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Show lion 'fend falsity of communism wt can eer-talnly eer-talnly demand that they not work against us. Whether the charge of indirect teaching of communism at the University ef Utah Is true The Telegram docs not know. However, the matter should certainly be thoroughly investigated investi-gated by university authorities and handled in tuch a manner that there can be no question as to the stand of the university. I !' Safett Place on Earth in 1939 rE safest place on earth (or off of it If you want to be technical) last year was in an ' American airline plane, according to aviation ' authorities. That s a rather startling statement for those millions of American people who still regard the airplane as just one step above a front line trench as nice safe place to be. - But it's true. Last year domeetle airlines carried 1,400,000 persons 'over a total of 620,-000,000 620,-000,000 passenger miles of travel without a single sin-gle fatality. Colonel Edgar S. Gorrell, president of the Air Transport Association ot America, Justly proud of that record, said it was "the greatest Increase in safe travel ot any class of passenger passen-ger service for any similar period in the history his-tory of transportation In the United States." Whether that statement is correct or not, the : American aviation transport companies nave accomplished an amazing feat in last year's afety record. It hardly seems possible that in so tew years air transportation could be turned from a rather hazardous and uncertain bust-1 bust-1 Bess, in which all too often disasters were apread over the newspaper front pages, into a emootbly -opera ted, safe and sure system ot transportation. I The future tor the nation's airlines looks rosy. Already they are reaping the benefits ! from past improvements In safety and regu-I regu-I larity. Total mileage, passenger travel and. express ex-press business have steadily Increased. Last year I lor the first time In several years the airlines I operated tn the black. Whereas five years ago J passenger service on airlines comprised only I 30 per cent of the business, last year it amount-1 amount-1 ed to 60 per cent Without question air transportation, which ) 15 years ago was a novelty with no scheduled ' passenger service, has already come ot age. |