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Show by 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 morning 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 I distance and endurance record. That is all interesting and courageous, courage-ous, but has little to do with the important im-portant part of flying still in Its infancy. in-fancy. Ships that will not crash, pilots trained to think only of passengers' safety, not so much about proving that they are not "yellow" are needed. The pilot who will "go through in 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 currents, teaching, perhaps, a little about flying. But it has as little to do with great airships of the future as the Hawaiian surf board haa , to do with improved ocean steam-I steam-I ships. Ing money accumulated by hard work. They all buy goods. Every State In the Union hag "Free Trade with California" Cali-fornia" and California has free trade with every other State. What would European nations give f o- 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 dollars. A million Is a great deal. A thousand thou-sand millions Is a very great deal. Fifty-three thousand millions, spent by tha women in this country is an extraordinary extra-ordinary 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 drygoods. 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 26 inches 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 jail. Judge Perry found him guilty of molesting a woman. wo-man. Stewart offers an excuse as old I as Ac1 am: "The woman led me on." ; jail, Stewart refuses to eat and is verv '.bin, after twenty-three starving if. vs." It would have beeu fortunate fo t nam, and for us, but bad for the clothing business, had Adam, likewise reused to eat Other cities will want to know of Detroit's plan for catching criminals by radio. Policemen in fast automobiles automo-biles equipped with receiving appara-ius. appara-ius. ciash to the scene and often capture cap-ture the fleeing criminals. (., 1929. br King Featurei Spndiciu, 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, not on a cunning little board that will Bkim on the air with a man sitting on it. I 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 the iuventor of tho sewing machine ; aid not know how to sew. A local editor in the East, kind enough to print this column in his Independent In-dependent newspaper asks, "Why do you write so much about California?" The answer is "because I am in California." Cali-fornia." . , , There should be no local jealousies in America. . Everv State frcir. Florida to Washington Wash-ington "is interested in California, and California is interested in every one 0f the forty-eight States. Th prosperity of every State depends de-pends on the prosperity of all the others. oth-ers. There are about 6,000,000 people in California now, many of taem spend- I , , I.I ' " ' " ' |