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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-26
THE FARMER
is AN INDUSTRIALIST

THE FARMER is an industrialist.
His farm, either owned or leased,
and it's equipment make up his
plant. A part of his cost of produc-
ton is reasonable return on what
he has invested. Another cost of
production is labor, including his
own and that of other members of
his family. The farm plant must
pay for labor, either in money or
in what money will buy, such as
food, fuel, shelter and clothing. In
figuring a profit or loss statement of
his plant, the farmer, to be honest
with himself, must credit his plant
his farm-with such of the prod
ucts he and his family have taken
out of the business for their own
consumption, as well as the cash
receipts.
The farmer with limited acreage
is small manufacturer. There are
approximately five million of his
class of small manufacturers in the
United States. In his class the an
nual percentage of bankruptcies is
very small. Not over 2 per cent
are definitely put out of business.
In the United States there are
close to half a million small manu-.
featuring concerns, other than the
farmers. During the depression
years but a very small percentage
of these paid any interest on their
investments. Among them the an.
nual percentage of bankruptcies
averaged better than per cent, anc
the number of such failures for this
year and next will be exceptional
ly large. During those depression
years, the large and small indus
tries combined lost more than 2(
billion dollars, according to avail
able records and charts.
AS business man, the farmer is
not so much of a failure as he some
times attempts to picture himself
He can show better record thar
can other manufacturers or retail
merchants.
WHILE WE WE'RE TALKING anc
thinking about it, the Japs strucl
at Pearl Harbor. General Inf1a
ton" is stealthily advancing anc
while we are thinking and talking
about it, he may surprise us. Buy
ing defense bonds, instead of com
modities we can do without, will
prevent such a surprise.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-26
INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE
AND IT'S FOUNDATION

WHEN RETURNED from Eu-
rope in 1918, an acquaintance in
Chicago called one evening. He was
Belgian by birth and operated a
chain of laundries in Chicago. AS /
had been in Belgium, he wanted
frst-hand description of what the
war had done to his native land.
In the course of an evenings visit,
/ told him something of what had
been said to me in England; how
English leaders, political and indus
trial, felt the war had created con-
ditions which called for more
definite recognition of the place of
labor in industry.
Labor is but commodity you
buy, as I buy starch. or SOAP" my
friend said. Labor can only do as
it is told. It does not think. If l
were to turn my laundries over to
my employees tomorrow, within six
months they would all be out of
business. Labor is something you
buy at the cheapest possible price"
"What you say has been all too
much the general conception of in
dustry," I replied. "But there is
another side. If you should 60 to
your laundries tomorrow morning
and there was no labor, or none
available, it would not take six
months to put you out of business
you would be out right then"
Capital and labor are essential
partners in industry. Neither can
operate without the other, and both
have a definite place. Those of us
who work for wages would not have
jobs if capital had not provided the
tools with which we work and the
buildings in which we work. Some
men have trained hands; others
have trained brains, and it takes a
combination of these two, with capt.
tai as a third ingredient, to make the
successful industrial combination.
The problem is to find founda-
ton for the building of an industrial
structure in which these three ele-
ments have proper recognition.
Some progress has been made since
the days of 1918.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-26

