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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-24
Third Rate Diets Eaten
by Many U. S. Families

Washington.-Many an American
family that would not buy second
hand furniture or wear secondhand
clothes is eating a third-rate diet.
This is apparent from survey of
typical food expenditures made
by DR.. Hazel K. Stiebeling of the
United States bureau of home
economics. The survey included
$4,000 representative city, village
and rural families.
Size of the family pocket-book was
not the only or perhaps even the
chief factor responsible for the poor
nutritional quality of the family's
diet. At every expenditure level
above 500 per person per year, some
families were able to provide them
selves with very good diets. The
reason more families do not get
good diets is chiefly because they
do not know how to select the most
nourishing foods for the money.
AS might be expected, the tables
of the well-to-do families were more
frequently and more literally sup
piled with milk, butter, eggs, fruits
and green and leafy vegetables.
Families spending less than $85
per year per person for food, as
might also be expected, got very
poor diets.
At the median expenditure level,
however, which is $3.50 per person
per year, almost one-haf were eat
ing a third-rate diet and nearly an
other fifth very poor diet. At this
expenditure level a little over one
fifth of the families had first-rate
diet.
Three-fourths of the families were
at the 500 or more expenditure lev
ell but less than one-third of them
were selecting very good diets.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-24
Mysteries of Brain
Probed by Scalpel
of Modern Surgeon

Indianapolis. -The mysteries
of life, death, and consciousness
have been probed by the sur
geon's scalpel and electrical
impulses in the brain itself.
The seat of human consciousness
and with it the ability to speak is
located in the brains artery in the
left front side of the head, DR.. Will
liam H. Thompson, of the Munic-
ipal University of Omaha, told the
American Association for the Adj
vancement of Science here, after re-
viewing heroic operations per-
formed by brain surgeons. Amaz-
ingly large amounts of a persons
brain can be removed if necessary
without seemingly affecting his abil-
ity to lead a normal life and carry
on his business.
The right cerebral hemisphere Of
the brain, for instance, has been re-
moved with no observable perma-
nent loss of the higher mental proc
esses. Surgeons knives have whit
tied away other portions of hui
man gray matter, previously
thought essential in the control of
mental functions, and the patients
hardly knew anything had happened
to them.
This Area Is Vital.
But if the left anterior cerebral
artery is injured by any chance,
DR.. Thompson warned, the patient
can never regain consciousness.
This area and the flow of blood
seems linked with the problem of
conscious existence itself. Scien-
fists are now searching for some
practical way of studying these new
aspects of the age-old problem of
relationship between mind and
body.
To the mysteries of the pulsating
electrical impulses beaten out of the
brain, death itself has given a clue.
DR.. P. S. Shurrager of the Univer-
sity of Illinois reported that the
origin of the brain waves is shown
in the records Of the death process.
In the democracy of death the
lower creatures such as fish, frog
and toad become like the higher
animals, the guinea pig, cat and
dog, in the electrical responses of
their brains. From this fact, DR..
Shurrager infers that the brains
electrical waves have their origin
in the very life processes of the
cells of the brain.
Each single cell in the brain
may in the course of its life process
create electrical impulses which are
added together algebraically to Gre
ate the complex brain waves broad
cast from the brains surface, DR..
Shurrager indicated.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-24
Alphabet Wasn't Invented
by Cadmus of Phoenicia

