Nogales international., 1928-04-13

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he said Il do not choose" Everybody
knows he means it when he says now
he does not want any of his friends
10 lift a finger to nominate him.
But the oil scandal makes differ.
ence in the situation, and everyone
of intelligence reserves the right to
change his mind.
Cotton 'pickers and shippers" re-
placing human fingers With machin-
cry, are now working in northwest
ern Texas.
This is good news. Prosperity for
farmers depends on machinery, on
doing with the earth's products what
Ford, first, did with automobiles.
In the Gary rolling mill half a
dozen men roll out steel rails that ten
thousand could not have produced
with old sledge hammer methods. Nc
human hand touches the iron, until
tall young Scandinavian runs his
keen blue eye along the finished rail
and signals another man, who
straightens it. Machine dig the ore,
put it in ships, unload it, handle it,
cold and hot.
Six men, some day, will run a
1,0O0-acre farm, and multiply its
crops by ten. Don't worry about
oyer-popUlation.
The infant death rate is down in
Pennsylvania and New York. And
that's the most important "crop
news" this year.
If only civilization took as much
interest in babies as it does in young
calves, pigs, boil weevil and. corn
borer.
Consider Natures limitless fecun-
dity.
Mr.. Ringing shows you this year
= sea-elephant weighing four tons
that eats S per cent of his weight, or
400 pounds of herrings, at one meal.
Any one sof dozen fishes in one
generation would fill all the oceans
and seas of the world solid with fish
if they and their escendants all sur
yive. The elephant, on the other
hand. lives a hundred years and only
has two or three children at most.
Wise nature.
Canada has hanged George Nc
Donald, forger, confidence man and
murderer. His young wife, saved
from the rope by public appeals, sent
him word, II shall never cease pray
ing for you" She, poor woman, will
have time to keep that promise in her
Nfe imprisonment. In Canada Il
MEANS life Imprisonment.
Sparing that woman is step to-
ward civilization. Once thousands q
year were hanged for petty crimes.
Hence the expression, "As well bd
hanged for sheep as lamb" Chill
dren were hanged and quartered il
Franklin's childhood.
Civilization" has stopped hanging
children, and gradually will stop
hanging women, and finally will
STOP HANGING. And men, aston
ished, will see crime diminish,
Tom Wise is deal, Shepherd of the
Lambs Club, and a good actor. Years
ago William A. Brady asked this
writer to see Tom Wise in a play
called "a Gentleman from Mississip
pl' that Brady was producing.
This writer told Brady, 'You havl
= first class play, and there is in it
young actor playing a minor part
Jumping over chairs, ETC., that is go
ing to make a success. You ought to
make a contract with him." The
young mans name was Douglas Fair
banks.
What Cooper wrote about the las
noble red men will soon be writer
of the last wild horses. Not Ions
afterward, thanks to the motor, truck
will come the last of the tame horses
In the State of Washington thou
sand wild horses yesterday were be
ing driven toward Yakima, their hides
to be sold, their flesh fed to to'
farms, or fed to dogs and chickens
The carcass>rs are worth S. each.
A big candy factory is closed II
New York City, called "a menace K
health" by Commissioner Harris.
Buy pure candies from shops ant
manufacturers with established repu
tations. Ali sorts of trash is fed t.
children. A certain clay mixed ant
favored and little inferior choco
late is sold for pure chocolate. Tha
crirne should mean twenty years il