The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-31
TODAY O a
Good Friends With Canada.
Rooserelfs Plain Talk.
You Are 90 Per Cent Good.
dir TraueI l Cent a Mile.
Bv ARTHtJR RRISRANE
By ARTHUR BRISBANE.

Some of Canada's able men sug-
gest getting out of the League of
Nations, which they call unneces-
sary expense and a dangerous en-
tanglement for their country.
The fact that this country stays
out of the league has some weight
with our neighbors in the north.
A good League of Nations might
be constructed on this continent
with Canada and the United States
as foundation members. A league
to take care of America, North and
South, leaving Europe to look after
Europe, would be popular and use
full.
Close and friendly relations be-
tween Canada and this country are
especially important. Our inter
ests, manner and standards of liv-
ing are practically the same, and
this country could learn several
things from Canadians.
Ono Of the things, very i'm
portant, that Canada could teach
US, is the efficient, profitable man
agement of railroads owned by the
people.
Here it is understood that our
public men are too incapable, or too
dishonest, or both, to be trusted
with public utilities.
They have no such difficulty in
Canada.
The late Theodore Roosevelt's
letters to his friend, Cabot Lodge,
and his remarks to others are in
teresting. w. j. Bryan he called
small man and demagogue, and
of Woodrow Wilson, he said to
naval officer, "The man (Wilson)
is a physical coward" :"
Theodore Roosevelt spoke plain
ly, especially in these private let
ters, published after his death, with
the consent of his family.
What you are at birth limits def
initely your future possibilities.
Your surroundings and education
may enable you fully to develop all
that you have in you. But nothing
can be added to the limits that are
fixed, with your first breath of life.
Therefore it is a comfort to hear
from Prof. T. H. Morgan, eminent
biologist Of Columbia university,
that every one of US has, from his
ancestors, a mental and physical
inheritance at least 90 per cent
good.
Had the percentage been lower,
the ancestors would not have sur
vived and would have no descend
ants.
Why a blue-eyed man and wo-
man never have brown-eyed chill
dren. How it happens that taste
for drugs or drink is never inher-
tied, and many other interesting
things Prof. Morgan can tell you.
But the most important is this
Ninety per cent of the hereditary
forces within you are working on
the side of virtue and success.
News from Paris will interest
railroad men of the kind that think.
For the cheapest airplane trip from
Paris to Rouen, a distance of 80
miles, a 50,000-franc prize was Of
fered. Drsughin, French flyer,
made the trip at total cost of 80
cents, l cent mile for gas and
oil. And he won the prize.
Up in the air there are no road
beds or rails to be kept up, no fric-
ton or humping, wearing out roll
ing stock. Before the Fords get
through with their airplane build
ing, they will carry 10 passengers
from Detroit to California or Flor
ida for one-quarter of the present
fare, in one-third of today's run
ming time.
1t Is the old story Of Troy, with
Mumtaz Begun in place of Helen,
and with conspiracies, high officials
paid to plan to murder and other
details to warm the heart of any
magazine editor, looking for an ex-
citing story.
Could you imagine better names,
ready made for romance than Num-
taz Begun, ALA Bux Wazir and the
maharajah of Indore.
Poor little Mumtaz, with the slim
ankles, sold and delivered, had her
delicate brown face slashed with
the knives of hired murderers. Told
to disfigure her, that no other man
might own her beauty. That is
the sad part of the story.
Secretary Wilbur, according to
a dispatch to New York Times, is
worried. 1t seems that IL war
ships, with all their anti-aircraft
guns, blazing away to the limit, at
an aircraft target, were unable to
score even one single hit.
The secretary has demanded
report, and that is good idea.
better idea would be to build about
1000 fast fighting airplanes.
What do you think half a dozen
bombing airships would have done
to those II warships while they
were shooting off their comic-opera
anti-aircraft guns?
Warships are obsolete. Battle
ships are merely big humorss easy
targets for aerial bombs. II the
nation must support the battleship
builders, why not subsidize them,
and teach them to build airplanes.
Howard p. Curtis, who has spent
five years in Japan, brings news of
that capable and energetic nations
war preparations. Japan does not
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