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reached a new low. When Albania
protested its seizure by Italy, the
secretary forgot to circulate its
SOS among signatories. There was
no reprimand, and at its May meet
ing Mr.. Avenol prevented Russia's
ambassador to Great Britain, Ivan
Maisky, from reading a letter of
protest against Czecho-Slovakia's
seizure. At the same time he got
the council to postpone any discus
sion of Albania until next Septem-
Der.
However, even as the League
grows more decadent under Avenol
leadership, hope rises for a rebirth
of its collaboration machinery. New
er word-mincer, Soviet Russia has
enough dislike for powder-puff di-
plomacy to force Britain and France
the Leagues other two leaders
into rejuvenating Geneva's halls un-
der the new Observation-Disclosures
mutual aid pact. First hopeful sign
is the new treaty's goal of preserv-
ing European peace. Second sign:
1t has been communicated to the
League and will possibly operate un-
der the League covenant. But a
prerequisite to any such rebirth
would be the retirement of Mr.. Ave-
mol, whose job rests secure so long
as the Chamberlain alifax-Hoare-
Simon quartet rules Britain.
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INTERNATIONAL:
Rebirth?

Once the white hope of world
peace, Geneva's League of Nations
buildings are today what one CORE
spondent calls "a stately mausole-
UNI haunted by the ghosts of Drawer
men," In its heyday the League stood
for collective security, later watch
ing Japan, Italy and Germany drift
away without enforcing the cove
nant's spirit because such action
might "divide Europe into ideologi-
cal blocs."
Chief reason for League doldrums
is its management. A carbon copy
of Great Britain's current appease-
ment cabinet is Secretary-G General
Joseph A. c. Avenol, who in recent
years has filed the machinery of
collective security under lock and
key.
Black marks on the Leagues rec
ord include Manchuria, Ethiopia,
Spain and China. Each succumbed
amid Intellectual, insincere League
sanctions which were enforced
against aggressor nations only if in
dividual signatories found it "con-
venient." By this spring Mr.. Ave-
noPs back-tracking generalship
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-06-08
Snacks Much of Old
Argument for Pump Printing

In pooh-poohing the public debt
and the great interest charge to be
met every year, Mr.. Roosevelt said
the government had to continue
spending and creating debt because,
otherwise, there would be no bust
ness for the retailers or any other
type of commercial endeavor. It
smacked very much of the old argu-
ment for pump printing and GER
tainly bore out many reports that
Mariner S. Eccles, head of the
federal reserve banking system, has
great influence with the President,
who used to get his advice on finan-
cial matters from Secretary Nor
genthau, of the treasury. Mr.. Ec-
cles may be regarded, / believe, as
one of the most visionary of all
of the inner circle of New Dealers.
In any event, he has preached
spending, spending and more spend
ing by the government as the
means of lifting the country out of
the depression by its own boot
straps.
It is on this public debt matter
that attention is likely to center
more earnestly later on. The debt
has been growing and growing and
the general condition of the country
may be said fairly to have advanced
not one bit in the last several years.
released by Western Newspaper Union.)
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COMING UP

JUNE 15-Justice Edgar j.
Lauer of New York Supreme
court, whose wife was convicted
and sentenced for smuggling, to
resign.
JUNE Is = Semi-annual war
debt payments due. Last Deem
Der IA, of Is governments owing
So, 051, 707, 241 (of which $780,
489, 906 was in arrears), only Fin
land paid in full as usual, $780,
935. Hungary made part pay
ment of $9,828.16.
JUNE 17-Commander Donald
B. Macmillan to sail from Booth
bay Harbor, Maine, on eighteenth
scientific expedition into arctic.
JUNE 23-Paul v. McNutt, u.
S. high commissioner to Philip
pines and former Indiana COVER
nor, to arrive at San Francisco
and open campaign for Demo
cratic presidential nomination.
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Mountain Herald. Then, according
to the law, the i'll man was sprinkled
with the blood of the victim before
he was allowed admittance into
communion.
Few countries have been free
from the ravages of this ghoulish
disease. America is not an excep-
ton. According to well-known au-
thorities leprosy predated the arriv-
alsof Columbus, its existence being
proved by pieces of ancient pottery
representing deformities suggestive
Of the disease.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-06-08
SCIENCE:
Probing atlanta

