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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-01-14
Ratified in 1893

The 10th amendment to the Con-
stitution, which was formally rati-
fed on January %, 1888, provides
for the succession to the Presidency
In the event of the death of the
President-elect and the vice presi-
dent-elect.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-01-14
Who's a lim-Wif9

Because half of the adults Gin the
United States who should wear
glasses fail to get them," Walter B.
Pitkin, author of Life Begins at
49," calls such persons "dim-wits,"
adding that seeing little, they learn
little
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-01-14
PETTY OFFICER HUTAR HERE

Petty officer John Hutar is in Ely
this week on leave. Saturday he goes
to Duluth and from there to Farrigut,
Idaho, where he has just completed
his training, where he will be assigned
to a ship of the fleet or to an advanced
training school.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-01-14

apart ana OlVnR
into the contents.
Hey, look what
he sent me. He
passed over an
oblong Of thick,
crinkly paper
while he leaned
over the sheet of
writing-paper.
"a tUpnfU-HUa
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-01-14

"Judge, would you mind teIlin' Charlie here
what you told me the other night wslkin'
home from lodge can't word it just the
way you did"
"Sure thing. Tim. Here's what told him,
Charlie. There's no such thing as votin' q
nation. state, county. or even COM
muaity dry. We had proof enough of that
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-01-14

Word Of appreciation come to the
VIEW from Pvt. Bruno Cersine, Camp
Claiborne, La.
Evening star., 1943-12-15

democracies Of Western Europe which
are OF our way Of thinking en-
tlrely with us in their outlook and way
OF life, and, of the same political
ana spiritual substance as ourselves"
That is as near as he comes to defin-
ing whom he means. Does he mean-as
most people think he does-NorWay
Belgium and Holland? Certainly these
three countries are similar to Britain
IN political structure All are limited
constitutional monarchies, parliament
tary states, and two of them. Belgium
and Holland, have empires and similar
imperial problems. Field Marshal SHUTS
is a South African. and the imperial
problems of all three of these countries
concern the South African Union. Nor
way is at least seagoing nation, like
Britain.
But Field Marshal Smuts' solution
still does not solve the problem of euui-
librium of power in Europe. In fact,
what he has proposed would be a far
greater consolidation of the British
Empire overseas than a solution for
the problem which he raised.
The real trouble, it seems to me. is
that Smuts accepts the so-called trinity
of powers as something final in history,
and permanently writes into a power
vacuum, France, Italy and Germany.
If these three countries. representing
158,000,000 people on the continent of
Europe, exclusive of the African empires
Of two Of them, are to be treated as non-
existent by the western powers, then
there certainly will be an imbalance,
which will not only throw out Britain,
but in couple of decades also will
put the United States in a secondary
role
Because three nations will have gone
down. no matter how disastrously, and
no matter with what internal chaos
and struggle they may still have to cope.
does not remove them permanently
from history If they so down as great
powers, they will either ta) revive in
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Welcome to Mr.. Coffee

1t is pleasure to note some of the
views expressed to reporters by Rep
reSentative Coffee of Washington in
accepting the Craftsmanship of the
House Subcommittee on District
Appropriations. He welcomes an
opportunity for national service in
working for the development of
Washington as the Capital. He
wants the local government here to
be outstanding in efficient discharge
of its functions to the community.
He is warmly sympathetic with the
aspirations Of Washingtonians for
voting representation in their own
government. He brings helpful ex-
perience to his new post, for he
was active in municipal affairs in
Tacoma, a fine, progressive city,
before coming to Congress. Some of
the outstanding men in Congress in
the past have been distinguished
as builders of the Federal City, look
ing on their membership in the ex-
clusively governing local legislature
as an obligation to serve Washington,
Mr.. Coffee takes &6S sames Vsew. He,
will find an earnest desire on the
part OF Washingtonians to work with
him and to make his term OF service
a pleasant and fruitful undertaking,
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MAJ. George Fielding Eliot

