Today
Concentration, Personality.
Happiness, Prosperity.
May We Have All Four.
Some Air News.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
If an angel sent all the wav
down to do a favor as the New
Year begins, offered you any two
qualities which two would you se
lect, leaving out high moral quali
ty that you doubtless possess al
ready?
Concentration and personality
are the two qualities most desir
able in the opinion of this writer,
and of others more important.
Personality is largely nereditary,
Ihe power of concentration also.
But power of concentration can be
developed through the will. And
with concentration comes person
ality.
As a year ends human beings
wish for each other two things,
happiness and prosperity. Useful
ness ought to be added, but is
usually not added.
Happiness comes from within;
each must make that for himself.
Prosperity comes from without.
I * * *
As the old year died away there
were many signs of prosperity.
Stocks and bonds, wheat, corn,
cotton and copper were all going
up when the bell rang and 1924,
dropped into the grave.
The right mental attitude, plus
common sense, will keep things
going up through 1925.
* * *
The president’s excellent supply
of New England common sense
will help. May he live long and
prosper.
* * •
Robert Lansing, once secretary
of state, forcibly removed by
Woodrow Wilson somewhat as a
dentist removes a tooth, has dis
covered that there is no danger
whatever of war between the
United States and Japan.
Why, do you ask?
Fop the ‘'Teason” if you please,
that Japan hasn’t enough iron to
carry on a war.
_ Mr. Lansing apparently imagines
that war still depends on the firing
of large, round, iron bullets.
* * *
Did Mr. Lansing notice that one
■ -»of the Japanese ships unfortunate
‘‘ ly on fire at night, was carrying
to Japan a- very large cargo of ni
trates? Nitrates give the kick to
explosive bombs, and such bombs,
plus poisonous gases that would
destroy a whole city, not many
tons of large, round, iron bullets,
will decide the next war.
• • •
That the British empir* means
to rule the air, with the world’s
best air fleet, as it has hitherto
ruled the old-fashioned oceans, is
perfectly clear and much to the
credit of British statesmanship.
The British are building giant
dirigibles, for air mail service from
England to India, in peace; big
enough to carry troops for fight
ing with a capacity of 5,000,000
cubic feet of gas.
* • •
And England goes ahead with
this program in spite of the fact
that the highly dangerous and
deadly hydrogen gas must be used.
The United States has practically
a monopoly of helium gas, which
makes the dirigible safe.
We also assuredly have the
money to build ships. You are as
sured also by able financiers that
it wont hurt the country at all to
lend §1,000,000,000 a year to priv
ate borrowers in Europe. It would
not hurt us to spend one-tenth of
§1,000,000,000 on flying.
What we lack is the imagination
ihat looks a few years ahead.
Russian soviet government has
' just ordered 100 fighting airplanes
from Fokker, the Dutch builder.
1 British engines will be put in the
flying machine", and Russia has
men to handle them.
Thus, by one modest purchase,
Russia secures just five times as
many fighting machines in good
condition, as are ov/ned by this
glorious, richest nation in the
world.
* * *
If a “bankrupt” bolshevik gov
ernment can afford to order and
pay for 100 modern fighting ma
chines, couldn’t the United States
afford 1,000, and train the men to
, run them?
How long is Uncle Sam to re
main like a fat grocer man sitting
at his front door, unarmed wait
ing for some gunmen to fly hctoss
the water and hold him up?
• * »
A rumor via Berlin that Trotzky
is in a Moscow prison, takes you
back to revolutionary days at the
end of the eighteenth century, in
Taris.
- Danton, sent by Robespierre,
wont to prison, and thence to guil
lotine.
Robespierre, when his turn came,
went to prison, and then with a
broken jaw, but with courage in
tact, took his turn under the guil
lotine blade.
• * *
Marat ruled for a little while,
from his bathtub. But Charlotte
Corday made a call in his bath
room, and that was the end of
Marat.
• * *
Revolution, beginning in murder,
usually ends as it began. Those
that rut off the headR of others
lose their own.
The usur.1 rule will presumably
work in Russia. The man of rcu!
courage and brains comes out on
lop. Trotzky, with a big red army
behind him, seemed to he that man.
But one moment’s hesitation, at
the wrong side, means death.
This is the time for Russian
lenders to study Peter the Great.
There whs no hesitation about
him.
Lord Robert Cecil says some dis
tator will arise and rule in Rus
sia. Trotzky has the chance to he
that man,
• * •
It is announced in the French
•rnate that the Morgan loan nl
“$J 00,000,000,” with expenses de
ducted, "yielded $80,000,000.”
