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repeat when the foreign minister
returned to Rio de Janeiro. To pac-
ify hard-pressed Brazilians, the
smooth-tongued statesman told his
home folks that 81 always subordi-
mated that moral obligation of pay
ment to material capacity to do it
-. My theory Tin promising pay
ment) was to tranquilize more than
half a million holders of our bonds"
Observers have decided Senior
Aranha is merely playing a clever
game of diplomatic hide and seek.
From safely within his own baili-
wick he can make pointed differences
that Brazilian bond payments will
not be forthcoming as expected un-
less U. S. tradesmen jump to re-
duce his nations large SURPRISES.
People
Organized, by Mrs. Ken Maynard,
estranged wife of the cowboy ac-
tor, an escort service to assist inc
briated Los Angeles night club
guests to their homes.
Q Turned religious, Al Capone, for
mer Chicago beer baron now i'm
prisoned at Terminal Island, Calf.
When a visiting minister asked pris-
oners to stand if they ''felt the need
of the Saviour" Capone was the
first to rise.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-06
Congress

congress
U. S. business was pouting genu-
inely last February when Harry
Hopkins made his famous Des
Moines speech promising new ad-
ministration effort to start the re-
covery ball rolling. But to business
men, recovery was precluded by
high relief costs and 'exorbitant"
taxes. When the administration in
Dictated unwillingness to slash costs,
Mr.. Hopkins highly touted zap
basement plan begged down and
in its place arose the most hostile,
economy minded congress President
Roosevelt has ever faced.
Many administration leaders, like
Secretary Morgenthau and Vice
President Garner, are economy
bent. Others, like Federal Reserve
Chairman Mariner Eccles, White
House favorite, believe government
should spend when industry will not,
providing a semblance of normally.
But so unpopular philosophy bucks
the public trend, which is poor poll
tics. A smarter course is to give
congress and the nation its econ
omy. If prosperity results, the
White House will bask in glory; if
it misses fire, the public can be re-
minded that the White House coun-
seled against it all along.
Whatever the reasoning, sudden
switch in administration attitude
has brought new peace to Washing
ton:
Eccles Demarche. Appearing be-
fore a special senate silver commit
tee, Mr.. Eccles COMPOUNDED his audi
ence by advocating governmental
economy. His reasoning: while I
am convinced that such a policy
under present conditions would
have disastrous results, we live in
a democracy, and, therefore i.
the viewpoint of the majority should
promptly be made effective" His
suggestion: That federal spending
be concentrated on non-competing
public activities, i.e., buildings,
roads, schools, hospitals, housing.
Morgenthau Demarche. Next day
Mr. Morgentnau gave aQmlnlSIra-
ton blessing to congressional plans
for postponing scheduled increases
in payroll contributions for social
security, also endorsing a pay-as-
you-go system founded on sound &C
tuarial principles. Present assess
ments are / per cent each against
employer and employee. In 1910
and 1871 this would jump to IL per
cent each; 2 per cent to 1915; 2ls
per cent to 1913; per cent each
after 1913. Mr.. Morgenthau's four
alternatives:
(I One per cent to 1910; IL per
cent to 1913; per cent to 1916; 21s
per cent to 1919; 8 per cent after
that.
(2) Boost from l to ia per cent
in 1910; to IL per cent in 1941; to
ia per cent in 1912; present sched-
ule thereafter.
90 Boost from to u per cent in
1910; to rs per cent in 1941; to liz
per cent in 1912; present schedule
thereafter.
(4) Omit increase to liz per cent
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-06
May Use Whale Meat to
Make Artificial Wool

The problem of producing artifi-
cial wool fiber appears to have
many solutions, says the New York
Times. A Japanese scientist has
produced it from whale meat. S.
Sasaki, of the college of agriculture
of the Kyushu Imperial university,
has, according to the Tokyo CORE
spondent of the American Chemi-
cal society, succeeded in ferment-
ing the whale meat in chemical
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-06
HoU Wallace's Men Think
Blue Food Stamp Will Work

I must write little bit about that
blue food stamp, about how the ad-
vanced thinkers think it will work,
before l report on the main depart
ment of agriculture appropriation
bill.
1t seems to be Secretary Wallace's
idea of more abundant life to des-
ignate certain farm products each
week as being surplus" and to help
get them off of the glutted market
by making them available for relief
workers kitchens. The first trial
of the scheme will be limited to six
cities. In those areas, the relief
supervisors will be supplied with
books of blue stamps. They are
rather pretty stamps, too. Each
WPA worker will get a book of
stamps of specified value. He
can take those stamps to his gro
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-06

