| Show j Give omen ance a 0 r r H i b 1 t J In Ill the Air Ai S J 1 i. i t t r s rt eQ 1 l' l 1 t t Pleads i A r YC A Amelia meza Z Earhart Et Eternal Bogie of f Feminine li minine Nerve Nerves Long ong Since Dispelled e Asserts s 1 I Famous Airwoman an and Fair Sex Entitled t to More Opportunity for Proof of Excellence y f P. P y X I as Sky Pilots s and Aeronautical Aeronaut cal Pioneers loner s r 21 ty y v J Yi y rr w a h y yA r A 3 y 1 s tt t sit it i 1 II Z t IA i i t r w Lady Grace Drummond Hay Drummond-Hay Hay exem N A J lilies the mindedness air of English Englishwomen gr IJ y 3 v L p v Z k rh l r rrt nS GL Sv 4 r b JS J'S i ir stir wo women men hera here she is shown a ab board aboard ard v the Graf Zeppelin on on which she woo was w w x rs g rr v the only woman Toman passenger on that r I. I i Y P ships ship's first flight to America ri t- t tb tc ta a J c Od 4 b id k 1 I I. J r- r rAmel r. r 1 Amelia Amel Ji Earhart belie believes that that womans woman's interest and operation co-operation op ra ion are t as v vf f f an c cessar ry to 10 th the development ment of aviation as the they were here to the a to-m. to b J w. w l JJ m industry f stry thus she pl pleads ads fo for more schools to train women pilots pilots- A T t ff fj l n ri i r. r f By Eve ve Garrette arrett Gr Grady dy t N arre a ra I A ARE RE women being discriminated against aviation in tn Is society p pushing men en forward and holding holdin women back In the great modern conquest of the air r Miss Amelia Ua Earhart the first woman to fly Sy flythe flythe the Atlantic and perhaps best qualified to speak author authoritatively ly In behalf of at her hers s sex says ays emphatically that they are Despite Despite De Despite De De- spite the fact that that women are rapidly overcoming er mIng the Inbred U s which civilization has Imposed upon them despite de- de spite their widespread Interest rest In flying and the future it holds for them they a are still sUU bound by the chains of artificial difference between the sexes She says Women can qualify in the air as s in any other sP sport Their Influence and approval ap ap- 1 ar are vital ti to the success success' of com com- Women and girls write to me mo by the thousands t to l learn n ai-n- the truth about aviation and what women's chances rare are There Is ls' nothing woman's womans in mans man's up make-up which would make her inferior to a man maD as s an nn air pilot The barrier barrier barrier bar bar- rier to her tier swift success Is her lack la of at opportunity to re receive proper prop training tr h g. g Society has Imposed unjust distinctions distinctions In in the education of the sex sexes s Re Regardless Re- Re of a. a womans woman's natural inclinations Lions ons and talents she has been assigned summarily to certain prescribed courses of at study In public and schools Sewing and domestic science are made madeJ c compulsory mp Sory for schoolgirls whose pro pro pro- are wholly in n the direction of of f things mechanical Women have an abysmal ignorance of m mechanics mechanics' and cn en- n through no fault auit of ot their own However the importance which mechanical mechanical mechanical me me- saving labor devices have as as- as assumed m in the average American home is beginning to open the he eyes aYes of even the most helplessly feminine wom woman n. n She is Js beginning to realize that to keep in tune With the march of mod modern rn progress she n have hav some very definite mechanical know knowledge edge She th that thai at it t is Im important or nt to her leer oom C comfort ort her em efficiency i ncy as as as' a worker and anda a buyer that she learn y what l at m makes kes the W wheels Is g go A round It ismy is my firm bc beA beliel be- be Yet liel that womans woman's interest in tn aviation backed up by the strong opinions of an minded air generation of scho schoolgirls will will bring this qU question of unfair and unjust discrimination between the sexes as re regards re- re gards eau education with reference to vocational vocational voca voca- tlona aptitude dir directly into the o a open enand en and anCS definitely d IY burn bum away fallacious bar bat MISS MIES ISS EARN EARHART ART strode up and dud down K the o office ce her hands boyishly Y thrust t deep Inthe ins In the pockets pockets' of ot her trim tweed suit I had found her at the trophy trophy cut cut- desk of her herp p publisher her George Pal Palmer Putnam performing one on of ot the du ties oi oia a a ce celebrity and an author author re reading read read- d ing b tinge huge ge piles pUe of fan an snail nail The aviatrix is taU tai and slender and wears wear clothes with distinction She has has' the the un unaffected simplicity of a a. r real al person perIOD person per- per IOD son and a diva disarming friendly smile She prefers a coat coif of t tan n and a few free freckles kles to rouge and lipstick U k On One One- h hates tes' tes to be be ba banal particularly since her praises have hav been lu sung ung g r from m. m coati coast a t to coast but It must b be be lI set bet t d down wn as my fir firm m c conviction that no description d of Amelia E Earhart Is Is' d quat without t the statement that t sher she the rr r represents