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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-02
THE ISLAND OF GUAM
Mr.. Lippmann stated the case.

square-mile tract has belonged to
the u. S. since 1898, lately becom-
ing a potentially important base for
Pacific commercial aviation. But
since Japan began flashing her
fangs Guam has become even more
important as an outpost to protect
Americas back door. The need for
such an outpost is Illustrated by ia
pans illegal fertilization of nearby,
inundated Caroline and Marianne
islands.
Official Washington thinks Japan
is using outlaw tactics in her Chi
nese invasion, her illegal fortifca-
tons and-of less importance to the
U. Shy threatening to fish Rus
sian waters whether Moscow APP
proves or not. When President
Roosevelt's 1852, 900, 900 emergency
defense program reached congress,
an item of $44, 100000 was listed for
naval air and submarine bases. Now
this has been boosted to sos ,000, 900,
and 100000 of the sum would be
authorized at Guam for deepening
the harbor, making landing fields
and enlarging marine barracks.
This drew from Japan exactly the
protest Washington expected and
wanted. When Tokyo objected that
Guam's fortifcation would be an ag-
gressive move, the White House
commented that Columnist Walter
Lippmann's remarks just about fit
ted the picture: Congress should
authorize the fortification of Guam,
and then the state department
should invite the Japanese to dis
cuss the question under Article XIX
of the Washington treaty (nine-pow-
er pact guaranteeing China's open
door,. In this discussion we could
say to the Japanese if they do not
wish Guam to DE fortified they
might return to the treaty by dis
mantling Notifications in the man.
dated islands,"
President Roosevelt has remained
free of the controversy by pointing
out that congressional authorization
for rearmament is one thing, but
that authorization is worthless with
out appropriations.
Meanwhile the game of democrat
cy VS.. dictator became still more
bitter as Japan at once frightened
her belt and stuck out her tongue.
AS the diet opened its new session
in Tokyo, Premier Kiichiro Hiranu-
ma announced ID that wartime con-
troll measures would be placed on
permanent basis and (2) that Japan
has no alternative other than to
,"e xterminate those who fail to un-
derstand" her aim in China.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-02
States Take Heed and
Start Cutting Expenses

Due largely, the senator thought,
to the fact that England had tried
to live within it's income as an in
dividual would do, that nation had
a national income in 1887 that was
lib per cent of its income in 1929.
Which is to say that it was more
prosperous than in 1929. Senator
Byrd pointed out that this had hap
pened while our government was
running from a billion or so to five
or six billions into debt each year.
He suggested, moreover, that if the
United States had done as well this
country's national income would now
be $88, 900, 900, 900 instead of the $780,
600, 900, 600 which was estimated for
1888. The thought was then adj
vanced that England had not tried
to harry and brighten business"
which was employing people who
wanted work, not charity.
There are other things happening
besides the Byrd attacks and the
congressional action on relief appro-
priations to indicate the growing
strength of those who believe spend
ing borrowed money has been, and
is, unwise. Word has come through
to Washington of the action of sew
eral governors who are insisting
that their states avoid getting into
the hole. Governor Cochran of Ne
braska, a Democrat, and Governor
Bricker of Ohio, a Republican, each
has put their respective state legisla-
lures on notice that expenditures are
to be pared to the bone. There are
others who could be named, but
from the information we have here
in Washington, Governors Cochran
and Bricker are the outstanding ex.
amples.
1t might be said that these refer
only to states and not to national
policies. Very well. No state ex-
ecutive could get away with such
program unless he had the back
ing of a majority of his own peo-
pie. If they believe that way about
state affairs, there is no reason to
think they will take contrary view
concerning the national treasury and
funds which it must borrow to
spend.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-02
Ask Me 4nother
9 "A General Quiz
The Questions

