| Show r P r V a i I i n 9 0 Opinions p. p i n ion s Comment of the American Press J Fast Air Air Air- Transport In an editorial printed in the August 7 issue of the Chicago Tribune Trib Trib- une utie we took occasion to m nt the airlines on the introduction tion of sleeping planes The congratulation congratulations con con- however were qualified fied with the remark that shortened shortened short short- ened schedules would soon render air Pullmans impractical We predicted predicted predicted pre pre- that within the next few years improved machines would fly the distance In three and even two hours Only eight months of or those next few years have passed and the goal is in sight The United Airlines Airlines Airlines Air Air- lines has established d New Chicago York schedules naming four hours and twenty minutes as the standard transit time The American Airlines too following following fol fol- fol lowing our prophecy have withdrawn withdrawn with with- drawn the sleeping l planes and are shortening flying time with new equipment While it Is customary to presume that air services are building up traffic at the expense of the railroads rail roads we doubt this conclusion Perhaps the plane is challenging the sphere of the long distance telephone tele phone to a certain extent but inthe inthe in inthe the main it is creating its own specialized specialized traffic Chicago Chicago Tribune New Now Deal Statistics Population of ot the United Unit Unit- ed cd States State Eligible for government support under the Townsend and other plans Number who are prohibited prohibited prohibited from working under under un- un der del N R A laws and those who are working working work work- ing for governmental agencies Unemployed Leaving to produce the nations nation's goods 2 You and me inc and and Im Im I'm all worn out out Los Los Angeles Times Paw Cats Nations Cynical Apparently in the hope of prodding prodding prod prod- ding England into taking a stronger stand in iii opposition to Germanys Germany's new aspirations the French press is taking frequent digs at the British British Brit Brit- ish negotiator Sir John Simon because because be be- cause cause he ha opposed declaration of war war in 1914 In the years cars since 1918 with the steady accumulation of miseries attributable attributable at at- to the great war the prestige of or those who opposed that venture has tended to wax from year to year The ceremony in Washington last wee week in honor of congressional leaders in the fight against American participation was wasby wasby by no means an isolated incident Indeed a current parliamentary movement In Canada seems under the circumstances to go rather farther than anything of the sort on this side of ot the border In 1926 1929 Conservative Leader Arthur Arthur Ar Ar- thur Meighen proposed the holding of a referendum as a cond condition l on precedent to Canadian participation in any future war His s suggestion was repudiated by the party Today Today Today To To- day according to the New York Times correspondent at Ottawa the same sam proposal would probably find warm espousal by all parties Mr Bour Bourasa Bourassa a a popular leader of the Quebec nationalist party part evokes cheers by proposing that Canada disassociate herself definitely m in advance advance ad ad- vance from any European war and depend upon Monroe doctrine rather rath rath- er than upon the British navy for protection The popular response to these ideas is causing deep concern in British naval circe Is It U should be even more disturbing to French advocates advocates advocates ad ad- of ot the strong policy who look to England and through her herto herto herto to the British dominions for the military backing demanded by such sucha a policy Des Moines Register Which Party Parry Will Use If It After an entire year car of investigation tion a commission appointed bythe bythe bythe by- by the social science research council has has brought out a report on bet bettee better t. t ter tee government personnel The comm commission sIon consisted of educators and business men and had as its chairman President nt L L. L D. D Coffman of the University of ot Minnesota l The commissions commission's diagnosis of oe what's the matter with our method of recruiting the government personnel personnel personnel per per- names first the spoils Lys- Lys tern tem Then it says s 's there isa mis isa mis taken notion that anyone is capable capa ble of 01 of performing government duties And it condemns the theory that all jobs should go to home hems town boys bos For remedies the commission pr prescribes making government a amatt matt matter r of career service ser providing it with p permanent trained capable capable capable capa capa- ble and reforming education education education tion to fit students for public ser ser- vice The practical results results' of ot a career career career ca ca- ca- ca reer service says the report will benefit the through lowered costs and efficient and impartial service And it will benefit the government worker by bv offering him an tn esteemed honor honorable ble career with adequate remuneration and retirement pension The commissions commission's surveys revealed re revealed re- re that there are arc more more than independent units of government gov gov- t in the countr country each with power to raise and spend money morey and the total cost is more than in salaries Even moderate economies applIed applied ap up- plied generally over such a n system would have a lot of ot mone money in the aggregate Detroit Detroit News Statesmen and Soldiers Statesmen get ct ready for war in beautiful resorts like But all the soldiers get when war comes is a muddy trench and a military funeral San funeraL San Francisco News I Horse Sense Sensa It Is agreeable occasionally to be beable beable beable able to compliment a legislature upon showing common s sense nse and an opportunity now arises through the tabling of the bill proposing to require all school teachers and prof professors professors pro pro- f ors to take an oath of allegiance to the state and federal Similar proposals have been hooted out of the legislatures of s several veral states and it is proper that the California legislature should similarly dispose of a a. meaningless measure which as a 3 practical matt matter mat mat- t ter r is ballyhoo and a statutory in in- in sult suit Some of the a agitators in this respect would be well off ore II if they could show a as good a a. a bill of health in the matters of ot intelligence and patriotism as n ca-n can the educators they th-cy propose to single out as proper objects of oC public sw suspicion San San 1 I. 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