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Show T - ... Stf&s 6Aithur Brisbane Going West - ' Thank Your Local Editor ; The First Hoover Year Ants Are Foolibh and Men GOINO through Colorado, New Mexico, Mex-ico, Arlidna, and on to tne Pacific, Paci-fic, tor the hundredth time, is as Inter eating as on the first Journey. You feel that you are In a big country. A. L. Wathen, of the . Interior Department De-partment of Indian Irrigation Service, In connection with looking after the Coolldge Dam, says with conviction. "No place eaet of the Rocky Moun; tains Is fit to live In." . ,,., He would not have said that when in the army, across the ocean la while ago. He la sure of It now. At Albug.uerg.ue, H. F.' Flckerell is at the station. He Is editor of the Albuquerque Journal, which la a success. suc-cess. Wants you to know that the Rio Grande conservancy project, nothing to do with Boulder Dam, will soon irrigate ir-rigate 120,000 acres of fertile land above and below Albuquerque, providing provid-ing Jobs and prosperity. A natural gas main, on its way to Albuquerque, will secure the establishment establish-ment of a big glass factory. Albuquerque Albuquer-que "healthiest place in the world, had 17,000 population a little while ago, has 35,000 now, and will soon double that." v . Such an editor as Flckerell, is a whole chamber of commerce in himself. him-self. . The value of an energetle local editor edi-tor Is not often fully appreciated by his community, nor is the value of his advertising columns appreciated by national advertisers, as they should be. His readers buy everything from paint on the root to cement in the cellar floor, buy more automobiles per capita than city dwellers, have time to read about the latest products, clothes,' foods, time saving devices, etc. And buy them. Senator Capper's newspaper, "The Dally Capitol," comes out with a review re-view of President Hoover's first year. Senator Capper describes it as "a year of blue prints." Meaning a year of preparation. ;r The Capitol observes that Congress has 'not - been strongly behind the President, the "wet press is not sympathetic sym-pathetic toward hlra, and eastern publications pub-lications with a Wall Street complex are unfriendly and would prefer another an-other President in the White House. Senator Capper's editorial describes the President accurately as a- man "who does not act first and reflect afterwards." aft-erwards." In an emergency he acts lnstanta- neously, as In the Wall Street crash But bis method la to "look into the facts first." Senator Capper says "a blue print year is not a bad start." The President Eas "three years of the four to make an administration outstanding." He finds "the lesson for fair-minded people peo-ple in Hoover's first year is to have confidence in Hoover." The people will be well pleased, although al-though Senator Capper does not say so, when the "wet-dry" question Is disposed dis-posed of, and the tariff with its uncertainties, un-certainties, is out of the way. . And when the "blue print" stage is passed I and the constructive era begun. j Dr. Ditraars. who studies animals from elephant and whale to ant and microbe, will . broadcast, by greatly magnifying sound, noises made by ants in their colonies working, celebrating, cele-brating, etc. . Strange is insect life. Among katydids katy-dids there are twenty males for every female. This will Interest women, for . the katydid Is one of the noisiest of insects. The males make all that racket "Ants," says Dr. Dltmars, "sometimes "some-times make fools of themselves." Tiny mites and blind, little defence-; defence-; less beetles, pat the ants with their : feet and then the ants pat them. Not so different from human beings that have money. Sycophants flatter them, "pat them" with compliments, then they feed the sycophants, and sometimes let them marry their daughters. daugh-ters. 1 1 ' 1 Chicago police hold seven men and one lady, accused of conspiring to kidnap kid-nap citizens, torturing them to extort money. Theodore Kopelman, bead of an insurance in-surance company, identified the kidnapers. kid-napers. The lady, his former wife, had "tipped" the kidnapers that if they got him, "he would be easy." - He obeyed orders, and paid when threatened with red hot irons. Police investigators attribute six other "torture kidnaping" cases to the same gang, and the prosecuting attorney attor-ney says he will have them all sent to the electric chair. Death is the punishment punish-ment for kidnaping in Illinois. That seems a little severe, and capital capi-tal punishment Is barbarous. Kidnaping, with torture, is also barbarous. bar-barous. This small Item .of news interests i managers and stockholders of railroad and steamship lines: An airplane driven by a Diesel engine eng-ine flew from Detroit to Miami In 10 ; hours, 15 minutes, without stopping with Chief Engineer Willson, of the Packard Company, and Walter Lees, pilot. And the trip cost for fuel $8.50. I (O. 1930, !r Kins Fetuc SynJiutm, he) |