Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-09-03
From The battle-ground Of Thought.

Negro 1t rs hard % see how any
business one, no matter what his
League. view OF the negro race or
the race question. can help
approving such an organization as the
league OF negro business men or wish
ing success TO its work. One may, OF
course, hold that mere material prog
ross IL not the only thing the race and
It's friends ought to aim at--that il not
even the thing which ought 20 be set
hrst among the things desirable. But
one can hardly hold that Il is not de-
sirable; one can hardly deny that II is
the means by which most OF the other
desirable things are to be attained. 1t
Is certainly, therefore. safe line
Booker Washington and his associates
are working on. and they show good
sense in their methods, "A good knowl-
edge of the people they are trying to
advance. and "A good knowledge of the
actual conditions of their practical
problem. Mutual help, racial self-de-
pendence, and esprit de corps-these are
things the negro race in this country
needs and such gatherings as that of
the negro business men In New York
last week and those held regularly at
Hampton and Tuskagee are perfectly
sensible efforts toward these ends. They
are all mainly experience meetings
clearing houses OF experience" as DR..
Washington put II. Reporting progress
in this way makes for progress. IL
helps to make generally known what
can be accomplished by negroes 10
make plain the lines Of least resistance,
the practicable avenues. II makes. too.
for sympathy and heartening to which
negroes are, as a rule, exceptionally re-
sponsive And II gives the most effec-
tive kind of emphasis to the lesson
which the best friends OF the race are
most anxious TO have II thoroughly
learn: the lesson, namely, that 10 DO
all sorts of common things well pays
the black man as well as the Whlte
man: that good work of many kinds IL
i'm demand from black men as wen as
from white men.-Harper's Weekly
uo,y IN Where can I buy an aero
Learn plane and what VIII II
10 XIV cost me? New machines
cost from 5000 TO $500,
although the santos Dumont Demon
selle can be bought for $1,000. In i'm
porting machines to this country there
are extra charges. duty. freight etc,
which amount To so per cent or inc
original cost So much for the machine.
But that is not all. You must be pre-
pared to take lessons in flying and
spend as much time as may be neces-
sary to become proficient. Mr. Farinan
has said that the aeroplano breakage
made by the average man in learning
TO fly amounts to nearly $4,000, and that
TO avoid dangers and to prevent acct
dents a man should nave at least sixty
trips in the air under the instruction
of a competent teacher before he takes
control OF the machine himself. Regu-
lar schools have been established
abroad at Chalons. Pau, Buc Etampes,
Mourmelon. Lyons, Juvisy, lssy and
Nouzon Hundreds of flights are be-
ing made every week There are more
than a hundred aviators with pilots H.
cense issued by the Aero club of France
The qualiflca tions for n pilots license
REQUIRE three trips OF Ave kilometers
each, not necessarily on the same day
10 be made in the presence OF n commit
tee or representatives. OF the Aero clun
This is the European way OF learning.
Most of the flyers in this country have
learned IN "a typiCally American way
that Is. they just got In and new, trust
ing to Providence. their own quick
wits and the luck Of the American
eagle to keep them from breaking their
necks The aviators OF the Wright
company have been carefully taught.
but Hamilton. Mars. Willard, Baldwin
although fifty-six years old, and Me
Curdy lust got In and few. The more
careful method. however. will save the
usual beginner much "breakage mon
py.' and maybe a hospital bill.-Augus-
tus Post in the September worlds
Work"
About california minister Ia
sacred mems the quan'y OF
Nsusic sacred music popular
nowadays, and says II
appeals more TO the heels than to
the heads Of congregations" Coupled
with his protests, he sighs that too
often mistaken sigh for the good, old
DAYS" when things-supposedly-
were not as they now are. lot or
been written in this world. ana some
OF II has achieved a popularity II did
not deserve We are by no means In
favor Of sacred music that inclines To
the frivolous. we would not. for In
stance. approve OF a hymn in rag