/. How is most of the boundary
between the United States and
Canada marked?
2. What is the meaning Of
nanos; llamas; lamas?
3. Which tree is the emblem Of
peace?
4. How fast does a rainstorm
travel?
5. What is your maxillary pro-
tuberance?
6. What physical feature makes
Minnesota the northernmost state
of the Union?
z. Into how many languages has
the Bible been translated?
8. What became of the enor-
nous meteor which Perry brought
to New York from Greenland?
8. Among the centenarians in
our country, which are the more
numerous, the white men or In
dians?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-02

tests also indicate that the new
lamp can be used to great advan-
tage in photo-engraving work, in
blue : printing, photo enlarging,
searchlight and for therapeutic APP
plication. About twelve times as
brilliant as filament lamp of the
same power, the small arc stream
no longer than an ordinary tooth
plck-allows accurate focusing.
The quartz tube in the lamp is
one-fourth of an inch in outside di-
ameter with a bore diameter of
about one-twelfth O. en- inch.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-02
Trend

TELEVISION-BritiSh Broad
casting corporation, celebrating
the second anniversary of televi-
sion, announces 10000 picture re-
ceivers are now being used in
England.
MONEY-Idle credit resources
of federal reserve bank members
have reached an all-time record
high of So, $3.50, 00G, 600.
DROUTH - The Southwest's
"dust bowl" is in it's best condi-
ton since 1882 with 13,752,118
acres planted to cover crops and
only 1854, 900 acres expected to
be subject to wind erosion this
year.
CONVENT-Henceforth gov
eminent troops may be billetted
in the premises of Austrian con-
vents.
ARMY-Current increases in
the U. S. army will boost the ma
ton from tenth to eighth ranking
in world military forces.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-02

Missouri 10 major flood control-nav-
igation-power dams, 10 smaller
dams, 6 locks, reservoirs, power
houses and transmission lines.
No estimate was made of the cost
of the undertaking but Ellis said
four of the proposed dams would
involve expenditure of SIS, 000, 900.
The corporation would have power
to issue, on the credit of the United
States, serial bonds not exceed
ing $4,000, 900 with so year ma
turity at not more than 31s per cent
interest in the construction work.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-02
SAFETY TALKS
Crossing the Road

HERE'S the modern counter
IL part of the ancient chicken
poser:
Why does pedestrian cross the
road-at the wrong places and
without looking?
That's what the National Safety
council is trying to find out after
an examination of its records
which proved that at least a third
of the pedestrians killed in rural
areas and 40 per cent of those
killed in cities were crossing at
places other than intersections.
In 1887, the loss of life from
these classifcations mounted over
the $500 mark.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-02
Sun Is Challenged by
Midget Mercury Lamp

A fnger-sized mercury vapor arc
lamp, capable of an intense bril-
lance equal to one-fifth of the suns
surface brightness, was developed
for commercial use during 1888.
The tiny, 1,0OO-watt lamp employs
a new principle. It's concentrated
light source is the result of a mi
mute mercury arc inside a quartz
tube cooled by water jacket.
Results of numerous laboratory
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-02
Opposition to Philosophy
OF Spending Breaks Loose

It will be recalled how the oppo-
nents of President Roosevelt's phi
losophy of spending showed their
mettle in the house of representa-
tives when that body voted to cut
$3.50, 1000, 900 off of the deficiency re-
lief appropriation. Mr.. Roosevelt
asked for $875, 100000. The cut was
accomplished despite some hair
raising stories from official sources
in the administration that elirnina-
ton of any of the requested funds
would mean suffering, maybe star
walton, maybe quick death, for
many thousands of persons.
Well, the house members Cor a
majority of them) did not believe
those stories, and thus they made a
start at cutting governmental
spending. They gave an indication
at the same time that there must be
a general revision of the federal
governments machinery for relief
of the unemployed. During the de-
bate and in the corridors, one heard
frequent expressions that congress
had appropriated last year the funds
the administration thought necessa-
ny to maintain relief until the end
of next June. But profiigate spend
ing had used up the money and the
professional believers had returned
for more. Some of the debate was
quite acrimonious and various
charges were hurled that the relief
officials had tried again to "buy"
the election, that being why the
funds ran short.
Immediately after the house was
through with the relief bill, the OPP
ponents of spending in the senate
started after the appropriation.
There were many in that body who
wanted to appropriate only for two
months, proposing that in the mean
time there should be brand new
relief setup devised. But the ma
iority sentiment was swayed by the
general argument that, whatever
the shortcomings of the Harry Hop
kins relief methods, poor people
should not be made the goats; it
was no fault of the unemployed who
needed help that Mr.. Hopkins, now
the secretary of commerce, had
made a mess of the relief program.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-02
asia

