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Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-16

WASHINGTON. - BY the time
the antitrust division of the De-
partment of Justice gets through
with its investigation of the build
ing industry. the general public
ought to have a much clearer idea
why it costs SO much TO build a
house
Most Of the explanations SO far
offered are all right as far as
they go except that they are in
complete, as Justice Department Of
fieials see It.
The high price of building ma
terials is partly responsible-but
only partly so. The same is true
of the high cost of labor The same
Is true Of various other factors
that are occasionally cited.
And the whole investigation is
something in the nature of test
case for a theory currently held
at the epartment-that the way
to restore competition and flexible
price structures TO any given in
dustry is not by reaching out and
bdNNAllE hoNAA AAlt AlIdNlS VI SOAllt
single group of Wrongdoers, but by
making a concerted, along-the-
line drive that will take all factors
into account and strive to apply
correctiYes to all simultaneously.
At least four fronts in the in
dustry are under scrutiny.
First, there are materials The
Federal Trade Commission is just
now completing a case alleging a
price fixing agreement in cement.
A year ago it made a similar study
in respect to plate glass. Restraint
of trade to keep material prices up
has been alleged in number of
other cases at various times
Next comes distribution. The
Federal Trade Commission has de-
voted a good deal of time to this
field also. Agreements to confine
trade to established channels are
frequently charged
A manufacturer for instance,
may want to sell materials direct
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-16
Bruce Cation in WASHINGTON
Disseets the News

to large buyers. A local dealers
group may prevent it by threaten
ing a boycott. Or 1t sometimes hap
pens that such a local group will
establish list of recognized
dealers, and bring pressure on any
manufacturer who trades through
any others.
Thirdly, there are the contrac-
tors. In some cases, contracting
rings have been formed TO eX-
clude outside bidders. IN others,
contractors have maintained boy
colts against direct t-to-consumer
sales. Sometimes bidding groups
are organized, with all bids on a
given job figured III one central
office, and with advance agree
ment on which contractor is to be
favored.
This sort of thing occasionally
has odd ramificationS. In certain
localities, it is said, it may be i'm
possible for the architect to know
the price of an appliance which
he wants TO specify for inclusion
in a building; all he can find out
is what the thing will cost installed
by the contractor, and he has no
way of knowing how much of that
quoted price is the price of the ap-
pliance and how much is the con-
tractors fee.
Lastly, there is labor.
Here the number of complica-
tions is limited only by the limits
on human ingenuity. Building
trades unions in some localities
reach understandings with contrac-
tors rings, it is said, SO that an
outside contractor either cannot get
labor at all or cannot get good la
Dor.
Unions frequently have restric-
tive rules forbidding work on Ger
tain sorts of material, the use of
which involves less labor.
The administration has a dou-
interest in this inveSti-
CATION. For one thing, it wants
housing to lead the march toward
business recovery, and it suspects
that high building prices are de-
laying matters.
For another, it has invested mil
lions of dollars in the effort to
get building financing costs down
Getting those costs down is more
or less futile if all of the other
costs go on up.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-16

Republican government prefers
generally TO get along without the
uniforms, the stiff formalities, the
pageantries, which have in the past
been associated with monarchy and
today are part and parcel OF au-
thoritarian government.
But there is such a thing as
being too casual about even re-
publican government and its re-
sonsibilities. A little ceremonial,
conducted on a democratic and
informal level, is sometimes a good
thing in reminding citizens of the
dignity that goes with their citizen
ship.
That is why it will be interesting
To watch the ceremonies to be held
in ManitoWoc, Wis, on Sunday,
May 81. On that day. Manitowoc
plans to try out a scheme TO i'm
press on new citizens the dignity
of their newly y-acquired status.
Practically every young man and
woman in the county recently turn
ed 81 years old will assemble in
the high school bowl overlooking
Lake Michigan.
There more than 700 of them
will formally take their places
among the electorate of the repub
lie by repeating after Chief JUS
tice Marvin B. Rosenberg solemn
oath to support the constitutions
of the United States and of their
state. Bands will play, flags will
whip the breeze. the state governor
will speak and present to the chair
man of each of 38 citizenship class
es a certificate of electorShip" for
his group.
Five months of preparation have
gone into the making of the cere-
mony. County and municipal Off
cials, business men and school
teachers have been conducting the
classes by wards and townships,
following an outline of instruction
that has been the dream of DR.. R.
j. Colbert of the University of Wis
consin for many years.
Justice Rosenberg commented
that there are today in the world
literally millions of people who
would give everything they possess
for the privilege of calling them
selves American citizens. We who
are born under the flag should
be equally appreciative.'
we have finally succeeded DR..
Colbert said, Sin dramatizing citi-
zenship in such way that practi-
cally everybody is becoming citizen
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-16

