The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-08-25

the states and to report to the federal
E.....t government on the condition and avail
I"..J ability OF landing fields and on other
EX.l} aviation matters. Probably he had a
I'll good machine; 1t Ia to be presumed that
IL VI he had the best available And what
G.<xA.J ala Eddie Rickenbacker report2 Moth
Ing. nothing Mt all. His machine was
,oreeh down four days in succession. Thereupon
ne abandoned the trip.
IN chicago. not Tong ago, local flyer took I'D n
bridegroom and bride for n short flight Tbev
were honeyhooning and wanted the best there
was going In the way OF seeing the sights The
machine crashed Both passengers were killed
President Harding making an openair
address recently In Washington commercial
hyer took his plane full OF sghtseers so close that
the Presidents voice was drowned out and On
close to the vast crowd that had the plane fallen
scores would have been killed and injured
These are but three lncldents-any issue OF n
newspaper VIII furnish more-whch Clearly indI.
cate. according TO the experts that avintion I'm
the United States Is nj loose ends and TINT the
situation Is 80 bad that something really must be
done about IT,
by way of emphasis to our own do.nothinr mol.
ley, the experts declare, Europe Ia dotted with
landing places and lined with air routes Euro
pean nations are stimulating commercial aviation
with subsidies.
On the other hand, according to the experts the
results of systematic development nre shown nv
the fact that the air mall service of the Post Oacc
Department has just completed n year witbout
single fatal accident. with 175OoOO miles COW
cred.
In congress the wadsworth- Hicks bin Ia nerd
Ing. This provides for a United States bureau OF
commercial aviation
Out of congress the National Aeronantic asso
citation and the Society OF Automotve Engineers
are cooperating the drafting Of an aeronautIe
safety code. with the assistance of experts OF the
bureau of standards Pending the passage of the
Wadsworih-iIcks bin the draft OF It's safety code
is tentative, but Its principal provisions win in.
clude:
Inspection of avlators and aircraft In connec-
ton with the granting OF licenses to pilots and mir
transportation companies; prohibiting OF danger
ous proximity OF aircraft In flight: rules govern
Ing personnel and equipment of airdromes, inciud.
Ing medical and signal equipment aircraft radio
regulation rules for landing fields lighthouses for
night dying and landing.
In the senate the other day Senator Thomas j.
Walsh of Montana read into the Congressional
Record article. "Our Aviation Problem" con.
trihuted to the New York Times by Senator David
1 Welsh of Massachusetts. saying that IL was an
Interesting discussion of the problem OF aviation
pertinent to the discussion of the bill now before
the senate
Senator Walsh Of ssachusetts I'm this article
says that what now need Is the consolidation
of the Army and Navy departments into the De
partment Of National Defense with II secretary nj
navy and air.
Here some Of the points made by Senator
Walsh OF Massachusetts In the article:
1t Is regrettable that In of congress there
Is so little interest In what our government is do
ing rather failing To do. to stimulate interest
In aeroaauticai matters and to foster and encour.
age In every manner possible this most Important
means az defense and transportation which has
come to be generally acknowledged among pro-
gressive nations as OF vital necessity TO their COM
nercal aud Industrial expansion and to their pro-
lection and prosperity.
THE inestlmabe value of this comparatively
new science was demonstrated during the World
war ana no one will deny that II must play an
even larger part In any future controversy be-
tween natIons--whether on land the sea
.Since the termination OF the World war much