Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-13
WANT COLUMBUS
In LIST OF SAINTS.
French Catholics Start Movement to
Have the Great DiscOverer
Canonized,
HAVE APPEALED TO POPE Plus
Earlier Move in Same Direction Met
with Failure.
RAILROAD STRIKE ILL-ADvIsED
Men and Government Were Both to
Blame for Trouble.
PLACE OF AEROPLANE IN WAS
French Experts Argue that ~ the
Airships Can Garry Men They
Can Also Carry Ammunition
Against Enemy.
Men and Government Were Both to
Blame for Trouble.
PLACE OF AEROPLANE IN wAR
by PAEL NILLIERs.

PARIS, Nov. 12.-CSpecial to The Beel-
Devout French Catholics who revere the
memory of Christopher Columbus are urg
ing the pope TO canonize the great dis
coverer Of the American continent. The
proposition was preached many years ago.
But those who supported this movement
met with almost insurmountable difficult
ties for the required conditions could not
be found in the life Of, Columbus. The con-
ditions are that one must always have led
a sanity life and performed at least two
miracles. Besides the cause of the person
proposed for canonizadon must he
presented by bishop living where tho
proposed saint lived or in the place where
he was buried. Now, there was no Ameri-
can bishop when Columbus discovered the
country.
It Is not probable that the advocates Of
canonization will succeed both churchmen
and influential laymen are opposed. Ono
OF the most influential opponents of the
proposed idea is a professor in the semi
nary of Rome. Able Sanguineu, In the
two pamphlets he wrote says there was
an event in the life Of Columbus which was
violation OF the laws OF the church and
violation Of civil laws.
Railroad. strike III Advised.
The railway strike was an ugly event,
and it's significance is not destroyed by its
sudden and ignominious collapse. The
movement was spasmodic. ill-considered
and ill-organized. Apparently the strikers
did not quite mean business this time. They
went out in hurry, with no idea of a
fight to the finish.
Some men who have gone into the causes
Of the trouble think the government erred
] in calling some of the strikers to serve in
the army during the strike.
They say the policy OF the government
n that respect supplied violent socialists
with an almost unanswerable argument
that the army was an instrument for their
enslavement. Henceforth socialists will de-
vote themselves with redoubled energy to
teaching the soldier that the state has no
right to employ him against his own com
rades, that his military service is given for
the protection of his country against for
eign enemies, not for the protection Of ma
tive employers against demands of native
workmen The anti-military spirit is strong
enough in the republic already without
such incentives as have now been admin
istered to II.
AerOplanes In War.
Two military experts have written inter
esting articles concerning the employment
of aeroplanes in war. The first OF these
deals with experiments made by Officers
of Chalais- Meudon is destroying dirigibles.
The method employed was TO drop arrows,
each containing a small explosive charge
which burst on coming in contact with the
envelope OF the balloon, setting fire to the
gas A number of small captive balloons
were secured round the Eiffel tower and
the arrows were dropped on them by hand
from the first stage. In every case the
arrows exploded. destroying the balloons
The idea is that an aeroplane or a dir'gi-
BILE with superior speed shall get above the
enemy's dirigible and drop the arrows
upon II,
The other article begins by pointing out
that aerOplanes have made flights Of sixty
miles. carrying two passengers. II it Is pos
sible to DO this, therefore It would b.
equally possible for the aviator TO carry
a quantity OF ammunition equal to III,
weight OF two passengers. The writer also
calculates that in attacking troops n
masses at least one bullet in a hundred
should be effective, so that each flight Of
the aeroplane would mean 100 men KILLED
or wounded.
Guichard on Anarchists.
Very instructive Is the explanation Of tn,
present position OF the anarchists in France
given by M. Guichard, the official who Il
at the head Of the police department which
devotes special attention 70 their move
ments. NJ Guichard, who has fun knowl
edge OF the subject and wide experience
says that anarchists of the valiant anS
Ravachol type are disappearing. The an
archists have. as a rule. given up tn,
bomb and become past masters in tn
willful destruction Of property.
M Guichard says: I'VE have In Paris
great number of these malefactors from
t, every nation, but the majority are certa,nl'
Russian and Polish Jews. They are mos
, to be dreaded"