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Show This Week by ARTHUR BRISBANE A New Great Flyer Psychology, Perhaps 546,095,925 in 2030 New Cold Ruth Captain Hawks, who stands out now as the greatest American flyer, left v New York at 6 o'clock In the morning. f eastern daylight time, landed In Los Angeles at 50 minutes past 4 p. m.. Pacific standard time, keeping an appointment ap-pointment to play golf, at the edge of the Pacific, after leaving, that morning, morn-ing, the edge of the Atlantic. Hia flying time, all In broad daylight, was less than fifteen hours, and he made five stops for gasoline. That will not be necessary In future days, with better machines and better fuel. Thomas A. Edison says our "depression "depres-sion is largely psychological." Henry Ford says too mauy of ui are "looking for a Santa Claus" Instead of getting to work. There is some defective psychology and some Santa Claus hunting, undoubtedly, un-doubtedly, but many a man of Mr. Ford's age, 67, and younger, without Mr. Ford's ability or fortune. Is Job bunting, not Santa Claus hunting. He goes about, his gray hair dyed a sickly black and brown, to conceal his years, and he Is told "we hire younger men." No psychology there, no Santa Claus bunting, but hard times. On "Continental United States' the population Is 122,728,83?. Uncle Sam says so. This does not Include Porto Rico, the Philippines or Hawaii. In ten years population hag Increased Increas-ed 16.1 per cent. If that Increase continues, con-tinues, our population 100 years hence, In 2030, will be (46,095,925. Labor union experts reading that will say "there could never be Jobs for so many." Workers said that 130 years ago, when our population was 5.-000,000. 5.-000,000. Farmers would greet the idea of 646,095,925 population, with Joy, ex-claiming ex-claiming "that would give us people enough to eat all our wheat and pay a good price for it." However, big figures need not . frighten us. The world's population, apart from famine, plague and war, will not outgrow the earth's fertility. . People, as they become more clvl-i clvl-i Used and have greater luxuries, have M' fewer children. Finally, no matter how many babies are born and how much .the death rate diminishes, science will keep ahead of population. , Unpleasant news from China. Nan- , king dispatches tell of a British woman, wo-man, wife of a Itrltlah official, attacked attack-ed while asleep by a Chinese soldier and expected to die of bayonet waunds. Shanghai sends stories of torture and other outrages inflicted on women missionaries. In Fukien province bandits kidnaped a wotnan missionary, cut off one of her fingers and sent it to the authorities, demanding $50,000, threatening to send other fingers If the money was w not paid. There Is a new gold rush in Australia, Austra-lia, following the discovery of a nugget nug-get weighing 30 ounces. On foot, In new and second hand American automobiles, by airplane and on camels and horses the gold seekers rush to "peg out their claims." Many gold hunters will use up enough energy to make a satisfactory success In ordinary life. But gold is a stimulant to effort, ordinary work Is not. Certain words appeal to all human beings powerfully because they go far back in our history. his-tory. For Instance, death, fear, snake, rat, gold, torture. You can suggest others. Siegfried Wagner, son of the great Richard, died last week. Eugenlsts, stlrpiculturlsts and others who believe ; .. that better human beings can be bred as we breed better horses, will admit that he was a disappointment. His father was the third greatest musician. His mother, Cosima Wagner, Wag-ner, was the daughter of the great musiolan, Liszt. And, as a musician, Siegfried Wagner Wag-ner amounted to nothing, although he ! did write operas, and was a moderate- I ly good conductor. Genius, apparently, "Just happens." Two hundred thousand that had been Idle In Detroit have gone back to work, half of them for Henry Ford, the other 100,000 for the General Motors truck factory, Packard and other concerns. con-cerns. . In Ohio, 100 farmers, crops ruined, oowg giving no milk for lack of grass, went In a body to demand work at f road building. j Aa there were a hundred of them, the work was furnished. Those applying individually bad f been refused. ' Jean Tasserand, to prove that he loved a girl, wrote her a farewell note, Jumped to his death from an alr- : plane, his broken body landing In the j I garden of his mother's home. 1 Fools will moke a hero of him. He : would have been more like a hero had ' J be taken care of his mother and lived I to prov that he appreciated her. I which Is every man's first duty. 1910, by King FtaturM Syndicati, lac.) "A |