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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-09
in War Material Production
Angle on Vital u. S. Problem

ysis, issued this year by the Penn
sylvania department of labor and in
dustry, speaks for itself. ga minor
girl employed by food products
manufacturing concern, while en-
gagged in asserting tomatoes, had
her thumb crushed, necessitating
amputation at the first joint. This
accident occurred just four hours
after she was accepted for work
without an employment certificate.
''The cause of this accident can
readily be traced to the fact that
this girl was given no opportunity
to learn gradually the intricacies of
the operation of such machinery.
Had she received the proper instruc-
tons concerning it, the accident
might not have happened"
Migratory Problem.
In the field of child labor our most
serious problem today is that of mi
gratory labor. Last year in New
Jersey legislation was passed which
seeks to better the conditions of
children employed in industrial ag-
riculture. For 35 years families have
been brought into New Jersey from
other states, notably Pennsylvania,
to work in cranberry boys and on
truck farms. Miserable conditions,
excessive work and low pay have
been the rule. The new law raises
the age at which children may leave
school to work. It also makes il
legal the work of nonresident chill
dren when the schools of the dis
trict in which they are living are in
session or when the schools of the
states in which they maintain local
residence would require their at
tendance.
The effect of industrial migration
upon the children of migrant fami-
lies, was described as detrimental
by Paul S. Taylor before the LaFol-
lette civil liberties committee.
"Incessant migration retards the
education of children. A few Ameri-
can parents are beginning to COM
plain that their children cannot write
as good English as they. There is
a growing consciousness that for
many of their kind the future por-
tends not progress from generation
to generations, but retrogression."
Members of the national child Ia
Dor committee deplore the fact that
16 years is the minimum age at
which children may leave school for
work in only IL states.
In defense of their position, they
point out that 'those who are now
our children will in future years be-
come our citizens. How will they
meet the dicult problem ahead of
us as nation? How can they solve
the democratic and educational
challenge of the future?"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-09

been doing for several months. De-
tense expenditures are already dou-
BILE the amount of six months ago,
and are scheduled to go much high
er soon. While it lasts, this spend
ing provides employment to larger
number of workers and thus in
creases their ability to buy.
The gain in income from higher
prices and greater demand may be
partly Offset by higher costs of pro-
duction during the coming year. In
spite of this, however, the outlook
for agriculture during 1871 is favora-
BILE. Farmers and business men in
rural communities are very likely to
have the best year in more than a
decade.
Prospects for industry are also ia
vorable, and the output of factories
is expected to be around 10 per
cent higher than the all-time peak
production last year. Those indus
tries directly affected by war or
ders and defense expenditures, such
as steel, machinery, aircraft, and
shipbuilding, will continue to make
the greatest gains. Other lines of
industry are moving forward under
the stimulus of greater consumer
purchasing power. The outlook is
that balanced upward trend will
continue for both agriculture and in
dustry.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-09
ASK NE
ANOTHER
The Questions

l. Do any birds hold their food in
their claws while eating?
2. Article I of the Constitution
is concerned with what?
3. At what hour is reveille sound
ed in the U. S. army?
4. What is the longest verse in
the Bible?
5. What is the width of the strip
of land composing the Panama
Canal Zone?
6. Who coined the phrase: 81
am on the side of the angels?
7. A perfdious man is what?
8. In what month of the year is
the earth nearest to the sun?
9. Does a person have to take
pennies in payment for a debt?
10. In Greek legend, who tried to
fly, but fell into the sea when he
rose too near the sun and the wax
on his wings melted?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-09

A RE you planning things that
= will sell well at a Fair or
Bazaar? Or is this the season that
you catch up on odds and ends of
sewing for the house? In either
case you will like to stitch up a
bag like this one. Everyone seems
to have a special use for one of
these bags on a hanger. I have
one that l use for laundry when
I go travelling. Men and boys like
them for closet laundry bags too,
as they are plenty big enough
for shirts. A little girl know has
a small version of one of these in
which she keeps doll clothes
scraps. have also seen them
used for everything from dress
patterns to dust rags.
This green and white ivy pat
termed chintz with green facing
makes a good looking bag. Pic
torial chintz will amuse a young
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-09
AROUND
I THE HOUSE

