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JAPAN NOT HOSTILE
Japan's attitude legarding the pr< posed maneu
vers of the American flee, in the Pacific is not an
tagonistic, accordin'; to a reported interview with
General Itami of the Japanese general staff.
“The United States is justified in holding tiie
maneuvers and Japan has no reason to object/’ said
the General, who added that despite war talk Japan
and America are growing closer together.
There is no doubt that much of the apprehen
sion of war between the two countries is occasioned
by irresponsible jingoes on both sides of the Pacific,
who, for various reasons, desire to keep up the agi
tation.
While the actual accomplishments of the con
ference for limitation of naval armaments left much
to be desired, the fact that Japan did agree, at least
ni principle, to the 5-5-3 plan would indicate that
she is not contemplating a war of aggression against
the United States.
Japan knows full well that America has no
desire to interfere with the national life or legiti
mate aspirations of that country. She also prob
ably realizes that the United States has both the
right and the power to maintain an immigration
policy in keeping with our interests.
AIR SERVICE CANNOT BE BUILT IN DAY
“We cannot improvise an air service, says Sec
retary Weeks, of the War department in his annual
report, “yet it is indispensable that we be reason
ably strong in aircraft.’’ That is true. We had
our experience in “improvisation” just after ex
Seeretary Newton D. Baker in 1917 promised to fill
the air of Europe with 10,000 fighting planes. It
was eleven months after April 6, 1917,—the day war
was declared—before an American-made plane reach
ed France, according to Secretary Weeks’ report,
and the first one, a squadron of eighteen planes,
flew over the front on August 2, 1918. Before No
vember 11, when the armistice was signed, only 628
American planes had been sent to the war front.
We did not improvise an air service then and we
cannot do so now. On July 1, 1924, the army had
988 planes, of which 686 were war-produced. The
requirement for an adequate peace-time establish
ment is 1,655, and as 80 per cent, of the army planes
now in use are of an obsolescent training type and
unsuited to combat service, unless we adopt a com
prehensive building program it will not be long be
fore our country will be defenseless in the air.
THE application of the “Flettner principle” of
the sailless sailing ship is not new, according to an
Englishman, who is preparing to claim all patent
rights in Great Britain in the invention. He as
serts that he applied for patent right for the. rotor
principle in 1915 and received them in 1917. The
invention was repeatedly offered to the British gov
ernment during the world war, it is asserted, but
the officails were too busy to examine the scheme.
Yet the principle, regradless of whether it was ap
plied first by a German or an Englishman, is as
interesting as it is simple. The rotor ship has no
sails, but two tall cylinders, which are turned on
their axes by a small motor. The action of the
wind against the rotating cylinders is said to give
a speed several times greater than that attained
by ordinary sails, while the smaller expense and the
conservation of space, which is a mighty factor on
any ship, are considerations of importance. The
practicability of the scheme, however, remains to be
definitely proved.
THE Washington Automobile club offers a re
ward of $50 for the “arrest and conviction of a hit
and-run driver.” This type of motorists is one of
the most dispicable that abuses the highways.
EDISON SAYS OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
IS INDIFFERENT.
“On an average our text books are only about 2
per cent efficient,” declares Thomas A. Edison, in
condemning current methods of teaching and the
contents of the curriculums of American public
schools. The world is finding that it needs a kind
of education that it can’t get in wholesale quantities
at so much per gross from books—and can’t apply
set rules from books,” the famous inventor continu
ed, in leading up to his suggestion of a “life prepar
atory course, under the personal direction of the
most successful men and women in our business and
professional fields.” Another broadside from the
Edison laboratory is in the declared need of moral
training for boys and girls and the “taking of the
ten commandments out of moth-balls and putting
them to work.” How far the inventor’s counsel
can becarried toward practical application is a sub
ject for controversy, yet as usual, he has shown that
he possesses a peculiar aptitude for showing up the
weaknesses of our educational system. Such a man
as Edison, a specialist and a genius, has no patience
with anything but successful results, and consequent
ly to him 2 per cent efficiency is an appalling waste
not only of money but of energy which moves the
world. One of the most interesting experimnets
conceivable would be for him to try out his theories
on education in a school laboratory, with real young
men and young women as subjects.
IRVING COBB, humorist, probably is ready
to die happy—when his time comes. The chance of
a lifetime—a humorist’s lifetime—came last week,
when he had an opportunity to express “disappoint
ment” that he was called upon to deny premature
reports of his death.
In Turkey this week a man died whose registra
tion papers showed him to be 150 years ot age. At
first glance this does not seem so very old, but when
one remembers that at this age one must have been
born in 1774, and one thinks of the events that have
transpired since that time, it is a wonderful thing.
At the time this man was born America was under
the rule of King George. There were only the ori
ginal thirteen colonies and France and Spain own
ed the greater part of America. There were no
improvements such as exist at this time, and steam
locomotion was unthought of. So much has hap
pened since the entrance of the Turkish gentleman |
into the world that it would take volumes to tell of
it. In fact practically all things worth while with
the exception ofChristianity has occurred within the
past 150 years. ,
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'S Illinois were to establish state headquarters ]
for I he National Guards and build a penitentiary at 1
Herrin it would save shifting the troops around and 1
cut down the expenses of transporting criminals.
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(Mitral Dawes appears to be as well equipped i
fo’ handling political candidates as he was in hand- ;
1 in g war equipment in France.
Humorists are commonly thought to have a wish
to write tragedies and comedians to play Hamlet and
they should be permitted to try their hands at these
things for generally there is a lot of unintended
humor in the modern novel and plenty of it in the
intepretations of Hamlet.
Some folks will be unhappy in heaven if there
is no one around whom they can look down upon.
If the gas expended over Muscle Shoals could
have been harnessed, the water power would not be
needed.
A political quack often becomes a lame duck.
Higher institutions of learning have turned out
some classy football coaches.
Excessive tidiness is said to indicate a kind of
insanity—from which most people around a news
paper office are immune.
An exchange uses considerable space to tell us
that the great auk is still extinct.
Bolshevik officials now wear evening dress, but
probably don’t have to wrestle with the bow tie.
Few voted in the recent Irish elections. It
must have been tame sport for a fighting Irishman.
G. II. Bern beat C. It. Mabey for governor of
Utah with the slogan: “We want a Dern good gov
ernor and we don’t mean Mabey.”
Five Indiana hunters paid a fine of $420 after
eating a dinner of venison killed unlawfully. The
deer was dear.
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
ONE SHOW 8:00 P. M.
Matt Moore and Madge Bellamy in
No More
Women
Also A Mermaid Comedy—
RUNNING WILD
—Dance at A. B. Hall Saturday Night—
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Some controversy has arisen in
Valdez as to the singular, plural and
nanner of spelling the name of that
>eculiar form of snowshoe or skate,
jelieved to have originated among
he Norweigians. Funk & Wagnells’s
lictionary says the singular is SKI,
he plural SKIS and the act of op
erating the instruments after you be
come proficient, SKIING. Before one
jecomes expert in their use they usu
tlly have a variety of names for
hem, the spelling of which is imma
erial.
HOUSE PASSES M'FADDEN
BILL BY GOOD MAJORITY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15.—
The House yesterday passed the Mc
Fadden bill, designed to liberalize na
tional banks, especially respecting its
branches.
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