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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-09
TIPS to
gardeners
Know Your Herbs

II ERBS are becoming more
- popular each year because
they are easy to grow and help
make everyday dishes more APP
petizing and fiavorful. Here are
important facts about the more
important herbs which you can
grow in your backyard garden:
Anise-Seeds used to flavor
bread, cake, cookies, candy;
green leaves good for favoring
salad.
Borage-Leaves and flowers
give unusual tang to fruit drinks
and are good salad garnish; bios
SONS good cut flowers.
Caraway-Seeds used to flavor
bread, cake, cookies, cheeses,
baked apples.
Dill-Seeds and leaves used for
making dill pickles.
Sweet fennel-Fresh stems eat
en- like celery or used in salads;
bulb at base eaten raw or cooked;
leaves add flavor to sauces and
soups.
Marjoram-Used for seasoning
poultry dressing; young leaves
good for soups and salads; makes
attractive house plant.
Sage-Excellent in meat and
poultry dressings.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-09
HOW q }. SEW
by Ruth Wyeth Spears o9p

very smart. 1t is especially use
full in bedroom or hall. If COW
cred in the right colors, it will
also look well in the living room.
Mrs. Spears Sewing Book 2,
Gifts, Novelties and Embroideries,
contains 48 pages of step-by-step
directions which have helped
thousands of women. If your
home is your hobby you will also
want Book 1-SEWING, for the
Home Decorator. Order by num-
Der, enclosing Is cents for each
book. If you order both books,
copy of the new Rag Rug Leaf1et
will be included free. Those who
have both books may secure leaf
let for 6 cents in postage. Adj
dress Mrs. Spears, 210 S. Des-
PLANES ST., Chicago, Ill.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-09

"DEAR MRS. SPEARS: I have
- both of your books, and
have made many things from
them that have surprised my fam
lily. Most women can't drive a
nail straight, but l can do that
better than ! can sew. / have
been thinking that now with slip
covers used so much, one could
make a chair out of plain lumber
and cover it. Perhaps you could
publish something like this in the
paper. D. M"
Those who are not so clever
about driving nails, may want to
call on Dad or Young Son to help
with making the simple chair
have sketched here. The metal
angles and straps to strengthen
the back may be bought at any
hardware store along with the
nails and screws. When the chair
is covered in two tones of chintz
with edges of back and seat piped
in the darker color, it is really
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-09
Weekly News Analysis
U. S. Refusal to Curb Spending
Endangers Cancellation Driue
Joseph w. La Bine-
BY Joseph w. La Bine.

Sour Notes. Too many wary bust
ness men regard Mr.. Hopkins
speech-keynote of the entire recov-
cry campaign-not as a sincere adj
ministration gesture but as a po-
litical buildup for Mr.. Hopkins pres
idential nomination in 1910. BY pos
ing, sincerely or otherwise, as bust
ness friend he is taking the only
road now open if the administration
hopes to gain a considerable sup
port from business in the next cleo
ton.
Disregarding the possibility of in
sincerity, other financial circles
doubt the wisdom of continued U. S.
spending. Most charitable Wall
Street view is that New Deal theo-
rists are belatedly discovering the
impossibility of taxing nation back
to good times. Least charitable
view is that of Manhattan's Guar
anty Trust company, which minces
no words about spending. While
agreeing with Mr.. Hopkins that an
$50, 900, 100000 annual national in
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-09

a financial or political entree to the
new Spain than would strong-willed,
independent General Franco.
Thus the Spanish solution fits per-
fectly into Italo-German anti-democ-
racy plans, to be climaxed when
Rome pushes Mediterranean terri
torial demands against France.
Most astute piece of diplomatic
maneuvering in recent weeks was
the Polish junket of Count Galeaz-
20 Ciano, Italian foreign minister.
While Count Ciano did his best to
destroy the already Intellectual Po-
lish-French military alliance, 5000
Italians were repatriated from
French possessions, mobilization
was sped and three new decree
laws were effected, giving the gov
eminent more wartime power.
Even so the Polish victory was
small spoils beside the moral vic
tory gained when Britain and
France, standing up and barking
back for the first time in three
years, openly declared their soil
darity and went busily ahead with
military plans to the chagrin of
Rome and Berlin. Another demo-
cratic victory took place in Poland
even while Count Ciano was making
his triumphal entry. Angry anti
Nazi demonstrations informed the
count that while Poland might be
his friend, it was not the friend of
Count Ciano's Friend Hitler. As
before, the key to Europe's future
still rests in Spain, where a note
from General Franco will place eth
er a French-British or an Italian
German combination ace high. I'm
believably, a nation just emerging
from civil war apparently holds the
balance of power.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-09
sueeds Cotton Cloth Making

