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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-02-08
GEN ERAL
JOHNSON
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Firms in Gallant Key Battle but
We Should Either Discard Neu-
trality or Make No Loan {. the
CCC and the Army.
By HUGH S. JOHNSON

WASHINGTCS.- we want to
take a hand in the wild European
war game, let's do it above the
board, discard our neutrality and
take the consequences. Sending
money to the Firms to buy our sur
plus agricultural products" In full
knowledge that they do not now need
them, do need arms, and can and
will sell them to create credit to
buy arms, is just another Roosevelt
tan Clever little scheme"
The fight on the Finnish front is a
key-battle. It is a dangerous flank
attack In the war between western
and eastern Europe. The defense
ranks with the highest of all mill
tary traditions. It is strangely like
the heroic stand at Thermopylae.
There a handful of Greeks held off
a Persian steam-roller waiting for
Spartan assistance which could have
brought victory but never came.
Yes, Finland which is the narrow
eastern gate to Scandinavia, is de-
tending the left flank of all western
Europe. As those endangered ma
tons value eventual victory, they
ought to rally to her not only by
furnishing credits to enable her to
buy arms here, but IN every other
way. Our case is different. With
all the goodwill and admiration
possible we must still remember
that this key position is in a Europe
an warm which our people almost
unanimously wish to have no part.
WASHINGTON question Of
using CCC as an army reserve or
pool Of possible recruits IN case Of
war is being agitated again. The
project won't get far.
Even though the subject was ap-
preached with the greatest caution
and no such purpose was announced,
the first smell of it aroused a howl
of protest from one end of the coun-
try to the other.
The complaint was and still Is:
''Why should the very poorest Of
our youth be put out first as cannon
fodder?"
The average CCC company knows
hardly enough about military drill to
fall in for roll-can. It does live In
barracks under rules for hygiene,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-02-08

NUILTMAKING'S fascinating
~ especially when the pieces
form lovely flower blocks-printed
materials set off these flowers eff
fectively. Make this handsome
quilt. It viii brighten up any bed
room. Pattern 6525 contains the
Block Chart; carefully drawn pat
tern pieces; color schemes; direc-
tons for quilt; yardage chart; l.
lustration of quilt.
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, ad-
dress and pattern number plainly.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-02-08

The Supreme court as a court
did not have anything to do with
the seating of Rutherford B. Hayes
as President of the United States
In the disputed election of 1876,
but the commission appointed by
congress to decide which candi-
date was elected included five
members of the Supreme court.
The commission declared Hayes
the winner by a majority of one
electoral vote-Hayes 185, Tilden
184. There is nothing in the Con-
stitution or in the law to justify a
demand for a reelection.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-02-08
Unconscious Tyrarts

q Youngsters in their teens,
says Kathleen Norris, often I'M
consciously glue their parents
their most anxious moments.
G They knot0 so little of family
finances then and haze so many
desires. If they only knerO the
panic their ightest tUord could
create" they might be more
nercifuL, Miss Norris thinks.
G. Parents naturally toant to give
their children every luxury they
can. Are they sUise to go beyond
their means?
G. Wise parents take their chill
dren into their confidence, shotU
them tUhere the money goes, and
enlist them on the budgets side.
Ct This uouId add to the content
of mind for all, both in the pres
ent and in future memories.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-02-08

NBC reO QelWOIk,
but it has not yet
been determined
whether it will
precede or follow
B i n g Crosby's
an u sic II all"
T h e preceding
half hour will be
open, as Good
News will be cut
in half by that
time, and the
sponsor of the
Music Hall'' will
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-02-08
Human Nature

The man who has so little
knowledge of human nature as to
seek happiness by changing any,
thing but his own dispositions, will
waste his life IN fruitless efforts,
and multiply the griefs which he
proposes to remove.-Colton.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-02-08
War PessimiSm.

