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Show BRISBANE THIS WEEK Not Spoiled by Money Freedom of the Air 500 Air Miles for $6 Jones Still Will Lend Another airplane record. Iloward Hughes, flying 18.000 feet up much of the way, came from Los Angeles to Newark New-ark In 9 hours 27 minutes 10 seconds. High up, where air resistance re-sistance is less, using a supercharging super-charging engine and helptng his own lungs with oxygen from a tank, Mr.IIughes beat the existing exist-ing record held by Col. Roscoe Arthur Brisbane Turner of 10 hours 2 minutes SI seconds. Mr. Hughes proves that being rich does not always spoil youug Americans. He flew from ocean to oceun without a stop, 2,4r0 miles, at an average speed of 1100 miles an hour. Big broudcustlng companies refuse re-fuse to allow the Republican purty to broadcast "laughable skits" on the "New Deal." Now, or after some worth while upheaval, "freedom of the air" will have to be dealt with as was "freedom "free-dom of the press" when the Constl tutlon was written. For radio companies to say to the party in power, "Uecaime we feur you we shall take you to every home In the country and let you say what you please, and shall refuse re-fuse to give the same publicity to your opponents," might not suit the American Idea. It Is good news that Henry Ford has gone buck to airplane building. His lust trimotor plane was produced pro-duced In 1931. His new two-passenger plane, with V-8 engine turning the propeller pro-peller 4,000 times a minute, carries 30 gallons of gasoline, with a flying fly-ing range above 500 miles. Five hundred miles of air travel for JO worth of gasoline for two passengers passen-gers would be cheop transportation. Henry Ford will begin manufacturing manufac-turing planes seriously, "If and when conditions demand volume production worth while." Jess Jones, chairman of Reconstruction Recon-struction Finance corporation, tells the banks that be will go on lending lend-ing government money until they make credit and loans easier. Mr. Jones says: "The big fellow, with unquestionable credit, borrows on his own terms, at low rates. Credit for t!.a average business Is too sparingly given, at much higher high-er rates." There Is rioting In Porto Rico, numbers killed and wounded In various va-rious places. It is said a Porto Rico "Young Men's Party" has decided to separate Porto Rico from the United States, Inspired perhaps by the departure of the Philippines. It Is supposed that this government govern-ment will tell the "Young Porto Rico" gentlemen that they will not be allowed to separate, and might as well forget about It This country, In the way of protection, pro-tection, resources, education and civilization, Is necessary to Porto Rico, and strategically Porto Rico Is useful to the United States. What would England say If Jamaica Ja-maica should announce "We wish to leave the British Empire?" The beginning of the new year In Germany sees the death of 1,000 newsDaners. "suspended" by official order because they opposed Nazi rule. Chancellor Hitler perhaps remembers re-members Napoleon's statement: "If I granted liberty of the press, my government could not last three weeks." He might also remember that some governments that refused liberty lib-erty of the press have also failed to last The government of the czars was of that kind. Sitting on the safety valve is one way, but not the safest Mr. S. L. Rothafel, known to theatergoers as "Roxy," is dead at fifty-three. While he slept his heart stopped, like a watch not wound. Men die too young In America, and weakened hearts kill many. Life spent without exercise or an adequate ade-quate supply of oxygen explains the deaths. Man Is physically a machine; ma-chine; his heart Is the engine, and heart disease kills more useful men than any other disease In modern times. "Little rains," which we should call bard rains In this country, Interfere In-terfere with Mussolini's operations In Ethiopia. Soon will come the "big rains," torrential downpours, making roads Impassable, except concrete roads. The Italians have built some highways. There are, however, other roads, unknown to ancient Ethiopia the roads of the air. Mussolini's men may continue on those roads, with disastrous results for Ethiopia, In spite of rains, "little" "lit-tle" and "big." e Ktns features Syndicate, Ino, WNU Service. |
