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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-20
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When plates or dishes are burned
after baking they can be easily
cleaned by rubbing them with a
cloth dipped in salt.
To remove grease marks from
book pages: Sponge with benzene,
then place pages between blotting
paper and press with hot iron.
Be careful when grating lemon
rind that you do not crate any of
the white part underneath the
skin, which contains no lemon
flavor and is very bitter. The
lemon flavor comes from the oil
found only in the yellow rind at
the surface.
To remove printing from -four
bags, cover bags with kerosene and
let soak "a hours; then cover with
cold water, naphtha soap cut up
fine, and bring to boil. Boil 20 min
utes; then wash on washboard as
you would anything. If the color
isn't all out put in cold water,
naphtha soap and a little kerosene
and boil again.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-20

If curtains are dry before being
starched they will keep clean
longer.
Turn the handles of pots and
pans on the stove out of reach of
small children.
Hot pans should never be set on
porcelain surfaces as the heat
cracks the porcelain.
When preparing bread crumbs
for escalloped dishes, croquettes,
etc., tie a cloth or paper bag over
the mouth of the meat grinder
and put the bread in. The crumbs
will then be deposited in the bag
instead of being scattered on the
floor.
To lime your house plants, save
all egg shells. Keep the shells in
a jar of cold water and use the
water on the plants.
Never use a sharp instrument to
loosen the ice trays in your re-
frigerator; you might puncture the
coils. Take dull instrument and
use it as wedge under the rim.
When you replace the trays, wipe
them with a cloth. It's the freez-
ing of the excess water that makes
trays stick.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-20
MERRY-GO-ROUND

Able young assistant to the attor-
ney general Matt Mcclure is headed
for judicial appointment, probably
the vacancy created by the recent
retirement of Justice Petyton Cor
don of the U. S. district court for the
District of Columbia.
Presidential Secretary Steve Ear
ly has on his desk brown bottle of
vitamin pills, gift of Joe Tunulty,
former secretary to Woodrow VIII
son. Says Tumulty: s'I wish they
made vitamin pills when I had your
job"
House Foreign Affairs Chairman
Sol Bloom has been taking no
chances of his files being rified re-
garding the Lend-Lease bill. He has
detectives guarding his office day
and night.
Louis Brandeis, resigned Supreme
court justice, 86, is proud of the fact
that he is still carried on the rolls
as member of the court, subject
to call.
Under pressure of opening up new
listening posts abroad, the state de-
partment has picked a larger crop
than usual from the candidates for
the foreign service.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-20
Mary Vas Looking for
Another Way Out!

The housewife was showing her
new maid through the upstairs
rooms. Finally, they came to q
staircase leading down.
"Now, Mary" said the house
wife, stepping on to the landing,
when you wish to pass down to
the garden, go down this way"
At that moment she slipped, and
was precipitated to the bottom.
GOOD gracious, NUM-" gasped
the maid, "Are we hurt?"
'No; it's nothing" came the re-
ply, as the dishevelled mistress
rose to her feet.
"Then we've got down it fine,
mum!" declared the girl. "But if
that's the way I've got to go down,
the jobs too strenuous for mel"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-20

MO WONDER there's a prideful
l Y prance in this youngsters
step as she goes forward to more
and better playtimes. It's the
frock she's proud of-any little girl
will be proud of it, and there's no
reason why your own daughter
shouldn't have half a dozen just
such, because it's so easy to make.
Take a look at the small diagram
drawing, to convince yourself how
quickly and simply you can finish
it.
Design No. 8840 is easy for even
a two-year old to get into all by
herself, because it goes on like a
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-20
The ANSWERS
1. julius Caesar.
Q Thirty nar cont

