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Show 1 Ited ifo (hose who will not abuse It In the manner In which certain reckless auto drivers, for cxamplo, today abuse their privileges upon the public, highways. high-ways. As to private rights, the theory of the private ownership of all of the air ! above the ground to which title U held must fall. Yet the owner Is certainly entitled to some privacy and to some protection. It would be no real Injury to have airships pass over his property prop-erty at any considerable distance In the air. But how about machines Bkiminlng along the ground a few feet above the fences or buildings, or drifting drift-ing or stationary, for the matter of that, a few feet above a man's home frrmindn? How ahrtnt a hrw-utlnm n , 6"b taking luncheon there and dropping debris down on those below? There are hundreds of ways In which the unregulated un-regulated aviator might make an unmitigated un-mitigated nuisance of himself unless there is established same code of regulation. reg-ulation. When it comes to the matter of International In-ternational boundaries there is involved in-volved tho most serious of all serious miestlons Custom! reciilatlnn nnd Immigration laws must fall, without ome International code and tsome better bet-ter means of enforcing it than there is at present. These speculations of Col.. Baden-Powell Baden-Powell are not Idle by any means. They refer to conditions which are rapidly approaching, which will bo here long before there is any legislation legisla-tion drafted to deal with them. Consideration Con-sideration of the legislative problems must be had at once. I I LAW IN THE AIR. From time to time Col. Baden-Pow-; ell has in different English publications publi-cations called attention to the pressing necessltjof new laws to regulate the matter of navigation of the air. The latest of these articles, and the most exhaustive In its speculations, is in the current number of the National Review. No one can read this article ar-ticle without being Impressed with the necessity for the laws which Col. Baden-Powell advocates, and, Indeed, with the great difficulties which , lie in the way of regulating effectively and for the protection of present public pub-lic and private rights the new means of transportation which are certain to be in relatively common use within tho next decade, says the Seattle Times. Col. Baden Powell is really conservative conser-vative In his forecasts. He puts It that within four years from now flying fly-ing will be relatively common. It may be looked upon as a venturesome pursuit, pur-suit, and mav not be an evervdav pt- perlence among the general community, communi-ty, but most well-to-do people will have made a trip or two and many will own machines and make almost dally runs. It Is evident that the rule of the road In the air must be -established, and also the still graver matter whether wheth-er international . boundaries are long er to be respected. Then comes the question of the ownership of the air above private property. Finally there comes the question of the means by which laws may be enforce and the registration and identification of aer-iaj aer-iaj machines carried out. J It is evident that if private rights are to be respected at all, and if any one is to retain even a 'pretense of privacy on his own domain, there cannot can-not be granted an unrestricted permission per-mission to every one to traverse the air at his own sweet will, without regulation The privilege must be lim- |