Philadelphia. - Phoenician Cad
mus, popular hero credited with
fathering our alphabet, never exist
ed, so far as psychologists can
learn. We should honor some I'M
known Phoenician for teaching the
Greeks ABCs, and the alphabet idea
is older than Phoenicians anyway.
Reporting latest views on the still
mysterious alphabet, DR.. John Day
of Barnard college told the Archie
illogical Institute of America here
that Greeks probably derived the
alphabet from Phoenicians about
the middle of the Ninth century
B. c. DR.. Day succeeded in mar
rowing down the date by demon
strating from old inscriptions that
five of the Greek letters could not
have evolved later than the Ninth
century, and five other Greek let
tiers could not have evolved earlier.
Questioning the recent assertion
by "an eminent authority" that
Cadmus lived about 400 B. c., DR..
Day pointed out that when archeolo-
gists dug at the citadel of Thebes,
Greek town supposedly founded by
Cadmus, they found no trace of
Phoenician relics or Phoenician
writings.
"We must conclude" he declared,
''that the only definite historical ele-
ment contained in the legend con-
corning the letters of Cadmus is
the fact of the Phoenician origin of
the Greek alphabet"
Phoenicians are no longer credit
ed with inventing the alphabet out
right, discoveries of old inscriptions
having revealed that our alphabet
is derived from the Roman, which
came from the Greek, which bor-
rowed from the Phoenician, which
evolved from letter forms either in
Syria to the north or Sinai to the
south.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-24

straight strikes. Or you may fail
again but where there's life there's
hope, so you'll be back next time to
massacre those elusive pins, or
else. The gods of luck rule the
alleys and they play no favorites.
Maybe down your way the IA
vorite is candle-pins, tall and less
robust than the regular ten-pin, for
which a smaller ball is used. Or
maybe it's duck pins, choice of the
South and Southeast, where much
outdoor bowling is done. But it's
still bowling, the favorite sport of
10000, 900 Americans.
You'll never appreciate it until
you feel that ball jump from your
hand and thunder down the glisten-
ing maple, eventually crashing pell-
nell into a neatly arranged bunch
of pirs. It's a real thrill, Mr.. and
Mr. lmerica!
Western Newspaper Union.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-24
Illite Is New Mineral
That Resembles Mica

Urbana, Ill.-Illite, a mica-like
mineral, resembling ordinary mica,
but occurring in sedimentary rocks,
is announced as new mineral by
Drs. r. E. Grim, R. H. Bray, and
w. F. Bradley, of the Illinois geo.
logical survey, reporting in the
American Mineralogist.
Long mistaken for other minerals
which it resembles, Illite has been
called mica, sericite, hydro-mica
and glimmerton. Now, as a result
of an exhaustive study, in which an
X-ray determination of the crystal
line structure was made, Illite is
found to be a new mineral.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-24

ple). Finish them in outline stitch
with a bit of single stitch for the
reeds. You can do the entire de-
sign in plain embroidery instead
of applique, if you wish. Pattern
1881 contains a transfer pattern Of
two motifs 512 by Is inches, two
motifs 4 by Is inches, and the ap-
plique pattern pieces; directions
for doing applique; illustrations
of all stitches used; material re-
quirements.
Send Is cents in stamps or coins
(coins preferred) for this pattern
to The Sewing Circle, Needlecraft
Dept, 81 Eighth Ave, New York,
N. Y.
Please write your name, address
and pattern number plainly.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-24
Methyl Bromide Is New
Weapon Against Insects

Indianapolis. - Chemical science
has equipped man with new weap-
on for use in his unending war of
defense against insect hordes, DR..
Harold H. Shepard and Frank w.
Fisk of the Minnesota university
farm, st. Paul, announced to the
American Association for the Adj
vancement of Science.
The name of the compound is
methyl bromide. It combines bro
mine, one of the earlier-tried of the
war gases, with the radicle that
makes wood alcohol the unsafe
stuff it is for internal application.
Methyl bromide seems to be good
for use against insect pests on a
number of fronts. 1t can be used
for seed distinction, for it kills
the bugs and does not harm the
seed. It can be used for various
kinds of fumigation, with effects
comparable to those of hydrocyanic
acid, yet it does not linger on, even
as bad smell. The presence of
moisture seems to make it more
effective.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-24
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Some Bitterness in
Nearly Every Drink
Liked by Americans
By ROBERT ID. POTTER

