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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-01-06
Newton D. Baker Is Dead

NJ EWTON D. BAKER, one of the
World war men who did a ire
mendous job well, died at his home
in Cleveland, Ohio, of coronary
thrombosis at the age of sixty-three
years. Called to Washington in 1916
to be secretary of war in President
Wilson's cabinet, Mr. Baker accom-
plished the great feat of mobilizing
the huge American army and get
ting it across the Atlantic in time to
be the decisive factor in winning the
conflict. 1t was he who selected
General Pershing to command the
A. E. F., and counseled him to keep
the American army intact.
Mr.. Baker was eminent as a law
yer and close student of interna-
tional affairs. Though always a
Democrat, he turned against the
present administration mainly be-
cause of the Tennessee Valley au-
thority projects and the usurpation
of state rights.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-01-06
Convention Book OK.

A TTORNEY GENERAL HOMER
4 S. CUMMINGS said that GRIM
inal prosecutions against the Demo-
cratic national committee for SELL
ing souvenir convention books to
corporations "would not be war;
ranted." He made this decision in
reply to Representative B. H. Smell
who complained that the committee
had violated the corrupt practices
act when it sold such books, auto
graphed by President Roosevelt, for
as high as $3.50 each and obtained
more than 100000 for the party's
Golfers.
Cummings said, however, in his
letter to Smell, that the act was too
lax and that shortly he would rec
ommend to congress amendatory
legislation to make it more effective
in important particulars.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-01-06
Labor Peace Farley Ends

THERE will be no early peace be-
L tween the American Federation
of Labor and the c. I. o. The ne
gotiations in Washington came to a
sudden end when the federation's
representatives refused to consider
anything but unconditional surren-
der of the Lewis forces, which the
c. I. o. men scornfully rejected.
The strategy of Green and his
lieutenants was dictated by infor-
nation that the c. I. 0. was on the
verge of bankruptcy, that it's ranks
were torn by dissension over the
communist element
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-01-06
Monopo!ists Blamed

BLAME for the business slump
II was placed at the door of mon
opolists by Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Robert H. Jackson, and he ut
tered warning that government
spending would be increased unless
prices are brought more in line with
consumers income.
Jackson, head of the Justice de-
partment's antitrust division, said
that the impression that steep price
increases are traceable to wage
boosts resulting from the growth of
labor unio"s is mot accurate-or at
the most, only half accurate" AS
an example he cited the steel in
dustry, where wages, he said, were
increased 10 per cent and prices
were tilted 81 per cent from De-
cember /, 1886, to March /, 1887.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-01-06
CheetahS Swift

In India, antelope-hunting Chez
tabs are caught wild. Those born in
captivity do not make good hunt
ers. After training, a big cat is
hooded and leashed and taken to a
forest. When released, it picks up
the scent of its prey, bounds away.
Even the antelope, fast though it is,
can't escape that initial dash of the
cheetah. For short distances the
spotted cat is the fastest thing on
legs. One has sped 70 miles an hour
for 100 yards.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-01-06

mediately preceded the onset of the
pain. In 81 cases this consisted of
social, domestic or sex difficulties.
The factor common was menace
to vital feelings, life or existence.
''The menace" DR.. Wittkower
writes, may originate in the outer
world and consist of financial re-
verses, failure in business, impend-
ing dismissal, loss of job, disease,
or death of a loved person, dis
appointment in married life, dissen-
sion in family !. it may be due
to repressed, unfulfilled desires"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-01-06
Answers

l. A celebrated whirlpool or
violent current in the Arctic ocean
near the western coast of Norway.
2. It indicates that that is a
substitute bill issued to replace
one that was defective.
3. The brink of Niagara falls is
receding or moving back at the
average of 219 feet a year.
4. Two inches.
5. In 1903 Nine. Curie received
the Nobel award in physics jointly
with her husband. In 1911 she
was awarded the Nobel prize in
chemistry.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-01-06
Quotations"

II is some commentator that we
have avoided to characterize any
person without long experience
S,Vift.
A wise man sees as much as he
ought, not as much as he cam
Montague.
Love is but another name Or that
inscrutable presence by which the
soul is connected with humanity
w. G.. Sinln,s.
Delay is cowardice and doubt
despair.-Wh itehead.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-01-06
Old King Cole as a Ruler

