to receive a communica-
ton from the President.
Outside the Capitol a great
throng milled about, kept in or
der by two troops of cavalry that
had ridden over from Fort Myer.
Inside, the galleries of the house
were packed. Even the seldom
used diplomatic gallery was
filled. Two outstanding figures in
it were Ambassador Jusserand of
France and Ambassador Spring
Rice of Great Britain. The day
they had long hoped for had ar
rived.
A moment after Speaker
Clark had called the house to
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-01

mad boom era have been gathered.
Henry Ford sought the safe year
ago for his museum in Dearborn, but
the Meyers brothers prefer to keep II
in the oil lands where Goal Oil John
ny" rose to fame and fortune over.
highland fell just as suddenly.
Johnny was the widest of a mad
era. Oil. slippery sesame to riches,
was pouring from the ground In what
seemed an endless stream.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-01
The First Envelopes

4 HUNDRED years ago, the busi-
\ ness of posting letters was an
expensive and difficult job. In the
first place, there was no such thing
as an adhesive postage stamp. And
even worse, there was no such thing
as modern envelope.
In those days, when travel was
slow and hazardous, relatively few
people ever had occasion to write
letters. The few who did, wrote
their messages on one side of the
note paper only, and carefully
wrapped it up SO that none of the
writing showed. Then they either
paid the postman directly, or sent
it postage collect. The reason en-
velopes were so seldom used was
because an extra charge was made
for any paper, no matter how small,
when wrapped up in another.
A few wrappers that might be
called envelopes had been used in
France early in the Seventeenth
century, and a few were sold in
England as early as 1880. But the
first American to manufacture en-
velopes was named Pierson, who in
1889 began to sell them in his Full
ton Street Stationer's shop in New
York City.
The United States mail service
has come long way since those
early times. The Pony express,
which numbered Buffalo Bill among
it's brave riders, was thrilling if
brief interlude. The first time mail
was carried on a railroad train
marked the beginning of new era
in communication. And the way
that our modernized Uncle Sam de-
ivers literally billions of pieces Of
mail annually with efficiency and
speed is a tribute to our unexcelled
form of government.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-01

transfer pattern of two motifs 514
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-01
Happy Bluebirds
Motifs for Linens

Bluebirds are for happiness-so
runs the legend. This dainty pat
tern in 10-to-the-inch crosses will
add CHEEKY touch indeed to your
towels, pillow cases, scarfs or
cloths. Do these simple motifs in
natural color, or two shades of
one color. Pattern 1915 contains a
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-01
Goal Oil' Johnny's Safe in Museum

Franklin, Pa.-The old-fashioned
safe which once held the fortunes of
Goal Oil Johnny" Steele. colorful
spendthrift of the western Pennsyl-
vania oil boom days. is to be placed
in the Drake Memorial museum near
Titusville.
Pierce and Newton Myers, the safes
present owners. announced that 1t
would be sent to the museum, where
other relics and mementoes Of the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-01

