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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-05
Petroleum Plays Important
Role In American
Economic Life.
Prepared BY. National Geographic Society.

Prepared by National Geographic Society,
Washington. D. c.-WNU Service.
Petroleum, the industry
that this year is celebrating
its eightieth anniversary of
the discovery of oil in this
country, still remains an in
dustrial problem child. The
year has been marked by a
severe price crisis and temp
orary curtailment of oil pro-
duction in the seven states that lead
the United States in total barrels
yielded.
The shutdown of oil production
in these seven states, if complete,
would bottle up approximately II
per cent of the United States output
of the product. r
Furthermore, the wells affected
by such a shutdown ordinarily pro-
duce about As per cent of the
worlds flow of petroleum. The
states involved are Texas, Okla
homa, Louisiana, Kansas, New Mex
leo, Michigan, and Arkansas Tin the
order of their volume of output.
These include four of the leading
oil states of the nation, which in
turn is by far the leading oil pro-
Queer of the world. United States
wells last year poured forth nearly
a billion and a quarter barrels-six
times the output of Soviet Russia,
which ranked second. Texas alone,
has more than 80, 900 wells.
Discovered 80 Years Ago.
The vast United States petroleum
industry is young one, dating
from Colonel brakes striking oil in
Pennsylvania just 80 years ago. But
the industry now involves invest
ments of some Sic, 000, 900, 600, en-
pIoyees numbering 10000, and in
Vulnerable consumers, not the least
of whom are the drivers of Amer
ica's 31,000,000 motor vehicles Gin
GLIDING trucks and tractors). Penn
sylvania gave the oil business it's
start when prospectors began bail
ing crock oiP' from hand-dug wells
instead of skinming it off the sur
face of seepages. For nearly three
decades, SO per cent of the nations
oil came from Pennsylvania; now
her percentage has dropped to 2.
Texas, with 80 per cent, and Cali
fornia, with II per cent, now lead
the oil parade Twenty-one states
have producing oil wells.
In the value of its varied and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-05

coat! The fare-skirted dress,
with broad shoulders and waist
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faille.
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quires AS yards of 39-inch mate
rial with short sleeves; 42s yards
with long sleeves; IS yard for con-
trasting collar and cuffs; 2 yards
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ticoat, with 21z yards of pleating.
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-05
A Question Only Smith
Has the Right to Ask

Jones was strolling down the
street when he saw ahead of him
what he thought was the familiar
figure of a friend. He quickened
his steps, and, catching him up,
hit him hearty thunp on the
back.
The other turned round, and, to
Jones' horror, presented the face
of a complete stranger. Il beg
your pardon!" he exclaimed. "I
thought you were a friend of mine,
Smith by name"
The stranger recovered his
breath, and answered with con-
siderable heat: "And suppose I
was Smith, do you have to hit me
so hard?"
But Jones was ready for this.
''And what business of yours IS
it." he cried, "how hard I hit
Smith,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-05

DARIS. - Russia's Dictator
l. Josef Stain, who turned
cheek by abandoning his
British French negotiation
to sign a treaty with their
enemy, is an experienced
cheek turner if you can be-
ieve the new Stain biogra-
ply by Boris Souvarine. For
example, Souvarine makes these al
legations:
He originally intended to enter
the clergy; now he's a goddess die
tator.
As young Sosso, he was expelled
from the seminary for membership
in a socialist club. He denounced
his comrades to the rector SO that
they, too, might be expelled. He
justified himself on the ground that
those he betrayed would make bet
ter revolutionists.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-05

