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Show BEVERLY HILLS. Well all I know is just what I read in the papers, pa-pers, or what I see here and there. As I was telling you last week, went over one night to one of our Beverly Hills school houses to hear Amelia Ear-hart Ear-hart tell of her exploits, but she dident make it that way, she just talked so pleasantly about everything, and told more splendid splen-did jokes about herself and who all she had been taken for in her travels. Of course anyone moving around as much as she does would naturally be taken for Elinor Roosevelt. Where she shines in her talks are after her regular routine is over. She asks anyone to ask questions, and do you know where the intelligent intelli-gent questions come from? They are from the young kids in the audience. "How many revolutions per minute do you generally fly your plane on the hazardous trips?" "Will these landing islands they talk of in the ocean bo practical?" "Do you fly by a radio beam, or by tuning in on some radio station and use it as your guide?" Grown people's questions, in comparison to those by older people. peo-ple. "Do you think women's place is in the air?" "Does your husband mind you flying?" "What would you do if you come down?" "I went up one time and got sick. What should I have done?" asked one woman. Amelia said, "What did you do? Thats what you should have done." Wiley Post, just about king of em all, cant break records getting to New York in a six-year-old plane, no matter if he takes it up so high that he coasts in. Equipment and engines change too fast. That Winnie May should be right in that Washington Museum, along with all the other historic planes. Its already done more than any plane in the World. Twice has it broken records clear around the world, broken altitude records. He has thrown off his wheels and has forced landings on his "Belly." And she never breaks a thing. Six years; thats the greatest advertisement for aeroplane safety the world has ever seen. So when Wiley gets ready to put the Winnie May into the Smithsonian Smithso-nian we all want to give him a hand. Its his own plane, you know. Thats all he got out of two hazardous trips around the world was that old ship. Lord, last Summer when the family and I were days and days and days by train crossing Siberia we would come to towns with great long names, and they would remind us of places where we remembered Wiley landed at on his crossing of Russia. All alone, couldent speak a word of Russian, land at a field, and he could-eiit could-eiit tell em a thing in the world. One place he wanted a drink of water. Said he never was as thirsty in his life, but they couldent understand, under-stand, and from his motions and ac- tions, they thought he wanted liquor, or vodka. Well they had the welfare of his trip at heart and wanted to do all they could. (And he says they were wonderful to him on both trips across there. They are great aviation enthusiasts, the Russians). So he waa sleeping out in a shed at the hangar, and they left a soldier on guard to watch him, and wake him for an early start. Well he was dying for a drink, and he kept making signs, and the soldier kept saying and motioning motion-ing "No, No!" Ho was trying to tell him that liquor would not be good for him. Finally the soldier seemed to got so mad that he left, and it must have been miles to town, but finally he c o in e back with two quart bottles. Well vodka looks like water, and Wiley grabbed one and started In on it. Naturally thinking think-ing it was water, and it was vodka, (tho poor soldier had perhaps said to himself, well If you are going to holler for It all night I will give It to you). Wiley got up, warmed his piano up, (he dident have to take It out of any hangar, as the planes all stand out over there. Thousands of em in a field winter and summer with nothing noth-ing but a canvas sheet over the engine) en-gine) and he took off, and flew 1800 miles on to another place, Just to get a drink. I tell you I think the W. C. T. U. or some other good temperance tem-perance society ought to take that true story and make something out of It. Left two bottles of vodka and ; flew 1S00 milc-a for a drink of water, and the Russian got sore naturally, after walking all that distance to g-it em for him. l'lb, M-Xatikl Syituafr, Int. |