It means that he asks both children
to help him with home chores on
Sunday morning; discusses Mothers
Christmas surprise with them;
brings home from the office the lit
tie advertising paperweight or tray
that will delight Betty, offers to &C
company Bob on the hard trip of
apology for breaking the Smiths
window.
Mothers Job.
It means that Mother keeps from
their very babyhood her children's
confidence; that they come to her
first, sure of comfort and help. It
means that from the time Betty is
five years old her mother is telling
her firmly that as an older girl she
will not be allowed to run wild, that
too much makeup is silly on a girl
of Is and absurd on a girl of ten.
1t means that when she forbids a
thing Mother puts something else in
its place; it means youngsters of
whom Mother and Dad MAY ap-
prove being asked to the house, be-
ing familiar there, knowing where
the games and pencils are kept, &C.
cepting Mothers cookies and dough-
nuts with gasps of JOY, to remem-
Der the taste of them when the
cokes and cones and candy bars are
forgotten.
If your little girls Dad is the
sour, selfish kind who snarls at the
children, gulps meals in silence,
sneers at radio programs that they
like and shouts for silence when
they giggle their way upstairs, then
he is doing his best to destroy their
natural instinct to turn to him for
advice.
And if you are the sort of mother
who goes through the days duties
in sort of dream, thinking of the
sitting-room curtains that ought to
be washed when Betty is trying to
tell you something, signing in the
long silences of the table, answering
a dreary "out somewhere" when
Dad asks where's that girl to.
night?" and answering Betty with q
Daddy wouldn't stand for it," wher
she begs for little evening party
at home, then don't be surprised il
someday Betty's tear-stricken face
looks back at you from the front
page of a scandal sheet.
No home is so poor that there
can't be lot of fun in it. No moth.
er who intelligently loves her chill
dren need fear losing them if she
makes home place they want tc
be. But good children, destined Il
grow into good men and women, are
the most valuable things in the
world. And you can't get anything
valuable for nothing!
And, thank God, the bad little law
less girls are the exception. AL
over this great country, in all the
country towns, there are healthy
busy, normal Bobs and Bettys rae
ing home from school to tell Mon
everything, deep in Scout work, gym
work, theatricals, hospital auxiliary
school projects. There are girl:
whose mothers and fathers call ou
cheerful Bring 'em along!"
There are youngsters so occupied
with hikes and weeny suppers, cam
eras and skis, and skates and tenni,
and all games and dancing class anc
swimming and camping that the
girls would regard time wasted ii
beauty parlors with as much healthy
horror as the boys.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-26
ldI'I||I|||a
DOLLAR is MEASURED
BY WHAT 1T BUYS
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BY WHAT IT BUYS
WHAT is A DOLLAR? We think
of it as having fixed value, but
that is not true. Its value is meas
ured by what it will buy and our
dollar of today does not buy as
much as the dollar of some years
ago.
We pay today from so to 60 cents
a pound for butter and from so to 90
cents a dozen for eggs. Some years
ago we bought such commodities for
around 20 cents, or less. The diff
ference is in the value of the dollar,
not in the value of the commodities.
We can push the price of COM
modities up by pushing the value of
the dollar down. We pushed the
value of the dollar down when we
put up the price of gold. That re-
duced the value of the dollar by
about 40 cents, but we did not real
ize it. In time we found we re-
quired more dollars to buy what we
had previously bought. We charged
that to an increased cost of living.
In reality it was a decreased value
of dollars.
The dollar is a commodity. Like
other commodities, its value is de-
termined by the law of supply and
demand. Today we have more than
twice as many dollars as we had
some 20 years ago, but no one of
them will buy as much. We have
pushed the value of the dollar down,
rather than the price of commodities
up. To equalize the purchasing
value of the dollar, the farmer asks
a parity price for his product,
and the worker demands more for
his labor.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-26
BY KATHLEEN NORRIS

little girls of fourteen, fif-
teen and sixteen ought to
- be busy with school work,
forbidden late hours and unac-
companied evening engage
ments, and unacquainted with
cigarettes, night clubs and
liquor.
These are statements that
would have sounded laughable
even ten years ago, and super
fiuous for the generation before
that. Certainly" civilized
mothers and fathers have said
through all the years, girls of
those ages are still children,
still under schoolroom regula-
tons, still governed by home
laws, by mother and father"
But today it is not funny to say
that a girl of IA is too young for
evening dates; too young to waste
money on beauty parlors, lipsticks,
cigarettes, cocktails; too young to
be trusted in friendships with ex-
cited, half-intoxicated boys only a
little older than herself. For little
girls of high school ages are grow
ing more and more independent, and
apparently fathers and mothers are
growing more helpless and supine.
The advice and warning of older
persons seems to have no weight at
all, and ''pure religion breathing
household laws" is forgotten.
Twelve-Year-Old Sets Pace.
Last week the newspapers of a
certain western city blazed sudden
ly with the terrible story of quite
little girls-one was only IL, who
have been going to shady night
clubs, have been served drinks and
have picked up male friends in such
places, and who in actual childhood
have been going a pace that would
brighten a hardened adventures
of 10.
The authorities are now virtuously
at work rounding up these little reb-
els, and are censoring the resorts
that will permit liquor to be served
to such children. For a little while
the inn-keepers and the girls will be
loudly blamed; then the whole thing
will sink into silence and be for
gotten.
But the real blame rests upon the
fathers and mothers of these unfor-
tunate youngsters, and the lesson
and warning of their terrible expert
ence is for all the other fathers and
mothers of the nation.
For with the right kind of home,
the right kind of father and mother,
no girl need ever get into such dam
ger, or want to taste it, or take any
more interest in what is low and de-
grading than her mother does.
These fathers and mothers don't
have to be saints; they don't have
to be rich, smart, socially promi-
nent, or isolated deep in woods or
on the tops of mountains, to keep
their children safe.
Parental ODhgau0nS.
But they do have to have a real
consciousness of their obligations as
parents. This means clean rooms
and good meals and some amuse-
ment and proper clothing for Betty
and Bob. But it means much more
than this.
It means that no matter how tired
he is when he comes home Dad
must have a friendly word for the
children. How was school today?
When is the next Scout meeting?
Who'd like to see the movie Sat
urday night?
It means that he keeps an eye on
their homework; sympathizes with
Bob's passionate yearning for a
"22," talks sometimes about duck
hunting, airplanes, guinea pigs, or
whatever else interests the small
boy.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-26
Protect Window Screens for Winter

