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UNIFORMS .... for dress
The officers of the United
States Army are to have new dress
unforms, which they will be re
quired to wear in the evening af
ter "retreat" has sounded, and on
social occasions when off duty at
other times. The new uniforms J
will have dark coats, with lapels;
turned turned light blue
trousers with gold stripes down!
the seams, and blue caps, all em
bellished and decorated with the
insignia of rank.
We changed our Army uni
forms from blue to khaki between
the Spanish War and the World!
War. The dusty brown is un
doubtedly better for service wear
but every man wants a change to
"dress up" in. With the mechani
zation of the Army, the working
garb of our soldiers in the next
war might well be plain denim
overalls.
I like to see soldiers look gor
geous. There is something about a
brilliant uniform which inspires
respect for the service in which
men stand to lose everything and
gain nothing but glory.
SERVICE ... in highest sense
I once heard Woodrow Wilson,
long before he was President,
point out the difference between
civilians and soldiers, and why we
erect public monuments to sol
diers and preserve their swordf
and muskets as family treasures,
rather than hang a tailor's yard
stick over the mantel.
"The tailor's occupation is not
less honorable than the soldier's
he said, "but he labored for gain,
for the support of his family. The
soldier risku everything, including
his life itself, not for money or
reward but in the service of his
people and his country."
My observation of the Ameri
can Army, which has been con
siderable, makes me feel that
nothing they want is too good for
them. I am speaking now of the
professional soldiers and the West
Point officers, who are fully im
bued with the spirit of Demcracy
and recognize that they are the
servants of the people, not their
masters.
SPEED increased
Eight years ago I predicted in
this column that some day air
planes would be built capable of
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flying around the world with the
sun, starting frcjn New York at
noon and crossing every point on
the round trip at noon. That
would take a speed of only about
500 miles an hour, flying several
miles above the earth.
Science and invention are bring
ing that time closed and closer.
One by one the obstacles to fast
flight in the stratosphere are be
ing overcome. The upper air has
[been explored and its wind-cur
rents studied. The shaping of an
airplane to fly with the least re
sistance has been worked out. The
use of oxygen to enable the pilot
to breathe and the engine to
function eight or ten miles above
ground has been demonstrated.
Speeds of more than 400 miles an
hour have been made.
All that remains is to find more
economical methods of carrying
fuel for a world-round non-stop
flight.
FIRE ....... flying bogey
The greatest hazard in flying is
fire. Many airplane crashes would
not result fatally but for the Ig
nition of the gasoline tanks. The
great airship "Hindenberg" was
destroyed with most of its pas
sengers, because the hydrogen gas
on which it floated caught fire.
Fireproof flight is coming. The
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new big German atfship will be
filled with helium gas, from Texas
gas wells, which the United States
is selling for that peaceful pur
pose. Except for the "Hindenberg"
catastrophe, no passenger's life
was ever lost in a non-military
.igid air-ship.
The Zeppelins use diesel engines
with non-inflammable fuel oil in
stead of gasoline. Airplanes have
been flown in this country with
diesel engines, and now one of
the big motor companies has
brought out a new light-weight
diesel engine. The airplane of the
future, like the air-ship of the
future, will be fireproof.
EDUCATION . . . . of pubUc
I am not greatly concerned
about the future of the nation so
long as there is no restriction
upon public discussion of econom
ic and governmental questions, in
the newspapers and elsewhere.
I have thought a good many of
the experiments which have been
going on in Washington in the
past few years to be rather silly
and based on half-'baked theories.
So long as the people at large
were willing to stand for them,
there was nothing to do but to let
time work its inevitable changes.
Now I think I see less popular en- I
thusiasm for new schemes which
don't work.
What has been going on in the
past five years is a process of ed
ucation. More people understand
the laws of economics and the Im
possibility to make everybody
happy and prosperous overnight.
And that is a distinct gain.
What Health Means
The health of people is the
foundation upon which all their
individual happiness and also the
power of the nation depends.
"Without health, life is not life"
said Ariphon, the Sicyonian, who
lived about 550 B. C., and our own
Ben Franklin, in his Poor Rich
ards Almanac, wrote in 1764 that,
"a good wife and (food health
should make any man contented
with the world."
We Americans have the bad
habit of straining at a gnat and
swallowing a camel. Let some
such catastrophy as the burning
of the steamship Morro Castle
happen ,ln which 135 lives were
lost, and the nation becomes al
most hysterical. The press de
mands an immediate Investiga
tion and the Federal and state
authorities start lengthy, expen
sive proceedings and as a rule
nothing more happens. Soon the
tragedy is forgotten, except of
course by those who lost relatives.
Tuberculosis Can Be Cured
Pour such accidents—one a
week—with 'a loss of 135 lives
each time, would fall more than
one hundred short of the actual
deaths in New York City alone
from consumption during one av
erage month—yet the great
American public remains indif
ferent to the havoc this disease
alone works among the people of
the nation. Whil#» medical science
has reduced the ueath rate of tu
berculosis approximately 66 per
cent in the past twenty-five years,
still much more is to be done b:-
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fore this disease, which haunts
old and young, rich and poor can
be done away with. Tuberculosis
can be eliminated and the yet
greater portion of our city, coun
ty and state government seem to
be actually indifferent on this vi
tal subject.
Civic Action Can Reduce Disease
And the same statement applies
equally well reparding govern
mental indifference to numerous
other dangerous diseases. Of the
200 who died in New York City in
1932 of diphtheria, most of them
might have been saved by pre
ventative inoculation. If active,
intelligent campaigns were con
ducted against such maladies,
death rates would be materially
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I reduced. If our state and nation
al governments penult quacks and
j charlatans to practice medicine
and allow fake medical prepara
tions to be sold, as a result of
which thousands die yearly.
Blowing His Own Horn
Two clored men stood on the
edge of a crowd listening to a
political speech.
"Who am dat man, £&m?" ask
ed one.
"Ah doan' know what his name
is," responded Bam, "but he suah
do recommen' hisself mos' high
ly."
Tuberculosis will cost Virginia
$3,800,000 in economic loss this
year.