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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-23
By KATHLEEN NORRIS

NJ and sane nations adopt,
W in crisis, measures that
they know are fundamentally
false and wrong. A sober, God
fearing householder will snatch
up a gun when, the safety of the
woman and children he loves is
threatened by some attacking
maniac; and in the same spirit
an invaded nation will first take
any steps possible to drive out
the intruder, and then settle
down to consider the terms that
will keep him out.
There will be peace again some
day; we will all live to see it, for
while wars in the past have stray
gled on lazily from year to year and
generation to generation, so that his
tory speaks of the Hundred Years
war" and the Thirty Years war;"
war today has been stepped up to a
pace that makes it mercifully swift.
The most dismal of pessimists give
this present conflict something be-
tween three and four years; other
authoritative voices speak Of peace
in 1913.
Now, many of us, enemy nations
and allies alike, will have to expe-
rience change of heart if this new
peace is to be Gods peace at last.
Unless it is a peace based upon
those Christian principles by which
we have supposedly governed our
individual actions in the past, it
won't be lasting, and 1864 will see
the task to do all over again.
Many Try to Forgive.
Individually, many of us really
struggle to attain the Christian
ideal; we do try to forgive our per-
sonal enemies, do good to them
that hate us, and overcome not evil
with evil, but overcome evil with
good. Those men and women who
achieve anything even remotely ap-
preaching the law of Christ win to
an inner peace that is the true light,
and the only hope of the world.
We need so little to be happy in
this world, and there is so much
more than that little waiting for us
ALL But that little must be based on
the laws that were given us 1000
years ago in sermon on mount.
It must be based on love. Love that
casts out fear, that fulfills the law.
Strange in these days of universal
hates to be talking of love. Yet
love is with us, even in war time;
and every woman who spreads
about herself a nucleus of loving
and sharing helps to bring about
that day when all these little CEN
tiers of forgiveness and love shall
join to make new world.
The very boys who go forth to
fight are actuated by loyalty, which
is form of love, and duty and
obedience-they are the only ones
among us who have right to pray
for victory, to say, God of our
fathers be on our side!" because
they are risking their lives to win it.
The rest of us may pray rather
for light. We must covenant; tell
God what we will sacrifice for that
same victory.
Should Help All.
We must promise Him that in the
day of peace to come we will not
forget that great national injustices
and expressions create these war
conditions, and that we will study
them, and try to see that they do
not crop up again.
We must promise that all the chill
dren of the world will seem to us as
much a responsibility as our own
individual children, and that starva-
ton and hard times and famines
and unemployment will not ever ex-
ist anywhere again. That at some
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-23

make it seven gallons?
A.-Don't you realize that seven
gallons of gas might get the valiant
men out of tight spot in India?
Q.-Pn take five.
ADO you realize that with war
enguling the whole civilized world
every gallon of
Q.-Stop. I get it. Lemme have
a half pint!
A.-You're hopeless.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-23

A.-Have you
stopped to think
that ten gallons
of gas might be
the deciding fac
tor in a vital tank
battle at the
front?
Q. Should 7
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-23
INSPIRATION

kINSI 1na11OTN
The more I study the ''heathen
Chinee"
The less seem to think of me;
The patient way he takes his lot
Convinces me I'm not so hot.
And as I watch that Russian bear
My cockiness seems quite unfair;
AS ! see Stain and his brood,
ask myself, Gam I THAT good?"
j. DorSey'S reaction to the Presi-
dents war budget is to rise and ex-
claim that fifty billion dollars can't
be wrong.
Darned clever with women, those
Van Steeds.
In this rubber shortage, has no
body, looking for a rubber substi-
tute, thought of looking through all
lunchroom portions of turkey a la
king?
TODAY'S PATHETIC CASE
A citizen in front of closed gas
station with two fat tires, a cup of
coffee, one lump of sugar and a set
of rules from Washington!
BREVITY IN THE AIR
A naval fiier sent this laconic re-
port to his commander: "Sighted
sub; sank same" Had he been
"versifiier" he might have put it:
Sighted Sub; sank same
Sought more; none came
All gone; can't blame
This life too tame.
But real brevity might have re-
CURED:
Sunk boat;
Unquote.
Buy Defense Bonds
Sugar wastage is highest in New
York lunchrO0mS and restaurants
which place open bowls or other re-
ceptacles on the tables. Well, maybe
New York restaurant men are stiH
putting sugar on tables in open
bowls, but up through New England
they cut that out weeks ago. They
just ask, "Are you off sugar or will
you have one lump"
The heart muscle of a chicken
put into bottle by DR.. Carrel 20
years ago is still living. Well, after
all, it's never had to stand the strain
of Hitler on the radio.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-23
CARE OF RUBBER

