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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-06
TRANSFORMATION:
Pedestrians

"He has been sadly neglected and has
had to shift for himself. He has evolved
the simple philosophy that his job is to
get across the street as best he can. He
joins t0ith other pedestrians in mass Dio-
lation OF traffic lights. In rural areas he
iUalks on the pavement, on the Urong
side OF the road, and tOears dark cloth.
ing at night"
This, said the National Safety
Councils Leslie j. Sorenson, is the
plight of U. S. pedestrians who in
1888 accounted for three out of ev-
cry five persons killed in traffic ac-
cidents. What made the situation
more startling were figures showing
two-thirds of pedestrians killed were
violating traffic ordinance or COM
hitting an unsafe act. Thirteen per
cent of them had been drinking;
only 9 per cent of drivers involved in
fatal accidents had been drinking.
Suggested cure: Make pedestrians
obey stop signals and other traffic
regulations just as automobile driv-
ers must do; build sidewalks in the
country.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-06

It's such fun to have a bit of
crochet under way-something
that's going to add beauty to your
home! Get busy on these hand
some star doilies. They're perfect
for luncheon or buffet sets. And
so easy to crochet in mercerized
string. Of course they can be
used separately to beautify occa-
sional tables as well. Pattern $3.50
contains instructions for making
doilies; illustrations of them and
of stitches; photograph of dolly;
materials needed.
To obtain this pattern send Is
cents in coins to The Sewing
Circle, Household Arts Dept, 259
w. 14th ST., New York, N. Y.
Please write your name, adj
dress and pattern number plainly.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-06

came from Rear Admiral Harry
E. Yarnell, spare native of indie
pendence, Iowa, director of
Americas Asiatic fleet and un-
official Far Eastern diplomatic
representative since October,
1886. It was almost the parting
shot of man who has won virtu-
ally all disputes with japan grow
ing out of the Chinese war. For
Mr.. Yarnell, who meantime has
won the admiration and even the
respect of Japan, will reach stat
utory retirement age in July.
Veteran of the Spanish-Ameri-
can war, Philippine Instruction,
Boxer campaign, Vera Cruz occu-
patton and World war (where he
commanded the U. S. S. Nash
ville), his most difficult assign
ment is the present one. He will
be succeeded by Rear Admiral
Thomas c. Hart, possibly return
ing to his prairie home after a
job well done.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-06
Bruckarfs Warrington Digest
Mixed Reaction Created by
Huge Money Lending Program
Some Legislators Shout Haeuahs Others Are Bitter in
Opposition to What They See as Another Gigantic
Flop; Government Credit Menaced
BY WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service National Press Bldg, Washington, C.

tration, and / think it is equally true
in the Roosevelt administration.
But l want to 60 deeper into this
problem. There is something more
that we ought to think about, and it
makes me shudder to talk about
the possibilities inherent in moves
of this kind by democracy.
Mr.. Roosevelt says that, without
doubt, all of this money that he
proposes to lend will be paid back.
He said in his message on the SUBJ
ject that there would be no loans
approved unless there was assur-
ance that the sums would be repaid.
Which is all very well and good.
But experience of banking institu-
tons and other lending agencies in
dicates that a certain per cent of
the loans go bad. Poor manage
ment, unforeseen business condi-
tons, deaths of key figures, labor
disturbances, changes in the taste
of the buying public for certain
marketable products-all of these
things, as well as the responsibility
OF the borrowers, go to determine
whether the money will be paid
back. And so it does not seem un-
reasonable to suppose that Mr..
Roosevelt is bit, teeny, weeny
bit, optimistic about recovering all
of the funds that are loaned.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-06
Officials Say Thought Is
To Help Private Business

