The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-11-01
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Mr.. Van Loon Says
We Build Good Planes
Ford Sees Light
WHY Pedro Jumped

Mr. Van Loon, able writer. who is
.Dutch" and proud OF 1t. doesn't want
ANYBODY to call him Netheriander,
or ANYTHING but just plain Dutch
mon"-wIshes this fact made clear.
The two Dutchmen that followed 80
CLOSELY behind the British winners OF
the 11.O00-mile air race were reaiiy
demonstrating serious flying. Ihey
did not fly any made-to-order racing
machine. They piloted regular COM
mercial plane and they carried pas
sengers, as alrplanes should do.
british avIators, interested In max
Ing flying pay for Itself, say that the
Dutch flyers American machine,
Douglas air liner, with Wright Cyclone
motors. and the United States Boeing
transport plane In which Roscoe Tur-
ner and Clyde Pangborn were trailing
for third place. are straight stock
commercial planes
The British race winner Is a bullet
like racer
This doesn't take away from the
credit of the plucky Englishmen. or
diminish In any way their marvellous
performance In cutting the flying time
from London to Australia by 100 hours
They made the flight to Darwin In o2
hours. But the race does show that
private enterprise In the United States
Is able to build useful commercial
planes.
Henry Ford, who even now pays out
hundreds OF millions a year. directly
and indirectly. for we'll paid labor,
sees flight In the darkness and says
our Santa Claus methods" of handing
out money have made softIes OF many
Americans" But. in President Roose,
vet's apparent determination to en-
courage independence and allow bust
ness men to run their own businesses,
Mr.. Ford sees great hope. He thinks
we are crawling up over the top.
Let's hope we shall see from the
summit. not too far of, punches OF
prosperity as big AS the punches OF
grapes that cheered the Israelltes
nearing the promised land.
Here Is a suicide story, brand new
Pedro Clroclto, fisherman Of the island
OF Cerralvo. found pearl weighing
100 karats, thought 1t was worth $780,,
900. When, at La Paz, Lower Call
fornia, dealers would give him only
$1,000 for his pearl. Pedro hurled his
pearl Into the ocean. jumped In after
1t, was torn to pieces by sharks
Moralists would have convinced him
| that 100000, IL he had got the money,
would have done him no good. lie did
not wait
/ President Roosevelt possesses, among
other agreeable and unusual qualities,
| that OF giving full credit to others.
Receiving an honorary degree OF doc
tor OF laws, and speaking at William
and Mary college, where Thomas JET
ferson, Patrick Henry, John Marshall
James Monroe and John Tyler were
students In the old Virginia days. the
President gave full and generous credit
to John d. Rockefeller Jr.. for his pa
triotic work in restoring to Its colonial
condition Vlrglnla's ancient city. VIII
llamsburg, "the cradle OF American
liberty"
Wherever sffere "A, trouble in the hu
man body there Is. fot far away, somt
remedy for that trouble. Surgeon,
have always dreaded perItonitIs. ,
widespread dangerous Inflammation
that sometimes accompanies surglcar
operations.
Now science has discovered that 1
certain "amniotlc fluid, always pres
ent In the collaborating period In hu
man beings and animals. supplies ,
vaccine that prevents perltonitis.
Doctors extract the amniotic fluit
from cows. use 1t on their patients. ant
have reduced from 80 per cent to pc
cent the mortality caused by peritonIti
following operations on the bowelf
This discovery will prevent man,
deaths from intestinal gunshot wound
and other typical American injuries.
Patrick Mulligan, Of New York, un
employed chauffeur, penniless, learne
lust before midnight that his wife
Cecilia. aged twenty-five, had give
birth to three boys and one girl In tn
Lincoln hospital, firsr bankruptcies Dor
In that hospital In more than 30 year,
The four babies. total weight onl
ten pounds. lived only four hours. Pei
: haps that illustrates the difference bt
! tween the life chance of babies Dor
J In the city and babies born in tn
country air. as were the still Twin
Dionne Canadian quintuplets.
; Senator Robinson of Arkansas bac
from Germany, where he saw Hitle
. md Schacht, says that discriminate
Q AGAINST the Jews Is diminishin
In Germany, the attitude Of the Ma.
T being considerably modified.
9 The reaity surprising news, whtc
! might be listed under Irony of Fate
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