Here are additional suggestions
offered by the United States Rubber
company which you may find helpful.
Never dry clean rubber raincoats
and, of course, don't fold them or put
them away when they are wet.
If you have ever found much
needed hot water bottle useless be-
cause its sides were hopelessly stuck
together, you should remember this
little trick. Drain off all water, then
blow in enough air to keep the sides
apart. Screw the stopper in very
tight.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-23

long, green table in Washington our
wisest leaders will gather to decide
where in the worlds great open
spaces little crowded nations may
find colonial opportunities, and just
how much help in colonizing we
can give them.
And we must promise that here
at home no strong man with small
children dependent upon him will
ever again have to beg, cap in
hand, for a job; that Americas
great wealth and greater opportuni-
ties shall be used in peace, as they
are in war, for the fair distribu-
ton of enough for everyone. Even
then we will have apples and water
melons and pork and wheat left
over!
When we promise this, and prom
Use that it shall be done in the name
of that Son whose Father refuses
him nothing, then we shall have the
right to ask victory, that we may
make it fruitful of a righteous peace.
But only then. Only when the grasp
ing pride Of empires has been
changed into the neighborliness that
makes our individual lives so secure
and unafraid.
Abused Rights.
The conviction has grown up
among us all that we have rights"
in far distant places; rights that
might once have been established
by honest treaties, but that have
been betrayed and abused, and final
ly soaked in blood.
There are better ways Of deal
ing with our neighbors than these,
and we must find them. It is my
profound belief that those ways will
be found.
Meanwhile, every one Of us may
still have the supreme adventure
that means finding God, and finding
with Him that inner peace that
means that nothing can brighten us,
nothing can harm us. The woman
who walks with her hand in Gods
walks steadily; she can love and
she can serve; she can find a thou
sand little ways of making Ameri-
can life a safer and better thing
for the future.
Anyone who likes may accuse me
Of an inordinate love of my own
country and my own people. I ad-
NIT it. And I say once and for all
that as a great intelligent nation
who for hundred and more years
has kept the peace with her own
neighbors, unless America has an
important voice in the framing of
the new peace treaty, it will not be
a good one, and in it will be the
seeds of the next great war.
The peace that follows this war
can be permanent peace. But we
must all, nations as well as individ-
uals, work together toward that end.
Sef-interest on the part of any per-
son or faction can destroy the more
generous efforts of all the rest.
This war, more than any other, is
a challenge to the principles of de-
mocracy and Christianity. We must
successfully meet that challenge If
we hope to enjoy the blessings of a
peace
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-23

ulative appeal to the whole thing.
Q.-Would it appeal to the Ameri-
can public?
A.-Look how bingo is doing!
Q.-What is the guiding rule for
gas sellers? ...
A.-The whole idea is to fill
simply the minimum requirements
of essential users.
Q.-What is an essential user?
Am essential user is an auto
list whose driving is necessary.
Q.-For instance?
A.-Doctors, army and navy men,
nurses, government officials, etc.,
are people whose use of a car is
necessary.
Q.-Then can I get all the gas I
need if I take nurse out for ride?
Ayes, but it will be smarter if
you use her car and get her to take
you out for a ride.
Q.-Would it be all right for me
to have ten gallons now?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-23
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SIkcES SCREENER RADIO
By VIRGINIA VALE

by FlRUlNlA VALE
Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
THE March of Time has done
Il much to give us good pic
tures-and just now not only TAX
ing good news pictures, but get
ting them home is quite a feat.
But they have done something
else; Producer Louis de Roche
mont instituted the School of Pic
torial Journalism, to train enlisted
men of the United Nations forces in
the elements of motion picture pho
tography.' Three classes have al
ready been graduated, and the men
are engaged in gathering material
in the various fighting zones-mak-
ing complete and graphic picture
of the war.
That shampoo you'll see Frank
Morgan receiving at the hands of
Spencer Tracy, John Garfield and
others in ''Tortilla Flat" was done
with mixture of melted soap flakes
and flour. The scene had to be
filmed four times, because when
they'd get the stuff spread over
Morgan's head and into his ears,
eyes and mouth somebody would be-
gin to laugh. And Morgan'd been
told it was a dignified role!
y
''Tarzan's New Adventure" has
been chosen as the title for the new
Tarzan film, with Johnny Weismul-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-23