l.. Julius Caesar.
2. Thirty per cent.
3. James Wilson, who was Sec
rotary of agriculture from 1897 to
1918.
4. Army records show that $685.
274 regulars and volunteers fought
in the Revolutionary war.
5. Three Presidents-John Ad-
ans, Thomas Jefferson and
James Monroe.
6. The farthest distance ever
travelled by any starfish is ap-
proximately 5000 feet.
z. Seven. 1t is Invisible by no
number except itself and one.
8. The moon is one-fourth in
size. It's diameter is about 1000
miles, the earth's about 5000
miles.
9. In 1907 the Selby Smelling
Works of San Francisco paid the
Mohawk Mine of Nevada $574, 958
for 4734 tons of gold ore, this price
of $12,041 per ton being the high
est ever recorded in the history of
gold mining.
10. Faith, hope and charity.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-20
GEN E RAJ
HUGH S.
JOH N SON
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un;,.d E.s;;,,r-, wNu ssc.Ss
wNu Sr0
Washington, ID. c.
FOR WHAT?'

What is needed by our war-mind-
ed men is some slogan OF high pur-
pose like MAKE the world safe
for democracy" That one is just
a little like offering cheese to the
mouse caught in cheese baited
trap. He doesn't want any more
cheese. So the trial balloons are 60
ing up on another one-"Union
Now" 1868
1 wrote a piece on the ballyhoo
for a federation of English speak
ing peoples. In it used the ex-
preston "Union Now and said that
what is now proposed is to unite
us with the British empire under
something like the Articles of Con-
federation under which the Is Col
onies fought the Revolution-which
means, of course, in addition to
Union Now" "War Now" l ar
gued that all the Articles" made
was a league of nations proved by
both of them and the later inter-
national league to be futile and I'M
workable. ... --
That column drew indignant deni-
ais including one from Clarence
Strait, the author of Union Now"
These denials complained that the
proposal is not to entangle ours with
the destiny of other nations in any
futile league. No, sir. We are 60
ing all the way into an United
States of Earth, in which America
is to be only one state among many
bound, not by weak articles of con-
federation, but by a document like
the Constitution of the United States.
The distinguishing features of that
Constitution are-no secession; con-
troll in a superstate of interstate
commerce, all foreign relations, tax
alton and spending, the right to
make war, to keep troops and ships
of war and the denial of those rights
and controls to the several states
including the U. S. A.
All right. If l misconstrued Mr..
STREET., am sorry. But / didn't
misconstrue the others and I didn't
misconstrue Mr.. STREET very much.
They say, and so I think does he,
that this is only an eventual result.
Right now all we need is articles
of confederation" with these other
nations but las in and after our
Revolution) "as soon as the war is
won" under the new confederation,
we shall create with them a real
federation, on the plan of the Amer
lean Constitution and rub Uncle
Sam out as an independent entity.
1t is all consistent. First these
people sell us into war when it
isn't necessary and, without waiting
for Mr.. Hitler to sell our country
down the river, they want us to do
it ourselves. We commit national
hari-kari, dilute our strength with
the weakness of the world and dis
sipate the wealth and advantage our
fathers fought and labored to create
here, to the four winds of heaven
and the five continents of earth.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-20
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Washington, ID. C.
INDO-CHINESE BASES


NDO-CHINESE BASES
Public attention has been so close
ly riveted on the war in Europe and
upon the LeaSe-Lend debate that
alarming developments in the Far
East have escaped almost I'M
noticed.
This is the fact that the jap
anese are now within definite strik-
ing distance of Singapore and the
Dutch East Indies; and that Berlin
has been urging Japan to become
the aggreSsor in the south Pacific
in order to divert American atten-
ton away from Europe.
No one knows better than the Ger
man foreign office that the Amer
lean people are skittish about hav-
ing two oceans-both Atlantic and
Pacific-churned up at once. So
German attempts to persuade Japan
to focus American attention on the
Far East are nothing new.
Absolutely new, however, is the
fact that the Japanese are in much
more strategic position to take over
the Malays and the Dutch East In
dies-two regions vital to the supply
of American tin and rubber.
For what the Japanese very quiet
ly have done is to occupy the power
full French naval bases of Saigon
and Cap st. Jacques in French Indo-
China.
In gauging possible war in the
Pacific, one should remember that
distance is all-important. A jap
anese fleet cannot cross the Pacific
to attack the United States without
great risk, because of distance. Nor
could it have attacked Singapore,
previously, without grave risk, be-
cause the distance from there to
Japan is almost as great as from
Japan to Honolulu.
Now, however, with the French
Indo-Chinese naval bases in her pos
session, japan is in far better posi-
ton regarding Singapore and the
Dutch East Indies than she would
be regarding California if she occu-
pied Hawaii.
1t still will not be a walkaway for
Japan to take these British and
Dutch possessions, because they are
well fortified. However, the job is
now about so per cent easier.
Strategy which u. S. naval ex-
perts expect Japan to follow is to
begin the attack at the moment Hit
Ter begins his long expected inva-
sion of England. <.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-20
GOVERNMENT CONTROLS