Long before the Revolutionary
war st. James was a thriving CAPT.
tai of St. Kits island, sometimes
called Nevis, located in the Lesser
Antilles southeast of Puerto Rico.
In 1880 an earthquake dropped St.
Kits and its st. James 300 feet be-
low the sea. This summer an ex-
petition led by Detroit's Capt. Rob-
ert Hall plans to walk along St.
James submerged streets in one of
sciences most unusual expeditions.
Connected with the surface only by a
small telephone wire, divers will
wear new helium-equipped suits
which need no lifeline to compressed
air machines on deck. Last year
Captain Hall made similar expert
ments in the Lesser Antilles, exam
lining submerged shipwrecks in crys-
tal-clear tropical waters.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-06-08
Speech Sought to Court
FAVOR With Retailers

There is another reason, apparent
to some observers, why the speech
that sought to court favor with the
retail dealers should be thought of
in terms of year hence. It will
be remembered that the annual
meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States was held
here only two weeks in advance of
| the speech which is the subject of
so much discussion. Now, I never
have thought that the Chamber of
Commerce represents very much of
the country's sentiment. 1t is made
up, of course, of business interests
that are representative, but as a
matter of cold fact it is dominated
and managed and directed by the
really big business of the nation.
Thus, it speaks the big business
viewpoint to the extreme, and like
wise in these columns before that
the Chamber of Commerce usually
can kill off projected legislation by
the simple expedient of supporting
| it.
But the recent chamber meeting
took no notice of Mr.. Roosevelt be-
yond damning his program and pol
icies lock, stock and barrel. The
President, it seems, took advantage
of the opportunity to tell the retail
ers about his innermost thoughts as
an Offset to the walls of poison scat
tered about by the big business rep
resentatives. He reasserted his
views on every point to which the
chamber had taken opposition and
about which there had been fight
ing speeches made. I suppose if
ones sense of humor could be suf-
ficiently detached from the gravity
of the situation, they could describe
the circumstance as similar to two
small boys who were sticking out
their tongues at each other as proof
of their anger.
A third factor might be brought
into the picture. You will recall
that it was only week or so prior
to Mr.. Roosevelt's speech that he
spent an afternoon in conference
with some of the legislative leaders.
Among them was Senator Pat Har-
rison, the old-line Mississippi Demo-
crat, who occupies the post of chair
man of the powerful senate COM
mittee on finance. That is the COM
mittee which handles tax legisla-
ton in the senate. Included in the
conference also was Chairman
Doughton, of the house committee
on ways and means, also tax COM
| rnittee.
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DOMESTIC:
Un-AmericaniSm

To freedom-loving but undemon-
strative U. S. patriots, the trouble
with anti-Communist organizations
is that they are pro-Fascist. Con-
versely, anti-Fascist groups Qike the
American League for Peace and
Democracy are more interested in
promoting Communism than fight
ing Fascism.
When he began investigating un-
AmericaniSm last year, Texas sin
cere Rep. Martin Dies won deserved
criticism for letting his committee
listen Unfortunately to anyone
with an AK to grind. But thanks
to Martin Dies the U. S. has become
acutely aware of ''isms" pounding
on its doors.
Biggest threat, inspired by Italo-
German success and fostered by de-
pression-made malcontents, are the
u. S. Fascists. This spring Fas-
cism reared its head when Mr.. Dies
revealed strong anti-Jewish move
ment led by Maj. Gen. George Van
Horn Moseley retired anti-New
Deal army officer; Dudley P. Gil
bert, New York fnancier, and such
Ku Klux Klannish groups as Knights
of the White Camellias, led by
George Deatherage of ST. Athens,
w. Va. Blandly admitting his anti
Semitic sentiments, General Nose
ley has promised shocking revela-
tons concerning Jews in high places
before the summer is over.
Greatest handicap to an impartial
investigation of un-Americanism is
the very stumbling block Mr.. Dies
encountered last autumn, namely,
ax-grinding. Best example, though
in this case probably popular with
Mr.. Dies, was the arrest of Fritz
Kuhn, "Fuehrer" of the violently
Nazi German American Bund,
charged with grand larceny and
forgery in shortages of SIS, 900 from
Bund funds. Overlooking the fact
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-06-08
Home Scum lids
To Summer Beauty