1t is only fair to report that
the top officials in the government
say there is no intention to use these
funds as was done through the Pub
lie Works administration. There is,
they say, no thought of discourage
ing private business; the thought is
to help private business. But it is
pointed out, meanwhile, that the
funds which are planned to be used
in this program will be under the
control of half a dozen different
agencies. Those who know the set
up in the federal government rec
ognize this fact as important. It
means this: Every agency of the
federal government always has
sought and always will seek to per-
petuate itself, to expand its power
and it's functions. Give it hun
dred millions or so to play with;
and then express any doubt, if you
can, that it's officials will overlook
any spot where they can boost their
own Importance. Truly, that would
be too much to expect.
Then, give consideration to the
fact that the current lending pro-
posal contemplates expanding the
original Hoover-initiated program
into fields of loaning not hitherto
occupied by government agency.
Self-lquidating highways, toll
bridges, purchase of railway equip
ment, construction of more electric
lines, to name only few, are fields
where the sloven hand of govern
mental bureaucracy will retard and
handicap private initiative. Appar-
emily, the dear pee-pul are going to
be given great many things to
use whether they need them or not
and whether they want them or not.
tReleased by Western Newspaper Union.l
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-06

RUBBER, such as the army
would need in wartime for pur-
poses like tires for the above anti
tank gun. Britain will buy the
rubber on open market. Each
nation will hold the reserves for
seven years as war stocks. Lat
er other materials may be bar
tered, for America needs items
like tin, chromium and manga
nese. Although the U. S. de-
plores barter as fostered by
Germany, the new arrangement
will merely supplement existing
Favored nation" treaties and is
not a basic economic tenet.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-06
TURKEYS GAIN
1t pays to be a gentleman.

the Balkans less likely; 60 pro-Nazi
Bulgaria is isolated; (4) Turkeys
big neighbor, Russia, should now be
more willing to enter a military
agreement with Britain.
Mussolini's object lesson was that
Turkey won the strategic Republic
of Hatay Syrian Alexandretta) in
return. Though the transfer was
probably illegal in League of Ma
tons eyes, under whose mandate
France ruled it, Turkey neverthe-
less gained by negotiation what Italy
has been unable to gain by threat.
Stubborn Frenchmen still refuse to
bow before Mussolini's demands for
Suez canal rights, the Adds Ababa-
Djibouti railroad and Italian minor
ity rights in Tunisia.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-06
Personal Political Element
Is the Most Disturbing

If we can dismiss the doubt, how
ever, there yet remains the factor,
the potentiality, of the program
that makes me jittery. Frankly, it
is the personal political element that
disturbS me most.
Let me illustrate. When Senator
Norris, of Nebraska, began fighting
number of years ago for what
turned out to be the IVA, he and
all other sponsors of that socialistic
government-owned power project
shouted denials all over the place
when it was charged they intended
to put the government deeper into
the field of private business. All
they wanted to do, they insisted,
was to develop a government power
plant that would serve to measure
profits of private companies. They
argued that this experiment would
show the power companies were
taking too much profit out of the
hides of consumers of electricity.
They said that if this were not
true, the IVA would be a blessing
to private ownership.
What happened? The answer is
pretty well known. IVA began
competing with private companies
wherever it could get in the field
against them. It's means of enter
ing some of the fields of COMPETE
ton were of the rottenest type.
On top of that came the opera
tons of Secretary Ickes, and his
public works administration. Mr..
Ickes wanted to see more and bet
ter publicly owned power plants. He
tried, and is still trying, to make
power plants grow where power
plants never grew before-all from
money loaned by the government.
Throughout the nation, therefore,
are scores of power plants, small
as well as large, that were forced
to sell out to the competing plant,
financed by Uncle Sam, and the in
vestors got what the little boy shot
at. iva, itself, has driven fiocks
of them out of the field and has ne
gotiated to buy one of the great
privately owned systems that could
not sell in competition with the gov
eminent octopus which has no taxes
to pay and borrows money on gov
ernment-backed bonds.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-06
FORECAST

Notwithstanding retiring
Gov. Richard w. Leche, the late
Huey Longs brother Earl is ex-
pected to purge" the political
machine created by his illustrious
brother, thereby preserving an
air tight organization being
threatened by dissension. First
to leave: DR.. James Monroe
Smith, whom Huey Long named
president of Louisiana State uni
versity.
Notwithstanding the need
for better submarine rescue
equipment, salvagers of the sunk
en- u. S. submarine Squalls pre-
dict the boat will not be raised
until at least late July.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-06

