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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-20

"This is the queerest de-
preston the United States and
Canada have ever experienced"
says Roger Babson, the noted
economist and business analy-
list in his weekly letter to the
press. Former symptoms of
our depressions was tight
money and no one had any
cash. Interest rates were high.
No one wanted to lend money.
Everyone wanted to borrow.
Here we are now along in the
second installment of the
Greatest Depression with the
bank choked with cash, with
more money in circulation than
ever before, with interest rates
at an all-time low, with thrifty
people unable to find suitable
ways to invest their savings"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-20

Keith Luther, travelling re-
preventative of Gamble Stores
appliance selling department,
in a talk to the store managers
of this section of the state told
the store executives and sales
men that Newspaper adver-
Using is given credit for the
success of the various pro-
motions of the past year and
this policy will be continued"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-20
DO Wants Bacon and
Eggs for Breakfast.

Granite Falls-A young hobo knocked
at the back door of Granite home one
morning recently and asked the house
wife, already in the midst of a big
wash, for something to eat. She stopped
her washing and prepared breakfast
for the wanderer, the breakfast con-
sisting of buttered toast, doughnut
and coffee-just exactly the same as
the family had eaten. AS she handed
the tray to the 'bo on the steps, he
looked it over and then asked, Haven't
you any bacon and eggs?" He was told
that the family didn't have bacon and
eggs for breakfast and that he would
either have to eat that or nothing. He
ate the toast and coffee.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-20
BIueberry Pickers Start
Fire Near ShdgalUd Lake.

A fire started by BURBERRY pickers
burned off about an eighth of an acre
midawy between Shagawa and Little
Long lakes, Tuesday, the u. S. forest
service reports. 1t apparently was
started from a cigaret, and only the
fact that there was considerable mois-
ture in the woods kept the blaze from
doing extensive damage.
The Ely lookout towerman spotted
the fire and a crew from the forest
service extinguished it.
Berry pickers are warned to use care
while in the woods. Severe penalties
can be assessed persons guilty of start
ing fires, the forest service state.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-20
PUCEL BUYS
KAPScH STORE
Names Business Economy Cash
Market; Opening Sale Set
for this Weekend.

Announcement is made elsewhere in
this issue of the purchase of the former
Kapsch Cash Market by Joe L. Pucel.
Mr.. Pucel, a lifelong resident of Ely,
has named his new establishment the
Economy Cash Market.
Formerly representing the Minnesota
Tea company here, he is being assisted
by his two brothers, Edward and Will
liam Pucel. Glenn Guile, from Eveleth,
is in charge of the meat department.
A high quality brand of merchandise
is being stocked, Mr.. Pucel says. A
grand opening sale is scheduled for this
weekend.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-20
Presbyterian Church
REV. H. RUSSELL BROWNE, Pastor.

AS previously announced, there will
be no services at the Presbyterian
church, Sunday, July 23rd. The mem
bers of the parish will, instead, join
with the Presbyterian church at Tower
in the dedicatory service for their new
edifice. The servic hour in the Tower
ton of seating has been reserved for the
guests from Ely.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-20

1t has been proposed to the
senate committee on education
and labor that U. S. funds be
used to teach courses in ap-
probation of laughter. An ex-
change remarks that this pur-
pose could be best served by
printing selected readings from
the Congressional Record.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-20
Mr.. and Mrs. Desjardins
Entertain House Guests.

Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Powers, MIR. and
Mrs. Ernest Desjardins, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ray Wisner of Shell Lake, Wisconsin,
MIR. and Mrs. George Dickey of Coueur
ID Alene, Idaho and Mrs. Art Cantley
of Minneapolis were in the city Sat-
urday and Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
william Desjardins.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-20
On This Occasion
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vice. If it was a gambling de-
vice, the player should win
once in while, the defense
argued. In plain common
sense the contention is air
tight but in the eyes of the law
does not hold water. Techni-
cally, gambling means to stake
anything of value on an un-
certain event and it seems that
one of the most uncertain
things in the world is a slot
machine.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-20

A neighboring attorney tells
of a will which read: "To my
beloved wife l bequeath all my
property, both real and per-
sonal, including my pants
which she has wanted to wear
during the past 80 years."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-20
CHURCH NOTES
The Suomi-Synod Lutheran
Church
REV. DOUGLAS OLLHA, Pastor.

