Nogales international., 1928-02-03
MORE BATTLESHIPS.
Fl AMERICAN NATIONS:
THE FIRST AEROPLANE.
A GREAT BEAR FIGHTER
By Arthur Brisbane

The Government proposes tc
. spend $12o,OOO,O00 every year 70,
twenty years on battleships of diff
ferent kinds, including fast, neces-
sary cruisers. This means a total
investment of two billion, FIVE hun
dred and eighty million dollars in
new ships.
The country can afford it and
such a programme will impress
other countries.
We could also afford flying ma
chimes to protect those fighting ships,
which, in modern war, without flying
machine protection, would be as help
less as sheep among wolves, without
shepherds or sheep dogs,
One hundred and four delegates,
representing twenty-one nations of
North and South America, including
the United States, are gathered in
great conference hall in Havana.
Those twenty-one nations are the
greatest power for peace in the world,
also the greatest power for war. They
stick together.
Canada, without relinquishment of
loyalty to the British Empire, should
be leader in that conference. Can
ada's interests are in these American
continents, their independence and
their future.
FL Impartial and other newspapers
in Spain are displeased with Presi-
dent Coolidge's warm reception in
Cuba, natural because this country
took Cuba from Spain and gave the
beautiful island to the Cuban people
El ImbGrciaI says this country. has
reserved rights in Cuba. It has re-
served only one, the right ito inter-
vene for the preservation of Cuban
independence" We not only made
Cuba independent, but guarantee that
she shall remain SO.
The original Wright brothers air
nacAine, first plane that ever carried
a human being through the air under
human control, is boxed up for ship
ment to England. 1t ought to stay
here in the Smithsonian Institution.
The Srlitheouian Institution she Nii
have Lindbergh's trans Atlantic
plane also, and the Government
should pay Lindbergh enough for il
to make him independent for life.
If Lindbergh got 100000 for that
machine, he would get less than one
per cent of what this country owes
him. The Spirit of St. Louis, despite
ali Lindbergh's good care, must be
getting old and worn, and a brand
new machine, best and safest the
world can produces, should take its
place.
Human beings as . whole. like
!. individuals, do only ONE thing real
Fly we'll The work of the human race
today is scientific and industrial, max
ing new discoveries IN science, apply
ing them to mans material welfare.
Today scientific workers are like
builders installing plumbing, heating
and other conveniences in a big
building; later families move in and
live comfortably.
After few years, or centuries, of
industrial, scientific development, this
nation will move into the finished
structure and find for amusement
something better than bootleg whis-
key, crime waves, prize fights and
struggling to get more money than it
needs.
Uzcudun, Basque imported from
the Pyrenees for prize fighting, as
they used to import fairhaired North
erners for gladiator fights in Rome,
walks all over Ed Kelley, of Boston,
batters him into submission in two
minutes and fifty seconds" Rather
come down for Uzcudun, playing
hired thug. His ancestors used to
harpoon whales in the rough Atlantic,
off the west coast of France, two
thousand years ago.
Anthony Rousch Mills is dead, age
seventy-seven, at Sundance, Wyom-
Ing anu IS pTODdDly III heaven now
talking with Lahire, that famous
French bear fighter of centuries ago.
Thirty-eight years ago Mills, turn
ing sharp corner in the Black Hills,
came face to face with silver tipped
grizzly that knocked his gun out of
't{his hand, bit off his nose, seized him
by the calf of the leg and dragged
him along the trial Rousch pulled
his knife, stopped the bears flight by
holding on to tree, and cutting its
jugular vein, killed the bear.
It was good bear fight.
Old Lahires fight is made mem
orable by this first prayer that Lahire
had ever uttered: Lord I do not ask
you to help Lahire, I only ask you
not to help this bear" The prayee