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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-16
ShoWs Days of Rubber
Stamp Congress Are Gone

The foreign policies of the admin
istration were dragged out onto the
floor of the senate for examination
under magnifying glass. Of course,
the senate did not force any real
change in the international relations
which Mr.. Roosevelt has estab-
lished. From long observation in
Washington, / doubt that the sem
ate's criticism of these policies was
any too sound, but it had to engage
in debate on the subject to let the
country know it was watching every
thing that was being done. It OBJ
viously had the effect of demonstrate
ing to the country that the days of
the rubber stamp congress are gone,
and it constitutes another bit of evil
dence of the new Washington leader
ship. ~
The real demonstration of congress
sional vitality, however, came the
other day when Senator Harrison,
as chairman of the senate finance
committee, and Representative
Doughton of North Carolina, as
chairman of the house committee on
ways and means, joined in a letter
to Secretary Morgenthau, request
ing treasury statement on a tax
program. The two congressional
leaders urged new and sound tax
program and an administration re-
assurance against further heckling
of business to the end that business
would try to 60 ahead. What they
were asking, therefore, were some
signs which could give business,
great or small, a feeling of conf
dence that the government at Wash
ington would quit pulling hair.
1t was a natural request of the
treasury. The treasury always has
provided the fundamentals of every
tax program. Capitol Hill had read
Mr.. Roosevelt's announcement con-
corning mo new taxes" as mean
ing there would be no changes in
the tax structure, however, and
there were good many legislators
who felt revision of some, and aboli-
ton of other, taxes were advisable.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-16
Congress Will Go SloD on
Increasing National Debt

There are numerous signs that
congress is not going to be in any
hurry at all to pass a law that will
allow an increase in the total ma
tional debt. Present law provides
that the treasury may issue notes
and bonds up to $45, ZOO, 900, 900. The
current total is not so far below that
figure, and Secretary Morgenthau
has asked congress to boost the limit
to $50, 1000, 100000. Congress appar-
emily is not so sure that there should
be an increase in the debt limit. It
is a type of confidence-rather, a
lack of confdence-that is plainly
visible. I believe the debt total will
have to be increased because there
is no provision made for enough
taxes to Offset the vast spending pro-
gram for relief and national defense
upon which Mr.. Roosevelt has
launched. There is no place to get
that money, therefore, except by
borrowing. So about the only good
that can come from congressional
barking on this score is to awaken
the country as to the dangers of it's
great national debt.
From all of these things, one is
pretty likely to get the hebeejeebees.
One can hardly help wondering
where we are headed. But it seems
to me that there probably is need
for a confidence that thus far has
not been mentioned in this discus
sion. This is a confidence in funda-
mental Americanism. The voters of
the country can compel sound gov
eminent on the part of those who
make the policies and, on the sur
face, it appears now that the voters
are telling congress what to do.
q Western Newspaper Union
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-16

WASHINGTON - The dictionary
defines the word, confidence" as
meaning: trust in, or reliance
upon, another; belief in person
or a thing" The dictionary might
well have added that confidence is
something quite intangible but yet
it is a condition of national or state
thought about its governmental poll
cies as well as condition of indi-
vidual thought. 1t might have add
ed, further, that confidence can be
destroyed more easily than it can be
maintained, or recreated when it
once has been destroyed.
In any event, the thing about
which we have heard most in Wash
ington lately is the necessity for es-
tablishing a feeling of confidence
throughout the country. The neces-
sity exists, it is explained freely,
because the depression continues
and millions of persons, who would
like to work, are not working. In
some places, where political face
saving is important, the movement
is called business appeasement,"
but that is a difference between
tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum. 1t re-
mains as an effort to recreate ma
tional confidence so that all of the
vast resources of the nation can be
made available again for all of the
people.
All of this is only a prelude to the
declaration that:
Congress has taken the bit in its
teeth with a determination that in
dictates rather a unified effort to re-
store the country's confidence. 1t
apparently is going to guide the pol
icies and work out solutions for the
various problems that are viewed as
destructive of a feeling of assurance
among the bulk of the people. In
other words, congress seems to have
assumed a leadership in national
life that it has not had in recent
years, and is moving sincerely to
bring back prosperity.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-16
Ancient Instruments on
Display at Ohio Academy

