Show 16 Is Too Young to Learn to Fly Two year old Twin Falls Fans girls lost their lives the other day when the light I airplane Ip ane on one of them was pilo piloting g cra crashed hed hedin in the Sawtooth mountains about 20 miles mUes northeast of Halley Hailey We have had entirely too many air tr tragedies s involving young fliers in the intermountain mountain region Some of them involve stud student pilots while others as in inthis Idaho case involve youngsters youngsters' youngsters youngsters' youngsters youngsters' young young- who have completed their training and are accredited pilots Exact cause of this Idaho tragedy is not known but inmost inmost in inmost most of these instances where a 16 or 17 year old flier is killed It is a a case of recklessness or bad judgment on the parts of the pilot It really seems a 16 or 17 11 year old y youth uth is too young too prone to acts of recklessness too likely to take a chance for air safety No one wants to lo discourage flight training for the members of the younger generation They are growing up into an air age and it is well that they be fitted in every way to live in it But we want them to live 11 in it not it-not not die needlessly before they even even reached adulthood And it is likely quite a few more of them will live to make their cont contribution to the air age of the future if the minimum age for flight training were raised I from the present 16 6 years Texas Girls Are Scrappers Too oo It seems that the female of the Texas species is just justas as belligerent as the male At least some 1300 of them in Dallas have organized to combat the edict of New York and Paris aris stylists for length ankle-length skirts Under the leadership of an attractive 24 year old year old housewife house housewife wife tife Mrs W Warren J. J Woodard they have formed th the Little Below the Knee l club club club-a a name which is pretty self They are thinking of having a club emblem inthe e de design ign of a pair of crossed legs with the skirt a little below the knee Theres There's nothing complicated about the organization There are no fees or dues Any woman can join by simply agreeing to reject the long length skirts which designers have decreed the American America woman must wear to be in style We dont don't know whether the girls from Texas will be successful success success- ful i in their fight fight but but if the boys from Texas could win the last war single-handed single Just ask them theres there's no reason leason why the girls of Texas cant can't win a little fight with the dress de de- de- de signers x And nd the Texas girls will have a lot of support from other sections of the country There are plenty of f folks up north who look Jook with dismay at the lowering hemlines The fact that they happen t to be masculine may prevent present them from joining the Little Below the Knee club but nobody y can stop them from giving three cheers for any movement which promises to preserve for mankind one of natures nature's greatest attractions I |