The Coolidge examiner., 1938-07-14

,0rds? But when Marconl Stretchen
his arms across space with the
wireless he just messed that bust
ness UP terribly. Records are still
sold but many man in that busl-
ness a few years ago has gone out
Of business.
recently had occasion to 60 10
the depot in Prescott. 1t is good
size building. A train came in. There
were about a half dozen people
present. 1t recalled memories III
other days when the depot was the
most important place in the COM
munitv. Business men, housewl Ies'
practically everyone who could, 1ad
TO go down to the depot to see the
train come in and &C out. our DAY
was not complete without it.
The depot was the social contact
spot of the community. 1t was there
or half hour later at the post
office that we knew who had
new dress. hat, shoes, or learned
the latest gossip in circulation. TO-
dav the depot is the last place
where you expect to find folk.
ANOTHER ONE
And it is coming home to us now
that the ice man will also join he
ranks of the vanishing Americans
in a short time. Ten years ago
man with an ice business had a
"sure thing" Then came the cleo
trio ice box. Every man now has
his own equipment. 1t wasn't alto
gether practical at first. Then IL
improved. Soon blades for rent
were advertized as having this
extra rare special equipment. To-
day. in our cities, you can hardly
rent a place unless it contains one.
Companies who use to handle
ice. employing men to do their de-
livering. are now farming out their
routes because they find profits
decreasing so fast that they do not
consider it any longer profitable
for them to keep going.
There are really no "sure shot
things in our commercial world be-
vond the grocer, the dry goods
store and a few things like that.
Our world is pushing along fast and
threatens many a present day sound
business. The men who promote
these businesses will someday join
the vanishing American" The In
dian-the poor vanishing Amerl'
can" fellow we use to feel sorry for
will be here long after many oil
those who predicted that he would
soon be a thing of the past.
TRIALS AND JURIEs
It'seems that the original idea
was to give a man what he was
entitled to. including punishment
if he committed crime.
Today we do not know what the
idea is. Often it seems to be to
find some way to conclude that
no matter what a man did, he
didn't do it. Latest puzzler is a
Los Angeles jury that came to
the conclusion that man who
planted dynamite in a detective S
oar to blow him up so he could
not testify and which did Dlo"
him I'D to the tune of over a
hundred woulds and three months
in jail. did not do it with murder
GUS intent. Next comes murder
case where a man, after killing
two people with a gun, is not
guilty of murder by reason OF
insanity. He fell off horse when
he was Quite young. Come 10
think of it, | fell of horse sever
al times when l was a kid and
was thrown off even more. If we
let 'em get away with that sort
of thing as they are doing IN
creasingly, | will be entitled to
get out and kill half the folks in
my neighborhood-they yell
was insane when | did it fell
off a horse when | was a kid"
Murder is no less murder when
committed by an insane man, just
as murder is no less murder when
committed by a drunk. People who
kill when they are insane or
drunk may become in1ane and
drunk again. You may save their
necks because of certain pleas but
it still remains that the blood of
their victim cries up to us from
the ground.
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