Protect Window Screens for Winter
Wire window screens are made of
metals which are now critical war
time materials. If damaged or lost
through rust or corrosion, it may
be a considerable number of years
before it will be possible to replace
them. They should be thoroughly
cleaned and painted with we'll
thinned paint or varnish which will
not fill the openings in the screens,
before being stored for the winter
months. Copper or bronze wire
screens should be vanished.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-26

any SLdSG DSlOIe. 0O BIC was ~ az
tically breathless when the big mo-
ment came: Lanny Ross asked:
"Do you conga, Miss Gibbs?" and
Georgia replied: "Of course I con-
ga, Mr.. Ross" Momentous!
Myrna 10y doesn't care about
making more pictures, since her re-
cent marriage, so she's been turn
ing down all assignments, and Met
70 has engaged new wife for Will
liam Powell for the new "Thin Man"
picture-Irene Dunno.
Beatrice Kay, who sings those
ballads of the past on the airs
"Gay Nineties" show, has yielded
to the call of Hollywood, and will
make a picture laid in old New Or
leans early next year. So all the
people whO've thought she was an
old lady-and a lot of radio listen
ers do, because of the songs she
sings-are going to find out that
she's both young and pretty.
Leslie Brooks has been studying
jiujitsu to such good effect that
she's been asked to tone it down.
Told to put up a good fight in a
scene with Linda Darnell, Doris
Dudley and Glenda Farrell in Co
lumbia's "City Without Men," she
tossed 'em around like bean bags!
Charles Boyer has five leading
ladies in "The Constant Nymph";
in the order that they hold in his
affections on the screen they are
Joan Fontaine, Alexis Smith, Bren-
da Marshall, Jean Muir and Joyce
Reynolds.
At the request of the council of
chiefs of the Navajo reservation,
Harry Carey will film a series of
shorts dealing with the history and
traditions of the tribe. He speaks
Navajo, and is one of our best
authorities on the tribe.
Jane Wyatt, whom you'll see in
"The Navy Comes Through" has
sold 5000 feet of 16 nm. color film
on birds to RKO; they'll release it
as two-reel short. Ornithology has
been her hobby for years. The film
shows the life and habits of virtual
ly all western birds, including sea
gulls and eagles; the color pictures
she's sold were several years in
production.
ODDS AND ENDS-Eddie Cantor has a
ne,o discouery-Shirley DinsdaIe, l5-year-
old uentriloquist, ,ohom Edgar Bergen
says is a natural one; she's had her oton
series Of programs on San Francisco's NBC
station When people look at Gig
Young as if they kneto him he's sure he's
facing former customers at driue-in in
Los Angeles tohere he used to york :. 1.
Bette Davis insists that her best photo
graphs hare been taken by her mother, an
ex-protessional photographer Jean
arthur plays half dozen scenes in "Mer.
ry-GoRound' pith her face plastered ,0ith
cold cream.
Dinah Shore, Blue network song
stress, sang "He Wears Pair of
Silver Wings" so beautifully for the
hospital patients in the Air Base at
Victorville, Calf, that one wounded
fiier pinned his own pair of silver
wings on her shoulder.
Y
Shirley Booth, the irrepressible
"Miss Duffy" of the airs "Diffy's, -
will be seen in United Artists forth
coming film based on New York
Stage Door canteen. She's ready
she dances with service men at the
canteen every night.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-26
Paint Thinner