a DID variety and color, as wei
"A as smartness, to your sum-
mer wardrobe by making the
charming accessory set in gay
printed cottons like linen, pique or
gingham. It's very easy to do
even the gloves, which have the
new, roomy, blunt fingers. Your
pattern (1643), includes a step-by-
step sew chart that tells you ex-
actly what to do.
This princess dress for after
moons is exactly what you want
for hot summer days. This style
(1752) is refreshingly simple, and
it has a beautifully smooth, slim
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the $38, 500, 600, 900 which U. S. con-
sumers paid in distribution costs for
their merchandise during the peak
year of 1929. Individual figures and
percentages of the distribution cost:
Wholesalers %. .(18%)$ 1000, 200, 900
Retailers 800. 1870 $4,000, 000, 900
Manufacturers (24%) 100000, 900
Transportation $3.50 $500, 900, 900
Miscellaneous { 2TO) 1000, 100000
Basic conclusions were that whole
salers did not earn excessive profits
in 1929 groceries, 1.3 per cent; con-
dictionaries, % per cent; dry goods,
2.7 per cent?, and that they remain
an essential link in the distribution
machine.
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Trend
Ho,U the ,uind is blotoing

ARMAMENT - Soviet Russia
has ordered a so per cent in
crease in her 1889 national de-
tense budget to keep abreast of
Germany and Italy. Approximate
additional cost: $4,000, 000,0
RUBBER. M. Slattery, Fisk
tire executive, predicts so per
cent increase in world rubber
consumption during next 10
years. Items: Sponge cushions
and mattresses, cushions for rail-
road tracks, traffic markers,
flooring, furniture, packaging
materials, plastics and latex gar
ments.
GASOLINE-In 1898, U. S. gas
cline consumption was l per cent
above the previous year, although
motor vehicle registrations were
! per cent less than 1887.
JEWS-A new Berlin ghetto de-
cree places still more drastic re-
strictions on areas to be inhabit-
ed by ''non-Aryans."
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that Kuhn participated in Hitler's
Munich putsch in 1923, has or
ganized "a active Bund branches
and has done nothing to merit con-
fidence of the U. S., critics looked
suspiciously Though probably un-
fairly at the two men responsible
for his arrest. New York's Mayor
Fiorella LaGuardia might have re-
allied his many Jewish constituents
would relish any anti-Nazi move.
New York's District Attorney Thorn
as E. Dewey, a potential G. o. p.
presidential candidate, could expect
excellent publicity from the case.
Said Mr.. Dewey: "The indictment
shows Kuhn is just a common
thief" Answered Fuehrer Kuhn:
cts a lot of nonsense"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-06-08
Determined Business Profits
Must Be Held to Minimum

When Mr.. Roosevelt said in his
speech, therefore, that he would de-
mand only that the present distribu-
ton of tax levies and rates should
remain the same, he was answer
ing Senator Harrison's group. In
other words, the President has
budged from the position and view
point he long has held only to the
extent that he now says he will
not bubble about details; he wants
corporations to bear as much tax
as heretofore and he will insist upon
it. He is determined that business
profits must be held to the minimum
and there are indications that he
will carry such fight ''to the coun-
try"
Regardless of the tax question
and the over regulation to which so
many government agencies are adj
dicted in dealing with business, Mr..
Roosevelt expressed his whole
thought in one sentence:
"You can not expect this admin
istration to alter the principles and
the detectives for which we have
struggled the last six years"
That declaration encompasses in
one sentence germs of great trouble
for the Democratic party. Some OBJ
servers here described it as Stub
born statement. 1t is known, of
course, that Mr.. Roosevelt can be
positively bull-headed in his deter
mination when he wishes. Because
of this trait, therefore, some of the
old line Democrats again are fear
full of wide open split in the party.
The President laid the greatest
stress on federal spending, and he
made the rather startling statement
that there can be no balanced bud
get either this year or next. Which
can mean only that there must be
more borrowing by the government
which now is paying an annual in
terest charge of more than 81 ,000,-
600, 900 on the public debt that is
well over SAC, ZOO, 100000. In defense
of this condition-there has been an
increase of more than $40, 900, 000, 900
since Mr.. Roosevelt took Office
the President asserted there should
be no particular concern about the
debt or the interest. What of it, he
said, in effect; if there is that in
terest to be paid by our children,
it will be paid to our children.
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WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