OF 80 miles OF more to Doom and
the Kaiser's estate.
At the gateway, he was stopped
by a secretary. Fred said he had
come to interview the Kaiser.
Then the secretary told Fred
news that broke Freds Ohio heart.
A week before, the Kaiser had re-
ceived a delegation Of newspaper
correspondents. and had told them
something which they had prom
ised to hold secret. But there had
been leak. One of the cores
pondents had let out the Kaiser's
cherished secret, and the Kaiser
had declared that he would see no
correspondent OH any prctext what
soeyer
An idea popped into Frcd's head.
Il particularly wanted to see him,
said he. because VIC celebrate our
birthdays together
The secretary looked doubtful.
You're a much younger man. he
said
Yes. admitted Fred. We were
not born the same year. but my
passport here will show you that I
was born on January 27, the Kais-
er's birthday
Interesting said the secretary,
relaxing. Just then large man in
military uniform came up. II was
the hof-marshal. general factotum
OF the big estate.
Here's a man" said the Secre-
tary to the hof-marshal whose
birthday is the same as the EN-
peror'S
BY now the ice was broken and
they talked more informally.
The hof-marshal and the secre-
tary exchanged glances. 1t did
seem as If a man who had the same
birthday as the Kaiser should be
privileged to say hello to him. The
hof-marshal went to the Kaiser
returning, he escorted Fred to the
rose Garden where the eX-Kaiscr
was taking a stroll, admonishing
him that the Kaiser must not be
quoted
Fred had TO sacrifice a published
interview. but he sat down with the
Kaiser a little later that afternoon
and had tea.
Fred met one of the most in
accessible persons in the world by
the simple plan of striking a per-
sonal note It won over the stern
and forbidding hof-marShal, and
the once mighty Kaiser himself
When you want to meet someone
important to you. learn all you can
about him and see if you can strike
a personal note.
Would you like to know how To
be happy? Here is Upton Sinclairs
recipe He is sixty and has writ
ten sixty books which have been
translated into A languages
He says this is what you should
do to be happy:
Get great cause and link your
self up with it. Identify your life
with il. Then no matter what hap
pens to you, you still have your
cause. If you lose your money, you
still have your cause If you are
run over by an automobile, and
crippled you still have your cause
No matter what happens to you
personally life will still be worth
while"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-16
A Traffic Jam
In Washington
BY CHARLES r. STEWART