TANK FARM. Typical of the
great change the petroleum indus
try is making in Americas eco
nOmic picture is this scene of a
modern petroleum tank farm
which has replaced an Oklahoma
Uheat field of tt0enty years ago.
From fields like this fotO nearly
a billion and quarter barrels of
oil each year.
widely used products, petroleum
ranks fourth among the industrial
giants of the century (steel, auto
mobiles, meat, petroleum.. And it
is necessarily the basis for the sec
ond-ranking industry, the automo-
tive.
The driver who pulls into filing
station and casually gives the Fill
'er up" order, is tapping an in
dustry that reaches from coast to
coast, from mile-deep oil wells
through pipe lines, refneries, chem
ical laboratories, tank ships and
cars, large central accounting Of
fees, to the curbstone pump of vari-
colored gasoline.
Numerous Methods Of Use.
Anyone who lights a kerosene
lamp, buys an oil furnace, rides
an airplane or Diesel-powered
passenger train, oils squeaking
hinge, crosses an asphalt-covered
street, unwraps paraffin paper from
sandwich, or uses anything i'm
ported on an oilburning boat, is
taking advantage of the subterran-
can power pumped into circulation
by the United States extensive pc
troleunn industry.
G1ycerine and insecticides, anti.
freeze chemicals for automobile en-.
gines and quick-drying chemicals
for brushless shaving creams, In
dustrial alcohols, lubricating oils tc
fight friction in the galloping ma.
chinery of today's high speeds, non
nauseating anesthetics, and plastics
are among the varied products
which accompany gasoline out Of
modern refneries. Some of the by
product chemicals take their places
on the pharmacists shelf, or &C
down on the farm to speed the
ripening of fruit and vegetables
when late spring has cut down the
normal growing period. Synthetic
rubber, explosives, and ingredients
for printing ink and Photographic
supplies are other uses found fol
petroleum products which were IN
known before the present century
Recovery of the hydrogen sulfide
existing in petroleum gases has en-.
abled refneries to make the sulfuric
acid which oil processing requires
in large quantities.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-05

KEMAL ATATURK is the man
responsible for the changing of
the provincial to,Un of Ankara to
a tcorld capital. Ataturk. the late
ruler of Turkey, who introduced
many western ideas into his coun-
try, decided in 1923 that Ankara
UouLd succeed TstanbuI as his cap
ifaI city and he Immediately be-
gan a number of ciuic improve
nenfs rChich hare resulted IN
modern city.
tie except for electric lights, water
mains and thorough cleaning. 9th
er Ankara streets, however, have
become weIl-paved boulevards and
modern buildings now facing them
have taken the place of old struc-
lures.
Sleek new automobiles and many
not so sleek and new have almost
entirely pushed bullock cai S from
the street scene; men have forsaken
the fez for western hats; and women
no longer consider it virtue to re-
main hidden from public view.
From its humble beginnings, just
is years ago, Ankara has grown in
population more than skiold. 1t now
shelters approximately $4,000 in
habitants.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-05
Engineer Graduates Have Best Luck
Finding Jobs This Year, Colleges Say
SUCCESS FORMULA
released by Western Newspaper unic

released by Western Newspaper Union.l
NEW YORK. - Some folks
: y don't hang much with
book-learnin,' but figures don't
lie, either, and a survey of en-
ployment in industry indicates
that the fellow with a diploma
has the right ammunition for
keeping the wolf from the door.
Parents who have scrimped
these last four years to pay
Juniors tuition at college will
be heartened by one charac-
teristic of the business up
turn noted for the first six
months of the year: The $780,
900 young Americans gradu-
ated this June from the nations
colleges have found chances of land
ing jobs definitely better than last
years crop.
Rosiest of all the reports, with
few months gone by to let this years
hopefuls find out just how it feels
TO go knocking on doors, comes from
Columbia university, whose Secre-
tary of Appointments Robert F.
Moore estimates that the 1899 class
boasts a batting average twice as
high in the Employment League as
last years class. More than IS per
cent of the graduates are already
employed, he says.
Seek Future Executives.
The greatest demand, according
TO Mr.. Moore, has come from en-
plOyers in various businesses who
wish to recruit material for execu-
tive positions.
This seems to agree with the
thinking of DR.. Karl T.. Compton,
president of Massachusetts Institute
of Technology in Boston. Writing
the foreword of a new book, he de-
scribes a survey of 81, 600 officials
of 500 companies which indicates
that a college-trained man is ID
times as likely to be president of an
industrial corporation as nom
college man, 1919 times as likely to
be treasurer, twice as likely to be
in charge of production, Is times
as likely to be an engineer, and u
times as likely to be a sales official.
Weapon for Job Hunters.
The book in which DR.. Compton's
foreword appears is Engineering
Opportunities" edited by R. w.
Clyne and published by D. Appleton
Century; it describes the chances
of the young graduate engineer in
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-05

