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VOL. X.
EXAMINE THE MIN
MORE THAN PARTY.
DECLARES BARRETT
President of Farmers’ Union
Says That Actions Tell Bet
ter Than All the Labels of
Politics
UNION SHOULD KEEP
WATCH ON CONGRESS
Says Failure to Secure Want
ed Legislation Is Due Large
ly to Failure to Ask for the
Same
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
UNION CITY. G*.. Dec M-Declsring
that It is not the political label, but th*
bona-Ade action* that defines a man's
principles. President C 8. Barrett, of,
th* National Farmers" union, ha* ad-1
dressed th* following letter to the of
ficer* and member* of the organization:
Throw shout America one of the lead
ins topics for - discussion is the recent
elections, and the political overturn
which has riven the Democratic party a
strong majority in the national house
of representatives.
Naturally the farmer* of this country,
and member* of this organization. ar*
drawn into and participate in the com
ment
As I have before stated, insurgents.
Republicans, Democrats. Socialist*—
what-not—all look alike, or should look ’
alike, to th* farmers of this country
and. emphatically so. to the member* of
th* Farmers' union.
The test is found, not in the label by
which a man classifies his politic*, but
in his bona fide action*, the faithfulness
with which he makes promises square
with performance, the fidelity with
which he keeps hi* contract with the 1
people.
In ordinary business and social rela
tions we condemn the man who is guilty
of breach of contract or of bad faith, |
even of duplicity when It comes to car
rying out hi* agreement.
The same rule, unchanged by the dot
ting of an “i." should rule in politics.
It makes no difference to what party
a Congressman or a legislator, a govern
or or a sheriff owes his allegiance. If he
disregard* th* pledgee he ha* mad* to
his constituents or, by silence and inac
tion. aligns himself against their best
interest. *
We are going to get results in the way
of reform In this country when the voter
is as vigilant in his watch upon the of
ficeholder as h* is In bis activities dur
ing campaigns
Therefore. I hold it as merely th* dic
tate* of common sense that it 1* our
duty to keep close watch on congress
and its guiding forces, whether admin
istered by the parties now visible or
those that may arrive at some time in
the future.
Examine the man, rather than the
party.
It will profit you nothing if you elect
a Democrat in place of a Republican, or
an insurgent in place of a standpatter,
if you notice no gain in service from the
change.
The trouble is, the average farmer —
city man. for that matter —puts a new
man in office at th* high tide of a wave
of dissatisfaction and then forgets. A*
a result, nine times out of ten, he finds
bis unmatched representative needs re
placing sooner or later, and there is all
the excitement and delay to endure
again. _
The day the American farmer realizes
this principle and realizes, additionally,
that he can vitalize any legislative pro
gram by unceasing demands upon his
j epresentative*. we will see the farmers
of this country rescued from the neglect
visited upon them by the go>erament
for many years
I urge upon you to keep In personal
touch with vour representative or sena
tor, relative to those measures favored
by this r rganizaticn.
Failure to secure result* in legisla
tion Is due almost as much to the failure |
of the constituent to indulge in prodding |
as to the tendency of the officeholder to
K BARRETT.
CIVIL WAR FINANCIER
DIES AT AGE OF 94
John W. Ellis. Headed First
National Bank
NEW YORK. Dec. 29. —John W. Ellis,
who played a large part in engineering
the national finances during the civil
war. is dead at hi* home here in his
94th year after an 'lines® of several
years He started his business career
in Cincinnati at th* sge of 18 and by
the time the civil war began was re
garded as one of the leading financiers
of the middle west He was president of
the Cincinnati. Hamilton and Dayton
railroad and Interested in other railroad
properties
He was Instrumental in organizing the
national bank system during the war and
became president of th* first national
bank founded. At this time he was con
tinuously in consultation with President
Lincoln. Secretary Chase and W. Jay
Cooke. When General Grant was elect
ed president. Mr. Ellis was asked to head
tne treascry department but declined.