Fifth, the fact that 1t. Gen. George S.
Patton, Jr., commander of the 7th Army,
has with members of his staff Just vis-
lted the Middle East and spent three
days as the guest of Gen. Sir Henry
Maitland Wilson, going to various areas
OF that command including Palestine
and possibly others. Now, an army
commander does not make such a visit
as the representative of the Commander
IN Chief; that is proper assignment for
stall ofhcer. An army commanders
job Is to command his army, and when
he makes an advance visit to a place
where his army is not, accompanied by
his staff, it is fair inference that his
army is going there, or at least that
there Is some definite possibility of its
going there is under consideration.
This visit of Gen. Pattons must be
considered in the light of Secretary
StimSon's statement of Monday, in
which, reporting to Senate commit.
tee on the recent incident involving
Gen. Patton, the Secretary of War said:
with respect to the misleading an
nouncement issued by Gen. Eisenhower
headquarters on November %, am in
formed that the reason for the nature
of this reply was military one, a rea-
son based on operations then, and since,
in progress. 1t was considered necessary
to Immediately and categorically deny
the false implications that a change
had or would take place in the COM
mand OF the 7th Army. = The mill
tary reasons referred to above are still
important to Allied operations in the
Mediterranean theater and consequently
must remain secret for the present, but
I assure you that they will eventually be
disclosed. At that time 1t will be made
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Dorothy Thompson

time; CD become the satellites of an.
other great power; or Co unite them
selves to create another great power
factor In the world. Even If they ac-
cept (b) they may attempt one day
to liberate themselves by (c,.
1t is true that 2O-odd nations in
Europe, all struggling against each
other, and tied in alliances against each
otner with Britain or Russia, would dis
appear from political importance in the
future, when the world will be organ
lzed into much greater areas. But this
does not preclude creating a Common
wealth OF Europe, which seems the only
alternative to struggle for power in
Europe between Russia and the Anglo
American powers.
In such struggle the Anglo American
world would come off badly. 1t is dubi-
Gus whether the United States with
her chief interests centered in the
Western Hemisphere, will concentrate
even fraction of her interests in
Europe in the long run. That would
leaye a small island off the European
coast, trying to balance a vast main
land empire.
This development has been forseen
by some from the beginning Of the
war, and If 1t has not been sufficiently
considered oy statesmen, it is perhaps
because they have underrated Russia
militarily and above all, politically.
l find it humiliating to observe that
Russia has been much more percipient
about vital European social and political
1orces than We have. find it humiliat-
ing TO have to record that so far Russia
mas won every diplomatic victory il
Europe during this war by sim-iy
avoiding mistakes that we have co-e
out of our way to make. DiplcmsticoiIv
We have not been defeated bv Ru--sa
but by ourselves And it is time to
draw the lessons from cur nlista
In order not to make a great marv
more
Released by the Bell Syndicate 1~c)
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nomic cohesion; while Great Britain, in
Europe proper, is relatively small
country
This seems to him a very unfavorable
position for Britain. politically and eco
nomically. He is clear-sighted enough
to see that an attempt to make union
of the whole English speaking world
would be likely eventually to divide the
world into two hostile groups; it would,
at least, produce inimical repercussions.
But he is frankly afraid that in the
present setup, Britain would be squeezed
between two great continental powers.
He is realistic enough to know also that
even If We abandon the concept bal
ance of power" it lS still necessary, if
we are to avoid a totalitarian world, to
maintain some sort of power equilibrium.
Thus he is forced to view with dismay
the eclipse of Western Europe, and the
reduction of three of the great Euro
pean powers" France, Italy and Ger
many, to the rank of minor states.
The solution he proposes is to extend
the British Commonwealth onto the
continent, to include those smaller
Evening star., 1943-12-15
Dogma and Carrier Planes
The news from the, Pacific is be.