Close from noon
to z p. M, reopen
from 2 to 4, etc.?
Ayes.
Q.-What would
be the sense of
this?
A. - Well, it
would add a Spec
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-23

A mo answer; just a laugh.
Q.-Will I be able to buy gas at
any hour OF the day or night?
A.-That depends on your luck.
Q.-My luck when out of gas has
never been hot. So what?
A.-So you'd better realize that
under the new orders no gas station
may be open more than IL hours a
day, and there is no telling which
IL hours a station may choose.
Q.-You mean that if I run short
OF gas between six at night and six
IN the morning 1 may find the near
est pumping stations only operate
during the day, and if I run short
during the day I may find the near
est stations only run nights?
Ats wonderful how quickly
you grasp an idea.
Q.-Isn't this little screwy?
Allow so?
Q.-l mean isn't it better for all
gas stations to keep open certain
specific hours as under the previ-
Gus ban, so that any autoist NAV
plan his travels intelligently?
A.-What makes you think auto
lists plan their travels intelligently?
Q.-May dealers stagger their
hours; that is, open from 10 to noon,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-23

Alt WILL de-
pend on how
many cars have
been ahead of
you.
Off I drive
into a station and
say Fill her up"
what answer will
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-23

Bea Vain is baking Victory cakes
and sending them to the boys in
army camps and naval stations
throughout the country. We wouldn't
know just when the songstress finds
time to do the baking-she's so busy
with her singing and her war work.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-23

Kate Smith has begun her fifth
year of broadcasting kate Smith
Speaks" her daily commentator
program. It's originated from ho-
tells, theaters, restaurants, railroad
whistle stops, wherever she hap
pened to be-once, lately, from her
mothers living room.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-23

The u. S. Naval academy's humor
magazine took poll to see with
whom the middies would like to be
marooned on a desert island. The
choice of the future admirals was
Lana Turner, who won by a tre-
mendous margin.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-23
TODAY'S PATHETIC CASE

A citizen in front of a closed gas
station with two fiat tires, a cup of
coffee, one lump of sugar and a set
of rules from Washington!
Evening star., 1942-07-05
Capital Side|ights
BIZ Viii P. Kennedy.

The longtime veteran of them all in
continuous service at the Capitol is Dan
iel B. Lloyd of Maryland, a sincere gen.
tleman of the courteous old school, now
in his 81st year, who on October 10 Will
complete IS years of service. He Is the
dean of official reporters of debate in the
Senate. He and neighbor farm boy
in Anne Arundel County, Md were self
taught in stenography from an old Ben
Pittman manual AMI Smith OF Laurel
superintendent of the Senate document
room, used to enjoy going cunning"
and on one of these excursions told Lloyd
he could get him a job at the Capitol His
appointment was effective october Is,
1877, at the beginning of the Forty-f1fth
Congress. There were then 38 States In
the Union, Colorado having just been
admitted. His position was as an aman-
uensis. There were six such jobs, all
young stenographers whose duty it was
to take down in shorthand the reports
of debate in the Senate, read to them
by five official reporters. They then
Transcribed it in longhand, using old
fashioned three-pointed pens. There
were then no telephones, no wax cylin-
ders into which the debate reporters
of the present day dictate to be tram
scribeS by expert typists with ear phones.
He first worked with the veteran Ed
ward v. Murphy who had taken over the
Job in 1860 when Buchanan was Presl-
dent, and whose uncle Denis Murphy
the granddaddy of all Capitol reporting
took over the job during the days when
John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster and
Henry Clay were in the Senate. Today
Edward " Murphys son has succeeded
him, with Percy Budlong as partner, as
contractor for reporting debate in the
Senate, receiving $66, $40 in monthly in
stallnents for the force, which includes
the grandson, Edward v. Murphy, jr,
who prepares the recond on bills, re-
ports, petitions, etc. for the Congress
sional Record Mr.. Lloyd still conscien-
tiously takes his regular trick in re-
porting and in editing the transcription
of debate for the Record. He has been
working daily on "the floor" since 1883,
and comes in daily from his Buena
Vista farm, in Prince Georges County,
Md. where he has lived for Al years.
The dean of official reporters in the
House is Robert J. Speir now IN his
44th year of service, veteran OF the staff
of six committee stenographers. There
is another group of six official reporters
of debate in the House with like num-
Der of expert transcribers. This force
of committee stenographers is the old
est reporting organization in Congress.
going back before the Civil War to the
time when the report was made in the
Congressional Globe, before the days
of the Congressional Record.
Evening star., 1942-07-05
Pressure Groups

