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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1927-09-15, Page 6X67 f 260;000: S• ecords., Do Stine—Fr e ,7ary to Reconquc "09sed I�' eoII;J Pay.? • (JA`lION ASINiINITY C1c aria: Alrea'. Advertiselory, But Aviators Pay the Price ' The mental anguish -caused by the large hire barnstaranIng tour to include "'delay nod, silence .concerning the SSt..every city of 60,000 or Moro in the. Raphael with the intrepid 62 -year -oil United S(aLes. Ile has been barn - Princess Lowenstein aboard' and her storming under the Guggenheim noun= ,wo pilots beings' up the goestien do dation for more' than a month. Lf he, theso stunts pay? Otir own Canadianis-to finish his:, original assignment of planes Co doubt. will soon take off af- seventy-six cities; he most steep on ter their delay with more an.:1ety and barnstorming two months more. nothing but some cheap publicity. Meantime cities not included in 'the gained. it is interesting to review original itinerary are bringing every Get t the public opinion expressed in vart- imaginable pressure to bear to induce dos quarters on this ti;nely topic, him to include 'them, •Norfolk Our:Own ma,. "' among this number. ..Is there no It is always easy to g'e't :venture - the mercy left forthis boy who captured the nation's heart, but' who seems to some people -to take a chance on their have addled its souse of :proportion' life to gain money or noidefy.F The Lindbergh is tired. The young face iirdinary atthfncd suicide is always is developing-:tl'eep lines of fatigue. attended with hicareoration. So why His shoulders are .beginning to show should not Canada immediately pass a characteristic "sag,. The daily' re - legislation malting it cotaisCry. to captions Weary him. 'The daily apply for permission to "tapee off" on speeches bore him, the formal dinners a venturesome air dight, and whet+e advertising or • notoriety is the only appal ,him, He liars poen `ori exhibi=. thing to be gained prohibit the flight? The venturesome and -,:pioneer isa 'valuaille adjunct to; a nation's wolfare; so' direct- these,•,6haractaristic>:` into channels- which will be '-profitable` rather than sacrifice geed lives for foolish publicity: Is, It Worth l3? 21 ie interesting to read editorials on recent aviation stunts. . Tinder the heading "Dole Derby hindsight," the Norfolk (U.S.) Vir- in his boyish anxiety not to, disaP- glnian-Pilot sums up the case in its-poifft some `provincial commttte ' in Issue of -August 23 as follows: high hate, how the country's wrath 'The' first transoceanic air racein would again'be leaped on those who history,' on the basis of present Infor•- encouraged this fine young aviator to` risk his bones to provide seventy-six cities:' with a great holiday,! Hind- sight, but no foresight and no mercy!" "Adventu're hes ,runtoo far ahead of science," says Walter 7, „Kendrick, a Canadian ' airplane designer, just back from a study of aviation in Eur- ope. "The simple fact is that airplane design has not yet reached a ,point where gasoline will sustain -a plaue on a flight of 2,000 or 3,000 miles with any degree of safety." Carl Wolfley, Vice -President of the National Aare - nautical Association, in a telegram to the Department of Commerce,- ex- presses spresses the opinion•titat racing across tion' ever 'since "tato hour he Ianded at Le Bourget. He is entitled to a rest. His bountryrrren wont give it to him.. Wh"en'tlfe Siienandoah:''erashed on' September' 3,•'1926,- carrying to death Commander • Lansdowne and thirteen of his'crew, the ship " was -barnstorm+ ing the Mid -Western State -fairs, Plow, the country heaped its • wrath on the Government for risking a great ship and a great flyer in a barestorming expedition! Should Lindbergh crash nation, figures: up as follows; "Foer racers alive' and victorious. - "Three racers 'killed in the prelim- Ineries, 'Five racers missing ;for nearly a week and presumably dead. "Two rescuers missing four days and iirobably dead. "Value of prizes won, $35,000. "Cost of race 111money value of ma- chines -lost, preparation for flights, ete., more than $300,000. "17eefuI contribution to aeronautics, zero. "The last e-ntryis susceptible of one tragic qualification. The Dole race has made this contribution to aero. oceans for prize money et the present natttles-it has made it plain that stage. of aeronautical development can transoceanic, air races, unless guard- only - jeopardize . further progress— ed by the strictest: preparation. re- quirements, are " criminally wasteful of buinan life. 