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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-05-30
By KATHLEEN NORRIS

TINE truth is, most of us
American women live un-
- der unnatural conditions.
Our lives are so easy that life is
very hard for us!
We have to keep thinking up
artificial ways of keeping busy.
There are great necessities all
around us, bitter needs of hum
ger, housing, unemployment,
mothering of the motherless,
comforting the hopeless, solv-
ing any tiny one of the millions
of problems that our civiliza-
ton leaves in its wake. But
these are uninviting subjects.
What to Do?
So we support matinees, afternoon
movies, bridge clubs, amusement
clubs, language and book-binding
lessons, tea shops, beauty parlors,
cultural and pseudo-political lee
lures; we encourage smart middle
aged women to talk new book and
new movement and new thought to
us; we gather in big department
stores to learn how to make lamp
shades and hook rugs; we attend the
club when the dramatic section or
the musical section or the domestic
science section is putting on pro-
gram, and we live within sound of
the radio.
Added to these are unnecessary
shopping, and unnecessary fussing
over meals. Our mealsl Foreign
women look in complete bewilder-
ment at the countless menus that
are published in this country, thou
sands and thousands of meals print
ed every month, and consider we
have spoiled appetites. Chopped nuts
and whipped cream, larded this and
Dreaded that, jellied soup and
stuffed celery, desserts that are
beaten and creamed and set and
surrounded with walls of lady-fingers
and soaked with rum; even the SIM
pie old cellar vegetables of our fore
fathers are minced and rolled in
crumbs and fried and pulled and
embellished with raisins.
Nothing REAL to Accomplish.
And all this means that we haven't
enough REAL things to do.
1t sounds so fortunate, SO much as
if we were to be envied! Electric
lights, gas stoves, linoleum that
needs only a wipe with a damp
cloth; everything canned and pack
aged and convenient - even the
humble applesauce, the unpreten-
tious new potato, the familiar bis
cult. One can buy shelled peas and
lima beans, shelled crabs and
shrimp, ready made pie-crust and
patty shells.
Fifty years ago housework was all
absorbing. No permanents and
painted finger-nails thenl The kitch-
en- was place Of ashes, coal, yeast
rising, mops, scrubbing brushes,
peeling apples, chopping and STIR
ring and skinning, cleaning fowls,
handling great pots Of soup bones,
rolling out square yards of pastry.
Women did all the family laundry,
they did all the sewing, they cared
for the children in health and for
everyone in illness.
Frightened at Boredom.
And that's what women are doing
in nine tenths of the world today.
When they are doing anything else,
although they may be free and rest
ed and groomed and lovely as to
hair and skin and fingernails, and
up on the latest lunch dishes and
bridge points Of The Four Aces, they
are also apt to be bored frightfully,
as their more hard-working sisters
never were bored, and sometimes
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-05-30
ON. THE MOVE:

$4,000 residents in the Dutch East
Indies, definitely were off the move.
These were suspects, both German
and Dutch, rounded up by the watch
full colonial authorities, only too
conscious of fifth-column and Tro-
jan Horse tactics. simultaneously,
in New York, great dissension arose
when a popular native declared:
"The fifth column in this country
is headed by that fellow in the
White House." At this, the pro-
Roosevelts decidedly got move on.
At Odessa, by the Black sea, Rus
STA has a parachuting doctor, who
balls out in big hurry, to get to
urgent cases. He delivered two ba-
bies from the air. It was suggest
ed that, next December, German
parachute men might be disguised
as Santa Clauses.
New York hosiery counters report
ed hectic rush for nylon, at 81.
And, alas, the feminine rush was
followed by nylon runs. Or so they
said. Macy reported 20 fast-moving
women at the nylon counter in the
first minute, but there was little or
no intra-female carnage.
The League of Nations, bags and
baggage, or what they have left of
it, moved from Swiss Geneva to
Portuguese Lisbon = as far away
from Europe as one can get in Eu-
rope. Before the delegates left, they
condemned the German invasion of
the Low Countries, and why not?
Eighty-ton Suhl tanks by the score
led the ironclad German "Panzer-
divisionen" at a rapid rate across
the Belgian Mouse river. They
sought to flank the allied lines north
of Antwerp. Thus did the modern
armored equivalent of Young Loeb
invar dash into the west"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-05-30
ANTI-PARACHUTE:
Penn, Patriots

