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Smyrna times., 1939-06-29
SMYRNA DOINGS
OF so YEARS AGO
Notes of Marriages, Deaths
and Matters of Interest
of Half Century Ago
ISSUE OF JUNE 26TH, 1889

Taken from our old files of
corresponding week, as near
date of this issue as possible
Fifty Years Ago. This column,
now a regular feature of the
Times, will call to mind people
and events of the older genera
ton.
Smyrna times., 1939-06-29

Mrs. John Anthony has in her
yard very fine variety of holly
hooks.
Smyrna times., 1939-06-29
MARRIAGES

Milaway-Faulkner-On June 10,
by Rev. George A. Sheets, Mr..
James R. Milway and Miss Sallie
Faulkner, both of Frederick, Del.
Smyrna times., 1939-06-29
DEATHS

Foster-On June 21st, 1889, at
Cape May, N. J., Odelia, daughter
Of Harry S. and Mary Foster, (nee
Cosden), Of Philadelphia, aged 9
months.
Smyrna times., 1939-06-29
PATRIOTISM
FIRE W0
Americans Do F,,n
'i's Name of Patri,
On Fourth of Jul;
WARNING Is c,J

For years and wears u
bought tons and tons y
and exploded them an n
face Of the nation. T. 49,
them At cars, throw -
front doors Of business -
Many Americans PEI -
explode fireworks wit, vii
Consideration for safety i
Thousands Of parents i,
after box Of fireworks =,
children and encourage ~,
sters to blow up sand Djls'
cans with them. And ".
on the Fifth Of Julv ~
olooay' gruesome tale Of n
death, burns, lockjaw, a.
other assorted grief and -
Fireworks. liquor. auto,
speed crowds mix them !,
gether in a riotous holiday !
ign ana you get a disgust1
ooy On the sentiment thatl
pc felt and expressed on n
tn of July. Z
The Delaware Safety /
has issued warnings tin'
again 70 the people Of D
to be careful on the Fu
July. The Council again j
Delawareans to look upon Is
iday as common sense Am.
should and plan a safe, q
happy day.
PIan carefully and be ah
the Fifth
Subscribe To The emvrr. t.;
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PROGRESS

CHEMURGY-Under a new
process, inedible starch can be
converted into transparent
wrapping substance at cost of
less than three cents pound.
AVIATION-Capt. Hans Dieter
lie, German army pilot, has flown
an airplane with 1,175-horsepow-
er engine) at 1889 miles-per-hour
to set a new record.
GLASS - At Philadelphia's
Franklin institute, scientists were
recently shown a new automobile
safety glass which bends but will
not break, thanks to plastic
Sandwich" filler between the
two glass layers.
ELECTRICITY - Ninety-seven
per cent of the 21,000,0 900 wired
homes in the u. S. have electric
irons, 40 per cent have washing
machines and vacuum cleaners,
and more than a third have re-
frigeration.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-13

Being personal is the distinctive
thing with linens and personal &C
cessories today. These alphabets,
mainly in lazy-daisy stitch, are
most effective in black or green
and color or in two shades Of a
color. You'll want to put them on
everything! They're so quickly
embroidered even that youngster
of twelve would enjoy doing them
Pattern 1947 contains a transfer
pattern of two 2A-inch and two
115-inch alphabets; directions for
placing initials; Illustrations Of
stitches.
Send Is cents in coins for this
pattern to The Sewing Circle,
Needlecraft Dept, 81 Eighth Ave
nue., New York, N. Y.
Please write your name, adj
dress and pattern number plainly
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-13
Bruckarfs Washington Digest
Weakness of Unsound Legislation
Does Not Remain Concealed Long
Old NRA Is Striking Example of Careless Lawmaking;
Now Comes Up the Unworkable Conditions of Cufey
Law That Has Cost Coal Industry Millions.
BY WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service, National Press Bldg, Washington d. C.