He came to —*v» York city in 1872 -nd
retired from active business ten years
later.
Mr. Ellis was born in Williamsburg.
Ohio, and was educated at Kenyon col
lege
Postoffice Robbed
pf Vs. Dee. J».— The postoffi'-e
st Fj'ley. .wmthampton roosty. ws» entered by
-.Mwr* Isst night, and $25 In money taken.
Af-S3OO worth of stsnipn were left niMil*-
t rl- <l. There l» no Hne to the thieve*.
♦ ♦
♦ TMKEE DIE OF POISON ♦
♦ IN COMMUNION WINE ♦
♦ *
♦ ST. PETERSBURG. Dec. 29. ♦
♦ Three communicants have died and ♦
♦ 29 others are seriously ill as a re- ♦
♦ suit of a intake made by an eider ♦
♦ of the Lutheran church in the P*- ♦
e terhorf district who last evening *
a filled a communion cup with a mix- ♦
♦ ture of sulphurated chromate in- ♦
■* stead of wine. .*.
♦ ♦
THIS FARMER MADE
SEVEN COTTON HALES
OFF OETHHEE ACHES
Alabama Planter Establishes
New Record by Careful Ex
periment That He Made on
His Farm Near Brundidge
SOUTHERN LANDS HOLD
GREAT FUTURE PROSPECTS
W. H. Dußose Clears $450 on
Tract That He Used Ordi
nary Seed With Scientific
Planting and Cultivating
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
WASHINGTON. Dec. The more one
investigates the uses of the land, th*
clearer become* the conviction that any
where and everywhere in thia country
land in It* productiveness is just what
the cultivator makes It, provided he
start* with a reasonably good soil.
By combining thorough tillage, crop ro
tation. barnyard fertilizer and a Judicious
use of commercial fertilizer, W. H. Du
bose. of Brundidge. Ala., has succeeded
in producing seven bale* of cotton from
a three-acre tract, using nothing but the
ordinary cotton seed, the cost per acre
being 838.50. as follows: Breaking the
land. $8.50; rebeddlng. 82.00; hoeing. $1.60;
cultivating, |8; picking, 818; ginning, 8460,
and hauling, 83
On the three-acre tract Mr. Dubose
cleared over 8460. In a recent letter to
the Southern Commercial congrees,
Washington. D. C., Mr. Duboee give*
full details a* to the method of culti
vation used by him.
All through the south farmer* and
planter* are getting similar excellent
results with various other crop*.
Several profitable bulletins on cotton
growing have been issued by the United
States department of agriculture, one of
the most instructive being Bulletin No.
344. "A Profitable Cotton Farm,’’ which
describee in detail the various steps to
success. This bulletin can be obtained
upon request from the Southern Com
mercial congress, or from the secretary
of agriculture, department of agricul
ture, Washington, D. C.
fromWWe
BOY PICKS KIDNAPER
Whereupon He Has Nervous
Breakdown--Gang of Sus
pected Blackhanders ’
(By Associated Prsss.)
NEW YORK. Dec. 29.—Trembling and
agitated from a nervous break-down
which he suffered after he was arrested
last night, Gllcomo Crimi, a 20-year-old
Italian is in a cell at police headquar
ters today awaiting further examination
on a kidnaping charge. He was one of 17
men arrested by officers under command
of Lieutenant Vachris, of the Italian
■quad. In a raid last night on an Eliza
beth street Italian grocery.
Within a short time after the raid,
8-year-old Giuseppi di Stefano picked
Crimi out of the line of prisoners as th*
man who kidnaped him from the home
of his parents on Elizabeth street last
summer. Little Gluseppl could not iden
tify any of the other prisoners. The child
was returned to his home In a carriage
a week after his capture.