war feSSlmlSm.
The confidential war reports re-
ceived by government agencies have
not been too optimistic of late re-
garding the Allied positions.
This pessimism has nothing to do
with the sudden mobilization of the
Dutch and Belgians, which had be-
hind it only the fact that the canals
which constitute the best defense
against Germany were frozen, and
the lowland countries suddenly real
lied how easy it would be for the
NaziS to cross.
Chief reason for pessimisrn is the
very mediocre success of the Brit
ish blockade, plus rurnblings of new
conversations between Russia and
Germany.
How far these new conversations
have gone is impossible to say.
But they revolve around the Rus
sian failure in Finland and the fact
that the Russian transportation sys-
tenn has broken down. This gives
the Germans an excellent excuse
to become the technical doctors of
the Soviet.
In fact, Foreign Minister Won Rib
bentrop, who has been under a lot
of German army criticism for ne
gotiating the Russian pact IN the
first place, now sees this as a gold
en- opportunity to redeem himself.
He has proposed to Stain that Ger
many take over Russia's transporta-
ton and industry, but only if she
has a completely free hand.
Whether Stain accepts is anyone's
guess. But if he does, Russia and
Germany together viii constitute the
most powerful region in the world,
ruled by two dictators, stretching
from the Rhine to the Pacific.
This potential alliance, plus the
begging down of the British naval
blockade, is behind the change of
Allied tactics and the Chamberlain
threat that war may soon become
much grimmer. There is even some
talk In Allied war councils of a
spring attempt to break through the
Siegfried line.
The starvation strategy broke
down with the partial failure of the
blockade and the deals Germany
made to buy goods IN the Balkans.
1t viii break down completely If
and when Stain lets Germany take
over his railroads and industry.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-02-08

DAY. ana l We
studied voice for
years. I sang with
orchestras before
I entered motion
pictures. Honest
ly, I can do a few
other things be-
sides wearing a
skinny fur cos
tune. This pic
ture is a lot of fun
and I'm tickled
that I got the role.
But after it's over
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make the final decision, since the
Vallee program will be backed by
the same organization.
Don Kelley, publicity and promo
ton director at Station WIS, Chi
cago, recently sent singing tele-
gram" to George Biggar, now at
WLW, on his birthday A girl at the
telegraph Office In Cincinnati sang
Happy Birthday" to Biggar over
the wire, and was promptly invited
to addition for a radio job.
Famed vaudeville artists of other
years, who have practically disap-
peared from the American scene be-
cause Of the onrush of the movies
and radio, will be given an oppor-
tunity to entertain greater public
than they ever dreamed of. Al
Pearce, air-wave master of cere-
monies and comedian, has inaugu-
rated a policy of presenting to the
radio audiences each week a diff
ferent vaudeville personality as a
feature of the "A Pearce and His
Gang" broadcast. The guest artist
viii present his particular specially
as distinct part Of the half-hour
program.
Concerned over the marital trou-
bles of Eve Stanley In when a Girl
Marries" (played by Irene Winston) !,
a young Oklahoman sent her a pro-
posal, offering her home and a
husbands protection ON his farm.
Hedy Lamar, looking very lovely,
arrived in New York with her hus-
band, Gene Marley, about the time
that pleasant news came along about
II Take This Woman" which caused
so much news that wasn't pleasant.
Spencer Tracy co-starred with her
In it, and it was shelved last June.
unfinished. Miss Lamar refused to
go on with it, because she wanted
more money.
She finally finished the picture-at
the old salary-and now that it is
satisfactory, rumOr reports that
she'll get that salary raise.
But at first, Metro executives
failed to see eye to eye with her.
After all, she'd been seen by the
public IN only one picture; it was
the hard work of Metro publicity
agents that made her famous here.
ODDS AND ENDS-Miliza Korius'
next picture giH probably be based ON
story of the Metropolitan Opera, By Vicki
Baum, author of @Crand Hotel"
Gloria Jean, Universal sfarief, has been
agned for three appearances on Bing
Crosby's Music HaIF before he takes his
vacation IN July.
Cranf Wither, iGil act no more; he's
nos1 a Monogram producer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-02-08