asia
On December 81, January IA and
January 10, respectively, the U. s.,
Britain and France warned Japan
that they disliked her violation of
China's 'open door" Nothing hap
pened. So painful was the silence
that China's Foreign Minister Wang
Chung-Hui finally suggested that de-
mocracies might be using the wrong
tactics. His proposal: To follow
these strong diplomatic notes with
formal proposals of settlement, even
unto actual terms.
What Foreign Minister Wang for
got is that neither the u. S. nor
France nor Britain yet feels obligat-
ed to beg for peace with Tokyo. But
if Japan would make the overture.
And that is precisely what the U. S.
state department now seems bent
on making Japan do.
As the crow flies, Guam lies $500
miles southeast of Tokyo. This $50
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-02
Bruckarfs Washington Digest

WASHINGTON. - 1t always has
been my conviction that the Ameri-
can people will find sound answer
to every national problem, if they
are given the facts and the time to
figure out what those facts mean.
They may be swayed temporarily;
they may be led or herded or threat
ened and these conditions may put
them in a wrong spot temporarily,
but I repeat that if they are given
time, the national conclusion, the
collective thinking, will be along
sound lines.
They are demonstrating these
things as a fact, again. There is
no doubt about it. For five or six
years, considerable majority of
the nations citizenry was following
the theory of spending ourselves out
of the depression. 1t was an I'M
sound course, obviously, but money
was made to do a lot of talking-as
money in billions of dollars will
talk. Lately, however, hardy Amer
lean thinking has been carrying the
majority back to normal under
standing, and the influence of spend
ing by the federal government is
sagging, distinctly.
Notwithstanding the statements,
frequently heard from Republican
sources, that "you can't beat Santa
Claus" or the variation that "you
can't beat $4,000, 900, 00O," there is
plenty of evidence to show that there
is quite a definite determination to
quit that sort of thing. That is,
there is a determination in most
places outside of the so-called inner
circle of New Dealers. Especially
is this true in the halls of congress
where, unless there is an earth
quake, many important steps will
be taken by senators and repre-
sentatives in the direction of sound
er government finance. The old and
familiar American traits of initia-
tive, of saving, of living within ones
income, are coming to the surface
very rapidly and the restoration Of
these traits to places of respecta-
bility in American life is being re-
fiected on capitol hill in Washington.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-02
Weekly News Analysis
U. S. May Force Orient Peace
Through Guam Defense Gossip
by Joseph w. La Bine-
BY Joseph w. La Bine-

Said Foreign Minister Hachiro
Arita: "What Japan desires is the
creation of new order which is to
secure the permanent peace of east
Asia, that is to say, the construc-
ton of a new east Asia upon an eth
ical foundation wherein japan, Man.
chukuo and China, while each pre-
serving her independence and indi-
viduality, will stand united and
linked together for active collabora-
ticn and mutual aid :"
Germany
DR.. Hjalmar Horace Greeley
Schacht gained a good world name
by rescuing the German mark dur
ing postwar initiation. He has head
ed the Reichsbank ever since,
switching over to Nazidom despite
its unorthodox policies of self-suf-
fciency which are Numerically
opposed to recognized economic and
political principles. Though Ger
many's finances have suffered
through foreign trade losses, Doctor
Schacht was miraculously able to re-
store a measure of economic pros
perity.
But this has been a personal vic
tory, won not through Nazi merits
but through Schacht friendship. Be-
cause he held such a good name,
Doctor Schacht was able to travel
in select foreign circles where Nazis
Hitler, Goering and Goebbels
would not be accepted. Result: He
wangled many a foreign trade con-
cession, especially from England.
The belief that he may have been
wolfish despite his sleeps clothing
is further illustrated by the Schacht
plan for disposing of German Jews,
whereby democracies would agree
to stimulate consumption of Nazi
exports.
But Doctor Schacht has been sum-
marily dismissed as Reichsbank
president, sudden coup which OBJ
servers can interpret in either of
two ways:
Pro-Schacht. Because of the
unique confidence foreigners place
in Doctor Schacht, Reichsfuehrer
Hitler may believe him more useful
as an international salesman than a
banker. Since he is to remain in
the cabinet without portfolio) there
are rumors he will attempt to peddle
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-02
Power Project on White
River Is Sought in Bill

