The Coolidge examiner., 1938-06-16
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SERIOUS INDEED!!

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week has been spoiled by the dis
concerting news in the morning
paper that the moon is "off track.
Things have been mussed up
enough already without having to
have so serious a thing as that
thrown in on top of our overload.
1t has been requiring all our time
trying to figure out some of the
"off track" situations closer to
home The slaughter of innocent
little pigs to save the pork market,
the curtailment of crops to boost
the prices of commodities. paying
/ farmers not to raise crops while the
government builds more dams for
more lakes so more lands can be
cultivated, the regulation of bust
ness so that the government and
the unions run the employer instead
of the employer running his bust
ness, the appropriation of billions
to cure the recession" that de-
veloped out Of the tail spin OF the
depression" the-but why men
ton more. And here on top of all
that Astronomer Harold Spencer
Jones Git would be the Jones-ziz)
! breaks us down with the announce
ment that the earth Is slowing
down and getting the moon out OF
Joint 1t is estimated this slowing
down process is going on at the
rate of about a thousandth of a
second every century"
1t has gotten the moon six seco-
nds off its beaten track Now you
sit down with a pencil and paper
and figure how many centuries that
has been going on-les see, thous
andth of a second every one hund-
red years. A thousandth into a
century goes-how many times?
Here is something really important
for the New Deal" to work on. If
some of this relief money can be
spent employing the jobless to IL
cure it out on paper We can re-
duce the unemployed problem by
several million in no time. But los
ing a thousandth of a second every
century-somethi has got to be
done about it. We must get that
moon back in line. There should
be a senate investigation started at
once.
"YoU CAN'T TALK HERE"
Norman Thomas is native Am
erican and gives no allegience TO
any person or country across the
seas. | heard him in campaign
speech in Portland in 1882. He was
a candidate for president of the
Socialist ticket. | also heard Roose-
velt and Hoover that year Thomas
didn't have to bother about poll
tics" so he said more good com
mon sense things in his thirty min
utes than both the others did In all
their campaigning.
The difference was that he was
thinking about the country while
the other two were thinking about
themselves and their parties. 1t IS
queer how saving the country
means saving the party in the
minds of most politicians.
But Thomas is dangerous. He Is
"socialist." And yet all he advo-
Gates cannot compare to the pro-
gram of the New Deal for socialls-
| tic tendencies.
But that is neither here or tnere'
The point is that Mr.. Thomas can
not speak his thoughts in the state
of New Jersey. The dictator OF tnat
state objects. Police protection can
be given to German Nazi propagan'
dists who use the United States
flag as a rallying post for the S"a
tiki and the Nazi doctrines-tha'
is alright. But Mr.. Thomas, socla
list. cannot speak.
Men wearing over sea caps thro"
rotten eggs at Thomas and teal
down his platform and the ponce
| are helpless to stop the riot, thus
giving us first class demonstra
ton of the principle of freedom ol
speech and the protection of minor
tiles guaranteed by the constitu
ton.
NOT IMPORTANT
The fact that Mr.. Thomas doesn'