The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-14
T T'oday Bombing the Invisible. Al-Borak Outdone. New President---.Fine
 Cow. Giving-Not Taking
 Counts.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE
By ARTHUR BRISBANE

"Airplanes will be used to destroy pests that ruin forests" That an- nouncement means a great deal In America the chestnut trees have practically vanished. and other va rieties. including some pines, are in danger of destruction.
 Any attack on the enemy seemed hopeless-no use in trying to spray vast forest lands. But the flying men will drop above the trees bombs containing gases destructive to the tree destroyers, yet harmless to men and animals. And one single bomb will save thousands of trees and de- stroy billions of pests.
 Bombs will be used in this useful way long after men have forgotten they used poison bombs to kill each other. And wholesale germ de- struetion from the air may mean the solution of one great problem-the enemies. His big enemies, mamouth and lion. w6if and bear, savage men fought with flints and knives. His more deadly invisible enemies. he will attack with chemicals and then good-by germs. Progress always.
 From Heiipoiis. Egypt to Bagdad is 1000 miles. Slowly for 10000 years and longer the camels and weary men on foot travelled the long hot road. Animals and men dropped in the desert along the trail on a journey lasting months. Now British flying men make the trip regularly in 10 hours.
 Half way on the desert Journey, at Fl Jid the airmen drop down beside a group Of wells. One flyer found an Arab sheik, his caravan scattered, himself desperately wounded by brixands. He had concluded his private arrangements for Mohammed, agent for Allah, and was resigned to death being several weeks journey from any help. The airmen picked him up, landed him in four hours in the Bagdad hispital where he was patched up. He lives now to tell of a travelling machine more wonderful than Mohammed's Al-Borak. that carried him from Mecca to Jerusalem and then up to Heaven. Borak. ac- cording to tradition, was part horse, part ass, with Q human face, two wings and tall like q peacock, but he was nothing compared with good bipIans.
 Nevertheless, that sheik will con- tinue to believe in Ai-Borak and his rider. What we believe up to years of age, we always believe, more or less. That's why 1t Is so important to keep young children tree of sup- erstitition. @ .....
 Thsre is new president In China ---Li Yuan Hung succeeds Hsu shih Chang. resigned. A rival president in Hong Kong, denounces Lii Yuan as traitor. A couple of million men will fight about 1t. thousands will be killed and famine made worse.
 Five hundred million Chinese hu- man beings are involved. And to us it means less than the fact that the Canadian champion Holstein COW has just set record of 32.s32 pounds of milk, 1,4ss pounds of butter. in one year. Canada Is near us; we understand milk. butter and cows. China Is far away; we do not under stand the Chinese. The parliament of man and federation of the world are still distant.
 G. M. Hutchings, Harvard student from North Carolina. has amazed the world of fearing. Examined for three hours by 1s professors, before taking his degree as doctor of phi losophy, he answered every question 100 per cent correctly. Hutchings knowns .languages'' and will learn some more.
 wonderful Is the human mind and it's bower to absorb. But more than learning many things is adding just one thing to the sum total of krowl- edge.
 The wright brothers could speak only English and that not too well. Eut they added the item flying to what men know. That ir what counts-what you give our. not what you take.
 rhe New York curb stock ex- change Is warned by Mir. Untermyer that if 1t continues dealing in stock If the North American Steel com- pany, he will have everybody in- dicted. But how can he? It Is true that the stock does not yet exist; those that sell 1t haven't got it. those that buy 1t do not receive 1t.
 what of that? The supreme court has decided that Congress itself cannot interfere with men that gam ble in grain and cotton. although the seller does not possess what he sells. or the buyer get what he buys. And often the gamble Is in crops yet to be planted.
 Can Untermyer and his Lockwood committee rise above the supreme court and interfere with gambling Not likely. Little men grambling for little stakes, yes. They are controlled aaa;iv anourh But not the big fef-