The Coolidge examiner., 1936-02-21

Dor, or GOethe's
Divide and rule! Powerful word.
Unite and lead! Better word.
A lonely English soldier living on
an island in the Indian ocean wrote
that he wanted wife, saying, II
have hazel eyes," nothing else about
himself. Already 25O English girls
have offered to marry him. The
249 disappointed may find comfort
in a better marriage, picking out
somebody with blue eyes. 1t an
noys many, but 1t must be said that
practically all the great men il his
tory had blue or gray eyes. even
men from dark-eyed races, like Ma
poleon from Corsica. Caesar from
Rome.
To save answering questions, here
is short list: Washington, Jeffer-
son, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Edison,
Henry Ford. Look up the others.
Near Tampa, Fla, schooner
loaded with men, women, children,
on the way to establish a nudist
colony in the Virgin islands, ran
aground. Navigators were unwilling
to sign for a nudist enterprise,
afraid, perhaps, of catching cold, so
tho shin ran ashore
Nudism Is a queer atavistic crav-
ing. The human race began that
way in the Garden Of Eden, and
each Of us starts out as nudist at
birth. The struggle is to keep
clothed thereafter.
1t is a strange decentralization
that makes some long to run about
undressed; the more strange be-
cause they look so hideously ugly.
Discouraged by incompetence that
wrecked two dirigibles, this coun-
try decided that lighter than air
machines are not necessary. 1t was
necessary to borrow small pri-
vately owned blimp to take food to
1900 Tangier Islanders. cut off from
relief by ice. No heavier than air
plane could land there before the
blimp, which landed easily.
MuSsolini threatens to leave the
league If 1t includes a ban on oil
in its sanctions. In modern war,
no oil, no war. Mussolini may buy
old American ships to use as float
ing gasoline storage tanks. Had he
come a little sooner he could have
had plenty of them at a bargain,
about one thousand million dollars
worth of expensive steel floating
Junk" built when this country's
foolish entrance into the World war
found it unprepared.
England and Russia were getting
along nicely, and now the Russian
envoy, Litvinoff, attending the late
kings funeral. commits the British
objectionable sin.
After talking with the new king,
Litvinoff, instead of expressing ad-
miratiOn for the overwhelming
royal intellect, remarked that the
new king, Edward VIII, was Just
a mediocre young Englishman" and
repeated what the young king had
said to him, something mot done"
Mr.. Norman Thomas Of the So
cialist left wing runs for Presiden:
sometimes and says the New
Dear' Is leading to Fascism. die,
tatOr.
In Italy Socialism. and doctrines
even more radical, led to the rise
Of Mussolini, aided by castor oil and
other methods. If our dictatorship
comes, some radicals will look back
sadly to the good old days when you
could speak your mind without be-
ing shot or put to work.
One mans frostbite is another
mans good news. New Jersey fruit
growers say the extreme cold freeZ-
ing the ground two feet deep, will
destroy orchard pests, including the
gypsy and coddling moths. The cold,
which has not injured trees, is ex-
pected to discourage larvae Of the
japanese beetle.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh spent
his thirty-fOurth birthday in Wales
his wife and one son with him. He
must have felt that he had already
lived 100 gears, and have wished
almost, that he had been content to
remain in the airmail service, apart
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