'By this wisdom the country arrives as usual, by hindsight. Thera is no 'room:' anywhere' for self-righteousness. No warning vole° was raised while, tilero was yet time, For days the en- tries had beexi docking to the Oak- land airport, The ruling out of some entries as clearly unprepared, the fatal Crashing of . other entries, the; mad scramble of others to make a suf- flciently impressive showing to pass the minimum tests and get onthe starting -line --all 02 these signs point- ed to impending tragedy, but every- • body was silent on these signs of dam, ger. The taik was all of the rase— the money prizes—the glory to be won -the thrill of it all. . "Now there aro plenty of voices to point out that the Dole` race was a great mistake—that the prize money. and theater). dazzled ninny of the eon- . testants into a disregard for their own safety, that the planes' were 'Dice -up' affairs designed for land cruising and not for cross-ceau racing, that they were hastily and imperfectly remodel' /ad, that they were, for the most part, Pat. subjected to., full -load tests; in Short, that the most exacting of ag- ing enterprises wan organized and managed•,in the spirit of the Bounty fair -ballyhoo and in the presence of a national audience resembling, do its naive hunger for thrills ' and in, its• criminal Indifference to cons-egtlences, the crowds that assemble to witness the performance of prehensile acro- bats who climb the ,perpendicular walls of tall' buildings." While hindsight thus warns us with its tepid wisdom,, and the country's conscience - is heavy over the lives eeediassly lost in the Pacifica The Vir- gintan-Pilot goes on to remark: "What do we see in the case of Lindbergh? We see a complete and that:real l>iogrese in. long-distance fly - Mg can be promoted without courting tragedy over oceans, , 'Such an orgy of reckless seeriiice must never be permitted again in this country," declares the PhiladeIpbia Inquirer "transatlantic flights should be restricted to planes which are spa. Wally equipped for landing oh tine sea surface." "Where failure'is almost certain and where nothing is gained for civilization," the Mobile Register brinks, "contests of this sort are a mockery." After recounting the ef- forts made: by the newly funned divi- sion of Aeronautics in the Department' of Commerce to obtain safer condi- tions for the Dole Contestants before they started, the Philadelphia Public Ledger concludes "There was no legal way by which this race could be stopped; no official power by which the flight could he prohibited. Authority stood heiplesh- fin the Oakland flying -field and watch- ed the doomed planes by into the face of disaster, The Department of Com- merce can suggest, urge, plead, and propose, but it can not enforce safety upon the recklessly brave. "It will be a bed thing; to force re- gulation upon the courageous.: It may be that had there been regula- tion Lindbergh .would never have flown to glory: Some of the more splendid chapters of aviation' might never have been written had Authori- ty stood by whentheywere begun. "Nevertheless, ten lives gone in a single effort 1$ a tremendous price to pay for- a flight oculi ad i c little or nothing to the advance of flying, This can not go on. The flyers must be protected from 'their own adven- turons and danger -loving selves. :If regulationis the only answer, then re-. gulation must come." Extreme measures/even in the way of control, are opposed by a few, in. amazing indifference to his safety and eluding Assistant Secretary of Com-' a cruel, insensate demand that he en- merco Wiiliaili P. MacCracken, Ir., Defends ".Pro."'Sculling Title MAJOR GOODSELL BEATS 'BERT' BARRY :8Y' 10 LENGTHS The race for the professional single sculling championship of the would which was held at Vancouver recently over iho Port Moody course in the Islet was wort easily byahe defending champion,'Major Goodsell, Australia, who defeated .his opponent, Bort Barry of England, by 10..longths in 24 minutes and 13 eeconde for the three mules, Goodsell led all the. way. after the first quarter