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The Ely miner., 1942-10-08
GAS RATIONINC:
For Entire Nation

Rubber Administrator William M.
Jeffers' order for the rationing of
gasoline on a nationwide basis
came as no great surprise to Amer
ica's 27,000,0O0 motorists, fore
warned by the report of the Baruch
committee.
The rationing system, expected to
take effect in November, will be pat
termed after the permanent program
which went into effect in the eastern
states July %. The system permits
a basic ration of 1872 gallons a year,
enough for 1880 miles of travel on
the basis of Is miles per gallon. It
is an average of 3.69 gallons week.
Non-essential motorists receive
"A' books, permitting them to pur-
chase 80 gallons of gasoline over a
three-month period. About So per
cent of the car owners in the eastern
states have "a" cards. A "B" book
permits its user a maximum of 470
miles a month. Those eligible for
such a book are persons with essen
tial occupations. The &c" books are
for individuals engaged in war or
civilian defense activities. They al
low 128 gallons month and holders
may receive as many as they actual
ly need.
In his first statement since his
appointment as rubber czar, Jeffers
called upon the nations motorists to
''be volunteers" in trying to keep
our economic life from breaking
down." He asked for maximum
speed limit of 35 miles an hour, but
told drivers they were to be their
own policemen. He urged that sew
cry citizen ration his own driving
and reduce his own speed" imme-
diately, without waiting for actual
rafiopino
The Ely miner., 1942-10-08
Hot Seat Throne

About 40 years ago, Emperor
Menelik II of Ethiopia ordered
three electric chairs from Amer
lea when he learned that electro
cution was the modern way 10
execute criminals, says Golfers S.
Much to his establishment, the two
that arrived in Adds Ababa could
not be used because they requEed
electricity, which was not yet be
ing generated in his country. So
for years, he used one as royal
throne.
The Ely miner., 1942-10-08
FUEL OIL RATIONS:
Cut to T,Uo-Thirds

Oil-heated homes in 80 eastern and
middle western states will have to
get along with two-thirds of their nor
NAL fuel supply under a new ruling
by the Office of Price Administra-
ton.
"The coupon rationing plan,"
said Paul M. O'Leary, OPA deputy
administrator, sis going to be geared
to an estimated overall average of
331s per cent of normal consump-
ton. We found that the Is per cent
cut, originally planned, would not be
sufficient to provide an adequate
margin of safety and still meet the
fuel shortage"
O'Leary warned that householders
who. cannot heat their homes COM
fortably on two-thirds of the fuel nor
mally used, should convert to coal
if possible.
If furnaces cannot be converted
from oil to other fuels, he said,
''then everything that is possible
must be done to improve the burner
efficiency and to insulate the home
properly"
He pointed out that the household
er who improved the thermal eff
ficiency of his home through insula-
ton and by installing storm doors
and windows, weather stripping and
by overhauling his heating unit
would be rewarded by added COM
fort.
The OPA warned consumers to fill
their tanks before rationing begins.
The Ely miner., 1942-10-08

M is 1ore1gn porn,
L V L writes Emma. "He
lives with us, and there is never
a meal during which the old
man doesn't start up an argu-
ment in praise of the Father
land. He is 83 years old, but
strong and hearty; he owns the
three bakeries of which my hus-
band is manager, and pays me
good board. We have four sons
and a daughter, whose ages range
from II to 6; it is very hard for them
to hear their country criticized, and
it's enemies praised all the time.
cup to this time Grandpa and l
have always been good friends. He
is devoted to my children; he and
they have had a little home or
chestra ever since they were mere
babies; they love him. He putters
around the farm, practices his vio-
lin, likes to help me in the kitchen.
I can boast that there was complete
harmony and serenity in my home
until just these last few months,
when the curse of war seems to have
crept in, and we are having difficult
ties in getting through single meal
without bitterness.
lotto, my husband is the gentlest,
most good-tempered angel with
which any wife and children ever
could be blessed He merely laughs
about all this, and says, Go easy,
Papa; we're all Americans here
But the boys and I find it very hard
to keep our mouths shut. Last night
the third boy, Harry, broke out sud-
denly, You could be sent to con-
centration camp for saying that,
Grandpa!' We were all shocked,
and the old man was reduced to
tears, for Harry is his special IA
vorite.
Gave Her His Farm.
"What can do to get us through
the years that may be ahead, with
out destroying everything toward
which Otto and I have been building
all these years-a happy home,
with nothing but love and kindness
in it? Grandpa wants to live with
us now; he has given me this farm,
but it is his own old home, that he
and his wife built fifty years ago.
He has a right to be here.
ellis only other son has an in
valid wife; we will not breal his
heart by suggesting that he go to
strangers. But this present situa-
ton is almost uncomfortable to me
and I would be deeply grateful for
any solution that you might sug-
gest."
NV solution, Emma, is simple
and effective one. 1t is that you
take the four children into your con-
fidence and play game with Grand
pa. He is too old ever to suspect it
is a game, and its rules are such
that the more outrageous his re-
marks the more fun the children
will have. It consists merely in
politeness.
But not ordinary politeness. The
politeness your children will learn
from this game will last them all
their lives.
To illustrate what I mean: One
of the fighting men of today was
small boy on our mountain ranch
years ago; he spent most of his
summers with us. We have pool
on the ranch, and two generations
of children have learned to swim in
the pool. They begin in the shallow
end, gasping under splashing water
and never too far from the safety
Of the steps.
They Soon Learned.
| But in no time at all shrill shrieks
of Watch me! Looky, I'm SWIM
ming-I'm diving-I can go under
water-I can turn somersaults!" in.
forms us that one more boy or girl
The Ely miner., 1942-10-08
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GOVERNMENTAL
MAINTENANCE COSTS
PATERSON
Released by Western Newspaper Union.

