San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-06
Today
Aircraft in America.
How Much Is Ford
Worth?
A Wise Old Monk.
The Value Of Sleep.
By Arthur Brisbane
: Copyright. 1926 by Star Co

Ncopyrisnt. 1895 by Star Co -
- ONE Democrats would make
political capital of the Shenan-
doah wreck. That is unpaSS q
tic. The wreck itself was crimin
disregard of expert opinion. p
The country needs complete aerial
equipment in dirigibles, as in planes,
and will have that equipment. 1t
needs also an aircraft department
controlled by men that understand
flying, not by political amateurs.
THE II TOLD YOU So" is an
1 ,noying. Nevertheless attention
is called a statement published
last spk4s, when it was proposed to
send u dirigible on the errand that
has proved so disastrous.
The following appeared in this col
umn on June 10. last.
why asked . newspaperman,
DO you say it would be less dang
erous for the Shenandoah to 90 to
Spitzbergen and hunt for Amundsen
than to 70 from Lakehurst to Mime
apolis and back?
Answer: Because at this time
Of year crossing the Atlantic with
the prevailing winds helping, going
on to Spitzbergen from England,
with the Patoka waiting there as a
base, and exploring the arctic ocean
a few hundred miles north would
be simple. 1t would only mean fly
ing the big Shenandoah in the mid
summer climate Of the Arctic, at no
great distance from her base.
s. A TRIP from New York to
~ a Minneapolis and return
through the zone Of midsummer
thunderstorms will be sufficiently
safe, as helium doesn't explode or
burn. But it would be more dang
erous than a trip to SpitZbergen and
on north at this season."
DREsIDENT COOLIDGE who has
1 already shown great interest
in aircraft building by Henry Ford
will probably ask somebody to study
Ford's plans for a smaller sized, all
metal dirigible, lighter than the diri-
gible with cloth gas bag and said by
experts to be protected against light
ming by it's metal covering.
! A MATEURS of Washington,
"A made into soldiers or sailors
overnight, probably will scorn to take
advice from Ford, "a mere cilivian."
But the President knows that Henry
Ford knows more about building
machinery than any stock broker or
lawyer in the cabinet.
IF 1T is Shown that the men killed
i on the Shenandoah were killed
BY the ignorance of their superior
officers, sending them into a danger
zone, against the protest of the CON-
mander, the government should pay
well for every death.
II there is any hesitancy about
paying, capable lawyers should see
what can be done in the way of law
suits on behalf of the women whose
husbands were killed.
The people will not grudge any
sums that may be awarded to those
women.
Possibly the individual RESPONSE
bic for ignoring Commander Lans-
downe's protest, il he can be identi-
fled, could be made. responsible for
part Of the result. That would be
gratifying IL it could be arranged.
Our Army and Navy authorities
are said to be grieving because we
now have mo military dirigible.
The President is quoted in the
New York Times to the effect that
new Shenandoah must be built
because "the country should have
a diigible for military purposes"
yxTHEN the United States brought
wv our remaining dirigible, Los
Angeles, from Germany, it was
agreed by this country that the Los
Angeles would not be used for mill
tary purposes. And SO the thing
stands. .
DUT IL somebody sold you re-
- volver on condition that you
would not use it to shoot a man, and
If that same person then attacked
you with another revolver, what
would you probably do with your
revolver?
The people of America, not be-
ing idiots, would know how TO use
the Los Angeles, If anybody should
attack this country.
THE statisticians declare that
Henry Ford's fortune is more
than one thousand million dollars.
The cash surplus and assets of his
Automobile plants alone total more