Draw a deadline right through
The middle of any busy city, with
a population as large as about half
q million. abolish all traffic along
that main street for two or three
hours and permit nobody to cross
1t for the same length of time
and. believe me, automobileiSm and
pedestrianiSm and everything are
bound to be sight to behold when
normally resumes its sway.
Washington had such an expert
cnce the other day
To be sure, Washington. if any
place, is accustomed to tie-upS of
just the sort referred to- Every
four years it has a presidential in
augural parade through its business
midst, which gums up its works
marvellously. However, the citizen
ry is prepared, long in advance. for
these periodic siegeS. 1t knows
what's coming. Business virtually
SuSpendS itself. Commercially the
place is as dead as a herring, but
it expects TO be. Moreover, the
capitals inaugural visitationS have
their recompenSes. They bring in
crowds OF visitors, who are a pest
TO local house folk, tourist agen-
cieS, taXicabmen and various others.
Between Inauguration the town
also Is strongly addicted to COM
paratively minor pageants, like In
dependence and Memorial Days.
But they're not peculiar to Wash
ington; all towns have them. True,
they're worse in Washington than
anywhere else. for Washington has
exceptional facilities to aggravate
them. Still, they're foreseen, too
They don't fall as per thunderclap
Besides, their kinds of professions
are provided with occasional loop
holes for auto and foot traffic to
snoop through while they're in
progress. They don't paralyze the
whole municipality.
Another thing inaugurations, In
dependence Days. Memorial Days,
Armistice Days, ct cetera, are rec
ognized as genuinely important oc-
casions. Business is willing to be
snarled up by them.
But President Somoza?
Nicaraguan President AnaStaSio
Somoza'S Day was different
A week ahead of Senor Somoza s
coming SO per cent of Washington
and 900 per cent of the rest of
North America never had heard of
him. Hes president of a country
with scarcely twice the District Of
Columbia's population. He's more
o. peWee than the president of
Cuba-and I've seen the president
of Cuba received with more "eclatS"
than Henry Ford or j. P Morgan.
The president of Mexico or Bra
zil or Argentina or even of Panama
because of our canal there) might
be regarded as of some conse-
quence. But Nicaragua? Phooey!
Being polite to President Somoza
was okay, of course. Probably it was
alright to be extra polite to him,
considering the administration S
interAmerican neighborhood pol
icy. But the other days blowout
in his honor surpassed anything in
past history. I've seen the Prince
of Wales get off his train and go
up to the White House with nothing
but a pair of motorcycle policemen
footing ahead of him. And a queen
or two and a few first-class prem
iers. When Mr. Somoza was COM
ing up the street. you couldn't get
across Pennsylvania avenue. I sup
pose ii flattered Anastasio. but it
didn't flatter WashingtonianS
whose business called them across
the avenue,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-16

the tx kaiser
There was no
time to obtain
letters of on
dorSenacnt. he
had to go on his
own and take his
chances Gil the
interview.
He took a
train from Paris
to Amsterdam
and then a taxi
cab fer the trip
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-16
You re Telling Me-

A scientist announces he has
frozen and revived a goldfish 552
times. There's a fate worse than
swallowing.
The man at the next desk never
has any luck Today his barber
used his face to addition a new
razor.
Noted surgeon believes an opera
ton may cure badness. OF course.
if it doesn't work fellow must go
through life wearing an unSolved
crossword puzzle instead of hair.
MuScilage on the back of postage
stamps is made of sweet potatoes
Hmm we still prefer Cur tatcrs
without Washington's picture on
the other side.
10 the fellow who doesn't have
10 pay taxes the national debt is
just nine zcrcs hitchhiking ON a
small number
Judging by the latest pnOtOS Cf
battle-scarred China the winner of
that war is bound to be the junk
man.
We can hardly believe that story
that Hitler drinks one per cent
beer. or course, it might be some
thing else which constantly makes
him see two Germanies where but
one grew before.
June lib has been designated
as Keep -America-O Out of Foreign
Wars week. Just to be ornery. Hit
ler and Mussolini will probably be
quiet during that period.
New stars are still being made out
of primeyal matter, an astronomer
says. Especially i'll Hollywood.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-16
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Fred c. Kelly, magazine writer
and newspaper correspondent, while
in Europe one summer, got a cable
from an editor requesting him to
&c TO Holland and have a talk with
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-16
Words of Wisdom

Such is the nature of novelty
that where anything pleases it be-
comes doubly agreeable If new, but
if it displeases, it is doubly displeas-
ing on that very accoumt.-Hume.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-16
Barbs-

Paul Whiteman won't go to Eu-
rope because things arc too iit-
terry there. Musically things arc
"jittery' enough here.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-16

House mice have been found to
spread brain disease known as
choriomeningitiS. And
one called desperation, too.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-16
TOdaY'S Horoscope

The year to come will be a very
auspicious one for those whose
birthday is today. One word of
warning must be given them, how
ever. Attend to your own business
and stay close to your home. You
will avoid deception an dtrouble if
you do not try sailing on uncharted
seas. In short, do not make changes
or seek new opportunities. A child
born today will have a happy, ami
able disposition, and will be fortu-
nate. A tendency to be too impress
sionable and to suffer from imposi-
ton will be the only drawback.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-16
Famous Sayings
Grab Baq-
One-Minutc Test

/. Who are Gordon and Hepel?
>. Georgian Bay is part OF what
lake?
3. What is the difference be-
tween the capital of state and
its capitol?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-16
Hints OH Etiquette

You may admire anothers pos
sessions. personal or otherwise. but
il is rude TO ask how much they
cost.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-16

