To day
If ell, Dear Mr. II eeks.
How About Aircraft Note.
Are They Still “Unim
portant.”
Perfect Score, No flit.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE.
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An old Tammany Hall leader ex
pressed his opinion of suits against
newspapers in rugged double nega
tive Anglo-Saxon, thus:
“Don’t never sue for libel. They
might prove it on you.”
Mr. Weeks, secretary of war,
should have had that in mind be
fore ordering the recent tests of
anti-aircraft guns, to uphold his
theory that flying machines don’t
amount to anything in war, and
should not be allowed to interfere
with the highly profitable sport of
battleship building.
The flying men proved it on him.
The Weeks theory, and that of
battleship men who collect 45 mil
lions per ship, was as follows:
“Don’t worry about flying ma
chine attack. If insolent Japanese
or Europeans come flying against
us, we’ll simply turn our anti-air
craft guns toward the sky, riddle
the invading fliers and teach th<;m
to respect the great American
Eagle, even if he is a fat bird,
slightly asthmatic, stuffed with gold,
and without wings.”
They said it, and for contradicting
them they deprived General Mitch
ell of his rank, thereby raising him
in popular estimation, and then,
most foolishly, they tried to prove
xvhat they had said. j
r Perhaps you read about it. If
so, read it again, and tell yrour
friends.
The airmen flew, dragging behind
thain what is called a “sleeve Tar
get?’ as big as an airplane. The
powerful three-inch anti-aircraft
guns, manned by the best marks
men, fired at the flying targets as
they would fire at invading air
planes.
And not once were the targets
hit. In other words, if those fliers
instead of dragging targets to be
shot at, had been enemy fliers, they
could have bombarded Washington,
destroying the White House, the
capitol, one-half the city, and then
they could have gone ahout their
business, without a scratch.
Think that over, fellow citizens,
especially you, great financiers and
corporation men that put Mr.
Weeks in Mr. Harding’s cabinet.
Those enemy bombs would reach
you, remember, your hanks and fac
tories, and you would have to find
the cash, if dark gentlemen, with
slanting eyes flew gently down and
asked, "What will you give us to
fly away and spare the rest of your
property?”
You also think about it, please,
Mr. Weeks. Enemy airmen might
by mistake hit the War department.
Asked, “Don’t you know that a
barking dog never bites?” the mail
replied, “Sure I know it, but does
the dog know it?”
Mr. Weeks, you know that enemy
fliers could not injure us. But do
the Japanese know it? Perhaps
they don’t.
If there is any gratitude in the
mikado he should give orders not
to hurt the War department, or
anybody in it.
But somebody might make a mis
take.
Meanwhile, this nation is with
out any adequate air defense. No
body knows by whom or how the
$433,000,000 “for aircraft” spent
in the last five years were wasted
or stolen. The public mind is; out
raged by the injustice inflicted on
Brigadier General Mifbhell, to
whom the nation and the president
owe their knowledge of the facts.
It ought to be possible for
politicians to be “good party men”
without being simultaneously dan
gerous fools.
(Copyright, 1925.>
Columbus.—A sneak thief stole a
set of harness from Ailam Smith's
farm near Shady J,ake Sunday night.
The Daily Cross Word Puzzle
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IS. Religious.
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M. To revile.
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17. A stride.
'8. Preposition.
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3.8. Like.
34. Stakes In a poker game.
34. The sixteenth president of the
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31. Before.
3|. To fasten.
39. Trunk line of railway from
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10. To solicit alms
41. A precious inetai.
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King of England.
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a ’I'o assist a wrong doer.
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Serbia, otherwise known as Monastir.
42. Kiver (sp.)
43. Diminutive suffix.
45. Superior mental endowment*.
47. An open court leading to the
basement.
49. Conflagration.
51. "The Hare"—a star of the third
magnitude.
62. Moisture frrtm the cloud*.
54. SeaD-or couch.
56. A rudimentary vital element.
57. To haul.
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69. Saucy.
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66. Musical note.
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