Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 43, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 June 1930 — Page 7

TONE 30,1930.

CAPT. HAWKS TO WAITE AATICLES ABOUTAVIATION Series of Chatty Stories Are to Be Printed in The Times. EDITOR'f NOTE—Captain Frank M. Hawks, holder of the round-trip transcontinental airplane record, is anpervisInc the construction of anew airplane which he intends to ose in settinr new cross-coanrtr records. Daring that time Captain Hawks will write a series of ehatte stories for the United Press and The Times dpaling with aviation in general. gliders and airplanes and noting personal experiences daring his fifteen sears as an air pilot. BY CAPTAIN FRANK M. HAWKS, (Written for the United Press) WICHITA, Kan., June 30.—1 t is a pleasure to have this opportunity through the United Press to write some of my own personal thoughts, experiences and comments on aviation. The aviation events of the day are bound to affect my column and I shall try very hard to keep right up with them and give the little Inside stories that usually are known only around the flying fields. Right now I am as excited as a young girl about to go to her first junior prom. The reason being that I am out here supervising construction of new airplane for myself. It is going to be a beauty. Graceful lines, powerful motor and some ideas of my own are incorporated in Its construction. When it is all finished and I have tested it out I hope to make a series of cross-country flights which I believe wiil be for the advancement of aviation. Mourns for Snyder During the years that I have been flying I have been developing certain ideas and plans. With this ship I hope to find out if my ideas have been correct. If they are, then they will help boost aviation another notch on the commercial ladder. Today I worked out the ship's color scheme. It is a peach. But I’m not going to tell you about it until I have seen the paint and enamel put on the plane and find out if it really looks as well as I expected. But enough about the ship. In glancing over the paper today I noticed that Ed Snyder, divisional superintendent of the Pan-Ameri-can Airways, had been killed in a fall from a glider. Ed and I used to fly pay rolls together in Mexico. Many is the time that we used to take off together from the main field at Tampico, our ships loaded down with pay rolls for distant oil fields and the country below us literally filled with Mexican bandit bands. Gliders Arc Important

Those were the old days and a forced landing just meant that it was “too bad.” The bandits would get the pay rolls and we would be “out of luck.” But we both pulled through some very hair raising experiences. Now Ed’s dead. A gust of wind tossed him from a glider at an altitude of 2.000 feet, the news report said. Outside of being so very fond of Ed the accident affected me because of my intense interest in gliders. Unquestionably gliders are considered too lightly. They are dealt with as toys, both by experienced and inexperienced pilots. A great deal of good can come from gliders if properly supervised and I maintain that they are one of the safest vehicles for elementary air instruction, regardless of the present wave of mishaps. The aircraft industry should band together and help to stabilize glider development.

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ARTICLE SEVEN Let’s Jail Everybody ONE of the saddest results of prohibition is that it has transformed the kindly, helpful and humanitarian old-time temperance worker into A zealot of persecution. Once the moral and spiritual forces of this country were employed to save souls, and “rescue the perishing,” now we send them to jail. I have not heard of an old-fash-ioned temperance lecture since the Volstead act was passed. The whole spirit of the times has changed. No longer is the evil of intemperance portrayed as a sin against individual character, a crime against selfrestraint, a debauchery of morals, to be dealt with by church, school and home. Instead, there are only demands for harsher penalties and enforcement of the law. Indeed, the very word “moral” ha? become suspect and all too frequently is viewed with ironical skepticism, if not with contempt. It is regarded as the cloak of hypocrisy or the mask of persecution. At the Democratic national convention in Houston, a year ago, I stated in a newspaper interview that I have said many times before and since, that prohibition should be left to the “moral forces” of the natioo. The plirase immediately was seized upon to mean the AntiSaloon league, the Ku-Klux Klan and the Methodist Board of Prohibition and Public Morals, in spite of the fact that in season or out, and long before the true nature of their activities became generally apparent, I had denounced them. By a curious perversion of the value of plain and simple words, these intolerant and intolerable agencies now have, in the minds of many people, a monopoly of what was once, and should be still, the exclusive province of the school, the church and the home. a a a CONSIDER the word “temperance.” In this day of jazz and whoopee, what an outmoded and old-fashioned flavor it has. It recalls the days of the temperance tract, the White Ribbon League, and the pledge. Then, temperance forces were all engaged in saving the drunkard.