Women's stockings arc going up
in length in price Wives wish
mems SoX would go up-in place
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-16
e-Minute Test Answers

l. A team of well-known popular
song writer's.
2. Lake Huron.
3. Capital is the seat of the
entire government; capitol" de
notes the capital building.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-16

According TO chemical analysis. a
sample of Kansas dust contains. 90
per cent sand, IT'S per cent fertiliz-
CT. 2.5 per cent moisture.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-16
Thoughts for the Day

And Jesus answered him. saving. Il is written. That
man shall not live by bread alone, but by every
word Of God-Luke A.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-16

SELL Farm Truuucc Through
Post Press Want Ads
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-16
Photographs

Tests prove that if there is high
calcium content in the human
blood serum a person is in hap
by. cheerful, optimistic, emotional
state
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-16

To the fellow who doesn't have
TO pay taxes the national debt is
just nine zcres hitchhiking ON a
small number.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-16

The man at the next desk never
has any luck Today his barber
used his face to addition a new
razor.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-16

Big Tom curfeW bell is at OK
ford, England It strikes l0l times
every night at $50, when the uni
versity gates are closed.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-16

Judging by the latest photos OF
battle-scarred China the winner of
that war is bound to be the junk
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-16

A scientist announces he has
frozen and revived a goldfish 552
times. There's a fate worse than
swallowing.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-16

New stars are still being made out
of primeval matter, an astronomer
says. Especially in Hollywood.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-16

The size of Glacier Bay National
Monument in southeastern Alaska
has recently been enlarged 10 1850
square miles The new section com
prises some of the most magnificent
scenery in Alaska.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-16

Sabots - wooden shoes that arc
worn by French peasants are made
by hand by wood cutters in their
cottages in the forest
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-11-23
PROTECTIVE DIET

Although the varied diet of older
children should furnish most of the
substances that are needed for body
building and the preservation of sound
health, there are enough children who
have finicky and capricious appetites,
and who have food dislikes, to make it
necessary to watch pretty carefully to
see that we ward off the diseases that
are due to the lack of essential in
gradients in the diet This care also
applies to the young infant, especially
the one who is bottle-fed.
One of the things to look out for is
some children's tendency to eat too
many starchy and sweet foods, and to
turn down eggs, meat, cheese and
milk If the latter foods are not eaten
in sufficient quantity, child's growth
may be stunted, and harmful amount
of water retained in the body, causing
a form of dropsy known as "nutritionar
edema.
Anemia is another thing to be
avoided. Babies who depend on cows
milk and cereals for most of their food
didn't get enough iron unless it is added
to their diet. For this reason, egg yolk,
liver, and green vegetables in which
there is a good deal of iron and other
essentials for blood building, should be
added after the fourth or fifth month.
The egg yolk can be added raw to the
milk, and the vegetables should be
cooked in as little water as possible and
strained. If your doctor has advised
the use of certain kind of cereal it
may be that he has done so because
iron has been added to it.
We have heard much of vitaminS, but
some people are still bit hazy as to
which foods contain which. Vitamin
A (the growth vitamin, or anti-infective
vitamin) is found in fish liver oils, and
in egg yolk, butter fat and green
vegetables in smaller quantities.
Might blindness" or difficulty in
seeing when the light is dim, is the
earliest symptom of the lack of this
vitamin. AS the condition becomes
more advanced, the tears secretion dries
| up, and opacities or ulcers cover the
cornea of the eye, resulting in partial,
or even complete, loss of vision.
Vitamin B is really a group of vita
Minis, found in whole grain cereals,
yeast, fresh vegetables, fruits and milk.
If one of these elements is missing
from the diet for long time, severe
form of neuritis occurs, called beri beri
If another is missing, pellegra, which
strikes at the nervous system, the
musous membranes, and the skin, re-
suits
| Getting further down the alphabet, to
Vitamin C, we find that its presence in
oranges, lemons, and tomatoes and their
availability to children, is what keeps
scurvy from being more common.
Swelling of the gums, anemia, des-
tructive changes in the bones, and other
symptoms show up if child is not
getting enough Vitamin c. Because it
is destroyed by cooking or by exposure
to the air, it is important to serve fruit
juices as soon as they are prepared.
Because of the loss Of vitamin in cook
ing, about twice as much tomato juice
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-11-23
ARREST 1868
2,978 Warned
Minnesota Highway Patrolmen
Have Busy October in War
on Traffic Violators.