Two hundred years ago in front of
the pagoda of Ye, in the temple on
Mount Quen Chen Chang in China
hung metal gong which today is
part of the collection of antique mu-
steal instruments on display at the
Western Reserve academy depart
ment of music at Hudson, Ohio.
The gong lay there unidentified
until recently, when Tien Wei Yang
came from Tientsin, China, to study
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-16
Improved Grafton

1t is a thing of no great diff
Guilty to raise objections against
another mans oration-nay, it is
a very easy matter; but to pro-
duce a better in its place is a
work extremely troublesome
Plutarch.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-16

total SOS planes will represent the
first acquisitions under the admins
tration's special $50 million dollar
program to expand the air force to
5000 planes.
Passage of the bill is assured it
is claimed.
Maj. Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief Of
the army air corps, termed the new
plane the most striking example of
airplane development Of the last
year anywhere in the world.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-16
Rabid Dogs Do Not Avoid Water

Dogs with rabies do not avoid wa
ter, although this erroneous opinion
is common among the laity. Mad
dogs are often very fond of water
and will rush into it, thrusting their
heads and swallowing with great
difficulty. Rabid dogs have been
known to swim streams in their
rovings.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-16

Observation-Disclosures that
the United States army air corps
has a combat plane superior to any
in the world was revealed when the
house received an appropriation
committee report approving the
spending of approximately half a
billion dollars for the war depart
ment.
Funds for the purchase of 784 new
planes were provided in the bill sub
mitted by the committee. OF this
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-16

the French war college, Mar
shall Petain instructed Spain's
new iron man, himself famous
Twentieth century militarist.
Later, in 1925-26, Marshal Petain
joined forces with Franco in lead
ing the expedition that defeated
Add Ell Krim, Riff leader in Mo-
rocco. Petain also went to Ma
drid and negotiated an agreement
with the governor of Premier
Prima de Rivera.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-16
Information for Reducing

During his long winter sleep the
groundhog-whistle pig-uses up
about third of its fat. 1t needs
the other two thirds ito 60 on"
when it comes out of Information,
until nature provides its normal diet
OF growing things.-Christian Sci
ence Monitor.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-16

in another crisis.
Now 81, Marshal
Henri Petain has
been named am
bassador to new
ly reorganized In
surgent Spain in
an obvious ges-
ture to win Gen.
Francisco Fran
co.'s friendship by
emotional appeal.
Many years ago,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-16

So potent are economy's new
friends that the administration may
well find its cautious business-woo-
ing program a boomerang. Wading
half way across the pond of concilia-
ton when opinion favored a COM
plete passage, Mr. Roosevelt has
been left behind and confronted with
charges of insincerity because Har-
ry Hopkins-the man who started
his program-would need business
support to win the 1910 nomination.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-16
QUICK
QUOTES
PERSONAL LIBERTY

- q MERICA lives in the heart Of
every man everywhere who
wishes to find region where he will be
free to work out his destiny as he
chooses oodrotU Wilson.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-16
Speed of Electricity

Modern physicists believe that the
speed of electricity is the same as
that of light, namely, approximate
ly $4,000 miles per second.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-16

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, 1939-03-16
Spain

The spectre of two simultaneous
Spanish civil wars is unique, but
not unexpected. Since Barcelona
fell and President Manuel Azana re-
signed upon breaking with Premier
Juan Negrin, Loyalists have been
threatened by internal dissention.
On the defensive more than ever
before, conservatives sought desper-
ately to regain the Anglo-French ia
vor that was shifting to victorious
General Franco and his Insurgents,
meanwhile making sincere gestures
to end the war. Premier Negrin
and the Communist element, fear
ing the consequences of surrender,
promised a futile flight to the
death" which would serve no pur-
pose since Franco victory was in
evitable. In the long-awaited ex-
plosion conservative Loyalists seized
the government, drove Negrin from
power and paved the way for peace.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-16
HeddIiners
MARSHAL HENRI PETAIN

The ''hero of Verdun" emerges
from retirement to serve France
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-16
President HooUers Plans
Wrecked by Stock Market