duction costs, and the public would
not feel it.
The contract then negotiated ex-
pired recently and new one is now
being considered in the regular tug
of war that occurs between miners
and operators every two years. In
the meantime, however, things hap
pened to labor in the soft coal mines.
AS ! mentioned above, there was a
decline in production of coal. 1t fig
ures out at % per cent. That OBJ
viously means that, while labor OBJ
tanned an increase of one-tenth in
the rate of pay, it worked only four
fifths as much time according to the
records available to me. / fail
to see where labor gained from the
law. Moreover, from the federal re-
lief authorities / learn that living
conditions and buying power among
the persons living in coal mining
areas have declined almost in direct
ratio to decline in production of coal.
With respect to the added taxation
placed upon the owners of the
mines, the surface indications and
the original declarations of support
ers of the law have proven to be
quite misleading. The law required
the industry to pay tax of one cent
ton and to meet assessments to
cover the expenses of boards that
were set up in the various regional
areas. 1t is easy to calculate that
the one cent tax raised So, APO, 900 on
342, 000, 900 tons, produced last year.
But that figure does not show the
extra assessments that were paid to
the regional boards, nor does it re-
veal that every mine owner had to
hire extra clerks in the company
offices to take care of all of the
various and sundry reports that the
national commission and the region
al boards saw fit to require.
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Pp0nLe

st. Louis-made dry goods prod
ucts are sold in every part of the
world, Calhoun claims, and raw ma
terials are shipped to st. Louis from
every part of the world. In 1898, in
freight totaled $1,000, 900 pounds.
The most significant change in the
industry, said Calhoun, is the in
crease in manufacturing plants OPP
Grated by the wholesale dry goods
companies. One plant alone in the
area manufactures enough. shirts
..'to supply every man in St. Louis
with nine shirts each a year."
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six capital craft of $4,000 tons each
now in process of construction, are
to be started this year.
A request for initial funds was in
cluded in the navy's $758, 000, 900
budget for the next fiscal year on
which hearings have been started.
Funds for the third 45,000-ton YES
sci authorized in the expansion act,
and others of the same magnitude,
are expected to be sought at the
next and later sessions of congress.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-13
Ouiz /.

II you read Net0s analysis, you
should be able to ans,Uer these ques.
fions:
. What Argentine territory is al
legedly coveted by Germany?
. Identify: Gen. Segismundo
Cascade; Spratly islands; Fred H.
Brown; Col. Josef Beck.
. Of what substance is a new
transparent wrapping material
made?
. Where might Spain's huge gold
reserve have been taken by flee
ing Loyalists?
. How is the Polish-Rumanian
military alliance being expanded?
. What nation has just signed a
trade treaty with France?
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Growth of Girls and BOYS

Few parents, says New York
woman doctor, realize the difference
in the growing age of boys and
girls. Until the age, of eight the
growth is approximately uniform,
but, normally, the adolescent squirt
starts for a girl at nine, for boy
at IL. Many girls reach their full
height at Is. whereas most boys con-
tinue to gain stature until 81. At
that age the average youth is slight
ly more than AZ inches taller than
the average girl.
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News Analysis
German sEncirclement' Rushed
But Poland Fears Firm Stand
-------------By Joseph w. La Bine-
BY Joseph w. La Bine-