NEW YORK.-In 1914, S. S. Nc
Clure published his autobiog-
raphy. AS he was only 81 at the
time, it was sort of juvenile prank
McClure's Early not not seri pauISi IN.
Autobiography tended. Now, at
But Prologue 49, s2.l he lis, is buster llaies
ing books and digging into social
problems, and the word is that
next September he will revive his
McClure's Magazine.
Lincoln Steffens, and others of his
shining legions of dragon-slayers
have passed, or else taken second
thought, like Ida Tarbell, and, I'M
less things change a lot between
now and next fall, he will find the
same old dragons still around, and
possibly quite a few filters of new
ones, some of them strange breeds,
and perhaps a bit scalier than any
he ever knew.
Two years ago, the whippy lit
tie IriShman, with the rumpIed
hair and the rumpIed suit, wrote
piece in which he indicated
that the disquieting noises of the
capitalist system were just body
Squeaks and that the engine was
still all right. His idea is to go
on from here, instead of backing
up, and it is to be assumed that
will be his take-off for the re-
vived magazine. After go years
OF battling for civic righteous
ness he concludes that the
United States Constitution is
changeless and Interchangeable
document, which will in time set
everything right if we just stay
within its ground rules.
Still cracking with aphorisms and
Greek quotations in his ninth dec
ade, he might be reminiscent-talk-
ing about Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Theodore Roosevelt, William Dean
Howells, Gilbert Parker, Robert
Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling,
Arthur Conan Doyle, James M. Bar
RE, ct al. But he is chock-full of
today, and yesterday is just so much
ink through the printing press. All
the above and many others like
them were his business and social
intimates. He has probably led
more famous writer's in leash than
any other man.
In 1866, when he was nine
years old, his parents, of a fam
lily of farmers and carpenters,
brought him to a prairie farm
in Indiana. He sold 81 micro
scopes on the street corners of
Minneapolis, st. Paul, Duluth,
and Chicago; worked his way
through Knox college; got a 81
a-week job editing The Wheel
man for the Pope Manufacture
ing company, started his syn
dictate, and, in 1893, McClure's
Magazine, in that other doleful
day when his friends all said:
"The funerals tomorrow" He
says he is just getting wound up.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-06-08

WASHINGTON the days 60
by, it appears more and more that
President Roosevelt's speech before
the American Retail federation
here, May %, amounts to declara-
ton of greatest political impor-
lance. 1t may be, indeed, that the
Chief Executives announcements
before the retail merchants that
night will eventuate as the corner
stone of his political philosophy for
the campaign of 1910.
In Mr.. Roosevelt's speech before
the retail businessmen, it will be re-
called upon examination that he re-
stated virtually all of the New Deal
theories and convictions. That was
important. But more important
was the emphasis with which he Of
fered, in new language, the general
assertion that there will be no back
tracking. More important to the
country, as whole, was his de-
termined adherence to the principle
of virtually unlimited government
spending, because his renewed in
sistence in that direction came at
time when there is considerable
fear that the country faces further
initiation of its currency.
There seems to be quite a gen.
eral agreement that the retail
speech should be examined in the
light of 1910. AS far as I can learn,
that is the view taken by New Deal
ers, by old line Democrats, who are
antagonistic to spending policies of
the last five years, and by cautious
Republican observers who are anx-
iously looking for signs indicating
whether Mr.. Roosevelt, himself, will
seek third term in the office of
President. While the views of the
three segments converge, their rea-
sons differ. The New Dealers who
want Mr.. Roosevelt to run for a
third term desire to consider the
speech as preliminary statement,
a charting of the future course; the
old line Democrats who desire to
get the party back in Democratic
hands, rather than in the hands of
the radical wing, entertain fears
which force consideration of 1910,
and the Republicans secretly are
hoping that Mr.. Roosevelt will try
to break the third term precedent.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-06-08
Leprosy a Moral Ill,
Not Physical, in Old Era

Leprosy, curiously enough, to the
1sraelites, was more a moral than
a physical affiiction. Segregation
was purely ceremonial. If the leper
was fortunate enough to have his
symptoms disappear "sin offer
ing" was prescribed by the Book for
Atonement. For a poor man the
holocaust usually consisted of two
pigeons - one pigeon being killed
over running water, says the Rocky
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-06-08
Texas Sees Stars

