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Show j BRISBANE THIS WEEK Eckener, a Real Man Wasted Mail Advertising One Happy Man How Many Would Die? Dr. Hugo Eckener, who has flown 600,000 miles In his Zeppelins and about 400,000 more miles teaching young pilots. Is in New York. It Is a pleasure to see such a powerful power-ful person, well past sixty, planning , a new line through the air between the United States and Europe, "coast-1 "coast-1 to-coast in 4S hours." He, of course, 1 would run the ships on the first few ' trips himself, l ' A government spokesman urges advertisers ad-vertisers to advertise by mall, writing nice "Dear Mr. Jones" letters, telling what the advertiser has for sale. Eugene Meyer, Jr., who owns the Washington Post, says that is wrong and means government competing with honest, long-suffering newspapers and their advertising profits. He asks, by Implication, how can the press be free If you take away its money ? That worry is unnecessary. The ad-! ad-! vertiser who tries to advertise by mail throws money out of the window and soon finds it out. And advertisers are intelligent. One happy man exists in spite of depression; de-pression; his name, familiar to you, Henry Ford. As far as he Is concerned con-cerned the depression Is ended. To prove it he will build one million cars - "or more" this coming year. That is a good sign, since it proves that there ; must be people able to buy one million cars. Henry Ford, says truly that Amer leans don't "want a dole," and those that take the dole always turn against 3 those that give It. There Is, however, the fact that America doesn't want revolution, or too many dangerous riots, and you may take it from the British that the dole is cheaper than revolution. England was near enough to the BVench revolution to realize that. President Knubel of the United Lutheran Luth-eran Church of America worries about - the future of religion. Anti-religious forces, he says, are growing constantly in tills and other countries; hundreds of millions of people are "spiritually blind." Rev. Dr. Knubel asks, "How do you know that in two years from now you might not be asked to die for your faith?" Let us hope it will not be as bad as that, while wondering respectfully how many would be willing to die, or, like the ancient martyrs, court death for the sake of martyrdom. There are various ways of making a living in America, that finds it so difficult to conquer lawlessness. One way. is to smuggle In Chinese, inflicting fearful hardships upon the unfortunate unmigrant Chinese and charging them from $1,000 to $1,500 for bringing them here. Smuggling Chinese Is connected with . the opium traffic. While smuggling In Chinese you can also smuggle with each one a considerable amount of opium. Federal agents looking for opium found eighteen frightened Chinese in an Isoluted house in New Jersey, guarded by a powerful negro from Trinidad and five police dogs that would have mangled the unfortunate creatures had they tried to escape Friends expected to bring the fee for smuggling them in failed to appear, hence their detention. Doctor Lahy of the New England hospital says the much discussed experiment ex-periment of transplanting In men the glands of monkeys Is a failure. However, How-ever, partial transplanting of the parathyroid gland, from one human being to another, has proved success- ful, opening up great possibilities. ) Failure of monkey gland transplantation trans-plantation Is not bad news. There Is enough of the monkey In man up to sixty years of age to make any monkey glnnd transplanting at that age seem unnecessary. Somebody said, long ago, that man Is one-third man, one-third one-third monkey, one-third hog. That Is a little severe, .but the monkey part Is sufficiently accurate. Japan Is busy fortifyLng South Sea Islands that she holds under mandate of the League of Nations, and complaint com-plaint Is made aimlessly. Nothing to surprise anybody In that fortification news. Japan Is an intelligent intelli-gent country. It takes a country with statesmanship statesman-ship In the dodo class, like ourselves, to possess Guam and fall to fortify the place because polite Britishers, acting as mouthpiece for Jupan, requested re-quested us not to do so. The achievement of the admirable flyers, sir Charles Kingsford-Smlth and his aid, ('apt. I'. G. Taylor, proves that the United States knows how to build airplanes. The plane that came across the Pacific from Honolulu, '-40S miles, In fifteen hours, beating ; by ten hours the best record. Is an ' American Uockhead piano built at Ulendale, Calif., and the engine was built by the American Pratt & Whitney Whit-ney Aircraft company. If the United States should ever get really Interested In building the world's greatest air fleet, as It will do, or bitterly bit-terly regret It, the material Is at hand. 4 . King Features Syndicate. Inc. . WNU Servlcn. |