WASHINGTON.-It was not so
long ago-six or eight years, per-
haps-that the annual cost of the
department of agriculture to the
taxpayers of the country amounted
to something like $4O,000,000. There
was some talk even in those days
about the drain upon the federal
treasury resulting from department
of agriculture operations. The to-
tails were questioned; many persons
wondered whether the politicians
were justified in voting that much
money to the department because
there was little to show in the way
of results. That is, congressman
could show very little except the
packages of seeds sent out to their
districts.
It was in those days, however,
that the department of agriculture
was seeking to operate effectively.
Farming was not regarded by the
folks who used to run the depart
ment as subject for politics. The
departmental officials were going
about their business, rendering as
sistance in the form of advice and
promoting better farming-when the
farmers asked for it.
I was reminded of those days re-
Gently when the house appropria-
tions committee brought out for
consideration the appropriations bill
for the department of agriculture
for the fiscal year that begins next
July /. A Rip Van Wrinkle who could
have slept through the last 10 years
would have believed, truly, that he
was in another world. The new
money bill for the department con-
tains a total of more than 81 ,000,-
100000. The measure, indeed, ranks
as the third largest appropriations
bill of this year when altogether
there is likely to be almost $40, 000,-
600 600 appropriated
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-06
Learn Beautiful Phrases
But at Rather High Cost

l am not prepared to say that the
wild life restoration program is
wholly bad. 1t seems probable that
the country ought to rebuild the
wild life stocks that have been wan
tonly destroyed in the days when
people could go out and shoot ducks
or deer or what have you without
thought of the morrow. 1t is a pro-
gram for which considerable justi-
fication can be advanced.
But it is to be noted that most of
these items are small. Neither the
department of agriculture admins
tration nor the members of the
house and the senate have seen fit
to do more than maintain them. !
have seen the inmates of the CAPT.
toll squirm and fuss and Scowl about
some of them, while swallowing the
items reaching into hundreds of mil
lions with the greatest of glee.
AS I said, it was not so long ago
that department of agriculture ap-
preparations were regarded as huge
if they totalled 40 millions. AS far
as l can see, agriculture is no bet
ter off today than it was in those
years. Of course, a very great
number of farmers have learned
that the beautiful phrases like "the
more abundant life" and such, are
meaningless. But I venture the as
sertion that the education has been
rather expensive.
From all of these things it is
surely made to appear that there
are some large Ethiopian gentlemen
in the wood pile. When the politi-
clans and the advanced thinkers
joined hands to manage agriculture,
just then federal expenses for the
department of agriculture began
looming upward.
g Western Newspaper Union.
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People

solution so that it was reduced to a
viscid mass which could be spun
into a thread.
The fiber floats on water and is
reported to have considerable
strength. The viscous mass of the
whale meat ferment can be mixed
with cellulose xanthate, one OF the
intermediate substances used in pro-
ducing rayonlike fibers, and pro-
duces a silklike fiber. Successful
efforts have been made in this coun-
try and in Italy to produce an arti-
fetal wool from the casein in milk.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-06
What Is Planned to Do
With q Billion Dollars