of a mfte:and was much Imperial, to Barry in every 'way. Professional'sculling is 'at a low ebb: on'tlris-eontinent and, there is little chance Por Goodsellto got any more matches,' • LABOR DAY SAW MORE THAN ' A QUARTER OF A MILLJON ATTENDANCE Tho record attendance at the Canadian National Exhibition. was on Labor Day, over 260,000 people entered the -gates. In excess of 20,000 cars were parked• on the grounds and over 75,000 in and about the:grounde.. The 'plc +tura shows the Midway going hili blast, A GHASTLY TOLL OF LIFE FOR NO NIATERIAL GAIN (Twenty-three Lives Lost in Useless Effort to Establish Records of Little Use When Established �l -1,: TIME TO CALL HALT ' 'ix.''' Soviet and Socialist Republics- For jthe present, the attitude of London is May 5, -'1927, Captain Saint Roman~ August. 25, 1927,Paul Redfern left that of Washington, one of oiiicial nen-atop r e . Georgia fara instance flight nondntercou se. ,. ,- one Yr matte footing ,• and refraining from breaking off relations; partly in the hbpe that trade might foilow, and partly from the apprehension tdrat' a rupture with the Soviets would upset the political equilibrium of Europe, Great Britain, lie said, has now "come back, to the policy which you 1n'Wash ington adopted toward the Union of and Commander MFrench. aviators: left Senegal, Africa `for Per- to Brazil an the-monoplane;,,Porbgf_i There is no objection to private. l � , nambuco, Brazil, in a Goliath biplane.' They were reported to have been sighted 200 miles off Brazilian coast, but this was never confirmed, and they made the first toll of the year. MIaY 3 1927 Captain Charles M. Brunewrck- Word has sinee,been ren trade proceeding with Russia,' the Liberia on the west coast of Africa, calved that Redfern wan seen on Aug. speaker continued, and .above alt, the State Department announced re - 26th near the Guiana coast A search Great Britain intender to lead no bloc centiy, making known. that it has ex - for him is under way. l e has not of European powers against the changed greetings with Foreign Minis - yet been -given up for lost. - Soviets. great Britain to even will-- -ter Barclay, G. F, Ga de of Paterson, August 31; 1927, Capt. Leslie Ham- ing, he said, for. the Russians to keep N.Y., an amateur radio operator, pick-.ilton and Lieut -Col.. F. P. Minchin, in operation the British -chartered ed up the `Liberian -message and after Nun ser and'Ca Captain Francois Coli .aviators, .with Princess Lowenstein- company called. Areos. oommutticating It to the State Depart- 6 P Wertheim es passenger, Depart - left Le Bourget, Frantz, for New 'York left Upavon, I Sir •Ar thug attributed the break to ment, ;sent Nine Anzet3can ropLy of n Cion biplane, White England, for Ottawa, in the mono- Soviet propaganda in Britain revealed greeting. He notified the Depart- tn. the mo om P lane Saint Raphael Theyhave not in financial antennae sent the strik- •n t nun catf had Bird: It was. reported that they were P F mat that is sem i on d been sighted over Newfoundland' on May been heard of since. they passed over miners,. t Russia's attitude in the acknowledged. According to the State Department,. Liberia has been engaged .in estab- lishing a short wave wireless station Amateur Gets hr adio Message Prom Liberia Notifies State Department and Sends Back Its Greeting to Africa WPasliington-Direct• radio oomnruni- cationi has' been established between eh e tinged States and the Re bile cf /Ott Fil^3tls "spark • nr ()is: : ! )cic tier 1=liesIa; '0,W a •1-116 I Otirie tsI A vzeriatlon of an old game in ri aloin guiso and additional evidence support. ing. the lata :Ni, Barnum's @eutetitiorl —"there's one horn every mltnite"— Las ccine to light on tho;lMontrea1-Quo.' • bee bighiyaY,-, A. young -man dressed in thefatlgue uniform of a farm hand driVos up and down the highway in a,ssoall cheap' car. When he approaches a point whore a tourist alight atop or slackens speed, the young man managing tcs manoeuvre his ear in front of the tour"ist stops suddenly, pimps' out of the ear and makes the gesture of )rickiirb up hOkUOthIng' from' the road. ;Then he holds a ring with a glistening (stone up before the tourist, who is humanly curious, • '`See what ' I found?" -says, tho psuedo son of the 9, but no trace of -them has ever been Inveran, Galway, at 12.10 p.m., Aug. general