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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-12-01
Superstition Kills Native

Pointing the thigh bone Of a tur-
key, topped with beeswax, at Ma
jor, an aborigine, near Brisbane,
Australia, a medicine man caused
his death. After the autopsy, the
government medical officer report
ed that Major had died of "obses-
sion and persecution complex" The
bone was pointed at Major after a
dispute with another native. The
"bewitched" man staggered to a
wood and died despite doctors ef.
forts to save him.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-12-01
Deer Herds Leadership
Won by Big White Rival

The king is dead, long live the
king.
That's the cry heard in that sec
ton of the Belle Isle zoo where the
deer herd is kept, for Rex, an eight
year-old buck, has been dethroned
as leader of the group and his place
has been taken by a huge white
buck of the same age, says the De-
troit Free Press.
Three times these magnificent
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-12-01

The 275,O00, 00O-acre goal COM
pares with a total of 365 1000, 900
acres under cultivation this year,
and the 1888 AAA maximum of 282,-
100000 acres.
Establishment of the limit, Wal
lace said, is intended to avoid ac-
emulation of crop SURPRISES. The
allotted acreage, he said, would sup
ply domestic requirements. export
needs, and an adequate reserve of
the principal crops.
The total acreage is divided
among the principal crops.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-12-01
NERVOUS?

Do you feel so nervous you want to screamf
Are you cross and irritable? Do you scold
those dearest to you?
If your nerves are on edge and you feel
you need a good general system tonic, try
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
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For over so years one woman has told an
other how to go Smiling thru with reliable
Pinkham's Compound. 1t helps nature build
up more physical resistance and thus helps
calm quivering nerves and lessen discomforts
from annoying symptoms which often ac-
company female functional disorders.
Why not give it chance to help YOU?
Over one million women have written in
reporting wonderful benefits from Pinkham's
Compound.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-12-01
International

BY prosecuting Jews and subsi-
dizing Christianity in favor of Nazi
theology, Germany tells the world
that a triumphant political philos-
ophy is worth more to her than the
worlds good will. What Germany
apparently fails to realize is that
the resultant international resent
ment will ruin the Reich's export
trade, thereby creating internal
economic chaos. This pressure is
already felt in Sudetenland and Aus
tria, the recently annexed terri
tories whose manufactured items
must now bear the mark, made in
Germany" Both areas find world
anti-Nazi sentiment a serious threat
to their once fourishing export bust
ness.
Meanwhile international plans to
help German Jews are meeting in
evitable opposition. Since most
countries already have unemploy-
ment problems, few are willing to
increase this burden by accepting
new immigrants. They also realize
that Jews are predominantly trades
men and therefore fear their estab-
ished business men would suffer
from this new competition.
In the u. S., President Roosevelt
has granted six-month extension
to German visitors rather than re-
turn them to the hostile Reich. He
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-12-01
MchMIn
Says: -
Looking Into the Future ?

Are we grateful for the favors of
the past, or for the favors we ex-
pect later on?
People without sense of hui
NOR act very funny at times.
Thought makes its mark in lines
upon the face. Absence of thought
shows itself in broad blank spaces.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-12-01
Thereby We Gauge Them

A mans salary is as secretly
sacred to him as a woman's age is
to her.
When we bump into hard luck,
let's not accuse the other fellow
of showing us.
Welcome an unpleasant ex-
perience. Ten to one it will
make a good talking point in
future conversations.
It is easier to take medicine
than it is to make up your mind
to take it.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-12-01
Too Often He's Wrong

It is perhaps best to throw cold
water on the young man who is
out to set the world on fire.
Native wit in a backwoodsman
delights the cultured more than
all the smartness of their asso-
ciates.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-12-01
Refugees Likely to Create
A Disturbing Influence

In consideration of whether we
ought to let deluge of refugees
enter, ! cannot help thinking of a
possible spread of trouble. For ex-
ample, if our definite national posi-
ton of protest against Hitler's poll
cies should bring retaliation, every
Jewish refugee allowed in this coun-
try would be clamoring for the Unit
ed States to take revenge on Ger
many and Hitler. Their influence
would be great because they could
tell what happened to them and give
an idea of what is happening. You
and I and millions of others would
believe first hand information.
There is no doubt about it. The
germ of trouble could be incubated
ten times more rapidly; instead of
staying out of European troubles,
we would be pushed in deeper and
deeper.
AS far as relations between Ger
many and the United States are
concerned at the moment, all that
can be said is that the United States
has let the world know of its dis
approval. When Ambassador Will
son was recalled, it was just the
same as saying to the world of ma.
tons that Uncle Sam hasn't any
respect for Hitler.
Western Newspaper Union.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-12-01
Only Congress Can Let
DoUn immigration Bars

