Show Safety Comes First TaU voU YOU may have noti noticed ed a news dispatch telling I 1 how the China Clipper en route from California to Honolulu Iono ulu turned back after proceeding proceeding proceeding pro pro pro- miles along her course and returned t to o her ber Alameda lame a base Strong head winds made further urther progress progress too risky and Captain Edwin C C. Musick decided to delay the trip It is just such decisions as this which will help to establish commercial o ocean ean air lines on ona ona ona a sound basis There can be no place in such schedules for unnecessary ary defiance of the hazards hazards hazards haz haz- ards of bad weather These huge flying boats can give a go d account of themselves in the air but jut there is is' no sense i in pushing on in th the face of unfavorable odds Among the qualities which a a skipper of a atran tran transoceanic oceanic airplane must have is the courage to turn back when he thinks it wise It It is encouraging en en- g to to see that Pan American Arr an-Arr recognizes that hat fact and puts safety ahead of rigid adherence adherence ence rice to schedules |