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Show This Week by ARTHUR BRISBANE ; Another Hawks Record Politics Goes to Sleep The Great Bridge $16,000,000,000 a Year Captain Hawks, America's champion flyer, goes on . establishing records while others talk. - '' He has JUBt flown from New York to Havana In 9 hours. 21 minutes, Including In-cluding stops of 23 minutes at Jack- , . onville, and 20 minutes at Miami. This trip means leaving New York after breakfast and getting to Havana in1" time for a swim , before dinner. " . Hawks' flight average, 182 miles an hour, cut the record from 14 hours to 8 hours, 21 minutes. He hopes to lower that on the rs- turn journey. - ' . , "t ., , The voting and the nuisance are out of the way, heaven be praised, and the people can attend to real business far removed from politics. Whether the election suited you or not, comfort yourself with the Thought that nothing Is important except what : the people themselves do. If the 12S,-000,000 12S,-000,000 will get to work without wait- lng for the new year or a millennium, liid keep thefr courage we shall get ' out of our temporary difficulties. Politicians get, jobs, but don't do much. By the time they get over tho excitement of beinc elected. It's time to be elected again. ';, . Men and women of San Francisco and of counties north of the bay voted for one of the most Important and ' magnificent improvements ver under- taken by a community. f The Golden Gate Bridge will be not only one of the greatest, but one of the most beautiful engineering achievements In the world, 'another proof of California's hospitable desira to make visitors welcome,' and proof of San Franctsco'S driving power and determination to achieve. ; . The probable cost, 135,000,000, will be a small price to pay for one of the most useful, magnificent and beautiful structures in the world. Secretary Lamont of the Department Depart-ment of Commerce broadcasts the fact that In 1929 accidents to men and women wo-men working on their Jobs cost this country 23,000 deaths, 8,000,000 Injuries In-juries and a cash loss of $1,000,000,000. In Now York City alone accidents cost (60.000,000 a year. These statistics statis-tics are a part of our American extra- vagance and recklessness, (Tin wSere'porsonatTfljary or death are In- " ' " volved, for a great majority of them could easily be prevented. ( --- Have you any idea what orlme costs the Nation T The total amount la six- - teen thousand million dollars a year. There are, about ona million professional profes-sional criminals in the country Including In-cluding the crop of prohibition super-criminals.'." super-criminals.'." ; The Governmeut could pension them at the rate of $19,000 a year each, break even financially and save tha lives taken by the. criminals. Or the ' ,; chief . criminals, could be profitably pensioned at $1,000,000 a year each, leaving plenty for small fry. , - It costs the Nation $18,000,000,000 to take care of 1,000,000 criminals. And .five billions less than one-third of the crime bill, is: the amount spent on BO,-' . 000,000 children In their parks, their schools, their playgrounds, and all welfare work. 4 V" .That's a very nice picture of American Amer-ican civilization. i '. . w '''""' - V An earnest ' mother whose son Is trying to be a football player, breaking fingers and larger bones and Injuring -his spine In the process, wants "editorial "edi-torial help to make this brutal sport seem less Important In the eyes of young people." - , . Editorial help would not help. It Is ',- true, as the mother says, that football ' . was never played by Socrates, Napo-leon, Napo-leon, Spinoza, Washington, Jefferson or Lincoln. But the boy of sixteen doesn't want ' to be like Jefferson or Lincoln. He . ' wants to have a neck bigger around than the top of his head, and to use that head, not for thinking, but as a '- " battering ram. ' . . Men that Napoleon would nave used to dig ditches now decide the standing of universities and. produce much de- . sired gate receipts. ' That mixture of foolishness and brutality must over . . -come itself. There la no Indication that any head of a great college considers It worthwhile to discourage our profitable pro-fitable Imitation ot bull fighting. . - j Those who believe that foreign emigration emi-gration threatens our Nation with a mob of "homeless unemployed" will be Interested in statistics concerning 14,000 homeless men in New York's Bowery, questioned about their past I and present by the Welfare Council " of New York. : They were practically all native born Americans more than 40 years old, unskilled and without any money. You would find It hard to gather together to-gether 14,000 foreign born, of that type. ' ' '-" - ..,";-. i John H. Perry, who owns several newspapers In Florida, Pennsylvania and elsewhere, says: "There Is really nothing much, th. matter with the country that intelligent intellig-ent advertising couldn't cure in short tima Even an amendment ot the ' . Volstead Act to permit th manufacture manufact-ure of light wines and beer would, In six months, absorb from one-half to two-thirds of our idle labor and would ' produce approximately Jl.000,000,000 revenue to tha Government" - ."."" 1 (, 1930, bj Xlm Futunt Syodkit lac) |