Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-02

Heroic qualities are found by the
country in the enterprise Of Capt
Ktngsford- Smith, whose flight with the
Southern Cross from Ireland TO New.
foundland fell short of reaching the
goal at New York. The hazardous ma.
ture OF the westward journey across the
Atlantic Is demonstrated once more
and much Of the comment Is in recog.
milton OF the part that radio played In
saving the lives of the air navigators.
THE successful flight" according tC
the Atlanta Journal, us q triumph fol
radio as we'll as for the courage and
skill Of Capt. Charles Kingsford- Smith
and his three comrades on the great
adventure. Flying helplessly
hopelessly in the black heavens. they al
last picked up q beam wireless as
cheering a harbinger to them as the re-
turning dove to the flood-tossed Ark OF
old. 1t gave them their bearings, ii
guided them through the elsewhere
painless and fatal night. it crowned
their heroism with victory. Thus the
scientist and the inventor hidden away
from the world, patiently bent upon
their quiet quests, without the spur OF
a splendid hazard and without the null
ttudes applause, share the glory of
those who conquer the sky. 1t Is the
man OF thought who prepares the way
for the man of action, and a great
thought Is truly a great deed"
Brave and skilled as the captain and
his three flying companions are, de-
pendahle as his three motors are,
stanch as his well tried ship is" in
the opinion of the Toledo Blade, dis
aster would have been inevitable except
for the messages giving location, which
came uncannily, as from nowhere, out
OF the fog. In such emergencies the
human eye and a flckle compass needle,
veering with magnetic influences of the
earth, are wholly indispensable"
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Just as the mails in earlier DAYS
were an indispensable necessity in the
slower travel Of the period, and as the
telegraph was made useful servant in
connection with the operation of rail-
road trains" says the Salt Lake DeSeret
News, so now the radio, most amazing
OF agencies bent to the will and use of
man, has become an all-important part
OF the wondrouS travel through the
air" Dependence on the radio in this
flight Is impressed also on the Lam
caster 1ntelligencer Journal and the
Canton Daily News. The latter states
the radio beam the Southern Cross
might have disappeared like most of
its predecessors and that "for the
present, at least, the game of flying the
Atlantic in heavier-than-air craft Is not
worth the candle"
The Southern Cross" declares the
Louisville Courier-Journal, has accom-
plished little more than the Bremen
accomplished. 1t came closer to its goal
and 1t was unchanged but this was
due, not to the plane, but to wireless.
I Lat -
is not belittling the exploit of Capt.
Kingsford- Smith to say that he has
demonstrated what time and again has
been demonstrated before, that the
heavier-than-air machine has not yet
reached stage Of perfection where it
can cope with the hazards of the west
ward passage"
"One of the greatest living air pilots"
is the tribute of the New York Times
to the leader of the flight, with the
further comment, He used a well
tested plane that had been flown over
the Pacific and most OF the way around
the world" The GAINESVILLE Gazette calls
1t another tremendous achievement Of
the air" while the Roanoke Times says
the names OF the crew of the Southern
Cross deserve to be added to the
roll of heroes of the air.;
that "Ktngsford-Smith is rightfully
elated at having crossed the Atlantic
without mishap"
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1.-THE fight takes on an added ro-
nance. in the Judgment Of the Chatta-
nooga Times, by reason OF the age of
the Southern Cross and its record of
previous performances. The trimotored
has been in service Ave
years. 1t has flown more than $4,000
miles, and in all this mileage its engines
have never failed once" The Kalamazoo
Gazette ayers that the pilots failure TO
reach New York in a single flight NAV
dim the ,luster of his triumph Just a
trine in his own eyes, but IL cannot