The news from the Pacific is be-
ginning to suggest very strongly
that japanese land-based aircraft
are no match for our carrier-based
planes. A considerable number of
illustrations can be cited in support
of this, but one recent action should
suffice to make the point clear.
The action took place on Deem
Der 4 when a big American naval
task force, including a formidable
group OF carriers, smashed into the
Marshalls directly north of the Gil
berts and sank six Japanese ships,
including two cruisers, damaged
four others, shot down seventy
two enemy planes and destroyed
perhaps as many as thirty more on
the ground-all this at a cost to us
OF fewer than ten aircraft lost and
one carrier specifically damaged.
This action was a clear-cut test
between land-based and carrier
based planes. The japanese rose
swiftly and in large numbers from
the stationary ground to meet what
flew at them from our moving ships.
and they were overwhelmingly de-
feated, failing to inf1ict major dam
age on even one of the vessels riding
offshore and losing more than seven
aircraft for every one of ours shot
down. This is plain evidence of a
marked superiority in American
pilots, American planes and Ameri-
can naval-air tactics.
But more important than that,
since this sort of victory is becom-
ing increasingly common in the Pa
clfic, it is striking indication that
despite a great deal of excited and
opinionated theorizing to the con-
trary, seapoWer is not necessarily at
a terrible disadvantage when it
moves against hostile shores. In
some quarters, there has been a dis
position to accept it more or less as
matter of incontrovertible dogma
that anything flying from a ship is
sadly inferior to land-based aircraft
and that therefore it is senseless to
keep on building a lot of "vulner-
able" carriers.
In the light of Pacific events, this
dogma now seems so untenable as
to need revision from beginning to
end
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Piecemeul Approach

Inc House vote to force an in
crease in the price of petroleum is
subject to the same objection that
mas been raised against the Senate's
action in the railroad wage dispute
namely, that price controls cannot
be maintained at all if Congress is
going to grant exemption to IA
Vored groups or favored products.
Sponsors of the petroleum legisla-
ton contend that a higher price is
necessary to stimulate additional
production. The average consumer
IL IS said, would rather pay more
and get the gasoline than to paw
less and not get it. Perhaps that is
true. But it is also true that this
is the perfect recipe for imitation.
Mr.. Average Consumer" today has
more surplus money than ever be-
lore. He would like to have a good
many things that are available onlv
IN limited quantities, and he would
not hesitate to pay more if they
could be obtained that way. The
immediate result, however. would
be to bring on the extreme infla-
ton that we are trying to ward off,
and the average consumer would
wind up as the principal sufferer.
AS in the case of railroad wages,
there is a certain plausibility to the
argument that petroleum prices
should be raised. For one thing.
Secretary Ickes advocates higher
prices as an inducement to greater
production and no one is going to
accuse him of catering to selfish
ambitions Of the oil producers. But
there is no merit in a piecemeal
approach to this problem. If some
prices and some wages are out of
line, and if the agencies responsible
Tor price and wage control unrea-
sonably refuse to make adjustments,
the proper congressional remedy
lies in a complete overhaul of the
stabilization act. To seek solution
by enacting special legislation at the
behest of this or that pressure group
can lead only to chaos and disaster.
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" Constantine Br01Vu

OF Russia SO powerful that all Europe
might pledge its fealty to the Moscow
government.
Washington and London, Herr Goeb-
bells men say, are anxious to see the war
end. But while Washington is still
determined to enforce the unconditional
surrender policy-if it were in form
only-the British are quite willing to
throw it overheard for peace which
would satisfy public opinion and at the
same time preserve a Germany which
could be reconstructed to keep a balance
OF power in Europe
The slowness of our operations in
Europe, which is due to the fact that
the concentrations for the blows prom
ised at the Teheran conference have net
been completed, is being described in
the Reich as a proof of the intention Of
Britain not to lose too many men and
war materials since there are strong
prospects for an early negotiated peace.
The idea Is, of course, ridiculed in re-
sponsible quarters in Washington. which
maintain that nothing but the unconci-
tlonal surrender of the Reich with
either complete disarmament or utt-r
destruction of the Wehrmacht can
satisfy the Allies. The Russians ard
the British 3ay these quarters. solemnlv
pledged themselves at Teheran to
achieve this the final end.
The Goebbels propaganda. which il,
directed principally to the home front.
Is, according to American officials, one
OF the most significant indications that
the nome front is deteriorating rapidly.
Moreover, the reported propaganda is
intended to prepare the German public
Ior a peace which will not be in the
least along the lines indicated by Hitlers
chief of propapanda
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Mutation