Divine services, Sunday the 23rd, at
1890 a. m. in the English and at 7:3O
p. m. in the Finnish.
Regular weekday Finnish services at
Y 80 each Wednesday.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-20
Invented Boxing Gloves

The invention of boxing gloves is
ascribed to John (Jack) Broughton,
England's famous prize fighter, who
also developed the scientific art of
boxing.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-20

The National Emergency
Council says the south is by
far the poorest part of the
country. An exchange re-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-20

marks "this is what they get
for going Democratic constant
ly for seventy-five or eighty
years"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-20
Bethany Lutheran Church
REV. ERNEST v. OLSON, Pastor.

Sunday School, ............ $3.50 A. M.
Morning Service, ...... .10:45 A. M.
Rev. Arthur I. Anderson of Canton,
Illinois will be in charge of the morn
ing services in the absence of Rev. E.
". Olson.
Mid-week Service, Wed, ....7:45 P. M.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-20

FOR RENT rooms, furnace heat.
Use of garage. Inquire at Slogans
Super Service Station.
Evening star., 1939-08-05

New Deal is explainable in only one of
three ways. First, indifference; second,
agreement with the President as to his
socialistic experiments: or, third, pru-
dent solicitude for their bread and but
ter. Then it must be remembered that
every one accepts in greater or less de-
gree the fiction that the king can do no
wrong"
1t may be we'll to remind these pro-
fessors Of some of the more serious So
cialistic escapades Of the present admin
istratlon: Cd Loss of the world cotton
market, resulting from interference with
the production and price of cotton; CD
the same interference with wheat, in
volving the payment of billions of dol
lars OF subsidies to farmers; 90 enor-
mously expensive irrigation projects in
spite OF overproduction of staple prod
ucts; 90 heavy expenditures for promo
ton of foreign trade, coupled with high
tariff walls around the country; 60 &C
ceptance Of huge campaign contribu-
tions from labor unions followed by the
National Labor Relations Act and wide
spread labor strikes in defiance of law
and order and causing great loss to the
public. These are only a few of the
outrages upon the public concerning
which our professors have, with a few
exceptions, been silent.
HENRY WARE ALLEN,
Wichita, Kans.
August /.
Evening star., 1939-08-05
Aguin-Jimmy's Place

The maneuverS against "Jimmy's
Place" on Bladensburg road by H.
Winship Wheatley, jr., the States at
torney for Prince Georges County,
are interesting and it is hoped that
they may prove to be effective in
closing a place which has won a no
torious reputation as a gambling
establishment. But the moves of the
States attorney are not nearly so
interesting as the fact that this place
Is able to exist and carry on it's busi-
ness, year in and year out, without
apparent hindrance from the county
police or the county authorities.
Any sensible person knows that
Jimmy's Place-and all that it's ex-
istence implies-could be put out of
business overnight if there was will
to put it out of business on the part
Evening star., 1939-08-05
Repeating MendeI's Lows

The laws of heredity discovered by
the Austrian monk Gregor Mendel
from experiments with peas in the
monastery garden are not in accord
with the theories of Karl Marx, de-
clare an enthusiastic group of Rus
sian biological students.
They want these laws, the basis
of much of the science of genetics,
eliminated from their textbooks.
Especially do they object to the con-
cept Of the working of these laws
through "genes," developed by DR..
Thomas Hunt Morgan of the Cali
fornia Institute of Technology and
former president of the National
Academy of Sciences.
The demand is, in a sense, ex-
traordinarily silly, even though Soviet
authorities seem to be taking it seri-
Evening star., 1939-08-05

