The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1936-09-25

nylng machines, would constitute an
admirable object lesson to the rest
of the country.
And if California, in San Fran
cisco for instance, should start a
Little flock of one hundred machines,
Los Angeles could be relied upon
to hurry in with two hundred, Seat
tie and other coast cities also.
Such machines need not be a to-
tai loss.
In the first place, many young
gentlemen with rich fathers, not
knowing exactly what to do with
themselves, extremely anxious to
find work worth while, and prefer
ably dangerous, would delight in
each equipping his individual ma
chine, for the service of the Pacific
coast and of Uncle Sam, as the
mobiles in the old days delighted in
equipping each his regiment, or his
fighting ship. for the service of the
king.
Two hundred or three hundred
high powered, swift flying ma
chimes, directed by quick and coura-
geous American brains, would be
worth more to the safety of the Pa
cific coast than hundred battle
ships. For the fighters that come,
If they do come, will fly miles above
the battleships.
They would come less gaily, less
confidently, if they knew that
trained fliers awaited them.
Hideyo Noguchi, who gave his life
to fight yellow fever in Africa, will
inspire many men. He was born of
a proud, warlike race, intensely self
conferred, for 1000 years a hermit
people. The loyalty of Japanese
was to family, clan, above all to
the emperor representing his race.
The rest of the world was nothing
to him.
Born one generation after Japan
opened her doors to the world, No
guchi felt the new spirit of the
times. He was loyal to family,
clan, emperor, race; but he was
devoted chiefly to all human kind.
From boyhood to the last, through
poverty and many perils, he studied
how to wipe out disease. He dis
covered the germ of yellow fever,
developed serums to prevent the
fever or cure it, led in the work
that has driven it out of America
and will soon put an end to it
throughout the world
Yellow fever killed countless mil
lions of all peoples. Noguchi's skill
and devotion have saved the lives
of millions, too many to estimate,
most of them foreigners to whom
his forefathers would have paid no
attention, calling them hei-min, or
no-folks.
Noguchi's self-sacrifice to human
welfare sets an example that is sure
to be followed. Perhaps, III time,
most men will see that it is better
to help one another than to kill OF
even rob one another.
1t is said the Hackensack Indians
sold to the white men for so many
bars of lead, and some fnery, worth
altogether $500, land on which now
stands the entire city of Newark,
N. j., and great deal of land be-
yond.
The poor Hackensack chief, with
his $500, couldn't buy today enough
land for a tight grave at the corner
of Broad and Market streets in New
ark. Land goes up wonderfully.
Doctors at Kansas City report
that birth control information so
much discussed does little good to
the poor, and has caused an "alarm-
ing slump in child bearing among
educated families"
That is how reform works, usu-
ally. But since 90 per cent of hu-
man beings worth while come from
Door families, providence may be
working in its usual mysterious way.
Q King Features Syndicate, inc.
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