Washington.-At least in the
realm of beverages it's bitter
world after all. Think back
through the liquids you drink
during a day. Such list might
well include tomato juice, or
ange juice, pineapple juice, or
grapefruit juice for breakfast.
Then water, tea, coffee, milk,
chocolate milk, soft drinks, and
possibly beer, wines, other al
coholic beverages.
Not that any one person would
drink all of these beverages during
a single day or even in lifetime,
but they represent a cross section
of what some Americans do drink,
each to his inclinations. OF all these
milk and water are about the only
ones which do not have a tinge OF
bitterness.
The Industrial Bulletin of Arthur
D. Little, Inc, points out that some
people like their milk with chocolate
flavor, which is bitter. Coffee and
coffee substitutes are bitter and
''burnt" favored. Tea is bitter and
astringent; cocoa is bitter and
aromatic; tomato and the citrus
juices and many "soft' drinks are
bitter and sour. Beer, says the
Bulletin, is outstandingly bitter.
Breakfast Very Bitter.
Bitter, indeed, is Americas quick
breakfast of bitter grapefruit, Bit
ter coffee and bitter orange mar
malade although, in truth, sweet
ness is added to tone down the
bitterness.
Actually bitterness-as one of the
four fundamental tastes-has to be
included in all highly-seasoned foods
and drinks. ''There is a sound
physiological basis" states the Bull
letin, 'for table condiments includ-
ing sugar for sweetness, salt for
saltiness, vinegar or lemon juice for
sour tang, and meat sauces, pepper
and mustard competing for use In
inparting bitterness"
There is the old belief-now not so
well regarded as it was a genera
tion ago-that bitters stimulate the
appetite. The vogue of stomach
bitters," which provided boon for
proprietary medicines, was the re-
suit. 1t has never been disclosed,
however, how much the alcoholic
content of these "bitters" Influenced
jealous teetotalers to use them.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-24

strike" is made by knocking all
ten pins down with the first ball
thrown in each frame" Try it
some time-or try getting ten sue
cessive holes-in-one on the golf
course. Less than 20 per cent of
Americas good bowlers can boast
an average score of more than 100.
If you don't make a strike you
get another shot at the remaining
pins, constituting "spare" if you
succeed in knocking them down. The
two rolls constitute frame" On
strike the total of the succeeding
two rolls is added to the ten scored
for the strike; on a spare the pins
felled on the next single roll are
added.
Stay Away From "Splits"!
Failure to get all ten pins with two
rolls constitutes an error unless a
split occurred on the first roll. A
split is the sad fate of man who
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-24

just waiting to be knocked down the
gutter. Your first toss may very
possibly be as successful as that Of
a seasoned player.
There is no physical hazard. Bar
ring persons with ailments prohibit
ing any exertion, there is no muscu-
lar prerequisite. Often people with
physical handicaps become amaz-
ingly proficient and blind bowlers
are far from uncommon. In a re-
cent New York match between a
blind team and another group with
normal vision, the blind bowlers lost
by a mere Is points.
Balls are fashioned to fit any
hand. The usual type is bored with
a thumb hole and two finger grips.
Primo Cameras ball carries the
largest grip ever made; the finger
span is five and one-eighth inches.
A perfect score is 300 points, re-
quiring IL successive Strikes" A
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-24
One II Know" Worth
a Dozen II Thinks"

There's just one way to know a
thing and that's to know it. A lot
of fellows know things halfway,
but if someone comes along and
argues with them, right away they
begin to doubt if what they
thought they knew is so. That kind
of knowledge never gets man
anywhere. Be sure. And, when
you're sure, stick to it. That's
the kind of knowledge that builds
bridges, bores tunnels and steers
ships across the seas.
Such knowledge is also the kind
that builds character, that gives
proper direction to life, that en-
ables us to avoid needless trou-
BILE and tragedy.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-24
As s sKlSY'llNwIFE?