The manufacture of cotton cloth
at speeds faster than the eye can
follow is forecast with a new adap-
tation of the electric eye." A
photo-electric cell mechanism devel-
oped to detect flaws in cloth manu-
facture is said to permit finishing
speeds as high as 140 yards per Sec
ond-100 yards faster than with
manual inspection. The device is
designed to locate misaligned
threads and start motors of ma
chinery to correct the flaws.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-09
Sun That Rises, Never
Sets, in Planetarium

A new sun, which only rises and
never sets, has been installed at the
Hayden Planetarium of the Ameri-
can Museum of Natural History, it
was announced by Prof. William H.
Barton Jr., director of the plane
tarium's technical staff, reports the
New York Herald Tribune.
The only function of the new sun
is to throw spectacular dawn effects
upon the planetarium's morning
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-09

sky, Mr.. Barton said. Special mech
anism was built to cause the sun to
rise slowly above the planetarium
horizon. Coupled with reflectors
and high-wattage flood lamps, the
sun produces a striking sunrise eff
feet. 1t is the only effect of its
kind in any planetarium in the
world.
The old sun, which has been trav-
cling back and forth across the
planetarium's man-made sky for
years, will remain in use to illus
trate phases of the solar system.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-09
How Women
i'm Their 4O'S
Can Attract Men

Here's good advice for woman during her
change casually from 38 to 52), who fears
she'll lose her appeal to men, who worries
about hot flashes, loss of pep, dizzy spells,
upset nerves and moody spells.
Get more fresh air, 8 hrs. sleep and IL you
need good general system tonic take Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made
especially for 1comen. 1t helps Nature build
up physical resistance, thus helps give more
vivacity to enjoy life and assist calming
jittery nerves and disturbing symptoms that
often accompany change of life. WELL
WORTH TRYING!
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-09
Oldest to Greatest

So greatly did the German En-
peror, Frederick the Great adj
mire George Washington that he
sent him his portrait with the in
scription, From the oldest gen
eral in Europe to the greatest
general on earth"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-09
Milk From Cow Tree

The COW tree or milk tree is a ma
tive of Venezuela. The stem con-
tains a milky latex which flows
out in quantities when notch is
cut in it. The milk" is sweet and
has pleasant taste.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-09
Trend
Hotc the ,Uind is blotUing /.

HOtC tHe UIHu Us OtOtCtHg
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES to U.
S. public health service, babies
born in 1888 had a 62-year life
expectancy, enc and one-tenth
years more than 1887 babies and
two years more than in 1881.
SCIENCE - DR.. Percy w.
Bridgeman, noted Harvard physi-
cist, will henceforth refuse to deal
with scientists from totalitarian
states.
AUTOMOBILES - Advanced
four weeks ahead of last years
show, 1895 New York automo-
bile exposition will show models
only mildly changed from the
current makes.
EMPLOYMENT-U. S. employ
ment dropped $50, 900 in January,
first time since August.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-09
Inscription on GRANTS Tomb

Cut into the marble of U. S.
Grants tomb in New York are these
words: ''Let us have peace" This
was the sentence he uttered at the
first convention which nominated
him for the presidency.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-09