"Old King Cole" legendary char
acter of nursery lore, ruled town
in, eastern England, appropriately
named Colchester. Although the
name does not memorable the Fall
staffian figure, Colchester has
named one of the massive bastions
of the old Roman wall "Colkynge's
Castle" The history of Colchester
may be traced to the Roman occu-
patton of Britain. Among the early
Britons it was known as Caer Colun,
which, in the era of the Angles and
Saxons was changed to Colne Caes-
ter. Colchester is garrison towr
So miles from London.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-01-06
Unemployment Grows

A CCORDING to the Works Prog
"A ress administration, 100000
persons have lost their jobs since
September l and 100000 more
may be out of work by the end of
February.
The estimate was made by Leon
Henderson, consulting economist,
while a staff of federal employees
was speeding compilation of the
mailman census of the unemployed
made more than month ago. 1t
was conceded that if the unemployed
are increasing at the rate indicated
in the Henderson estimate the post
card census will be worthless as a
basis for attacking the unemploy-
ment problem.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-01-06
By Air to New Zealand
.AN-AMERICAN AIE

l flying boat, the Samoan Clip
per, landed at Auckland, New Zea-
land, completing the last phase of
its flight from Honolulu to the
southern terminus of the new ocean
air line. Capt. Edwin G. Musick
and the crew of seven logged 1,180
miles in II hours minutes. The
clipper remained in Auckland only
a few days and then started on it's
return trip to Honolulu with mail
and express.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-01-06

copy of Mrs. Spears new box.
SEWING. Forty-eight pages Of
step-by-step directions for makiHg
slipcovers and dressing tables;
restoring and upholstering chairs,
couches; making curtains for ev-
cry type of room and purpose.
Making lampshades, rugs, otto
mans and other useful articles for
the home. Readers wishing a copy
should send name and address,
enclosing Is cents, to Mrs. Spears,
210 South Desplaines St., Chicago,
Illinois.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-01-06

posal for the leaders would prefer
to wait for the development of other
candidates.. Besides that, the Sec
rotary has been notably independent
of party organization control.
Naturally, the proposal would car
ry no weight unless President
Roosevelt makes it plain that he
will follow tradition and refuse a
third term. The Ickes adherents be-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-01-06
FISK Me Tnother
@ A General Quiz

l. What is the Maelstrom, and
where is it?
2. Why does star precede the
number on some United States
currency?
3. Are the Niagara falls moving
steadily upstream?
4. What is the average thickness
of hippopotamus hide?
5. Has any woman received the
Nobel prize more than once?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-01-06
Spanish LoyaIis+ Victory

CPANISH government forces won
- a decided victory by capturing
Teruel, the key point of the rebel
salient into loyalist territory 1875
miles east of Madrid. The place
had been besieged for seven days
and losses were heavy on both sides.
Madrid hailed this as the greatest
loyalist victory of the whole war.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-01-06

in favor of John
Lewis and his Com
mittee for Industrial
Organization. S h e
said her department
had followed a strict
rule of impartiality.
Nine. Perkins also
told congress the ma
ton wants Lewis
and Green, presi-
dent of the Ameri-
can Federation of
Labor, to stop bick-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-01-06
Hearts Really Broken,
London Doctor Finds

Modern medical research has JUS
tilted the old idea of the broken
heart"
DR.. Erich Wittkower, HALEY Stew
art research fellow of St. Bartholo-
news hospital, describing his re-
searches in the Lancet, says he
found evidence to suggest con-
nection of mental condition with the
formation of pain. In 80 of 48
cases emotional stress or strain i'm
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-01-06

sidered closed. But
Uncle Sam is going
to keep close watch
to see that there are
no further attacks
on American life
and property in the
war zone in China.
Ambassador Jo-
seph c. Grew hand
ed to Foreign Minis
ter Koki Hirota a
note from Secretary
of State Hull accept
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-01-06

favorite son candi-
date of Illinois for
t h e presidential
nomination in 1910.
It is said Democrat
ic leaders in Illinois
h a v e b e e n a p
preached with the
plan to enter Mr..
Ickes in the presi-
Dental primaries.
So far there has
been no enthusiastic
rncpnnca 70 the Dr0
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-01-06
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~ SUMMARIZES THE WORLDS WEEK
@ Western Newspaper Union.

