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Show bv Arthur Brlbn I Protection for 100 Air Right of Way ; 59 Dead, 56 Unknown At Least Russia Flie THE air mall brings to Preside Hoover a petition signed by ti presidents of seven HaJUn pclitU'i.t organizations asking nim to keep t i Marines In Haiti and superYie ti presidential election coming In Ari:. This year little Haiti has 100 cat I dldates for the presidency. They aro ail fighting men, and their followcre ere fighting followers. They mant tin i Marines to stay and keep them trot doing to each ether things tbal tier might do. W. B. Mayo, aviation engineer, nys a genuine air line ought to be built j with a right of way one mile wide, j landing fields every fifteen mile. I With such an arrangement, Bays ht. flight would be possible and safe by night and by day, and is almost uy hind of weather. However, long before such an Jf main road could be assembled and financed pilots would probably need landing places only every five hur dred miles. Many remember crossing the oeeao on steamers In the last century, with, sails stretched, the captains not re lying on steam. They don't do tin any longer. Fifty-nine men found de4 ip as Oklahoma coal mine. Ihe world will never know their names, printed only in local papers. Only coal mine "hands," excepting one engineer, their j going Is a minor incident In industrial I development However, the 69 deaths may cause : sympathy for a moment, a feeling that men running such risks should : be better paid and safety devices d-j d-j veloped, in spite of cost i The Russian marriage system la I convenient, for thoso uncertain as to their own minds. You get a divorce i in Russia almost as easily as you get ' a box of matches in America. Britain dislikes this, and a British court refuses to recognize Russian marriage. Our proud nation refuses to recognize recog-nize anything that Russia does, except ex-cept buying from us for cash. We da-v.. test revolution, although our own government and titles to Amrc4aa I real estate are based on it. . This Anglo-American haughtlnesa may not be wise. I The Russians are going ahead Industrially In-dustrially and in. other ways. Tlioy will ba the world's greatest cash customers cus-tomers one day. " , And It is reported that of all the nations, Russia, in 1929, spent the . largest percentage of its public won-i won-i eys on aviation. I A tiatlon that simultaneously develops devel-ops aviation and industry is not oi to be snubbed, safely. At Linares, Spain, a woman dreamed dream-ed that a lottery ticket with the numbers num-bers 55363 would win the grand $2,-100,000 $2,-100,000 prize in the forthcoming lottery. lot-tery. Iu Spain the people are encouraged to buy lottery tickots as tboy once were in this country. People don't !lk to pay taxes, but are willing to contribute con-tribute to the State by gambling. After the lady dreamed, the crowd broke In and wrecked the store of tUn man that owned ticket Ef363, arid police rescued him. A foolish man would have wnitqd to win the grand prize. Not so with. ' the owner of the ticket. He organized a lottery of his oh n, sold 4,000 shares in hiw rirenm ticket, and made a big profit. Managers of business on fl smaller scale will be interested to lenra that l General Wood, president of S'.v;rs, I Roebuck & Co., with 40,000 cuiployvs. 1 adopts the calendar year of thiiten I months for business purpotseu !n place, of the old year. The thirteen-month y?ftr, (wi.!. eight days In every month, one dny over each year, every day of evry werk falling on the same Jay of t)t month year after year, facr'itat8 and simplifies business, and makes It easier to make comparisons. The thirl ecu ninnth arrangement ought to be adopted all over the world. But It Is hard to cban-e old cu-toms. cu-toms. How many times do you breatho, la one minute? Guess off hand. Many that know about the revolutions revolu-tions of an airplane propeller, or a ste;:rai;lvp screw, take little Interest iu their ov.-n machinery. The breathing qiK'Ktlou is suggested by the case of Miss Margaret Mcln-tyro, Mcln-tyro, riainfield, N. J., school teacher, who breathes only five times a minute, min-ute, twelve seconds to a breath. Sclen- tlsts call her a "physiological mlr-1 mlr-1 acle." You, probably, breathe 15 to 18 times per minute, th average for adults. However, Miss Mclntyre has one advantage. She breathes very deeply. Experiments show that she taltes In three pintei of a!r at a breath. The average adult takes In onlr o;. We all lnhahe too little Oi; ;'; '"h-.-L Is why we need exercise, mat ; ua I breathe more rapidly and deo; I by King Tuiuim Sp4kr. iiy.) |