The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-07

fOrerunnerS OF
E-- ls2assSS---.A IN $50 h i S Christmas
.u.. ,-,u, period to usher in
the New Year.
Lord Nuffield English, is a gen.
erous giver; his automobile manu-
featuring makes it possible. He
gave $4,000, 900 to the University
of Oxford, has established a trust
of SIC, 900, 900 for his employees, and
has given $40, 100000 to the British
government ''to help the needy"
His giving in the past eleven years
amounts to about thirty-seven mil
lion dollars.
If Lord Nufield were to multiply
his gifts by ten, he would still be
far from the giving record of our
homegrown John D. Rockefeller;
also, he would be surprised to know
how much prosperous Americans
contribute to their government "for
the needy" in the form of income
tax.
The governor of Pennsylvania
spent three days carefully investi-
eating illegal coal mining and sell
ing by idle workers, 'bootlegging"
property of coal corporations, sell
ing more than thirty million dollars
worth of ''stolen" coal each year.
At the end of his investigation, the
governor took action" but of
kind that probably will surprise
mine owners.
He ordered the arrest of four ex-
ecutives of the Philadelphia & Read
ing Coal & Iron company, accus-
ing them of involuntary man.
slaughter in connection with a coal
mine disaster three years ago that
killed thirteen. The officials and
company are accused of employing
eighty-fve men in mine section
on which only seventy-fve could
be legally employed. An explosion
killed thirteen. Mine owners with
grievances will think carefully be-
fore calling on Gov. Earle again.
There are twenty-seven murder
ers in the death house at Sing Sing
prison, nearly all boys or very
young men. Six of the twenty-seven
young ruffians, of assorted races
and religions-three of them un-
der twenty-one years of age-sur-
rounded a defenseless man, muir
dered him in cold blood to get
few dollars, all in subway nickels.
Governor Lehman of New York is
urged to pardon the six -nurderers,
some because they are young, some
because they did not fire that fatal
shot. The governor replied he ought
not to pardon any murderer under
tWenty-one years of age, because Il
frankly see no difference in the guilt
of the man who is twenty-five and
one who is twenty"
The big shot" gangsters hire
men, usually very young and well
supplied with drugs, to do their
killing for them. 1t would be too
easy for these employers of killers
if they could take boys from sixteen
to twenty and guarantee them, ''in
the first place, they won't catch
you; in the second place, if they
do, they can't execute you; We'll get
you acquitted or get you out of
Jail"
Murder has become business"
and businesslike murders must be
made dangerous.
Suggestions for Lloyd's insurance.
In the United States, where some
business is rather timid, accident
insurance companies automatically
terminate accident policies when
the beneficiaries reach the age of
seventy.
Yet, at that age, men are often
safest from accidents. They stay
a. home, walk slowly. take few
risks.
The British Lloyd's might find
good field in a selected list of United
States citizens past seventy. This
would be no hardship on American
companies, since they do not want
the business.
Mexico plans to establish 1000
new primary public schools, in the
coming year, having established g.
900 such schools in 1886.
Representatives of the Catholic
church, which includes in its men,
bership 95 per cent of Mexico's pop
ulation, object strongly and official
ly to the kind of education alleged
to be offered to Mexican children.
France figures up a deficit of four
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