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, 1939-03-09

come is possible, Guaranty Trust
maintains that this alone would be
no index of prosperity. A better
idea: To encourage private invest
ment by a government policy which
eschews federal spending via "long
range investment" in wealth Great
ing public works.
Echoed Michigan's Sen. Arthur H.
Vandenberg, bitter New Deal critic
and 1910 possibility for the G.. o.
P: 81 am sorry to say there is
no tangible encouragement in a
speech (Mr. Hopkins') which waves
the olive branch with one hand and
indorses deficit spending on the 9TH
er hand If Mr.. Hopkins will
reduce his conversation to a con-
crete and helpful formula which
means what it says, think he can
be sure of great hospitality in both
congress and the country"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-09
Europe


queror who would retire to let 9TH
ers enjoy the sweet fruit of victory.
Since 1882 Gen. Francisco Franco
has grown in stature as Spain's man
of destiny, at first unknown outside
his native land but later an inter-
national figure as head of the In
surgent rebellion. With the civil war
apparently ended, all Europe has
looked to Spain for some hint of
Generalissimo Francois plans, dis
covering that the impossible is ap-
parently true.
Best guesses hold that monarchy
will return in the person of Don
Juan, third son of former King Al
fonso whose properties were re-
stored last fall. Popular, untouched
by the deadly haemophilia that
plaques many Bourbons, Prince
Juan would apparently rule with
Ramon Serrano Suner, Frances
brother-in-law, who holds the best
chance of becoming premier. Fran
CO himself would retire to head the
army.
But what appears an overgenerous
gesture on Francois part may be
dictated by Rome. An Italian resi-
dent for several years, 25-year-old
Don Juan would not only bow to
Fascist wishes but would pacify hos
tile Spaniards as General Franco
never could. Moreover such a pup
pet would be less apt to offer Britain
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-09

News reports from Havana are
I that, when Colonel Fulgencio
Batista, Cuba's strong man, visited
Mexico, he was regarded by some
of his conserva-
FrolDns on Left as having gone
Turn of Batista . ever to O. the re
the tracks," There was particular
displeasure over his fraternizing
with President Cardenas of Mexico,
and business representation at his
welcome-home ceremonies was con-
spicuously lacking. He told the
crowd of cheering workers that
eff capital does not wish to respect
the desires and rights of the people,
the resulting confusion will work
against its own aspirations.
This is one of several recent
signs that the one-time cane
rustler, barber, buck private
and stenOgrapher who now runs
Cuba is veering left, after
wide swing to the right. Soon
after his seizure of power, with
the downfall of Machado in
August, 1888, he treasured the
claw and order" elements, and
left-wingers have been FASTING
him as the "Hitler of Cuba"
He made peace with foreign and
native industrialists, and, from
all accounts, they are jolted con-
siderably by his getting chubby
with Cardenas, the 'Expropria-
tor" He is circulating much
more than he used to, and there
is talk that he aspireS to be the
Napoleon of the Caribbean"
His hole-card is the army, which
he commands efficiently as chief
of staff. A big, reticent, swarthy
man, 81 years old, he says little
and keeps sharp, wary eye on his
soldiers.
nv ITH bullet in his shoulder
and one heel shot away, DR..
Oswaldo Aranha, foreign minister
of Brazil, is an effective emissary
~. of peace in the
ATdHno htnRS western hemi-
1t Time to Stolu sphere, and the
Shooting Irons o white st hope % Of
partment, as he visits this country.
He was the leader of five revolu-
tions in eight years, including the
one which established DR.. Getulio
Vargas, the present president of
Brazil.
His present mission is mainly
financial. 1t is possible that a
central bank of Brazil will grow
out of it, with the United States
supplying $4,000, 900 capital. He
is 43 years old, the SON of a
wealthy hidalgo in Rio Grande
do Sui. His life activities have
been the army, law and poll
tics. When President Vargas
set up his one-man state last
year, Doctor Aranha's cooper
alton was taken in this country
as reinsurance against Euro
pean fascism in that country.
Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-09
Agriculture

Some 1900, 900 bales of surplus
U. S. cotton are piled up under gov
eminent loans of about $500, 900, 900.
Though unhappy, cotton farmers
voted for continued production con-
troll last December because they ex-
pected more loans. With planting
time near and no substitute yet
found for the present loan system
(Which cannot be continued econom-
ically so long as huge government
held SURPRISES fail to move), Secre-
tary of Agriculture Henry A. Wal
lace offered three suggestions to the
senate farm committee and ended
by urging adoption of the last:
ID Continue the present loan plan,
provided American cotton can be
placed on the unhappily low world
market. One means of doing this is
through U. S. subsidy.
(2) Abandon the loan plan and
grant sufficiently large outright
benefit payments to maintain farm
income. Mr.. Wallace's favorite
method here is probably the ILL
regarded processing tax.
(3) Peg domestic prices and sell
SURPRISES abroad for whatever they
would bring, as under the much
debated ''cost-of-production" plan.
Though cost-of-production has never
held favor with Mr.. Wallace, the
impossibility of winning a return of
processing taxes has presumably
forced compromise. The few
known facts of the two-price cotton
plan are that present loan provi-
sions would be retained to maintain
domestic prices higher than the
present level (about 8.3 cents per
pound), while aforementioned
cotton would be sold to exporters
for world distribution.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-09
Transportation