that which we like to think of of as as best and truest i in iii li our wom women n In other words Americas America's first woman woman f flier er Is the re real l thing Commercial l aviation Is a bustling in industry industry In- In but bud at present it is making little or or no effort t to en enable ble women to secure t the e training and aua exp experience required of an industrial pilot on on one of the regular airways she said T The e army and nd navy training schools which h are ire among mong the b best st are of course closed to women women Some Som of the large transportation companies conduct their own schools for pilots They are excellent excellent excel excel- lent but there too women are arc barred Sooner or J later er the i big Ig air lines must enlist w women's meri intelligent operation co-operation because without them aviation cannot hope t for r success One has only to study the history of the automobile industry to recognize the truth of what I am saying Twenty years years ag ago the idea that woman could learn to drive automobiles was considered considered considered con con- preposterous The eternal I bogIes bogles feminine nerves and physical al weakness weakness were were advanced as as' final and conclusive ar arguments arguments arguments ar- ar when all others failed aUed A Arid And d strangely strange y enough toa today y in in the the face lac of superlative lve proof to the contrary one sees these same threadbare bromidic i i r r l I f r. r q r f r f I. 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I t ments solemnly dusted off and brought ur forth again to be used against women aviators Miss Earhart arhart smiled YAa J s sr v r i f b S FY 55 q a S t H F fr frN N Q y ry f t S 'S WW 8 ft rib f rr ryr S 'S 44 AW Y S Sy y t s a V Vii 5 ii 1 l do doubt bt if men will wm ever believe that there Is no such such thing as as feminine nerves as opposed d to nerves of the masculine varl Variety ty Y Yet t. t If It anything virtually all ll of w woman experience ant an ami training have be been n of the sort to give her nerves of iron I No lio o man could endure e for or a half hour what is just part of ot a days day's Ys Y's work to a woman woman cooking cooking a dinner with one hand rocking a cradle with the theother other at atthe atthe atthe the same time I keeping a watchful eye on ons' ons s' s sonny and nd sister who ar are probably very nuch underfoot Certainly th the performance per per- e of young business ss women ln women in our great creat cities Ules Is a dally tribute to their ability to to thrive Wd under r the te tension of noise big business and work Miss Earhart has bas not noted d a growing Interest in interest tn- tn terest in aviation on t then the 1 part ait at of sportswomen sports ports women wornell throughout America AmerIc The woman who likes to play a good goodgame goodgame goodgame game of golf gol or en enjoys joys riding to the hounds has bas found flying of one th the most enthralling of all aU sports Now that manufacturers manufacturers manu manu- are marketing little sport pl planes n with light engines particularly engines particularly easy for fora a Ii V woman n n to handle aviation Uon cO countr country Y clubs club's are springing up everywhere ver where It Is only a question of time until women omen golf goU teams will wUl ad adopt pt travel by air from one country club cl to a another oth r f r competitive Ruth Kuth Elder of trans Atlantic flying fame L is one ne' ne neof of Americas America's J women leaders in aviation aJi aviation t on to her flying is i a r I profession just justas as as I stenography is to to many girls f. f 1 I At left are some of the contestants and n f trophies awarded in inthe the recent Santa Monica l Ionica to Cleveland Cleve- Cleve land Air Derby in which women aviators had a chance chanc to prove their rii their mettle MA 1 matches as a matter matt r of course It sho should l dl p prove e to to tobe be a a. highly adv advantageous mode of traveling for tournament pla players ers be because be be- cause caUS It is Is dl diverting e and relieves th the play r of a great deal of the la minute t-minute tension and nervousness which trans- trans by train or automobile aggra aggra- vates Since the opening of t the Air Transport Service traveling by y plane has begun to h have havea ve a tremendous vogue among women T The e cleanliness of ol traveling by p plane ane instantly appeals to them them them-no no m-no no dirt t no cinders no mussy disheveled cd clothes Women are Innately fastidious you ou know They Thel are also at at- at a by the friendliness of air traveling traveling travel travel- ing Plane PIan-e passengers paSsenger consider r that they have common a bond of ot experience They waive the customary formalities of f themore themore the themore more earthy me means ns of transportation tation It It all becomes much more interesting at least the t women think thin so The fact that al air ah- transportation o is Js the swiftest Is also beginning to have havens as much weight with women as with i men A number number number num num- ber of of smart women on the West coast find nd that by slipping sUpping off oft to New Y York k byR by they not Inot