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Show This Week by ARTHUR BRISBANB Gallant French Flyers Return Trip, Non-Stop Wheat Cheaper than Corn Witch Doctors Fourteen times In the history of the world human beings have flown westward west-ward across the North Atlantic Ocean. Eric Nelson and Lowoll Smith were the firgt, and now come tha brave ,' French airmen, Dleudonne "God Given" Coste and Maurice Belloute. Theirs la the first non-stop west- i ward trip ever made. Lindbergh"! eastward flight, alone, with little Announcement In advance, end the simple statement, "I am Charlea Lindbergh," on arrival, will remain the moat magnificent flight of all time. Next, perhaps, will come the round-trip. round-trip. Captain Hawks, now at the head of American flyere, having flown across the American continent in twelve and one-halt houra,- almost aa far as Lindbergh Lind-bergh and Coste and Bellonte flew In more than thirty hours, would be the man for the "New York to Paris and back again flight, with no stop between be-tween cities." i When he files, he really flies. Two hundred and fifty miles aa hour Is his Idea of a reasonable gait. At that rate, he could make the trip to Paris In about sixteen hours, and back, allowing for headwinds, in about eighteen hours. I And even those figures In years to come will seem comically "old-fash- toned." j 1 Captain Hawks criticises the French aviators for using a land plane, un-; able to alight on water, and calls their I flight "a great display of nerve, but ! a foolish thing." ' ! M "It the flight across the ocean had ' been made In a seaplane something ! would have been accomplished for ! aviation." . Something Is accomplished by any ' kind of flight across the ocean. Captain Cap-tain Hawks some day will wonder why V he ever believed a seaplane would be , necessary for ocean crossings. Men 1 don't put wheels on ships to enable them to run on land, because they don't expect them to run on land. And they will not put hulls for water land- k Ing on transatlantic planes, because they won't expect the alrplones to land on the water. . Farmers should know that science Is responsible for the surplus crop and low price of wheat. Thirty-two- years ago a great scientist, Sir I j William Crookes, told the British Scientific Association, "TJnlesu something some-thing Is done to prevent It, 1931 would see such a lack of wheat as will cause widespread starvation " And now 1930 sees more wheat than ta." the neopla can eat. |