Besides the alleged abductor of the dt
Stefeno only one of the other prisoners
was detained. This was Crlml's brother
Pedro.
five deadTscoreliurt
IN EL PASO EXPLOSION
Giant Charge of Powder Is
Accidentally Discharged in
Slag Pile
EL PASO, Tex., Dec. 29.—Five persons
sre known to have been killed, a score
were injured snd an etxensive property
damage resulted Wednesday when work
men at the plant of the American Smel
ter and Refining company endeavoring to
destroy a slag pile, accidentally exploded
2.400 pounds of blasting powder.
The explosion was of such force as to
partially wreck the smelting plant and
many small houses in the immediate vi
cinity while window glasses thre miles
distant were broken.
JOSEPH STONE TELLS HOW
HE WON STATE CORN PRIZE
Eleven-Year-Old Lad Who
Raised Over 100 Bushels of
Corn on an Acre Was Guest
of Gov.-elect Hoke Smith in
Atlanta Yesterday-The Boy
Gives Interview
Master Joseph Stone. 11 years old. who
won the boy's corn growers’ prize of the
state of Georgia by raising 102 5-8 bushels
of corn on one acre of land, spent yes
terday in Atlanta with his father, as the
guest of Governor-elect Hoke Smith. He
was invited here specially for the pur
pose of getting him to give a detailed
statement of how he cultivated the acre
from which he made over 100 bushels
of com that the statement might b? giv
en to the press of the state so that all
the boys in Georgia might have an oppor
tunity of reading just how it was done.
He and his father took dinner with
Governor Smith yesterday and spent the
afternoon riding around Atlanta in
Governor Smith's automobile.
Mr. Stone. Sr., is himself an admirable
farmer and he is teaching his boys how
to farm In the most improved and pro
gressive manner. It is work of this kind
(Ooattaued oa p*ge Bevezu)
ATLANTA. GEORGIA, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 30, 1910.
ROBIN IS INDICTED
ONATHEFTCHARGE
INVOLVING SBO.OOO
His Financial Transactions
Alleged to Be Responsible for
the Failure of Northern Bank
of New York
FLED WITH HIS SISTER
IN AN AUTO WEDNESDAY
But No Warrant Was Issued
for Him, as His Attorney,
William T. Jerome, Declared
He Would Be Produced
NEW YORK Dec. 29. —The grand
Jury this afternoon handed down an
Indictment against Joseph G. Robin,
whose financial transactions are alleg
ed to be responsible for the closing ot
the Northern Bank of New York on
Tuesday last. The indictment specifi
cally charges Robin with the larceny
of 880,000 from the Northern bank.
Following the closing of the North
ern Bank of New York and Its nine
branches on Tuesday, the state bank
ing department today assumed tem
porary charge of the Washington Sav
ings bank, pending Investigation Into
Its condition.
Denied asylum at the private sani
tarium to which he was committed as
a paranoiac, Joseph G. Robin, wnose
operations are alleged to have closed
the bank appeared for a moment in
Jersey Crty Wednesday, and then van
ished’ with his sister, Dr. Louise Hom
novltch, in a high-powered automo
bile.
No warrant is out for his arrest,
but detectives from the district at
orney’s office watched his apartment*
and the home of his sister Wednesday
night until District Attorney Whitman
received word from William Travers
Jerome, former district attorney, that
Robin had retained him as counsel.
"Robin 1* in the city ” said Mr. Whit
man, after hearing from Mr. Jerome,
"and Mr. Merom* has assured me that
he will produce Robin when the dis
trict attorney wants him.’’
At the sanitarium to which Robin
was committed the following statement
was given out Wednesday:
•'ln view of the fact that criminal
prosecution may be Instituted against
Mr. Robin and because of certain state
ments that have been made, Dr. Carlos
MacDonald requested Mr. Robin's sis
ter, Dr. Louise G. Roblnovitch, to re
move Mr. Robin from the sanitarium.
This was done.”
Dr. MacDonald would not discuss th*
case further, but Max G. Hchlapp, one
JUSTICE ArnWiU HOU
in, called at the district attorney's of
fice to make clear his connection with
th* case and that of hl* associates.