and Memel conquests, Japan has
struck again. The victim: France,
who in 1888 laid formal claim to the
seven Spratly islands lying $50 miles
southwest of the American Philip
pines, $50 miles west of British Bor-
neo and $50 miles east of French
Indo-China.
Though discovered in 1867, the is
lands went unclaimed until Frances
declaration of sovereignty. Useful
economically only for phosphate, the
Spratly group offers Japan snug
haven for seaplanes and submarines
which might disrupt French-British-
U. S. trade. At Tokyo the foreign
Office pointed out that Japs have
worked Spratly phosphates since
1917, investing capital and establish
ing small settlements. But since
France neglected to establish adj
ministrative jurisdiction "a grave
oversight Japan decided to claim
the reefs ito eliminate disadvan-
tages and inconvenience"
The expected result of Frances
protest: Notnlng.
Spain
Though recognition by the United
States again placed Gen. Francisco
Francois Spain in the good graces
of international society Gall other ma
jor powers had previously recog-
nized the Nationalist government
the war-torn Iberian peninsula still
faces tremendous task. FRANCOIS
sole Intellectual international gesture
as a European power has been to
join Germany, Italy and japan in
the anti-Communist pact. Having
thus shown European democracies
his heels, the tired generalissimo
could turn to more pressing internal
problems. Among them:
Order. Though Spain needs man.
power to rebuild, many moons will
pass before unemployment will be
solved. Still breathing in their sec
ond wind after 80 months of war,
discharged Spanish soldiers will not
readily bow to anything less than
military law. FRANCOIS answer is
expected to be 1000, 000-man army
until early 1910.
Health. Substantiated reports
from Madrid tell of scurvy-like
disease sweeping former Loyalist
territory, caused by lack of fresh
fruits, vegetables and milk. It's med
icine chest emptied, short of band
ages, iodine, salves and medicines,
Spain has sent hurry-up orders to
cope with the sorriest physical plight
an enlightened nation has suffered
in modern times.
Housing. Though intent on restor-
ing shel-pocked Catholic churches
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Observation-Disclosures oose-
welt has approved plans to construct
45,000-ton battleships, expected to
be the worlds mightiest, to as
sure continued American naval SUI
premacy over Japan.
The President has given the navy
authority to proceed with its pro-
gram in accordance with last years
billion-dollar feet expansion act.
Two of the floating fortresses, fast
er and more heavily armed than the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-13
Another Tug of War BetUeen
Coal Miners and Operators

One of the reasons the mine own
ers lost money was because many
who supported the law were con-
WINGED it would mean increased
wages for the workers. The United
Mine Workers of America, headed
by Mr.. Lewis, believed so, and two
years ago they demanded and OBJ
tanned an increase of 10 per cent.
During the debate on the bill in con-
gress it was talked freely that the
miners could get wage increase
and it could be passed on to the con-
sumers. This would be true, it was
said, because the coal commission
would fix the prices and the selling
price, as fixed by law, would have
to be above production costs. Ger
tainly, labor's wage is part of pro-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-13
St. Louis Claims Title
of Wholesale Capital

st. Louis is the largest wholesale
dry goods center in the world, ac-
cording to David r. Calhoun Jr.,
vice president of Ely & Walker COM
pany.
In 1888, sales totals for the in
dustry in st. Louis appropriated
500, 900, Calhoun declares, and
more than $1,000 trips were made
by dry goods buyers to St. Louis
from every part of the country.
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Europe

"The regime OF pre-,oar days had but
one tault-it kne,U the depilish plan OF
encircling and attacking us, yet il lacked
the potUer or iUil TO ioard il of No
potUer in the iUorld can eper again force
us to our knees"
Thus spoke Adolf Hitler at Will
helmshaven, one day after Britain's
Prime Minister Chamberlain had
shocked the world by promising to
defend Poland against Nazi agrees
sion. Though Der Fuehrer barked
boldly, it appeared the heretofore
Intellectual Stop Hitler drive had at
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-13
Simply Became an Added
Expense Borne by Industry

Again, it was expected that these
costs and taxes would be absorbed
nice word for concealing the facts
from the consumers-in the selling
price that was to be fixed. But, as
I reported earlier, the commission
never quite got around to fixing the
prices under the current law.
Hence, the hundreds of thousands of
dollars which the laws sponsors
said would be passed on simply be-
came an added expense borne by
the industry.
The law has another feature which
you and I, as individuals, do not feel
directly. 1t is another one of those
concealed things. The law specifies
that no contract can be signed be-
tween operator and consumer to last
for more than 80 days. That is to
say, no price can be quoted for
more than 80 days in advance. That
may not appear important, but it
is highly important.
The practice of large users of coal
is to enter into contract for sup
ply VI SOdl W last, LII 1OI
a whole years operation. Having
such contract, the owner of the man.
ufacturing establishment, for in
stance, will be able to know what his
fuel costs are when calculating the
price of the goods he manufactures
and sells. Fuel costs are important,
and it therefore becomes plain that
large users of fuel have an unknown
factor in their expense item for
years plans. What do they do?
They have to estimate that item,
and they take the maximum that
they can expect to pay for coal
and users of their product have to
pay that added amount whether in
breakfast food or harvesting ma
chinery or railroad freight rates.
That one feature of the law alone
has completely disorganized the coal
industry
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-13
Coal Operators Are Left With
Supply in Sizes Not Needed