Snylock treated his cr»tomers bet
ter than some of our high-minded
financiers treat Europe.
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U. S. Fliers Risk Recks Over Malaya
“Bony Finger,” Conquer Big Air Trap,
Save 800 Miles “on Way to Mandalay”
Told By LOWELL THOMAS
(Copyright, 1934. >
Between Bangkok, Siam ami Ran
goon, Burma, old Mother Asia ex
tend a long bony finger right down
to the equator. With
The tip of it she
s e p a r a t 'e a the
islands of Borneo
and Sumatra. This
finger of land is
covered with unex
plored mountains
and streaming trop
ical Jungle. It Is
the peninsula of
Malaya. famous
eut Lowed Since the dawn of
“ ~ Smith ^ history as the home
of Malaya pirates
and some source of
most of the world's
tin supply.
The next Impor
tant supply depot
that the advance officer for the world
fliers had established was at Ran
goon, near where the Irrawaddy emp
ties into the Bay or Burma.Com
mander Smith and his fellow airmen
had to decide whether they should
go around -the Malay peninsula or
fly over it. If the former, then they
wrt-e faced with a flight of nearly
a 1,000 miles across the Gulf of Siam,
the South China sea, and thence
from Singapore near the equator up
the straits of Malacca to the Bay
of Bengal. Their planes were equipped
with pontoons. So the logical thing
to do was to keep over water as
much of the time as possible until
the arrival In Calcutta, where they
were scheduled to change to wheels
for the flight across India.
Decide to Take Chance
But If they flew a few miles south
to the thinnest part of the peninsula,
and ran the risk of crashing in the
primeval jungle where a forced land
ing would mean certain death, a
flight of only 130 miles would take
them across Malaya, They decided
to take the chance and attempt to
cut off over 800 miles.
Friday morning, the 20th day of
June, they rolled out of their bunks
on the destroyer, and went through
their usual aquatic sports, taxiing up
and down the river attempting to get
off. The Menam, like many other in
land waterways, is so smooth that
it's a ticklish game trying to ruffle
up tl(e surface enough to get one's
"pontoon step." But they finally
made it, and were on their way to
Mandalay.
On nearly every leg of their Jour
ney around the globe they encoun
tered some new phenomena that kept
the flight from ever becoming mo
notonous. This Jump from Slam to
Burma was no exception. Just as
the Jungle creepers twine themselves
around and strangle giant trees. In a
curiously similar way strange air
currents from the somber Malay for
est reached up and tried to pull them
down. Into that tropical wilderness.
Leave Wine-Like Air Behind.
They began to notice these air cur
rents about a half hour after the
bristling, gilded spires and jewel
studded pagodas of Bangkok had
melted Into the background of ban
yans, bamboos, and tamarind trees.
Although It was shortly after dawn
that they boarded the planes, by the
time they had reached the tropic coast
of Malaya the wine-like tonic of the
air at daybreak had gone. The air
was humid and the vast, dripping
forest under them was throwing off
great clouds of vapor.
Some of the mountains In the cen
ter of the peninsula are from 3.000 to
4,000 feet high. Even the precipices
are stifled under the weight of banks
of fern and tangled jungle The brood
ing immensity, and all pervading
fecundity of that Malay forest sur
passed anything the fliers had ever
seen. The clouds of steam rising from
the damp roots of the jungle hung
so low that they hid the mountain
tons anil th American airmen were
often obliged to "kick rudder and
dodge quickly.
Suction Causes Tearful Visions.
"At limes," according to Jack Haril-j
Ing, "the pontoons of the three
planes barely skimmed over the jun
gle-covered summits of these untrod
der{ mountains. Then the moment we
would shoot out over a valley a down
ward current of air would drop us
With such speed that I had visions of
■waking up In the jungle, to find my
self either dangling from the horn of a
Maylayan rhinoceros or squashed by
a 30 foot python, or gored by the
ferocious sladang, which lives In the
heart of this jungle' and Is reputed
to be the most dangerous animal on
earth.
"While crossing a deep valley right
in the middle of the peninsula we
were suddenly sucked toward the
jungle Just like a gnat Inhaled by a
green monster. The Chicago and Bos
ton were well off to our right
at the time and were not af
fected by this particular current
although they, loo, were having
(he hutnpient trip they had ever
gone through. While we were aucked
into the valley they passed on over
the next ridge. We couldn’t get over
it, so Erik banked, and we flew right
hack the way we came In order to
get out and Into another current. But
when we started over the ridge we
| were drawn right into the valley
again.
