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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-12
WAR RESTRICTS US
BUT WE CAN EAT

At the market I asked for pork
chops.
"Our allowance of pork is all
sold," said the merchant. eve are
allowed only so per cent of what we
formerly sold, and will not have any
more for five days."
Then I asked for lamb chops.
"None today" said the merchant.
''There is a strike on at the packing
house and it has closed down."
How about thick slice of ham,"
Nothing doing" said the mer-
chant. "Our allowance of ham is
all Sold"
In the meat line I could buy a
piece of beef neck, cut up for a
stew, and it was not bad.
I wanted some peaches.
'Plenty of them in the orchards,
but no one to pick Them" said the
merchant.
I asked if I could get a can of
beans.
mo more canned beans for the
DURATION" said the merchant. 81
have only those that are dried"
They were good when boiled.
l got the last pound of tomatoes;
no pineapple because of no shipping
from Hawaii; no salad dressing as
there was no oil with which to make
it; no cocoa and other items.
Yes, there is a war on, but we
are not going hungry.
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FARM INCOME:
Increase to Continue

Estimating the net farm income
for 1912 at $4,000, 100000, including
government payments, the depart
ment of agriculture forecast that
next years net income will total ap-
proximately SIC, 500, 100000.
The 1912 figure is about $1,000,-
100000 above the previous record of
1919, the department said. Total ag-
ricultural production this year is
nearly II per cent greater than the
record set in 1941, and 40 per cent
greater than in 1918.
The department stated October
estimates indicated, for the first
time, that the corn crop this year
may exceed the record set in 1920;
and it is being grown on IL per cent
less acreage. Abundant feed sup
plies and good prices are expected
to stimulate increased livestock pro-
duction again next year. However,
unless the weather is again excep-
tionally favorable it is unlikely that
crop production will equal the vol
ume of 1912, when per acre yields
appear to be averaging Is per cent
above previous records"
The department reported that mil
itary and lend-lease food purchases
next year are expected to be so per
cent greater than in 1912 and will
take one-fifth of current farm pro-
duction. Civilian demands will con-
tinue to advance slowly and prices
for farm products in 1913 under cell
ing limitations will be about 6 per
cent above the average estimated
for all of 1912.
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LABOR SUPPLY:
UntaDped Source

Even as he disclosed tentative
plans for the nationwide registra-
ton of women for work in war in
dustries, President Roosevelt stat
ed that the administration has
reached no decision on means of
solving the critical man-power prob
lem. He warned against premature
conclusions that plans for nation
service or Tabor draft" legislation
have been abandoned.
The President pointed out that leg
islation will be necessary before the
registration of women could be or
dered. He emphasized that plans
call only for the registration of wom-
en- (between 18 and 65), and that
there are no plans for a labor draft
of women.
He stated that his recent meeting
with the AFL-CIO labor war cabi-
net followed this general line:
With approximately 100000 men
now in uniform, there are not very
many remaining to fill future needs
of war industries, which are expect
ed to require from four to five mil
lion additional workers. Although
the labor supply problem looks sat-
isfactory for the immediate present,
wisdom dictates that it be studied
from the long-range viewpoint. The
registration of women is concerned
with these future war needs, it was
pointed out.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-12

PUNCTURE: The Office of Price
Administration has reiterated its APP
prevail of a proposal that retail
grocers punch holes in the tops of
vacuum packed coffee cans to dis
courage boarding.
DEPORTED: Twenty six Ger
mans and five Italians, alleged to
have engaged in Nazi and Fascist
activities, have been deported from
Nicaragua to the United States.
CHILDREN: In London the gov
eminent halted the evacuation of
children effective November 10. The
action was taken not because the
city was ''less dangerous" but be-
cause the number leaving had be-
come so small that the plan was no
longer practicable.
GLIDERS: Henry Ford will man.
ufacture elders for the army at
one of the company's plants in the
upper peninsula of Michigan. The
first completed glider, designed to
carry Is fully equipped soldiers, has
been tested successfully by the
army.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-12
IDLE DOLLARS:
Are SLackers