The long days, the golden days are
Sw,ftly passing by,
And brtefer hours of keen crisp air and
pdler sun no1U fly
IN quick succession on to ,phere the
outing Uind Will bloW
Ana oUer all the Shudderino enrtb mil
jail the chill. Wkite snou.
IN SouthWdrd, straight formation the
oirds are on the ,Ding:
In each small breast there stirs the
way from old remembering,
ana Where the fo,oers lifted brioht
faces to the light,
NoW pale ghosts DRIFT upon the air. in
oogue and taltering flight.
The cobwebs sag with jeyels. cold
5eDels OF the de10,
That flash Nth diamond facets. the
sky is deeply blue,
And color steals across the leaves, bar
bdric, Uivid, strong
As Indian braDes in 1Dar paint, stridino
- in files along
The Woodland Uays, the mountains.
TOO soon, too soon the frost
Will touch them, and their brillinnce
Dal aOither and be lost,
When crotUdtng all the airways, and
surfing madly down,
The 1Dtld dance OF the snowfakes
envelopes field and to,Dn.
MARY WILLIS SHELBURNE.
Evening star., 1943-12-15
This and That
By Charles E. Trace1ceu

By Charles E. Trdce1OeH.
The Chevy Chase monkey is on the
rampage again.
This time it Is dogs.
Before this 1t was rats.
Her way of killing rats is something,
as they say-but we will come to that.
This big monkey is great pet loved
by her folks, slightly feared by the
neighbors.
Now that dogs are on leash they are
always led up to the big monkeys cage,
which juts out from basement window.
She can enter it and go back into the
house at will
When a bold dog leads his master or
mistress up to the monkey screen the
monkey comes bounding out. If the
dog Is not wary it will reach through
the wire and pull out a handful of dog
fur.
1t can be imagined that this unusual
pet Is the subject of almost legendary
tales.
The latest is that concerning the rats.
The monk detests them, as any good
householder ought to; even in the best
eighborhoods-and this is one of the
best-rats will abound
The war, of course. Everything is
the war.
The war has cut down on their food,
and so they come out of the sewers at
night to see what they can pick up.
The Chevy Chase monkey hates a rat
with real fervor.
She is very cunning at picking them
up, according to the tales they tell in
the neighborhood
Now and then she manages to push
her screening apart, in one particular
place, and so goes for little run among
the towering oaks and beeches.
II she discovers a rat on the way it
Is just too bad for him.
Taking the rat by the front legs with
her left hand she takes the hind legs
in her right-hand and begins to pull.
Well, that monkey must have Jap in
her ancestry somewhere.
Neighborhood gossip swears the fol-
lowing story Is true, although we cannot
vouch for it.
1t seems that she is as clever as any
determined jail breaker in getting out
OF her cage, every now and then.
Every one has heard of the persistence
criminals have dug their way out.
Every prison has its list of tales. One
man worked for year digging tunnel
mile long to come out across the river.
Another dug with spoon a tunnel of
amazing length, only to be picked up as
he crawled at last out of the other end.
These stories rival fiction
+
Well, the Chevy Chase monkey is not
criminal, but she shows all the astute-
ness and determination Of one.
1t Is said that she worked for MANY
days patiently pulling the wires apart
In one place.
This was done so cleverly that the
gap did not show.
Her owners are not afraid she will
harm any one, but feel that after what
she had done to rats, pet cats might not
be safe with her loose
She is mighty smart, they say with
pride.
One night she got out through her
opening, but when she came back the
wires were in such state that she could
not get back in again.
So, do you know what she did?
She went up the steps and rang the
front doorbell.
Evening star., 1943-12-15

Wishes and while 1t Is true, too, that
the military men in matters of strategy
make a greater contribution than the
national heads, it is impossible to mini
mize the immense psychological effect of
the personal accord of the latter. In
no other way could the unity and pHr-
pose of the Allied nations be as con-
vincingly shown In no other way could
the solidity of the alliance against the
enemy be conveyed.
X \
A sounder view is that of Gen Smuts,
who declared the conferences were the
most significant for a hundred years"
and said they had achieved "unanimity
far exceeding our expectations" Un-
doubtedly these things are true. and
they make the criticisms of the Teheran
and Cairo conferences seem unimpor-
tant. Nevertheless, there is sense in
the suggestion that these conferences
have their disadvantages; that there is
some danger of their becoming habit;
that fine as the symbolic effects have
Evening star., 1943-12-15
Frank K. Ke.-t