So my old buddy Leon Henderson
told the lumber industry that $50 a
thousand was an outrageous price
for southern pine, that $25 was
enough, that if they didn't get the
price down he was going to do some
thing about it-and then stamped
angrily not only out of the room
but out of Washington.
l think Leon was about 100 per
cent right on his facts and inten-
tions-that, somehow, this tendency
toward soaring prices must be
socked every time it sticks its head
up and that, exactly as in World
War I, it has already started, among
other places, in wholly unjustifi-
able lumber prices.
But to control this danger, govern
ment has got to get in step with
itself. Leon must have forgotten
that he was not back in his old MIRA
days, when government could talk
to industry as unit and tell it, as
Leon frequently and properly did,
to police and discipline itself and,
in the public interest, to purge it's
membership of improper practices.
He could do that then because NRA
made such joint action by govern
ment and any organized industry
lawful.
1t is lawful no longer. Leon
should have a little talk with Thur
man. The latter, Mr.. Arnold, is
trying to put industrial gents in Jail
or at least getting grand jury in
dictments against respectable citi-
zens for potential felonies-if they
act as an industry to do, for exam
pie, what Leon commanded the lum-
Der industry to do. 1t is and has
been declared by all our courts to
be just as fragrant an offense to the
antitrust acts for industrial gents
to combine to put prices down as to
put prices up. The former practice
has proved to be the most effective
weapon of the big fellows to slaugh-
ter competition of the high-cost pro-
duction of little fellows in business.
There is basic fault here which
NRA tried to solve. No other ma
ton condemns outright all industry
wide agreements as Combinations
in restraint of trade" All other
industrial countries condemn only
such agreements as are mot in the
public interest" That is a realistic
recognition that every principal
contract in business is in some re-
spects a restraint of trade. The
NRA formula was that such codes
should not be regarded as violations
of the Sherman and Clayton acts.
Any other policy, especially in
great emergencies, such as that
which MIRA addressed, or in war, is
simple lunacy. At such times, in
dustry must be modified. Saw
age ruthless competition must give
way to about cooperation to defend
the public welfare. Industries must
act as one'at the governments be-
hest. No industry can do that I'M
der Thurman Arnold's conception.
The 1918 War Industries board got
that kind of defensive teamwork.
The attorney general, to make a de-
tense record, kept writing Mr..
Baruch letter each month.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-20
Wise and Otherwise

pLEASE count your change
before leaving it, says a
sign in a restaurant. That's
where some customers take the
count.
Jumping at conclusions is the
only mental exercise some peo-
pie take.
There are too toays of addressing
a golf baIL-one before you suing,
and the other after you miss.
A pessimist is a man who,
when he has the choice of two
evils, chooses both.
A hen is the only creature we
know of who can sit still and
produce dividends.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-20
Removing Upside-Down Cakes

Have you discovered the trick
about removing upside-down cakes
from the pan? First, grease the pan
well with pure vegetable shortening.
Then, after baking, turn the cake
upside down on to a piece of waxed
paper, as soon as it comes from the
oven. Let the pan remain over the
cake about five minutes. The sauce
will cover the cake and will not
stick to the pan if you will remem-
Der this little hint.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-20
A Quiz With Answers
Offering Information
on Various Subjects

S. How many Presidents died on
July 4?
6. Does the starfish travel very
far?
z. Which of the following is a
prime NUMBER, 10 or %?
8. How does the moon compare
with the earth in size?
9. What was the highest price
per ton of gold ever paid?
10. What are the three theological
virtues?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-20
Discoverer of Neon