stri e, and to Ruse an pro• found, though weeks were spent in 21st, , Undouhtodly'they have gone paganda carried on in Chlna, futile search and tracing every rue to the port of missing planes. I Bolshevist Part In China. mor. September 6,1927,The "Old`Glor a, Sir Arthur •apparently took issue for seine time. The `receipt of the p a with previous statements at the insti- message was taken to indicate that its August 17, 1927; Jahn W. Frost, with Lloyd: Beitaud and J. D. Hill as pilot and .Gordon Scott, navigator, co-pilets and carrying. Philip A. auto bt' Dr. Harold S. Quigley, mgproject waS in eucceseful operation. left a Oakland 'Calif, for Hawaii inI Payne, managing editor of the New ,versity of Mmuesota,. and formerly The Department of 'Commerce an - ''York DailyMirror, left Old Orchard,; connected with Tsing Hua College, bounced -that, -telephone: service' be - /axe airplane, Goid� Eagle. J. A. Ped_j lar pilot Lieut. V. D. lCnn e of Un-' Melte, bound for Rome. Never heard Pelting, that the cry of Bolshevism in tween the 'united States' and Boig:uni. 'ted States havy, Miss Mildred, after sending SOS from point 509 China is raised .by interested Parties ited r favoring Western intervention. Doran; as passenger, left Oakland, males east of Newfoundland at 4 30 1 Calif., for Hawaii in the Buhl air- plane, Miss Doran, The 'search for the above started immediately.. August 19, Captain Williarn'Edwin, pilot; A. H. Eichwald, navigator, and a radio operator, in, the monoplane, The Dallas Spirit, left' Oakland to search for the missing planes, Miss. Doran and Golden Eagle. About 603 nautical miles out they put an SOS would be opened within 30 days, Since the establishmt"enof telephone ser- a.m. on morning of September 7th. chest t s point Arthur said Sir , vice' between Great 'Britain ani the it tains Tu]I .and . Then came. the Bolshevist campaign United States, the .-Belgian Govern. Sept 1, 1927, Captains Y against. ir8 in China, All through the f moat has followed thocrlevelopment of Medcalf, flying a Detroit -built mono- southern (Nationalist) advances and transatlantic telephone service with plane the Sir John Carling, left liar, successes last winter 14loscn}v was agreement has react" -interest. ` An bo la Newfoundland, a g r G Cefor Ory continually gloating and boasting over been concluded with tate British tele- don, England. They, too, it feared, its share. of mobilizing the Chinese I. phone om ani ation-, between Bel- h•ave flown into the great unknown. ,its for'the discomfiture of oho e c m c September Sth: Word comes from British im erlalism," glum and She Hinted States over the Rangoon that the "Ileaunel the World" P Britlah•Americari linos:. i The opposite view taken of this { i�*o information is avall9ble yet as fliers, Brock.andSchiller, are,reparted - S issue byDr, Quigley' was ex- ! missing in their monoplane, Pride of me e E; Y ttr kin ,to the cost of such seti1-at .but'the pressed in hie statement at c g department ant1 ,. its that rates will call on the air -and have not been. Detroit. Some hope is held out for possible intervention In China, In I probably be In the nslghborhood of heard of since, though 450,000. square the,n, though it is feared that out- 'which lie Said, in Part: "The'princi- el iaa francs er minute ahoiit mild of the ocean was combed by the raged nature In the form of complete g p pal cry for ,intervention :comes from"$1521)13 with a minlmtim •at three mttt- U.S. navy, and over $475,000 was etdraustion, has claimed her toll. the foreign business communities in utas. 'Communications will bo rade spent in this hopeless task. I Surely time to call a halt. ' the parts of Shanghai and Tiensin from any point iu Belgium from Brus. h b r i g their* pros - Robin P 8 el from where the a s s s, Message whose in the Government's supervisor of, civil aviation. In an interview with Thos. L Stokes, of the. United Press, Mr. MacCracken said: . "The Hawaiian /fight is not nearly so. bad as the fatal accidents caused by .inexperienced aviators flying in this, country without licenses. This latter must be stopped. Personally, I think the race element is somewhat of a drawback when a certain time is set, and 'several planes gather for a contest on a. difficult flight. ,The best way Is to have ,some private individ- oat back pioneering flights, so