1t is extremely difficult to realize
what billion dollars is. That is,
! it is difficult for me to understand
what it is. I can write the figures
glibly enough. But to comprehend
that sum of money, or billion of
anything, is something almost out
side the pale of human knowledge.
Yet that is what the department of
agriculture seeks this year, and here
is how that money is supposed to
be divided:
1929, $50, 900 for soil conservation
payments.
$3.50, 600, 900 for parity payments.
$191, 0O0, 900 for road building.
SCI, 1852, 900 for soil and moisture
conservation and operations.
$24, 984, 900 for the farm tenancy
program.
$7,175,000 for eradicating tubercu-
losis and Bangs disease.
5000, $40 for the weather bureau
and its services.
$4,978,000 for retiring submarginal
lands.
$1,631 900 for soil and moisture in
vestigation.
$1,500,0 for wild life restoration.
100000 for cooperative farm for
estry.
$250,00O for the water facilities
program.
There were some other odds and
ends embracing items of 20 or 40
! or 80 thousand dollars, amounts so
small that men almost smirk be-
cause they have forgotten how to
speak in such limited numbers.
Then, and here is the joker which
is hidden away. / really should not
say hidden" because no reference
is made in the agriculture bill Ian
guage. The joker is that there are
almost countless millions of other
dollars with which the department
can play around, including approx
mately 100000, 900 of money for use
in getting rid of farm SURPRISES.
That is the money from which Sec
rotary Wallace and his advanced
thinkers will draw funds for the
soon-to-be-famous food stamps.
The country got its belly full of
blue eagles before the NRA was
plowed under. But the undis-
tinguished, yet BETTING, end that
came to the MIRA blue eagle has
not deferred the advanced thinkers
from attempting something else that
is blue-a blue stamp for relief food.
Yes, relief workers will have the
same wages as before, but they will
receive free blue stamps with which
to buy surplus products for foods.
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schools, although the government
plans to spend 0,OOO,O 900 on training
commercial pilots, largely at nom
military schools.
Under the army training program,
flying cadets, aiming for reserve
army commission, will receive three
months of primary training at rec
ognized commercial schools and fol-
low this with six months of basic
and advanced training at Randolph
and Kelly fields.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-06
Trend
Horu the ,Uind is blo,Uing !.

Hotu the tUird is bIoiUing -.
RISK-Thanks to Adolf Hitler,
rates on marine war risk insur-
ance covering shipments through
the Baltic sea have been raised.
SPIES - Attorney General
Frank Murphy reports foreign
spies are becoming more active
in the U. S., but that federal
counter-espionage agencies are
prepared to cope with them 100
per cent"
TREES - The national forest
service in 1888 planted lao, 900, 900
trees in 81 states, covering 1884,
268 acres.
DIVORCE-Seeking new indus
tries, the Kansas legislature is
considering a one-day divorce
law to attract more people to the
state.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-06
Military School Students Will Not Get Airplane Training

WASHINGTON.-Not one cent will
be spent by the army for training of
pilots in military schools and col
leges or those which have r. o.
T. c. units, it was learned at the war
department.
The thousands of additional pilots,
which the army needs to man its ex-
banded air force of 5000 planes, will
get no flight training at Institutions
where they are now receiving mill
tary training, except the service
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-06
Satellites in Astronomy

Satellites in astronomy are opaque
bodies that revolve around planets.
ALI the planets except Mercury,
Venus, Pluto and the Asteroids are
known to be attended by satellites.
The earth has one (the NOON, Mars
two; Jupiter, eleven; Saturn, nine;
Uranus, four; and Neptune, one.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-06
Philippines Get Navy.

MANILLA.-The Philippine army
has received from England the first
unit of projected fleet of
"Q-boats," high-powered super
speedboats similar to those used
by Great Britain and Italy. Built
and designed for extreme mobility
and speed, to harass enemy war
ships, rather than staying power,
the tiny razor-edged craft are a
feature of the plan mapped out by
Douglas Macarthur, former United
States army chief of staff.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-06
Uncle Min
Says: -
We Cultivate That Field

Politics offers such a tremen-
dous field in which to be bogus.
The world owes no man any
thing who does not serve it.
Everyone may be an idealist;
but none should be zealot. A
zealot is a nuisance.
That's All We Ask
Laws cannot change human ma
ture, they can but, at best, change
human behavior.
If one earnestly wants to be a
gentleman he can be one. The
rules are plain.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-06
See Possibility of Creating
A Lot of BootIeggers