A little sweet cream spread over
the top crust of a pie before it
is put into the oven will make the
crust brown and f1aky.
Filling the icebox with scraps of
leftover food is a waste of room
and usually of food. Never allow
them to accumulate.
Windows may be kept clean and
clear during the winter if rubbed
over with glycerine occasionally,
then polished with a dry cloth.
When a sweater is washed the
buttonholes will not stretch if they
are sewed together before the
sweater is put into the water.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-09
Transier1ts Require
Medical Assistance

TranSientS, variouSly estimated at
200, 900 to 1000, 900, are con the road"
and for the most part are unable to
procure the necessities of life with
out assistance. The general welfare
of the whole country is closely linked
to the health problem presented by
this class of needy persons, accord
ing to a bulletin recently published
by the U. S. Public Health Service.
These "on the road" people are
Disseminated against in programs
of material aid and public medical
care through the application of resi-
dence and related requirements,
Passed Assistant Surgeon Charles F.
Blankenship and Fred Safer, Asso-
ciate Social Science Analyst, au-
thors of the study, state in this new
bulletin.
The Public Health Service points
out that migration is an outstand-
ing characteristic of the United
States" Economic improvement is
the main incentive for migration.
Since it is true that almost two
thirds of the agencies giving medi-
cal care to tranSientS restrict care
to either emergency or selected
cases, the difficulties facing the
transient who required public med
ical care are matters of serious con-
Germ.
Illness Rate High.
"Transients, either interstate or
intrastate, have considerably more
disabling illness than persons who
have resided in communities long
enough and under such conditions as
to have the status of residents. In
trastate tranSientS have even higher
disabling illness rates than have the
interstate group.
However, as illness strikes more
frequently, the result seems to be
that further migration is delayed
and often the migrant settles down
in some community and eventually
becomes a resident. This tendency
may be responsible for the high rate
of illness and disease found in cities
among the local homeless, many of
whom may well be former interstate
transients disabled for migration
by chronic or recurring diseases"
Data on medical care received by
transients reflect the results of the
limitations imposed on the group.
No class or type of nonresidents,
except special beneficiaries of the
federal health services, receives as
much medical care as even the poor
in resident groups. Although most
students of the subject agree that
care received by many residents
is not adequate for the maintenance
of health, the report shows that
tranSientS receive even less care
than do residents. AS result illness
is more common among transients.
1t is important that migration and
transiency must be recognized as
permanent characteristics of Amer
lean society and that an organiza-
ton of federal level should be Great
ed to direct and influence migration
the Public Health Service insists.
Through the planned cooperation
of the federal and state governments
medical care should be provided for
all needy persons, regardless of resi-
dence. Particular concentration of
transients in a state should be con-
sidered special health problem in
the allotment of federal funds for
local public health facilities.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-09
G. en- E RAJ
HUGH S.
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Washington, d. C.
Dr aHrr DnnnrrnUNNy

Phil Murray's plan for increased
plane production may be wrong in
places, but it has at least a germ
of the right idea in it. Boiled down
to its bones, what he proposes is
to make a single great production
unit out of the whole automobile in
dustry, instead of a cluster of COM
peting companies.
That idea was also at the center
of his earlier plan to speed produc-
ton by creating a control board for
each industry. That also is the idea
of treating such industry as a unit
and so mobilizing each separately
and then marshalling all these great
units in one combined economic reg
iment for defense production.
That is exactly the essence of
what was done in the war industries
board in 1918. 1t is exactly what
is not being done in the Knudsen
four-man production office.
What the war industries board did
was to request each great industry
to appoint a war service" commit
tee, which could speak and receive
the governments instructions for the
whole industry. Then there were Or
ganiZed in the board commodity
committees" one for each or more
industries. 1t never became neces-
sary to make this alignment and
method too formal or sticky, but it
was an arrangement that enabled
the organization of the government
overhead to mesh with the overhead
control within each industry, like
the interlined fingers of your two
claSped hands.
Every production problem was
broken down by industries and con-
sidered in joint meeting of these
committees or their representatives.
It is the only quick way to explore
the productive facilities of each in
dustry, to prevent overlapping, con-
fusion and waste, to determine the
merits of vexed questions of priori-
ty, relative effort and bottlenecks.
It created a kind of piano key
board upon which federal industrial
control can produce, or try to pro-
duce, all the harmonies and effects
of which our economic music box is
capable. Indeed if you don't have
that, in view of the immense vol
ume of material and the vast COM
pick of American industry, you are
simply fumbling in a jungle of OBJ
securities, cross purposes and divid-
ed interests, with never enough facts
to decide wisely or we'll and with
not enough controls to act with full
effect, even if you could decide.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-09