ieve their man would stand fair
chance in a wide open race for
the nomination, and they assert his
independence would add to his
strength and attract many Repub-
icanS.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-01-06
Jap Pledges Accepted

Japan has promised that there
- shall be no recurrence of the
Panay outrage, and if her pledges
are kept the incident may be con-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-01-06
Nine. Perkins mot Biased"

IN HER annual report to congress
L Nine. Frances Perkins, secretary
of labor, denied the frequently
heard charge that she is prejudiced
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-01-06
BoomIet for Ickes

FROM Chicago comes the interest
ing news that friends of Secre-
tary of the Interior Ickes have start
ed small boom for him as the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-01-06
Nesrs Reric.c of CErvens EUenfs
"SAVE THE COMPTROLLER"

Byrd Opens Fight on the Reorganization. Bill :.
Panay Incident Closed by Japan's Pledges
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-25
News Behind the News
= Smashing Moneys Grip

WASHINGTON. ON.-RooSevetS expressed desire
to eliminate all holding companies IS a part OF
his ambition to break the concentrated financial
control mostly from New York. over large
section of industry.
Ii he embarks on the sort Of campaign
which he has suggested in recent private con-
verSations. you Will be hearing plenty about
such groupS as the Morgan interests with their
far-fung control over steel public utilities,
automobiles railroads and other industries.
Banker control over industry, New Deal theory
holds. is the real secret OF monopoly price nNlns
and other factors alleged 10 have helped bring
on the recession. New Dealers charge that
bankers standing behind industrialiSts are re
sponsible for sweeping layoffs, wage-cuts and
curtailmentS OF production to a degree beyond
which actual managements would go II left TO
themselves.
Although Roosevelt may get nowhere near his
goal that goal is a major reform IN the present
business system. Il Is perhaps his most radical
idea to date.
Hearings on the fitness OF Ebert K. BurleW to
be Assistant Secretary of the interior, bringing
up again charges OF Wire-tapplng in the interior
Department also call attention to a mechanical
device Iekes has in his office. BY this device all
telephone and personal conversations anyone
has with Secretary Ickes can be recorded When
he presses a button.
The ARRANGEMENT is a mandy one for Ickes,
obviously enough But the ethical point raised Is
that the person who may want to speak con-
ldentially with the secretary is not told that
transcript O4 MS NOlNS - DGIIlS PlCoSl|CN
o
The administration has no intention OF
letting people of the U. S. forget about Japan.
Few opportunities are being missed to spread
the impression that the Far Eastern situation
should be viewed with concern.
Word came from the Philippines that High
Commissioner Paul V. McNutt was flying to
Mindanao Island to investigate land holdings
of a large colony OF japanese would subsequently
visit China and then report to the President.
All this could have been done quietly and
without ballyhoo. But it's official policy now
to dramatize all dealings having to do with
Japan.
Relations between Supreme Court Justice
Hugo Black and the news photographers con-
tinue to be somewhat less than cordial
If you make picture OF him coming out,
he's going to be upset, Mrs. Clifford Durr, the
Justices sister-in-laW, told the cameramen who
marched onto the grounds Of Blacks Seminary
Hill (Virginial home the evening OF the White
House reception for the judiciary Further
more if you stay here don't know what will
happen"
Things happened. all right. Photographers
took position on curve down the drive, and
Blacks car came tearing along at high speed.
Not quite negotiating the curve, it tore of
some of the jutting rocks bordering the drive
way. To hear the photographers tell it, only
luck and their agility kept them from being
the morning newspapers big story. The pic
lures were blurred
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-25
Defiance of Law
Is Not Reliqion