Dr. Austin Flint and Dr. Valentine
Wildman.
"We were called into the case,” said
Dr. Schlapp, “by Dr. Jxiuise Roblno
vitch. She gave us a history of the
case, and coming from a psputable
-physician there was nothing for us
to do but accept her data as the facta,
a conclusion in which we were
strengthened by our knowledge that
Dr. Roblnovitch is herself an alienist.
The history that she gave us indicated
paranoia, which, as you know, mani
fests Itself in convulsions of one kind
and another. We put questions to Rob
in and his answers confirmed the diag
nosis indicated by the history of the
case.”
Justice Amend, who signed the or
der of commitment at five minutes
after midnight Monday morning, knows
of no way in which the present situa
tion could have been obviated.
•'The requirements of the statute
were complied with in every particu
lar,” he said. “A prima facie case
was made out clearly. There was
nothing for pie to do under the statute
but sign the commitment, and I did.”
IROQUOIS
HOSPITAL FINISHED
Will Be Presented to Chicago
on Next Fri
day
CHICAGO, Dec. 29.—The new emerg
ency hospital building erected by the
Iroquois Memorial association at 87
Market street in nwmory of the 600 per
sons who lost the if lives in the Iro
quois theater fire December 30, 1903, will
be presented to the city of Chicago to
morrow, which is the seventh anniver
sary of that disaster.
The building is said to be the finest
and most complete small hospital in
existence of fire-proof construction, four
stories and basement and containing
30 rootps.
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MABTE* JOBEPK STONE.
This 1* the Jackson county lad who
woa the Boy*’ Cora Grower*’ prise in
Georgia.
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THE SOUTH THANKS 1910
LOUISIANA TO HAVE
MAMMOTH CROP OF
SEA ISLAND COTTON
Recent Experiments Show
That Product Can Easily Be
Raised Along the Lower
Coast of the State
(By Associated Press.)
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 28.—A number
of planters on the lower coast of Louisi
ana this year experimented with sea
island cotton, with the result that it has
been found the product can be raised
here, and next year will see the planting
of that grade of the staple.
On the Jurgins plantation and other
tracts as well along the Mississippi
river sea island seed was planted
along the edge of drainage ditches and
jiven no cultivation whatever. The seed
produced cotton stalks of immense size,
some of which bore as many as 150 bolls
to the stalk. Theite, when submitted
to long staple experts were declared to
be worth at the rate of $l5O a bale.
While there is no market at the pres
ent time in New Orleans for sea island
cotton, experts say that with the pro
duction one will be quickly established.
Next year several hundred acres will
be devoted to sea island cotton. This
will offer hope to the spinners who liave
used all the production afforded in this
country and are becoming more and
more alarmed over |he supply.
MAN llffliEDOE
UNDER IONS OF SLAG
Is Sole Survivor of El Paso
Explosion—Rescuers Work
Frantically
(By Associated Press.)
EL PASO. Tex., Dec. 29.—Efforts of the
rescuers at th® slag dump of the El Paso
smelter this morning were directed to
ward the release of Eusive Aguillar, the
only living man remaining in the slag
heap. Aguillar has been pinned under a
mass of the slag for nearly 15 hours, but
is able to talk with his rescuers.
Progress Is unusually slow from the
fact that every bit of slag must b* re
moved from the tunnel in the dump with
long handled hoes. It Is expected that
Aguillar will be released some time to
day.
Six is the total of the death list in the
explosion of nearly 4.000 pounds of pow
der. Four bodies were still in the dump
at daybreak this morning.