Behind the scenes Of the immi-
grafton restriction also was a deter
mination on the part of Senator
David A. Reed of Pennsylvania,
then a senate power, to prevent in
PRODUCTION into the United States of
all kinds of 'isms." The senator
foresaw the spread of radicalism by
means of entry of the European
backwash and rubbish. There was
not much discussion of this phase
because our government did not
want to offend any foreign nation.
It was a basic reason, however, and
it is too bad that it was not given
more public consideration.
Fortunately, there can be no
change in the number of foreigners
admitted from any nation without
action by congress. The United
States can take only so many
something like $4,000 a year-of
those purged Jews, unless congress
amends the law. And when say it
is fortunate that there must be &C
ton by congress before there can
be change in policy, I mean no
differences.
believe Mr.. Roosevelt is emf
nently correct when he says that
there must be homeland estab-
ished for the Jews. The British
tried to make Palestine that sort of
base, it will be remembered, but
they failed because Arabs don't like
Jews. This experience then would
seem to point to the necessity for
the Jews being colonized quite
alone. If the United States can ex-
tend help in doing that job, there
ought to be no criticism of the
course, even if it involves financial
assistance. It would be a charity
worthwhile, and charity that would
not involve us later on. Irepeat that
I believe there is real danger in let
ting down the fioodgates for immi-
grafton whereas the other method
would seem to be a hum unitarian
action again demonstrating our ma
tional sympathy for a downtrodden
people.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-12-01
BY Joseph w. La Bine-

duty payments have been slashed.
The state department expects U.
S. agriculture will derive important
benefits from the United Kingdom
treaty, which grants concessions on
many farm products. All duties on
American wheat are removed, while
on other items the duty is substan-
TALLY reduced. But the new treaty
with Canada fails to remedy many
objections which featured the pre-
vious agreement with that dominion,
since important concessions are still
granted on livestock, cheese, eggs
and many grains.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-12-01
Domestic

Under Secretary of State CordeIl
Hull, the u. S. has consummated 20
reciprocal trade agreements Gin
GLIDING two with Canada) as au-
thorized by the trade agreements
act of 1884. Carried on aggressive
ly, Mr.. Hull's program now covers
three-ffths of all American exports
and imports. Behind the treaties
is the Observation-Disclosures" prin-
ciple, under which contracting ma
tons agree to nondiscriminatory
treatment in the fixing of quotas. In
each treaty, both signatory nations
pledge not to impose internal taxes
on imported articles higher than
those imposed on similar articles of
domestic or other origin.
Keystone and climax to this pro-
gram is the reciprocal trade treaty
just signed with Great Britain, in
Guiding the dovetailing second
treaty with Canada. Since a uni
lateral principle applies to Mr..
Hull's treaties, the benefits of this
U. S.-British agreement are now
open to all other nations with which
the U. S. has commercial treaties.
Principal non-participants are Eu-
ropes dictator nations. The even
tual aim of idealistic Mr.. Hull is
abandonment of international trade
barriers and the idea of artificial
self-suficiency, and a more stabi-
ized world currency.
Chief arguments against the
Anglo-American pact come from
business interests who claim their
domestic sales are injured by Brit
ish competition. Arguments in IA
vor of the treaty will maintain that
while British competition is in
creased on some domestically-
manufactured items, great many
more items can now be exported to
the United Kingdom, since most
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-12-01
Purge of German Jeups an
Exposition of Mad Potuer