England's new war minister, cute
looking Sir Tony Eden, has been ac-
tive in organizing local corps of
sharpshooters to pick off, willy nilly,
invading parachute jumpers from
across the channel. Jeanette, in
western Pennsylvania, was not to
be left behind. 1t formed a group
of "sharpies"-the first civilian anti
parachute legion in the United
States. Its members feared that
parachute activities might be direct
ed against the Pittsburgh industrial
belt, of which Jeanette is a part.
"Gauleiters" Brust and Lands, To-
cal marksman and local editor,
headed the Jeanette parachute-pop-
perS.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-05-30
YANKEE JAW-POWER:
We Can't Bite

America is not short on manpow-
er, but it was announced that Ameri-
cans are short on jawpower. Forty
five years ago, the average Yank
could bite I'll pounds-worth. But in
1910, the Yank, degenerated, can
only bite 125 pounds-worth. Soft
food, alas, has done it. Take the
average Eskimo, lucky fellow. He
has, it is said, a good strong bite of
300 pounds-worth. This is called
"chewing-force."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-05-30

especially active against any "1917"
wiles. But old Pershing, big man
in 1917, spoke of the possibility of
war, while War Secretary Woodring
spoke of our maintaining peace. 1t
was all very confusing. There was
even talk of lending some money to
the no-pay French and English, but
it was only talk.
Good Old Garner
There was tale to the effect that
Vice President Garner now admit
ted Roosevelt's nomination for the
Third Term. He said, supposedly,
that Roosevelt had absolute control
of the Chicago convention, and that
was that. But, Texas Jack contin-
ued $50 they say that he himself
would not run again, because he was
opposed to Third Terms for vice
presidents, as well as for Presidents.
Thereby, he established his consist
ency, and may have opened the door
to a swarm of ambitiously would-be
V. P.'s. Roosevelt had at least 431
convention delegates pledged or
committed, and was expected soon
to possess more than the necessary
548 majority.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-05-30
u. S. CIVIL WAR:
DO1Un in LOOsednd

Down in Creole Looseana, there
was an American civil war going
on. 1t was being fought out be-
tween Woodworking units of Uncle
Sans tried and true regular army.
Some 10000 blues were defending
the state against $4,000 red invaders
from Texas. Somehow Gan unusual
feature of this La-Tex struggle) the
defenders were reported as employ
ing blitzkrieg tactics, and seemed to
be forging ahead. There even was
fifth column, to make things per-
feet. This fifth column (so-called)
consisted of local bovines, who
licked the insulation of army tele-
phone lines, and thereby committed
military sabotage in the first, Sec
ond and third degrees. In Russia,
they'd have fixed 'em! But these
fifth-columnar cows of Dixie gained
reprieve. AS to the battle-ground it.
self, Looseana-its new governor,
Sam Houston Jones, told 100, 900 peo-
pie at a barbecue that no more
Huey Longs would run the state.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-05-30
Not the Charge

''How could I commit forgery,
your honor, when I can't even
write my own name?"
"You are not accused of writing
your own namei"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-05-30
That Kind

"He's one of the greatest hqlt-backs
that euer lived"
Il didn't knotO he played football"
"He doesn't. He alt0ays giUeS back
half tChat he bOrrOUs."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-05-30

Tough Luck
Waiter-There hasn't been much
stirring around this cafe.
Diner-Why not?
Enthusiastically stole all the
spoons.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-05-30
Standing Up

Neighbor-How does your new
cat like your dog?
Jackie-Oh, fur straight.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-05-30
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY ROGER SHAW
German March Toward Paris
Marked by Terrific Fighting;
U. S. Maps New Defense Plans

EDITORS NOTEWhen opinions
Released by Western Newspap rUnon)
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-05-30
III GERMAN WAR:
III Reich