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♦ AUTO BUFB AMUCK ♦
*■ WITHOUT CHAUPFEUB ♦
♦ ♦
♦ NEW YORK, Dec. 2?.—The po- ♦
♦ lice are today searching for the ♦
♦ owner of a heavy automobile ♦-
♦ which last night ran wild with- ♦
♦ out a chauffeur dow’n Fifth ave- *
♦ nue. three blocks, upset a*-
♦ wagon, pushed a touring car to ♦
♦ the sidewalk, broke an electric -*
♦ light pole. injured four pedes- ♦
♦ trlans, narrowly missed several ♦
other automobiles and ended by ♦
♦ trying to climb the wall around ♦
♦ Central park. What started the -*
*■ machine and what became of the ♦
*■ chauffeur are mysteries. The po-
♦ lice ran the truck to a station -*•
♦ house, where it is held for its ♦
♦ owner. *
FIVE REVOLUTIONS
MAY BE BREWING
IN NEW ORLEANS
Davila Admistration Is Said to
Believe That the United
States Is Partial to General
Bonnilla
(By Associated Press.)
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 27.-That the
Davila administration in Honduras be
lieves the United States government
wants to see Manuel Bonilla president
of Honduras is the belief of many of
the Davila supporters in Central Ameri
can circles here.
The Times-Democrat this morning pub
lishes the folio-wing in regard to the
revolutionary movement in New Or
leans:
"Latin-American revolutions were in
the air yesterday locally. Many impor
tant conferences were held on the sit
uation in Honduras and other parts of
Central America, and, in addition, it de
veloped that some budding revolution
promoters from Cuba have made their
appearance.
“For some time past it has been re
marked that the Spanish-American pop
ulation of New Orleans has been in
creasing rapidly. Every ship arriving
within the last few weeks, has brought
at least two of the olive-complexioned
natives, and it is the helis' now that
New Orleans is becoming a revolution
ist center for at least five countries.
CUBANS ARRIVING.
“The Cuban revolutionists arrived last
week and It Is asserted are making prep
arations for the starting of an expedi
tion from some gulf port. They are
emboldened by the success of the Bonilla
faction In starting the Hornet for Cape
Gracias, but it is said that they are
working under different conditions.
“A prominent Cuban who was here
yesterday said: ‘I am sorry to see
those fellows here to plan a reyolt.
Revolutions are not desired at any time
In Cuba, and less now than at any other
time. We know that the United States
has secret service men at all the south
ern and gulf ports and we feel sure
that any attempt will be promptly nip
ped in the bud. We do not care for
this except we fear that the president
will conclude that there is no use trou
bling with Cuba any longer.
FEARS FOR CUBA.
“ ‘lf there is another intervention, wa
fear that Cuba will never be an inde
pendent state,. That is why the con
servative Cubans discourage anything
like revolutionary plans.’
“Those in touch with the situation said
last night, however, that the revolution
ary plotters mean to carry their at
tempt as far as possible. It Is known
that they appealed to certain local per
sons for assistance and were refused
because of the known hostility of the
United States to any such expedition.
“It is now believed that this is not
the case with the Honduras plan-
Charges are made by friends of Presi
dent Davila here that General Bonilla
has the moral support of persons who
are influential at Washington
HONDURANS PROTEST.
"The Hondurans are filing protest af
ter protest in Washington and many
of these are emanating from persons
in New Orleans who want to protect
certain concessions that the Davila gov
ernment has authorized, but, it is al
leged by Davila's friends here, that the
state department is turning a deaf ear.
“At any rate, both sides in the Cen
tral American controversy are awaiting
with expectancy news of the where
abouts of the Hornet. General Bonilla's
friends would not ciscuss th# situation
last night, nor was it possible to ascer
tain what has become of General Bonilla
himself. It was stated by private detec
tives who were retained on the case that
the ex-president of Honduras was un
questionably not in the city, while
friends of Gen. Lee Christmas said he
had gone to Hammond, La., for a hunt.”
HONDUHIN REBELS .
LED BY CHRISTMAS,
MARCHING ON GIEBA
Long Threatened Revolution Is
Reported to Have Begun
Along the Frontier Between
Honduras and Nicaragua
(By Associated Press.)