lantic. And, ironically, this
was the nation whose people
only two months earlier had
reelected its Chief Executive
partly because of the plea in
his behalf: ''He kept us out
of war"
The first significant step in
this march of events had
been taken on January 81,
1917. The German high COM
mand, gambling desperately
to end the two-year stale
mate, announced that on the
next day it would begin unre-
stricted warfare and that
American shipping entering
the war zone would be limit
ed to one vessel a week.
When Secretary Joe Tumulty
entered the office of the Presi-
dent in the White House and laid
on his desk copy of the Associ-
ated Press dispatch containing
that news, Woodrow Wilson read
it slowly, then re-read it. A look
of surprise, then incredulity,
then stern determination passed
across his face. "Tumulty, this
means war;" he exclaimed. "The
break that we have tried so hard
to prevent now seems inevitable"
: The next day the President met
with his cabinet and told them of
the astounding surprise" of this
latest act of that mailman who
must be curbed"-Germany. But
even with this crisis thrust upon
him, he was determined not to
do more than sever diplomatic re-
lations with Berlin nor take any
action until there was an covert
act'' on the part of the Central
Powers. He repeated that deter
mination the following day when
he appeared before the congress
to tell it that we had broken, dip
lomatically, with Berlin.
The First Overt Act.
During the next month that
covert act" was committed. The
Ancona, an American ship, had
been sunk in the war zone. Again
Woodrow Wilson appeared before
congress to announce policy of
EARNED neutrality" and to ask
authorization for mounting naval
guns on our merchant ships.
The house readily granted him
that authority but the senate,
with rs in favor of the resolution
and II opposed-enough to block
the unanimous consent necessary
to bring the matter to a vote
wrangled for three days. Then at
IL o'clock, noon, on March
the session came to an end. Four
minutes passed by, during which
time the United States techni-
cally had no President. Then
Woodrow Wilson stood before
Chief Justice White, raised his
right hand and again took the
oath of office to guide the ns.-on
through the four stormy years
which he realized full well were
ahead of him.
During the next two weeks
events marched slowly to eli
max. On March 20 the cabinet
again assembled in the executive
offices of the White House. The
President told his aides Whit they
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-01
The Canada Goose

Unlike many diving species Of
wild fowl the Canada goose can only
feed in water in which it is possible
for them to reach the bottom by
tipping up. They never dive
for aquatic foods.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-01
Emcke'S Comet

Emcke's comet has the shortest
lap, revisiting the sun every three
years or so. Others take several
thousand years to make one lap.
Donati's comet, last seen in 1858, is
due next time in the year 1903.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-01

tience. What was he going to ask
of the congress? And then 1.
with a profound sense OF
the solemn and even tragical
character of the step 1 am
taking and of the grave respOn-
sibilities which it involves, but
in unhesitating obedience to
what 1 deem my constitutional
duty, I advise that the congress
declare the recent course of the
imperial government to be in
fact nothing less than war
against the government and
people of the United States;
that it formally accept the sta
tus of a belligerent which has
thus been thrust upon it and
that it take immediate steps not
only to put the country in a
more thorough state of defense,
but also exert all its power and
employ all it's resources to
bring the government of the
German empire to terms and
end the war"
So it was to be war! As the
President uttered those words,
Chief Justice White, who was sit
ting in the front row of chairs be-
low the speaker, dropped the hat
he had been holding and brought
his hands together high over his
head. That explosive sound set
off a torrent of noise which filed
the chamber for a moment, then
died down quickly as the low
voice continued:
&C. We have no quarrel with
the German people. We have no
feeling towards them but one of
sympathy and friendship. It was
not upon their impulse that their
government acted upon entering
this war
GO. We are glad, now that
we see the facts with no veil of
false pretense about them, to
fight thus for the ultimate peace
of the world and for the liberia
ton of it's people, the German
peoples included; for the rights
of the nations great and small
and the privilege of men every
where to choose their way of life
and obedience. The world must
be made safe for democracy. Its
peace must be planted upon the
trusted foundation of liberty :. :"
And so on the quiet voice con-
tinued for 80 minutes-interrupt-
ed no less than % times by the
applause of it's hearers. At last
it came to that most splendid
passage of all:
'It is a distressing and oppres-
sive duty, gentlemen of the con-
gress, which I have performed
in thus addressing you. There
are, it may be, many months of
fiery trial and sacrifice ahead of
us. 1t is a fearful thing to lead
this great peaceful country into
war, into the most terrible and
disastrous of all wars, civiliza-
ton itself seeming to be in the
balance; but the right is more
precious than peace, and we shall
fight for the things which we have
always carried nearest our
hearts-for democracy, for the
right of those who submit to au-
thority to have voice in their
own governments, for the rights
and liberties of small nations, for
a universal dominion of right by
such concert of free people
as shall bring peace and safety
to all nations and make the world
itself at least free. To such a
task we can dedicate our lives
and our fortunes, everything that
we are and everything that we
have, with the pride of those who
know that the day has come
when America is privileged to
spend her blood and her might
for the principles that gave her
birth and happiness and tn e
peace which she has treasured.
"God helping her, she can do
no other"
g Western Newspaper Union.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-01
South American Rodent