I suppose there are very few per-
sons in the United States who do
not believe that Hitler's purge" of
German Jews constitutes a blot
upon modern civilization. I know
that leading Germans in the United
States wish there were ways and
means to stop the action. There
can be no defense of the outright
seizure of $500, 100000 of money
from the Jews of Germany under
the guise of "fne" although there
is a lesson of warning in it. Like
wise, none can convince me that
Hitler has kept his underlings free
of graft and corruption in this or
other dictatorial actions. Those in
power in Germany are garnering
the gold for themselves-or else we
are witnessing the activities of
angels whose purposes we, as hui
man beings, are unable yet to I'M
derstand. do not believe they are
angels. The purge" of German
Jews, therefore, must be accepted
as the exposition of mad power.
Some weeks ago, I had occasion
in these columns to talk about the
so-called "peace of Munich" said
then that Hitler was not through;
that there would be further exhibit
tions as he and his henchmen
unanswered this way and that in
order to maintain the iron grip of a
dictator. The drive on the Jews is
part of that general scheme, a
movement to maintain support for
the dictatorship, for, it is known,
should Hitler's grasp be broken at
any place or at any time, there
would be bloody revolt in Ger
many again.
Those causes, however, do not
help us in the solution of the Jewish
problem. The unwanted race is SIM
ply the victim and a knowledge of
how its members have had the suffer-
ings brought upon them adds little or
nothing to the search for method
to protect their lives. Where are
they to go? That is the real ques-
ton. Hitler doesn't care where they
go or what happens to them. Some
one else has to lead the way. Our
nation has joined in that leadership,
and rightly so. But we have policies
and principles and traditions which
must be respected. If, in our eager
ness to help the German Jews, we
should transgress those established
principles, then we, as well as the
Jews, will have to pay penalty.
'Jewish Problem for United
States Might Be Result
The whole situation is one which
may contain ga Jewish problem"
for the United States. 1t is one out
of which a political issue may grow.
It is to be remembered that religion
became an issue in a presidential
election not so many years ago.
That shows that such things can
sprout even in the United States.
If it happened in the case of the
Catholic religion, it can happen in
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-12-01
Bruckart's Washington Digest
Bruckarts Washington Digest
Danger Of Jewish Problem for
United States in German Purge
Resentment of American People Aroused by Hitlers
Harshness Opening of Gates to Refugees Might
Introduce Disturbing Influence.
ByrWILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service, National Press Bldg Washington n C.

WASHINGTON. - Press service
wires and cables and radio from
abroad have been clogged for sew
eral weeks with hundreds of thou
sands of words about the plight of
the Jews in Germany; about the
abuses visited upon the Jewish race
by the European mailman, Hitler,
and his camp followers; about the
humanitarian pleas of our own Pres
ident, Mr.. Roosevelt, for appease-
ment of the conditions. There has
been what I believe to be one of the
greatest waves of emotion, waves of
resentful national sentiment, that
this country ever has known. I re-
call none like it, none as overwhelm-
ing, none as deep-seated as that
through which we have been pass
ing, and in my opinion our nation
should have resented such outrages.
While no one with heart can fail
to grleve to greater or less extent
about the indescribable harshness,
the unforgivable meanness of Hitler.
1t occurs to me that we should begin
to temper these waves of emotion
somewhat. There are other factors
to be considered, factors and conse-
quences of the thing that is now
called "the Jewish problem" that
require calm reasoning. In other
words, let us say that America is
and must remain for Americans,
and charity, while it is sweet, can
not be exploited, or carried to ex-
tremes simply because we feel a
sadness for a group upon whom an
injustice has been sent. Like mil
lions of other Americans, I am hope
full that some way will be found to
aid the Jews who are being driven
out OF Germany, but I am unwilling
that we, as nation, shall create
additional and unwarranted difficult
ties for ourselves by extending
helping hand. Therefore, the United
States must not be the goat.
1t is one thing to render aid. It is
quite another thing to inject into our
own bloodstream of national life adj
ditional elements without knowing
what those elements are. After all,
the damage is something that we
did not cause; the injured are a peo-
pie who have no knowledge of our
way of doing things and may never
cooperate with us, and we must
prevent being dragged into the 9TH
er fellows fist fight.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-12-01
Without Virtue

That man is worthless who
knows how to receive a favor, but
not how to return one.-Plautus.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-12-01
Foreign

