San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-08
Today
Col. MitchelPs Case.
The Joy of Work.
Gold in the Arctic.
Deep Flowing.
BY Arthur Brisbane


By Arthur Brisbane
L. Copyright. 1925 by star CO.
WASHINGTON correspondent
"a says President Coolidge will
- keep out of Mitchell fight"
referring to Colonel Mitchelfs
charges as to general incompetency
in the management of United States
air forces. and the suggestion that
Colonel Mitchell, lowered in rank for
telling the truth once, should now be
arrested for telling the truth twice.
HOW could the President, who is
1 1 head of army and navy, keep
out of the Mitchell matter? 1t is
not conceivable that his subordin-
ates, knowing of the Presidents
readiness to hear both sides OF any
question, would undertake any action
without his approval.
THE people do not believe that the
4 President will permit any action
against Colonel Mitchell until the
entire aviation question shall have
been fully thrashed out, including the
fiasco in the effort to fly to Ha-
waii, and the catastrophe OF the
Shenandoah.
1t is to be hoped that the inquiry
when it comes will not be a white
washing enterprise, but a real inves-
tigation.
The President will want to know
why the protest of Commander Lans-
downs, an experienced airman who.
had flown across the Atlantic in a
dirigible were ignored. The Presi-
dent will not want any white-wash-
ing, or any offhand suppression of
Colonel Mitchell who isn't easily
suppressed by the way. He will want
the facts, and will see that he gets
them.
THE most disquieting thing in our
L so-called defense program is this
statement attributed toJudge Wilbur,
secretary of the navy. "In view Of
the navy planes in the Arctic expedi-
ton, the failure Of the Hawaiian
flight and the Shenandoah disaster,
we have come TO the conclusion that
the Atlantic and the Pacific are still
our best defenses. We have nothing
to fear from enemy aircraft that is
not on this continent"
THE experience in the Arctic, the
1 failure of the Hawaiian flight,
the dreadful, Shenandoah disaster had
nothing to do with capable air navi-
CATION but great deal to do with
INCOMPETENT MANAGEMENT
OF OUR AIR FORCE
We should have indeed nothing to
fear from foreign aircraft, if we
could give to foreigners such manage
ment as our air craft has. Mr.. Will
bur's statement that our oceans are
our best defense sounds like the state
ment of some ostrich saying II have
nothing to fear, the sand is my best
defense, can stick my head into it,
DEAN BROWN of Yale tells
~ working 4en that what they
need is a new state of mind. He
thinks workmen don't sufficiently
appreciate the "joy Of work"
II the learned dean could lay
bricks, set type, or work around a
blast furnace for a year or two, he
would probably know more about the
joy of work in some lines than he
does now.
THE Rev. DR.. Stratton of New
L York thinks Christianity should
reach out and influence the work.
men. He asks "can the carpenter
of Nazareth win the laboring men Of
America 2" The carpenter of Naz-
areth undoubtedly would win more
of the laboring men, if the fashion
able ond other preachers would al
ways remember that the man Of
Nazareth really was a carpenter
whose teachings rendered literally
and forcibly by any fashionable
preacher would cause that gentleman
TO lose his fashionable Job.
COLONEL WILLIAMS has re-
~ turned from flying trip in the
Arctic, bringing samples Of gold
nugget, ore rich in gold and pieces
of pure lead. These are brought
from a valley inside the Arctic circle,
warmed by hot springs.
THE Canadian flier who was hired
by citizens of Seattle to inves-
tigate the promising Arctic lands,
may set a new fashion in prospect
ing, and he may supply a market
from the metal planes that Henry
Ford is now turning out. Twenty-Five
thousand dollars, the cost Of plane
carrying ton, could soon be made
up through successful prospecting. 1t
is an interesting jump, from the lit
tie donkey of the old prospector, to
the flying machine of the modern