New Britain herald., 1923-11-24


 Chairman Porter Adams of the
 Boston air board, speaking at the meeting of the Rotary club Thursday, amazed his hearers with an account
 Of the progress of the airplane and 1 hinted that, in his opinion, the end
 was not yet.
 Although the air service is equip
 ped with obsolete and discarded army 1 planes, according to MT. Adams the service has maintained a standard for l completing trips on schedule of 96.S1 per cent which he said was better than the Pennsylvania railroad has done. He said it was the most won derful air service in the world, even
 more wonderful than the passenger service between London and Paris. If the appropriation for sS,000,0 900 now pending is granted, New Britain will benefit since it is planned to ex- tend this service to Boston and use
 the Hartford landing field as postal station.
 Referring to the use of the airplane
 in the forestry service he said that
 out Of HOO forest fires last year 720
 were sighted first by airplanes. He said in 1921 the cost of carrying
 freight by airplane was 3S cents per
 pound while now it is ,oS6. The passenger rate per mile in 1920 was 65 cents, now it is 42 and possibly can he brought down as low as 20 cents In 1920 short flights cost s12.50. now the regular rate is s7o0.
 He said a Boston to Albany passen- ger line is under consideration.
 Speaking of the Shenandoah he said it has cruising radius of 5000 miles and is equipped with 300 horsepower motors, so powerful that they are started by smaller gasoline engines which in turn are started by the regu- lar motor starters. No one is manu- featuring Liberty motors now, MT, Adams stated although there is no better motor in existence.
 No one a few years ago he said would attempt to predict the altitude to which a plane could fly. Now they go as high as 34,50o feet. The first airplane could travel in the air only S52 feet. Now they go from New York to san Francisco on regu- lhT bcneOu1eS. The HfSI plane stayed in the air only 12 seconds. Now they stay up as long as 35 hours, IS minutes and 30 seconds.
 All the machines which have broken world records he said were American make, with American motors and commanNd by American pilots, with the exception Of one Dutch ship which was remodeled and | equipped with an American motor.
 Discussing speed he said the modern | racing plane has a landing speed of | 75 miles an hour. He said that few people seem 10 realize that the United | States has the most wonderful air | plane service in the world. For five years postal planes have made regu- lar trips from New York to San Francisco. one trip. every day each | way and have made better record | for maintaining their schedule than | the Pennsylvania railroad. In the | five years they have made 7.99s flights and have carried yearly 1.500,000 | pounds of mail with an average of 40 | letters 10 the pound.
 The flying time from New York to San Francisco is 26 hours and it is expected to cut this down to 23. On his flight the planes cross three big mountain ranges and go through all linds Of climatic conditions. Some. imes the tliers are compelled to go IS low as five feet above the tops Of .ailway trains while flying through Dlizzards, etc.
 \ recent edition of the New York Times" places its finger on the sore pot when it discusses the situation n Connecticut with reference to the admission of men who are not duali- jed to practice medicine. It says the cgislature is to blame. and the hat ieems to ft tight. The Times" rec marks: "If Governor .Templeton of Connecticut carries to the end his in. 'estigation Of what he says is going Q prove "the biggest of state scan iays"--that of granting to unqualified men the privilege of practicing medi- .ine--he will be able 10 put just where fl belongs the responsibility for he shocking abuses he has discovered, nd that is on the State Legislatures and many others-which ave made these abuses both possible nd easy.
 Tn Connecticut. as elsewhere. the gislators have yielded to pressure rom small groups Of we'll organized nd highly articulate men and have ngalized the assumption Of the doc or's title by persons to whom it houd never have been granted. hey even have consented to the es- ablishment Of special examining q oards for the issuing Of licenses to | raduates Of schools. real or imagined I .hrnce degrees are issued to virtually ( uybo1y able to pay q small fee"
 The Times also takes physicians | Q task for not defending their pro- nssioH against encroachment by men I rho should not be allowed to prac- Q ce. declaring "If the real doctors ! ould be more aggressive in defend c lg their rights and protecting the they thought q little less q bout dignity and little more about | hat is especially their duty as guar 2 ians Df the nations health-such .andais as tie one now developing in ii and spreading rapidly n trough many other states hardly | -ould be possible. They do some b Ehting against quackery. but not g lough Of if. and another fault of too Iany Of them Is their refusal to ad- C it that every one of inc 0ttafkfsh l