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Darwin's Delight. Arthur Brisbane, Hearstling seer, certainly no poet, found other ways to comment on Captain Lindbergh's flight. One of the aviator's chief regrets was that he had not been able to see a whale. "It is too bad," said Mr. Brisbane, "for Lindbergh, flying low to study spouting whale; the whale studying Lindbergh with its tiny eyes would have been a sight to delight Darwin."
U. S. Honors. When Captain Lindbergh arrives in the U. S., he will find Barnum-scale welcomes wherever he goes-and U. S. railroad executives have offered him free transportation to any point. He will see his picture on U. S. Army recruiting billboards; his name in advertisements* for wrist watches, fountain pens, automobiles, what not. He will discover that the New York Daily News (tabloid) has distributed sepia photographs of him, "ready for framing," to its gum-chewing readers. He will see shopgirls wearing his features on their handbags, his monoplane models on their hats.
He will be asked to journey to the "Summer White House" in the Black Hills of South Dakota, so that President Coolidge may personally bestow upon him the Distinguished Flying Cross. When Congress convenes in December, he will probably be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
What to Do? Inhabitants of the U. S. have not been slow to outline Captain Lindbergh's future for him. James Joseph Tunney, fighter, suggests that he make a fortune in cinema or vaudeville, while the making is good. Following this course, Captain Lindbergh could easily put away a nest egg of $1,000,000 within a year. Will Rogers, funnyman and newspaper philosopher, suggests that the U. S. Government give him a life pension and a high position in the aviation service. Others believe that he should glorify the U. S. by new exploits, flights to Australia, to the South Pole, around the world.
Meanwhile, Captain Lindbergh is saying little, waiting until he returns to the U. S. to make his plans. He has, however, denied the report that he will soon attempt a flight to Australia. He may return to the air mail service. He may enter the airplane manufacturing business, perhaps in the Ryan Airlines, Inc., of San Diego, Calif., which-built his monoplane. Said Benjamin F. Mahoney, president of the Ryan company: "Lindbergh flies, but he keeps his feet on the ground."
*The New York Evening Graphic (Bernarr Macfadden's sheetlet) went so far as to suggest that President Coolidge appoint Captain Lindbergh ambassador-at-large to Europe.
*Unquestionably France's most brilliant poet-dramatist, author of Cyrano de Bergerac, L'Aiglon, Chantecler.
*Your chance to meet a glorious ad-venturer," sang out an advertisement of R. H. Macy's department store, Manhattan, last week. The "amazing young man" on exhibition was not, of course, Captain Lindbergh; but was Richard Halliburton, engaged in autographing his athletic travel-book, The Glorious Adventure (TIME, May 30).