Judge — July 22, 1911 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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D I ee High Flying Expensive. FRACTION of our population is interesting itself in the cost of high flying. It seems that any one who has the price of a first-class touring au- tomobile and the income required to keep it up can afford to support a flying machine. About five hundred air- ships will be manu- factured in the United States during 1911 and about twice as many in Europe. One of fair quality can be bought for $5,000. With it must be acquired a good mechanic who understands its workings, just as an automobile owner must have a chauf- feur. Almost any man can learn to con- trol an automobile, and, although he has a chauffeur, every auto owner desires to run it himself sometimes, It takes time and it costs money to learn how to operate an airship. The cost of learn- ing is put at $1,000. Fuel and oil cost about five cents per mile. For each long trip in the air there may be es- timated, as cost of upkeep and repairs, $50. Breakdowns and other accidents will take from $100 to $5,000 a year, according to luck and gumption. How- ever, there have been fortunes made in flying. A Frenchman who was accus- tomed to make $15 per week when he kept his feet on the ground has captured $200,000 in prizes by aviation flights. Earnings of a successful birdman who 0 Tawa a Co) Os) ‘oe! ‘eed has no mishaps will often run up to $25,000 ayear. Next year it is expected that many will enter the business of fly- ing. The safe prediction is that some will break records and that others will break their necks. Needs No Press Agent. ENATOR BOURNE, of Oregon, needs no press bureau. He is an adept in looking after his own advertising. It would seem that he purposely gets on the wrong side of many public questions, in order to be lonely and to be a shin- ing mark for thegnewspapers. This champion of lost causes has now devoted himself to the advocacy of the ju- dicial recall. He insists that those who oppose the recall insult the people and reflect upon their integrity and intel- ligence. The man knows better. The people are fully aware that the adop- tion of the recall for judges would make our courts the spoils of politicians and would deter lawyers of the highest character and ability from accepting positions where they would be at the mercy of a sudden passion on the part of the populace or of the manipula- tions of designing politicians. The ju- dicial recall will go to that bourne where so many other anarchistic no- tions are interred. THE HUMAN RACE. Caustic Comment. EADERS of the daily newspapers might be forgiven if they assumed that it was John Hays Hammond who was crowned over in England and not the modest gentle- man who is known as George V. The crown was really put on George's head and the anoint- ing oil was rubbed on him. Of course there is a possibility that Mr. Ham- mond was permitted to try the crown on in private and to use some of the oil in making a salad. * Crop conditions are variable this year, just as in other years, if the Wall Street statisticians of agriculture are to be credited. Some days the crops are ruined and on other days the prospects are bright for the greatest yield ever known. This goes to show that Wall Street is a poor place to go for reliable crop news. Its only steady, unfailing crop is of rumors. One sort of American hold up has crossed the ocean and found lodgment in Vienna. That city has had its first tag with the exception that flowers The innova- day, were substituted for tags. a novelty, but it is as a continuous per- tion was relish: not likely to prov formance any more popular there than it is in the land where it originated. comicbooks.com