Show F Elsa Maxwells Maxwell's Daily Deily Particles of Patter The more I headlines of f today's today s papers the more I am convinced con that this is not only an air war s but a o peoples people's peo peo- pIes pIe's war warin in the air air Of course I dont don't fly myself b e cause Ii like k e little it takes a along long time for forme I A Ame me to find finde I Ithe th the e right k t r kind of wings 3 1 i J to support my de dead deadweight deadweight a d iff I weight And my pink petit pe pe- Elsa Maxwell tit point ears I am afraid are not prepared for what the aeronautical experts call heavy wing loading But I think its it's terribly important important important im im- im- im that all young people learn to fly today today boys boys and girls young men young women Although many of these like the spectacular Anton Dolin and andIan andIan andIan Ian Gibson of the ballet theater are are almost capable of taking off under their own power The other day I came across one of the most interesting of the organizations now b be being e i n g formed to help civilian pilots take their place in our total war effort This organization is called the American Flying Services foundation foundation foundation-an an organization organization organ organ- founded by World war I fliers and formed at the suggestion of Major General James E E. Chaney commanding g general of the American expeditionary expeditionary expeditionary forces in Great Britain The advisory board is headed by such prominent air authorities authorities authorities ties and enthusiasts as Mayor LaGuardia Admiral Byrd Clarence Clarence Clarence Clar Clar- ence Chamberlain Roscoe Turner Turner Turner Tur Tur- ner and Donald W W. Douglas The aims of the American Flying Services are to provide ways and means to enable young Americans to overcome remediable remediable remediable able deficiencies which may bar them at first from enlistment in in the U U. S S. S air forces and to encourage pilot personnel in defense service by encouraging fl flying ng cadet enlistment I k know ow lots of toys boys who have bad vision infected tonsils nasal obstructions trouble with their teeth or conditions affecting affecting af af- f their weight and who were not accepted by the air forces because of these things The American Flying Services grabbed hold of them gave them the them the kind of going over they would have expected at the Mayo clinic and turned them out fit as a fiddle and flying high How about women women I asked Major Willis Fitch who Fitch-who who is s one of the most active heads of this patriotic wing wing wing-gh-ing wing giving giving Keep em Flying project When are you going to wing over to the distaff side Well he said our job is isto isto isto to increase the air forces forces and and if theres there's a place for women inthe in inthe inthe the air forces well we'll see that they get in Meanwhile the A F S has been working wonders where work is most needed An amazing case turned up in the American Flying Flying Flying Fly Fly- ing Services a few months ago There was a fine potential aviator aviator aviator avia avia- tor who had passed all his examinations examinations examinations exam exam- with flying colors with the exception of the one for blood pressure He had high blood pressure and nothing the doctors could do would bring it down The staff was baffled because there was no physical explanation tion for this steady rapid high- high pressure thump-thump thump in his veins One day the boy walked into the medical counsel officer Look he said Im cured And sure enough his blood pressure was back to normal It turned out that he had had a abad abad abad bad case of puppy love He could not sleep and his blood pressure kept mounting But the thoughtful and helpful helpful helpful help help- ful agencies of the American Flying Services had tactfully arranged that love in m this great democracy should never go unrequited un un- un- un requited And so young Lochinvar's Lochinvar's Loch- Loch wars war's heart soon hit its stride and now hes he's back to normal and very much up in the clouds One of the reasons that our army air force is blasting the I Japs out of the sky sky like like so many clay pigeons pigeons pigeons-is is the fine physical quality of our pilots General Arnolds Arnold's boys have been selected with a tooth fine-tooth comb not that many men arent aren't available but that none but the physically best is good enough If times ever get tough Im I'm going to volunteer my torso for aeronautical service Only last week Mr Walter Winchell called me the nicest blimp in town And Im I'm sure I could come in very handy at least for slow patrol duty if not as an emergency Molotov bread bas bas- ket Press Alliance Inc |