Neon was discovered by Sir VIII
liam Ramsay and W. M. Travers in
1898. The development of a gaseous
conductor tube employing neon gas
dates back to about 1911, but the
use of neon in commercial advertis-
ing is comparatively recent. Ram
say, distilling liquid air chilled to the
cold temperature of more than 400
degrees below zero, F., obtained
strange gas boiling off, which he
named "neon," meaning new. -
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-20
ASK ME
ANOTHER
The Questions

1. Who fixed the mean length Of
the year at 365A days and de-
creed that every fourth year
should have 366 days?
2. How much of the worlds rail-
way mileage is in the United
States?
8. Who holds the record for the
longest cabinet service?
4. How large was the Continental
army in the Revolutionary war?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-20

coat and buttons all down the
front. It's princess lines are ac-
cented by sweeps of ric-rac up and
down, the neckline is finished with
a little notched collar, and panties
are included, of course.
Pattern No. 8s4o is designed for sizes
2. 3. 4. and 6 years. Size 8 requires.
with long sleeves. yards of 35-inch ging-
ham, percale or linen; with short sleeves.
Ia yards; yards Of ric-rac. Send or
der to:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-20
From Blue Jays to Dinosaurs

blueiay PaIeozoc FOSSIL the National
Washington c., glad Specimens last
These photos so,o how the ta1dmt
about his Job 49,.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-20
As Is Enough

Those who seek for much are
left in want of much. Happy is he
to whom God has given, with spar
ing hand, as much as is enough.
Horace.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-20
Man Is Affected

Histories make men wise; poets,
witty; the mathematics, subtitle !;
natural philosophy, deep; morals,
grave; logic and rhetoric, able to
contend.-Bacon.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-20

Above: The bluejays netU arti-
fetal body is inserted in the feath-
er cloak and setUed inside. The
entire operation takes ttUo and
half hours.
Right: And ,oe might call for
applause for taxidermist Asche-
meier, tUho makes his appearance
at this time. Perhaps he can be
persuaded to stuff butterfly as
an encore.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-20
MADE IN JAPAN

Recently, in a test of equipment
at an army airfeld, four parachute
flares were shot from the ground.
They opened beautifully, but only
three ignited. The fourth was dud.
Several soldiers dashed out to sal
wage the parachute. They are sell
dom recovered, because being made
of paper they usually burn up in the
flare when they reach the ground.
The failure of the dud fare to ig-
mite saved this one.
But on retrieving it, imagine the
soldiers surprise to find on the
chute the interesting little stamp:
"Made in Japan"
The salvaged flare was one of lot
of 5000 purchased several months
ago from an Ohio company. Ord
nance officials admit they knew the
'chutes of the flares were imported
from Japan, but assert they were
forced to use them because at that
time no U. S. firm made the arti-
cles. They say they have now
stopped the use of japanese 'chutes
in new flares.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-20

Our Best Teachers
Instruction does not prevent
waste of time or mistakes; and
mistakes themselves are often the
best teachers of all.-Froude.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-20
CRACKING PEACE FRONT

Meanwhile, the isolationist front
of the strongly pacifistic Women's
International League for Peace and
Freedom is cracking.
Miss Emily Balch, one of the re-
vered founders of the organization,
has rendered her resignation from
the executive board because she dis
approves of the anti-British aid
stand of Miss Dorothy Deter, secre-
tary of the league and one of the
most effective lobbyists in Washing
ton. Miss Balch strongly favors call
OUT aid to Britain.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-20
QUARTERMASTER CAMPS

Here is good news for some lucky
draftees!
Within a few weeks, the army will
announce the establishment of two
placement camps to train likely Sc
lectees for the Quartermaster corps.
First of their kind since the last
war, they will be located at Camp
Lee, Virginia, and Fort Frances E.
Warren, Wyoming.
Selectees with experience as auto
mechanics, electricians, black
smiths, truckers, machinists, paint
ers, radiator repairmen, sheet met
al workers, storage battery experts,
tire repairers, tool makers, uphol-
sterers, and welders will stand the
best chance of getting assigned to
these camps for three-month
course in army buying, maintenance
and transportation methods.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-06-26
THE POTTERS HERALD