There is another phase of the pic
ture which was mentioned to me by
Representative Hope of Kansas, one
of the ranking members of the house
committee on agriculture. He sug-
gested that the blue stamps are GO
ing to create lot of bootleggers.
For example: the relief workers are
not permitted to buy liquor with the
stamps. They won't be redeemed
if they are used to buy anything
but food. However, Mr.. Hope could
see no reason why a relief worker
couldn't use the stamps to buy iq-
uor from liquor store and the hq-
uor store owner might possibly be
crook. 1t is possible, you know.
He might own a food store, too, or
he might have an understanding
with food store owner who would
take the stamps at few pennies
discount. What is to stop such pro-
cedure? It's your guess.
The whole thing strikes me as be-
ing so silly as to defy ones powers
of imagination. 1t is dealt with here
at such length only because l re-
gard it as typical of a great many
things that are going on within the
department of agriculture for which
more than $1,000, 100000 is soon to
be appropriated for years opera
tons. The blue stamp scheme is
destined to fail, even as the plow-
ing under of crops and the slaugh-
tering of 5000, 900 pigs was doomed
a-bornin' and as the limitation of
crop production was certain to flare
back on those who were sucked into
the maelstrom of nit wit plans.
Now, lest / be misunderstood, let
me restate with emphasis that there
is good work that the department
can do, and has been doing. Road
building appropriations, for in
stance. Where would this country
be had there been no attempt to
build disable roads? Who can say
that eradication of tuberculosis and
Bangs disease among live stock is
not a valuable aid to farmers9
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+" HEN this writer was doing a
" short turn helping build the
Panama canal, he fell in with a
Jamaica Negro water boy, a sort of
,r,u Gunga Din of a
Jamaica Boys so swampers,
Tdeo of Canal who was wor-
ried about the
canal being too narrow. In the
quaint lingo of the British-taught
island Negroes, he used to say:
eyes bahs, ships grow hugely
in coming years and if some is
fighting ship it must go swiftly
and not fear other passing great
ship. Axing parding sir, we
Jamaica boys say canal need
great charging"
Frank j. Taylor, president of the
American Merchant marine, returns
from the canal to New York with
the same idea. He says congress
should spend 100000, 1000 to widen
the canal for both commercial and
national defense reasons. Mr.. Tay-
lor's career is Brooklyn's favorite
''boy who made good" story-from
81 day to $35, 900 year, which is
the possibly vulgar epitome of such
careers in this day and age.
He was an orphan lad in a
Manhattan slum, at work at IL
as an apprentice at Robbins dry
dock in the Red Hook section
of Brooklyn. He rose in politics,
in the state assembly for IL
terms, sheriff, commissioner of
records, welfare commissioner
and comptroller of New York
City.
Retiring from the last office in
1887, he went to Florida, but the
steamship owners tracked him down
and burdened him with this $35 900
job. He fights government intrusion
on private enterprise, but says the
shipping interests will cooperate eff
fectively with the United States
maritime commission.
g Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.
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Miscellany

Favored, by more congressman,
expansion of the neutrality acts
"cash and carry" provision to in
clude sale of munitions to warning
nations.
o Commemorated, by a special
Irish postal stamp, the 150th ami
versary of the American Constitu-
ton and George Washington's in
stallation as first U. S. President.
Q Offered, by Japan, return of
inundated Caroline islands to Ger
many "as gesture of good will and
an example to other countries hold
ing former German colonies. Stipu-
lation: The islands are to be sur
rendered when the Reich RECEIVERS
colonies from Britain and France.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-06
Norway,s ScareguIls

On the farms perched high above
the fjords of Norway, farmers set
out scarecrows to brighten away not
rows but seagulls.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-06

is French capitulation to Mussolini's
Mediterranean demands. No COM
petent observer expects Paris to
balk at % giving minority rights
to Italians in Tunisia; (2) granting
Italy share in administration of
the Suez canal, or (3) allowing It.
ally to control the railroad from
French Djibouti to Adds Ababa,
Ethiopia's key city. So long as no
territorial demands are made, Paris
will register nothing more positive
than an air of righteousness.
Significance. Europe's future will
henceforth be dictated from Rome
and Berlin, since democratic soli-
darity efforts continue to fail.
France and England cannot be ex-
pected to oppose any dictator con-
quest short of encroachment on their
own territory, and even here they
would balk at armed opposition.
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BY Joseph w. La Bine-