GOVERNMENTAL
MAINTENANCE COSTS
NEAR SAN JOSE, in California,
there is an unusual, but worthless
house. 1t was built over a period
of years by wealthy woman, in
whose disordered mind was belief
that she could live so long as she
kept on building, but would die when
she quit.
Starting with what had been a
large home, she built rooms within
rooms; stairways that led nowhere;
additions for which there were no
doors or windows, and no way to get
into them. Her dementia precluded
the possibility of tearing down one
addition to make room for another.
There must be a continuous adding
to the structure. In the end, she
had a house that covered an acre
or more of ground and of no value
to anyone. 1t was utterly worthless
as living place, but it had con-
suned the woman's fortune.
Building that house reminds me
of the building of our governmental
structure. Throughout the years we
have been continuously adding to it.
We build bureaus and departments
within those already existing; we
construct blind alleys that lead to
nothing but maintenance cost; we
add additions to additions. We never
dispose with any one Of the depart
ments or bureaus or administrations,
but build new ones in or around
| them.
The result is as crazy a govern
mental structure as is that house
near San Jose, with resulting con-
fusion by the American people,
caused by overlapping or contradic-
tory laws and orders. With it there
is a construction and maintenance
cost that is eating up our national
fortune. But the boys must have
jobs and place at the feed trough.
The Ely miner., 1942-10-08
sE;S!S'|aIQlO
Diamond Within Diamond

Diamond Within Diamond
A curiosity in the gem world is
a diamond with another one
crystallized around it. In most Of
the known cases, the two stones
differed in both color and crystal
formation.
The Ely miner., 1942-10-08
ON FRIENDSHIP

! HAVE a friend whom ! know is
my friend only because of the many
kindly things he has done for me
when he thought I would not know.
He would never admit he was my
friend.
That friend is a business execu-
tive. Several hundred people are
working for him. To no one of them
does he ever admit that his job is
well done; that he fully earned all
that is paid him; that he is loyal
and dependable. But if any third
party even family criticized or con-
demned any of those employees, my
friend would wrathfully defend the
one attacked. He is a friend of his
employees, but he does not want
them to know it.
That friend will never admit that
he is wrong; that anything he does
or any statement he makes can be
other than correct. Days, weeks
or months later he may advance
just an opposite statement but he
would not admit he had ever said
anything different.
A few days ago I listened to a
speaker talking of Appreciation" of
the one rosebud given to the individ-
ual while he lives being better than
the blanket of roses on his casket.
It recalled my friend.
What a benefactor to the race
would be the individual who might
discover a remedy for the disease
that afflicts my friend.
REMEMBER the old Star bicycle?
Bet you don't. 1t had a high wheel
in the rear and a little wheel in
| front. Saw one the other day and
it was carrying war worker to his
job. That was going back almost to
the oxen and prairie schooner days.
WEALTH is not the only measur-
ing stick for success, but it is the
one ~'ost people accept without an
ar; t.
WE ARE GOING TO GET some
real value out of that 80, 200 tons of
high priced silver the government
has been buying for the past several
years. 1t will not be made into
"cart Wheel dollars, but will be
used in place of more unavailable
copper for condenser tubes in max
ing butadiene for the production of
that all-essential rubber.
SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO in
October we paid Russia $1,000, 900
as the purchase price for Alaska
and that vast territory was trans
ferred to the United States. The
price we paid has been returned to
us many times over, and now as a
war-operations base, it is DEM
onstrating new value.
Alaska and Hawaii are keeping
the Japs away from our Pacific
coast states. Secretary Seward was
not so dumb, as he was credited
with being.
Buy War Bonds
The Ely miner., 1942-10-08
Seize the Hour