Because of the necessity for new
types of paint for war use, research
laboratories have already turned out
paint which can be thinned with
either water, turpentine, alcohol or
mineral spirits.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-26
Sprinkler Cleans Air-Cleaner

Sprinkler Cleans Air Cleaner
Air, oil and water are used in
motor-driven sprinkler system to
speed the cleaning of electric cells
which collect dirt from the air in
steel mills. The sprinkler does the
job 10 times as fast as the old hand
method. The electric cells are part
of an air cleaner called Precipi-
tron which attracts dirt particles
like a magnet and prevents short
circuits that would be caused by
dirt wedging between the terminals
of a steel mill motor.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-26
.||IH'1Ih%f's AnA

CHEERFUL, attractive, eco
~ nomical, practical-here is a
new group of panholders perfectly
described by those words. An ani-
mated pansy and rose, a kitten
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-26
Acid INDIGESTION

Relieved in 5minutes or double money back
When stomach acid causes painful, suffocat-
ing gas stomach and heartburn doctors usually
prescribe the fastest-acting medicines known for
symptomatie reief-medicines ike those in Bell ans
Tablets. No laxative. Bell-ans brings comfort In
jffy double your money back on return of bottle
to u.s. Csc at all druggists.
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STAGE NRADlOY
By VIRGINIA VALE


Released by Western Newspaper Union.
LIZARD up for leading men as
i i more and more of the ia
nous stand-bys go into the army,
Hollywood is busily recruiting
newcomers to the screen, and
hoping that you'll like them.
Columbia will introduce the pub
lie to Robert Hymes, formerly a
singer with Freddy Martins or
chestra, in whats Buzzin' /,
Cousin?" with Ann Miller, Phil Har-
ris and his orchestra, and Roches-
ter. Metros signed James Davis,
a Kansas City oil salesman; he has
a supporting role in Salute to the
Marines" and the male lead in
"Swing Shift Maize"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-26

Meanwhile Franchot Tones agent
has said: "When Franchot wants to
work for nothing he'll work for the
government" Tone had agreed
orally to make one picture for War
ners for 100000, but the wage cell
ing forbids him to make more this
year than he did last. Last year
he was idle several months because
Of illness; he's already earned al
most as much this year as he did
last. He'd be able to keep just
$4,000 of that Warner money, and
would have to work the rest Of the
year for nothing. "Old Acquaint-
ance" was the picture involved.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-26

Receiving Only
That man is worthless who
knows how to receive a favor, but
not how to return one.-Plautus.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-26

Georgia Gibbs recently signed a
Is week contract as the new singing
star on the CHS Caravan Hour, but
she was more thrilled when Produc-
er Bill Bacher gave her chance
to act. She'd never spoken lines on
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-26
Quick Reward

Quick Reward
How quickly truly benevolent
act is repaid by the consciousness
of having done it!-Hosea Ballou.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-26

. a1lied blockade ou What uat
p photos show how ,y 70 a larse
( hS :Ssef plant q:i ss 's sssss
| s rub psbber bottleneck'
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-26

any stage before. So she was prac-
tically breathless when the big mo-
ment came: Lanny Ross asked:
"Do you conga, Miss Gibbs?" and
Georgia replied: "Of course con-
ga, Mr.. Ross" Momentous!
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-26

Shirley Booth, the irrepressible
"Miss Duffy of the airs ''Diffy's,"
will be seen in United Artists forth
coming film based on New York's
Stage Door canteen. She's ready
she dances with service men at the
canteen every night.
The Ely miner., 1942-12-17

When you're making up that
Christmas box for your man in the
service, be sure to include car
ton of Camels or pound canister
of Prince Albert Smoking Tobac-
CO. Cigarettes and tobacco head
the service mans gift list, with
Camel his favorite cigarette and
Prince Albert the well-known Ma
tional Joy Smoke. Your local deal
er is featuring gift-wrapped car
tons of Camels, and Camels in
special packages of four ''f1at fif-
ties. "(Both contain 200 cigarettes.)
Prince Albert in the pound canis-
ter is also holiday wrapped, ready
to give.-Adv.
The Ely miner., 1942-12-17
Christmas of l776
Witnessed Crossing
Of Delaware Riuer