After CZechoSlovakia made peace
with Germany by ceding Sudeten
border areas to the Reich, Poland
and Hungary jumped in with SINH
lar claims. Poland was pacified
when war-lost Teschen was re-
turned. To Hungary went the south
ern portion of Slovakia and small
corner of Ruthenia (see striped por-
ZION of map, a settlement arranged
jointly by Germany and Italy. But
the bulk of little Ruthenia was re-
tanned by Czechoslovakia on Ger
many's insistence, much to the sor-
row of Poland and Hungary who
wanted a common border.
Smart Adolf Hitler has two rea-
sons for demanding Ruthenia's au-
tonomy. First, his economic policy
has made Czechoslovakia a vassal
state and at some future date Ger
many intends to march through that
country into the Russian Ukraine
and other parts Of southeastern Eu-
rope. Should Hungary get Ruthenia
and turn hostile to Germany, the
march to the east would be blocked.
Second, Ruthenia has immense
value as a nucleus for NaZi propa-
gandizing in the Ukraine and neigh
boring Rumania.
Meanwhile Czechoslovakia is in no
position to defend herself from the
band of wolves barking around her
entire frontier. Not only is she un-
der Germany's thumb, but Slovakia
and Ruthenia have now been grant
ed autonomy, which makes them
largely independent of the central
Prague government.
The result has been two unpubli-
cized wars in which covetous Po-
land and Hungary have been inter-
esting themselves under the expla-
nation of 'police action" The first
centers in Ruthenia's Carpathian
mountains, where Hungary has won
a substantial portion of the natives
to her cause. In the ensuing civil
war between pro-Czech and pro-
Hungarian Ruthenians, Polish and
Hungarian border troops have in
tervened.
AlC OLA1C4 "d1 - GU clOllS
Slovakia's Polish frontier, where
Czech and Polish border troops have
been fighting. Though none of the
three concerned governments has
spoken officially, it is quite obvious
that Poland has agreed to help Hun
gary capture Ruthenia if Hungary
will help Poland grab the rest of
Slovakia. This would leave Czecho-
slovakia with nothing but western
Bohemia and Moravia, located en-
tirely within Germany's mouth.
1t is doubtful that Germany would
tolerate this threat to her proposed
eastward expansion, but her oppo-
sition might aid the cause of anti
Nazi forces by arousing the ire of
both Hungary and Poland.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-02-11
Jiu-Jitsu Was Fashion
in Very Earliest Times

According to the American En-
cyclopedia, jiu jitsu, sometimes
spelled ju-jutsu or jiu-jutSu, is 1.-THE
Japanese method of personal attack
and self-detense. literally meaning
the art of making ones opponent
use his strength to his own disad-
vantage" Jiu-jitsu probably existed
previous to the Christian era, and
quite possibly as early as 200 B. C.
1t is thought that it originated in
China and was taken to Japan by
a Japanese physician named Aki-
yama. For a long time it was prac-
ticed only by the soldiery of Japan,
but later every officer and enlisted
man of the navy. army and police
departments received instructions.
There are many methods, but
only one is recognized officially in
Japan. 1t includes $50 tricks, out Of
the more than 300 ways to throw an
opponent. In its simpler form an OPP
ponent is overcome by tricks in
volving pressure on the funny
bone" bending the fingers back
ward, tripping, applying pressure
upon the sensitive gland below the
ear, or upon the solar plexus and
similar movements forbidden in our
wrestling and boxing. 1t is more
effective for sef-defense than box
ing for it minimizes the advantages
Of height, reach and weight.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-02-11
Men of Ndeni Hold Women
So Much Stuff to Trade

Women. to the men of Ndeni,
chief isle Of the Santa Cruz isles.
according to a correspondent in the
New York Herald-Tribune, are so
much stuff to be traded. But high.
born baby girls are guarded care.
fully until the time comes for them
to be sold to their husbands. Then
their fun, for life, is over. They
haul in wood. They prepare food.
They sweep out the houses every
day and at dawn are up and about
in the villages, cleaning up.
From village to village lead mar
row paths kept scrupulously clear Of
overhanging vegetation. The trails
wander for miles, but they are bor-
dered always with neatly set stones.
Flowers are brought from the hills
to beautify the way.
Male children in Ndeni should,
by all standards. be spoiled little
things. But they are not. From the
age when they are able to talk they
60 fishing-often supervising the
bow and arrow work while the IA
Their paddles. Older men of Ndeni
accept small boys as their mental
equals. Grandfathers ask grandsons
ten or eleven years old what to do
about a certain canoe repair or a
rock that has to be moved. The
boys smoke and chew betelnut furi-
ouSly
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-02-11

