The Coolidge examiner., 1936-04-24

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ness. Sixty-five might be a good
age to stop dull routine work for
wages, but no man would want to
stop real work until death, except
that six months to look around
this side Of the grave might be ac-
ceptable. Goethe finished the Sec
Ond part Of "Faust" when he was
past seventy-two; and one Of the
ableSt French writer's, starting "a
new prose style, wrote nothing un-
til at eighty-six he wrote the Life
of st. Louis at the request of the
tury % years have been added to
the average lives of old men; no.
body would want those years
wasted.
In the murder of an unfortunate
young woman, New York detectives
think they see, at last, "the per-
feet crime" one in which the per-
petrator cannot be identified.
Fortunately, there is no perfect
crime except in the Imagination Of
the criminal or the detective story
writer, because criminals are dull,
cannot keep their mouths shut, are
vain, boast and the electric chair
gets them. Also, they jump when
hand is laid on the shoulder; !;
that helps detectives, and Grim
inals are betrayed by fellow Grim
inals.
Bishop Stewart, Episcopalian, of
Chicago, thinks Immortality may be
limited. only those who have
definite relationship to God through
the spiritual life may be eligible
for immortality, and other souls
cease to exist upon DEATH"
This important suggestion of
celestial -four hundred" will appeal
to many that might not care to
meet, in heaven, the cave man
with low forehead, prOtruding jaw,
the bushman with a vocabulary of
$50 words, or all the repentant
thieves, murderers and trust mag
mates.
1t is conceivable that selection
Of the celestial few might be post
poned a few million years, until
real civilization shall have begun.
This is the poison gas age.
Rivers have played an important
part in the worlds history and in
wars. The Tigris and Euphrates,
creating fertile Mesopotamia, and
the ancient Nile, with its rich val
ley, regularly coated with Nile mud,
made the first civilizations possible.
Men fought through the ages
about those two rivers, and today
rivers still cause war. In Europe
the Rhine border may cause repe-
tition of the big war. In Africa. the
Blue Nile, fed by Ethiopia's Lake
Tana, breeds bitter hatred between
England and Italy.
Charles Lamb tells of a Chinese
| gentleman whose house burned and
of a pig 50 marvelously roasted that
thereafter pigs were locked in
houses, the houses burned for the
sake of the roast pig.
That is recalled by lady under
arrest in Pensacola, Fla. Sheriff
Candy charges she tried twice to
wreck a passenger train to kill her
husband, the engineer. 1t is alleged
that the plot failed because the
wrong spikes were pulled from the
rails. Sheriff Candy thinks the lady
wanted to collect $1,000 in life in
Surance.
An African savage who gave all
his ivory tusks for gun was found
later in the bush, on his knees, pray
ing to the gun not to shoot him. He
did not know how to use it.
This country is equally ignorant
about using youth and its enthusi-
asm.
A Frenchman says truly "Ameri-
can digestion would improve If
Americans made more and better
! sauces."
Voltaire, another Frenchman, said
the same thing of England long ago.
He found that England had many
religions and only one sauce, where
as France had many sauces and
only one religion, and he preferred
France.
The new Zeppelin, in spite of en-
gines out Of order on her return
from Brazil to Germany. kept on
her way at 80 miles an hour, fight
ing winds over the Mediterranean
That is one advantage of a dirigibIe
she stays up The heavierthan-
air plane with engine trouble comes
down
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