The Ely miner., 1943-09-16
On This
Occasion
A Few Observations on Matters
Material and Immaterial
by the Editor
HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

If things are not going as expected
let's form a society for their correction
and appoint a committee, take up 9
collection and forget the entire matter
until something else turns up and we
start all over again. Air your views In
a few pages of typewriter communi-
cation for the education of your
readers ana TO help you fin space -
Send it to your newspaper. Don't sign
any name to your brain child, but la
bel it constant reader" taxpayer -
anonymous, or q doztn or so non de
plumes used by those OF superior in
tilectS wishing to put over some pet
scheme with veiled intimation OF a
small monetary consideration for the
promoter or promoters and have the
newspaper back 1t.
In other words, we want to tell you
that We are always ready and willing
TO receive constructive news tersely
reported and to the point without q
lot Of highbrow language. And, please
sign your name so that If anyone is
hbeled and We are sued, We VIII know
whom to thank for it. Under the pres
ent stress and expense of issuing a
newspaper, it 5 impossible and most
impracticable TO print everything. The
Miner makes it point to print only
oT off We
plenty about all of you, good and bad.
Having gone all out for war work,
the newspapers OF the country are re-
receiving reams and reams OF material
for publication via mail and in same
mail also receive positive instructions
from the OPA and the WLB on the
amount OF paper which can be used
and what to pay for the stock and Ia
Dor employed in its manufacture.
While printing is claSSed as an essen
tiaI industry, you Will notice that pa
pers are getting smaller and some are
going out of business every day. Ma
tional advertising has fallen off and
local advertising is unnecessary, be-
cause everyone knows me and knows
what I have for sale" The big chain
stores don't look at it that way and tell
the people in full page ads in the big
dailies Of what they have to sell and
what you are expected 70 pay for it.
The result is that the chains get the
business and the country merchant is
pinched in the disposal Of his goods,
besides being compelled to make a
mile or so of reports each week.
Rambling along like this and trying
to tell you of the difficulties Of run
ming a printing business, which you
don't believe anyway, is not what we
intended to say when Ee started out.
Buy war bonds and more war bonds
in the third war loan drive now on.
Double up on your monthly quota and
make good on the S2580O0 quota as
signed us. We have never fallen down
on our quota, be it war bonds, Red
Cross, USO, or other drives, and we
will not fall down on this one. Speak
ers are stressing the fact that letnargy !
may be injecting our people on ac-
count of the reaSsuring war news. The |
war is not ended and it is our solemn |
duty to back up our boys at the front |
with everything we have. We IN Ely !
are not short of anything so far ana |
should lend our surplus money TO the
government If you were living in the
old country, you would not be asked !
to lend 1.-THE authorities would sim
ply confiscate everything you have.
Buy bonds and save, besides helping |
your government.
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One hundred and ten employees are
on the staff Of the Board on Geo.
graphical Names, Notwithstanding the
manpower shortage, placed there by
Interior Secretary Ickes. This is new
governmental agency to find out the
right names Of places and to show
you how to say them. The 5000 a |
wear director, DR.. Burril, explains It
this way: You might be going down |
a highway and see mountain range
generally known as the Messabi. La
ter you might see the same range from
another highway, but it viii be known |
by another name. Our job is TO see
that that mountain range has only |
one uniform name" Very necessary, |
but at the present time it would sound |
better if the thousands spent would be
invested in ornaments to blast the |