Not far from Yeovil, in the depths
of agricultural Somerset. rises a
conspicuous, pointed hill, which. the
Normans called Mons Acutus, or
Sharp mountain II seems to hold
the little town and great house Of
Montacute within it's shadow, and it
has bequeathed to them its ancient
and curious name. The house was
built by Sir Edward Phelps, who
was queens sergeant under Eliza
beth and, in the next reign, speaker
of the house of commons. The con-
struction was going on while Shake.
speare's plays we're being written
One date. 1888, appears Oh the chin
ney piece of the dining room. Mont.
acute is copy book model of the
Elizabethan style. II illustrates, in
close detail, the slow evolution of
the English country house from a
fortress into a home.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-02-11

According to a well established
tradition, James A Garfield, in a
Williams college alumni address de-
ivered in New York, N. Y, in 1872,
said: My definition of a university
is Mark Hopkins at one end of q
log and a student at the other. /"
The quotation, however, does not
occur in the speech as it was re-
corded, but similar line of thought
was expressed by Garfield in a let
ter which he wrote the same year.
Mark Hopkins Q8O2-188D, was one
of the ablest and most successful
American educators and was presi-
dent of Williams college in Massa-
chusettS when Garfield was a stu
dent there. Garfield particularly
liked the stress which Hopkins
placed upon the development of the
individual student.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-02-11
Galsdcn Treaty Resulted
in Land Bargain for u. s

Ten million wasn't so much for
the United States to exchange in the
Gadsden purchase, says the Cleve-
land Plain Dealer The United States
got 4S.S3S square miles Of land, at
less than IS cents an acre. And
5000 square miles is an area some
what larger than the state OF Ohio.
AS originally drawn, the Gadsden
treaty called for the cession OF a
considerably larger territory, and
Mexico would have been paid So
100000. The senate was not salts
NED ana amendments were made.
The treaty was negotiated as a
means of settling a troublesome sit
uation which had arisen out Of the
vagueness of the southwestern
boundary as described in the treaty
Of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed in
l848. The United States, moreover,
desired the ownership Of the Mesil-
la valley. which had been held to
be the only practical route for a
railroad to the Pacific.
Further, under the eleventh ar
ticle Of the treaty Of Guadalupe Hi
dalgo the United States was bound
to prevent its Indian tribes from
making depredations into Mexico.
1t had been impossible to carry out
this provision, and much damage
had bee INFLICTED upon Mexicans,
for which their government demand
ed compensation. In consideration
Of the Gadsden $4,000, 900 Mexico
not only coded the $1,000 square
miles, but also agreed to the abroga-
ton Of the eleventh article Of the
previous treaty, and released the
United States from all claims for
its nonfulfllment.
In 1917 this country paid Den
mark SIS, 200, 900 for the l3S
square miles of the former Danish
West Indies.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-02-11
PATRICIA ZONES

Patricia Jones, daughter of JO-
seph r. and Ada Jones, died at her
home, 994 Iglehart Ave-, Friday.
Funeral services were held Mon
day, February z, at 2 p. M, from
the Neal Funeral Home, Inc, of st.
Paul, with Rev. L. w. Harris offici-
ating. Interment Forest cemetery.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-02-11
Monks Incarcerate Themselves

Near Gyantse. Tibet, stands a
lamasery whose lamas, or monks,
incarcerate themselves in small
mud huts. without doors or win
dows, for periods from year to a
lifetime, in order to earn a first
class reincarnation. AS no mortal
eye may look upon them during
these years Of seclusiOn, says Col
lier's Weekly. they wear a glove on
the hand used to take their food
from brother lama when he passes
it to them through a small cur.
tanned aperture.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-02-11
Fumage or Chimney Tax

The fumage or chimney tax is
mentioned in Domesday as paid to
the king for every chimney in the
house. Edward. the Black Prince,
is said to have imposed a tax Of
form for every hearth in his French
dominions. The first statutory en-
actment in England required a
tax of two shillings on every hearth
in certain houses to be paid to the
king. The tax was abolished in 1889.