| Show OPINIONS OPINION ELSEWHERE Air ir Line Reservations Time usually is Js important to people who travel by air Often they are businessmen making long trips on short hOrt no notice Until a afew afew afew few few lays days ago go no o air r line ln offered them the e type of service they needed In reserving seats quick confirmation of space going and return returning ng Especially o oh on the return trip it of ten has b been en a matter of a day or more before ones one's request for a seat Is confirmed confirmed confirmed con con- firmed by the Issuance of or a ticket t. t Recognizing this difficulty difficulty- Northwest Airlines has done something about it Leasing Lessing Less Leas ing ng many miles of of telephone l lines nes It has established st a new new telephone all ne r reservations er a procedure making it possible find to t find out in ina a matter o of whether or not one can get space on the next plane on an N W A flight connecting at another city and for forthe forthe forthe the return trip In each city operators man manning g switchboards switchboards switch swItch- I boards and handling nothing but reservations reserva reserva- keep the space data on flights right up to the minute for tho f forthcoming two weeks Passengers wanting to leave the tle Twin I Cities for New York or some other point and aId return a week ee later find out In a matter of se seconds what flights to New York have seats eata available and when they can can return Northwest st has hils taken a looking forward step Th The new new telephone reservations tio 1 service Is 18 something which which other air all lines might do worse orse than copy And once established on a wide nation-wide basis and id If the air lines would forget their silly interline jealousies and do doa a a. better job in working together to confirm space on each others other's planes the air traveler traveler trav tray eler would woul soon beco become o a much stronger advocate of t air trav traveL traveL Minneapolis 1 Minneapolis Star Research That the Nation Needs A wb which ch can be bb an Important part of ot the tho pr progress gresa of the democratic way of life in the United States was announced d over the week end The University of ot Chicago has ha begun of t education training and research In race relations to be conducted conducted con eon ducted by bv Its division n of f social sciences A grant from th the Carnegie corporation corporation corpora corpora- tion and the R Rockefeller foundation Willm will meet m et- et the tho expenses of the Ute the task Five f ve years ye s swill will be devoted to It Education and dissemination of ot information Infer Infer- mation matlon are particularly effective ways of combating the fears and divide divid American from American The U. U of C. C project will lay stress on this work In addition addition ad ad- to making needed much d fw fundamental research Into race rac relations and the tho pro lems lem of minority groups This nation does not d dare daro ro allow race bias and Its ita often otten violent and always un us democratic ma manifestations to gain ground The University a of Chicago has embarked on a worthy public service and has s ch chosen sen wisely In naming Louis WIrth its pr professor tes- tes sor Bor of sociology who la Is an outstanding authority au au- au- au on race relations and city planning to direct the endeavor Chicago Sun I 5 |