The course of events that has led
up to the latest development "a de-
velopment that has both political
and economic signifcance) has been
rather a wandering trail. 1t had it's
headwaters back in 1880 and 1881,
when Herbert Hoover, then Presi-
dent, sought to stem the tide of
rushing waters of depression by in
viting dozens of business leaders to
Washington for consultation. He
was seeking to restore confidence, to
encourage the country to feel safe.
Those were days, it will be recalled
when prosperity was just around
the corner" Mr.. Hoover wanted to
bring it out where it could be of
some use.
Well, Mr.. Hoover failed because
the stock market crash had so de-
stroyed the confidence of the country
in him and in his policies of govern
ment that there was no possibility
of recreating it. The folks simply
would not believe in him, nor in any
of his works at that time.
Along came the elections of 1882
and Mr.. Roosevelt took over the
job in 1888. Those days need not be
reviewed, except to point out that
no man ever had the complete con-
fidence of people as the new Presi-
dent held it. Congress did as it was
told, thereafter. Of course, there
were ups and downs but the scene
was dominated by the personality of
Mr.. Roosevelt, a condition that con-
tinued through about six years.
That brings us to the mistakes in
politics which Mr.. Roosevelt made
in INSTRUMENTATION of the gov
eminent, proposed expanding of the
Supreme court by appointment of
six justices of his own choosing,
charges that business leaders were
attempting to submarine the New
Deal policies and destroy the Roose-
welt administration. This was the
beginning. In quick succession,
there came important gains for the
Republicans in the 1888 elections,
fear among many old line Demo-
Gratis that their seats in congress
were being jeopardized by mistakes
of various New Deal agencies and
laws, and in general a doubt that
their party should be allowed to re-
main under New Deal leadership.
Old-Line Democrats Decide
To Assume Leadership
And ! believe it is the latter con-
dition of belief among the old line
Democrats that is chiefly response
BILE for the sudden poisoning of
congressional determination to take
leadership. Some observers hold the
conviction that many members of
the house and senate feel they should
protect their own hides and that,
to accomplish this, they must as
sumo national leadership instead of
leaving the policies to be theorized
and blue-printed by such as Jerome
Frank, Thurmond Arnold, Tommy
Corcoran, Secretary Ickes, and 9TH
ers of that type. That is only say
ing numerous house and senate
members believe the country has
lost confidence in that sort of leader
ship.
Only recently, it may be recalled,
Mr.. Roosevelt voiced an assurance
that business would have no new
taxes to burden it. He spoke conf
IDENTIFY about the future. Others, re-
fecting the Presidents position, in
Guiding Secretary Hopkins and Sec
rotary Ickes spoke pieces of an as
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-16

w HEN Britain and the United
w States begin to exchange cook
ing recipes, they are really getting
neighborly. Carlota, the British
Recipe Swap to rived he me0 r re.
Better British thy, not
u. S. Relations averse to favor
lations, prefaced her trip with a
radio appeal for American recipes.
She got more than 1000. When we
get to telling each other about our
operations, the entente will be COM
plete.
Carlota is the wife of Louis
Oppenheimer, managing direc-
tor of the South African dia-
mOnd syndicate. She has pub
lished many books of poetry in
many countries, speaks seven
languages fluently, and finds
time to convert old houses into
charming dwellings or "mews,"
for working people.
Her London home is one of the
great social and political salons OF
England. She knows the proverbial
way to the now somewhat intransi-
gent American heart. Her visit
marks pleasant departure from
the customary exchange of recipes
for cooking TINT and the like.
Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-16

fulfilled the promise. After four
days of fasting the aged Gandhi
was weakening fast and the Indian
viceroy expected to intervene.
But the fast held food for thought
in Britain, already busy with enough
troubles. For the first time Gand-
HIS party had enough strength to
precipitate major trouble through
out the state, had the marques
failed to intervene. Even if the cur
rent outbreak of nationalism is set
tied, Gandhi's followers will obvi-
ously gain strength.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-16
RELIGION