the clerks attention, a mother and
a daughter fell into conversation be-
side me. Or rather they continued
a conversation that had evidently
commenced some time before.
The girl was about II, extremely
pretty, correctly dressed, and with
the right hair-do. The mother had
wistful eyes that hung adoringly
upon her daughters beauty.
ST like the dollar one real well,
Doris" she said tirnidly. "I b'leeve
Miss Foster would like it,
ST think it's lousy" the girl said
inpatiently, as though she had said
that before. eff I can't send her
the other III not send her anything"
''That'd hurt her feelings, and you
going to her wedding" the mother
offered, gently.
''Of course it would" the girl said
angrily, tears in her eyes. "But I
don't have to go to the wedding! If
1 have to wear my old blue outfit
I don't see that I'll be much of a
sight at the wedding. I wish just
once we could do things like other
peoplel A ive-doIar box, and we
can't afford it, dearie!"
May Regret Her Attitude.
She said the last words with a
sheer and a squeak that showed she
was impersonating someone who
called her "dearie." Her mother,
of course. And someday If the
gentle, pleading voice is still, and
Doris remembers-well, no money,
no doing things like other people,"
will comfort her then.
When children are babies even the
simplest home can make them hap
by, if someone loves them there.
And when they are grown, and have
learned the value of home love, the
utter, generous, devoted goodness
of Dad and Mother, then they come
back again, appreciative and wiser.
But In between is this bad period,
when they can't and won't under
stand that one mans modest salary
can't be stretched beyond certain
limits, that food and rent and light
and laundry and carfare and shoes
have to come before new radios
and English sweaters and college
parties and beauty parlor charges.
Unusually wise parents take them
into the family council, show them
where the money goes, enlist them
on the budgets side. But lots of
parents aren't wise; they long with
all their hearts to give their children
all that other youngsters have, and
often they all but wreck married
love and home peace IN doing it.
Some youngsters have never
thought about this angle of the home
problem in this way. Perhaps if
they act upon it they may have
few less dollars to spend this WIN
ter. But they will be laying I'D
something that in a few years they
would not sell for many thousands
of dollars.
Joy Can Lead to Trouble.
'I'n get you your fur coat and
pay somehow" said a harassed
mother IN a big shop years ago.
But don't you tell Papa. He'd muir
der us both. He's got all Jackie's
doctor bills to pay
The 16-year-old daughter pirouet-
ted before a great mirror IN an
ecstasy of vanity and delight. She
embraced her mother, and the older
woman's thin face flushed with Joy.
But there was trouble ahead. Wher-
ever their home was, its whole
foundation was threatened with dis
aster there and then
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-02-08
1I;ndmq1W
MERpE. .rII-I.
Mrs. Borah May Write Mrs.
Taft Can Speak New Con-
versations Between Nazis and
Soviet Worry Allies.
By DREW PEARSON
and ROBERT ALLEN

WASHINGTON.-Plans for the fu-
ture are still uncertain for Little
Borah" as Mrs. William E. Borah,
widow of the senator, is affectionate-
ly known. Except for one thing-the
decision to give up the spacious,
beautifully furnished apartment in
which she and the senator lived for
many years. It was their only
home. They had none In Idaho.
When they returned there In the
summer they lived In Boise hotel.
The senator left a small estate
which, with the $4,000 which Wild
ows of members of congress re-
ceive, will enable Mrs. Borah to live
comfortably. Borah could have
made big money, but he always re-
fused. He had many offers of le-
gal cases; and a few years ago he
was handed a contract by news
paper syndicate for $50, 900 to write
weekly, 1,2O0-word article. But he
rigidly adhered to the rule that he
was an employee of the people and
that they were entitled to his full
time.
Borah was so meticulous about
this that when, during his fourth
term, congress increased senatorial
pay from $500 to $4,000 a year,
he refused to accept the addi-
tional $500 until reelected.
Mrs. Borah has a sister in Mos
COW, Idaho, and another in Port
land, Ore. She will visit them be-
fore deciding where she will set
tie permanently. In the past, she
has had a number of requests to
write about Washington and about
her many experiences IN the Off
cial and social world. She has
always declined, but now she may
turn her gentle wit and charm to
such work.
Merry GO-R0und.
Mrs. Bob Taft, wife of Ohio's C.
o. P. 'favorite son." doesn't play
bridge, but she can make a better
political speech than her husband
The SEC is quietly investigat-
ing Wall Street "bear raid" on
securities of the $500, 1000, 600 Stand
ard Gas & Electric company, fol-
lowing inside reports that the raid
was staged by utility interests as
part of campaign to discredit the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-02-08

