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HATS OFF TO LT. BYRD
The sporting element appealed strongly
to Lieutenant Byrd in his flight to the Pole
but he was also deeply interested in proving
that the airplane could do the job. He want
ed to accomplish the feat for the prestige of
aircraft. He was firmly convinced that if
he was successful in making flights from
Spitzbergen to Peary Land and over the un
explored areas, much good would result
from the consequent awakening of the pub
lic to the vast possibilities of the airplane.
Two worlds, the old and the new,
watched intently the endeavor to blaze a
trail between them, the trail which leads
over the North Pole. The fastnesses sur
rounding the Arctic-is now assailed from
two expeditions—Wilkins at Barrow and
Amundsen at Kings Bay. Lieut. Byrd has
successfully completed his job.
The last of the world’s geographical
mysteries may not be a mystery much long
er. Then again it may. The Pole takes
much conquering.
Since the Charleston dancers visited Se
al’d all the kiddies of town have been prac
ticing the intricate steps. It is now a com
mon sight to be walking along the street
and see children swinging a fast Charleston
hoof as they wend their way home- And in
the home the house quivers on its founda
tion from the violent exertions of Charles
ton exponents.
Poo Bah McCarl rules that the Coast
Guardi rum fleet airplanes must go with
out overcoats until they are provided. When
Congress intends to say a thing it must
learn how to use the English language tc
get by this strict grammarian.
WHY NOT?
Senator Nye’s suggestion that the far
mers be given 62.years to pay their obliga
tions to the government at the same rates oi
interest involved in the settlement of the
European war debts doubtless will be hailec
as a master stroke of Hamiltonian genius
in theprairie dog villages of the Dakotas.
Following the breakdown last week oj
the plane Alaskan, Wilkins was crowdec
from out the headlines by the dirigible
Norge. Now comes the successful Byre
flight to the Pole which crowds Wilkins in
to a.small box announcement, but still or
the front page. Now page Amundsen.
The ambition owl that flew into th<
President’s bedroom the other night anc
spent several minutes on the mantel prob
ably wanted to learn how to look wise.
Rev. Clarence True Wilson advocate;
a prison term for first offenders who bm
licker. As Jack Cade said when he set him
self up to be King: “I will make it felony t<
drink small beer.”
A New York legislator refutes the stor
of Nero’s fiddling while Rome burned b;
reminding us that the violin was not in
vented until about fifteen centuries afte
that big fire.
NATIONAL PARKS
Bills have been introduced in both hous
es of Congress to create three new national
parks—the Shenandoah national park in
Virginia, the Great Smoky. Mountain na
tional park in North Carolina and Tennes
see, and the Mammoth Cave national park
in Kentucky. The bills provide that the
United States shall not appropriate money
for the purchase of any of these lands, but
that they shall be obtained through public
or private donation.
There are now nineteen national pants
established by congressional legislation. All
but one of these national parks are function
ing with service representatives on the
ground. In 1925 more than 1,760,000 people
visited these parks, and more than 368,000
automobiles entered them. During 1925
the total revenue from these parks amount
ed to mor<? than $570,900. The sources of
revenue were automobiles, hotels, transpor
tation, stores, grazing and miscellaneous,
i Two parks brought in more than the amount
appropriated by Congress, two matched it
and one produced about one-half of the ap
propriation. These national parks com
prise more than 2,000,000 square miles.
The Boston man who killed a loco os
i trich standing eight feet high and weighing
200 pounds, with his bare hands in a battle
to the death, doubtless owes his life to the
fact that he had gone into the camel house
)how appropriate!) to sleep off a small jag
The extraordinary things that a man is in
spired to do by “Dutch courage” appal him
when he sobers up.
When a California man ejected his
wife from the family automobile because
she insisted on directing his driving from
the back seat, Judge Ray Griffith of Red
wood City upheld the husband. This will no
doubt be welcome news to many martyrs of
i the steering wheel.
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Students of the Ecole des Beax-Arts in
Paris recently became dissatisfied because
of the homeliness of the women, who mthe
school employed as models, so they put up a
ghastly trick. When an unusually unat
tractive lady posed for their sketching, each
student drew the picture of a camel and
turned it in to the instructor. Faculty and
the lady were mad.
Averaging about 160 miles an hour, or
two and two-thirds miles a minute, a mail
airplane covered the 726 miles between Chi
cago and New York in 4 hours and 35 min
utes actual flying time. A few years ago
such a feat would have made big news; now
it is just a part of the day’s work.
Grover Cleveland was eulogized at a big
memorial meeting held in New York on the
89th anniversary of his birth. Like Bryan,
Cleveland was thrice the Democratic can
didate for the presidency; but unlike Bryan,
1 he was elected twice
There’s a suspicion that Mussolini isn’t
; half so concerned about making the Medit
erranean an Italian lake as he is about mak
ing the Adriatic an Italian pond.
[ What will these uniforms that the Vir
i ginia prohibition enforcement agents will
[ have to wear be made out of—red flannel?
l A page in the U. S. Senate has sold his
diary to a magazine for $600. That’s a gooc
price—$600 per page.
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1 Yesterday is no longer yours; tomorrow
- is a question mark; today is all you have tc
work with.
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Your first ad probably won’t set the work
afire, but it’ll start something.
) The cheapest ingredient of good business
is the most profitable—courtesy.
j The name Byrd is synonymous to the
j American eagle in that it personifies action
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The wets now await the onslaught o:
the drys with—so to speak—baited breath.
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