carry the weight that Mr.. Roosevelt
does. And Mr.. Morgenthau carries very
much less than Mr.. Byrnes. A situation
exists which is full of peril to the Ma
lon 1t can be saved only by arousine
public sentiment in a wav to connel
the pressure groups to restrain them
selves and Congress to operate on a
higher plane. 1t can be done that vsv:
but Mr.. Roosevelt is the onlv man who
can arouse that kind of sentiment the
only man who can make the appeal. 1t
ought 10 nave been made long ago.
Perhaps 1t isn't too late now.
The trouble is not only that Mr.. Roose-
welt has been away for a month. but
even when here he does not seem inter-
ested in domestic problems. His mind
is full of high military strategy and
international affairs. The home prob
lens bore him. He does not want to be
forced to concentrate on them and for
many months now his disposition has
been to delegate some one else to
handle them for him. His friend, Judge
sam Rosenman, it is reported, has be-
come the great message and statement
writer. Mr.. Byrnes handles nearly
everything else except taxes, which are
still in the feeble hands of Mr.. Morgen-
thau.
Perhaps the obvious deterioration and
danger here may now induce Mr.. Roose-
Veit to exert his leadership and strength
TO get things again under control. No
one else can do it. All his aides can
40 is present the facts, If the country
is to be aroused, the President has to
arouse IT. But he and his friend. Mr..
Harry Hopkins, are so immersed in mill.
tary strategy and global plans that they
40 not seem able to bring themselves
down TO less thrilling, but equally vital
matters at home
Evening star., 1943-12-15

evident why general discussion Of
tne details OF this affair at any time
PRIOR TO the completion of certain stra-
tegic plans was directly contrary to the
military interest of the United States
ana our allies. Gen. Eisenhower re-
ports that the serious ASPECT of
this case is the danger that the Armv
Will lose the services of a battle-tested
Army commander"
IN other words, Gen. Patton is and
Will remain commander of the 7th ARMY
ne mas just visited the Middle East with
MS STAN, and he is considered by his
commander in Chief as tactical leader
VINO successfully concluded, in record
cine, complicated and important mil
ltary campaign, and one whom lis
omcers and men would again be willing
10 follow into battle" His arrival in
Cairo Immediately followed upon a con-
sultatlon In Sicily with the President
and with Gen. Eisenhower.
1t is impossible to escape the implica-
tions of all this, especially in view of
the fact that no attempt has been made
to conceal Gen. Patton's presence in
Cairo or to prevent news of it being
sent out by correspondents there.
Judging from that circumstance, one
would incline to the opinion that what
is going to happen is going to happen
quickly, before the enemy can take ad-
vantage Of this knowledge; or else that
we are seeing played succession Of
moves in war of nerves aimed not only
at the Germans, but at their wavering
and frightened Balkan satellites.
1t should not be very long before We
know which Is the case.
tccpyrisht. 1s4s. n. =. Tribune, mel
Evening star., 1943-12-15

OF twenty million is essential" to the
security Of his country, but such
population is not attainable by
natural increase" In sixty years
Australia will have only eleven mil
lion persons unless she adds to her
population by immigration" Re-
garding the requisite inflow" of
people, Mr.. Curthoys reminds his
readers:
immigration must be dependent on
expanding markets for primary prod
ucts and manufactured goods. Sec
ondary industry affords the largest
scope for rapidly increased settle
ment, but balance must be struck
between the expansion Of agriculture
and continued development of manu-
factures the war has fostered. Pre-
war manufactures represented only
per cent of exports. Primary indus
tries paid for imports and met the
interest on capital borrowed In Lon
don and New York.
Such economic issues also are
bound to be of concern to "the near
est neighbor" of the United States.
The Montreal Star for December IL
contains the transcript of an address
by Jackson DoddS, chairman of the
Central Council of the Canadian Red
Cross, in which he declared: when
this war ends there no doubt will
be many thousands abroad who will
wish to come, as we did, to this great
land" and "if Canada is to continue
to progress, she within reasonable
limits must admit newcomers of the
right type"
Certainly, numerous difficulties Of
adjustment inevitably are involved
in the expected postwar movement
Of peoples" Every world shaking
event of the past five centuries has
produced its own issues. The i'm
migration problem unquestionably
will be global affair. It will touch
every community on earth. Possibly
some helpful guidance in dealing
with it may be discovered in George
Washington's doctrine of 1887: Let
us raise standard to which the
wise and honest can repair; the rest
Is in the hands of God"