-. Mrs. Bob Taft helps Girl Scouts
bLot0 out birthday candleights. She can
also blOtO about making better speech
than her senator husband
SEC z. R. Stettinius, able
young head of the U. S. Steel cor
poration, is high among the posi-
bilities for assistant secretary of
navy, made vacant when Charles
Edison was elevated to the cabinet
Townsendites have picked st.
Louis and June 80 as the place and
date for their convention this year.
Politicos are much interested In the
timing, because it is before the two
national nominating conventions. In
1886, Townsend teamed up with Fa-
Their Coughlin against both Roose-
welt and Landon.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-02-08

sort of forget that I was the girl in
the animal skins"
She's right. Motion picture his
tory shows that, once an actress ac-
quires fame by cavorting around
clad in a trick costume, the impress
sion gets about that she'd be lost In
something snappy in evening gowns.
Take Dorothy LamOur, for instance.
Getting out of that sarOng In which
she became famous on the screen
is like extricating ones self from a
straitjacket.
Hollywood has laughed at Mayor
LaGuardia, of New York, for urging
that the motion picture industry be
transported bodily to New York. But
recently Ernst Lubitsch, who d.
rected Carlo in "Ninotchka," and
William Dieterle, who directed
Marlene Dietrich in "Destry Rides
Again." called on the mayor and
had a long talk with him. Not long
before that, King Vidor, equally well
known as a director, had long
visit with him. All insisted that the
calls were just social, but it seems
likely that there has been some dis
cussion about bringing the movies
back where they came from.
Chester Lauck and Norris Golf,
better known as Lum and Abner of
the air waves, have signed up to
star in a picture that will be re-
leased by RKO.
Rudy VaIlee's new air show will
make its debut March z, via the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-02-08

sanitation and cleanliness that ap-
proximate army barrack life, but
there the similarity ends with
bump.
I think this policy is right. The
manpower problem is the least of
our military puzzles. Under the Sc
lective draft principle used in 1917
1913 we can get the very cream of
our crop of youth with practically
no delay whatever. By intensive
training they can be taught in a
few days more than the average
CCC boy knows about military serv-
ice.
But the selective service idea
won't work at all If its burdens do
not bear with absolute fairness on
every class of men within the draft
ages.
Proposals now being discussed are
not to require CCC boys to join the
army but to encourage and to per-
NIT them to volunteer. They have
that right anyway In peace, but
if we have to raise big army for
war we will have to have selective
service. After that starts, volun-
teering must end. You can't have
two classes-the vents and the
''sents" under the selective system.
Borah
This country, as never before,
needs men like Senator Borah. You
can count his Like on the fingers of
one hand.
He and have had disagreements.
He was a great disagreer. You
couldn't have a whole senate of
Borahs and still have either party
organization or much cohesion IN
the senate itself.
Alone with such a few veterans
as Carter Glass, he simply did not
play in the pork-barrel game of po-
itical patronage. He was so strong
ly entrenched in the goodwill and
confidence of the people of his state
that there was no necessity to do
that.
But we need quota of such men.
It is the antidote for personalized
power. Like Thomas Jefferson, he
had sworn eternal hostility toward
any form of domination over the
mind of man. He voted and acted
as he thought and believed-and he
always thought and believed sin
cerely. With this controlling princi-
pie guiding him, he paid scant atten-
ton to party policy, presidential
prestige or popular reaction-n any
of these influences interfered with
what he thought was right.
In private Life he was as gentle
as a woman.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-02-08
Tin and Rubber.

Secretary Edison and Assistant
Secretary Johnson are right. Tin and
rubber are necessity to national
defense. We do not produce them.
We have to import them.
But are they right IN saying that
people in this country who own pig
tin and crude rubber are 'unpatri-
otto" when they sell them to the
highest bidder-even If some of the
sales are to Russia? Are they not
rather excusing their neglect to rem
edy a situation which long ago
screamed for action?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-02-08
Strange Facts
Bound to Match
Four DR.. Sun DAYS
Fear Civilization
A New York bookbinder makes