The golden opportunity is never
offered twice; seize then the hour
when fortune smiles and duty
points the way.-Old play.
The Ely miner., 1942-10-08
AMERICA-AND
A DICTATOR,S PLANS

THE ROAD WINDS through high
mountains, across rolling fields,
down to and along the seashore,
over sparkling brooks and broad
rivers; through forests of towering
trees, across broad fields of bril-
liant blossoms and others of ripen-
ing grain, past hamlets of happy
homes.
That is life as life was intended.
That is paradise. That is America.
see it as a picture stretching
from ocean to ocean which ! have
crossed and recrossed so many
times. I try to visualize what a
man, or small group of men would
make of that picture-that America
If they could.
The winding road would be de-
stroyed; the mountains marred by
shell craters; the rolling fields pock-
marked and rutted; the ocean beach
strewn with dead bodies; the brooks
red with blood; the broad rivers lit
tered with wreckage; the forests but
smoldering stumps; the flowers and
grain ground into the earth; the
happy homes but blackened ruins.
They shall not pass through this
paradise that is America, as they
have through death-ridden Europe.
The Ely miner., 1942-10-08
FARM FAMILIES:

Approximately 20 per cent of the
families in the United States live and
earn their livelihood on farms, ac-
coSding to new census bureau re-
pof4. 1t stated that there were
34,855, $50 family units in the 48
states as of April l, 1910. OF these,
27,748,991 were nonfarm families
and 7,1O6,56 families lived on $685.
799 farms. The receipt of more than
SO per cent of their revenue from
the sale Of field crops, live stock and
dairy and poultry products was re-
ported by 3,749. .724 farms.
The Ely miner., 1942-10-08
For Sale: Foreclosed Farms
FOR SALE-FARM

240-Acre Dairy and Grain Farm. 80 acres
under cultivation. Will accommodate 50Eead
cattle. Large tile barn, eight-room hOase-
REA coming. Good roads and school bus
Terms NJ MeIVin W enholz, Route NJ ora. hI1n.
The Ely miner., 1942-10-08
Fortunes Whin

Fortunes Whim
Fortune pays sometimes for the
intensity of her favors by the
shortness of their duration.-Bal-
tasar Gracian.'
The Ely miner., 1942-10-08
By KATHLEEN NORRIS

"N EY HUSBANDS father
MI is foreign born, "
L V L writes Emma. 'He
The Ely miner., 1942-10-08

WEALTH is not the only measur.
ing stick for success, but it is the
one "'nst people accept without ar
ar t.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-24
Legal Notices

IA dancing taat may hs construed 50
unreNn,d Vulgar. suggestive. or i'm
moral
90 admission by couple only
ca no taxi dancing.
90 no leaving OF premises AZ inter-
mi sion on pass or other identifi-
cation FOR re-sdmisston to the dance
hall.
80 no slot machines
tkl 20 permit any person TO attend
or take part in any public dance after
nine o'clock. =. m. who has not
reached the age Of eighteen years,
unless such person shall be in COM
pauy with a parent or natural guar
dian. IL xaall be unlawful for any
po--@on to represent himself or her
self 10 have reached the age Of eigh-
teen years IN order 10 obtain admls-
sion 10 n public dnRce hall or public
dance, or TO be permitted to remain
therein when such person In fact Is
under eighteen years Of age. II shall
also be unlawful for any person 20
represent himself or herself TO be
parent or natural guardian Of any
person IN order that such person may
obtain admission 10 public dance
ball or public dance. or shall he
permitted 10 remain therein when the
person making the representation Is
not IN TACT either parent or natural
guardian OF the other person. 90
% to permit any public dance
halls 20 keep open or 20 allow any
public dance hall 10 he used for dane.
ing on the first day OF the week,
commonly called Sunday
Section 8 The provisions Of this
ordinance shall not apply 10 private
dances
section. .. Any person who shall
conduct public dance or permit an
agent orr employee 70 conduct a pub
lie dance without = license as re-
quired ~ this ordinance. or shall vio-
late any OF the provisions OF this
ordinance. or who having had HIS
license revoked. shall continue 10
conduct such public dance halls. shall
upon conviction t1erof, be subject 10
fine OF not more than one Hundred
Dollars 5000 or imprisonment in
the county Jail for period not sx-
ceedlnK 90 DAYS. or both. in the dis
erection Of the court: and each day
on which such violation continues
shall constitute a separate offense
Section 10. This ordinance shall Ia
In effect on and after November 2s,
1892
Made and passed BY the Common
Council ~ tho city Of Ypsilanti this
SIXTEENTH day Of NOVEMBER.
1892
Approved by the Mayor on Sovem-
Der Il. 1919.
ROSE X. BOWER
Mayor.
Attest:
HARVEY .. HOLMES,
city Clerk Adv. ilZl
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-24
Earl |. freeman
100 PEARL. 1854
Insurance Of all kinds In honorable
stock companies.