The 30-day limit also has had an
other effect. When a mine owner
could make a years contract or a
number of such contracts, he knew
whether it was lump coal or stove
coal or slack that his customers
needed. Without a contract, the big
buyers naturally shop around to get
the lowest price. A mine operator,
therefore, may sell to one firm one
month and the next month, some
other mine will supply the coal. The
result is that one mine may find it.
self with hundreds of tons, or even
thousands of tons, of lump coal when
all that can be sold in given month
is slack or stove coal.
Well, it is the ordinary practice in
business that if too large a stock is
on hand, prices are reduced to in
duce someone to buy. But not so in
the soft coal industry under the Cuff
fey law. If the price is reduced be-
low the actual cost of mining, costs
approved by bunch of accountants
sitting here in Washington, the law
steps in-not the Guffey law, but two
other laws. They are the federal
trade commission act and the Rob-
inson-Patman act. Under either one
of these laws, the mine operator
who cuts prices below costs becomes
tagged as very bad boy who must
be punished by fine or imprison-
ment. So, the unwanted coal lies in
piles beside the mine, crumbling and
becoming of less value daily as the
weather takes its toll.
@ Western Newspaper Union.
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lected, 1t constl-
tutes a good third
of the nations
territory. a fer
tile land for ex-
pansion in days
to come. But Ger
many also seeks
to expand, and
surprised Argen-
tinians recently
read in their
newspaper Mott
cias Grafcas the
nrCt,hct n
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-13
First Gold Columbus Found

One of the places in Rome which
interests American visitors is the
Church of Santa Maria Maggiore
whose gilded ceiling designed by
Sangallo is covered with the first
gold which Columbus brought from
the New World.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-13
A Sure Index ofVuIue
ADVERTISED GOODS
A Friendly Warning

81 realize / owe lot to my coun-
try" declared the orator.
mot too much of that, mate"
whispered a sympathetic voice.
You're not the only one that has
not paid his income tax."-Provi-
dence Journal.
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WASHINGTON and un-
workable laws have a way of con-
cealing their weaknesses for vary
ing lengths of time. 1t seems to be
true, however, that those weak
nesses, like ones sins, will be found
out. This is especially true of writ
ten laws that are predicated upon
formula of how things ought to be
done, rather than upon the basis OF
known acts and customs and living
conditions of the people who make
up our nation.
Take the old MIRA, for example.
It's glazing weaknesses and impossi-
BILE prescriptions were discovered
rather soon by the persons and bust
nesses who had to abide by the
terms of that law. It was not. so
long, however, before most of us
discovered that the artist who had
sketched the original design of the
blue eagle had made mistake. You
will recall, of course, that the de-
sign had Is feathers in one wing
and IL in the other. That was bound
to make the bird fly in circle, and,
how true it was of the law, itself!
Even, then, there were many per-
sons who believed the law was not
given sufficient trial before the SUI
preme court moved it down.
Among those who held a convic-
ton that NRA would work was
Senator Guffey, the Pennsylvania
New Dealer. 1t is the same Sena-
tor Guffey who attempted to de-
stroy, politically, all Democrats
who disagreed with President Roose-
velt-tried to "read them out of the
party" in a radio address.
Senator Guffey, with the aid of
John l.. Lewis and the c. I. O.,
pushed through congress the So
called Guffey-little NRA coal law.
The coal industry was divided in
sentiment about the bill, as I re-
member the legislative battle, but
Senator Guffey won. There came
about a national bituminous coal
commission, with power to fix
prices, with power to compel a lot
of other things, including the right
of punishment under other laws if a
coal mine owner should commit the
horrible crime of selling below cost
in order to get rid of his coal.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-13
Carving the Lettuce

