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Show Prevailing Opinions I Comment of the American Press Turkish Paradox That a war lasting three months snd costing 5000 lives could be kept completely secret in the contemporary world is the startling star-tling thing about the revolt of the Kurds, disclosed for the first time when the prime minister announced to the Turkish national nation-al assembly on Wednesday that the rising had been crushed. Such aecrecy takes the mind back with a jolt to the time when neither wire nor wireless told this side of the earth how the other aide lived or died. But If amazement Is tempered by relief at being spared the horrible details of another an-other war in process, the mind Jolts forward, too. Other paradoxes attend the latest lat-est rising of the Kurdish tribes in their primitive fastnesses in western Turkey, chronic rebels against the modernizing edicts of Kemal Ataturk. It is not surprising sur-prising to learn that this unreported unre-ported war, fought without benefit bene-fit of modern agencies of communication, com-munication, was waged with the most up-to-date military weapons. Bombing by government aircraft played an important part in subduing sub-duing the trioeamen and accounts for the heavy losses among the Kurds and the few casualties among the Turkish forces. And the coupe de grace was given to the rebels by a girl aviator, the 23-year-old adopted daughter of President Kemal. For bravery in action and military resourcefulness resourceful-ness she received the medal of honor. The effect on the shaken Kurds of the appearance of a woman military flier must have been a bombshell in Itself. The advance in little more than a decade from the veil and the harem to the air pilot's helmet and the battle-' battle-' field Is a leap that makes even the western imagination reel-New reel-New York Times. The Worst Menace Norman Damon, manager of the safety department of the Automobile Au-tomobile Manufacturers' association, associa-tion, In a recent address in New York warned against the drinking drink-ing drivers. Ha declared the individual in-dividual who haa had one drink too many may appear perfectly sober, but actually in operating a car, ha may be more dangerous than the person who is obviously tipsy. Numerous accidents, investigated investigat-ed by this bureau, be added, made this conclusion uneacapable. As one measure to meet this situation, situa-tion, Damon made this suggestion: sugges-tion: 'To help the cause of highway . aafety. the women of America should start a sitdown strike against riding with drinking drivers. By establishing a practice prac-tice of this kind, women would not only oe aavea serious ri to their own lives, but would place a social stigma upon the practice of driving with drinking drivers." Nowhere is such a movement likely to be conducive to more good than in California. Figures issued by the state division di-vision of motor vhlcles Indubitably Indubita-bly prove that all too many Cali-fornians Cali-fornians atill are totally ignorant of or are indifferent to the truism tru-ism that gasoline and alcohol will not mix. Sacramento Bee. His Error Pilot Mikhail GromoVa remark, after landing, that "we ran Into our worst weather ever San Diego," Di-ego," probably will be forgiven as coming from a stranger in a strange land. The Implied unfavorable unfa-vorable comparison with the climate cli-mate of the polar regions which the Russian airman and his companions com-panions bad ao recently traversed must, however, have put a strain en even the celebrated hospitality of southern California. And if the Soviets are going to keep en sending their fliers that way they had better instruct them that the weather in southern south-ern California is never worst or worse, or even bad. It is, st most, unusuaL San Francisco News. i |