The Coolidge examiner., 1938-07-07
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~ "Tex''
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Hancock
SAFE ON ONE PROMISE

meemDer or his family or KIN folk
There is law agin' it, Ace.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES
Some office holders and their EN-
ployees are beginning TO act friend
ly. They speak now without your
having to almost knock them down,
DEATH RIDES THE RAILS
Reading about the terrible rail
road wreck in Monday mornings
paper seemed a little like old times.
Railroad passenger wrecks use to
occur often. Some of them were
major wrecks likee this one in
Montana But those were the days
of the wooden coaches. The coach
es would telescope one another
which meant that all passengers in
them were practically ground to
sausage.
In later years with the advent OF
steel coaches. better road beds,
rails. and electric signal systems
train wrecks have been the scarcest
in railroad history So low, in fact,
that a passenger wreck is about the
last thing we expect.
NOTHING HUNDRED PER cEsT
SAFE
A few years ago the late Arthur
Brisbane wrote that the safest,
most uneventful method of riding
on the face of the earth was TO
cross the ocrean in an ocean liner.
Just a few days after he wrote
those lines the world was startled
by the news of a major ship disas-
ter.
Not long ago an air transport
company boasted of its eleven years
continued passenger service with
out the loss of a single life. A few
weeks after that one of its ships
crashed killing a score of passeng-
ers.
Just about time we think a thing
is perfect along certain line some
thing happens to remind us that II
isn't. Train wrecks have been so
rare in the past dozen years that
one never questions the idea of not
reaching ones destination upon
boarding the train.
The chances are that many OF
the fifty or more killed last Sun
day chose the railroad in preferen-
ce TO an air liner Just because there
was too much uncertainty in the
air
We continue to build better,
stronger. safter, in all things as
time goes along. But none of our
accomplishments can claim 100 per
cent safety. Like the old one morse
shaw there is always somewhere a
weaker spot and when certain con-
ditions combine at the right time
bang she goes.
The wreck Sunday ended an en-
viable and boasted record of TWEEN
ty years service without the loss
of a passenger on the C. M. & 5. r.
ALL OVER NOW
When this is read a big fight VIII
be over. The sports writer's VIII
have told you why the winner won
and why the loser lost. They will
know as much about it then as
thev do not know about it now
though each has told us already
who is going to win and why
We talk about the best man win
ming but that is not necessarialiy
true of fighting. 1t is all in the
breaks The weaker of any TWO
men. if he happens to get hard
hlow thru 10 the right spot, can
lick the better man.
1t has been amusing to watch
the build up" as the fight date
approaches. You can take the re-
ports from each of the two camps,
change the names and you have
the same thing. But the public likes
it At least the sporting world think
it does.
At this writing (Monday) it is
stated that 600 reporters will cover
the fight for the papers of this
country and the world. Two report
ers could cover it just as well but
that would mean that five hundred
ninety eight reporters who want TO
see the fight wouldn't get to see it.
This world championship fight is
an important thing. do not know
of any other event. including
politics. that required 600 reporters
to cover it.
| have read all the opinions,
guesses. speculations, facts and
figures about the Louis-Schmellng
fight and | deeply regret that some