Yet were they such bad old days? The violator of the moral code was not treated as a criminal. The amen corner was reserved for the repentant sinner. Today, the spot kgpt swept and garnished for him is a prison cell. Perhaps some still remember old John B. Gough, the famous temperance preacher, who was responsible for much of the early establishment of local option. He accomplished a great deal of good in the w r orld. Unfortunately, he was afflicted with an appetite for drink. He was tempted and he did fall. Occasionally he had to be salvaged from the gutter. Os course, he was a law-violator, for getting drunk was illegal then, as now. But he was not looked upon as a criminal. His frailties were considered with compassion and understanding. He was helped back on his feet and returned to usefulness in the community. Every time he was reclaimed he came back to the conflict against intemperance with greater zeal. Were he alive today he would be branded by the reformer as “a dangerous individual of vicious instincts and of criminal mind.” The Volstead act would put him behind the bars where the Anti-Saloon League reformers say he belongs. a a a IF today's inhuman laws had been in force through the ages, how many of the wisest and the best

! would have been cut off from opporj tunity to help their fellow-men and j to carry on the torch of civilization, i If the Volstead act had been the law of the land in the days of the Revolution and the establishment of I our country, all subsequent history would have to be rewritten. Every Revolutionary patriot was a violator of the present-day prohibitory law or a conniver at its violation. John Hancock could not have signed the Declaration of Independence, for he trafficked in rum and would have been in the penitentiary if the law had been enforced. Prohibition agents at Lexington and Concord would have herded the embattled farme~? to prison long before the appointed time of the shot heard “round the world.” For these godless farmers to sing: Oh, we can make liquor to sweeten our lips Os oumpkins. of parsnips, of walnuttree chips. ana Benjamin franklin would have been locked up years before the Revolution. During the French and Indian wars he commanded fifty men and rationed out a gill of rum to each man every day just after prayers. This humanitarian scheme involved illicit possession, transportation and barter, according to present Volstead standards.

George Washington would have been another victim of the law in pre-revolutionary days. He never would have reached the frozen, consecrated ground of Valley Forge, nor have attained the heights at Yorktown. His record is particularly black. As early as 1753 it is recorded that he supplied an Indian woman with rum. In 1766, he shipped a noaccount slave to the West Indies, to be sold “for whatever he will fetch,” and desired to receive the proceeds of the sale in molasses, rum, limes, “and the residue, much or little, in good old sprits.” When Washington was standing for election to the Virginia house of burgesses, he furnished the voters of Frederick county entertainment which included “forty gallons of rum-punch, fifteen gallons of wine, thirty gallons of strong beer, ten bowls of punch.” Calculate, if you can, the sentences that might be imposed for such flagrant prohibition violations. Moreover, to these must be added the charge of manufacturing alcoholic beverages, for at Mt. Vernon, Washington maintained a brewery where small beer was brewed. The list of miscreants and culprits could be widened and lengthened until it embraced every man or boy enlisted in the Revolutionary cause. But even if enough of them had managed to eiude the spies and snoops of prohibition enforcement

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and had established the Constitution, the Volstead regime would have held other terrors for the struggling little nation. a a a JEFFERSON, gentle friend of truth and temperance, lionhearted defender of liberty and freedom, would have been taken direct from the White House to prison stripes. His wine-bill for two I presidential terms was $10,855 and a contemporary epicure has said, “The wine was the best I ever drank, particularly the champagne, which was delicious.” The Constitution would have had to shift for itself, for John Marshall would not have been there to defend, expound, and interpret it. Marbury v. Madison never would have been written. No, with prohibition in force, the Constitution would have had to wait until the coming of those giants of the law and heralds of reform, Wayne B. Wheeler and Andrew Volstead. For both Marshall and Story would have been in the hoosegow, serving sentences for “direct importation of alcoholic liquor for beverage purposes. Simply apply the principle of prohibition to the annals of our national development, and the glorious recital becomes the gibberish of an idiot. This thing can not be mentioned in the same breath with liberty. If prohibition is right, then liberty is wrong. The two could not have dwelt together in any era of our country’s history. (Copyright, 1930. Current News Features. Inc.) Senator Reed next will discuss “Super-Propaganda.”

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SENATORS RAP NAVALTOEATT Johnson, Robinson, Moses Sum Up Objections. Bu Vnited Frets WASHINGTON. June 30.—Three outstanding senatorial opponents of the London naval treaty Sunday night summed up their objections to the document in a 10,000-word for. eign relations committee minority report to the’ senate. Disclaiming “either militarism or jingoism,” Republican Senators Johnson of California, Robinson of Indiana and Moses of New Hampshire, indicted the naval limitation pact on eleven formal counts. Their lengthy philippic, mostly a reiteration of previous anti-treaty arguments made over the radio or on the senate floor, put forward the following principal allegations: The treaty does not give the United States real parity with G’-cat Britain. It involves costly building and will save only half of the $400,000,000 estimated by the administration. It destroys the 5-5-3 ratio with Japan, established at the Washington conference of 1922. It ignores the traditional American attitude regarding cruisers.

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