Evening star., 1927-05-23

Lindberghs thrilling feat arouses
nowhere more joyful enthusiasm than
in the United States Air Mail Service,
for it was there that he served his fly
ing apprenticeship. Flying with the
mails is. of course, not accompanied
by the dangers or risks necessary in
training men for military and naval
aviation. But the air mail does call
for a degree of precision. care and
conservatism that Lucky" Lind
bergh put into triumphant practice in
preparing for and accomplishing his
epoch-making hop across the Atlantic.
w. Irving Glover. Second Assistant
Postmaster General, in charge of the
Air Mail Service, proudly calls atten-
ton to its most recent achievements.
For that portion of the fiscal year
1927 from July !. 1926, to April %,
1927, postal pilots flew total of 2,15S,.
023 miles. On the date last men,
toned the service suffered the loss of
one of it's gallant airmen, Jack MilatZo.
His death marked the highest average
Of miles flown per fatal crash since
the inauguration of the air mail. How
the service has grown Is indicated by
the fact that in the fiscal year 1918
only 81 .389 miles were flown, while
in 1925, 2,547,992 miles were reeled Off
Lie IOSI OiIiCe hepdTLIleHL SlHCe
1918 has had only $12, 1886 900 of appro.
priations for the air mail. and out of
that it has an inventory value Of
eQuipmenD Of more than $3,000,000.
Will Maj. Roy A. Haynes "blow the
works." now that he is no longer u
prohibition official? In other words,
will the darling of the Anti-Saloon
League gods find ways and means of
giving vent to emotions known to be
long pent up in him-namely, his re-
sentiment of political interference"
with enforcement? Haynes friends
insist he is in position to give the
country an earful on this subject, If
he cares and dares to. Even before
the Ohioan's wings were clipped by
the handing over Of real enforcement
authority to Gen. Andrews, Haynes
was never much Of free agent in the
dry realm. There were always no
fewer than three Treasury officials
over him, and it was through them all
that Haynes had to go on major occa-
sions. Immediately outranking him
was the commissioner Of internal rev.
enue. Over and above that official
there was the Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury in charge of customs
and revenue. Finally, the superior of
the latter was the Secretary of the
Treasury himself. Haynes commonly
found himself at the bottom of this
imposing pyramid of off1cialdom, es-
pecially' where appointments of pro-
hibition agents and directors were
concerned.
Gen. Lincoln G. Andrews, who fades
from the enforcement picture along
with Maj. Haynes-many think by
something more than accident and as
the result of a dry-wet "deaP'-be-
came a. teetotaler the day he took Of
fee, April /, 1925. He swore per-
sonal vow that thenceforward he
would not only abstain from forbidden
fruit himself, but would not serve 1t
to friends or, as far as possible, even
go to places where he had reason to
believe liquor would be dispensed.
Andrews, an able executive, Is not
likely long to be out of big job in
business life. He quit the lucrative
receivership of a New York railroad
to enter the Treasury service two
years ago at Secretary Melons urgent
solicitation.
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Charles T. Bingham, one of the
seven sons Of Senator Hiram Bingham.
Republican, Of Connecticut. has just
won the chief honor at the traditional
senior elections" at Yale. IIe was
the last man picked for Skull and
Bones. the oldest Of the four senior
societies. Since time immemorial the
junior who receives the final tap of
all the men selected for the ancient
organization has ranked as the out
standing non-academic honor man of
the year. Bingham was chairman of
the junior promenade committee, has
for three years played leading roles
in Yale dramatics, and will be presi-
dent of the Dramatic Association next
year. He Is also one of the boxing
champions of the university. The
Bingham family. on its almost ex-
clusively male side, is Yale all the way
| through. or will be. Two of the Sena-
, tors sons. like himself, are graduates
of Old Eli, Two are undergraduates