1t is gratifying that the President
has seen fit to speak out against the
pressure group" tactics which are
being employed by representatives of
the farm bloc to prevent the Govern
ment from selling its own feed stocks
at less than parity prices for feed
purposes,
The Government acquired these
stocks in the course of its program
to aid the farmers with loans, which,
in effect, really were subsidies paid
at public expense. Conditions have
changed, however, and the wartime
demand for food is so great that the
Government finds it necessary to
dispose of it's accumulated grain
reserves at below-parity prices to be
used as feed in raising livestock and
poultry. 1t is to this entirely proper
and necessary program that the
House objects, insisting that the
Government shall not dispose of any
of it's stocks, with the exception of
"deteriorsted" grains, for feeding or
industrial uses at less than full parity
prices.
Since the Senate takes contrary
view, this stand by the House has tied
up the entire agricultural appropria-
ton bill and seriously threatens the
Nations wartime food program. And
this in the name of protection for
the farmers, who are the most ade-
quately protected group in the coun-
try. and who are assured OF fair
prices for their products, come what
may.
1t may we'll be noted, however, that
the implications of this matter go be-
yond the immediate points touched
on by the President in his denuncla-
ton of the tactics being employed in
the House. 1t is proof, clear and con-
elusive, of the dangers which are
inherent in any program which has
for its purpose the subsidizing OF any
Evening star., 1942-07-05
Britain in Eqypt

If Britain now is to lose Egypt, a
chapter of imperial history dating
back to 1901 must close. 1t was In
that year that the British expelled
the French from the delta of the
Nile. The expedition of Napoleon
had been intended as a threat to
India. His failure did not terminate
the danger. 1t became a policy on
Britain's part to watch the whole of
the Near East and to be ready to
fight any other power which might
attempt to intervene there.
Inevitably also, it was necessary
for the British to take an active in
terest in the internal affairs Of
Egypt. The country from 1877 on
ward had been governed nominally
by beys representing the Sultans of
Turkey. Constant resistance to
their rule, however, kept practically
the entirety of Northeast Africa in
turmoil. The disorder constituted
an invitation for neighboring ma
tons to interfere. Thus vicious
circle" was completed, and Britain
repeatedly was obliged to move IN
defense of her Indian possessions.
How difficult such a problem can
be is illustrated by the experience
of British Army which landed at
Alexandria in 1907. 1t was designed
to aid the leader OF a revolt against
Evening star., 1942-07-05
Justice for Suboteurs