of the constituted authorities Of the
county. Young Mr.. Wheatley, serving
his first term as States attorney, has
the will to close the place and to run
other gamblers out of the county.
But his success depends on much
more than his personal inclination
or his own official conduct of his
office. For Jimmy's Place-and the
ramifications of gambling in Prince
Georges County-is strongly en-
trenched.
If Mr.. Wheatley is adequately sup
ported by the people of the county,
as he should be, he may get some
where. If he does not succeed, jim
my's Place and the politicians will
blithely continue what is obviously a
profitable existence.
Evening star., 1939-08-05
Building for the Future

NOW that the atmosphere sur
rounding public recreation in the
District is cleared for the time being
OF some of the confusion incident to
reorganization, recreation officials
may start building again for the
future.
But before much progress can be
made in this direction it will be
necessary for both recreation officials
and the general public, including
the forgotten District taxpayer, to
change gradually their basic concepts
of what recreation is.
A few who are farsighted realize
that the field of public recreation in
Washington has been but barely
scratched on the surface. They are
trying little by little to preach the
gospel of new concepts and further
cooperation between parks and
Fairgrounds, the two main public
recreative departments.
There is visualized a future recre-
alton system where every man
woman and child in the city of
Washington will have an opportu-
nifty to do what he or she likes best
to do when not in the Office, the
home or the schoolroom.
That may sound like pretty broad
view. Recreation is broad field
taken in its true sense, however, and
proper system cannot be built in
day or for nothing.
1t will take time, money, thought,
perseverance, broad -mindedness, CO.
operation, proper legislation and edu-
cation of the people. The latter sense
the lnadequacies but will have to
be shown where they lie and what
can be done about them before i'm
provement of the system will receive
their wholehearted backing.
For the time being the largest part
OF the burden of building a recrea-
ton system for the future lies with
Lewis R. Barrett, director of recrea-
ton for the District, and Frank T.
Gartside, acting superintendent of
National Capital Parks.
Both Mr.. Barrett, with his new ad-
mlnlstration, and Mr.. Gartside now
have a splendid opportunity, pro-
vlded they receive proper co-opera-
ton, to begin the development of a
system of recreation in Washington
fully utilizing the facilities with
which the Capital is so generously
endowed.
Evening star., 1939-08-05
Building Inspectors

No one knows much about profess
sional salaried building inspectors,
but the amateur unpaid variety is
common enough. Every day mil
lions of these kibitzers may be seen
gaping in awe at steam shovels, pile
drivers, and the like, with no pro-
vision being made for their comfort
that is, until an idea came to MIR.
Tibbett, advertising director of an
insurance company about to erect
offices in Boston. He not only built
a grandstand, with free admission,
but even printed programs. Staying
away for a week to let the project
ripen, he then went with friend to
the bleachers, picked out a red
necked fan in shirt sleeves, and asked
what he thought of it.
"Yah!" snorted the fan. what a
bunch O buns they are, buddy! They
play like ice wagons. I could do
better with my kids toy blocks back
home. Lookit that guy with the
pile driver miss that easy one. He
couldn't hit the floor of a barn if
he was inside it. Somebody ought
to crown him with a pop bottle.
And the errors they make! Yestiddy
that steam shovel in the infield tried
to field block, juggled it around for
whole minute, and then heaved it
to the wrong base. And the empires,
sittin' up in them little boxes calm
the plays. Boy, oh boy, are they
lousy!"
That's all I wanted to know"
sighed Mr.. Tibbett in relief. There
speaks the voice of America" Peering
furtively about to avoid spies, he
whispered to his pal his stupendous
plan, which was no less than to put
up grandstands at every erection job
in the Nation, charge admission, and
clean up fortune. At the close of
the season, he admitted, he would be
stuck with building, which, how
ever, had cost nothing, and could
probably be traded in on another va
cant lot.
Evening star., 1939-08-05
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. TrdcepeU.