London knows him only by a num-
Der.
Britain, proud of her spies, says
Germany's espionage Is still crude
as it was during the World war;
Lody, whom the Germans still re-
we're as their greatest spy, was con-
sidered a hopeless bungler by the
British. He was under observation
for months before arrested, court
martialed and shot.
M. l. is obiging enough to let
a few German agents work unmo-
Tested in wartime, even speeding
their reports through the mails.
Once in the last war, when a Ger
man agent In England died, M. I. 5
was so sorry it continued forwarding
faxed reports for several months.
Joachim Won Ribbentrop, German
foreign minister, is credited with or
ganizing the present Nazi espionage
in Britain and France. In Spain
last year a stupid Gestapo agent
boasted Germany had 5000 spies in
Britain, many of whom were sys-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-05

TONDON.-M. I. 5 is at work
l. again.
AS in 1914, Great Britain's
secret agents are matching
wits with those of Germany,
and most nations are increas-
ing their espionage and coun-
ter-espionage work. Even
the United States has added
to its secret service.
But only in England, France and
Germany are today's spies getting
real thrills. Many modern Mata
Hari in all three nations is using
her wiles to wrest a military secret
from any gullible official who can
be made to talk.
In Germany lives an M. I. agent
whose sole job is to warn the British
government when Germany is plan
ming an air raid over London or
Paris. If lucky, he'll die in bed.
But probably they'll catch him.
Meanwhile his superior officer in
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-05
W estern Ideas
Affect Ankara.
Turkish Capital
City Undergoes Complete
Change in l6-Year
Period.
Prepared by National Geographic Society.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-WNU Service.

Prepared by National Geographic Society.
Washington. D. C.-WNU Service.
The rise in less than two dec
AIDES of a provincial town to
world capital is the story of
Ankara, Turkey. interviewer
with the rise of the city is the
story of a people finding new
life.
Ankara was a city of only about
10000 inhabitants in 1923 when the
late leader Mustafa Renal Ataturk
announced that it was to succeed
Istanbul as the capital of Turkey.
Narrow streets that wound through
this inland city on the Asiatic side
of the Bosporus were hanked with
whitewashed buildings whose upper
stories extended so far over the not
too-cIean passageways that pedes-
TRANS were shielded from the blaz-
ing sun. Bullock carts and donkeys
were the chief means of transpor-
tation; the water supply was ques-
tionabIe as to purity and undependa-
BILE as to quantity; there was prac-
tically no street lighting; oriental
bazaars were the chief shopping
places; fezzes and turbans topped
all masculine Turkish heads, while
the women covered their faces in
traditional Moslem fashion when
they yeutured beyond the privacy of
their homes.
Ancient Atmosphere Remains.
Although the government has
spent more than S400, 900, 600 in re-
cent years to modernize the city,
the old town has not been entirely
stripped of its ancient atmosphere.
Lofty minarets still rise fngerlike
above streets that have changed lit
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-05

each of &c fields, with each field
described by an engineer who has
already attained success in it. The
espoused purpose of the book is to
afford young engineers an opportu-
nifty to learn something of the prac-
teal problems, as well as the op-
portunities, in the field they wish to
enter, before they seek an interview
with the employment manager.
Chapters cover industries as widely
divergent as aluminium and photog-
raphy.
Almost without exception, the
schools which offer engineering
courses report the demand to be
higher for engineers than for men
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-05

of other training. Industrial, chem
icaI, electrical and mechanical en-
gineers lead, with the most active
demand found in the chemical,
automotive, oil, steel and electrical
industries.
For graduates in all fields, all in
situations report starting salaries at
about the same level as last year.
Most optimistic reports come from
the east, central and middlewestern
states, with a greater proportion Of
the schools in the West and South
west reporting no change.
Wasn't it Horace Greeley who
said, go west, young man, 60
west!"?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-05
Suitable Shoes
Important to Health

