Evening star., 1932-07-06

Meeting Templeton Jones in the
street the other day, we felt inpelled to
! ask him plain question.
why is it you haven't expressed a
crouch about anything lately?' we in
CURED, somewhat timioly; for Jones is
| a choleric man and not one to be ap-
| preached lightly.
This time he happened to be in a
! chastened mood, apparently.
"Tll tell you" he replied.
Il was foaming at the mouth the
other evening about an aviator who
seemed to be making daily practice
| of flying low over our neighborhood.
Now, 1 don't take off my hat to
any one in his admiration Of airplanes,
and especially Of the men who fly them.
| I'll admit I'm afraid of flying.
Perhaps that is why 1 admire avia-
| tors as much as do.
But that doesn't mean that banker
I to have one of those brave heroes come
| right over my neighbOrhood just as /
am comfortably eating my supper and
proceed to give me indigestion
Evidently this fine fellow lives
around in this community somewhere.
He wants the home folks to see
brother fly and all that sort Of thing.
mo one can blame him for that.
After all, he is human being as well
| as an aviator.
But that is no reason for giving me
| Indigestion, is it?
why, honestly, the other evening he
came over about O'Clock so low that
he fairly made the atmosphere vibrate.
He was so low that he seemed to be
sitting on the house.
! Il know of no other way to describe
the sensation he caused in my mind
heart and ears.
Il thought that if the noise did not
| let up IN a few seconds he must be on
the point of falling or something.
Finally he buzzed away, only to re-
| turn in a wide sweep a few seconds
later and go through the proceeding
! all over again, this time with few
| fancy curves in the sky which he had
not INDUCED in the time before.
well, it was a pretty exhibition OF
flying, no doubt, but much too close for
comfort.
| "'Young man. I said to him-but, of
course, he didn't hear me, his engine
was making too much noise-I guess
that is good flying, but I wish you
would take it some place else.
Finally he did, not because I asked
him to, of course, but mostly because
|
| ence to see him, I suspect.
He made me feel guilty. And do
you know why?
Because I feel that if had set up
grand howl some time ago about an
| other brave young man indulging in
! exactly the same practices l might
| have been the means Of saving his life.
; He, too, astonished the natives by
his flying, and it was while flying low
in a neighboring city that he had the
| i'll luck to crash to his doom.
Time and again 1 had felt that
ought to protest his flying. as 1t struck
me as much too low over residential
community.
But was In the position of most
| people in this day and age who feel
| that they should make protest about
something or other.
They don't want to.
"They know the reception they are
liable to get.
you sit down. pen in hand, and
indite as fair and decent statement
of the case as you know how to turn
out.
You mail it to the proper author
tiles.
"A few days later here comes an
official letter, saying Dear Sir: We
have your communication of the 18th
instant, and will bring the matter to
the attention Of etc.
Whats the use?
1T either goes into the old pigeon