Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-02-16 | Page 6 | Annoyed by Hobgoblins

Annoyed by Hobgoblin. A S 17 European states haven't enough prob-f prob-f lems to worry over without losing sleep because a practical Joker cooks up new one te annoy Jittery Viennese! Tor that'a what it amount to-t-a sort of facemaking by tomfool birdman, or comic valentine delivered day late. ; It was all about that mysterious skywriter who flew over fascist Austria Monday and left In his wake neat piece of smoke artistry hanging hang-ing In the sky the sickle and hammer of communism. com-munism. The newg cablet aay that It threw the eltUenry into naar-panic. High officials proclaimed the prank "a -serious international incident." The birdman singular idea of a merry jest caused police and military aircraft to take off te bring the visitor to the ground. His advantage advan-tage of being already 4000 feet in the air defeated de-feated this purpose and off he winged to his home hangar, unidentified even as to nation- lity. The only possible seriousness in this un-Mual un-Mual occurrence is that it afforded disturbed ocular evidence that central European cities re within striking distance of an aerial attack by soviet aircraft something they knew for a urety long before this. To the rest of the world It shows how easily a trivial event might set Europe afire if it were ready for a brawl and if it had tht money in its war cheat. America may have been unwittingly very mart in permitting most of the state abroad to contract debts they don't seem to think they can pay and fortunate in that Senator Hiram Johnson persuaded his colleagues to hsng up Sign for them to read: "Banks Closed." If thst hadn't bean done, maybe they would already be fighting another war with America's gold, showing show-ing thst there are two kinda ef fool' gold.