The late w. ]. Mcdonald, in Paris,
Texas, in 1874 made fortune in
printing, law work, lending money,
specializing In county warrants,
banking. When he died in 1926 he
left 100000 to the University Of
Texas to erect and equip an astro-
nomical observatory. The observa-
tory, located on Mount Locke far
from the glare of cities, was cere-
moniously dedicated in the presence
of the country's most distinguished
astronomers.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-06-08

Observation-Disclosures Roose-
welt and President Anastasio Somo-
20 of Nicaragua signed an agree
ment to extend credit of $500, 600
to the Central American republic.
OF the total $1,000 900 would be
used to aid in improving Nicaragua's
transportation facilities and in the
development of other projects de-
signed to increase the productive
capacity of the Nicaraguan peo-
pie and augment their trade with
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-06-08
BUSINESS:
MiddLenlan

Favorite butt of proclaim store
and pro-co-operative movements has
been the wholesaler, who in popular
notion is excess baggage in the U. S.
distribution system. If the middle
man could be eliminated, many be-
lieve, a bar of soap or pound of cof-
fee would cost John Public substan-
tally less.
To test this theory, New York's
Twentieth Century Fund broke down
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-06-08
Harrison Tells President
Tax Revision Is Necessary

No further review of that confer
ence is necessary than to relate how
Mr.. Harrison told the President
there must be tax revision in order
to lift and readjust some of the
unfair taxes on business, and he
said there would be tax legislation
in this session of congress. Chair
man Doughton appeared to join in
rather timidly, but I believe it is
not going to be important whether
the Doughton heart is with Harri-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-06-08
GERMANY:
Ole Man Riper

Prussian army men are notorious
ly scrupulous about detail and lax
about fundamental principles. In
1914 they made certain that every
soldiers equipment was precise, yet
overlooked French stubbornness. In
1888 they built amazingly perfect
Notifications along the Rhine river,
yet forgot that every 10 to Is years
the stream is subject to abnormal
floods. Result: Unexpectedly one
night a few days after Adolf Hitler
visited the Lines lines, German sol
diers fled their Notifications in the
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the people of the United States.
In a letter to President Somoza,
made public by the White House,
Warren Lee Pierson, Export-Import
bank president, said the institution
would cooperate with United States
manufacturers and exporters with
the Nicaraguan government ''in ar
ranging for the financing in the Unit
ed States of equipment, materials,
and technical services not available
in Nicaragua"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-06-08

CARL VAN DOREN denies there
- is any new barbarism" in the
world and says that what allied us
is the same old barbarism. There
OIJ pL is reminder
Holds a Spell continuity in
Ouer Van Dyke the choice of
to direct the filming of Sinclair
Lewis ''It Can't Happen Here"
Not that there is anything bar
barous about Mr.. Van Dyke, but,
as we recall it, he got his start help
ing direct D. w. Griffith's film. elm
tolerance" which was a tolerably
complete roundup of the old bar
barism. That was "a years ago, and
the Sinclair Lewis opus picks up
right where Messrs. Griffith and
Van Dyke left off, without missing
a flicker.
In the worlds fair time cap
sule, Mr.. Van Dyke might be
memorialized as the man who
calls Greta Carlo "Kid' and
gets away with it-or as the
man who once spanked Lupe
Velez when she went tempera-
mental on the lot. They call
him the hard-boiled director
with the velvet touch. He is
rugged, weather-beaten six-foot-
er, a newsboy, miner, logger,
stage-driver, expressman, gro
Gerry clerk and laborer before he
went to Hollywood.
He got a toe-hold in Hollywood by
selling a few scripts. At first he
was one of many of Grifith's as
sistants, later one of his aces. Pro-
ducers like him because he goes
straight through without water or
feed. He used to make a full-length
serial in nine days and Western
in three, writing his script as he
worked. He did many jungle and
South Sea films, such as Trader
Horn" and "White Shadows"
His father, San Diego Judge
and a cousin of the late Henry
Van Dyke, died when the boy
was eight years old. Rustling
hard to help his mother support
the family accounts for his YER
satility and his skill in type
Characterization.
CONSOLIDATED Features-wNU Service.)
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Primary emphasis in the new pro-
gram will be on capital ships, Is
such battlewagons already being in
service. On the way are two more,
the 35,000-ton North Carolina and
Washington. About to be started are
the South Dakota, Indiana, Massa-
chusetts and Alabama. Two more,
45,000-tonners and larger than any,
thing af1oat, will be started under
current appropriations. None of the
eight battleships will be ready be-
fore 1915 or 1916.