s ACRES with new house, rooms
and bath. upstairs unfinished,
Sl.50O.00 down. call sunday or 10
to week days. f. X. Moren, cor
ner Textile and Plat Rd, miles
west Ypsi off III,
HOUSE FOR sALE-Now vacant.
modern. near Bomber. rooms.
Steam heat. Write ASS Clark. at
Wayne. Mich. Phone 940-R
NEW -FOUR ROOM bungalow at
450S2 Robson Rd. off Belleville
Road Small down payment. Elec-
tricity and water In house. Call
We 5lS2S. Detroit.
FIVE ROOMS and bath. large grassy
back yard, good location. House
has three bedrooms, new furnace
and automatic water heater To he
sold with wall to wall carpet and
gas range. Price $4,000. Must have
50 500 down. Box LIE, care Press.
ROOM modern bungalow complete
bath, floor tub, excellent full has e
ment, furnace. garage, paved road
near super market. $3.50. II. Peet,
SO y. Huron St, 1871.
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Also 2 room furnished cabin. 1865
y. Huron.
Rooms For Rent
CLEAN Comfortable room for three
men, shower and near Bomber
Plant 1919 E. Davis.
ROOMs-in new home, double and
single for girls, 1925 Westmor-
land, Pm. 1850. Eve. sat. or Sun.
SINGLE ROOM. southeast section.
Ann Arbor, for defense worker,
hrkfst, laundry available. Pm. 52iO.
ROOMS and kitchenette for lady dc
tense workers OF good habits.
Phone 7o6-W.
SLEEPING ROOM. steam heat near
Bomber Plant. 1881 p. Davis. Men
preferred
MEN. Defense workers, warm
rooms $500 each. One block from
bus line,12l9 Forest Ave, Ann Ar
Dor.
PLEASANT single or double room
FOR gentlemen. Twin beds. inner
spring mattress. Private home
CAN after &. los n. Huron. 2Sss-J
ONE LARGE Room for men, good
beds, private entrance, phone
17i0-R
2 ADJOINING clean and comforta-
bic sleeping rooms. will accommo-
date three or four people. Phone
l6S3-W
ROOM for two girls. twin beds. in
nerspring mattresses. 305 Maple.
ROOM for three girls, single beds.
II n. Normal.
SINGLE or double room for men.
Shower continuous hot water. Pri-
waite home. Ph. 463-R.
Wanted To Rent
WANTED 10 rent rooms furnished
or unfuruished apt for young
couple with two small children.
ASK for Mrs. Raymond Aiken at
Huron Hotel
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-24
XrrraS Gift Suggestions

SHOP NOW Tor CHRISTMAS. Cone
plete selections % coasters, roHs-
ters shavors. iuicers ard coffee
makers Grinnell Bros-. 30 ".
Michigan
FISH BOWLS. Aluariums See orr
new shipment. purant's. Pm lli
RENTAL studio piano ike new,
bench included Blk saNIngs. Grin
nell Bros. $40 W Mlcatgau
SPORTING GOODS make good
Christmas presents. Shaefers HUI
ron st store Pm Is
Toys. Dancing dolls. sewing ma
chimes furniture bought yr fNcn.
Nartun'S 90 T. cross, ph 20a2.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-24
Rural Events
MOVE M Der rs
willis

