Nogales international., 1927-12-30
LINDBERGH NEEDED.
THINKING COMES FIRST.
BACK 5000 YEARS.
ABOUT FLOOD RELIEF.
By Arthur Brisbane

Lindbergh, worlds champion fly
er, landed in Mexico City, notifies
the world that young men in this
country know how to fly, in spite
of the fact that their Government
does not yet realize. the Importance
Of flying.
The United States Government
ought to enlist the services of
Lindbergh to instruct American
fiers and enlighten those respon.
sible for, our air defense. If an
other war ever comes it will seem
very extraordinary TO future his
torians, writing of@American cities
bombed and gassed, that the rich
est cities in the world should have
gone along without adequate air
defense. Not one of our cities is
protected today by anything but
distance. Coast defense guns and
oattleships are obsolete, anti-air-
craft guns absolutely inefficient
We spend $600,000,000 a year for
'de ense" and have none.
The United States Gypsum Com
pany, with Offices in. twenty eities
and twenty-five mines and mills in
fifteen States, has this good idea:
all headquarters managers devote
two hours, from 9 to IL am, to
concentration" They allow no
interruption except III emergencies.
~Eronl II to S they see subordiAates
and business visitors generally.
Each manager has at least two
hours day for feal thinking. ~
John D. Rockefeller had thai
idea many years ago. One of bis
local managers, pointing proudly
to desk loaded down with
papers, said to him, "a lot of de-
tail, but I shall get through it all
by night" Mr.. Rockefeller. quot
ing that, said. to his directors. 81
want all important managers sin
Our organization to sit with their
feet upon clear desks, thinking
how they can make more money
for Standard Oil" They made it.
with Rockefeller's direction, ana
how he spends it usefully, fighting
disease and ignorance. To get
,head, remember that thinking
fomes first. The rest is secondary.
Learned professors in the Uni
rersity of Southern California say
hat slang, within reason, is good.
II makes students select their ex-
,ressions instead of using them
automatically. To call your friend
"dim bulb" is better than saying
@ your brother Thou fool" and
means the, same. Use OF slang
makes a dent in the brain" and
;auses thought, says one professor.
Il also takes the place of thought.
,ut that is too long an argument.
Britain is sending commission
% India headed by Sir John Simon,
% see about helping India toward
,elf government. The help should
have begun 5000 years back.
allow can you give self governS
neut to a people in whose litera-
,ure the word liberty does not ap-
pear in 5000 years, to millions
r,bo believe that little girls eight
md nine years Old should be mar
lied to middle aged men and that
when the old husband dies the
young woman should be burned
slive with the husbands miserable
corpse? That's long way from
self government.
The President recommends 9
ten-year plan for Mississippi Val
.ey flood prevention involving
s2o6,f00,O00. Altogether, $25,000,-
COO would be spent the first yeal
and $30,000,00G a year thereafter
Why not spend every year as mucf
as can be spent wisely to hurry
the worl. rather than risk, in the
course Of ten years, ANOTHER fooc
that might cost in destruction more
than the total appropriation? Sec
retary Mellon could borrow tn;
money fof three per cent. ii hi
couldn't fake It out Of the surplus
Haste is I'M ortant; foods dom
xail.