The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-03-04

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Since coming here >ss..ssse
I've seen mighty
few 1912 model e
grandmothers b r * -;
ring in the movies, -, o.,
and then, with the " o. OoDN
exception of dear
May Robson, they had to wear
makeup.
We don't so much mind the young
girl who has gone prematurely old
we're accustomed to her-but the
old woman who has gone prema-
turely young, so young that she
seems to be advertising the APP
proach of second childhood by
dressing to match it-well, that's
different.
So now I know what I miss. It's
the old-fashioned lady who was
neither streamlined nor a four-col-
or process.
Penalties of Old Age.
IF, MENTALLY or physically, or
both, a man of seventy has so
slowed down he no longer can func-
ton usefully, what are we going to
do about Secretary of State Hull and
Secretary Roper, and Senator Glass
and Senator Norris, and both Cal
ifornia's senators, and stable pro-
portion of the outstanding member
ship of either branch of congress?
And, to avoid cluttering up the
words, so to speak, what disposition
should have been made, at seventy,
of Thomas A. Edison and John D.
Rockefeller, ST., and Henry Ford
and Queen Victoria and Cardinal
Gibbons and Won Hindenburg and
Clemenceau and Professor Eliot and
Carrie Chapman Gait and Mark
Twain and Elihu Root and Melville
w. Fuller, just to mention a few
names that come to mind?
! Going still further back, one gets
to thinking, among others of Henry
Clay and Ben Franklin and Glad
stone and Bismarck and Victor
Hugo and Alexander Humboldt.
Open Season on Bears.
NEW Brunswick is granting free
L Y licenses for sportsmen to kill
bears this spring. 1 regard this as
an error. 1t reduces bears, which
are picturesque features of forest
life, and increases amateur gunners
5arging through the wilderness plug
ging away at every living object
they see, including guides. A green
horn might miss a sitting union
depot-probably would-but he gar
ners him a guide nearly every time.
On all counts, the black bear
should have game protection. For
every shoat he steals, he eats thrice
his weight in grubs and ants and
bugs; and he's a fine scavenger, for
he likes his dead meat high. If
he were a veteran member of
Maryland Duck club, he couldn't
like it any higher.
Even so, he has been preyed on
until, in parts of our north woods,
he's practically extinct. Yet, next to
Vermont Democrat, he's prob
ably the most inoffensive mammal
found in New England.
Tyranny of the SOvietS.
CEEPING through the Soviet en-
~ barge on free speech and free
press and even free thought, stories
came out that the fve-year plan
shows signs of utter collapse and
also that, in their striving for alb
solute despotism, Stain and his
for the moment-intimate ieuten-
ants are preparing to ''liquidate" by
execution or remove by wholesale
campaign of exile all such of their
recent ruthless associates as might,
through private ambitions, stand in
the way of this latest desperate
tyranny.
Of course, we hear all sorts of
tales about the real inside of the
Russian situation, some inspired by
hostile prejudice and some by SYM
pathetic partisans.
WOmen's New Freedom.
II tI4N LII OSlOlC IilSy
II broke loose, women envied us
every masculine perquisite we had,
except the moustache cup and pos
sibly chewing tobacco. Since eman-
cipation, seems like they've taken
over practically everything we ever
had.
The bars are crowded with wom-
en-, and the smoking rooms and the
barber shops and the gambling
clubs and the prize-fghts and the
wrestling matches and the political
caucuses. If it weren't for them, the
race-tracks and the night spots
would languish and the cocktail
mixers might get an occasional rest.
Maybe, as a distinguished scientist
now arises to proclaim, they could
have excelled us in our then ex-
elusive fields, only before this they
didn't get chance to prove it.
IRWIN S. COBB
g Western Newspaper Union.