Show I PEOPLES PEOPLE'S CORNER DEFENDS Ant AIR STAND Peoples People's Corner Some of our our national congressmen are behaving more like hysterical w wo women women wo- wo men than like staid and thoughtful lawmakers and business men meri in in- inthe the matter of ot the order of ot Postmaster General Farley Fancy cancelling the crooked airmail contracts The five or six fatalities that occurred oc OC- during tho the spell of ot bad weather that occurred at the time of the tho transfer trans fer are exceedingly regrettable But so are the eight deaths th that t befell the Airways privately owned and operated op- op op operated p. p crated passenger liner And so are the 30 to 60 deaths which have annually an been charged up to the army air forces ever since it was We might go so further and add that the 50 or orso so automobile fatalities w which ich I occur in Salt Lake and Utah annually are arc regrettable and everything possible possible pos pos- sible should be done to Jo prevent these seri serious accidents For one thing airplanes airplanes air air- planes ought not to be flown in stormy and foggy weather when is is bad But we wesee see nothing in inthe the present pres pres- ent eat picture to make congressmen get hysterical and treat the airmail job like lt was it-was was a bomb about t to explode in t For my part t I think that the administration admin d ni 1 wu was warranted In taking th the action they did id A part of the job President Roosevelt took upon himself and his administration was WM to make war on graft racketeering and kid kid- naping upon the misuse of govern govern- 1 Letters limited to wor words Pur In publication Is given ahen 2 I the IwU wU WrIte true name nama and nd address ir are her Used legibly on one lido aIde of or t only 3 3 racial and Par a. discussions barred personal 4 Persians are no not de 4 Writer 11 t must nu sign true names name and but bu when desired these J not be printed s. s Political WIll tiona Are noT considered 8 5 Dressed In thia department m t ar of th c Contributor to and do tn n not ft reflect the views of this 7 7 The Tho paper department nAY may be used as an n advertising The Th 3 Peoples People's e Corner g lm medium not dJ ms more than one contribution a from the tha same writer lee ment funds and the exploiting of of masses of the people I We are sacrificing life in this w on crime but w we are making head way and the objective Is worth th tha price A war can scarcely be waged wage without the loss of some lives A nu ii be ber of good and faithful officers o of t the law la have fallen victims t to gang garig bullets but organized crime j s being broken up and subdued and wo w 4 cannot permit the million dollar doUar gang ganz gangs ster class to go unpunished an and uni challenged For my part I should like to see tha army boys fly tho mail for at leut leat a in order to year establish co cost cort records rec- rec and determine what it t b really worth to transport airmail A And linc inci 1 it is Imperative that we maintain considerable force of h highly trained trained airmen for lor defense purposes in what what- way can they get more practical 1 tra train tr Dia ing lug than in jn flying the mail mall routes A saving of several million dollari to the annually is certain ly lip a matter worth considering cu cr careL fully and now that t the e job b is in th the tiie hands of the administration it should 01 call for cool and c careful reul study before belor it ft is Js passed back again like liko a dish tha that is is' too hot to hold Certainly Unel Sam can do doas as good a job transporting the malls mails as private corporations c can 4 if it he starts out to heel himself n make a business of It Lets Let's' not ge get i in too much of a hurry C. C S. S WILKINSON Z |