The Coolidge examiner., 1938-11-17


army, who, in addition to accepting
an invitation to
Strong Man of and attending
Cuba Is Much Armistice day
Sought After ceremonies in
Washington, has
replied favorably to the suggestion
of Gen. Manuel Avila Comacho, Sec
retary of Mexico's national defense
that he visit that country next
January
In both instances the underly-
ing diplomatic motif, viz, "a
gesture of cooperation between
factors responsible for the de-
velopment of democracies in
our hemisphere" is officially
set forth in Mexico and in Wash
ingtOn, tacitly, while, incidental
ly, the interests of reciprocal
trade relations in sugar and to-
baccO have not been overlooked.
Commanding an army of $4,000
men, Colonel Batista is not only a
soldier, but an economist and poll
tician SO dynamically and efficiently
engaged in Cuba'S rehabilitation in
both spheres as to have gained for
himself the sobriquet, "Cuba's
Strong Man" And, also, The Ma.
poleon of the Caribbean"
First barber, then tailor, car
penter, sugar cane worker, rail-
road hand, army buck private,
stenOgrapher and now dicta-
tor, his course was written in
the stars and so predeStined; so
he says and believes. Now, at
the age of 81, he has been re-
Sponsible for the rise and fall of
seven Cuban presidents, con-
trols the Cuban congress and
dictates the policies of Presi-
dent Federico Laredo Bru. OF
his army, nippy body of men,
he says it is committed to
peace; but is ever at the service
of the United States in whatever
armed issue the great nOrtherly
republic may ever enter.
THE jimson weed and the vine
L gar fly figure heavily in hopes
for civilizing human beings That
seems a roundabout approach, but
-, DR.. A. F. Blake
Betters Weed; slee, in the news
Humans Next, as he hops up
Aim ofDocfor tiny flowers to
cabbage size by
a chemical shot, has found through
experiments with the above that we
may yet remold humanity to a pat
tern of decent behavior.
A West Virginia poet called
the jimson weed "a mean, stub
born weed of a low, poisonous
breed" Relating it to human
kind may have been just a non-
sequitur, but DR.. Blakeslee
found it excellent for gene shut.
fling and Juggling and he
worked strange wizardry in
turning it into something else
again. He thinks he might dc
the same for the rest of us.
He and DR.. Thomas Hunt Morgan,
a biological miracle team, have, in
this country, taken the lead in re-
search in genes, as determining the
pattern of individual heredity.
Profoundly believing that civil
liZatiOn is conditioned by biOlOg-
ical limitations, DIR. Blakeslee
thinks the way to get rid of
congenital killers, war-mongers,
dolts and other laggards in the
life-parade is to work over the
basic stuff of life-mainly genes.
He has plenty of jimson weed
and reports progress.
A native of Oswego,'N. Y, now
"a years old, he was educated at
Wesleyan and Harvard. His expert
ments in biological RECOMMENDATION
have given him high standing in his
profession.
DR. ALEXANDER KLEMIN, au-
~ thority on flying and airplanes,
halls the approach of the foolproof
rotary winged family airplane, safe
as baby car
Bold Prophet riage and handy
Predicts Safe for a trip down
Family Plane to the delicates-
sen or the post
office. 1t won't be here just this
minute, but it is coming, says Dr.
Klemin, as windmill fight offers
stability which the present mode
never can hope to attain. His pre-
diction was made at the first world
conference on rotating wing flight
at Philadelphia.
DIR. Klemin, so years old, is
native of London, here in 1913,
a former student at NJ. l. T.,
naturalized in 1917, with the re-
search department of the army
air service and thereafter chair
man of the Guggenheim School
of Economics. He has been one
of aviation's bOldest prophets.
Two years ago, he visiOned the