There appears to be a streak OF
vanity in all of US, both men and
women. I have in mind the shoes
we-wear.
The age of the pointed" toes was
well past during examination of re-
cruits, but the results were seen in
the formities-bunions on the in
ner side of the big toe and corns and
hammer toes on the middle and out
er toes, due to pressure. Still an
other cause was the human desire
to have small shoes. About four
of every five recruits were wearing
shoes that were too short for their
feet.
Fortunately, about Is years ago
one or two shoe manufacturers be-
gan supplying sensible" shoes,
which were straight the entire length
on the inner side right up to and
slightly beyond the big toe; the
top of the shoe, while not exactly
square, was rounded" so gradually
to the outer or little toe that there
was abundant room for all the toes
to lie in a straight or extended posi-
ton instead of being 'curled" up
by the pointed or sharply curved
shoes. These sensible" shoes for
men and women were gladly ac-
claimd by a great many who were
much on their feet-nurses, house
keepers and office and factory work
ers.
Vanity May Be Dangerous.
It would appear, however, that
the streak of vanity in all of US,
which shoe statesmen notice and pass
on to manufacturers, has caused
some to begin to make shoes with
a little more point" they are
curved on both the inner and out
er sides at the top.
There is also the point in regard
to women that with the present short
skirts shoes are noticed more and
it is only to be expected that women
will wear shoes that make the feet
appear small.
Now, foot comfort means nerve
comfort. Many man or woman,
with a pleasant disposition under
ordinary circumstances, becomes
very irritable from wearing shoes
that hurt the feet. If they are bound
to wear shoes that are neat but not
comfortable the only suggestion is
that they wear larger size. This
will give some measure of relief.
Remember, our feet often mean
as much to our happiness and earn
ing ability as does our head.
/ released by Western Newspaper Union.l
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-05
TODAY'S
H EALT H
COLUMN

symptoms III some
patients are not Sc
we're and yet they
are afraid that they
will waste away and
die because of the
persistent diarrhea.
Some very good
advice for physi-
clans, patients and
others is given by
Walter c. Alvarez,
Mayo clinic, in Ohio
State Medical Jour
-oI nr AIu2roz hoe
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-05
Idiots Are Initiative

A Monaghan idiot has abnormally
short thumbs and little fingers,
fiat skull and slanting eyes similar
to those of the Mongolians. They
rarely live to maturity and during
life almost without exception have
to be institutionalized They have
happy disposition and are lively
and initiative.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-05
Hour Glass Frocks
Platter Your Figure

EVEN house dresses must fiat
Il ter your figure this fall-like
No. 1922, cleverly dart-ftted at
the waistline. It's really pretty
enough to make up in street ma
terials as well as in household
cottons like gingham, calico and
percale. Deep armholes and belt
less waistline make it supremely
comfortable to work in. AS you
see from the diagram, it's so easy
to make that you can finish it in
day.
So Feminine and Charming.
Here's a grand double value, in
No. 1927, that gives you a dress,
with two-way neckline, in the Sc
ductive new silhouette, and, be-
sides, a fiaring, frill-edged petit
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-05
Snanish Paradise

Priests In old Murcia, sunny south
ern province of Spain, made heaven
attractive to the people by painting
Paradise as land of glaciers where
the angels slipped ices.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-05
Birth of Danzig