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 29.—A revolution
has broken out in Honduras and fighting
is now going on along the Honduran-
Nicaraguan border, according to wireless
advices received here late last night.
Gen. Lee Christmas is reported to be at
the head of 1,600 men, many of them
Americans, who have been encamped
along the Nicaraguan border with 40
days' provisions, for several days.
The reports indicate that the most
fighting is about 20 miles below Cape
Gracias, Nicaragua, on the Horyiuran
side. It is known that the Davila gov
ernment sent $55,000 in silver from Puerto
Cortez to Ceiba, a few days ago, and it
is belfeved that th e latter city Js the ob
jective point of General Christmas. •
The advices intimate that the plan of
attack is for Christmas to force his way
through, inland while General Bonilla
attacks Ceiba from the Puerto Cortez side
leaving the Hornet, which is said to be
heavily fitted, at Puerto Cortez while
that port is held under her guns.
OIL TfILJST SUIT MIL
BE HELD IH KANSAS
Special Commissioner Will
Hear It, Evidence Fills Eight
Volumes
(By Associated Press.)
TOPEKA, Kas., Dec. 29.—The anti
trust suit brought by the state of Kan
sas against the Standard Oil company
will be submitted to L. W. Kepllnger,
special commissioner of the state su
preme court in Kansas City, Kas., today.
The evidence in the case comprises eight
volumes, a total of 3.910 typewritten
pages. Each page contains about two
hundred words.
The attornej’ general and attorney*
for the Standard Oil company will be
gin their argument* before the commis
sioner today, after which the findings of
the commissioner will be made to the
state supreme court.
SEVERAL APPLICANTS
AT S. A. E. CONCLAVE
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 29.—Applications
for charters made by several universities
and colleges were considered at today’s
session of the 54th\ national conclave of
the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
♦ WIFE GAVE BXiOOD, *■
♦ BUT HUSBAND DIED *■
♦ LYNN, Mass.. Dec. 29.—William ♦
♦ H. Treen, president of the Lynn ♦
-* Board of Trade, is dead at his ♦
♦ home here, although his wife gave ♦
♦ her blood In an effort to save him. -*•
♦ He suffered from a series of nasal ♦
♦ hemorrhages which weakened his •*•
♦ system to such an extent that the ♦
♦ transfusion was advised. It failed ■*
♦ to prolong his life, however. ■*■
AERIAL DERBY WON
HF BRITISH FLYER
IN FRENCH MACHINE
James Radley, Driving Blerfot
Monoplane, Beats Ely in
Curtiss and Parmalee in ~
“Baby” Wright
MADE SPEED AVERAGE
OF 57 MILES AN HOUR
Exhibition Flying Will Soon Be
Commonplace, Curtiss De
clares, and Races Will Be
Whole Show
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SMB V -
(By Aiseciated Pre»i.)
AVIATION FIELD, LOS -
Dec. 29.—England and France In a sfeed
coalition defeated the United Stated ,
Wednesday afternoon in the first aero
plane derby ever run. James Ra<!ley,
the British speed champion, in a French "
Bleriot monoplane, beat Eugene Ely.
flying a Curtiss racer, and Parmalee.
in a "baby” Wright, In an eight and ; ;
three-quarters mile race. He establish- 5
ed a new record for the Los Angeles
field, his time for eight and three-q ’i
ter miles being 9:13 1-5, or an average bf ;
about 57 miles an hour.
His fastest lap was at the rate
of almost a mile a minute.
Elys time was 10:02 4-5, or about 52 *i
miles an hour.
Parmalee’s time was 10:35, or about 43 ■-*
miles an hour.
It was extremely gustly when the
starting gun was fired and the air cur
rents blew, but it seemed that there
was hardly a second's variation in the
elapsed time of any of the Radley
rounds and not more than a seconl in
any of Ely's.
