Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-26

novice fiiers DO freeze occasion
ally, and in such cases the result
is liable II be the same-de-
struction of two lives and. as a
comparatively lesser matter. the
loss of an airpfane.
Why doesn't somebody In au-
thority see about having these
training ships equipped with a
mechanism TO disengage the
students set of controls?
Wen concede that freezing
happens far less often now than
! II did In the last war. That still
doesn't mean that the danger
be neglected.
An Instructor, II he can dis
engage the students controls,
has n chance of landing the ship
safely. With the controls inter-
locked. and the student clutch
ing them In q death griffin
this case that isn't just q figura-
tive expression-aii the instruc-
tor can do In match his strength
against the students. and hope.
Perhaps some engineer might
work out n method so that all
Of the students controls can be
disconnected instantly. Even
lacking that, there IL no reason
why rather simple contrivances
can't be Installed, one to disen-
gage the stick and one or two
others To disengAge the rudder.
The cost wouldn't be great,
but averting even one crash
would be no small saving. Purely
aside from the unreasonable
value of human hives. the dol
lars and cents cost OF a a fatal
freeze" is large. Somebody has
estimated that we have S27. 900
invested in an instructor. Add
TO this the plane and the stu
dent.
We leave Il TO you TO calcu-
late the other losses--including
the loss written on the features
of a straight. lean man whom
we saw walking. with set face.
down Washington boulevard. He
was 1t. Munger's father.
]. r. HARDING called with
this remark: Il was in the office
of. a man out at Chrysler," he
said, and happened TO see
drawer containing maybe 40
packages of tickets. asked
what they were, and he said
.'Oh. tickets that we buy when
2people come and ask vs. 10 sup
port this or that
/ asked him what they did
with them. and he said, Why.
we just throw them in this
drawer. and after a while we
throw them out again
How about sending the tick
cts down 10 tho USO or some
such organization, just in case?
The man at ChrySler said II
hadn't occurred 10 him but he
thought IL was good idea.
Might sound like good idea 10
other people, too, mightn't it,
NOTES from a brief trip 20
Cleveland, our neighbOr city
down the lake: They've set up a
Womanpower Center there, to
operate az an agency supple
mental 20 the u. 8. Employ
-rnent Service Papers have
stories about thefts Of ration
coupons.
Sam Phillips, until recently a
petroiter, may 60 into the army
as q major, IL ne passes one or
twO more physical tests {.
Dave Darvas, one of the most
promising OF the new group of
pictorial photographers, IL
gloomy about the camera salons
while the war IL on, but cheerful
over word that his sister. a De-
troiter, just married an army
man.
Dawes brother. Lou, artist on
the Press and former buddy of
Jack Wilmer and Al Duckett OF
this paper, il Ia and anticl-
pating induction pretty soon.
You can start an argument
any time by asking, Would you
rather live in Detroit or Cleve-
land ?" Here are a few of the
answers we got: "Cleveland's
more civilized city" There's
much more life in Detroit-they
ont even have a night club
Detroit hasn't been
MT 10 i've in since in got so big.
1 wouldn't live there on bet"
-. The trouble with Cleveland
is that all the people are so set
in their ways that they won't
try anything new"
Some Ohio cities already have
blackout traffic lights - wide
Visors TO shield the lights, and
the lenses reduced so that only
a small portion. shaped like a
cross, is visible ] didn't like
II when we began the no-left-
turn-on-red-lights here. Since
going back 10 the old system.
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