Strike Malayan Air Trap.
“Meanwhile the ether boys were
wondering what had happened to us
So they flew back and circled around,
waiting for us to escape from this
curious air trap. Wade and Ogden
were flying a bit lower than Smith
and Arnold, and suddenly they, too,
were sucked into the valley. Both
planes were dangerously near the
jungle. A strange race of pygmies,
called the Sakel, live In the Stygian
depths of the Manayan forest.
“They wear no cloths, live in bam
boo shelters high up in the trees, and
use poisoned arrows shot from blow
pipes with which to kill monkeys and
birds. What must those pygmies have
thought when they saw and heard us
go roaring over their villages? But
we were four of the happiest airmen
east of the Suez when we finally suc
ceeded in climbing out of that
Malayan air trap.
"Before we had gotten across the
Malay peninsula the Invisible sun and
dank vapors arising from that equa
torial wilderness made us feel as
though we were flying through steam
Instead of through air. As we drew
nearer the Bay of Bengal we could
see occasional gaps In the jungle and
rows and rows of trees all laid out
with mathematical precision. We
knew these must be rubber planta
tions, for we had heard in Bangkok
that nearly all the rubber used in
making tires for American motor
cars is grown in the federated Malay
states, Straits Settlements, nnd on the
island of Sumatra, a little to the
south of us, just across the equator.
But after our hair-raising experiences
with the air currents of Malaya, we
had no wild desire to fly down low
enough to see the Tamil tappers col
lecting, the latex or to fly past the
open doors of any of the plantation
factories just to get a glimpse of
wan faced Kngllshmen turlng vats of
milky sap Into coagulated masses of
raw rubber by adding add.
Fly Out Over Sea
"We flew right out to sea and
came down beside the destroyer
Sicard that was awaiting us at Tovoy
to give us a fresh supply of fuel.
There were strong cross currents
where we decended that made It dif
ficult for us to reach our moorings.
While we were servicing up the tide
changed, the wind swept In from
Nicobar and the Andamans, and the
sea became almost too rough to get
off. We were forced to try It though,
because there was no sheltered cove
where we could run in until the
storm passed.
“Smith and 'Les’ managed to get
otf, but Leigh and Hank on their
final bounce before leaving the water
hit p. big wave and one of their wires
gave way. When we followed along
behind them, In leaping from one
mountainous wave to another the
shock snapped two wires. Wade kept
right on going with his wire dangling,
thinking that It was less dangerous
to attempt to fly on uf> the Burma
coast to Rangoon with his plane in
that condition than to take any
chances on descending in such a
sea and having a still worse crash.
But with the two main wires gone
we had to taxi back to our moorings
for repairs.
"During the hour that it took us to
put in new wires the other planes
pushed right on north. On this flight
up the Bay of Bengal we flew above
the Islands of Morgue archipelago,
where It rains most of the time and
where there Is a queer race of people
who live and die on their little boats.
When the young man marries, the
ceremony simply consists In his pre
senting his sweetheart with a new
loincloth. Then they get a boat of
their own and s|)end the rest nr their
days floating about among these jun
glc-covered Islands.
"We also flew over the Bay of
Bengal, where the little known Sal
ween river flows down from far-off
Tibet, and to our right, on a hill
overlooking a little City, we saw the
'old Moulmein pagoda' which Kipling
has Immortalized.
Arrive In Teeming India.
"We jumped into our cockpits at
dawn in Bangkok. Siam, and It was
just sunset that wc climbed out of
them at Rangoon. Burma. Instead
of landing In the Irrawady near the
docks we flew on past the golden
Shwe Dagon pagoda, which Is one of
of the seven wonders of the world,
and came down In a side streuni near
a former royal air force camp.
“To make up for having had such
good luck in getting away from Tavoy
without breaking any part of their
plane. Lowell and Les had an ex
tra thrill when they landed here a*
Rangoon. The current was far too
swift for safety. Les was hanging
on to the plane with one hand and
grabbing for the buoy with the other.
But a strong wind carried the Chi
cago away from the mooring and Les
landed in the water. Smith didn’t hap
pen to see what occurred because he
had his eye on a Junk that had come
near colliding with them. A moment
and Arnold was left to flounder
about In the water In his Tying
clothes until Smith finally missed
him and rushed back to the rescue."
Bead the next installment of the
thrilling story of the round-the-world
flight in The Omaha Bee tomorrow.
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