The Caypbara is South Ameri-
can rodent four feet long weighing
nearly 100 pounds.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-01
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON

OR two months it
had been apparent
that the march of
events was slowly
but surely turning
the footsteps of a
nation toward the
path which would
lead it into the gil
gantic conflict rag
ing across the At
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-01

Keep your body free of accumulat-
ed waste, take DR.. Pierce's Pleas
ant Pellets. 60 Pellets 80 cents. Adv.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-01
By Contrast

If there were no clouds we
should not enjoy the sun.-Old
Proverb.
Evening star., 1937-04-12
FREIGHT L0AD|NCS
EXPECTED TO SOAR
Recent Substantial Gains
to Widen, Shippers
Boards Predict.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, April 12.-Indica-
tions that recent sharp rises In goods
hauled by railroads are expected by
carrier experts to accelerate In COM
ing months were given by estimates of
second quarter traffic, announced by
the Atlantic States Shippers Advisory
Board.
This organization of industrial traf-
fic men, which has its counterpart in
other regions throughout the country,
has as its purpose advising the Car
riers on probable equipment require
ments necessary to handle shippers
business.
The board calculated a general in
crease in volume of carlot shipments
for the April to June period of this
year at per cent in excess of the
same period last year, with many indi-
Vidual classifications of freight show
ing much wider advantages over the
like period Of 1896,
An outstanding characteristic of the
predicted shipping totals was the wide
improvement apparently expected in
materials for Spring building.
One of the greatest gains predicted
was for cement, where the board sug-
gested movement would be 25 to 33h
per cent ahead of the preceding year.
Other building materials with esti-
mated additions over a year ago were
lime, Is per cent; lumber, per cent:
roofing materials, l8 per cent; crushed
stone, sand and Stag, 10 per cent.
Expected decreases were few in
number and generally included freight
which was affected by special influ-
ences. Coal and coke shipments were
expected to be per cent less than a
year ago because an unusually mild
Winter left dealers with large stocks
on hand. A short crop in New York
State led to predictions movement of
potatoes would decline 10 per cent
from 1886.
Some agricultural freight was ex-
pected, however, to show wide margins
of gain, including the transfer of
strawberries from New Jersey, esti-
mated up 100 per cent, and of the
same fruit from Maryland, where 80
per cent more was thought likely to
be moved.
Evening star., 1937-04-12
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 12.-Most do,
mestic corporate issues were higher in
the bond market today. as unsettle
ment ruled the Federal list.
Trading was light in the latter
group with less than half of the issues
registering transactions in the fore
noon. Losses in Federals were small,
ranging from 1872 to Is of point.
Federal Farm Mortgage IS of l947
improved about "a of point and a
small gain was shown by Home Own
ers' Loan 3s of 1852.
Frisco 412S moved ahead nearly
half a point and Katy" SIS were up
q or So Missouri Pacific SIS "F,"
Nickel Plate 4i2s and North Western
4As all dipped bit.
Utility loans were in fair demand
and a majority of the active liens
worked a bit higher. This group in
cluded Pacific Gas 3%s, Pacific Tele-
phone 314s, Consolidated Edison Si4s,
Consolidated Edison 314s, Columbia
Gas g. Electric SIS and International
Telephone SIS. A little lower were
American & Foreign Power SIS, Inter-
national Paper SIS and International
Hydro Electric IS.
Evening star., 1937-04-12
NEW YORK PRODUCE.

