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I AVIATION .NUMBER
I Goodwin's Weekly I
VOL. XVIII SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FEBRUARY 11, 191 1 KQ. 17 I
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H The Man Birds Meet
THE aviation meet will begin its sessions to
day. Great things that. Playing with the
M shells on the shore as yet, but the bold
M wing will compass the ocean soon. Man has per-
B formed wonders in expediting travel on land and
B on sea. Now he has turned his audacious eyes to
M the air and has begun its conquest On the land
m there are dangerous mountains to cross or go
H around or bore through; there are rivers to
H cross; there are a thousand obstacles to over-
m come to make safe and smooth paths. On the
H sea there are treacherous currents, the night, the
Hi tornado to meet and outride, there is the pall of
H fog which the ocean draws over Its face; there
H are treacherous coasts; there is the danger of
H collisions, dangers of fire and icebergs; the deep
H-, sea is jealous when its domain is invaded; but
H after three thousand years of trial man has
H pretty well conquered it. Now he has turned his
H eyes up toward the stars and has begun his con-
Hj quest of the air. The sea has no elarMclty, the
H air is the most elastic of fluids. The waters are
Hi eighteen times more, dense than the air; but
H. these facts do not discourage the man-bird. He
H' has learned to fly a little; his ship is being im-
Hi proved every year and every year his flights are
longer and longer. Many sacrifices are exacted
but when one man falls another takes his place,
and the conquest goes steadily on. One of these
days the ship will be built on exactly scientific
principles; and science will steady the pilot in
j charge. And a flock of these men birds have
come here to try their wings. We hope their
viBit will be a success, unmarred by any accl
4" dent; that the meet will be instructive and
pleasant to the people, and that the "birds will
have their wings under absolute control.
Lincoln And Washington
TOMORROW will be the Abraham Lincoln
anniversary, ten days later will be that
of George Washington. They should be
considered together. No other land ever gave
birth to Buch another pair. There have been he
roes, statesmen, patriots and scholars in all civ
ilized lands; there have been greater soldiers
than Washington, greater statesmen, than Lin
coln; there have been far more eminent schol
ij? ars than either of them; but there have been
none others that possessed the combination of
B attributes which made either a Washington or a
H M"oln. The two were in all outward guises
H ally dissimilar. One was grave, reserved of
H bpeech and seldom smiled. The other was so
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joyous to the world that looking at him and
listening to) him men forgot the sadness that
shone out through his face; one was deliberate,
the oth'er often impetuous; the one had little
sense of humor; the other was running over
with it; the one had a slow, calculating mind;
the other a quick analytical mind that went in
stantly to the inner depths of a subject and
weighed the good and the evil contained in it on
impartial scales. Both drew men to them, the
one as draws the attraction of gravitation; the
other as the sunbeams finally set the glacier in
flow. The storm of battle could not quicken the
pulses of the one; the other was calm when the
throes of a nation in its second birth was con
vulsing a continent.
How is it that now after both have long been
dead, that when the name of one is spoken, the
other is always brought to mind? They had
some commanding gifts in common. To never
falter in duty toward native land was one of
these gifts. In executing that duty neither life nor
fortune or personal consequences was for a mo
ment considered by either of them. An unap
proachable integrity was an attribute of each.
No man would ever have dared to make a dis
honorable proposition to George Washington.
"He was the honestest man I ever saw," said
Douglas of Lincoln.
A love of liberty was a grand passion with
both and to further the cause of freedom no
self-sacrifice was ever too great for either to
shrink from it. Both were ambitious, but their
ambitions were to magnify native land and to
insure to all its people the utmost degree of
peace, prosperity and happiness.
Each was great brained and accomplished in,
their respective spheres all1 that mortal could'
accomplish. Finally they are thought of togeth'
er because they each possessed the necessary
gifts and the necessary checks and balances,
which when given to a mortal make that some
thing which men call "a perfect character." One
had the gifts to create a nation, the other the
gifts to save it Both faced storms which only
such men could meet, and botf- triumphed;
though one offered his life over ana over in the
pitiless struggle; the other gave his life that a
super-human work might not be in vain.
Both were misjudged in life, both had bitter
enemies, but when the final call came for each, a
splendor gathered over their death couches that
melted the world to tears.
And the youth of this land should remem
ber that both came up from the people; that one
grew up on a farm; that the other passed
through a childhood squalid and wretched enough
to have broken L,ay heart save the lion-heart in
his breast; that neither ever asked for any
thing but an even show among their fellow men,
but that out of such a beginning they each
carved their names in letters of gold on the im
mortal heights where they will shine on and
on and grow Liore and more sacred forever.
Look To The Atoms
A MOUNTAIN is just what the atoms in the
mountain make it. If they are porphyry then
the mountain will be porphyry; if limestone
or sandstone, or granite, then the whole moun
tain will be limestone, or sandstone, or granite.
It is the same with society. It is what its
atoms are. .When a mountain, say of granite,
has beon shivered by "one of thosTOjjPffsions
called 'an earthquake, tben (the tf$ntali,n xe- H
mains granite, but it is filled with faults, seams H
and displacements. The granite in the great H
temple here in its native state was found in H
boulders; the ledge had been shivered. Society H
is the same way here. Many of its units have H
been rent and torn by misfortune, ignorance and H
sometimes by crime, until they are little more H
than debriB on the scrap pile of poor humanity. H
These should be looked after, taken up and
cared for. Our humane society is looking after
diseased and under-fed and over-worked animals.
If the agents see a horse slip and fall under a
heavy load, they compel the owner to have him
shod; if he is hopelessly crippled they will not 'M
let him work. This is right, for the animal can M
make no protest he is but a dumb slave. But
there are men, and we suspect women here, H
who have followed their vices until they are
physically and mentally broken down. Hunger H
or thirst prompts them to beg, and dissipation H
has killed their pride and self-respect. Many a H
man who would interpose were a teamster abus-
ing his horses, will turn coldly aside when one M
of these human shattered wrecks appeals to him H
for help. Still these creatures ought to be of H
more concernment to the world than a crippled
horse. There should be an organization here to H
look out for them, or the field of the Salvation
Army should be strengthened by more means. H
The organization might work with the army and
these people should be warmly clothed and H
have sufficient food, and In this, the city, the
county and individuals should help. H
It Looks That Way H
T TAS our Government more respect and refh
l'-J, erence ifor money and those who possess H
it in commanding amounts than for th
people? A very strong showing might be made
to prove that such is the fact. Indeed the triie
history of the country for the past fifty years,
very nearly confirms it H
Let us see. A great war was sprung upon H
the country; one that threatened its very life.
The Government called upon the land for vol-
unteers to come to its rescue. When the" war H
became exceedingly sore it asserted Its sovereign
function and drafted its needed soldiers. At the
same time the men who had money locked it H
up, and to mset the constantly growing liabili- H
ties the Government issued its notes, payable at -M
its convenience, if the soldiers saved the coun- '
try, if not of necessity to be repudiated. It paid H
the men who were fighting and dying as much H
of those paper promises as represented ?13 per H
month. But strangely enough with this doubt- H
ful medium of exchange, the business of the H
whole north and old west prospered more than it H
had in. times of peace. It enabled people to carry
on their enterprises without hindrance. It was M
not the best kind of an Implement with which to H
work, but It was an implement which was a vast H
improvement over trying to do the work with M
their naked hands. It was business, not barter. M
But it depreciated in value- compared with the M
gold and sliver that was locked up and which
was supplied monthly from the mines of the far
west. The Government was obliged to have
some gold and silver at stated periods to meet
the interest upon its debts, and so a so-called H
financial system was adopted through which cer- H