Nothing succeeds like success.
The latest Third Reich included Ger
many, Austria, Czecho Slovakia, Po-
land, Norway, Denmark, Holland,
Belgium, Luxembourg, Memel, the
Saar. Its friends and allies took in
Russia, Italy, Japan, Spain, Hun
gary. Its sinister ''ist" seemed to
include Switzerland, Jugoslavia, Ru-
mania, and some said Sweden. 1t
was more than Napoleonic-Poland
in Is days; Norway in 81; Holland
in 5. So what next? England by
parachute? France by tank?
There was serious talk Of moving
the French government out of Paris
destination unknown. England
rounded up another 5000 Germans
and Austrians between the ages of
16 and 60: two-thirds of them refu-
gees from the nasty Nazi terror at
home. Some quarter-million Eng
lish volunteers enrolled to sharp
shoot parachuters, and Premier
Winston Churchill nervously prom
ised his new constituents blood, and
sweat, and toll, and tears-always
a clever psychological trick in deal
ing with logged Englishmen.
German authorities indicated that
the government of any of their 'pro-
tectorates" depended on how much
resistance the protected had put
up. Thereby, Denmark was getting
grade-A treatment, Norway perhaps
grade-B, and Poland a very low
grade indeed. Holland was expect
ed to get a rating similar to that of
the Morse, though perhaps a trifie
lower. For the Dutch had fought
rather hard
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-05-30

Another reason for not commit
ting bigamy is that it's the more
the wOrrier.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-05-30

n cabinet post for this hero OF perdun.
miles of that not so gay Paree. The
Belgian government decamped to
safer spot, Ostend on the channel.
In at least four places, the Ger
mans had pierced the French Magi-
not line extension, back of the Bel
gian border. DR.. Robert Ley, the
not very Nordic Nazi minister of la
Dor, announced that the German
army was performing a "God-given
natural mission" The Field Grays,
he added, intended to make the
world ''happy and reasonable. But
the French refused to be happy,
and the English were certainly not
feeling reasonable. In desperation,
the English Churchill government
began to WOO Russia with a new
and more friendly approach'-Rus-
STA, the recent "red beast" that VIC
timized brave little Finland. Mean
while, the United States and the 20
Latin American states went on rec
ord with an official denunciation of
Germany's invasion of Holland and
Belgium. Harsh observers branded
the joint resolve as a Uruguayan
publicity stunt" And in France,
cabinet reshuffle found the hero of
Verdun in the last World war, Henri
Philippe Petain, named as vice pre-
mier to Premier Paul Reynaud.
Bull on Spot
John Bull, said critics, was on the
spot. The state department warned
1000 Americans to get out of Brit
ain, and stay out, and ordered them
to 60 to the peaceful, prosperous
Irish Free State. It was indicated
that a Yankee rescue ship would
fish the U. S. refugees out of the
emerald Fire. But many Ameri-
cans refused to leave ]. Bull.
S,Ueden Ouernatched
Sweden was nervous as bullying
German troops, in Norway, were re-
ported massed on the Swedish bor-
der-whence comes more than a
third of the German iron supply.
But that was not all. The entire
Swedish match industry, turning out
10000, 0O0, 900 matches per year, was
closing down because it could not
export. Sweden is-or-has no match
for Hitler" exploded a wit. But
fine Swedish iron continued to pour
out of Swedish Lappland.
Italy Talks Big
Mussolini and his loud cohorts
continued to threaten the allies with
war in the Mediterranean. Roose-
welt sent the Iron Duce a personal
plea not to enter the conflict, but
Italian troops (and Germans, tool
massed by the plucky little Swiss
frontiers. Mussolini's admiration for
Roosevelt has always been strictly
limited. But TO- 900 American nurses
liked Roosevelt much better. They
pledged him their professional aid,
if needed, at national nursing con-
vention in Philadelphia.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-05-30
Endless

Father-Remember, my child,
curiosity killed the cat.
Janey-How, daddy?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-05-30
Abandon Mistakes

Any man may make mistake;
none but a fool will stick to it.
Second thoughts are best.-Cicero-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-05-30
Belgian Bungle

