The Coolidge examiner., 1936-05-08

Lint Shaw, fifty
year-old negro, and lynched him on
-'the usual charge" not waiting for
q trial.
Joe Bowers, sentenced to % years
for mail robbery, locked in the is
land fortress Of AlcatraZ, tried to
escape by climbing ten feet of plain
wire, two feet of barbed wire, and
jumping down a 60-foot cliff into
the water. He climbed while sharp
shooter guards pumped bullets into
him, and jumped down the cliff.
Asked when 'boOked" at AlcatraZ,
"Who is to be notified if you die"
Bowers replied: Nobody, nobody
cares whether l die or not"
Hitler apparently has chosen his
successor 'in case" in the person
of Air Minister Goering, now made
assistant dictator" with control Of
two great German problems of raw
materials and foreign exchange.
In New York 175 naval cadets
from the German cruiser Emden,
name well remembered from the
war, explored the city, guarded by
detectives in case of hostile demon
Strations.
Commercial boycOtts of Germany,
organized in New York, have done
more harm to the Nazi government
than could be done by any mob at
tack on German cadets.
California possesses three kinds
of gold': yellow gold, of which
there is plenty left in the ground;
~'bIack gold" which is the oil in
lakes thousands of feet down, and
the white gold" water from the
mountains, first used to develop
power. then to irrigate crops.
Another gold, more important
than those combined, is the gold of
education.
Driving through this country, If
you see a particularly fine build
ing, tall columns, wide grounds, for
healthy play, that is a public school.
Once it would have been the prison
or feudal castle.
You see another building, almost
as impressive as the high school.
That is public library. The accu-
mulated knowledge of the world Is
free.
NewSbOys cry "What do you
read?" The Niagara of books pour
ing from the presses, a vast major
ity forgotten as they are born, make
many ask what shall l read?" Of
the books that every one must know,
many are unnecessarily long. will
not he read, and need condensation,
III this day of newspapers, moving
pictures, and radio.
Paris perceives that following re-
cent elections extreme radicals will
DE powerful in the new chamber,
and those that have money left be-
gin panicky selling. Bank of France
shares dropped violently, meaning
lack of confidence in government
stability, with fear of war in all
minds.
The last war knocked the franc
from 10 cents to cents. What
would another war do?
When stock gambling starts, 1t
moves rapidly. Since March last
year, stock prices have gone up 60
per cent. business has increased 1S
per cent. employment only 5 per
cent. Not much cheerfulness in that.
Since last March the New York
Stock exchange values" have in
creased by twenty thousand million
dollars. Excellent "bait" for the ig-
nOrant.
New Jersey citizens dropped from
relief invade legislative halls, camp
ont. sleep on the floors. promise to
remain until New Jersey supplies
money and food.
Ewing township, New Jersey,
with 5000 population, taking 45O
families off the dole. told them Off
cially to go out and beg. Begging
being illegal. each family was pro-
vided with a begging license. That
may be called economic relief"
Tokyo worries about Russia "plot-
1inG a war against Japan" but no
plotting is necessary. Russia knows
the location Of every Japanese city,
tCwn and factory. 1t would be nee
eSSary to declare war and start
dropping bombs, particularly bombs
that spread fire.
Starting a war for foreign coun-
is tcbootipo