The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-31
No More Air Mail?

Congress seems reluctant to make fur,
Their appropriations for airplane mai
service, many members believing that
such service is needlesslv expensive.
This opinion is shared by the Utica OBJ
server DemD. which points out that
the house postal committee finds the
service of little practical value except
as an aeronautical experiment" and
adds:
This has been the observation of
business The carrying of mail by fly
ing machine Is a curiosity, fad,
somewhat novel thing, but it Is OF little
practical value. When great haste is
required in a business or private com
munication in these times, the teie-
graph or telephone is used The ordi-
nary mails are reasonably speedy and
satisfactory, while the air mail is un-
reliable. To spend large sums upon it
without securing greater return is one
Of the extravagant propositions Of the
time"
But many other opinions are sharply
at variance with this. The Charlotte
Observer Qnd. Dem), for example,
thinks that 1.-The people today would be
no less impatient with a proposition
to hold the mail service to the railroads
than thay would have been years ago
over a proposition to keep the mail SER
vice confined to steamboats, and stage
tells rs that contrary 10 nubIic under
standing airplane mail Is cheaper than
| railroad mail" and that the air mail
service has paid for itself in the sale
of special airplano postage and the
saving of car space and cost Of distri-
button in trains"
tho Tn vj ~ opel aCeu al iosS, Soy
ing this opinion, lit should be retained
and extended" for the country must
ttba da,5 sa iIor, lluE u.s. anu
oybjhitn I,r"iiu 1oL p,amts ~, spona.l'E,
e@t'lH II anu GoinhercldI purposes Is
n alpr atse enough TO keep ms country
The W. me I,tli'pn p0"TrS III .te a. a.
industIV s'i'eiV hluSo P"ir o''1ne 'nF
war" similar view US Is taken by the
Crond PoH 9itIIid pr we" 10 SaNeh pS Jde
cIo % ~ doSf SIu(, When Is
nIano 10 .'i" ct eG ueiLNeLS oa MAJ, Dy ar
PItt Sn,,i ~ onIS pus.ess GGmNsillei!oe
TORS wbn onId ha 1 Jro VIZ Hn.neI az ~
oo,Tnt VIZ couio pe ulamIl upon ny me
epeaty enco, al, tb hidi anu WoGIu
S6iones oDd 'e uIit,u,hs VI az
grants nnu etaI ur,eSs CGlsress
t S,""'s ai'plop ia lor carving on
t ne SSrE wee, tne lhuustry can pun
r ,nr9o, oiliS because 1l ttie PLUCK ana
pra 'U ,bn sal lies o. me Iahulactur-
tn ~ Tto ar my noiuLnS eAiilplts, AKIN
c ~ r,iJ aIIoiILooIie SHOWS. III various
cues IN Inc nope mat private interests
III .tTho f Tuitcs ieaS pe aroused, ~
lousl,, erIi ou "ta'e hds oeeh HotoI-
,,niotSS;r ne useiiu IN We mater ol 9e
CRep s, rbT a., tne Oitlama pee
t,i,,, ~ hh,et'ousn ~ vas an
vas nrova5 'u unssih, nav prSe,lcad LIIsns
Euronaons 70 enrnns NC ia ~ ai ivy
~ rtui ~ Gpoala ~ sGtpasS US III every point
| 0ur fl,,saoro ~ ~ auop'to" lor service.
or,issintl 90, GU o,,+ 1i1ot % ~ Lepa't lhlS
oi,t 90 p on t rnoI AZ ~ 'lle MAR turned
oitogetber orodite tin CTsty anu mot
SS5o ooo s+roi,nn peit1riii an Inc
be restoro6 j. i'o'n 'ile p'h shoulu
The Atlanta Journal nor, COW,
t,at ne autdlsa ;Journai Ipem;), says
record r.aC' nf tha III Ine MoTIu mas me
toT ~ VI 1890 one aerlaa maj III me mat 1
cost of o vEOmVioE he. ven equaleu. me
mile Tbis a cost mas ino,u nde o. cents per
Of TateriaI md or inr,uu , eteFS piece
enterinp nj INTO tbo e renSi nI Inv OF tne