No, lady, we can't pity i at all Cat
least on paper.
A cat stalking bird deserves, not pity,
but good bucket of cold water.
Even If the provocation is excessive.
We stand at the crossways Of life, and
watch the cats and the dogs, and the
people, and the ants and the birds and
many others-including the squirrel
which got locked in the garage over
night and nearly ate the door down
trying to get out-and we wonder why
they can't all agree to let each other
alone.
But nothing is surer than that they
can't and they won't. Tigers stalk
smaller animals, and cats stalk birds and
man stalks man. Oh, maybe not by
leaping on him. There are many ways
OF stalking, in world partly intellectual
The cat Is an honest creature.
When 1t stalks, it stalks; it doesn't
have pawful of fancy words to excuse
it.
There Is little doubt that cats, as a
class, are much put upon by the whole
sale condemnation received from some
humans.
Many of them do, indeed, go into the
garden to enjoy the sun.
They have no thought whatever of
catching bird.
Cats are real nature lovers, with small
letters, not capitals; the real kind, since
they are true part of nature, and, low
ing themselves, also love the things of
nature, at least in an abstract sense.
You have to be rather abstract, in dis
cussing cats, or your enthusiasm or the
reverse will run away with you
If you like 'em, you will feel, as our
correspondent, that nothing they do is
wrong.
If you do not like 'em, you will be sure
that nothing they ever do is right.
1t is not realized by many of the latter
party that not more than one cat out of
ten is really interested in catching birds.
We believe this is because they are
smart, as the saying is, and realize per-
factly well that there is neither need
for the catching nor much chance of
succeeding.
These fantastic statistics you see every
now and then, about how many birds
are killed each and every year by every
cat, male or female, are based on exactly
nothing at all. least of all honest obser-
vation. The latter will prove to any one
that the rapacity of cats in regard to
birds is mostly myth, one with the
myriad myths which beset mankind and
nullify his precious claim to be thinker.
Evening star., 1939-08-05

ously, according to newspaper dis
patches. Nature is above any autoc-
racy and It's laws supersede any man
made laws. But we need not smoker
too openly at the benighted Russians.
Some OF our own States few years
ago saw f1t to repeal evolution and
in one State Legislature bill actu-
ally was introduced to fix by law the
relation between the radius and cir
cumference Of circle.
In another sense one may feel q
certain sympathy with the students.
Charlatans have made good use Of
the laws Of genetics and the general
Misrepresentation of them. Nobody
yet has shown convincingly that they
have any application whatsoever to
the mental and emotional characters
Of man. The rulers of the Fascist
states have blithely assumed this ap-
plication and thereby promulgated
far greater absurdities than the one
now proposed in Russia.
If Mendel's laws do apply to the
mind of man the logical conclusion
from them is scientific Calvinism
which dooms the majority of the hu-
man race forever to be hewers of
wood and drawers Of water, and
which affords basis for the theory
Of superior races. But, at present,
this is an unwarranted deduction.
The weight of the evidence supports
the thesis that man Is not shackled
by heredity and that the observable
differences between human beings
are not absolutely Unborn.
Hitler extends Mendel's laws. Sta
lin may repeal them. Either act is Of
equal validity. There can be little
objection, however, if Russia con-
tents herself with repeating Ger
manys deductions.
Evening star., 1939-08-05
ROssLYN, Va.