The collapse of the Rev Israel Hard
ing Noe during the fast by which he
intended to prove that man can obtain
Immortality on earth by feeding his
body only from ethereal sources proves
again what the wisest religious leaders
know that no man knows or can con-
troll the Divine laws which govern this
universe.
The Rev. Noe had risen to a high place
in his church. but he had not learned
one little truth preached in every ne
ligious book in the world. in the Bible,
the Koran and by others. That truth
can be summed up in one word, 'humill-
ty."
When the Memphis clergyman at
tempted to make himself immortal by
teaching his body to live on spiritual
substance, he was not displaying humlh-
ty. He was trying to defeat natural
laws that have been in existence since
the world began. He was setting him
self on plane above other men, as an
equal of the Being he calls God.
The trees, the flowers, the grass, the
animals-every living thing that grows
or breathes-take sustenance from the
earth. Every living tissue We know Is
made up of clements taken from the
earth.
The Rev. Noe should have learned one
line of poem that sticks IN our mind;
Some call it Nature; but others call
it God"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-25
How About Our
Rural Roads?

The county board Of SUPERVISORS re-
Gently voted three to two TO approve a
recommendation for construction Of the
highway link which would cause U. S.
Highway 80 to pass to the west of Braw-
ley, leaving the north-end community
without a state highway. 1t has been
estimated that the job would cost
$4,000.
There is not room here to argue the
merits of the BraWley cutoff, but i
does seem to us that a lot could be done
with $4,000 to improve Imperial Val
ley's farm-to-market roads, which are
in far greater need Of repair than is
any state highway in the valley
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-25
Unanimous Action
For the State Street Subway

H. R. Judah, chairman OF the Cali
fornia state highway commission, warn
ed during visit to FL Centro last week
that Ell Centre must display a unanl-
nous desire for the project if it expects
the state to help build an underpass
where State street intersects the South
ern Pacific railroad tracks. While we
believe that no informed resident of Ell
Centre is opposed to the project, we
recognize the wisdom of his service.
If we want a grade separation prof.
ect on State street, the thing to do is to
work for it. Equally important, how
ever, is agreement among ourselves on
what plan of campaign we SHALL follow.
1t is silly to send delegation to Sacra-
mento to tell the highway commission
or the railroad commission that the
entire community is agreed upon one
plan-and then have another group, or
even an individual, walk in on the COM
mission a few hours later to advance
another plan, differing in many details.
The important thing is the State street
underpass. The community is united,
we believe. in a desire to put it through.
That being the case, let's leave out the
extraneous details, forget the whereases
and therefores, and work to get the un
derpass approved and started.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-25
Other Editors Saw
TWO KINDS OF CAPITAL
wall Street Journan

He calls II venture capital.
In the course OF his testimony before the
Senate committee investigating unemployment
Mr.. Lammot du Pont hit upon this peculiarly
happy phrase to describe the type of capital in
veStment which has been lacking for several
years, the continued lack Of which is so much
of a drag on business activity and employment
What the head OF E. I. du Pont de Nemours
said an important contribution to the clari-
fication of what talking about when we
discuss lack OF capital investment. Obviously
any business will invest, securing the funds from
the public if necessary. if it is confronted with
more actual demand for its products than its
physical capacity can supply. But that is
very different thing from investment without
definite assurance that the funds will produce
at the outset income commensurate with the
commitment; and that, in effect. is what Mr.
du Pont means by venture capital
The spirit which prompts the placing of ven
ture capital is not confined to industry. The
individual who now hesitates to purchase
house or to make permanent addition to his
present property, is not deferred by high prices
alone. In large part. both great industrialists
and anonymous fractions of the public are held
back because they cannot see beyond the hOri-
zon while clouds gather overhead.
No one need expect certain knoWl-
edge OF all that the future Will bring before ne
invests. But no sane man ventures on a long
journey in the very face Of weather danger sig
mails
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-25