Attributing the rise Of money in
circulation to the demands of war
financing and huge wartime pay
rolls, Federal Reserve officials in
Washington at the same time de-
clared in effect that idle dollars
are Stacker dollars" Yet there
are Comparatively few" dollars be-
ing boarded among the more than
$14 ,000, 900, 900 now in circulation.
Treasury department and Federal
Reserve experts have been carefully
watching for signs of boarding but
there is no indication that it is wide
spread among U. S. citizens through
out the country.
A chart showing both money in
circulation and wages paid shows
that the upturn in the total money
in circulation exactly parallels the
rise in wages. While the IA billion
dollars is the largest amount ever in
circulation in U. S. history govern
ment officials explained that any up
turn in business as widespread as
the present war spending always in
creases the demand for currency be-
cause it places cash in the pockets
of those people without bank con-
pectiopc
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-12
IT'S THERE

If you haze not yet found a
toar job, you haven't looked hard
enough. You may not find it in
a factory, if you haze no special
skill. You may not find it in the
armed forces. But you ,oiH find
it in a hospital ,ohere there are
floors to be scrubbed and linens
to be sorted. You t0ilI find it in
the home of sick friend. You
toiH, perhaps, find it right in
your otUn home if you haue been
relying on someone else to do
dozen little things you could do
for yourself. And finding it, says
Kathleen Norris, is your job.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-12
II G HLIC HTS in the weeks neUs

FIRST: First man to drive jeep
over the new Alaska highway was
Lieut.. Robert H. Gill of the u. S.
army air forces. The 1,450-mile trip
from Edmonton, Alberta, to White
Horse, Yukon territory, took five
days.
BOMBLESS: Much-bombed Malta
recently had its first day free of
daylight air alerts for several
months.
PENALIZE?: U. S. government
Golfers will suffer and the man who
works for his large salary will be
penalized under the $4,000 salary
limitation, according to Senator
George of the senate finance COM
mittee. He strongly criticized the
salary order as hitting the man who
works and not the man who "clips
coupons"
SLOGAN: According to a Rome
broadcast Benito Mussolini has per-
sonally devised new slogan for his
troops in Africa. The morale-build-
er is: Forward! We will kick them
in the pants"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-12
SOUTH PACIFIC
Costly EXCHANGE

When Navy Secretary Frank Knox
told his press conference that Jap
fleet units had retired from the scene
of action around Guadalcanal and
that the first round of the battle"
was over naval experts began try
ing to figure out who got the decision
in the encounter. U. S. citizens
heard the bad news first: the navy
had lost the destroyer Porter and an
aircraft carrier. (This was in addi-
ton to the loss of the carrier Wasp,
announced earlier.) This brought to
a total of four plane carriers that
have been destroyed by the Japs in
this war.
Then came news of bit brighter
note: Before the Japs left the area
to click their wounds" and return
for more action, U. S. forces had
damaged two aircraft carriers, two
battleships and three cruisers. More
than 100 enemy airplaneS were de-
stroyed and about so others prob
ably destroyed in what the navy de-
scribed as the greatest battle yet
fought in the Solomons area.
But the most important result of
this heavy sea and air fighting was
that it brought at least temporary
relief to the hard-pressed marine
and army units holding their posi-
tons on Guadalcanal itself. The Jap
objective in launching the big battle
had been to dislodge these outnum-
bered units who in mid-August had
pushed the JapS out.
Meanwhile, dispatches from U. S.
headquarters in Australia revealed
that land-based army planes had
been slashing constantly at Jap po-
sitions in the areas of the Buin-F aiSi
harbor in the northern Solomons and
at Rabaul, New Britain island. Forty
Jap ships were reported hit in ten
day period. All of this meant much
needed diversion of Jap strength
which was directed at capture OF
the Solomons, and then pushing
forward to cut supply lines from the
U. S. to Australia.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-12
POSTWAR CHINA:
To Need Billions

China must have from five to ten
billion dollars in foreign credits for
postwar reconstruction, Foreign
Minister T. v. Soong has reported
to the Peoples Political council in
Chungking.
The foreign minister, according to
authentic reports, made the follow
ing points:
The outcome of l as demands
for independence from British rule
is of deep concern to China. "The
future of India is closely connected
with the future of China" Soong
said.
Germany will be defeated by Eng
land and the United States with
gigantic land forces in Europe.
japan will be defeated with over
whelming naval forces in the Pa
cific.
Following the war, Japan will be
forced to evacuate Manchuria, Ko-
rea and the Liukiu Islands. The lat
ter areas will become sovereign
states.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-12
RUSSIAN FRONT:
Initiative Reversed

