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Show by Arthur Brisbane Need Airthips, Not Glider i Why. California? U: Women Spend 53 Billions For Gold Star Mothers LOS ANGfcLES. Col Lindbergh's work with sir gliders seems to fascinate fas-cinate the great pilot He has tried Hying gliders before daylight, to ex-peilment ex-peilment with early moi'Qliij, winds -At one. time be flew 15 miles in plane with do engine. Reporters expected ex-pected him to try for the glider long distance and endurance record. That Is all Interesting and courageous, courage-ous, bat has little to do wlu the Important Im-portant part of flying sdll in its Infancy. In-fancy. Ships that will not crash, pilots -trained to think only of passengers' I safety, not so much about proving that they are not "yellow" are needed. I The plloc who will "go through In any kind of weather" needs to bu replaced 1 b the man who will take passengers , only In perfectly gate weather. After that will come planes and flying methods to which no weather will I make any difference. i The glider, interesting toy, goes I lta air curre-ta. teaching, perhaps, I a little about flying. But It has as ; litti to do with great airships of the fnture as the Hawaiian surf board has ; te do with Improved ocean steam-fclps... steam-fclps... . -'"'! Lindbergh commands the attention sad respect of oapitaj and Industry. What he recommends will be tried, tns mind" should be on weather defying de-fying airships for 1,000 passengers, out os a cunning little board that will iklai on the air with a man sitting n It Al If you say that a maa who kno nothing about flying should not pre-idtn pre-idtn to adrise one who knows all about flying, please remember that the Investor of ihu sewing machine iHd not know how to saw. a toeal editor In the East, kind enough to print Oils column In bis Independent In-dependent newspaper asks, "Why do I yem write M much abeut California1! :i.Tho .answer Is "because I am In Call-' Call-' fornia." ' There should be no local Jealousies In America. Every State frcv. Florida to Washington Wash-ington Is Interested In California, and California Is interested in every one o' the fortylgbt States. ' . Th prosperity of every State depends de-pends on the prosperity of a' I the others. oth-ers. I There are about 5,090,000 people In i California now. many of tem spend- . tiif. money accumulated by hard work. They all buy goods. Every State In the Union has "Free TraUf with California Cali-fornia and "alifornla has free trade with every othei State. vVhat would Ec opean nations give fo such a eondition? We should appreciate our blesslnes 1 and thank heavei when we hear good news from any part of America. Chicago's retail advertising institute insti-tute is told that American women spend every year fifty-three billion dollars. A million Is a great deal. A thousand thou-sand millions Is a very great deal. Fifty-three thousand millions, spent by . the women In this country is an extra ordinary amount of money. They spend It wisely, as a rule, be-; be-; cause they know enough to read ad yertlslng carefully, fealixlng that be who Invests millions in his good name, through advertising, will do nothing to Jeopardise that nam. Women are said to buy 41 per cent of all automobiles and 9 per cent of drygoods. They really buy 96 per cent of automobiles also, because men buy What women wat or admire. Coagreas votes more than five mil- Hon dollars, that "geld star" mothers nay Tlt-H their son- graves In France. OT 11 JM Brothers entitled to go 6,000 have expressed a desire to go. Many eannet go. because of dntles at borne. Others, perhaps, dread the sorrowful , shot. T those that d not go. Con ' cress should P7 la U pro rata tmonnt that H would cost to send them, about one thousand dollars. No ether ewurse would be fair. Mrs. Roth Olsen. JT, died. A towel M mokes long, 16 lnehes wide, left in her Mr after an operation caused death. The mmrae said she bad failed to eermt tke towels, and a Jury exoner. ted the physicians. ' Fortunately there are doctors that weuld met rely on any nurse to count tewela, blankets, armchairs or other i ' ertietes that might be left in an open Rlehard Stewart, rug merchant of m Warren. Ohio, Is la Jail Judge Perry fonnd bins guilty of molesting a women. wo-men. sHewart offers an exouse as ld as Adaas: "The woman led me on." J Jail, Stewart refuses to eat and Is tary lain, after twenty-three starving Idays. It would have been fortunate fo dam, and for us, but bad for the clothing business, had Adam, likewise refused to eat Other cities will want to know of TJetroIt's plan for catching criminals radio. Policemen In fast automo-"" automo-"" '" f"lf equipped with receiving appara-! appara-! l dash to the scene and often caa-lfjt caa-lfjt the fleeing criminals. . . (fx fl, kr Ki" fn Sricw. iacl |