ster-something with animals or
toys or a landscape in the design.
l saw a material the other day
with pattern showing all kinds
of rope knots. A boy would like
that. Each step in making the
bag is shown in the sketch.
In SEWING Book 3 there are directions
for still another type of bag on hanger.
also a pocket for the pantry door. This
book contains directions for the spool
shelves; stocking cat; The rug that grew
up with the family and many other OF
your favorites among articles that have
appeared in the paper. Send order to:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-09
A Quiz With Answers
Offering Information
on Various Subjects
The Answers

l. Only the parrot does.
2. The congress.
3. At $50 a. m.
4. Esther 80 is said to be the
longest verse in the Bible, and the
Gospel of John 11:35 is said to be
the shortest.
5. Ten miles wide Is miles on
each side of the canal route).
6. Benjamin Disraeli.
7. Faithless.
8. In January.
9. Nickels and one-cent pieces
are legal tender only for amounts
up to Is cents. In other words a
person would not have to accept
payment for a debt of more than
Is cents in pennies or nickels.
10. Icarus.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-09
MERRY-GO-ROUND

The isolationist America First
committee is doing much more eff
fective job of organizing units in col
leges than its rival Committee for
the Defense of America by Aiding
the Allies. America First has sew
eral hundred college branches while
the opposition has only twelve.
According to the Republican,
monthly COP. journal, thousands
of letters have been received by
Wendell Willkie and other party
leaders urging them to change the
name of the Republican party"
Every time Solicitor General
Francis Biddle walks up the CORR
dor on the fifth floor of the justice
department to confer with Attorney
General Jackson, he passes the pic
ture of a famous ancestor. Biddle
is direct descendant of Edmund
Randolph, first attorney general of
the United States.
That set of dishes Mrs. Roosevelt
purchased at the recent National Art
week exhibition was made by Gary
Owls, an Indian boy from the Cher
okee reservation in North Carolina.
He learned to make the dishes un-
der NYA instruction.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-09
By L. G. ELLIOTT
president, LaSalle Extension
University

The farmers of the country will
probably receive $500,000, 900 larger
income this year than they did in
1910. During the next few months
they will be marketing the remain
der of their last years crop, which
was larger than average. For most
of these crops they will receive
prices which are above the level Of
a year ago.
Farmers benefit when employ
ment and pay rolls in the cities are
high. Demand for their products is
increased whenever the income of
industrial workers rises, as it has
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-09
TOOL BOTTLE-NECK

There is a tremendous reservoir
of machine tool capacity and skilled
tool and pattern makers idle in this
country at a time when mass pro-
duction is our greatest need, and it
isn't coming.
In talking with a considerable va
riety of people I find much confu-
sion about what machine tools real
ly are. In my varied career of jack
Recommendations, I
was once responsible for a forge
shop, a machine shop, an engine
and an automobile factory-such as
they were.
Many people seem to have an
idea that machine tools are like a
carpenters box of tools-saws, plan
ers, chisels, square and maybe,
plumb-bob and ball of blue chalk.
They aren't like that at all. Vol
umes have been written on what
they are like and it is not my pur-
pose to try to reproduce those vol
umeS here, further than to say that
machine tools are the instruments
of American mass production. They
have enabled us to produce an au-
tomobile for, say, $500, that in an
other country, with other methods,
would cost $7,000-and to produce
them by thousands day where, in
another method, we should do well
to produce 10 a day.
They are giant stamping machines
that produce a whole automobile
frame, for example, in one opera
ton. They are batteries of ma
chimes that receive raw iron at one
end of the production line and turn
out completed butt-welded and
painted steel pipe at the other on a
flat car, with scarcely a human
hand intervening. They are forging
machines that will do on a single
trip what it would take a battery of
blacksmiths three months to do.
There are drill-presses, lathes and
automatic screw machines that, set
to the proper gauges, will turn out in
a few motions hundreds of perfected
parts of this or that complicated
piece of machinery of instruments
of modern mechanical warfare,
with more accuracy than all the an
clients ever dreamed.
But these things do go in bat
teries. Their operations have to be
planned months, if necessary, in ad-
vance.
Some consideration of this brief
sketch will suggest how important
are tool makers to swift mass pro-
duction. 1t isn't just that they make
the working tools for the machines
that produce these miracles. They
also make the tools that make the
tools that do the job. There are no
words adequate to express the I'M
portance of these men to any pro-
duction program. What Phil Muir
ray says is that there are about
10000 of them unemployed, or only
part-time employed. That's a con-
siderable percentage of the total.
Here is our real bottleneck.
Part of this is due to the habits of
our industry. These men are paid
very high wages because they don't
expect to be employed more than a
few months year. Now we need
them all the months.
The habits aren't important. What
this situation needs is sparkplug
and he hasn't yet appeared. In
World war No. /, the slogan was:
"It can't be dOne-but here it is"
Today, the slogan seems to be: "It
can't be done" Where is the man?
Can't we get some action without
declaring war?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-09
Fished Out?