While the Germans continued to
grind forward across the Nalchik
plains in the Caucasus sector the
Russians had taken up the initiative
in key regions further north. Stain
grad communicates were often SINH
lar in their content. This was typi-
cal of Russian announcements: $50
Wet troops repulsed enemy attacks.
In certain sectors our troops coun-
terattacked and forged ahead some
what"
Neutral military observers saw in
the news from Russia that the Nazis
had shifted the main weight of their
drive to the Caucasus mountains.
There the fury of the attack was
undated. Definitely the Russians
were fighting defensive actions all
along this front. Always the Soviet
claimed the infliction of heavy losses
of Nazi men and machines as they
retreated before the furious, con-
tinuous onslaught.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-12

tolerate any of the minor ills that
lead to serious trouble, not this war
winter! Health is an obligation that
we owe America, while her youth
and power and glory are committed
to this tremendous adventure, and
it's mother who holds that response
bility at home.
So if Dad is making too long and
firing shift of cars and trains and
buses to get home, see whether you
can't find the simplest, the plainest
little quarters nearer his work. If
the working girls come in weary
and cold, have cup of hot soup or
matted milk ready. This idea of a
warming drink before hearty meal
is one that dietitians everywhere ap-
prove. To get very tired and hun
cry often means that a hearty meal
doesn't get digested before bedtime
by the cold and weary stomach.
The hot drink, the comfortable chair
and pleasant news all help to make
dinnertime a success.
If cold feet and backache and
headache and nerves and restless
ness at night are chronic, they are
apt to have one cause-constipation.
Lack of exercise, long sedentary
hours in the factory or office, and
lunches of pastry, strong tea or COT
fee, sweets, accentuate it. Mother
can do lot about that with the in
PRODUCTION of raw vegetables at din
ner, salads of lettuce, chopped car
rots, apples, cabbage, spinach and
by serving dark rough bran bread.
And make desserts laxative;
prunes, apples, figs, oranges and
grapefruit can be served in about
300 ways, all helpful. Hot tomato
juice, hot prune and apple PURGE are
medicinal enough, as are ginger
bread and ginger-molasses cookies
to cure many of these cases of
chills and aches and nerves, and to
hold off the colds and bronchial and
laryngeal conditions to which they
lead. Get your family through this
winter without a night of lost sleep
or a sneeze and you will be doing
your share of the big job.
No Shortage of Jobs.
If the youngsters are tired and
nervous enough to complain; if they
demand starches and gravies and
heavy meats, take them into your
confidence. Explain that you are
meeting all sorts of war conditions;
shortage of fuel, difficult transpor-
tation, higher prices, the need for
closer management of finances, beef
scarce, bananas gone, domestic help
unprocurable, and insist that they
cooperate to the extent of remem-
bering overshoes, drafts, over
fatigue-and by eating what Mother
tells them to!
Oh, there isn't going to be any
shortage of jobs for us older women,
as the war months go on. The only
question is whether we are going
to be willing enough and humble
enough to step into them. And
think we are. I think we presently
will have an army of mothers and
wives quietly filling the mental and
minor positions that free the younger
and more experienced women for
actual war services.
Uniform? No, 1 don't suppose
we'll ever have a uniform, we regi-
ments of the Fillers-In. An all
covering short-sleeved blue apron,
easy shoes, a blue band around the
hair will be uniform enough. But
every dish we wash, every rumpled,
L
cry sheet we darn will bring the day
of victory nearer, and help us to feel
that we are serving America.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-12
(6I!l|'l4a
ADVERTISING is REALLY
AN ECONOMIC GAIN

