NOVEMBER 12, 1935, View of Earth Shows Curve To Sky Riders KIMBALL, S. D., Nov. 12. A panorama of the surface of the earth curving down to the horizon just as Columbus had pictured it more than 400 years ago was one of the vivid remembrances Capt. Orvil A. Anderson, pilot of the Army Air Corps. National Geographic stratsphere flight brought back to earth with him. The downward curvature was plainly visible, he said. The horizon was somewhat blurred, and I believe it was at least 400 miles distant. I was impressed at the lack of detail in the earth from the ceiling of the flight, he said, after piloting the gigantic balloon, Explorer 2nd, to a new record height yesterday. Small towns were indistinct, highways were barely discernable and farms appeared as small checkerboards. BROTHER THRILLED The ascent of Captain Orvil Anderson to a height of 74,187 feet, an unofficial record, was a great thrill to his brother, E. L. Anderson, 306 Twenty seventh street. I certainly was glad to hear that Orvil and his companion made such a successful flight into the stratosphere, and came down without mishap, Mr. Anderson said. Mr. Anderson said Captain Anderson, who has been in the army balloon, dirigible and airplane service since 1918, with headquarters at San Antonio, Texas, probably would visit in Ogden again next summer. The balloonist visited here last summer. CURVATURE SEEN The fliers said they noted a marked curvature of the earth from the height of 73,000 feet. They said they were impressed by the lack of detail in the earths surface. Larger towns were visible, but blurred, they reported. Capt. Anderson said he was confident the balloon could have gone at least 5,000 feet higher. He emphasized that his calculation of a 73,000 foot ceiling was subject to check of the meterograph which was suspended below the gondola. 7 APRIL SUNDAY AMERICA'S FIRST DUTY IS TO BE LOYAL TO HERSELF (New York World Telegram) Sir Josiah Stamp, British economist, declares America today faces the biggest moral issue in her history in view of the grave turn of international events. America, he said, could only be cynically indifferent at the price of Europe in ruins. Americas moral issue, therefore, is between actively helping try to save the world and letting things slide. A cartoon from a leading London daily depicts John Bull standing up manfully to a gigantic Mussolini, while Uncle Sam, from the sidelines, is asking John why he doesnt stay out, too. The subtle propaganda already making its appearance in Europe has an all too familiar ring. For we belong to the generation that lived through the world war. At the outset of that war the head of a great American news gathering organization called on the premier of an allied country. The American public, he explained, is pretty hazy on what the wars all about. So I have come here, just as I shall do in Berlin, to offer you our facilities if you care to state your case. Ours is not a propaganda agency. But we do feel our public is entitled to hear both sides. Hence our desire to cooperate. Cooperate? in effect replied the apparently amazed statesman. I see no call for cooperation. This is our war, not Americas. Good morning. That was at the beginning of Europes war. Germany would soon be licked. We had nothing to do with it. It would soon be over and the spoils divided. The less America meddled the better. Before the war was halfway over, however, the picture had entirely changed. In speech, press and cartoon America was being lambasted for staying out. It was a war for civilization. A war to end war. In fact, it was Americas war. And an unsportsmanlike people were holding aloof, letting others fight and die for them while they coined dollars out of Europes blood. We are not concerned here with the rightness or the wrongness of all that. The point is that we were shamed and bullied by propaganda into lending a hand in a fight which at first, admittedly, was none of our business. Today Europe is inclined to insist that her quarrels, dating back two millenniums, are really our quarrels. When a European power which did not get its share of the spoils of the last war tries to grab a colony somewhere in Africa the other and more fortunate powers cry out that Americas duty is to step in and help stop it. The propaganda barrage begins. Whereupon our wartime memories again come to life. When President Wilson suggested an end of the war on a basis of peace without victory he was jeered. When later, at the peace conference, he fought against the spoils of war, he was almost leaped upon. Todays war in Africa is and tomorrows wars in Europe will be largely because his advice was not taken. Yet when the new wars come we will be swamped again by shaming, bullying and cajoling propaganda to make us feel that it is our war. Unquestionably the world is growing small. Certainly, it will be difficult, if not impossible, for us to stay out of a new major war, if it lasts long enough. Nevertheless, it is our duty to try. And one way is for us to keep our heads not to permit our emotions to run away with our reason. We must learn, among other things, not to allow propaganda, whether originating at home or abroad, to blind us to fundamental truth. Which is that Americas first duty to the world is to be loyal to herself.