Minnesotas State Highway Patrol
men arrested 1858 traffic law violators,
an all time monthly record, during
october, issued written warnings to
2,978 additional drivers whose trans
gressions were not quite serious enough
to warrant arrest on first offense, and
handed must repair" illegal equipment
tags to still another 5,537 motorists.
Patrol activities were by no means
confined to these intensive efforts 10
stem the rising autumn tide Of traffic
accidents, Patrol Chief Eden RoWe's
report today to Highway Commissioner
M. j. Hoffman, indicated.
The patrolmen during the same
month gave aid to 1856 motorists in
trouble on the road, directed $1,000
vehicles in traffic congestions, dis
covered 588 improper license tags,
weighed 186 trucks for overload, tested
lights on 1882 vehicles, checked brakes
on 12,675 more, and examined 5000
drivers licenses.
As an indication of what may await
those motorists who have neglected
their head or tail lights, 4,039 Of the
5,537 drivers tagged for illegal equip
ment were handed their tags for oper-
ating vehicles without proper driving
lights. Another 726 had unsafe brakes.
Those given written warnings and re-
leased will, upon second offense, be
subject to arrest and arraignment in
court.
OF the record number of traffic law
Violators arrested during October, GA
were taken in custody for operating
with improper equipment, 275 faced
the judge" for excessive speed, 1S5 for
going through stop sign, las for care
less driving such as riding the center
line, los for improper passing, and 50
paid the penalty of the law for driving
while drunk
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-11-23
School is SheLIed;
Who Fired the Bullet?

Red Lake Falls-Sister Charlotte,
teacher of the third and fourth grade
of st. Josephs school and a student in
the room narrowly escaped being hit
by a % caliber bullet recently. The
bullet crashed through the north WIN
dow of the room and lodged in black
board. There were 38 students in the
room and the teacher and student had
just stepped out of the path of the
bullet. Who did the shooting is still
a mystery but numerous complaints
have been made regarding the shooting
of % rifles along the rivers through
the city. A shot from one of these
rifles carried a mile.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-11-23
Horse Hitch-Hikes
and Runs Automobile.

New Richland-Mrs. Clara Feiring
and Miss Dorothy Huseby had visited
Minnesota Lake recently and were re-
turning home when they came upon
four horses, meandering about the high
way. Three were on the left-hand side
of the road and one on the right.
Evidently the single horse reared as
the car approached and as a result
came down on the car. Now the ladies
have badly used automobile. A right
door handle was torn off, the right
fender was damaged, a large dent in
the top and in the right running board,
and shattered windshield. Luckily
enough, the occupants were able to
proceed home with the damaged car.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-11-23

should be given as if orange juice were
being used
Vitamin D, the lack of which causes
ricketts,, is one we are all pretty
familiar with, and we know that all
children must have some form of pro-
tection-whether fish liver oils, oils en-
riched by artifically produced Vitamin
D, or exposure to the sun or to ultra
violet rays
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-11-23
WHITES ADDITIoN-(Continued)

that said completed the time
that the Council of the City Minnesota
the
filed writing with the
sufficient said
Dated this 22nd of November 1889
of the City Council the Minnesota
A. o
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-11-23
Notice OF Assessment
AND OF -
Hearing on Confirmation Thereof

that at meeting OF the City Council OF the Guy
November 1885,
described the OF the owners so far
opposite
part the
constructing connection
below
al such assessment
following S assessment roll completed
ADDITION
Ferderper
Outlet Albert Ferderber 8E
East o. Outlet C. 4285
o
o. Outlet Walter Koski $3.50
o Eli landry 42So
that said completed at the time
Minnesota will
City Tuesday,
hearing objections
o assessment
writing with the City
named hearing
be
November, 1885,
BY ordero the o Minnesota
A. o. KNUTsoN, City Clerk
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-11-23
Use of Cotton Material

Sixty yards of cotton material is
the per capita amount used each
year in the United States, mainly
in sheets and other household fur
nishingS.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-11-23

Earth's Weight Estimated
The weight of the earth has been
estimated at six sextillion. 500
quintllllon tons, not including the
atmosphere,