San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-15

tional aviation situation is. alarming.
Ii will say that this nation does not
realize the Importance Of air power,
that we need to spend money and get
action.
THE nation will be grateful for
a that report, even il it should be
overrulcd finally by decisions Of the
"big butter and egg men" that arc
chosen to run aviation for the United
States.
To know that you are in danger
is at least the beginning Of wisdom.
MUSSOLINPS name was Kissed
AVA by crowd in New York that
doubtless meant well. But New York
is long way from Italy, and the
New York crowd was long way
from understanding Mussolini's and
Italy's problems.
WHEN the war ended Italy had
w her choice of initiating Russia
or submitting to Mussolini's strong
hand. Under his direction Italy has
kept her men at work, her women
and children fed. Italy has retained
the respect of other European nations
and has known how to enforce her
rights. And under Mussolini the
Italian lire is worth more than the
French franc.
A S the French franc continues to
"A fall, many in France demand
the establishment of a dictatorship
Of the Mussolini plan. You will
read of that in this mornings dis
patches.
The French have a proverb:
"Great evils require great remedies"
Many remedies might be more dan
gerous than Mussolini.
kHUSSOLINI, undisturbed by criti-
IVA cism and attempts at murder,
goes ahead with his plans. He means
to declare Italy an empire, reviving
the old Roman empire. Garibaldi
made Victor Emanuel's father king.
Mussolini would make his king en-
pcror. following in the steps of Dis
raei. the man of Asistic ancestry,
who made Victoria empress Of India.
If'you start with momentum you can
80 a long way.
THE able Mr.. Garvin solemnly an
y svers George Harvcy's state
lncnt that England is on her last
legs. about to plunge into the gulf.
Britain would be better off, says
Garyin, il she didn't have TO pay so
many millions to America every year,
while Britain's debtors pay her moth
ing. This means S400,0 100000 to the
bad for England.
NER. GARVIN ought to take
AVA George Harvey for trip
around the British empire to look at
her land, minerals, people, free and
not free, all over the world, and es-
pecialy get him to consider how
easily the British brand of states
manship puts the so-called statesmen
of the United States into a deep hole.
Such trip would restore Harvey's
cheerfulness about Britain's future.
You can't down intelligence and
courage. The British have both.
CPEAKING of intelligence and
~ courage, the Irish Free State
intends to send flying machine from
ireland, across the ocean to the
United States. More power TO the
plan.
Too bad st. Patrick can't see this
chip start out. Once he stood on the
west coast of Ireland beyond which
no man is." He was interested in
miracles, performed many Of them
himself. But it never occurred TO
him that some day an Irishman
would fly from that point "where no
man is" 5000 miles across the ocean,
10 another point where many sue
ccssful and useful Irishmen are.
DELICS discovered in Arizona
AN would indicate. if genuine, that
this continent was discovered by Jew
ish sailors hundreds of years before
Columbus.
II isn't unlikely. Many do not
realize that the Semitic race in the
ancient days Mas the most daring
and cnterpriNng of all seafaring
peoples.
The Phoenicians, Semitic, were the
first TO go out of sight of land, in
days when there was no compass,
first to Sc through the pillars of
Hercules out into the Atlantic ocean
on TO the tin mines of England and
20 all the wild northwestern region.
They brought and sold to Solomon
choice b.Elding materials for his
temple.
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IRISE SEIZE DOCK