The leanest commercial fishing
season on Lake Erie in history
bore out common belief among
commercial fishermen that the
lake has been ''fished out" Not
one sturgeon was caught all year,
while formerly it accounted for
thousands of dollars annually.
Catches of pike and perch were
so light that sometimes fishing
boats were held in port for
weeks.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-09

Long hours of hard work are the
lot of this young boy employed on
a turpentine plantation.
positive world attitude towards GER
tain age-old problems. Among these
problems child labor was beginning
to assume international proportions.
1t was the beginning of a world
harmony on this and other allied
subjects which seemed for a time
about to stabilize the precarious
peace of the world.
Child labor standards have not re-
manned unaffected by the present
world crisis. A brief newspaper
paragraph from Toronto, Canada,
which appeared late in 1910, states
that SIT will not be uncommon to
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-09
What Matters

1t is not what you have that
matters, it is what you do with
what you have.-Grenfen.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-09
In DIG ESTION
may affect the Heart

I,ay ehsea .iiS iiSet
Gas trapped In the stomach sulet may act Ike
hairtrigger the heart At the first sign Of distress
smart men and women depend on Ben ans Tablets to
set gas free. No laxative but made OF TIE fastest
acting medicines known for acid indigestion II tbs
FIRST DOSE doesn't prove Bell-ans better. return
bottle to and receive DOUBLE Money Back sc.
La gaceta., 1941-05-23
Aprobo Ell Senado la ley que aumentara
ell precio de las chapas de los coches
Los bOnOs devengaran un interes 41a% y a
Enmiendas a la ley de compensation

Tallahassee, mayo 23.-El Sc
nsdo aprob6 Ia ley que aumenta
los precios de Gas lcencias de
los AUTOMOBILES para el aho pro
ximo. La mayoria de los coches
que actualmente pagan $40, "a
aho venidero pagaran SIS. La
lieencia del chofer costara este
aho un dollar, en- octubre, en- lu-
gar de so cts. De hoy a mahana
firmara la ley Ell gobernador
Holland.
La delegation def condado de
Hillsborough aprob6 anoche u
ma ley que autoriza a la eiudad
de Tampa para emitir bonos va
lusdos en- 100000 y con 81 di
nero exteuder Y mejorar 81 SER
La gaceta., 1941-05-23
NOTA DE DUELO
Benjamin Cordero

Dei6 de existir aver en- su
domcilio, 1717 de Columbus
Drive, ell estimado ciudadano
E.niamin Cm5sro, or.iguo y
cIari5o enr'eg3o dsl "Restau-
ant Columbia. Una enferme-
dad de corta duraci6n le arreba-
10 la vida.
Has'a Ia samana pasada des-
Cmpeh6 CCrdero sus laboro5 el
Csc s.able..micnto y sus ami.
Cos no creian que su vida sc Ia
llaba en- peligro.
Hoy por la tarde, a las $50,
5a verl cara el e~ntierro, en- el
c,menter.o Woo3lawn.
A 81 viu5a, Sra. Angela Cor
fero. hacemo3 presente nueslra
condolencia.
Era un hombre de bien y IN
Cn6rgi,o repu5licano espanOl.
d sanse en- paz.
La gaceta., 1941-05-23