The decision of Federal Judge
Fred L. Wham of East st. Louis,
ordering Progressive Mine Work
ers of America to pay $4,000 in
damages resulting from a lengthy
strike, has bought to new Gre
scendo the long and bitter argu-
ment over responsibility of labor
unions.
The final outcome of the case,
which presumably will be carried
to the highest court in the land,
is cne which will affect the entire
future of employer-employe re-
lations in America.
Judge Wham's ruling, holding
that unions and their members are
responsible under the law for
damages inflicted as result of un-
lawful conduct or conspiracy to
injure an employers property or
business, may eventually prove to
be a turning point in the con-
troversy over whether labor unions
should be incorporated or other
wise made legally responsible for
their actions.
The bitter argument over in
corporation of unions goes back to
around 1880 when, strangely
enough it was organized labor
which was demanding the right to
take advantage of the incorpora-
ton laws in order to remove the
aura of illegality which surrounded
unions at the time.
In 1886, Congress passed a law
permitting unions to incorporate
but by the time labor leaders had
had a change Of heart and few
unions took advantage of the op-
portunity AS the years passed, labor
sentiment against incorporation
became more pronounced. leaders
realizing that action would make
unions subject to many restraints
and responsibilities which do not
affect voluntary associations.
Since that time there have been
few court decisions on the issue,
but never a controlling and all
inclusive ruling on the legal status
'of unincorporated unions.
Briefly the stands of employ
ers and workers on the question
are these:
Employers contend that the pre-
sent situation is unfair because
they, as individuals or corporations,
are responsible for their acts while
unions are not They contend that
employers should receive assurance
Under the law that, once contract
is signed there will be no strikes
or other disturbances SO long as
employers discharge their obliga-
tiOnS.
Labor contends that unions are
not irresponsible, do not violate
contracts. and need not be incor-
porated TO assure responsibility.
without discussing the merits of
Judge Wham's decision, it un-
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-25
JOHN WELLS
TO GO EAST

John Wells. former Ell Centran, was
promoted to the Cleveland, O., Of
flee of the Pacific Mutual Life In
surance company and plans to
leave with his family Wednesday
to assume his new duties.
He was employed several years
by the Imperial Valley Building
and Loan association. In Septem-
Der he accepted a position with the
insurance company in the Los An
peleS office
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-25

the days when not a single shop or
store bore outside sign. And Mil
lionaire's Row was a citadel for the
rich and aristocratic creme de Ia
creme
What Fifth avenue has left of
former glory chiefly are churches.
Such as ST. Patrick's and st. Thom-
ass. Plus several of the finest de-
partment stores. But the bon ton
bOtiques are gradually moving over
to Park between 46th street and
Goth.
-Four enormous five e-and-tens are
already Haunting their red facades
on Fifth. And for a time a flock
of spurious linen shops gave the
street a cheap john look Madison
Avenue, too has attracted a car
riage trade with its spray of Rue
de Ia PaiX shopping smartness.
The House Of Morgan, famed
banking firm, at the corner of
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-25

Broad and Wall, occupies the CoSI-
liest real estate site in the world.
Built of imported marble. 1t is but
two stories. a pigmy among sur
rounding giants. There Is Scarcely
an hour during the day that one
or several do not detach from the
sidewalk flow to finger the pock-
marked slab of marble near the en-
trance. A memento of the terri
fying noon day explosion that blew
many innocents 10 kingdom come
and provided a bombing mystery
several detectives are still working
upon full time.
The elder J. p. Morgan somehow
fascinated me in early New York
days more than other magnificoS.
l had heard that at times he lunch
ed behind a screen in the rear of
Dewey's on Fulton and I went there
often and dawdled over a piece OF
pie in hopes of a glimpse Then
one exciting late afternoon. with
the star reporters out of the office,
a call came for the press to stop
in at Morgan's office. I was sent
and expected a touch of wish full
fillment. But instead a solemn
gentleman in ledger-ruled trousers,
black braided coat and clerlly air
greeted us and handed out a curt
mimeographed communidue of
about 20 words A year or so later,
however, 1 saw the great capitalist.
was on the 42d street corner of
Broadway watching the opera
crowds depart Morgan in silk hat
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-25
Bruce Cation Says
- Do We Need ForeibIe Union Incorporation?

dCubtdly will serve. in the long
run. to clear up one of the most
puzzling aspects of employment
pIoye relations-whether organ
lied labor is liable for damages for
civil offenSes
It will not settle, however, the
question of whether unions should
be made legally liable for damages
resulting from failure to fulfill con-
tracts, as no question of agree
ment violation was involved in the
Illinois case.
This, and many other aspects of
the organized labor problem, will
be solved only when Congress and
the administration buckle down to
the task of formulating a definite
labor policy.