NEW YORK April IL P.-Eggs, 2s,Oss,
steady Mixed colors. special packs, 25A-
26H; Standard' 24Ea-4s; storage packed
22-22A: dirties. No. ], 22A; average
checks. 21H2
than extra. 33-33s4: extra Ga3 scores, iS
32123.; f1rsts 1881 scores). 31A-32 " !:
seconds fs4-S7 scores), 30-31; centralized
go score) 80.
Cheese, 7S035, steady. State. whole
milk fats. fresh. fancy, 17l4-k; held
fancy. 1898 22i2-23
Live poultry by freight, easy. Chickens,
Rocks, l6; Leghcrn. 13 Fowls, colored,
q; Leghorn, -1S; roosters. II; turkeys.
l7-25; ducks. IA.
Evening star., 1937-04-12
CRUDE OIL PRICES,

TULSA. Okla, April 12 R.-Base
crude oil prices:
Mid-Continent area-Oklahoma kansas.
gravity scale. 98c to 81 80: North Central
and West Central Texas. gravity scale.
gbc to 81 20. East Texas. S1.27 West
Texas tPermian Basin). gravity scale, sac
TO S1.OS. North Observation-Disclosures
cavity scale. 90c to S122
Rocky Mountain area-Salt Creek, Wyo
gravity scale, CSC to s13O
Eastern area-Penr sylvania grade
ord-Aliegany). so 81; same grade
same grade in Eureka lines S2.22. same
grade in Buckeye lines 1929. Corning,
SLAP.
Evening star., 1937-04-12
Santa Fe Reports
Freight Loadings
Up lis Per Cent
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, April 12-Freight car
loadings Of the Atchison, Topeka g.
Santa Fe Railway for 1886 increased
lis per cent over 1885, and the aver
age revenue per car was s445 more,
j. T. Bledsoe, president, said In his
annual report to stockholders today.
Discontinuance of emergency freight
charges the first of the year will tend
to lower earnings per car in 1887, he
said, but this will be at least partially
Offset by an increase in transconti-
mental rates already authorized.
AS previously reported, net income
was placed at s9,998,125, equal after
preferred dividend requirements to
81. Sc share on the common stock.
Evening star., 1937-04-12

CHICAGO. April 12 LP.-Poultry. live,
hens over pounds, 10; pounds and less,
21 Leghorn hens, 17ia: colored fryers, "a
ored re broilers, "a; Plymouth and White
Rock, 25; Barebacks. %; Leghorns,. %;
BOOSTERS. 13; Leghorn roosters. IL; turkeys,
hens. 20; toms, 16; No; 2 turkeys; 13:
ducks, 4 y pounds up. white and colored,
1917; small white and colored, Is; geese,
u; capons; z pounds up. 26 less than
pounds, 25.
Butter. s,742, steady: creamery specials
.93 sss9rfet 31 extras erst 9s 3e
291z-30; standards 900 centralized car
lots). 30'4; Eggs. 30.lSi, steady; extra
firsts. local, 30 Y, cars. 2294; current re-
ceipts 21s4; storage packed extras. 24A;
storage packed firstS, "a.
POTATOES-16S; on track, 254; total
q. s., shipments Saturday, 952; Sunday,
~; old stock dull. supplies moderate, de-
mand slew. SACKED, per hqndredweie eht17-
40 2 ,535; Maine Green Mountains. =. s,
No: !, 2I5; y. s. ,commercial: l.S6,l 90;
rurals; u s. No. l, few sales 2:l5; U. s.
s. No. and partly Graded. 2.10: North
partly graded. 2.5oa2. 6S. New stock weak
and prices lower: supplies liberal: demand
slow: Track sales, carlot. per hundred
weight-TeXas Bliss Triumphs U. s. No.
1, 3.50-3,90; q. S. No. 2. few sales. 3.15.
Evening star., 1937-04-12
U. S. TREASURY POSITION.
BY the Associated Press.