Current legislative proposals to
aid railroads rest mainly on the
thesis that all transportation must
be co-ordinated to eliminate favor
itism and duplication of service.
Even more pointed than bills IA
thered by CALIFORNIA; Rep. Clar-
ence F. Lea and Montana's Sen.
Burton K. Wheeler is the proposal
of the Association of American Rail-
roads, just submitted to the house
interstate commerce committee.
Its gist: All rail, water and motor
transport systems would be regulat-
ed by single federal agency.
While the interstate commerce COM
mission would continue to fix rates,
financial and administrative func-
tons would be vested in five $12, OOO-
a-year men appointed by the Presi-
dent. The boards tasks: (1) to
determine the relative economy
and fitness" of all carriers; (2) to
ferret out reports of U. S. subsi-
dies to common carriers other than
the railroads.
Complained Attorney R. v. Fetch
er, general counsel for the railroads:
Under present conditions there are
no good times for the railroads.
When earnings are not good we
can't raise the rates and when they
are good we are told that rate
increase would be contrary to a
sound economic end"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-09
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

NJ EW YORK.-Is the "czar" on
his way out? Before and since
the elevation of Judge Lands and
Will Hays we have hired benevolent
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-09
Congress


Nebraska's Rep. John j. Cochran
has fought steadily for President
Roosevelt's Inflated reorganization
bill which failed last session amid
charges of dictatorship" Now be-
fore congress is a Cochran-spon-
sored compromise bill designed to
eliminate last years stumbling
blocks. Its main points: ID the
President could propose plans for
consolidation, abolition and trans
fers in the executive department, to
be rejected by congress within 60
days via a concurrent resolution;
(2) financial estimates of independ-
ent federal boards and commissions
would reach the President via the
budget bureau, as is now the case
with other governmental depart
ments; (3) the President could ap-
point six administrative assistants at
$4,000 year. One important safe
guard is that such quazi-judicial
agencies as the civil service COM
mission, coast guard, federal COM
munications commission and inter-
state commerce commission could
not be reorganized.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-09

VIII nays we nave hlred benevolent
Impartial Ump times of stress
Pushing Gar and confusion,
Into D;.corJ2 but now the New
York city hotel
industry hires, instead, an "impar-
tial chairman" with labor concur
ring, as he will represent both en-
ployers and labor. Is this prece-
dent, or is the title just euphe-
mism for "czar"?
Granite-faced, tight-lipped Ed
ward P. Mulrooney gets the umpir-
ing job, at $25, 1000 year. He also
is now entitled to his $4,000 yearly
pension, as a former police commits
sioner, withheld while he held pub
lie Office. In 1888, he became chair
man of the state alcoholic beverage
control board, and later state COM
missioner of correction, from which
office he will resign to accept the
hotel post.
He started pounding a beat
in West street forty-eight years
ago, when Theodore Roosevelt
was police commissioner. He
first hit the headlines by rescu-
ing women and children in a
small boat when the Slocum
burned. AS a waterfront fat
foot" he was known as Scoops
cop" always having his mind
on his work.
He became police commissioned
in 1880. He gave his men orders
to shoot to kill, and set shotgun
squads patrolling the city. He
roughed up the racketeers a lot,
and, when he was switched to the
Albany liquor control job in 1888,
the word was out that certain anti
social, anti-cop elements had desired
the transfer and helped bring it
about.
At 68, his reddish hair is turn
ing brindle. His ferrety eyes
reveal penetrating alertness
of mind. He looks a great deal
like General Pershing. 1t would
seem unlikely that anybody in
the hotel business here will be
giving the umpire any back
talk.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-09

