Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-07-01
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CLIPPER . giant flyers
| saw a miracle the other day. At
least. ii seemed miraculous TO me to
can clippers come into port at Mi
ami after a 7,000-mile flight from
Buenos Aires. At first a tiny speck
in the southeast sky. like a distant
bird. then gradually growing larger
until one could hear the roar OF Its
four great engines. as it circled over
the edge Of the shore to come down,
head-to-wind, on the waters OF Bis
cayne Bay.
In and out Of this, the worlds
largest International airport, 142
giant flying boats carry passengers
to and from every part OF Latin
America. Three quarters Of a mil
lion passengers have been flown
over three hundred million miles
without a single mishap. The same
company operates the trans-Pacihc
fleet of flying clippers. and l saw
the first Of the new ships which will
run on the new transatlantic SER
vice.
All these international flights are
over water. and they do no night
flying. One can get to Chile In five
days. where steamers take a month!
That's a miracle!
SIKORSKY . air travel
Back in 1913 a yonug Russian,
Igor Sikorsky, got the idea of build
ing a bigger and better airplane
than had ever been made. Nobody
had any planes then which could
carry important weight or be relied
upon for more than a few miles. ST.
korsky built a huge plane which
flew over Moscow with 70 passen-
gers.
The World War set everybody to
building speedy but dangerous mill
tary planes. Sikorsky kept his faith
in big commercial planes. He came
to America after the war and is now
the foremost designer of huge fly
ing boats. All of the clippers
came out of his Bridgeport work
shop. The newest ones, now build
ing. will be $50 feet across the
wings, and will carry sixty passen-
gers, two or three tons of freight
and a ton or more of mail at 200
miles an hour. with gas enough TO
cover $500 miles or more without
refueling.
JlNk war
The most active of all the world
markets is the trade in junk. Scrap
iron and steel is in greater demand
than ever before, and at higher
prices. In the course of the past
few weeks | have had occasion to
visit a dozen or so Of the important
Atlantic seaports, from New York
all the way down to Miami. At ev-
cry port | have seen huge piles OF
scrapped automobiles. old bridge and
building steel and every other i'm
aginable form of junk, piled up on
the wharves waiting for ships to
take it to Europe and Japan. l saw
five ships in one day loading scrap
at Delaware River ports.
The world armament race is re-
sponsible. Modern steel manufac'
ture requires a high percentage OF
scrap to make the mixture right
England, Germany, Italy, France
and Japan are building warships
and making guns sc fast they have
to import scrap from America.
NNT4rn et,fr fnr Tapon fn make
guns to shoot US with is an express
sion | have heard in almost every
port. | have no especial fear of ia
ran, but | am afraid the world is
heading for another great war and
that we will have trouble keeping
out.
SHAREHOLDERS big profits
1t is easy to generaliZe about the
pitiful plight of the southern share
cropper. but any generalization is
apt to be shot full of holes by the
facts. Doubtless many s%harecrop-
pers are in distress, but I met one
the other day on the shore Of Lake
Okeechobee who was not complain
ing.
This young farmer rented 40
acres of land on shares last winter,
to grow string beans. He agreed to
pay the owner of the land one-quar-
ter of whatever he got for his crop.
Late in May he sent the last Of his
beans to market. He walked into
the owners office and gave him q
check for $1,000! He had sold his
crop from forty acres for $6,400
Another tenant farmer, renting from
the same owner. made more thar
$4,000 this year on tulips and glad
iolus, grown in the South for thu
northern market.
MARRIAGE -. church blessing
A great deal of fuss Is being made
by some church people because
minister of the Church of England
volunteered to read the marriage
service of his church at the weddin,
of the ex-King. the Due of Wind
sor, and Mrs. Wallis Warield, thu
American divorcee. What the Rev
Mr.. Jardine did was not to MARI,
the couple, but to give the blessini
of the church to a marriage which
had already taken place, when thu
Mayor OF Monts performed the cere
mony according to French law.