AIN LOONOuIC VAIN
A COTERIE in Washington, COM
paratively small but influential,
would destroy advertising as IAN
economic waste" In reality, adver-
Using is an economic gain.
In small town in Ohio, grocery
man who had never advertised was
one day asked if he had received
any new or unusual stock that week.
The merchant said: ''No, nothing
but keg of maple syrup, and /
get one each year"
THAT sounds good" said the
strange caller. at is something you
should tell people of the town about. !"
Everyone who wants maple syrup
knows I get keg of it each spring"
replied the merchant. 81 will have
enough calls to use up the key"
The stranger insisted that by tell
ing people of the community about
it he might have a sale for two or
more kegs of syrup and on piece
of wrapping paper from the counter,
wrote a few words descriptive of the
luscious goodness of maple syrup to
be obtained at that grocery.
That little ad created an in
creased demand for maple syrup.
It made new customers. The mer-
chant sold the contents of two kegs.
Other than the cost of the small ad,
there was no increase in the grocer's
overhead expense. It increased his
profits. 1t did not increase the cost
of maple syrup.
Neither the consumer nor the
merchant paid for that ad. It paid
for itself. 1t was not an economic
waste. 1t was an economic gain.
Beware of that coterie at Washing
ton.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-12
FOOD PROBLEM:
Gets attention

Although little official news came
from Washington, it was reported
that President Roosevelt is study
ing an urgent proposal for the ap-
pointment of an overall administra-
tor to stabilize the nations confused
food situation.
The recommendation, made by
Donald M. Nelson, WPB chairman,
with the approval of Secretary of
Agriculture Wickard, named no spe-
cific candidate for the job. How
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-12
AUTO DRIVERS
AND TRAFFIC LAWS

SOME YEARS AGO I wished to
catch a New York to Boston boat
and had but a limited time to get
from Forty-second street and First
avenue to the dock near the Battery
on the west side of the city. Hailing
a cab, asked the driver if he could
make it.
"Only if I have luck" he said.
81 will not break traffic law"
He had luck. He did not make a
stop in the entire distance. He
could, and did, turn corners on red
lights.
I caught the boat with no time to
spare and thanked the driver for
being able to do so.
at was all right so long as I
could do it without breaking a law.
I will not do that under any condi-
tion."
That is the kind of a driver I like
to ride with, and would rather have
missed the boat than to have had
him violate that real American prin-
ciple. There are not enough such
drivers In wartime IN America.
LIKE LINCOLN'S GETTYSBURG
ADDRESS, the great speeches
those which have been remembered
and which made an impression
have been short and simple. Hit
Ter may, and will be remembered
for what he did, but what he has
said is already forgotten.
TO DEMONSTRATE HIS AFFEC-
TON, the young husband proposed
to prepare the breakfasts. The first
morning he burned the eggs and
spilled the coffee. Love on her part
was not strong enough to accept
the motive and overlook the result.
A divorce followed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-12
Baruch Study?

Meanwhile, the board of directors
of the United States Chamber of
Commerce proposed that the Ba-
ruch committee, which studied the
rubber problem, now turn to study
of the man-power shortage. The
boards statement said that "of the
many serious problems now con-
fronting this nation and it's people,
the problem of the proper use of
man-power is undoubtedly para
mount"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-12
knowledge of Truth

hHUWituS6 OF IIuIH
It is noble to seek truth, and It
is beautiful to find it. It is the
ancient feeling of the human heart
that knowledge is better than
riches; and it is deeply and sa-
credly true!-Sidney Smith.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-12
Men Won't

A group of women may put up
with an unreasonable man, but men
won't.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-12
LABOR WANTS TO KNOW
WHAT IT'S SHARE rs

LABOR RECEIVES better than IS
per cent of the revenue of industry
as it's dividend from a labor, capital
and management partnership. When
each Tom, Dick and Harry in each
industry can be shown in definite
way-not merely told-that each is
receiving fair share of the receipts
the gross revenue-of industry,
there will be an end to labor difficult
ties. Labor receives its share, but
labor wants way of knowing what
its share amounts to.
WE, AS A CIVILIZED PEOPLE.
talk first and when talk fails, we
shoot. The Japs, as a heather race,
shoot first and then talk. Let us
hope they will be unable to talk
themselves out of the predicament in
which Pearl Harbor placed them.
THE MORE I THINK OF 1T, the
stronger becomes Herbert Hoover's
suggestion of lapse of 20 years be-
fore an attempt is made to write a
final peace treaty following this war.
1t will take all of 20 years to get
back to sane thinking.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-12

ever, two frequently mentioned can
didates are Milo Perkins, executive
director of the Board of Economic
Warfare, and Lee Marshall, food
consultant to Nelson. Perkins was
director of the Agricultural Adjust
ment administrations surplus COM
modify food stamp plan during the
depression.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-12
>lI!Gllll!I<
The Real Question