Brussels, Namur, Liege, and Lou
vain fell as the Germans pushed
ahead in Belgium. (The three big
Belgian fortifcation sites were Ma
muir, Liege, and Antwerp.) The Bel
gians, on the whole, fought better
than the Dutch, but as the Belgic
capital surrendered to Hitler, the
German invaders were within rs
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-05-30
Conceited People

COHccltcu TcOple
I've never any pity for conceit-
ed people, because I think they
carry their comfort about with
them.-George Eliot.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-04-05

u,a would like to borrow the
,..octer of the Wonderful SEN
Ca 4a- from or for a day. We can't
ssS' the name of the real Sena-
= because he was speaking off
- record, so we'll just say it was
-. - wonderful Senator from or
. - curiosity was drawn to
VIM " made a study Of the phenO-
m =" We present his views not
s n,' we agree with him, ex-
osUt in some points, but because it
lives YOU the reaction of an Amer
;"on statesman, who may some
dsv be President, on a subject
w hi we will do well to study dis
passiOnately'
The Wonderful Senator from or
fools that anti-Semitism in Amer
lea is largely based on economics.
I'm a great many small towns in
The South" he said, there isn't
anv such thing as anti-Semitism,
although on the surface it would
seem that the whole social sys-
tenn, in the" South, would lead to
anti-Semitism. In tn e s e small
towns there are few Jewish fami-
lilies. A Jewish boy or girl, growing
I'D, necessarily must seek nom
Jewish companionship. And each
Jewish family has many Gentle
friends. We never hate people we
really know. And in these small
southern towns all the Jews are
well-known to their townspeople,
and well liked and respected"
In certain big Eastern and Far
Western centerS where the Jewish
communities have fewer contacts
with GentiIes, since they are self
sufficient to themselves, you will
find the worst kind of anti-Semi-
tiSm, said the Wonderful Senator
from Or. Reason: The Gentiles
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-04-05

that our COnServatOire, which even
before the war has had a hard
struggle, would be obliged to close
its doors. What would become of
us? 1t was then that Mr.. HOuSer
decided to brave the dangers of
ocean travel in wartime and went
on to America to enlist the help
of musicians and music lovers for
the cause of music in Palestine.
"And now, dear Mr.. Menuhin,
comes the happy news that you
are to give concert on our be-
half. We need no longer dread
losing our second and last oppor-
tunity to go on with our musical
studies. We thank you again and
with all our hearts. You may be
assured that we shall do our ut
most to justify your implicit faith
in us.
VERY sincerely yours,
IL. Kanewitz and G. Golinsky
"for the Students Association
To which MenuIlin replied:
''Dear Friends:
at is a privilege for which
am deeply grateful-this one, of
releasing from fearful oppression
a few, how very few, of those
who pray for it. May you succeed
in your turn, some day, to bring
to bear the soul of beautiful music
upon the sufferings of humanity
wishing you the very best
Sincerely,
"Yehudi Menuhin"
Incidentally, Prof. Albert Elm
stein will attend a benefit perfor-
nance for the Conservatoire to be
given in New York on April 8 by
his young protege, Boris Schwartz,
pianist. Prof. Einstein aided Boris
to come here from Berlin in 1888
and nine months later it was pos
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-04-05
frankly Speaking
BY PAT FRANK