The position of the Treasury on AprfI
.: Receipts S2O245, 1866 expendf-
lures. S2s. .69I or so: balance. $3.50 :
BOO. .35S.40; customs receipts for the
month. S14.719 1872 go.
Receipts for the fiscal year (since July
y, S3.8S4 ,247. .S03 9S: expenditures, S5,-
7S0. .6l4, ,020.70 including S2,2OS, 100
O0S.O7 of emergency expenditures; excesy
OF expenditures, 81 1896 1865 21673: gross
debt, S34 s24 ,463, ,3436l; decrease OF
S226,6g7 OF under the previous day; gold
assets Sll 607, ,4S4 "a including 1915
237, ,O30.47 of inactive gold.
Evening star., 1937-04-12
FASTER PACE SET
At STEEL PLANTS
Institute Finds Operations
0.4 of Point Higher at
90.3 Per Cent.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 12.-Operations
in the steel industry for the current
week advanced 0.4 Of point to 903
per cent Of capacity, compared with
800 per cent last week, the Ameri-
can Iron and Steel Institute esti-
mated today.
A month ago operators averaged
88.9 per cent Of capacity, while year
ago the rate was 679 per cent.
Evening star., 1937-04-12
CENTRAL PROFITS HIT
$1,W1,716 IN MONTH
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 12.-New York
Central Railroad Co. reported Feb
ruary net income, after fixed charges,
of $1,021,716, equal to 20 cents q share
on outstanding capital stock. For
February last year thersawas a deficit
OF s548,876.
Evening star., 1937-04-12
STEEL QUOTATIONS.

NEW YORK April II DP.-steel prices
per 100 pounds. fob. Pittsburgh: Blue
annesled sheets hot rolled, 2,425; galvan-
lied sheets. 3.S25; black sheets. hot rolled,
3.175; steel bars, 2475.
Evening star., 1937-04-12
MONTREAL SILVER.

MONTREAL, April 10 P,-siIyer fv-
lures opened firmer, Is to 40 higher May,
40; ;856; July. 46.00b; September, 46.OOb.
Bid.
Evening star., 1937-04-12
RUBBER FUTURES.

NEW YORK, April 10 P.-Crude rub
per futures opened easy So to SO lower
May 23 70-7l; July. 23.Sl-9O; septem-
Evening star., 1937-04-12

American Walnuts may be intro
duced into Cairo, Egypt, shortly.
Evening star., 1937-04-12
INSURANCE STOCKS

NEW YORK April - UP.-New York
Security Dealers Association:
Evening star., 1937-04-12
NEW YORK BANK STOCKS

NEW YORK. April IL Ep.-New York
Security Dealers Association:
(Quot tons as of o'clock.)
Evening star., 1937-04-12

4 Guatemala's banana exports ha Ne
been increasing rapidly.
Evening star., 1937-04-12
INVESTING COMPANIES

NEW YORK, April 10 tP.-New York
Security Dealers Association:
moon Quotations
Evening star., 1937-04-12
CHICAGO PRODUCE.

a-AlSo extra or extras.
s-Declared or paid so far this year.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-07
Chronic FeUer' Infection
Found Quite common

country were of the acute or SUBJ
acute character. They resembled
a mild case of typhoid fever, though
with a much more prolonged peril
cd of fever than is usual in typhoid,
Lately we have had a report
which suggests that a good many
people have 'theseaundplant fever
germs in their SYSTEMS and that,
they produce a. mild and chronic
form of i'll health. In. a report be-
fore the American College aof Ply
sicians last month this chronic bru-a
celle injection was discussed. Re-
ports on nulnber,of patients who
had been ailing for, a long time and
who had received different sorts, OF
treatment, showed that they gave
evidence of this sort of infection.
In, order to find out how commons
twas, a large group Of school chill
dren was examined, and 1t was
found that about seven per cent OF
them gave evidence of chronic bru-s
,celle Infection. This GROUP, y whenss
their records were examined, was
notable for the fact of frequent ap-'
sences from school and general
condition of being physically UNDER
par. In a large number OF cases
also it was found that they were
in the habit of drinking raw -atners;
than pasteurized milk.
If these conclusions are accept
ed, we have a public health PROB
lem of considerable Importance on
our hands. The condition can be
avoided by. the. use- of certified Or
pasteurized milk.