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Show I ! Prevai I ing Opin ions j I Comment of the American Press ' I Kennedy Ss a. Bogey Chairman Kennedy of th marl-time marl-time commission does not go so far as to say that passenger liners running on the surface of the sea are obsolete and might as well be junked, but he comes near to it in a report to congress urging smong other things that the maritime mari-time commission b given jurisdiction juris-diction over th vessels in th air which In th near future will b competing for the mall and passenger pas-senger business of th seven seas. In saying that airships and air-planea air-planea will fly over th ocean on regular schedule within the next few years and carry many pas-seners. pas-seners. Chairman Kennedy is probably correct. That thia competition com-petition will eliminate sea-surfac transportation, however, does not necessarily follow. It hasn't worked that way in land transportation. trans-portation. About every form of transportation transpor-tation texcept the horsecar in street railroads) that man has ever used is still In. use; even th oxcart. The giant liners may do less business in proportion to the total of transportation than they do now, and it may D a different dif-ferent sort of business, but sur- ' face ships are not going to vanish from the seas. They will lose tha patronage of people in an extreme hurry, no doubt, but not everybody every-body is in an extreme hurry. Regulatory commissions are always al-ways wanting to take on new functions. That is probably the origin of Kennedy's demand for added jurisdiction. If and when regulation of overocean transportation transpor-tation is shown to b necessary, it may b imposed; but it will probably be better policy to leave it free to develop for some tun to come. Los Angeles Times. Comforting Thought The Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith has contracted for the Sunday afternoon radio tim recently relinquished re-linquished by Father Coughlin and plans a 26-week series of attacks at-tacks on the CIO and on th concentration of power by the Roosevelt administration. His programs, b says, will b "as energetic as a BUly Sunday revival, as sincere as a William Jennings Bryan campaign and as sound as Abraham Lincoln Amen-. Amen-. canism." And those who like peace and good will on Sunday afternoons may reflect gratefully easy to switch off. New York World-Telegram. Vocational Training to Fore Chicago is contemplating changes in its high school courses with a view to enlarging their vocational content and making i them something more than merely j college preparatory courses. This I is the modern and practical trend I in high school education. j The great majority of high school students quit school st j graduation and start hunting for j jobs. The minority carry on in university. If th majority have no real vocational training or guidance, they will b adrift after 1 they get out of school, with no j skills they can put to use. Sooner or later they ar forced to take , the training that will fit tbem j for the trades and occupations they wish to enter. Th college preparatory curric- ulum Is perfectly all right for I those who intend to go to college, 1 and should by ne means b denied ; them. But certainly mora con- . sideration than is given at pre- 1 ent should go to th thousands of students who urgently need techniques tech-niques of earning a hving when th necessity of doing so con- , fronts them. Th Minneapolis Star. . J |