By appointing military commits
sion to try the eight Nazi would-be
saboteurs captured by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, President
Roosevelt has taken step which in
sures swift and sure wartime justice
Of the type required in so grave an
offense against the United States.
Major General Frank r. Mccoy and
his six colleagues of the extraor-
binary court will conduct the trial
under the Articles of War. which
make mandatory the death penalty
in cases of espionage or sabotage in
time of war.
Under this wise arrangement there
will be no protracted legal ma
neuverings designed to take ad-
vantage of technicalities of civil law
and no danger that the prisoners, if
convicted, will get off with such light
penalties as could be imposed under
civil statutes. Legal authorities point
out that existing military laws
are wholly inadequate to deal with
wartime sabotage or conspiracies to
commit sabotage. To remedy this
situation, the House has passed and
the Senate now has before it for
study bill which would permit i'm
position of severe penalties on sabo-
teurs by the criminal courts. The
broad terms of the Presidents sup
Elementary order will plug the loop
holes for the wars duration insofar
as spies or saboteurs who enter the
country during wartime are con-
cerned. They will be subject to trial
by military courts.
The eighty-second Article of War,
which has been made the basis
of charges against the men who
landed by submarine on our shores
with intent to destroy war plants
and other military objectives, pro-
vides the death penalty in time of
war for any person found acting as
a spy" in or about military zones "or
elsewhere The military court may
decide whether death shall be by
hanging or shooting.
The last military commission,
as distinct from court rt-martial, to
hold a trial apparently was that
which convicted Mary Surratt and
others for completely in the assas-
sination of President Lincoln. Death
by hanging was the verdict for Mrs.
Surratt and three other conspirators.
The personnel of the new COM
mission is such as to assure that
justice will be done in the sabotage
case. The defendants will be en-
titled to defense counsel, two of
which have been designated by the
Army. 1t is doubtful If the Nazis
would conduct similarly fair trial
in such an instance. The arrest of
twenty alleged Axis spies in the
Canal Zone, coming so close on the
heels OF the FBI roundup in this
country, makes it clear that stern
measures must be taken to guard
against undercover operations by
the enemy. This is war-and
traitors, spies, saboteurs and other
enemy agents must be shown that
they can expect no mercy from the
Nation they are seeking to destroy.
Evening star., 1942-07-05
THE HOUR OF DECISION
the Right James E. Freeman D. ILL., d. d. c. L.,
Bishop OF Washington

Life reaches its definite sense of des-
tiny when it is seized with the conscious
ness of it's true purpose. Everything
else then falls into it's logical and right
full place. Here is where all the values of
life are laid bare. Here its past, present
and future are merged in one mighty
issue. Carlyle speaks of such an hour,
as the time when man goes forth alone
out onto some great promontory, away
from every dear. human interest and de-
cides for himself, and with flnality, the
unalterable commitment of his life. 1t
is an irrevocable decision.
A striking example of this is found in
the life of Christ as He came face to face
with the true purpose of His ministry.
The incident is striking example OF His
humanity as we'll as of His Deity. AS
recorded in ST. Johns Gospel, the narra-
tive runs as follows: Now is my soul
troubled, and what shall I say? Father.
save me from this hour; but for this
cause came I unto this hour" On the
pathway of His earthly life the shadow
of the cross had fallen, and the hour of
utter loneliness was at hand. In such an
hour out Of agony of mind He cries out:
What shall say?" 1t is but momen
tary eclipse Of the high purpose to which
He had set himself. Presently, with a
freshened consciousness of the mighty
end He had come to serve, He cries out:
For this cause came I unto this hour"
From the weakness of indecision He
comes to the strength of an unalterable
sconviction.
His example has moved other men un-
der trying and difficult circumstances to
depart from the weakness of desultory
course to a fixed and unalterable deci-
sion, that has inspired them with the
sense of their life's true purpose. OF
one it is written that, from vacillation
and uncertainty he cried out, AFTER a
thousand changing thoughts one fixed
purpose" Luther in his hour of supreme
testing affirmed Here stand, can do
no other, so help me, God" and the great
apostle ST. Paul declares, concerning his
Evening star., 1942-07-05
Liohtweioht Decision

1t is obvious that in the glider pilot
service there must be a maximum
weight provision. The glider is in
tended to glide, not plummet. 1t is
less we'll known that there also is
minimum weight provision. presum-
ably in the interest of the pilot rather
than his machine-and that limit is
100 pounds.
A would-be glider jockey from
Knoxville found this out one noon
when he weighed in for the Hitler
Hirohito Handicap at 112 pounds,
and was disqualified for being eight
pounds underweight. He was short
of weight, but not of determination
or ingenuity. Somehow he must get
those vital eight pounds, though the
problem was not simple. He could
buy it at no store, and Shylock and
Company had been out of business
for centuries. But wait min
ute-was he quite sure that he could
not buy few pounds of flesh? He
made a rapid lightweight decision.
Heading for the nearest grocery store,
he consumed thirty bananas, two
quarts of milk and three gallons of
water. Splashing his way back to
the recruiting station he was &C
cepted, having, in three hours, eaten
his way out of his dilemma. 1t is
thought that he Is the first man in
this war to bite for his country.