Dangerous Play
Men are apt to play with their
healths and their lives as they do
with their clothes.-Temple.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-09

autocratS, IN
times of stress
and confusion,
but now the New
York city hotel
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-02-16
TYPHOID AND D1PHTHERIA
FATALITIES GOING DOWN
Several Counties On 1888 Honor
Roll, Health Department Advises

Counties on the honor roll for low
scores in typhoid fever and diphtheria
in 1888 have been announced by DR..
R. H. Riley, Director of the Maryland
State Department of Health.
No section of the State was entirely
free from typhoid fever, DR.. Riley said,
but ten of the twenty-three counties
came through 1888 without having any
deaths from the disease charged
against them; fifteen had no deaths
from diphtheria, and four of the fifteen
had neither sickness nor deaths from
the disease.
The counties with no deaths from
typhoid were Anne Arundel, Carroll,
Cecil, Garrett, Hartford, Kent, Prince
Georges, Queen Anne's, Saint Mary's
and Washington. Queen Anne's' has
the distinction of having had no deaths
from typhoid during the fve-year
period from 1934-1938, inclusive.
There were 283 cases of typhoid and
33 deaths from the disease reported
during the year in comparison with
327 cases and 33 deaths in 1887. Of
the cases and deaths reported in 1888,
229 cases and "a deaths were charged
against the counties and 81 cases and
deaths against Baltimore City.
Allegany, Kent, Queen Anne's and
Talbot counties were the four that
had neither sickness nor deaths from
diphtheria during the year. The other
eleven counties without any deaths
from diphtheria were Calvert, Caro-.
line, Carroll, Charles, Hartford, How.
ard, Montgomery, Prince Georges
Saint Mary's, Somerset and Wicom.
leo. There were 1853 cases of diphthe.
ria and 10 deaths reported in 1888 II
comparison with BIB cases and q
deaths in 1887. Of the totals in 1888
125 cases and 3 deaths were reported
from Baltimore City and 228 cases anC
Is deaths from the counties.
Of the fifteen counties with NJ
deaths from diphtheria last year, foul
have special distinction. Howard hac
no deaths from diphtheria charged
against it during the seven-year peri
cd from 1932-1938, inclusive; Kent an(
Saint Mary's have had none in the last
six years and Carroll none in the last
five years.
Opportunities for protection agains
both typhoid and diphtheria arereadil!
available, DR.. Riley said. He advised
those who had not been protected
against typhoid within the last TIVE
years to go to their family physician!
] for the three necessary NEGOTIATIONS
He urged mothers to have their babies
protected against diphtheria befor
! they are a year old, if possible, anC
certainly before the children ente
school.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-02-16
and Mrs. M. E. Shillingburg re-

Mr.. and Mrs. M. E. Shillingburg re-
Gently.
Miss Jessie Steyer and Lester NJ.
Loughry were Sunday afternoon Wis
itors at the V. T. Steyer home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Schell and little
daughter, of German, were visiting the
parents of Mrs. Schell, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. W. Arbogast, on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Steyer and son
Philip, of Kempton, were guests last
Wednesday of the formers parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T. Steyer.
Mrs. Madison Tucker spent last
Monday with Mrs. Herbert Foley at
Gormania, w. Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Cerne were
Sunday visitors at the home of Mrs.
Rosie Cerne in Steyer.
I. N. Shillingburg was visiting at
the home of C. E, Shillingburg Sum
day.
Mrs. Erwin Steyer had as a guest re-
Gently her mother, Mrs. Rice, of Bay
ard, W. Va.
Mrs. Allie Wilson, who has been i'll,
is somewhat improved at this time.
Sunday evening guests at the Probst
home were Mr.. and Mrs. Madison
Tucker, Lloyd and Hazel Shillingburg,
Arley Whetsell, Oscar Wolfe, Edward
Moon, Mrs. Herbert Foley and her
daughter Betty Jeanne and Virginia
Loughry.
Mrs. C. E. Shillingburg spent last
Thursday in Steyer visiting with rel
atives.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T. Steyer and Mrs.
Ray Goodwin are i'll at this time.
Our Sunday school is progressing
nicely and everybody is welcome to az
tend the sessions at 1920. The ele-
mentary school pupils favored oul
service last Sunday with a special
number, "Give of Your Best to the
Master" There will be a short temper
ance program given in connection with
the regular service next Sunday.