Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-08-17

ing, nothing at all. His machine was
forced down four days in succession Thereupon
he abandoned the trip.
In Chicago, not long ago, local flyer took up a
bridegroom and bride for short flight They
were honeymOoning and wanted the best there
was going in the way of seeing the sights The
machine crashed. Both passengers were killed
President Harding was making an open-air
address recently in Washington commercial
flyer took his plane full of sightseers close that
the Presidents voice was drowned out and so
close to the vast crowd that had the plane fallen
scores would have been killed and injured.
These but three incdents-any issue of a
newspaper will furnish more-which clearly indi-
cate, according to the experts, that aviation in
the United States is at loose ends and that the
situation is so bad that something really must be
done about it,
BY way of emphasis to our own do-nothing pol.
icy, the experts declare, Europe is dotted with
landing places and lined with air routes Euro
pean nations stimulating commercial aviation
with subsidies
On the other hand, according to the experts, the
results of systematic development are shown by
the fact that the air mail service of the Post Office
Department has just completed year without
a single fatal accident, with 1,750O0O miles COW
cred.
In congress the Wadsworth-IIicks bill is pend
ing. This provides for United States bureau of
commercial aviation.
Out of congress the National Aeronautic assO
citation and the Society of AutOmotve Engineers
are cooperating the drafting of an aeronautic
safety code, with the assistance of experts of the
bureau of Standards Pending the passage of the
Wadsworth-iIcks bill the draft of its safety code
is tentative, but its principal provisions will in
cIude:
Inspection of aviators and aircraft in connec.
with fine GRANTING Of lippnSpc tn nil
transportation companies; prohibiting of danger
Gus proximity of aircraft in flight rules govern
ing personnel and equipment of airdrOmes, includ-
ing medical and signal equipment; aircraft radio
regulation rules for landing fields; lighthouses for
night flying and landing.
In the senate the other day Senator Thomas ].
Walsh of Montana read into the Congressional
Record an article "Our Aviation Problem" con-
tribued to the New York Times by Senator David
| l. Walsh of Massachusetts, saying that it was an
interesting discussion of the problem of aviation
pertinent to the discussion of the bill now before
! the senate.
Senator Walsh of Massachusetts in this article
| says that what now need is the consolidation
of the Army and Navy departments into the De.
partment of National Defense with secretary ot
It's head and three undersecretaries for the army,
navy and air.
Here are some of the points made by Senator
Walsh of Massachusetts in the article:
ut Is regreable that in or out of congress there
is so little interest in what government is do
ing, rather failing TO do, to stimulate interest
In aeronautical matters and to foster and encOur-
age in every manner possible this most important
means Of defense and transportation which has
come to be generally acknowledged among pro-
gressvc nations of vital necessity to their COM
mercial and industrial expansion and to their pro-
| lection and prosperity.
"The inestimable value Of this comparatively
new science was demonstrated during the World
war and will deny that it must play an
even larger part in any future controversy be-
tween natiOns-whether on land on the sea.
Since the termination of the World war much