Show modern problems lens in four years time we may be able to say that flying is common it may perhaps still be looked upon as a vent venturesome practice and among the general community may not be exactly an everyday experience but most well to do people will have made a trip and may well own machines and make almost daily runs it is then that now laws and re regulations t will have to be adopted the rule of the road 11 in the air must be settled as also the question as to whether inter national frontiers are ara to be re specter spec ted and if not whether universal free trade must result then comes the subject of the he ownership of the air private property finally we must consider the means by which laws may be on enforced forced and the registration and identification of aerial machines carried out I 1 hitherto international frontiers have ha ve been fixed by natural divisions of land aud and water suell such as p the sea coast or river bank or clearly benned denned de tined strips of ground such lines of demonstration aro are not easily crossed by choso who w ho wish to do so unseen and without interruption but in the air 1 l it is different piere fiere no natural h r boundaries exist dor can artificial obstruct obstructions ons be erected so as to be insurmountable by airships we are then called upon to answer a most vital question are aeronauts aero to bo be allowed to traverse these frontiers without hindrance or must they descend 00 frontier stations to report themselves jf if the former many laws and regulations now in force w uld be affected those regarding za passports alien migrations immigrations im 0 rations and i he like would be seriously upset but a far more serious matter is the collection of customs even supposing it were not possible to convey large cargoes of f goods and there is no good rea son why this should not be done some day still it would undoubtedly be possible to carry parcels of pounds or so if such an amount can be taken through the air free of duy duty it would manifestly have to be to land travelers considering L too the rapidity and ease with which machines are likely to travel they could bo be em ew lloyed continually going to and fio over the frontier and so transporting t large lm quantities of dutiable goods M either customs must bo entirely done away with or we are faced with a second alternative that all aerial vessels must decena nt at the customs houses to declare their cargo though in the ordinary way it might td be possible to enforce anis by the imposition of severe penalties on any one detected in evading i it t vot so great would be the for smuggling on aling especially in the dark or in III misty weather that it would witti without out doubt be easy to ply the nefarious trade the lie air going smuggler would not nol be bound as with his maritime t lu e p prototype pe to land at a f fa it spot on the coast he carld travel far inland before dial embarking disembarking dis mb arking it seems impossible to enforce any law as to machines being compelled to descend at a frontier and this means customs in the main will wil 1 have to be abolished major laden baden powell |