•'Mere exhibition flying is about tq
pass Into the realm of commonplace,” <
said Glenn H. Curtiss this \ evening, tq
"The novelty of that has worn off and
henceforth racing will be the thins.”
Herbert Latham made a record in re- 9
covering from disaster. His monopland’.lll
was wrecked Monday and he had it out
again today, making flights with his
mechanic as a passenger.
Licoln Beachy, the newest recruit to
the Curtiss staff of aviators, met with
disaster, his machine being wrecked.
Aviator Moissant Will
Try for Michelin i3up
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 28.-r—lt was an
nounced here this morning that John B.
Moissant will try either on Friday or
Saturday of this week for the Michelin
cup and 84,000 in cash. This trophy is ~
awarded annually to the aviator who,
during each calendar year, covers th* *
greatest distance in continuous flight
around a closed circuit of any length, ®
but whose every part is visible to the
official observers. At present Le<ag- *
neux, the French airman, has the best
grip on the cup, with a credit of 320.3
miles made about ten davs ago. A 50-
horsepower Bleriot/monoplane will be
used by Moissant here.
A 5-mlle hexagonal course has been
laid out and officially surveyed fdr
Moissant's attempt to bring the famous
trophy to the United States. Moissant is
the first American airman to try for ths"
Michelin trophy in this country. Wil
bur Wright won it once with a flight of
.a litle over 44 miles, but his cup lifting
Journey was undertaken in France.
Should Moissant be successful he will
have to remain aloft for at least six
hours continually.
The machine he will use in the M che
lin cup flight w’ill be the same mono
plane that he used at Belmont park, (
when he landed second place for the
United States in the international cup
prize race, after Drexel, Brookins and
Hamilton had all failed either to qualify
or to do anything that assured the •*
United States a place winner in the
contest.
A special gasoline tank of 40 gallons
capacity has been m . to the inter
national cup racer z!*XMoissant hopes to
fly at 350 miles without effecting a land
ing.
Tne course that has been established
for the trial Is over the Salt Meadous in
the west section of the city, an extreme
ly windy locality and one which prom
ises little in the way of comfortable
driving for the airman.
Moissant last night told G. F. Csmp
bell-Wood, the official observer of the
Aero Club of America, who was sent
here to observe the flight for the Miche
lin cup, that he felt very sanguine about
lifting the cup, and would, if atmos
pheric and mechanical conditions were
favorable iry to fly 400 mUes without
alighting.
In an address before the New Orleans
Progressive union, Moissant, president of
the International Aviators, declared tbtt
the aeroplane “will be to nations what
the revolver is to belligerent individ
uals, placing them big and small, on an
equal footing so far as fighting is con
cerned.”
“When the aeroplane is perfected,” said
Mr. Moissant, “the nation big in wealth
and in population” cannot longer bully
and mistreat the smaller nation. With
one or two aeroplanes a hard blow could
be dealt the bullying power by the small
er country at almost any time.”
Mr. Moissant said the aeroplane Will ■
eventually make nations Just in their
dealings with each other. He depre
cated the lack of interest displayed by the
government of the United States in avia
tion and said this country is three j’ears
behind the European nations in experi
mental work with this new engine of
warfare.
“And, mark my words,” he concluded,
"the next war will b e fought largely with
aeroplanes.”
World Monoplane Record
Broken by Aviator Simon
NEW ORLEANS. Dec. 29.—Rene Si
mon, the French aviator, Wednesday af
ternoon at aviation field, broke the
world’s record for monoplanes when he
circled the mile track in a 20-mile an hour
wind in 57 seconds flat.
This is the fastest mile ever made by
a monoplane under any condition on a
mile course.
The machine used was a 50-horsepower
Bleriot and Simon drove the dangerous
turns at an angle that threatened to send
him sliding off the airbanks to the
ground on one wing. He negotiated those
curves with perfect control, however.
The high wind prevented any speed fly
ing, the upper currents at times ap
uroachinir the 50-mile mark.
NO. 29.