A New York bOOkbinder makes
a specially of covering his books
with material most appropriate to
the subject matter. For example,
he will bind a book on ostrich
farming in ostrich skin, one on
prison life IN zebra skin, one on
dermatology in human skin, the
Bible IN lambskin and The Mer-
chant of Venice in sharkskin.
China observes four national hol-
idays in honor of DR.. Sun Vat
sen (1866-1925): His birthday, the
anniversary of his death, the date
Of his first installation as presi-
dent of the Chinese republic and
the date Of his Imprisonment at
the Chinese legation in London.
-
The Jicaque Indians of Hondu-
ras, despite their primitive man.
ners and customs, are so fearful
of the disease germs of civiliza-
ton that they will not use, or even
touch with the bare hand, any pur-
chase or gift from a white man
until it has been disinfected for at
least two days.-Collier's
The British Broadeasting cor
poratiOn now uses Is foreign Ian
p1IaCeS in its news brOadcaStS
from London.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-02-08

Rudy Vallee's new air show will
make its debut March z, via the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-02-08

Neglecting the Mind
If anything affects your eye, you
hasten to remove it; if anything
affects your mind, you postpone
the cure for a year.-Horace.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-02-08

Concerned over the marital trou-
bles of Eve Stanley in when Girl
Marries" (played by Irene Winston),
a young Oklahoman sent her a pro-
posal, offering her a home and
husbands protection on his farm.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-09
.reggs Honored
Before Departing

The colorcd Ministerial ASsocia-
ton of Vance County was host on
Tuesday evening at reception. hon
oring Rev. and Mrs. L. p. Gregg.
who arc leaving the city.
Rev. Gregg. former pastor OF the
Shiloh Baptist church Of Henderson,
has accepted Il call 10 larger Bap-
tiSt church in Topeka. Kansas. Be
fore going to Kansas. Rev. and Mrs.
Gregg and children plan TO visit Mrs
Gregg'S relatives and friends in Chi
cago, III.
The reception was AT DR.. and Mrs.
J. r. Cotton's home, which was made
festive with arrangements Of sum-
mcr flowers.
Upon arrival, the guests were
greeted by Dir. and Mrs. Cotton. The
guests were soon invited into the
sun parlor where Il delightful Do
gram on the work Of Rev. and Mrs.
Gregg was enjoyed by all.
The program consisted Of the fol-
lowing features:
The Work of Rev. and Mrs. Gregg
in Henderson," by DR.. J. f. Baxter.
Mrs Grcgg'S Work in Conncc-
ton with the Schools" by Prof.
Robinson of Henderson Institute.
ITO Mrs. Gregg in Bchal! Of the
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-09
Consumption Described
AS "Tragic Necessity
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Warmed ITO permit their strategy
cal areas to fall into the hanoS OF
anv enemy would jeopardize the Sc,
rIritv of the continental United
STATES itself"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-09
DURHAM ASHEVILLE
IN CRUCIAL SERIES

Durham. Aug. 9.--(SpcciaD-The
next to last home stand Of the Dur
ham Bulls which opens Saturday
night has developed into the most
interesting and certainly the most
important on the local schedule. The
tCnSity Of the current Piedmont race.
with five clubs battling like demons
for places in the upper four. asSur-
ING participation in the annual
ShaughneSSy series. has made this
home stay Of the Herd Il "natural'
for fan interest and smoking compe-
titiOn.
The Asheville Tourists. enjoying Il
fairly comfortable lead for more than
4 month. suddenly hit Snag and
their place al the head of the pack
is seriously challenged. They open
the all-impOrtant stand here.
The Bulls are one of the clubs
$niping at the Tourists, which makes
their series starting Saturday such
Il crucial one. Four games will be
played in three days, with a double
header billed for Sunday afternoon.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-09
AMERICAN LEAGUE
NATIONAL LEAGUE

ST Louis at Cincinnati (nlghD.
Brooklyn at Boston.
Chicago at Pittsburgh (nlghO.
Only games scheduled.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-09
New Sources Of
Revenue Are Asked
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more than $4,000 100000 in the ifs
cal year ending June 80, l94l, Nor
genthau said. Revenue receipts. he
estimated. would total S6,361 .OOO,OO0,
including the new defense taxes re-
Gently enacted.
Unless new taxes were enacted ne
continued. virtually all Of the new
S49,OOO,OO0 900 federal borrowing
power would be exhausted by June
80, 1871.
'On the basis of these estimates
he said. 1t is obvious that in view
of the requirements Of the defense
program the present debt limitation
of $4,000. 100000 will sooner or later
need to be increased"
The increase, however, might be
postponcG until next year, he added.