Men can never understand three-quarter
wife-a wife who is lovable for three weeks of
the month-but heIl-cat the fourth.
No matter how your back aches-no matter
how loudly your nerves scream-dont take it
out on your husband.
For three generations one woman has told
another how to go Smiling through" with
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. 1t
helps Nature tone up the system, thus lessen
ing the discomforts from the functional dis
orders which women must endure.
Make a note NOW to get a bottle Of
Pinkham's today WITHOUT FAIL from your
druggist-more than million women have
written in letters reporting benefit.
Why not try LYDIA E. PINKHAMS
VEGETABLE COMPOUND7
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-24
Observation-Disclosures

Pelatiah Webster was a Philadel.
phia business man, remembered for
his advocacy of a revision of the
Articles of Confederation by Great
ing a new Constitution in his obs
sertation of the Political Union and
Constitution of the Thirteen United
States of North America (1783)."
He is, therefore, sometimes consid-
cred as the originator of the Consti-
tuition, though his plan was unlike
the product of the federal conven-
ton.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-24
Eat Fish in Norway

In Bergen, Norway, fish is served
three times a day in nearly all
families, and as a result, the life of
the community revolves about its
fish market. The Bergen housewife
is somewhat fastidious shopper,
insofar as fish is concerned, and
prefers to have her fish scooped
up alive from salt water pools with
in the market. The serving of fish
amounts to a fine art in Bergen.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-24

Comely Alice Faye is reputed to
be one of Hollywood's most enthusi-
astic bowlers, but the press agent
who arranged this picture neglect
ed to remind Alice that she shouldn't
step over the black line. Below:
Mont Lindsey of New Haven, Conn,
one of the all-time high Abe bowl
ers, talks it over with Jack Demp-
sey of heavyweight fame, also a
trundling expert.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-24

sweepstakes ana the tnlrtletn'
annual tournament of the
American Bowling Congress,
governing body of bowling.
The sweepstakes, with week
ly prizes totaling $24,600 and
grand prizes of $1,000, has
brought out $4,000 enthusi-
asts, a world record for any
sports event. These people are now
chalking up competitive scores in
1880 towns all over the country.
Winners of grand prizes will be an
nounced shortly after March 6.
Competition Grows.
Five thousand teams will enter
the ABC tourney at Chicago during
March and April. Something like
100000 in prizes furnishes incentive
here. Figures may bore you but
ABC membership spurted from TO-
600 teams in 1886 to 10000 in 1887,
a pretty good indication of the trend.
Why this popularity?
One of the best reasons for en-
joying the game was given by Jack
Dempsey, once prominent in anoth-
er field of sports. Said Mr.. Demp-
sey: 1.-THE main thing I like about
bowling is that when you knock the
pins down they stay down."
Dempsey, you may recall, had a
little trouble keeping fellow named
Tunney down in a Chicago ring a
few years back.
The satisfaction of knocking the
stuffings out of ten innocent pins at
the other end of the alley undoubted-
ly accounts for much of bowling's
popularity. Unlike other sports, any
body can be nominally successful on
the alleys, which also helps.
Women like it for several reasons.
They're deserving bridge clubs be-
cause one can make more social
contacts on the alleys. They find
the game Fascinating, and it's
one of the few winter sports open
to women. Anyway, it's being
"done. nowadays so why not join
the crowd?
Exercise and Relaxation.
Men also like the social contacts
they make at the alleys but there's
an even more important factor for
tired business men who can't in
dulge in strenuous athletics. Bowl
ing is hard work-don't get us wrong
but there's a chance for relaxa-
ton between bouts with the ball.
Historians tell us bowling is the
worlds oldest sport, dating back to
dinosaur days. In that misty period
Stone age sportsmen were heaving
round boulders at piles of rock, the
purpose being to sharpen ones aim
before going hunting. A few CEN
turtles later Sir Francis Drake is
supposed to have defeated the Span
ish Armada and saved England be-
cause he was filed with confidence
confidence instilled by a successful
game of bowling just before he took
to sea.
The modern game is related to
nine-pins, originated by the Dutch
and brought by them to Manhattan
island in 1923. New York's famous
Bowling Green was their first rendez-
vous before nine-pins became a
year-round game and had to be
moved indoors.
Paradoxically, bowling took new
lease on life through legislation
aimed to stamp it out. In the Sew
enteenth century New England Pill
grim fathers banned nine-pins be-
cause it wasn't elevating. So the
boys decided to add another pin and
beat the law.
Toss 1t and Wait.
The game is really simple and
you can leave your inferiority COM
pick at home. It's merely a mat
ter of tossing 16-pound mineralite
ball down a glass-smooth alley at
ten neatly arranged pins that are
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-24
Desert Castles in Asia