Through previous DEGREES Ger
man agriculture already has as
sured reduced rates for electric
power. This "electrifcation" of
farms, it is announced, is designed
to mitigate the chronic shortage of
farm labor and, incidentally, en-
nance agricultural productivity gen.
orally. It is also intended, says the
official announcement, to relieve
farmers wives from excess manual
labor as the free electrical equip
ment can also be diverted to do
mestic and household purposes.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-06
Feu Haze Confidence in
Policies of Government

Whether this government lending
idea is sponsored by Republicans or
Democrats, by Communists or Fas-
cists, the result is bound to be the
same as far as accomplishing any
thing toward business revival. BY
its very nature, government lending
creates a doubt in the minds of
every one whether they recognize
it just that way or not. The feeling
that most every one gets is mani
fest in the form of a question: well,
where are we headed when condi-
tons are so bad that the United
States treasury has to supply money
upon which business operates?
Which, to my way of thinking, is
simply saying that few, if any, per-
sons have confidence in the policies
of their government. 1t was dis
tinctly true in the Hoover admins
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-06
POLITICS.:
Looking to 1910

"a year ago when the President sent
his s4,500, 100000 lend.spend message to
congress, said il ,oas like putting shin
plaster on cancer. This plan no,o is
just another shin plaster"
What looks like shin plaster to
North Cardinals Sen. Josiah w. Bal
ley looks to dubious u. S. business
men as timely reiteration of the
politico-economic philosophy Presi-
dent Roosevelt expounded before
congress last January 4, namely,
that government investment" in U.
S. financial stability should not
merely be an emergency stop gap,
but long-range standard policy.
The new plan:
Government agencies would issue
extra-budgetary federal-guaranteed
securities for financing self-liquidat-
ing projects. Special U. S. authori-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-06

WASHINGTON Roose-
welt has asked congress for approx
al of another gigantic money lend
ing program. He wants to put out
So, 1850, 100000 as "stimulant to
business" He wants to start right
away and he wants to keep the
money pouring into sinkholes
through the summer and fall and
winter and spring and next sum-
mer, too.
The President is not proposing
government spending, as distin-
guished from government lending.
That is important. While it has
been shown by the experiences of
the last half dozen years that this
spending idea is just as successful
as trying to pull ones self up by
ones boot straps, those who favor
the lending program say this meth
cd of bringing about recovery has
not yet been fully tested. The bril-
liant-minded, self-appointed saviors
of America, therefore, are out to
prove that government cash can end
a depression.
Arrival of the Presidents letter
at the Capitol created quite mixed
reaction. Some members shouted
their halleluiaIs of more mamma for
the spawning ground for votes. 9th
ers expressed approval of parts of
the gigantic outpouring of cash and
objected to other items of the pro-
gram. The third group on capitol
hill at once voiced their wholeheart-
ed opposition to the scheme, offer
ing several reasons why they could
not support the President.
Nearly everything that is done in
the national government is tinged
with or stepped in politics. So the
political phases Immediately were
stressed by the opponents of the
program, and they are putting more
steam behind their attacks as the
days 60 by. Some of these mem
bers are objecting to further OUTLAWS
by the government because they
fear that government credit is about
to crack any way, and they predict
the newest presidential plan will
seriously endanger the govern
ment's financial stability. The other
group of oppositionists take a
brutal poSitiou.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-06
Canadian Pensions Costly

OTTAWA, ONT.-The cost of car
ing for Canada's aged amounted to
more than $35, 600, 900 in the fiscal
year ended March 81. A report sub
mitted to the house of commons by
Finance Minister Charles Dunning
showed that the dominion govern
ment contributed $28, 283 ,284 toward
the care of the country's 181 ,514 old
age pensioners, and the provincial
governments contributed another
S7.070,821 The government pays IS
per cent of the cost.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-06
Say Roosevelt Is Paving
Way for His denomination

