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Show b r Arthur Brisbane Need Airships, Not Gliders Why California? Women Spend 53 Billions For Gold Star Mothers LOS ANGELES. Col. Lindbergh's work with air gliders seems to fascinate fas-cinate the great pilot. He has tried flying gliders before daylight, to experiment ex-periment with early mornins winds. At one time he flew 15 miles in a plane with no engine. Reporters expected ex-pected him to try for the glider long distance and endurance record.' That is all Interesting and courageous, courage-ous, but has little to do wlU the Important Im-portant part of flying silll In Its Infancy. In-fancy. Ships that will not crash, pilots trained to think only of passengers' -.afety. not so much ' about proving that they are not "yellow" are needed. The pilot who will "go through la any kind of weather" needs to be replaced by the man who will take passengers only in perfectly safe weather. After that will come planes and flying methods to which no weather will make any difference. The glider. Interesting toy, goes with air curre-ts. teaching, perhaps, a little about flying. But It has as llttlo to do with great airships of the future as the Hawaiian surf board has to do with improved ocean steamships. steam-ships. .Lindbergh commands the attention and respect of capital and industry. What he recommends will be tried. His mind should be on weather defying de-fying airships for 1,000 passengers, ot or a cunning little board that will skua on the air with a man sitting ou it. If you say that a man who kno nothing about flying should not presume pre-sume to . advise one who knows all about flying, please remember that line Inventor of th sewing machine did not know how to sew. a local editor In the East, kind enough to print this column In bis independent in-dependent newspaper asks, "Why do jou write so much about California?" The answer is "because I am in California-" There should be no local jealousies In America. Every State frc Florida to Washington Wash-ington is interested In California, and California Is interested in every oue a' the forty-eight States. Th prosperity of every State depends de-pends on the prosperity of all the others. oth-ers. There are about 5.000,000 people In California now, many of tliem spend- mc money accumulated by hard work. They all buy goods. Every State in ihe Union has "Free Trade with California" Cali-fornia" and California has free trade with every other State. What would Eu opean nations give fo- such a condition? We should appreciate our blessings and thank heaven when we hear good news from any part of America, Chicago's retail advertising institute insti-tute is told that American women spend every year fifty-three billion lollars. A million Is a great deal. A thousand thou-sand millions Is a very great deal. Fifty-three thousand millions, spent by tlu women In this country Is an extra-ardinary extra-ardinary amount of money. They spend it wisely, as a rule, because be-cause they know enough to read advertising ad-vertising carefully, realizing that he who Invests millions in his good name, through advertising, will do nothing to jeopardize that name. . Women are said to buy 41 per cent of all automobiles and 96 per cent of drygooda. They really buy 96 per cent of automobiles also, because men buy what women want or admire. Congress votes more than five million mil-lion dollars, that "gold star" mothers may visit their sons' graves in France. Of 11.000 mothers entitled to go 6,000 have expressed a desire to go. Many cannot go. because of duties at home. Others, perhaps, dread the sorrowful shock. To those that do not go. Congress Con-gress should pay In cash the pro rata amount that it would cost to send them, about one thousand dollars. No other course would' be -fair. Mrs. Ruth Olsen. 27, died! A towel 2C laches long, 16 Inches wide, left In her body after an operation caused death. ' The nurse said she had failed to count the towels, and a jury exonerated exoner-ated the physicians. Fortunately there are doctors that would not rely on any nurse to count towels, blankets, armchairs or other articles that might be left In an open wound. Richard Stewart, rug merchant of Warren, Ohio, is In JalL Judge Perry found him guilty of molesting a woman. wo-man. Stewart offers an excuse as old as Adam: "The -woman led me on." Jail, Stewart refuses, to eat and is very thin, after twenty-three starving days. R would have been fortunate fo- -dam. and for us, but bad for the clothing business, had Adam, likewise refused to eat Other cities will want to know of Detroit's plan for catching criminals by ' radio. Policemen In fasf automobiles automo-biles equipped with receiving apparatus, appara-tus, dash to the sceno and often cap lure the fleeing criminals. (, 1929, br Kia Fm(um Sradlcau, Uu.t |