OuSly gam Oh SllSIi1s
Religion
AS Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Pope
Plus XII was Vatican secretary of
state and an important mediator in
many a European squabble. His
two most notable achievements
were (D leadership in the World
war settlement attempt of Pope
Benedict XIV and (2) consummation
of the concordat that brought peace
between the Vatican and Italy. His
most difficult job was negotiating a
treaty with Protestant Russia in
1929, a feat that won him the red
cap of cardinal when Pietro Gas
parri retired in 1929.
When Pope Plus XI died last Feb
ruary 8, Secretary of State Pacelli
Immediately became camerlengo,
interim chief of the Roman Catholic
church until the college of cardinals
could name a successor. Interna-
tionally better known than any other
potential candidate, Cardinal Pacel-
lis name was Immediately banded
about as the most likely successor.
This, despite his confessed longing
to lead the contemplative life of
monk, despite rumors that his Sc
lection would be none too welcome
by totalitarian Germany and Italy.
If Cardinal Pacelli had never ad-
mitted anti-dictator sentiments,
Italian Foreign Minister Count CT
AMOS newspaper, II TELEGRAPH, lost
no time pointing out that a Pacelli
appointment would be unwelcome
in Rome. In Germany another
newspaper, Das Schwartz Korps,
chimed in. At the Vatican, German
Ambassador Carl-Ludwig Diego Won
Bergen told the college that his ma
ton was assisting at the elabora-
ton of new world" and that "the
papacy without doubt has an essen
tial role"
Though conceivably unrelated to
these events, Cardinal Pacelli's ele-
walton to the papacy might be in
direct retaliation against two gov
ernments which saw fit to interfere
with church affairs. A further pos
sibility is that the Rome-Berlin axis
erred automatically to such an ex-
tent that the college of cardinals
felt obliged to appoint an expert
enced statesman who could deal
with Herr Hitler and Signor Musso-
lini.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-16

Hardy Northern Alfalfa, sl2 Bushel: Red
Clover S10.50 Free samples. Minnesota
Farmers Seed Stores, st. Paul. MIMI
Evening star., 1939-07-21
Freddie Soon to Lose lob
That Paid Him 100000
Metro Will Not Renew Contract;
Bette Davis Soon May Marry;
Deanna Gets First Kiss
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.
HOLLYWOOD.


Freddie Bahoemews contract with expires in October
Will not be renewed The
shadow he
locked and his belongings
-squay the chin Il don't mind it's the
Evening star., 1939-07-21
Harpo Does Talk

Harpo does speak in "A Day at
the Circus" and the Marx brothers
defy the audience to pick the place
where it happens. For a gag, in one
scene Harpo plays Chico's part and
Evening star., 1939-07-21

most of the action centering on Tay-
lor kissing Lamarr-and vice versa.
William Powell surprised himself by
working six and a half hours on the
first day of shooting Another Thin
Man" And four hours (Which is all
the doctor allows HIM on the second.
:. Iona Massey is not so we'll these
days-too much dieting. I believe in
slim silhouette-as long as acquir-
ing it does not affect the health. :. I.
Judy Garland is battling for co-star
billing with Mickey Rooney in
Babes In Arms" They start fight
ing young in this business. -. Garbo
was being driven in her car from the
"Ninotchka' sound stage when
couple of tourists planked themselves
in front of the auto-and brandished
cameras. Garbo flung herself to the
floor of the car. She is now sporting
a shiny bump on her forehead.
~
Joy Hodges, who, instead of resting
in between pictures, appears at this
and that benefit, is now trekking to
Wichita as guest of honor at the an
nual baseball game to raise funds
for the admirable Penny Ice Fund"
Nice going. Joy.
Just as Ronald Colman and Ida
Lupino were going into closeup,
an electric bulb exploded. Is that
why they call it The Light That
Failed? Leslie Howard tells
me, the wonderful thing about my
Evening star., 1939-07-21

Kanin Is a Cinema Odditv
In More Than His Economy
Young Man, Fresh From New York,
Has No Yearning to Return;
Van Dyke Helps Van Dyke
By JAY CARMODY.

Carson Kann kind of freak in HOLLYWOOD which lot of people
will Immediately meaning that
anywhere First thing establish
ability produce startling excellence
which
hyperboe two Aims
Evening star., 1939-07-21
Ralph Graves Plays
In Wan9er Film