WASHINGTON.-A power devel-
opment similar to that of the Ten
nessee Valley authority was pro-
jected for Arkansas and Missouri
in a resolution.
Representative Ellis 3D., Ark.) in
troduced the measure for creation
of a white River authority" pat
termed after the IVA. He proposed
to give a three-member board au-
thority to construct in Arkansas and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-02
Beginning Only Foretaste
Of What Is Coming

While it seems that cut of $780,
000, 000-which is about one-ffth the
amount asked - represents some
thing substantial, this beginning is
only a foretaste of what is COM
ing. The spenders have had their
innings for five or six years, or
since Mr.. Roosevelt's economy
act" of 1888 was abandoned as
pattern of government. They have
used various names and descrip-
tons, such as pump printing" and
spending to restore prosperity, etc.
It appears now, however, that their
days are numbered. I do not mean
that everything in the way of gov
eminent cash sop is going to be
thrown out of the window at once.
I believe I can see, however, that
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-02
People
sydney Harbor Wen Guarded

Sydney harbor is guarded by the
largest heavy coastal defense bat
terry in Australia. It consists of two
guns of 90 caliber, placed on high
concrete foundations on the North
head of Port Jackson. They were
officially put into service when gov
eminent and city officials fired four
shots to test the mountings and en-
placements. Minister for Defense
Thorby fired the first shot, a $50
pound projectile, which was hurled
miles out into the Pacific ocean.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-02

revenues. Argued the U. S. Confer
ence of Mayors, in a similar vein:
Federal and state governments may
recoup from income taxes the high
er costs to municipalities in interest
on their bonds.
Observers thought income tax ex-
emption could be repealed easily,
but were less confident about tax
exempt securities.
People
In Rome, Premier Benito Musso-
lini happily announced that 1,031 900
Italian babies were born in 1888, an
increase of from 227 per thousand
in 1887 to 1876.
o In Paris, the duke and duchess Of
Windsor moved into their modest
new home, leased for two years.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-02
Board Feet in a Log

Subtract inches from the diam.
eter and square the remainder. The
result, says Hoard's Dairyman, will
be the number of board feet in a
16-foot log. Add 1s for l8-foot logs,
"a for 20-foot logs. Subtract Hs for
l4-foot logs, Va for 12-foot logs.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-02

written IA books and 800 articles
but has inspired many more thar
that. He has
NoOei Ideas been heavens
of DR.. Laird blessing to the
Rate Display MAKEUP man
by little box to dress a page. As
DR.. Laird retires, to engage in re
search at the callow age of Al, here
are just few of his stimulating
findings:
Horizontal thinking is best. 1t
is quite possible that new
stage of evolution is setting in
which will take us back to all
fOurS.
When you feel jittery, snap up
some red meat.
Some cases of second sight
are explained by an odorless
scent which almost, but not
quite, wells up into conscious
ness.
If you feel rotten today, you
will be happy in just % days,
as that is the life-ordained cycle
of hope and despair.
The Dionne quints are in dam
ger of growing up to be man.
haters-On account of women
nurses and governesses.
Brains are sluggish in sum-
mertime.
Eat candy to fight off sleepi-
ness at work.
Never count sheep to put your
self to sleep. 1t doesn't work.
Noise makes city people small
or than country people.
Women employees are more
adaptable than men and stay
longer on the job.
Many of these discoveries have
been made by DR.. Laird in his re
search as a consultant for concerns
in heavy industries, in which fielc
he has been busy and distinguished
He is a world authority on noise
and sleep. Farm-reared in Indi
ana, he was educated at the Univer
sites of Dubuque and Iowa anc
taught at many universities before
joining the Colgate faculty IA year.
ago. He has been out in front il
the above novel ideas, with the ex
ception of the one about our get
ting back to all-fours. That ha.
been evident for at least sever
years, as revealed by prevailing
trends in world politics.
@ Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-02
Potash From wood Ashes

The manufacture of potash from
wood ashes was Americas most
thriving chemical industry in 1850,
says Industrial and Engineering
Chemistry.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-02

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, 1939-02-02
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