lBicknell, Indiana. mayo 23.-
En- una explosion en- Ia Bicknell
Coal Company, una nina de car
bon, produjo la muerte a 8 per-
sOnas.
Sicte cadaveres fueron reco-
gidos, luego de que los dos pri-
meros habian sido sacados a la
superficie, en- horas de la mama
ma. Los siete cuerpoS pleSentan
grandes Quemaduras y Sc hrra
tc5o 10 possible para iGentifi-
carlos.
New York. mayo 23,-La RAJ
dio alemana admite la desapa-
rici6n de un submarine manda-
10 por el comandante Prien, 81
"h6roe' que atac6 y hurdi6 cl
acorazado Royal Oak, EN- octu.
bre de 1889.
LondreS, mayo 23.-La escua
dra inglesa Sc ha apoderado de
otro tanque frances de menor
tamaho que ell "Scherehezade"
ell apresado anteayer en- ell A.
larti %. Los vapores franesses
han resuelto suspender su esca-
la en- Manila, Filipinas, por te-
NOR a ser internados.
Washington, mayo 23.-M
almirante Land, presidents de
la Comisi6n martina, recomen-
do hoy a un eomite del senado
que Sc use la fuerza para que los
maluinistas vuelvan al trabalo
en- los astilleros de California.
Estima 6l que los maquinistas
no tienen derecho a paralizar
las labores de un crecido n1me-
no de obreros que trabajan en-
La gaceta., 1941-05-23
Ell CLIO GANO LA ELECTION
EN- LA FABRICA DE FORD

Detroit, mayo 23.-Ics O.
braros Unijos del AUtom6vil, or
ganizaci6n afiliada al Clio, con-
ruiet6 aver, p0r medo de una
election, ell deraaho a rapresan-
tar a los trabajadcres de la IA
brica lie Ford en- River Rouge y
tam5i6n en- las ~peluahas fabri-
cas- de la Lincoln. FL resultadO
significa una completa derrota
para Ia Federation Americana
DEF Trabajo.
Green los lt3eras del CIO que
lcac cbrercs de la Federation y
y los ir5ependientes pasaran a
su union dentro de pOcos dias.
Inm-diatamente Sc inic,aran
las ncgociaciones para un con-
trato incluycH3o un anmento lie
10 ~centavos por bora.
La gaceta., 1941-05-23
JUNTA DE LA UNION 462
OfeIio Sc retro

Celebr6 aver una importante
reunion la Union 462 de taba-
c1eros, presidida por Cahedo.
Sc hicieron nombramientos
para Ell nuevo executive, que se
confirmaran Ell pr6ximo hnes.
Ofelio Garcia pidi6 que "a
junta sc APPLAUSE, slegando que
"a hojita anunciandDla no Sc
habia repartido a tempo.
La mayoria acord6 desesti-
mar su petici6n. ofelio habl6
chandose en- compahia de un
grupo de ocho o diez.
Cuando baj6, uno de los IT,
5eres del grup.to psn5enciero
lie diio: LLAMA a junta por tn
cuenta."
Cr6ese que Ofelio no seguira
el ecuivocado conseio.
Durante la session no Sc le per
milo hablar a un obrero por
habeqse comprobado que paga-
ba sus Quotas a la Union 500,
no a la 462.
La gaceta., 1941-05-23
La victoria en- Creta parece
%nclinarse hacia lnglatera
Ell Almirantazgo dice que los nazis exageran.
Turquia no permitira que los alemanes
dominen a Siria

Lcndres, mayo 23.-LA bata-
LA en- Creta es intensa, pero las
tropas inGaeEtas mantienen SUI
perioridad sobre dos nazis inva-
sores.
Los nazis solo han beupa61
un punto de Importance, alre-
dedor del aer6droho de Male
mi, a 10 millas de Gambia.
En- las Gltimas horas Sc acen-
ia inclination Favorable hacia
Inglaterra, que deSde el mar i'm
pide la llegada de refuerzos ma
zis y fascistas. "Mientras nues-
ira marina domino Ell mar, Sc di-
jo en- esta capital, ell enemigo no
podra deeembarcar tropas en- la
isla. Sus refuerzos tendran que
mandarlos por ell aire Y seran
perseguidos y cazados.
No existen en- Creta, segdhl
Ell mando, frentes o lineas de co
muni9aciones. "Cada hombre
para 81 mismo".
Mudlos de los aviones "su-
kas' de los alemanes fueron dies
truidos pOr Ell fuego de la escuS-
dra o sacramento averiados.