Walter Wanger has signed Ralph
Graves for an important role in
"Eternally Yours" now in production
at the Wagner studios with Loretta
Young and David Niven co-starred
At the same time Mr.. Graves an
nounces that Externally yours will
oe his swan song as motion picture
actor. The star has accepted an
associate producership at the Goth
Century-Fox Studios and will take
up his duties Immediately upon the
completion of Externally Yours"
Graves is best remembered for his
outstanding work in such produc-
tions as Flight" "Dirigible" and
Submarine" among others.
"Eternally Yours" is being directed
by Tay Garnett.
Evening star., 1939-07-21
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Earle-"Man About Town." come
dy and song with Jack Benny and
Dorothy Lamour; II am, LAO, 4:25,
ITO and 9:55 pm. Stage shows:
1880, 1886, $40 and 9:05 pm.
Palace - Goodbye, Mr.. Chips"
screen version of James Hilton's
great novel: 1870 am, 2, 4:35, ITO
and GAS pm.
Keiths-"I Stole A Million" crime
with romance angle or wise versa:
Ills am, l, 2:45, 4:35, $40, $40
and 9:55 pm.
Capitol "On Borrowed Time, -
earth touched fantasy: II M, las,
4:3O, tbs and 10 pm. Stage shows
12:45, $3.50, 6:l5 and 9pm.
Metropolitan Daughters Coura-
geous,' cast of -Four Daughters in
another family drama: II am, 1:O5,
3:l5, $40. 7:3O and 9:40 pm.
COlumbia-"Maisie," that explosive
blond is back again; 1875 am, lao,
3:45, $50, 7:50 and 9:55 pm.
Little - Animal Crackers" zany
Marx brothers comedy: II a m, 80,
3:35, 7:35 and $40 pm.
Open-Air - "Showboat," musical
with Irene Dunno: $40 and 1926
pm.
Olney-"Tonight or Never" COM
edy, with Kitty Carlisle: $40 pm.
ROadside-"The Fatal Brand" an
old-time melodrama: $40 pm.
Cross Roads - Seven KEYS to
Baldpate," the familiar George M.
Cohan mystery comedy: $40 pm,
Evening star., 1939-07-21

"A Man to Remember" and The!
Great Man Votes" were spectacular
ly inexpensive. They attracted more
attention around Southern Cali
fornia for that reason than for the
reason of their artistic excellence.
There are other aspects of Kanin,
more human or personal ones, that
are as odd if not so conspicuously so.
One of them is that he is New
Yorker to the smallest corpuscle
who has Immediately and completely
adapted himself to being a whole
continent away from Broadway.
That is not the usual procedure.
The average cinema freshman, and
whole mob of seniors if you want
the truth. spends the major portion
of his time in Hollywood .lamenting
its remoteneSs from the center Of
culture. To the lot of them. New
York is real. New York is earnest
and Hollywood is a kind of empty
dream They miss the museums, the
art galleries the human touch, the
gigantic wash of life, and so many
otner things of which they may have
been unconscious in the East.
Kanin is not like that. Broadway
once was his life. That was when
he was a burlesque comic. a very
young one 1t was his life later
when he was an actor in a George
Abbott play and, still later, when he
became Abbott's production assist
ant and learned those tricks which
he uses with such skill and economy
in picture making.
He is away from it all now, busy
doing the thing he wants to do, do
ing it well, and content to spend the
rest of the years after his current
9th working in Hollywood.
1t is a great place for a man with
the common touch, he believes, the
common touch being the thing
which contrasts him so sharply with
Hollywoodites who have the lavish
touch.
That he really has the common
touch is indicated by his complete
acceptance by that group of film
workers who can spot phoney the
minute he gets off the train at Pasa-
dena. The group includes camera
men, sound men, electricians, gaffers.
makeup artists, hairdressers and
the other little people who are ex-
perts on big people Kanin liked
them and they returned the COM
pliment from the very start. He
went to school to all of them, and
still is learning.
OF his idea. he says: ut isn't a
pose. I consider the making of a
picture the most communal under
taking in the arts. Look at my job
It's up to me to take the story the
producer hands me and the people
he casts in it and make something
real and human. But that doesn't
mean l can swing the technical
things that have to be done to make
production complete. The camera
man can teach me cards and spades
the electrician, everybody, about
their various jobs. In no other art
form are so many and varied kinds
of people necessary. The stage can't
compete with it."
For his latest picture, R-K-O gave
kanln its most lustrous star, Ginger
Rogers. His most ambitious under
taking to date, Bachelor Mother"
brought him his largest budget. Big
budgets and Miss Rogers usually 60
together, but Kanin, the genius-or
dope, turned back part of the money
unused.
X \ X X
w. S. Van Dyke, I'd, now that we
seem fated to produce a column
about directors, is more foresighted
gentleman than he realizes upon oc-