Lindbergh's Flight according to Will Rogers
How To Reward Lindbergh; Ideas From Will Rogers
BOSTON, MASS., May 24. - There is a hundred and twenty million
people in America all ready to tell Lindbergh what to do. The first
thing we want to get into our heads is that this boy is not our usual type
of hero that we are used to dealing with. He is all the others rolled
into one and then multiplied by ten, and his case must be treated in a
more dignified way.
In the first place, the Government should reward him handsomely
with a life pension and a high position in our Government aviation program.
Second, instead of us paying money to see him on the stage or screen (where
he don’t belong), take that admission money and make it into a national
testimonial that will provide a fund for he and his mother for life.
Let him have his entire time open to assist aviation, then he will be a
blessing to us and not a sideshow.
We don’t ask our retiring President to go into vaudeville
and we would resent it if they did. England don’t allow their Prince
of Wales to go on paid exhibitions. Well, this lad is our biggest
national asset. He is our Prince and our President combined, and
I will personally play benefits for him the rest of my life to keep him
from having to make exhibitions out of himself. We only get one of
these in a lifetime.
Yours, one of the hundred million advisors,
Will Rogers
P.S.-And listen: While waiting to do something to honor Lindbergh, make
another contribution to the flood. That will please him more than
anything you could do. Six hundred thousand are being fed and cared
for by the public. It’s our worst calamity in our lifetime.
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