don't really know their Jewish
neighbOrs.
Ihere are four or five million
Jews in the United States" said
the Senator. IF each one had five
Gentle ends-I mean real
Irlends-there wouldn't be any an
ti-Semitism."
Inc Wonderful Senator from On
doesn't think the Jews have been
very smart in meeting the crisis
that has followed the rise of Hit
ler's racist theories. He thinks
we've allowed ourselves to become
panicky without reason, on some
questions, and that on others we
haven't spoken out, when there
was need to speak out. AS a mat
Ter OF fact, he thinks that Jew
ism public relations have been very
poor, as compared with the pub-
tic relations Of the Catholic
church. Sometimes, he thinks. we
play into the hands of the clever
Nazi prOpagandists. He cited GER
tain instances, where Jewish or
CARNATIONS have been affiliated
with unpopular causes. every
Jewish organization should take
care" he said, mot to hurt all of
Jewry."
Inc Jews must never forget, he
said, that there are a good many
people who have made of anti
Semltlsm a racket, and that so
long as anti-Semitism pays divi-
bends they won't give it up. When
Jew-hating is no longer lucrative,
when they are no longer able to
get anonymous contributions from
wealthy crackpots who dream of
being the powers behind an Amer
lean Hitler, they'll drop it and
start something else.
The Fascist groups in this coun-
try, thinks the Wonderful Senator
from or, have never given up
their hope of finding their Man
on Horseback. He thinks Huey
Long might have been the man,
had he not been assassinated. He
doesn't think COughlin could ever
win the confidence of all the Fas-
cists. He laughs at the pretensiOns
of General MOseley.
He doesn't feel that any member
of Congress, except one who is a
notorious nincompoop and probab-
ly won't be back next session.
would allow himself to be placed
in the position of representing the
Nazi-Fascist elements, no matter
how some of the Congressman
hunger for power. "They know
he said, that there is not one
state where Fascism is popular"
On the other hand he doesn't
think the threat to American jew
ry will wholly pass until hatred
has died out in Europe. "Hitler-
iSm," he said, 'iS like a fostering
sore that pOisOns the whole body
polite" He doesn't pretend to
guess how many years it will be.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-04-05
Music To My Ears
Music in Palestine
BY DANIEL SCHORR


III is reported that Felix Woin-
gartner, renowned Swiss conduc-
IOr' whose name once represented
the best of music in Vienna, is to
visit Palestine. The Holy Land has
been attracting increasing atten-
t1On because of the intensity of
the Jewish cOmmunity's love for
music, stimulated by the influx of
refugee musicians from Europe.
When Arturo Toscanini visited
the country to conduct the Pales-
tine Symphony Orchestra he was
amazed at the enthusiasm for mu-
sic he found there. Artists who
nave performed in the Holy Land
n ave been similarly impressed.
Erlka Morini, the famous woman
vlolinist, relates that when she
played in Palestine, Whenever
they liked the piece they would
come up and shake hands in be-
tween times, and I also had the
most marriage proposals there"
But you may have heard that
economic conditions are not of
the best in Palestine right now,
and musical activities are affected.
In this connection, we have been
given copy of an interesting let
ter written by the Students As
ISOLATION of the Palestine Conserv-
at1Ore of Music in Jerusalem to
Yehudi Menuhin thanking the vi
Ol1nist for arranging a benefit in
the schools behalf. The letter fol-
lows:
"The students of the Palestine
Conservatoire of Music in Jeru-
salem feel that we must thank
you-or try to-for your great
generosity in giving a concert in
New York for our Conservatoire.
Perhaps we can thank you best
by telling you just what it means
to us to have the encouragement
of so highly gifted and eminent
artist as yourself.
"There are $50 students here
from Central Europe at the Pal
estine Conservative of Music.
What we suffered under Hitler we
need not describe to you. Our only
thought was of escape from that
hell. Of carrying on our musical
studies we hardly dared to dream.
When we had given up all hope,
MIR. Emil Hauser, Director of the
Conservative, suddenly came and
took the most talented students
to Palestine with him. Thanks to
the students immigration certifi-
Gates obtained by the COnserva-
tiOre from the Palestine Govern
ment, 70 of us were actually taken
out of concentration camps.
when we came to Palestine,
the Conservatoire not only pro-
vided for our material needs, but
gave us instructors who were even
superior to those we had had in
Vienna, Berlin, and Prague. Here,
within the walls of the Conserva-
toire, there is complete collabora-
ton between Jews and non-Jews.
We could hardly believe our good
fortune.
'"But, we soon were to have new
anxietieS. War broke out in Eu-
rope and threw a heavy shadow
over Palestine as well. A severe
economic depression set in, con-
tributiOnS fell off and it seemed
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-04-05

Dr. Julian MOrgenstern (EFT president of the
Colleges Dr. Louis Finelstein (CENTER provost
Theological Seminary Spege IGT)
uly of the Jewish Institute of Religion, judges
the contest the life being
the National among
ian and Jewish college undergraduates.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-04-05

sible to rescue his father. Father
and son teach at the Settlement
Music School in Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1940-06-16

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