Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-12-14
This Week
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
When Men Are Lynched
A Trial Honeymoon
Prohibition Is Dead
F1vinp Ia Cheap
Flying Is Cheap

tne EaSI nave expelieu IOVeTnoI iAolph
of California from their national adj
visory board because he. too hastily,
approved the lynehing of two kidnap-
ers at San Jose. Calf.
1t should be remembered that what
a man thinks, not what he says, tells
what he is.
Tens of millions In this country
thought what Governor Rolph said. al
though their second thought may have
modified their first, which was THANK
God those kidnapers are dead"
Governor Rolph said what he should
not have said. occupying high office,
but he said what at least 98 per cent
OF those that voted for him thought
when they first heard of the lynching.
Fih D'Orsay and Maurice Hi1l tper-
haps you know who they are, the
writer does not know were married
''as a climax to the first trial honey
moon on record
1t was not actually the first trial
honeymoon ON record-the first n
was the Adam and Eve trial. In the
Garden OF Eden. That did not work
out well, but you can blame nobody
but the snake. Adam and Eve did not
choose each other.
No honeymoon or marriage expert
ment" can be expected to work out
we'll, for 1t always indicates doubt In
one or both and that is enough to
spoil the experiment at the start. The
least a bride can expect Is that her
husband shall believe her to be the
only ON earth, as Eve was.
Prohibition, mother of bootlegging
and the worlds highest crime wave, is
dead.
B~ootlegging and crime, unfortunate
1y, are not dead, and there Is no GER
taInty that crimes annual cost to this
country OF thirteen thousand million
dollars will not go Oh.
All depends on good Judgment In
liquor taxation, and on police, judicial
and general official integrity and en-
ergy.
IT liquors are taxed too highly, Eu-
rope and Canada, sending In whisky
free of home taxation, will offer to
crime all the bootleg profit 1t needs.
And II distribution is %hampered, In
the prohibition spirit, ~speakeasies will
continue to flourish. 1t has been wisely
said that II you hamper decent drink
Ing In decent places there will be in
decent drinking In indecent places.
1t is not yet realized that flying liz
inexpensive. While saving precious
time, 1t costs no more for gas or oil
than automobiling. Ben Smith of New
York, after having made a few more
millions In Wall Street, wisely selects
gold mines for his business. He selects
the right kind of gold mine, not the
kind offered you by mail as. "the oppor-
tunity Of your life."
Mr.. Smith, stopping here on his way
via San Francisco and Seattle to Brit
ish Columbia, where he has d nice
mine, urged:
Come on; you will be up there In
nine hours, and / will show you, on
the Fraser river, absolutely the most
beautiful country In the world"
Mr.. Smith declares that flying costs
him less than travel by automobile,
which costs less than travel by rail-
England, at last, Is fully awake to
the Importance Of air fighting. When
will this country wake up? After our
first major bombardment, perhapsl
The British warn Germany against
repeating the mistake made when Ger
many started building surface ships La
competition with England. The kaiser
and his great admiral decided to upset
that britannia rules the waves" song.
And soon there was nc kaiser, and the
German grand fleet was lying on the
bottom OF Scapa Flow.
Now England warns Germany.
ssDon't try to do In the air, against us,
what you tried to do on the water,
with your feeble kaiser and your able
Won Tirpitz."
And England means 1t and acts az
the thorough British do when they
meal anything. France has an air
feet OF more than four thousand ships.
England demands an air fighting fleet
of ten thousand planes Of all classes,
from the swiftest pursuit planes to the
heaviest bombing planes and air trans
port ships, to carry soldiers.
And, furthermore, the British gov
eminent suggests, urgently, that impor-
tant British cities supply their own air
defense, the swift combat flyers to
drive Off any invasion, bringing bombs
and poison gas.
Years ago, In this column, 1t was
suggested to states facing Asia on this
coast-California, Oregon and Wash
ington--that they provide their own
air militia, on a big scale II airships
come across the Pacific through the