Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1905 — AIR LINE TO WASHINGTON [ARTICLE]

AIR LINE TO WASHINGTON

Now it is being hinted that Indiana and Wisconsin passed those cigarette laws just to keep Jerome from lecturing in those states.

Chicago is letting New York out do her again. During one of the hot days last week, New York had 24/prostrations and Chicago only 13. Admiral Dewey can readily see what we will be doing for him, when he witnesses what is being done for John Paul Jones 100 years after he is dead.

Tom Lawson says he will give his money away when the proper time comes. He is probably waiting for Hetty Green and Russel S age to set the example for him.

Judge Brewer’s remarks that “you do not have to hold office to serve your country” is eminently correct. Some people have to be sent to the penitentiary before any good can be gotten out of them.

“Corruption ia as old as the world, and will persist as long as humanity yields. The press is a great moral force in the Sta tes, and the grafters in America fear only exposure. The editor is their worst foe.” The above words are those of Cardinal Gibbons, the eminent prelate, whose statements on “graft” a few days «go are especially interesting He says that exposure, especially by the press, is the only safeguard against corruption. This is true, but unfortunately we some times find instances where the press is subject to the will of the grafter, and therefore its efforts are to protect and shield the rascals who are robbing the public.

Chicago Man Who Hat a Flying Machine That la a Bird fur Sure, Provided Chicago, July 28.—Frank M. Malian, of Chicago, president of the LlngrenMahan Fire Apparatus company, deciares that in the near future he will start for Washington In- an airship of his own make, and that in* will reach that city within ten hours. "I don't simply promise this," said Malian; "I’ll do it. 1 have studied the aerial navigation problem for sixteen years and I have its solution beyond the peradventure of a doubt. “I can make from 125 to 150 miles an hour in the airship I propose to construct. Doubters can eoine to see, the start, or stand nt the finish line, as they will; I shall lie at both places in fulfillment of my agreement.” Mahan's projected airship will have wings like unto those of a bird, and these wings will furnish the sole progressive motive power, though they are to be worked by a gasoline engine.