NJ EW YORK.-Mrs. Ella A. Boole,
' the iron chancellor of prohibit
ton, goes into action again, with
Sen. Morris Sheppard of Texas and
several other IA
Mrs.E.A.Boole nous old-time
Girds SuDord in dry leaders who
DryComeback THINK tney see s,a
day dawning. A friend of this writ
err, scouting material for a maya
zine article on a trip through the
Middle West, says the drys are COM
ing back like an army with banners.
Too many saloons, too much CO.
educational elbow-bending, too
many tangles between barleycorn
and automobiles, too much cutting
Of corners to meet heavy tax and
license costs-all this, and more, is
rallying the drys for return en-
gagement, say the above and other
detached observers.
The massive and deliberate
Mrs. BOOle is 80 years old and
looks much less. In New York,
she addresses the luncheon of
the state w. C. T. u, commence
rating the centenary of the birth
of Frances E. willard, founder
of the w. C. T. U. Her firmly
set spectacles with gold bows,
her crown of abundant white
hair, the stern g0dliness of her
features all are as they were.
Nothing whatever has been re-
pealed in Mrs. BODIES person
or ideas.
For more than so years she has
been fighting alcohol. With her hus-
band, the late William H. Boole,
pastor of the Willett Street Method
list church, she waged war against
the Bowery dives, away back in the
eighties. She had come from Woos-
ter, Ohio, an alumna of the Uni
versity of Wooster, where, immedi-
ately after her graduation, she
had taken up her life-work for pro-
hibition. From 1909 until 1919, there
was no important piece of anti-liq-
uor legislation in which she did not
participate.
In 1925, she became national
president of the w. C. T. o.,
and, in 1881, world chairman.
During the prohibition years and
in the preceding years of strife,
she was the head of the COM
bined prohibition board of STRAIT
egg, shrewd, resourceful, tire
less. Fittingly, her citadel is
still a little Van Vert, Ohio,
hedge-bordered house, set down
in Brooklyn, holding its middle
western ground far in the enemy
territory. As does Mrs. Boole,
still standing firm and mistaken
in her fiat-heeled shoes.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-02

Jews and exports abroad, mean
while speeding up the return of war
lost German colonies.
Anti-Schacht. His successor to
the bank presidency is DR.. Walther
Funk, economics minister who
champions the Reich's barter trade
principle. This theory differs as
night and day from U. S. Secretary
of State Cordell Hull's reciprocal
trade system, and Doctor Funk's APP
pointment indicates Germany will
continue to expand her foreign trade
along unorthodox barter lines.
But an even greater fear of Ger
man bondholders is imitation. Long
a foe of excessive borrowing, Doctor
Schacht saw his financial sugges-
tions abandoned time and again last
year as the Austrian anschluss,
Czech crisis and Sudeten acquisition
drew Germany deeper into the red.
That imitation is coming may be in
Dictated by the fact that 1888 saw
currency circulation rise 20 per
cent, bank clearings so per cent and
bank deposits, Is per cent.
Medicine
Until the New Deal, socialized
medicine received little publicity.
Last spring President Roosevelt APP
pointed an inter-departmental COM
mittee to investigate health pro-
grams, this group subsequently
clashing with the American Medical
association and bringing to a head
monopoly charges now pending
against the association. Predictions
are that the U. S. will inaugurate
its comprehensive public health pro-
gram before the justice department
gets around to hearing A. M. AS
case, thereby lessening the value of
this proceeding. The prediction is
bearing fruit in President Roose-
velt's long range health program
just presented to congress.
The program: Beginning imme-
diately, federal-state expenditures
would be increased to $3.50, 00O, 900
annually by 1949. Funds would go
generally to help poor people re-
ceive medical and hospital care, to
establish clinics, encourage vaccina-
tons, develop maternal and child
welfare clinics and stimulate dis
ease-control measures.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-02

IN THE last IA years, DR.. Donald
A. Laird of Colgate university has
written IA books and 500 articles,
but has inspired many more than
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-02

NJ EW YORK.-Mrs. Ella A. Boole,
' the iron chancellor of prohibit
ton, goes into action again, with
Sen. Morris Sheppard of Texas and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-02-02

that. He has
been heavens
blessing to the
makeup man,
needing a snap