that °Very precaution may be taken.. And' plegty of ti'mg should ;b ± allowed '11 •ptpbabIy ds safer to ?rave fhe Army. and Navy'do our air pioir.eering:. On the other hand, under private sup- ervision commercial aviators cap give a good account of themselves, as Lindberglt and Chamberlin did: ` DVen , in Army and Navy pioneering, though, I there is loss of life despite everything that can be• done,. andahe fact must be recognized. "I deeply regret the loss of, life in the Dole tfigitt. I would not stop flights that are reasonable and prac- ticable, but I would see that they are carefully regulated."' There is a certain foolishness in the excited outcry of the moment against stunt flying, the New York Herald Tribune contends,' just as there was a certain foolishness in the men Who wanted to hop off for Hawaii without enough gasoline or even intelligent preparation. ' We read further: "Ono automatically begins to el:- claim x claim that there ought' to be,;'a law,; until one'` stops with the reflection that it wouldbe'a poorer world if a man. were not allawed. to hazard his life and every one were made a cow- ard by legislative enactment. . The motto 'Better be safe than sorry,' thorjgh a sound workaday rule, is not a; noble principle for extraordinary oc- casions. Anicious publics pray -for the rescue of .these aviators only because they took, the risk- of not being res- cued. If they, had not been permitted to take the rink, it would have,mattor, d to-fow Whether they lived ea ale]. This is not cynicism. Were the emo- tions and the risks of adventure to be elintinatod, men and women would approach ,the status of automatons. The reckless way of man belongs with his ,finest side:' England and Russia e s, sae n e osh nose C i ear- pect steadily dwindling as the Chinesetied to London over the Brusseis- learn their' methods, are .prone to Ghent-Lapanne-Loncion route and from make use of the opportunity now pre- London to the United States by trans- sented to make Bolshevism their ral- atlantic wireless telephone. lying cry to ra disastrous policy of in- tervention;' "Russia Is still eeonomieally and socially a medieval country," Sir .Ar- thur concluded. "She caa • probably ,exist for Years in a state of chaos British Amit,,, for I�-t891a'whieh'for,,our 'countries would spell gttcic ruin. I cannot indeed help Awaits Curb On. Pro- feeling that modally during the ear- paganda ly days: of the -Bolshevist regime we wore all misled by the tempting paint- -Wtoa Conditions lel tietweea it and the French Revolit•` uponilliamswhiclr...GreatwnBt•Masitain will.:resumo• ,Edon:, .holshovisi3t,.'`,St u.,od;to be ern tolMiens 'with Itu-ssfa? }vete Iafd down dlry ed, Was a passing phase • It " by Sir Artlrtir. Wilbert Head'of--the, would soon burn itself oat, just as'thi press "division in the British Foreign French terror burnt ltself out.' • - Office, -in .itis concluding address be- lore the Institute of 'Politics, "Russia, Wireless Telephone service he said, must •cease Ctimmunidtic- pro- paganrka abroad, and make some re --To .loin Belgi isn anti America cognition of its debts. Then and then 1- Washington. --Telephone service be.,` only_will England consent to re -tie the tween the United Statue and Belgium broken thread of diplomatic inter, 'Is expected to be inaugurated within a course. - Imonth, the Department of Commerce "I think I am 'safe in -saying that we aas been advised. Since the- estab- are willing to enter into official r•ela- lishment;of telephone service between tions with Russia .;gain," Sir Arthur 'Great Britain and the 'Milted States said, "as soon es the Government_the Belgian Government has followed. chooses to, behave- toward us' as one the development of• transatlantica,teie- civilizod,',government should behave phone service with great interest. toward another." • , .An agreement has been ccincluded, Great Britain has no intention of recently with the British teleplione interfering with the practice of Com -.4 service which will allow telephone monism within Russla, but It wants, i communication between, Belgium and he said the same hands-off •poli& ,tn- ; the 'United Stator-, oyer, the British- ward its' own internal policy from the.'lAmerican lines. Soviets. When Russia Is Ready. "When it isready to make that con- cession to inteenationl 'comity