Nogales international., 1928-04-20
CONTROL OF POWER SOURCES
FRANK B. WILLIS.
WAR AGAINST RATS.
AMERICAN FLYING.
By Arthur Brisbane

AMERICAN FLYING.
Canada's Government encouraged
use OF electric power, particularly OF
farms and in small communities
Water power is developed fully t.
generate the current, and all are as
sisted in its installation.
Farmers are taught to grind feed
with it, pump water and do thei,
other work.
And, by the way, United State.
farmers are urgently invited by the
Canadian government to settle il
Canada.
Our attention here Is concentrated
on different problem. We want tc
make sure that the right people gel
possession of our power sources, the
right people being those that control
power and peddle it to the people,
AS to farmers. and others that buy
and use power, Our Government has
not found time to think about them
Prophecy is usually dangerous, par.
ticularly dangerous for farmers when
government prophecies go wrong.
Ihe Government forecast on potatoes
last Fall predicted a crop greater than
the real one. Many farmers sold Ia
= hurry at low prices, some were
not marketed, many fed to stock.
Then the shortage was seen, price
went up, few wise people made thu
sfsuuey NOT the farmers.
The sudden death of Senate.
Willis, in his battle for Ohio's Presi-
Dental delegates, ended tragically one
phase of the 1923 campaign.
Senator Willis would lave pre-
teFred to die fighting. Those that
know Secretary Hoover know that
Senator Willis death will cause him
sincere grief.
A powerful man, never sparinq
himself, Senator Willis forgot that
there are limits to the hearts endur-
ancc. A tired heart often succur1bs
IN the most powerful man, wearied by
constant strain.
The dead mans widow attributed
the Senator's attack to the fumes of
smoky flares that he had been inhal-
ing constantly, in the course of a
political parade.
A weak heart, fighting against
poisoned air, is in danger.
The League of Nations proposes
international war against rats, theiI
complete extermination.
Such war, made to include mos.
quitoes and flies, would be the best
war in history. 1t would save every
year in lives and money as much al
DE big war cost in any year.
10 more rats, no more bubonic
plague. q
No more mosquitoes, no more yell
low fever or malaria.
No more tse-tse flies, no more
sleeping sickness.
No more house flies, no more filth
dragged over food of young chill
dren.
1t would be interfering with
Natures plans, perhaps. Darwin
says pair of tropical flies and their
maggot offspring can dispose of a
lions carcass in a few hours. Kill
all the lions and the flies would not
be needed to dispose of the carrion.
George Haldeman and Eddie Stin-
pon, Americans, broke the worlds
endurance record in the air, flying
without stopping ffty-three and one
half hours.
The French Government offers a
million francs to any French fier
HAT will win back some flying rec
ords formerly held by French hiers.
A little encouragement from our
Government would make it impossible
for any nation to compete with
American flying.
The first flying machine was made
mere IlnQDergn was DOrH HeTe' we
have the money and engineers. This
ought to be the flying nation.
This comes from Italy: "Major
de Bernardo has established new
worlds air record, 318A miles an
hour"
VIII solemn naval gentlemen that
.all flying machines "only an auxili-
ary" be good enough to tell what
:hance slow-moving ships on the sur
face would have against flock OF
lirplanes with that speed?
On the great mountain called
Nashan, in Manchuria, far up where
Iir is pure and clear, Japan. as 9
nonument to the new Emperor, will
build the greatest astronomical OBJ.
Iervatory in Asia.
That observatory, with a sixty-inct
reflector and thirty-inch refracting
elcscope, will be much noblel
monument than any rearing horse o1
rome.
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