Tashkent, u. S. S. Ruins of a
hundred castles with workshops,
service buildings and barracks for
slaves have been unearthed in the
Kzyl-Kum desert, near the Bukhara
oasis in Soviet central Asia.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-24
Sulphur for Chickens

Gainesville, Ga.-Dr. M. w. En-
mel of the Florida experiment sta
ton here has found that by adding
5 per cent of sulphur flour to the
chickens laying mash he can rid the
birds of external parasites such as
lice and stick-tight fleas.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-24
The Original Petticoats

Petticoats were originally what
their name implies-little coats
worn both by men and women for
warmth of the upper part of the
body. But fashion, which is apt to
turn everything topsy-turvy, soon
transformed them into exclusively
feminine garb.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-24
Sport of 10 Million Americans Nears Anothe
Years Climax With Two Important
National Tournaments Il
BY JOSEPH w. LaBINE

Bowling the ancient sport with 100000 American parci-
climax for another From Brooklyn to
Main Street pin boys buster than with the that
changed America from country of spectators of
Elephants. ..
Forgotten the reputation that made bowling
the sport hangers-on AS early 1900 the
gentee began kegng and by 1905 active
participants Subsequent development slow until five
years ago when bowling zoomed to acehgh popularity
Cinaxng the nationwide tourna-
ens drawing $50 900 participants $4,000 Red Crown
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-24
Naming of HOLLYWOOD

The plant for which Hollywood,
Calf, was named is the California
Christmas berry, sometimes called
California holly, which once grew
thick in that neighborhood.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-24
Applique Swans Lend
Fresh Note to Linens

What more delightful needle
work could there be than Turing
these graceful swans across the
ends of your towels, scarfs and
pillow casesI And mighty little
coaxing they need for you cut
them out and apply them in a
twinkling (the patches are so SIM
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-24
The Spanish Inquisition

The Spanish Inquisition began in
the Fifteenth and Sixteenth CEN
turtles and was not wholly abol-
ished until 1884.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-24

Recreation in Its Place
Make thy recreation servant to
thy business, lest thou become a
slave to thy recreation.-Quarles.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-24
ssDuty''

"Duty," said Hi Ho, the sage OF
Chinatown, sat first the hardest
taskmaster, becomes at last the fin
est friend"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-24

DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets made of
May Apple are effective in removing
accumulated body waste.-Adv.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-24
Application

There is no lack of good maxins
in the world; all we need is to
apply them.-Pascal.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-03-11

cessve U. s. Administrations had created distrust and fear of this country throughout Latin America by twisting the Monroe Doctrine in a way that in frnged on the sovereignty of weaker peoples
 In Cuba unfortunately we still are adopting the bullying Big Brother attitude. But elsewhere there has been noticeable change in the attitude of the United States.
 Some South American States realizing that their sovereignty may be menaced from the other hemis- phere, now willingly turn to us just as they formerly turned to the European Powers to escape the conse- luences of our dollar diplomacy"
 According to White the States initiating this move want than the usual pious expression of Pan- American principles They want naval cooperation, military cooperation and economic cooperation
 Good
 To tie ourselves into a Western Hemisphere sys- tenn is vastly different thing from tying in with a European system Not a single of the Latin American Powers is reaching out for colonies now controls colonies Their national ealousies mat ters that could be settled with the framework strong Pan AmericanisIn.
 The position of all of us in North and South America is defensive and We defending our own countries only-not the possession of India nor the sovereignty of China
 A real Pan-American system also makes sense economically both for us and for the nations to the south We make everything they need. They nave nearly all the raw materials lack within our own borders.
 Of course, any return of dollar diplomacy, or ruthless economic exploitation on the part of Ameri But a vigorous State Department can guard against that.
 Secretary Hull is anxious for international operation.
 By all means let it begin and stop-in the Western Hemisphere.