tee snail, I imagine, be willing lo deal with Moscow again, though of, course, to.'snake our relationship fruitful the- Itussian Government must also recog n iezin',priueiple, at any rate; its lia- bility for the debts which Russia owes abroad. For only so can Russia re-es- tallialsh cr-editrad abroad and finance lion fer" Though stockings are always pm,.gn e„ After df ` of tin six-year - rot- chased 'la airs till seldom run in a sap n g Y is of Calan th ussie:en: dl to Rates will probably bo in the neigh- borhood. .52 eighborhood..52 600' Belgian :francs ' per. Minute (about $20), with a minimum. of three lninutee. Communicatioxi:s ` will be possible froth : any point •in•I3olgium with Brus- sels, from whore the message will be carried to London elver the Brussels- Ghent -La Panne -London, route, and front' to the' United ,States by transatlantic wit•eleee telephoto. -- N. 'I'. Times. Up with tai' windy, Here comes "Lindy." That's a fine ring, You're lucky," comments the tourist. Then the mau in the overalls re. marks: thoughtfully—"les no use -to me --I have no women folke. I'd sell it, Perhaps you would' like' to buy it." The tourist; who' ten`clances to` one is not a gent •expert; thinks; "hete'e e chance to'picli up a diamond 'cheat), and the-persort'who ids t:it will never '• know:I have,it," Heoffersiivo dol- lars for the ring. "Well,• if it .is gi diamond; mister, itee probably worth $409.' or $500. r think ,you might give me'$10 for it," urges the simple farmer's boy. "All right—here's ten." , The' deal is closed, Tho .tourist chuckles over the tate stroke of 'bust - 1182S which•lxe'has done with gome- body's hired man. die tourist ar- rives in Montreal and asks • a reliable jeweller to •valiio the "stone." "The stone.aud the gold are worth not more than• two dollars.," the jeweller, announces. "tow much did you 'pay for it." The tourist wile sometimes nes- ,805591 a, sense of humor, may admire the ingenuity of this little-scheme•;te • earn a livelihood. 'Suppose, the 'farmer' found- pnr chasers for ten rings daily, he :would have a •protlt of $80, -which is much bettermoneytleo1n is paid in the west- ern harvest fields,", tate: tourist muses: "I cannot .register any , official kick because my own share fp the deal was hot above criticism." • However, a tourist from Philadel- phia who refused to tell his namti for obvious reasons, has reported the ac- tivities Of this unligensed "diaisiaed" vendor (o the Mentreal-Tourle:- and Convention Bureau. Tine-Philadolphia man upon goiug'to a local hotel had related the .Incident- as -a joke upon himselt to a friend from Neu; York wham. he had met iu the hotel -rotunda. "The same thing happened to me yes- terday on. the Montreal•Q`iebec. High - wee," the New York man confessed. The authorities cannot d6 much about the matter. It -smart buslnese men want to puraha,_•e, "gems" from total strangers on public' highways there is nothing te,paevent thehs from doing so. Robin Hood of B lrltna taught;. Immune" • to Sword and Bullet • Rangoon. San ripe, called the. Robin Hood of Burma, 'Credited by the, natives with supernatural powers bet declared by. the police �to be .t homi- cidal maniac guilty of fourteen out- rages, finally has been arrested after: an' arduous, . prolonged search of tate jungles. The Burmese; people at the district which San Hee lived believed he lead the power to become invisible and defy sword tete and rifle bullets. This bellof Induced "Many young men to join his Deceit gangs ;and Caused much unrest among the many whom he induced to be tattooed,' in the be- lief that they would become invisible. To ShiAntelope 'Antelp To 'Texas Banker Hat, Alta.—The hi- Medicine I A The first fillip - ' moat of antelope from Canada to the United States will be shade at an ear- 1 ly date, Charles Blazer, rancher at Lake Newell, announced recently. Iia o V has'e 'contracted to deliVer 22 head of antelope tc a Texas banker:: _ estaV• AN OLD CAB'. ANSI A YOUNG CRUSADER, Aboveis sho. vn' Ve dclyiarling, aged ,2,.daughter of Goxd n Darling, North Bay, ono 'of, the ,northern ,hos t invade Toronto b motor, Her ,host o t y , father` is holdingoWI her. Bpl xv .ia: shown the "South Porcupine.deet,",, ancient but hot yet decrepit flivver which carried three members of the northern crueado front South Porcupine to Toronto. -