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Show This Week by Arthur Urisbano Gallant French Flyers ileturn Trip, Non-Stop Wheat Cheaper than Corn Witch Doctors Fourteen times in the history oJ tne world human beings havf flown westward across the Nortl Atlantic Ocean. Eric Nelso-i and Lowell smith were the first, anc now come the brave French airmen Dieudonne "God Given" Coste and Maurice Eellcnte. Theirs is the first non-stop westward west-ward trip ever made. Lindbergh's eastward flight, alone, iVith little announcement in advance, ad-vance, and the simple statement. "I am Charles Lindbergh," on arrival, ar-rival, will remain the most magnificent magnif-icent flight of all time. Next, perhaps, will come the round trip. Captain Hawks, now at the head of American flyers, having flown across the American continent in twelve and one-half hours, almost as iar as Lindbergh and Coste ana 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 cities." ci-ties." When lie flies, he really flies. Two hundred and fifty miles an 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. And even those figures in years to come will seem comicaly "old fashioned." Captain Hawkes criticises the French aviators for using a land plane, unable to alight on water, and calls their flight, "a great display dis-play of nerve, but a foolish thing." "If the flight across the ocean had been made in a seaplane something some-thing would have been accomplished for . aviation." Something is accomplished by any kind of flight across the ocean. Captain Hawks some day will wonder won-der why he ever believed a seaplane sea-plane would be necessary for ocean crossings. Men don't put wheels on ships to enable them to run on land, because they don't exepect them to run on land. And they will not put hulls for water landings land-ings on transatlantic planes, because be-cause they won't expect the planes to land on the water. Farmers should know that science sci-ence is responsible for the surplus crop and low price of wheat. Thirty-two years ago a great scientist, Sir William Crookes, told the British Brit-ish Scientific Asociation, "Unless scr.ielhlng is dene to prevent it, 1931 wouia sse sucil a lack of wheat as wiii cause widespread starva-t.ja.'' starva-t.ja.'' And now 1930 sees more wheat than the people can eat. Professor Byer tells the British Science Association that science has done more than Sir William Crookes expected. Botany and scientific production ol fertilizers, nitrogen especially, have extended the northern limits of wheat pro duction so far that any possibility of shortage vanishes. V. H. Polachek, thoughtful and wise, who gets rich while others sleep, says farmers will feed wheat instead of corn to cattle now, since it is a cheaper and better food. Therefore, corn prices will come down and wheat will go up. He is buying wheat. The cautious will remember that corn might come aown and wheat stay down. Who can prophesy on supply and demand? Com has sold as low as ten cents a bushel, and farmers have used it for fuel in place of coal. Now it is fifteen cents a bushel dearer than wheat. And poor old Uncle Sam early in the year bought nearly 70,000,000 bushels of wheat way above $1 a bushel. Australians and others are impressed im-pressed by old Solomoni, an old aboriginal Australian witch doctor, doc-tor, who predicted "drenching rains to 'end the drought in the first quarter of the moon." The drenching rains came, crops were saved, Solomoni is a hero, and the weather bureau which saw no rain coming is made ridiculous. The public, eager to be deceived, hears and cares nothing about the ten thousand witch doctors and other prophets that in the same week predicted things that did not and will not, happen. A small earthquake is felt in Tennessee, Ten-nessee, buildings rocked, but no harm done. And eastern newspapers news-papers treat it as a small eaith- qUIfk that little quake had occurred on the Pacific Coast, eastern newspapers news-papers would have made it conspicuous conspic-uous and serious, not through mean, neses, but because of foolishness. German statistics apply rim and j correct figures about the great war. Ii has taKen years to prepaie t em. !Teii million soldiers were kille 1 I so 000 unknown French solo.e.-s he !inTT lories killed numb ercd 3, j j536,000-tney certainly d.dn t start, "'Eighteen million human beings! WeIndP"atTsStat the world is pahfg for now in its slump, un-doubtedly. |