The etiquette" of not using
knife to cut lettuce in salad prob
ably is a hangover from days when
lettuce would turn old-time steel
knives dark.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-13

in Madrid and other former frontier
points, Franco faces a far greater
carpentry job in placing roofs over
several hundred thousand ex-Madri-
lenos who fed the capitol in war,
returning in peace to find their me-
tropoliS a ShambleS.
Revenge. Most Loyalist leaders
like Gen. Jose Miaja fed Spain after
hosting the white flag of surrender.
Two notable exceptions were Gen.
Segismundo Casado, war minister
of the defense council, and Julian
Besteiro, a moderate Republican
who took no active part in the war
except to supervise feeding women
and children during Madrid's two
year siege. Humanitarian or not,
Senior Besteiro was arrested and
court martialed along with General
Casado.
Finance. Before the war SPANS
gold reserve of $740, 000,0 was ex-
ceeded only by the U. S., Britain
and France. Also on hand were vast
boards of silver. BY April, 1888, the
U. S. federal reserve bulletin re-
ported Spanish gold had dropped to
$525 ,006, 900, and by this month as
General Franco entered Madrid, no.
body apparently knew where any
Spanish gold might be. One vague
hint was that Marino Gamboa, a rich
Loyalist-sympathizing Filipino, had
moved most of it to Mexico and
thereby insured the solvency of 10y
alist refugees. Meanwhile National
list Spain held an empty bag.
People
Born, President Roosevelt's ninth
grandchild, boy, to Mr.. and Mrs.
John Boettiger Gamma Roosevelt
DalD, at Seattle.
. Appointed, New Hampshire's lib
eral former Sen. Fred HI. Brown,
to the U. S. comptroller generalship.
. Douglas Fairbanks, ex-movie star,
has been ordered to return $72, 1876
refunded by the U. S. on income tax
payments in 1927-28-29.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-13

EDITORS NOTE-When opinions are
expressed in these columns. they are those
of the news analyst. and not necessarily
of the newspaper.
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argentina

In southern Argentina lies little
known Patagonia, black section on
map) on whose 267 900 square miles
live only 77,750 souls. Though neg
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-13
o. <. Then

Husband-So you think there ara
times when it is permissible for the
husband to kiss the cook, Ell?
Wife-Yes, darling, when the wife
is doing the cooking.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-13
Gufey LaU Cost the Coal
Industry Many Millions

The first law so enacted was
moved down by the Supreme court
just the same as the original and
big brother MIRA. Senator Guffey
tried again. And so for two years,
or Whereabouts, there has been a law
in force that applied the same prin-
ciples of RECOMMENDATION as MIRA to
the coal industry, and during that
time, according to official reports,
the soft coal industry has lost mon
ey. It lost $37, 100000 in 1887, and
it lost about $50, 900, 900 last year, the
coal commission has reported.
Naturally, the coal mine owners
are not taking this loss without a
squawk. 1t is not a great deal more
than chirp, however, because the
production of coal dropped from
Az, ZOO, 900 tons in 1887 to 342, 0O0, 900
tons in 1888. That is pretty rapid
reducing, even if the industry were
really fat.
In consequence of this, and other
conditions affecting labor and prop
erty, Representative Allen, Penn
sylvania Democrat, has introduced
in the house bill to reconstruct the
Guffey law. His proposal would
eliminate the price fixing; it would
eliminate the special tax on the coal
industry for upkeep of the high pow
cred, but more or less futile, coal
commission, and it would place the
industry again on a basis where its
individual mines would be compel
ing for public patronage instead of
inducing bootlegging of coal.
I mentioned above that the indus
try had lost money. Well, you and
I, as buyers and consumers of coal,
not to mention the thousands of
great manufacturing plants using
coal, also lost money because of the
Guffey law. We lost money because
of the price conditions. We would
be penalized in a big way if the
coal commission could ever have
accomplished the almost insur-
mountable job of establishing a set
of federally fixed prices. 1t would
have cost us money because we
would pay the price that was fixed,
and that price would have to be
high enough to allow a profit for
the lowest grade and most ineffi-
cient mine operator.