ste steal l march uch plane all R only a a. by being the first to appear with the news newa of the latest fa fall fashions but the novelty of being an air an shopper has Its practical practical ical advantages Of course course movie people who a are e obliged almost to commute from coa coast t to coast consider the transcontinental tal air ser service J e ean an answer to their pray prayers rs Many women feel and quite rightly that they are advancing world progress by confining their efforts efforts' to aviation's fringes Although ma many y of at them have nev never r been in In Inan an airplane many airplane many say they wouldn't be paid to enter one one still they are turning their hands t to the task of making landing fields more attractive tine most tive most of ot them are extremely barren if not actually unsightly and unsightly ly and what temore te Ji more important working o out t r road air d marks marks' for tor filers rs It Is nice when one Is flying miles mUes an hour hoW over strange country to know the names of at t the e differ different r. r ent towns and cities over over which h one hov hov- ers A number r of of wom women's ns n's clubs have ve ved d done ne excellent work In this respect I 1 cannot praise too highly one club where the women tn themselves got out and painted th the name of their town on one of ot its buildings in huge bright lett letters ra aa as aaa aaa asa a guide and g greeting g to fliers filers I hank there is no doubt ab about ut the average Yera e oo being ng air I 1 receive re receive re- re so many letters from girls of 15 16 who newel newall the fact that they are obliged to bootleg boot eg g their airplane rides s because their p parents rents forbid th them m to go go up AItho Although b I 1 cannot ot exactly c commend it It their con can V 1 I i i i I- I t t i r r rr b r L y r JI J r rJ duct shows a very definite trend Many of them say they want to make aviation their life ille work All are anxious and willing to study to prepare prepare th themselves ms t tobe to tobe be e expert fliers Still suli Still I 1 regret to say they are lare being bring retarded held heldack back But the pendulum is swinging Women are determined to b ban bean be bean an integral part of aviation on Speed the day when the announcement announcements Is s made at of atthe the first aviation training school exclusively for for for- g gB girls ORN In Atchison Kan Amelia Earhart Ear Ear- B BORN hart lived there until she reached h school high l age age When th the United States entered the World W War r she was at Og nta School in the suburbs of I Philadelphia Her sympathies were aroused by seeing four foW soldiers on crutches while she was wu visiting her sister in hi Toronto She dropped school and started start training under th the Canadian Red Cross Her first as assignment ass as- as s wa was at Military Hospital Hos Has pital At the end of her hospital c career reer Earhart Joined her father and and and- mother in Los Angeles It was in California that she first became actively interested In aviation In 1920 she established the womans woman's record for altitude She holds the first international pilots pilot's license Luu issued d to a woman I After some time In California Miss Earhart decided to to return to the East She sold her plane for a a. car After a sun summer mer at at Harvard she joined her sister In teaching and doing settlement work wort in B Boston stori Her Interest was soon reawakened re reawakened reawakened re- re awakened in aviation and she became a member of the Boston chapter of the National Aeronautical Association and was was' ultimately made mad vice president After her return from the trans trans- trans Atlantic trip she was made president the president the first woman president of at a body of the N. N NA A. A A. A Until her ep making epoch flight Miss Miss' Earhart continued as a worker at Dennison Den Den- Dennison nison House Boston's sec second nd oldest tI sot sot- At present Miss Miss' Earhart lives in N New NewYork w York That is when she is 15 not flying about the country as asSistant assistant to to the general traffic manager of Tr Transcontinental tal AIr Ah Transport with which organization organization tion Colonel Charles A. A Lindbergh Is Iso also associated She is also aviation editor of ofa ofa a monthly m magazine It n is characteristic of at ather her that in h her r book 20 IDs Hrs 40 Min MiD which tells the In Intimate in- in story of her flight lusht across across the Atlantic At Atlantic At- At lantic In m the Friendship that she should howd say time and time again throughout the e narrative that the entire credit of f th the m magnificent nt exploit sho should d' d gO go to Wilmer Stultz and Louis Loub Gordon the the men who Piloted her Not long ago Miss Earhart explored the thebo bo bottom boon on of f the ocean oft off Block Island as a adeep deep sea deep sea diver The first time she went down her diving suit le leaked ked but but nothing daunted d she made another try the next d day y When she came up after being down more than twenty minutes Ib he said It is Is' n nothing at all aU Plenty of at wo women men have be been n de deeper per and st stayed y d Ioni longer tr |