Darling, if you marry me III
satisfy your smallest wishes"
''And what do you propose to do
about the big ones?"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-12
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Heavy Artillery, Planes Dominate Action
AS British Strike at Rcnmel Positions;
See 1917 Billion Farm Income for 1913;
Baruch Urged to Make Manpower Study

Of
Release dh YES tern News -
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VALUE:
And Lend Lease

Placing a value on men killed or
wounded is a pretty difficult thing,
pointed out Great Britain's Sir Wal
ter Venning in suggesting that all
bookkeeping on lend-lease trans
actions be ended. He says that lend
lease between the U. S. and his
country should be put on recipro-
cal basis. In fact the point was
made that this reciprocal arrange
ment has already been going on for
some time and Venning believes
bookkeeping is of no concern.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-12
CARGO PLANES:
Ne,u Contract

Andrew j. Higgins and New Or.
leans building facilities were back
in the news again. Last July when
the government cancelled his con-
tract to build 200 freighters there
was plenty of official and unofficial
steam blasted in Washington. Now
Higgins has disclosed that he has
obtained contract to construct
1900 army cargo planes in the same
shipyards where he was to have
built the freighters last summer.
NAIIIE
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-12
Bell Syndicate-WNU Features.

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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-09-26
ROWING ALONG SPORTSDOM
BY MABE KoUNTZE

are Walt Williams and the brill
liant Charlie Thomas who is
now at Fort Dix. However,
Charles famous team Innate of
two seasons, HOWE RED" Nit
chell, is back at end. The chan
ces are that Mitchell, a colored
marvel from Indianapolis, may
be one of the finest line termin-
ais in the East this year. Nit
chell has another Colored AM
erican on the squad with him
by the name of Jim Childs who
plays tackle or guard. The Ter
rier line looks as if it'll save the
Boston bacon more than once
this season. Mitchell and ChildS
will be the first two Colored B.
u. line men since the memoir
able days of Roland Bernard
and Chef Smith, two local boys
from Rindge Tech. Remember
Rindge?
That was when Cambridge
had schoolboy football.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-09-26
MUSIC NOTES

AT the recent musicians
meeting MIR Andrew mentioned
IN his speech that it is US.
ually dangerous for a muse
teacher to f1atter her pupils in
order to hold them, and that
hattery makes most pupils lazy
and keeps them from working
hard enough to give a purely
artistic performance. Nan
Snow, soprano; Doris RingleS,
dramatic reader, and Ina
Braithwaite, pianist, will be
heard in a joint recital OIL
Thursday evening, Oct Is, at
$3.50 o'clock in the Mass ave,
Baptist church in Cambridge. -
The New England Folk Musical
Festival will be held at the
Boston Garden from Oct 8 to
Oct 10. All choral groups are
invited to take part. Among
the choruseS already listed are
the Attucks Chorus, conducted
by Malcolm Benders; the Com
munity Chorus, conducted by
Claudius Broadfeld; the Young
Peoples Choir of St Marks
church, conducted by Dolan
Yates and a special chorus to
be conducted by DR. w o Tay-
Tor of Columbus ave Zion
church. We hope that other
colored choruses will be listed.
w. A. r.
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Kickoff Today

Its kick off time, and here
Ee our first annual and weekly
Elections. Let's see how many
he winners by tonight.
,HoIy Cross VS. Dartmouth
.ROston u. VS.. American Int,
n. c. Navy VS. Harvard
Wisconsin VS. Notre Dame
Tufts VS. BOwdoin
sFordham VS. Purdue
Lafayette VS. Cornell*
The Eastern leaders, picked
n most experts are, Penn, Cor
ELL, Fordham, Holy Cross and
|. c.
But even your favorites can
{ upset,