Show Atlantic Aviation Becomes Nuisance Assert BY DY A. A G. G G G GARDINER G ER England England's s Greatest Liberal Editor Copyright 1927 Consolidated Press Association LONDON Oct 15 Public Public and newspaper comment on the latest At At- Atlantic Atlantic Atlantic lantic flying failure scored by Miss Ruth Elder and George Haldeman Is s unanimous in condemning the wild gambles with death It Is pointed out here that no real value attaches to such exploits for fort forit forit it t is clear that in the present state of science transit of the Atlantic by air air- airplane airplane airplane plane Is infinitely remote from the sphere of practical usefulness and that the development of ot aviation de depends de- de depends depends on experiments entirely differ differ- different different different ent In character The opinion is Js expressed that If air service ice ever is to b be established between Europe and America the airship rather than the airplane will willbe willbe willbe be employed and the effect of ot airplane stunts is Js to prevent the possibilities po of the airship being adequately explored ex explored ex- ex PERSONAL NOTORIETY The only apparent motive for fur fur- further further further ther stunt flights is- is pursuit is-pursuit pursuit of per per- personal personal personal notoriety and the public anxiety anxIety ety of two worlds should not be strained in so trivial an interest Moreover the public is entitled to protest for the cost of scouring the theseas theseas' theseas theseas seas seas' for missing aviators falls on the public purse and the interruption of the passage of the great liners in involves in- in involves involves loss and delay which is intolerable Intolerable erable as a consequence of f merely lous adventures pother nother phase ph e of ot adventurous women has been much In evidence this week three women having swum the English channel Dr Dorothy Cochrane Logan of London beat Miss Gertrude Ederle's Ederle s record by more than an hour thereby winning a prize of DOUBT EXPRESSED Some doubt has been expressed in America and France regarding Dr Logans Logan's achievement and while the evidence of the validity of the per per- performance performance performance is 15 regarded here as Incon Incon- Incontrovertible Incontrovertible incontrovertible It is admitted that strict strict- stricter er supervision of channel swims Is necessary The channel exploit now has be become be- be become become come a great creat annual feature of the sporting world and the to advent o ot of women into the competition lends I It exceptional Interest This season the feat has been accomplished four times limes three times by br women The writer has referred In previous dispatches to the astonishing develop develop- development development ment of greyhound racing all over ove the country COWl try Much concern has been aroused in social and Industrial cIrcles circle at the consequences of ot the phenomenon enon It has stimulated gambling among the working classes to an un un- unprecedented unprecedented degree and J J. J H II Thomas the railway men mens men's s leader In a speech Friday expressed sed serious alarm at the effect of the plague upon the home life lite and conditions of ot the people He says thousands of ot workers leave the factories nightly for the race racetracks racetracks racetracks tracks and that money which use used to go to their wives m is ls going to book book- bookmakers bookmakers makers General opinion Ion Is that the sport has no element of ot permanence apart apar from the gambling interest and that tha its effect is wholly degrading Never Never- Nevertheless Nevertheless Nevertheless new tracks are being laId lad down downall downall downall all over o the country and there Is every indication that there will be an extension of the craze craz next summer The comedy of the week turns upon Bernard Shaws Shaw's championship of Benito Mussolini the Italian dictator which has created consternation in Socialist circles The Morning Post observes that Shaw has administered a dose of the castor oil of common commonsense commonsense commonsense sense to his socialist comrades Shaw does not defend the outrages associated with Mussolini's s rule but Insists that all revolutions re are accompanied accompanied accompanied by such soles epi-soles I es and that Mus Mus- Mussolini solln like Lenin m must st be Judged by his capacity to rule rile He declared democracy is an exploded delusion of the nineteenth century and suggests that the records of democratic cows COWl countries tries like England France and the United States contain as discreditable dL episodes as ns those attributed to Lenin and Mussolini He lie seems to anticipate cheerfully the disappearance of rep rep- representative representative representative government and universal emergence of the rule of ot powerful dic dic- dictators Whether Shaw Is engaged en aged in a char char- characteristic characteristic characteristic leg pulling leg pulling Jar lark whether he has fallen a victim to his own hair hair- hairsplitting hairsplitting splitting logic or whether he has be become be- be become become come obsessed by the gos gos- gospel pet pel of hero worship is 15 not apparent But all his political friends are en engaged en- en engaged engaged in explaining him away and all the reactionaries like the Morning Post Past are hailing him as a Daniel come com cometo cometo to judgment |