The Washington times., 1933-04-10


In the air we still strangers and disaster there does
not seem entirely unnatural; it is only terrifying re-
mnder that have not conquered al the elements ana
although we may say today that the hghter-than-alr
machine is mistake and must give up all experiment
the crash is challenge to somebody's inventiveness
The Government may abandon this type of ship but
am convinced that individuals will not except temporarily
HorseIess Carriage
The idea that have made mistake not pleasant
We have believed for two generations at least that
science and invention cannot make mistakes. Few people
imagined that the motor car mistake, in the
days when it called horseless carriage and occa
sonally killed people the public highways; yet the
motor the not only of the horse but of the
railroad and the railroad represented such vast invest
ment that in the end the Government must step in to
organize and save.
Even modern sanitation may be mistake of the scien-
tsts-santaton and preventive medicine both of which
keep alive more people than can comfortably live under
our economic system. Of course, there is always
chance that it is the economic system which is wrong
A Commercial Question
The Zepp type of air machine is by this time
nomic problem than military naval one. Al
though the half dozen disasters have all been to ships
snt s serions as the problem for lines promising
regular flights for passengers The German Zepps which
London during the chose fine nights; but
the Shenandoah and the Akron both were caught in line
squalls" The weather being predictabe war alrshlp
can stay at home; but the weather is not manageable
and the demands of have to be met The dis
asters are demonstration that the Zepp type is yet
available for passengers; they do not prove that it is
not suitable for special raids in wartime. ~
So Beer Is In!
hope everybody enjoyed the advent of beer and that
my grumblings and growngs off in corner were not
loud enough to spoil the universal tun For the past
three weeks everyone mas been expert
and now if we wait few days. many will qualify as
experts headaches My reluctance to join the merry
dance has had reference to the potency and qua OF
the beer itself. It is only that the it reached us
seems to me lacking in the proper spirit
The general assumption is that beer is not intoxicating
but States which think is intoxicating can go on think
ing so and can keep beer out of their sacred confines
That is fair enough Hamlet says nothing makes you
drunk if you do not admit it make you drunk But
when the problem gets tangled with Federal laws, with
broadcastng advertisements shipping across State lines
and publishing praise of beer in national magazines it is
clear that the two hostile opinions about beer are not
going to be resolved in our time.
Back to Repeal
The single chance of intelligent settlement grows
bright with the humping maoritles for repeal IN the
first two States which voted few days ago. When the
Eighteenth Amendment is repealed shall not grouse IN
corner because the amendment is definite and honest
It releases alcoholic liquor and puts the right to be in
toxicated back in the hands of the proper authorities
that is, those who will get drunk if they want to- Al
though enthusiast for drinking, pretty cold
to Drunkenness yet honest amendment is better than
a straddle.
Tn NV earliest drinking days accompanied two stall
wart and experienced drinkers around the town. One of
them drank Whskey the other cocktails. Knowing moth
ing about the matter took beer-assumng then that
it was Intoxicating could stand it. 1t notable
fact that nv companions drted away from soaring
off into states of happiness which, beer laden as was
I could not attain But wasn't entirely sober, and
noted also that my companions than
when reported back for work the next day. Perhaps
my doubts about beer are really envy.
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