The Free City of Danzig was Gre
ated under the treaty Of Versailles
to furnish port for Poland.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-05

diarrhea due to -
certain foods he lUUAISI
was eating. Ac- uEEITuI
cordingly, soft n.....
foods were pre- CUlUmN
scribed together -
with an enema of oil or water
daily or every other day.
Recently it has been learned
that these patients are of the
nervous and emotional type
and, in addition to soft foods,
they have been advised to try
to acquire calmness of spirit
by facing their problems bravely
and analyzing and working out the
problem instead of being worried or
afraid of it.
In some ways it is unfortunate
that the name colitis and its cause
emotional disturbances - have
been SO freely discussed, as the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-05
Colitis Patient
Must Acquire
Calm Outlook

By DIR. JAMES w. BARTON
TOR years the patient with
L colitis-slight Inflammation
and irritability of the large
bowel-was considered to have
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-05
Weapon for Job Hunters

The book in which Dr. Compton's
foreword appears is Engineering
Opportunities, edited by R. w.
Clyne and published by D. Appleton
Century; it describes the chances
of the young graduate engineer in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-11
Age Barriers Study
Planned by Group

To combat employer prejudice
against hiring middle-aged people,
Americans over 49," mapped plan
OF campaign last night calling for
research into age barriers.
More than 40 men and women
met in the Epiphany Church Parish
House to organize their appeal to
employers, devise an educational
program aimed at employers and
make plans to interest the Govern
ment in their problem.
This is a tremendous problem,
growing every year." William Downs,
chairman, said. "As the average age
of the American population rises, II
these barriers against hiring mature
persons are not destroyed we will
reach situation where a majority
of those over 40 are out of work.
More than half the country's un-
employer are over 40, he asserted.
In proportion to their general bulk
in the employable population, the
over 40 group should include only
quarter of the total number Of
unemployed, he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-11
B. Y. P. U. News

Bethany, No. 2: Thomas Beck
ham, stewardship director, will have
charge of the meeting. Topic,
"Tithing". Miss Lavon Ockershau-
sen will give a short talk at the
evening Church and several men,
bers will take part during the serv-
ice. After the evening church serv-
ice, there will be a Seth Parker at
the home of Miss Ockershausen, 225
Seaton Place, NE.
Calvary: 5:45 pm, Fellowship, in
Burial Hall; $40 pm, Prayer Cir
Gle, in Vaughn Hall; $50 pm. De-
votional meeting under the direc-
ton of the Stewardship Commission
will present a white Cross" pro-
gram. The gifts will go to the Ma
coffin Institute in Kentucky. An ap-
peal is made for clothing, books, in
expensive Christmas gifts, wrap
ped) and money.
East Washington Heights: The
entire Union will make visit to
the Bradbury Methodist Church in
Bradbury Heights, Md.
The Devotional Life Commission,
Of the Federation, under the lead
ership of John Gordon Mein, will
hold its Second Mile meeting to-
morrow at pm. at the Luther Rice
Memorial at First Church, Sixteenth
and o streets, NV. All Devotional
Life directors are urged to be pres
ent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-11
Ten Per Cent Reduction
Likely in Corn Paintings
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Farmers in the Midwest probably
will be asked to reduce next years
corn paintings about 10 per cent, Of
f1cials said today, in view of an
estimated 1889 crop of 1881 600, 900
bushels.
The Agriculture Departments
Crop Reporting Board made the
estimate yesterday on the basis of
conditions on November l. 1t was
1926 900 bushels larger than the
farecast month ago.
The corn planting goal probably
will be announced next week and
officials said a smaller crop would
be necessary to avoid accumulation
of additional SURPRISES. Farmers CO.
operating by reducing their planting
will be eligible for benefit payments
and loans on their surplus.
At the same time, Federal farm
officials took an optimistic view of
prospects for next years farm in
come over the country generally.
The total would reach $4,000, 000,-
900, they predicted, if industrial
activity increased as expected. This
years gross farm income is expected
to be about $4,000 100000. The peak
since the depression began was $10,-
424,000,000 in 1887.