The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-05-08


usual charge" not
Arthur brisbane waiting for trial.
Joe Bowers, sentenced to rs years
for mail robbery, locked in the island
fortress Of Alcatraz, tried to escape by
climbing ten feet Of plain wire, two
feet of barbed wire, and jumping down
a 6O-foot cliff into the water. He
pumped bullets into him, and jumped
down the cliff. Asked when "booked"
at Alcatraz, 'Who Is to be notified II
you dieT Bowers replied: Nobody;
nobody cares whether l die or not"
Hitler apparently has chosen his
successor sin case" in the person of
Air Minister Goering, now made "as-
sistant dictator" with control Of two
great German problems of raw mate
rails and foreign exchange.
In New York, 175 naval cadets from
the German cruiser Emden, name we'll
remembered from the war, explore
the city, guarded by detectives in case
Of hostile demonstrations.
Commercial boycotts Of Germany,
organized in New York, have done
more harm to the Nazi government
than could be done by any mob attack
on German cadets.
California possesses three kinds of
gold": yellow gold, Of which there Is
plenty left in the ground; "black 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 three, combined, is the gold Of
education.
Driving through this country, If you
see particularly fine building, tall
columns, wide grounds, fields for
healthy play, that Is public school.
Once 1t would have been the prison
or feudal castle.
You see another building, almost as
impressive as the high school. That Is
a public library. The accumulated
knowledge of the world is free.
Mrs. Grace Warren Dubois, sixty-two
years old, was allowed to keep her seat
while the judge sentenced her to life
Imprisonment for killing her son. Or
dinarily convicts must stand for sen.
tence.
1t is said she thought her family
"too aristocratic" to live in such times
as these, and wished to kill them all.
Another son testified against her.
Newsboys cry "What do you read?"
The Niagara of books pouring from the
presses, vast majority forgotten as
they are born, make many ask what
shall read?" OF the books that every
one must know, many are unneces-
sarily long, will not be read, and need
condensation, in this day of newspa.
pers, moving pictures, and radio.
If some publisher would issue q
bookshelf" squeezed down from L.
feet to feet, that would be useful.
Paris perceives that following recent
elections extreme radicals will be pow.
erful In the new chamber, and those
that have money left begin panicky
selling. Bank of France shares drop
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, bust
ness has increased Is per cent, employ
ment only per cent. Not much cheer
fitness in that.
Since last March the New York
Stock exchange values" have increased
by twenty thousand million dollars.
Excellent ''bait' for the ignorant.
New Jersey citizens dropped from
relief invade legislative halls, camp
out, sleep on the floor, promise to re-
main until New Jersey supplies money
and food.
Ewing township, New Jersey, with
1900 population. taking $50 families
of the dole, told them officially to go
out and beg. Begging being illegal.
each family was provided with beg
ging license. That may be called
economic relief"
Tokyo worries about Russia plot
ting war against Japan" but no plot
ting Is necessary. Russia knows the To-
cation of every japanese city, town and
factory. 1t would be necessary only to
declare war and start dropping bombs.
particularly bombs that spread fire.
Starting war for foreign countries
is as easy as shooting up gambling
game" among our racketeers; no Sc
crecy or plotting necessary.
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