They say Mr.. Roosevelt is pro-
posing this new lending program
now in order to pave the way for
his denomination to a third term in
the White House. I expect that we
will hear more of this aspect of the
situation as the debate develops on
the floors of the house and senate.
There is every reason to believe
that the President will obtain ap-
prevail for most of his program. He
may not get it all, but when it comes
to getting legislative program
through congress, nothing equals the
distribution of money as bait.
Thus, it appears to me that we
can treat the proposition from the
standpoint of what will come from
the program in the way of beneficial
results, if any, and to find, if pos
sible, what the long range effect will
be.
First, let me recall that during
the administrat of Herbert Hoov-
er, when the present depression first
fastened its fangs on our economic
structure, there was the first ma
jor outpouring of government funds.
The Hoover thought was to stimu-
late business by lending money and
by spending for public construction.
1t was Mr.. Hoover, too, who spon-
sored "self-liquidating projects" for
which federal cash would be loaned
the idea being that a self-liquidat-
ing project would earn enough
money to pay off the government
loan. That was the way the recon-
struction finance corporation came
into being, and that was the greatest
mistake of the early days of the
world depression insofar as our ma
ton is concerned.
Well, the Hoover administration
promoted loans for self-liquidating
projects in big way. AS stimu-
liant of business, the plan was a
magnificent flop. The current pro-
gram, being modelled exactly as
Herbert Hoover designed the first
one, also will be a glorious flop.
There is, as matter of fact, not
one bit of difference between the
new Roosevelt program and the fu-
tile move in the Hoover day.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-06
A Faithful Friend

Oh! The comfort, the inexpres-
sible comfort of feeling safe with
a person, having neither to weigh
thoughts nor measure words. but
pouring them all right out, just as
they are, chaff and grain togeth-
er; certain that a faithful hand
will take and sift them, keep what
is worth keeping and with the
breath of kindness, blow the rest
away.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-06
Harry Hopkins Reports Rise in Alien Investments u S.

81, 685, 100000 were direct; $780,
100000 were common stocks; $425,-
000, 900 preferred stocks; $3.50, 00O, 900
bonds; $3.50, 000,000 miscellaneous
investments.
About three-fourths of the COM
mon stocks held abroad are regis
tered on the New York Stock ex-
change, the report showed.
Secretary Hopkins pointed out
that market value was used in COM
pilation of the report.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-06

WASHINGTON. = Foreign invest
ments in United States rose $847,-
10000 IN 1888 to a total of $685.
000, 1000, according to report made
public by Harry L. Hopkins, Sec
rotary of commerce.
OF the total, $1,000, 0OO,0 repre-
scented long-term investments while
81, 1913 ,000, 900 represented foreign
owned balances and other short
term banking items.
CT the long-term investments,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-06
German Courtesy

Strap-hangers who visit Munich,
said to be the best kept city of Ger
many, marvel at the spirit OF the
street car administration. In the
cars it posts this notice: young
people are invited to remember the
claims to their consideration of
the old and infrm."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-06
Germany's Utility Firms
Paw for Farm Equipment

BERLIN.-The Reich price con-
troll commissioner has decreed an
annual assessment of $4,000, 900
marks for five-year period on pub
lie power and utility plants that will
be devoted to supplying German
peasants and agriculturists with
motors and power-driven farm uten-
sis. The equipment will be sup
piled free of charge, the recipient
paying only the cost of installation.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-06
FRANCE:
Lesson

When French Foreign Minister
Georges Bonnet signed a mutual as
sistance pact with Turkish Ambas-
sador Suad Davaz, Italo-German ag-
gression into the eastern Mediter-
ranean seemed effectively stymied.
Moreover, for Signor Benito Musso-
lini it was an object lesson in gen.
tlemanly behavior. Results: ID Tur-
key is wooed away from the Rome
Berlin axis; (2) Anglo-French war
time control of the strategic Darda-
nelles makes German invasion of
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-06

said that the
American navy
will go ''wherev-
er necessary" to
protect American
citizens and that
it expects no in
reference from
Japan, who has
been trying to
shove Occidentals
out of the Orient.
The message
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-06
NERVOUS?

