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Show o DEFENDS LINDENBERGH'S MONOPOLY Certain narrow-minded, half-baked individuals have criticised some of the newspapers for the amount of space they have given to Linden-bergh's Linden-bergh's exploit and the reception accorded him, both in this country and abroad. Walter M. Harrison ot the "Oklahoman" answered one subscriber sub-scriber who said that "he was fed up on Lindenbergh" as follows: Lindenbergh has wiped clean the dirty face of the metropolitian press. Lindenbergh has done something more than jump across the ocean, something more than to stick together to-gether the peoples of two continents by his uncanny diplomacy. He has completely idealized the American boy. The idealism has demonstrated that the people of the world, under the callous epidermis of materialism, have a finer skin of spiritual texture that needs but to be touched to be known. The newspapers of the nation na-tion would not have printed the tons of stuff about Lindy if there had been no audience for it. There would have been no audience for it if the whole people were dollar mad, wild and selfish. Is there a trait of character presented pres-ented in the public life of this bewildering be-wildering hero that you would not like to see reflected in your boy? There isn't a scar on his life. Here is a clean,, high adventure, sterling manhood, romance, courage, courtesy, cleanliness, an epic undreamed of by Henry Barbour in the perfection of its plot. Lindy and his doings for the past month have had a bigger effect ef-fect on the national life than any one-man episode in the world's history. his-tory. Let's keep public attention and particularly the eyes of Y'oung America glued on him as long as there is an excuse for it. |