The Study Club Of the Methodist
Church will meet. The women will
pack clothing and Christmas gifts
for the Carsonne Center in Ken
lucky.
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Classified Advertising

PAYMENT WITH ORDER
consecutive insertions toloWst
Sc
Of lines Count five words 10
Special yearly advertising
Publisher classified
WIN be responsible for than incorrect Insertion
Call 40 Taker.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-24

GLOBE Electric Meat slicer. Phone
2725-M.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-24
Sand and Gravel

GOOD, oliver Typewriter, FUR coat,
size 10, hand crocheted large table
cloth. 1910 T.. Cross
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-24

PIANO In good condition. 2 burner
gas plate with oven, chemical clos
ct and pipe. nearly new. 2s y. sum
nit ST
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-24

NEED a new Stove7 We have com
plete selection OF gas and electric
ranges, ready for immediate delly-
cry. Grinnel Bros, 2lO w. Mich.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-24
Real Estate
ttouSsT FOR sHfs
Homes For Low
Down Payments

Unable 10 remit why not
buy2 We stu have fair
selection OF homes At low
down payments
90 $500 DOWN: Brand new bun
gnlow. Living room. kitchen,
two bedrooms. dining space,
and bath with shower Recrea-
tion space in basement. Locnt-
ed In well restricted area.
payment
previously held at higher down
90 $500 DOWN: S room bungalow
located Just outside city. with
taxes less than SIS yearly
Convenient to Bomber Plant
Basement. furnace. and garage.
Total price only $4,000.
Cc) $500 DOWN; Buys brand new
defense home within walking
distance Of Bomber Plant.
These homes have fun insula.
ton. double floors, shady lots,
and many other features OF
higher priced homes. Yet they
sch for only $500 to $500,
including ali interest charges.
Prepaid fire insurance policy
good for years also included
with each house sold. Our
builders have priorities for
only few more. 40 YOU rad
better select one Of these low
priced homes soon.
NOTE: IMMEDIATE POSSES
sion can he given on any OF tho
homes advertised above.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-24

MOTORS exhaust rams. hlec'
trio Motor Shop 10 2. Huron.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-24
Real Estate
Houses For Sale

IMMEDIATE possession. room
house. Very large lot slightly
Ford Lake view ou Stewart st
Price only S2S0o. Terms $3.50 down
$40 month. H. Peet. So y. Huron
St ISL
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Wanted To Buy

SEWING MACHINES WANTED All
makes will pay cash. Phone sta-W
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-24
Merchants' Specials

wANTED-2OO bushels OF ear corn.
go River st.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-24
Wanted-Female
Real Estate

Apartments For Kent
ROOM furnished apt, stoker heat
Also 2 room furnished cabin. 1895
y Eurnn
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-24

PROGRESSED ROAD GRAVEL
Delivered or +. o. n. PIT
WHITAKER & GOODING co.
1900 Gale Rd Phone 2O20-I-f
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-24

SEE r. S. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
for house plans. 206 n. Washing
ton Phone 1854
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-24
Automotive
Livestock
Wanted To Buy

SPOT CASH
Dead or alive Horses $3.50. Cattle
$500. hogs calves. she,1. accurding
20 size and conditions Dead snimai
hy-nroducts are essential la our
goNCInms1t war cfftrt cali
PROMPTLY while carcass 10 fresh
ana sound Phone collect to par
ling 3 Comuany Detroit Vinswood
DEAD OR ALIVE
Farm auimnfa collected promptly
Horses s. So cows $500 Sunday
service Phone Collect
Central. DEAD STOCK COMPANY
Ann ArbCr 2-22ii
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-24

"a dsucug taat may b. construed 50
unre0n,d. Vulgar. suggestive. or i'm
moral
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-24

FOR sALE-Man's top coat, size 40
like new, $500. $50 Main St
BelloNille
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-24

CASH BUYERS buying List your
houses WITH Harry c. peet, over
90 years Real Estate experience.
Realtor, 80 Y. Huron St. 1871.
La gaceta., 1942-02-28

"West Tampa Metodista", N.
Albany y Union st. Francisco
Boan, Pastor.
Escuela de la Iglesia, 9:45 a,
m.
Quito de Communion, 8 p. IN.
Quito de Oraci6n, Jueves, g
las 8 ID. m.
La gaceta., 1942-02-28

West Tampa Congregation
les, 1929 Laurel, st. Rev. V. A,
Venezia, Pastor.
Escuela de la Iglesia $50 a.