The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-08-04
TODAY
WELCOME TO AlR.FLlvvER.
A NEW rATIMA.
MEXlCO'S CRISIS.
WRECklNG AS A HABIT.

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Some are old at rs. some 1t 50, some
at 40. some never.
Henry Ford. young at So, celebrated
his birthday on Friday by exhibiting
> small "air-flivvcr," which he hopes
to produce in quantities IT price as
low as his own Ford car or lower.
The midget flying machine Dart.
planned for IS miles an hour,
weighs $50 pounds. has wing spread
OF ~ feet and 15-foot fuselage.
1t is . singlc-seatcr, and 8 million
young Americans will eagerly await
the chance to get it. Ford hopes to
by substituting Ford made two
cylinder engine for the three cylinder
French engine used experimentally.
You can now buy ono Of the Ford
big flying machines, each with three
engines and developing 600 horse
: power, for about $4,000. An intelli-
gent young man could make q good
living with one Of those machines.
Not run by . "stunt" performer: they
would 'be ~ safe as an old family
rockaway.
President Coolidge expresses great
confidence in the development Of
commercial aviation in the United
States. But what about the govern
ment. and what about fast.fighting
planes in case we have . war!
Mr.. Ford is rich, but neither Mr..
Coolidge nor the people Of the United
States want to depend upon him en-
tircly TO defend this country in case
Of trouble.
Uncle Sam isn't exactly 4 paupcr
and he isn't supposed to be . poor
idiot, without initiative.
When you see the name Fstima,
you think Of some Oriental lady with
wide hips. large rolling eyes, we'll
blackened at the edges. low forehead.
and generally heavy build, draped in
loose clothing. spread out on q. divan,
or languidly beating tomtom to At-
tract your attention and your time.
Kemal Pasha has changed that.
Fatima. in this days Turkish news,
has bobbed hair. wears mems clothes,
two rev0lvers and two daggers, and
directs band Of men terrorixing viii
lagcs in the Taurus Mountains. It's
. long step from the harem and the
~nargileh and the chief eunuch to fe-
male bob-haired banditry.
Gales. the Mexican president, eyi-
OeuIy OelIevSS no mas SuOuHU MeXbe,
cans with him to put through his
anti Catholic Legislation. He cannot
have q majority, since an overwheim-
ing majority of Mexicans are Catho-
lies. Possibly he thinks there is
enough fighting power in his minor
ity, which includes organized labor,
to carry through his plans.
To criticism from Rome and disc.
where Gales replies by deporting the
Pope's envoy rs an "inconvenient."
Pope Plus still rsfrains from
placing Mexico under IN interdict.
. although that step 10 urged to con-
cen.rate attention on the Mexican sit
uation. Msgr. Crespi, the Pope!s en-
voy, just deported. 1talien BY birth.
m Americ citizen, win come to New
Washington reports that this gov-
ernment will make no Representations
to Mexico in connection With laws for
J Kidding religious teaching in schools
>ahd confiscatinx church property.
No property Of American eitisens be-
ing involved. II IL said there 10 no
cause for Intervention by the United
Protestant minations take dif.
ferent views Of NexieeS fight ON the
Catholic chureh. ! j weekly newspapeY
publishsA by Protestant Hplseepalien
/, AuhoritieS denUunces Canes o. an
enemy OF religion and Ashed Episcopal
(Coutjnusd On paes tetee.(
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