Local Union No. ss.-Ralph Girls
pino; Alternate, David Beyan.
Local Union No. lO3.-William
Campbell, Juanita White, Berry Run
ion.
Local Union No. 121.-Arthur
Speakman, Hazel Brown, Earl Hardy,
Esther Thompson, Hugh Daley; AL
ternates, Stella Eells, Steve Tucker,
Orin Thompson.
Local Union No. 122-Marie Adams,
John Hamilton, John Tulip; alter
nate, Alex Robertson.
Local Union No. l2i.-Roy Thomp-
son, Ruth Sullivan, Clair Armstrong,
Lois Coleman.
Local Union No. l3O.-Charles Lar
combe; Alternate, +, J. Hines.
Local Union No. 131.-William
Duke, Edward Gallagher, Robert
Garner, Jack Hebron, Earl Shamp;
alternates, Robert c. Werner, Harold
Russell, Frank Thomas, Richard New
len, Joseph Scott.
Local Union No. 132.-Thomas Cur
ley, Willard Garner; Alternates, Albert
Barmer, Eugene Emmerling.
Local Union No. l33.-Herbert
Ridgley, Harry Mehlman; Alternate,
Charles Vigne, Dean Reed.
Local Union No. 134.-Homer An
sci, w. l.. Thorne, Fred Sanborn; al
ternates, Clarence Rodgers, Patrick
Sherlock.
Local Union No. l4O.-Bert Steph-
ems; alternate, Harry Gabbert.
Local Union No. l41.-George
Heath, Andrew Moon, William Wat
son, Howard Pryor.
Local Union No. 143.-Roy De-
Wanna, Harry SHERMAN; alternates,
Ralph Ecker, Gordon Willinger, Har-
old Ecker.
Local Union No. 46.-James Cof-
fey, Harold Yost; Alternate, Kenneth
Richter, G. Berl Henthorne.
Local Union No. 16O.-Pat Calvert,
Kendall Stiffler; Alternates, Donnelly
Johnston, Ori Negron.
Local Union No. 165.-James
Young, Roy McDaniels; alternates, l.
d. Bailey, Harry Lee.
Local Union No. 17l.-O. L. Sulli-
van; Alternate, Marie Booth.
Local Union No. 172.-Howard
Robson; alternate, Carl Russell.
Local Union No. 174.-Carl Brown;
alternate, James Yanowski
Local Union No. 177.-Floyd Um.
! barger, Joe GrisWold
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-06-26
O'CONOR DECLARES
AID-BRITAN WEEK

New York, N. Y.-Governor Her
bert R. O'Conor of Maryland will de-
calre the week of July 14th to Goth
"Aid British Labor Week" by official
proclamation, according to a state
ment issued by Matthew Woll, Chair
man of the American Labor Commit
tee to Aid British Labor.
The American Labor Committee to
Aid British Labor has asked the gov
ernors of all the states to proclaim
this week Aid British Labor Week so
that all Americans may participate in
the drive of the committee.
Mr.. Woll said that the drive has
been proceeding at pace "more
rapid than any of it's sponsors had
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-06-26
FIFTY-NINE'S LAMENT

FIFTY-NINE'S LAMENT
The day is DER, the race is run,
Yet we still have faith in our favorite
son.
Had he been able to compete,
We feel sure his flying feet
Would, for US the race have won.
But sad to tell, this gallant lad
At the barrier acted bad.
His senses seemed to be confused,
Possibly it was the drinks he used,
Or it could have been the eats he had.
To So it could have been the day
That our members all were proud and
gay,
But woe to US this champ of ours
Has caused US many anxious hours.
Wondering why he ran the wrong
way.
Now this bit of verse is just a feeler
And l do not care to be classed a
squealer,
But the question now on every lip,
Could some kind friend give us the
tip,
What was wrong with Fire Ball"
Buehler? o. G. SO.