in 1910; step up rates in 1943 and fol-
low present schedule thereafter.
Morgenthau reasoning: The trend
of business conditions in specific fu-
ture years could not be accurately
foreseen in 1885 when social security
was started under the present $40,-
900, 000,0 900 reserve plan. Today it
appears a $3,000,000,O00 reserve
would be sound.
Also recommended was a trustee
board to hold social security funds,
thereby spiking criticism that the
money is now being used to pay
governmental expenditures. Under
actual operation, payroll contribu-
tons now go to the treasury, are
shifted to the old-age reserve fund,
then invested in treasury securities
to bring the cash back to the gen.
eral fund.
Sour Note. Given a highly COW
eted concession, congress has found
economy is easier to talk about than
enforce. Next on the list is the
farm appropriations bill, carrying a
$3.50, 100000 item for parity pay
ments which had not been included
in the original budget estimate.
Farm-state representatives foresee-
ing political suicide if parity ap-
preparations were not made, hoped
the money might come from re-
newal of processing taxes. Indus
trial-state lawmakers knew their
constituents would object. And both
groups reflected that less social Sc
curity income would leave Secretary
Morgenthau's cupboard bare.
PGl-Americd
In early March BraziPs Foreign
Minister Oswaldo Aranha arrived at
Washington, spent two weeks max
ing friends and returned home with
basketful of plums. In return for
liberal U. S. credit allowances to
develop Brazilian trade and indus
try (partly Pan American defense
measurei Senior Aranha agreed to
resume payment on Brazilian debts
to U. S. bondholders on July /.
But commitments that were con-
venient in Washington were hard to
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-06
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

NEW YORK.-There is an Anthony
: ' Edenish flavor about the way
Undersecretary of State Sumner
Welles denounces Germany in the
Our Welles No Secretarv HuIl
Flop IN Poll of and there is an
Rest Dresser. Edenish flavor
abou our Mr..
Welles himself. He is tall. He is lean.
He has a wee, precise mustache, and
why nobody has picked him in a
best-dressed poll is mystery. His
long, big nose is perfectly cut, too,
and not hair is out of place in the
thinning pompadour that reaches
back from a domed forehead.
This is not, however, to hint
that the undersecretary is any
thing less than 100 per cent
American. He was born in New
York City 46 years or SO ago.
President ROosevelt's own Gro
ton and Harvard shaped him,
and he is at home in four or
five clubs that insist on looking
up candidates in the DO0msday
book of the Revolution of rs.
His church, naturally, is the
Episcopal church, and his home
now is UNDERSTANDABLE in histor-
ic Maryland, where two sons
are no doubt also preparing for
GrOt0n.
The diplomatic gauntlet that he
ran to reach his present post ex-
tends back to 1915 and Tokyo. Be-
times he has been much in South
America. He has been first assist
ant since 1887 to Secretary Hull.
ONE of Carl Sandburg's songs
runs: 81 have led a quiet
youth, careful of my morals;
shall have an old age full of vice
vi and quarrels. u
And Quiet; NoW Walter Bren.
In Rum and Riot nan, making
film career playing likable old rep
rebates. Hollywood pegs him as the
successor to Will Rogers, and four
Rogers pictures are being readied
for him.
He is a personable young man
of 40, but, in "Barbary Coast"
Kentucky" and such earlier
films as "Smilin' Guns" and
"The Lariat Kid" he came
through handsomely as tough
Old-timer, and now that's his
ticket. He likes it, and, living
these roles, becomes a sage,
homespun old codger given to
offhand, David Harum apho-
risms. have heard of similar
OccupatiOnal trends in Holly
wood. He says he is growing
old happily.
He first upped himself as an old.
ster by lying about his age to get
in the war. Gassed in France, he
lost all his teeth and got rasp in
his voice, which also helped. He
raised pineapples in Guatemala,
made money, lost it in Los Angeles
real estate, and then crashed the
films. Born and reared in Swamp
scott, Mass, he is a master of the
quaint western and southwestern
idiom.
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EDITORS NoTE-When opinions are
| expressed in these columns, they are those
of the news analyst. and not necessarily
| of the newspaper.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-06
ORANGE GROVE

ORANGE GROVE. 20 ac full bearing.
Near packing plant. Fine bldg. sites
Ample water. $500 per &C. Half cash.
r. v. B. Lincoln. 1856 W. Grande. Es-
condido. California.
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DAIRY RANCH. l4O ac.. some bottom.
48 head stock, 2 sets bldgs. New rm-
home. All equip. Sickness. $4,000. s. 600
cash. Write I. S. Smith. Marsh6eId. Ore
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-06
DAIRY RANCH

DAIRY RANCH. 81 500 milk route las
acres. All new bldgs., comp. equip, Sc
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1939-01-05

Tourists who may wonder
what fills the maze of filing
cabinets that are crammed in
to every nook and corner of
Washington's official buildings,
will be interested in these fig
ureS:
"a survey recently made by
the National Association of
Manufacturers showed that