The Christmas of 1776 was an
important one in the history of the
American republic. This is the day
that Washington crossed the Della
ware to attack the Hessian forces
at Trenton.
General Washington perfected his
plan of attack on Christmas Eve at
General Greene's headquarters. He
believed that the 1000 Hessian
troops defending the British outpost
at Trenton would fall easy victims
to surprise attack after spend
ing a night of Christmas feasting
and merrymaking.
The crossing of the river began
at six o'clock Christmas evening.
Washington planned to have his en-
tire army on the Jersey shore by
midnight and begin the march to
Trenton by one o'clock so that he
could attack the Hessians just be-
fore dawn. But the ice-filled river
threatened to upset his plans and
some of his officers wanted to call
off the expedition. Washington,
however, resolved to carry it
through and although the crossing
took no less than 10 hours, it was
finally accomplished and four
o'clock in the morning found his
army drawn up on the New Jersey
side ready for the seven-mile march
to Trenton.
Outposts failed to discover the
advancing Americans in time, and
the surprise was almost complete.
Although the Hessian force was cap
tured, the loss to Washington S
army was only four wounded and
not a man killed.
The Ely miner., 1942-12-17
Crop of Evergreens
May Prove Profitable
AS Business Venture

There is no question that the
growing of Christmas trees can be
made a profitable enterprise in
many sections where, at the present
time, the annual demand is met by
importation. A Christmas tree in
the best tradition is an aromatic,
richly green, symmetrical tree.
Since the chief sources of Christ
mas trees in North America are
New England, the Great Lakes
states, Canada, and the Pacific
Northwest, it follows that planta-
tions of trees suitable for Christmas
use and indigenous, or naturally
suited to local soils and climates,
could be made profitable in other
sections.
Suitable Varieties.
I. The Blue Spruce, a native of
the Rocky Mountain section, is one
of the most desirable trees for
Christmas use, because of its fra
grance, its rich color, and it's SYM
metrical shape. Since however, it
is of less rapid growth than some
other conifers, it should not be re-
lied upon as an early crop. 1t is
of easy growth and, given bit of
time, will well repay cultivation.
2. The White Spruce, native to
the extreme northern portions of the
United States, is of a beautiful color
and shape, but it, too, is slower Of
growth than are some others.
3. The Norway Spruce was intro
duced into North America from Eu-
rope, many years ago. 1t makes a
rapid and easy growth and has a
wide range of adaptability.
4. The White Fir, whose habitat
is western United States, is beau
tiful tree, entirely suitable for the
plantation. IF it is to be planted in
the East, the stock should be Sc
lected from Rocky Mountain growth,
for the sake of hardness.
5. The Douglas Fir has a wide
range of adaptability. It natures
more rapidly than do some of the
spruces, though not quite so quickly
as the Norway Spruce. 1t is of fine
form and color.
6. The Deodar, made famous by
the late Rudyard Kipling, was inn
ported to the United States from
Asia. 1t has been planted widely,
and with success and its graceful
appearance makes it very popular
as a Christmas tree. 1t is well
adapted to growth on the Pacific
coast and in the warmer sections
of the East and Middle West.
The Ely miner., 1942-12-17
Observance of Christmas
Known by Many Name.

Not everywhere is the holiday
conmemorating the birth of Christ
known as Christmas.
The French call the holiday Noel
or Novel. The Scotch use the name
Yule, and the Scandinavians julie
tide. The Welch call Christmas Ma
dolig, and the Italians call it II Ma
tale, while the Germans say Weih-
nachten.
In Polish the term Boze Narod-
zenie is used, meaning Goods Ma.
tivity." The Bohemians and Croa-
tians say Bozic, and the Slovaks,
Vianoce. In Spanish the word Navi.
dad, meaning Nativity" is used.
The Ely miner., 1942-12-17
Children Enjoy Helping
I PreDnre Christmas Tree

The joy of giving and preparing
for Christmas will be increased if
parents will encourage young chill
dren to work out their own ideas for
gifts. The young child can select
the one or two gifts he gives, and
should be allowed to wrap them,
and to put on stickers.
Children like to help get the
Christmas tree, to make trimmings,
and put them on the tree, which
should be only a little taller than
the child. The child can paint emp.
ty spools, string, straws and bits OF
colored paper, weave paper orna-
ments, make paper chains, cut sill.
yer and gilt paper forms, and string
popcorn and cranberries.