Dear Sir:
"Supposing some one walked up to You
and suddenly started calling you rather
uncomplimentary names.
What would do do and think?
"You certainly wouldn't like 1t and the
chances are that you wouldn't stand for
it very long.
WELL put yourself in the cats place.
"You are lying in the warm pleasant
sun dreaming of that nice juicy bit of
steak that your master or mistress gave
you for supper last night, and wondering
what the chances are for more tonight,
when suddenly you are rudely brought
back to the present by q somewhat harsh
scraping sound.
1T Is definitely unpleasant to your
ears, or to any one else's, for that matter.
- -
1T gets louder.
You look around you to see what 1t
is, and you finally see small dark
shape perched on the nearest tree.
That small dark shape is doing all
that awful screeching and it seems at
you.
VERY soon that ball of fury hops down
from its roost to the ground, still making
that noise.
you begin to find some difficulty in
keeping your temper-you came out
doors for the sun and not to be the object
of some nitwit's antics.
meanwhile, that thing hops closer
until 1t is barely yard away from you
and now scolds Chats what it's COM
monty called) harder than ever.
-
you find 1t so very, very hard to re-
sist the impulse to give it a gentle but
nrm removal to regions unknown.
you are inclined to be lover of ma
ture, yourself.
Your peace and quiet has been broken
by mere bird-you never liked birds,
and this is the last word.
You rise. and craftily prepare to leap
upon it.
1T is shame when the dear little
bird saves It's life by flying away in the
nick of time-all ready to bother you
another time.
DO you blame cat for going after
birds? Really, bird does not have to
protect his or her nest by scolding in
this manner.
This draws attention to his nest of a
cat who before that scolding probably
never thought of the bird or nest.
you've read of forms of torture. and
doesn't 1t seem to you that that awful
scolding is certain kind?
"A bird. scolding, invites cat to stalk
it.
Il repeat, Pity the poor cat
Nov, don't you?
Yours truly, NJ L. T."
Evening star., 1939-08-05
Suggests Going Nazi- ism
One Better,
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
In recent weeks several of your corre-
spondents have raised the banner Of
America for Americans" and this week
one writer tells us that there are some
go bills pending in Congress, aimed
against foreigners, and that all of them
ought to pass. 1t is strange quirk of
some natures that so long as they feel
their own necks secure they are willing
that all other necks go under the guillo-
tine. After all, I am inclined to believe
that this last writer is entirely too
charitable, and that these alien bills
ought to cover all who cannot claim at
least Revolutionary War antecedents.
Merely because man is born in America
or has an American father or even
grandfather is no sufficient warrant for
American citizenry. The mark of alien
ism does not wear off within just gen.
Grafton or two, and if we are to have
an undiluted and unadulterated Amer
ican stock or cult we ought to go Nal-
ism turn or two better. Having got
rid of our foreigners, and with immigra-
ton stopped, we shall be in a position
to solve other problems; for be it re-
membered we shall still have those with
black hair, those who believe in but one
God, etc. Further, without foreigners
We shall perforce have no ditchdiggers
no sewer cleaners and no garbage car
riers, but let us complete the task in
hand first and think about conse-
quences afterward.
It is well that this is Nation Of laws
rather than of men. In the latter event
it is easy to imagine how many self
made Hitlers we would have. In the
final analysis, who is the foreigner, he
to whom hate and unneighborliness are
foreign, or he to whom good will and
love of kind are foreign?
August 8. HERMAN FELTER.
Evening star., 1939-08-05
Thinks Defeat of Lending
Bill Will Aid Business.

10 the Editor OF The Star:
The President may be right. Defeat
OF his latest pet project-the spending
lending flimflam-may stifle business re-
covery-or rather, continue in full force
the depression that has been the out
standing feature of the abundant life
program inaugurated in 1893.
At least, it's the old familiar yarn.
It's been used before and holds no new
note. But the American people are
likely to yawn with unconcealed weari-
ness as the official dark tidings are
hashed up once again for their con-
sumption.
Grown skeptical in increasing num-
bers, these backsliders believe-as their
letters to congressman will attest-that
defeat of the measure is the go-ahead
sign industry needs and has heretofore
lacked, and that proofs of this before
arrival of fall will be definite and con-
crete. Evidence has already appeared to
give basis to their optimism
Faith in Rooseveltian predictions has
tapped new low. The old-time blind
faith and gullibility-never present in
some quarters-has begun to evaporate
even among beneficiaries of the Santa
Claus regime. On this awakening may
be based what hope exists for the even
tual salvage of the New Deal mess.
August 3. WALTER BAHNSEN.