Do you feel so nervous you want to scream?
Are you cross and irritable? Do YOU scoid
those dearest to you?
II your nerves are on edge and you feel
you need good general system tonic, try
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
made especially for s0omen.
For over go years one woman has told an
other how to go Smiling thru" with reliable
Pinkham's Compound. 1t helps nature build
up more physical resistance and thus helps
calm quivering nerves and lessen discomforts
from annoying symptoms which often se-
company female functional disorders
Why not give it a chance to help YOUT
Over one million women have written In
reporting wonderful benefits from Pinkham's
Compound.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-06
How 1t Works

Most nations are deficient in
some natural resources and have
too much of others. In wartime,
inability to export non-essentials
and import essentials would be a
military handicap. Friendly ma
tons can prepare in advance
against such emergencies with.
out disturbing their economic bal
ances. Under the new American
British barter treaty, the u. S.
will give England $50, ZOO, 900
worth Cor 100000 bales) of surplus
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-06

ties would loan total of So, $50, 000,-
900 within periods ranging from two
to seven years, the total program to
be divided as follows:
Non-federal public works
like bridges, hospitals
and Waterworks .......... $3.50, 000, 900
Toll roads. express ~
highways, city by
passes, etc. ............... 750, 000, 900
Railroad equipment to be
leased to carriers ........ 500, 000, 900
Rural electrification
expansion ............ 46O, 900. 900
Farm tenancy program ..... SOC. 000, 900
Increase in U. S. Housing
Authority's borrowing
Loans to foreign nations
to purchase U. S.
SURPRISES ................ 10000. 900
While Senate Majority Leader Al
ben Barkley assured reporters the
measure would pass Immediately,
political wiseacres took great pains
to make an undiluted election issue
of it. Almost universally overlooked
was the White Houses violent re-
treat from the costly, Intellectual
pump-priming methods it has tried
before, which consisted not of loans
but straight spending. Also over
looked was the small size of seven
year 1880, 100000 program COM
pared with $40, 678, 900, 900 the New
Deal spent on recovery and relief
from 1888 to 1888. Nevertheless
many vital hole and many a politi-
cal portent could be read from the
measure:
Politics. With 100000 still un-
employed and national income about
$12 1000, 900, 900 under the "ideal' of
$50, 900, 000,O 900 year, the admins
tration will obviously seek to per-
petuate itself in 1910 by stimulating
temporary recovery as in 1888. Re-
gpublicans and conservative Demo-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-06
sRuhher Neck, CLANS

Goeduck CLAIMS are the biggest
rubber necks" in the world. Often
weighing several pounds each, they
have necks three to four feet long.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-06
WEEKLY. NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. laBINE
New Government Lending Plan
Will Hit Trouble, Say Experts;
Strikes Spending Key for 1910

NoTEwhn opinions
-Reeas by stern Newsp Union.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-06
HEADLINERS

REAR ADM. HARRY YARNELL
A pop-eyed Japanese consul
in Shanghai received an unex-
pectedly brusque message recent
ly for transmittal to Tokyo. 1t /
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-06
Women in Office
No Longer Rate
Scare Heads

encouragement in that. She tells
the Regional Conference of Demo
cratic Women at Washington that
the decreasing public excitement
about women in office is a good
sign. Their status in public life,
if that's what interests them, is so
assured that they no longer rate
"glaring headlines" when they are
put in responsible post.
Mrs. Banister is a sister of
Senator Carter Glass, one Of
a family of six boys and six
girls, all following their fathers
business-newspaper work. Her
sister, DIR. Meta Glass, is presi-
dent of Sweetwater college. Mrs.
Banister left Lynchburg, Va, in
1919, to assist George CreePs
committee on public infOrma-
ton. She was appointed to the
treasury post in July, 1888.
consolidated Features-WNU Service.)
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-06

NJ EW YORK.-Filming of Kip
ling's "The Light That Failed"
on the New Mexico desert, near
Santa Fe, was delayed the other