an rai e babies and
tl ir husbands, an 'W
l;lt to lea e
Putnam, as ou prefer, will not
stay at h me and leave such work
She as an individua
U ra1 e the point that
men have no monopoly of either
bra s or initiat1Ye.
The i ue often has been raised
against men that they do not un
derstand women. The indict
ment, alas, ls too true. If we a ll
did,. the fun of living with them
wou ld be po ,ed. Sir Walter
Scott hit it ff about right \hen
he :vrote:
woman, in our hour o~
l I cer tain. coy and
plea c!
n pain and suffcrin
If , 011en want t
vi ate e sea or the air, le
m do It. The · will b plentJ
their sex left ut home to cook
dcly 's porridg n the morning,
nnd to tend th bridge party or
1e church circle meeting in the
ft noon.
the critic who believe
in her own
ay, "Watch Amelia
e crack-up will not
angc her plan . We
j './_ ·~""'
SPILT MILK
HE truth of the old adage "Don't Cry Over Spilt
Milk" was never better shown than by Ameli,a. Ear­rt'
1, reaction to her recent smash-up in Honolulu.
Af.tei months of study and preparation, this brave and
able pilot had no complaint to make when h.er ship skid­ded
in the take-off of the second lap of its projected
round-the-world flight.
On the contrary, she found time to praise the plane's
builder and to express thanks at the safety of herself
and her companions. Not a word of disappointment ...
no excuses, not a mention of her own quick-wittedneu
in "cutting the switch" and saving her ship fron,. an
explosion-just a wry grin and a determined sta
about trying again.
This is the temperament that mak
field. It is the spirit of the adventu
the real champion.
We can all learn a. lesson from Amelia Earhart's ex­ample-
particularly the lesson of "trying again" instead
of looking for sympathy aftez a failure on a drat at­tempt.
e
Al Williams denoun
flight to Hawaii we
. We agreed it waa tru as
isled, that Mias really
wasn't very scientific. We o doubt,
either, that she was cashinf
tent on the flight, seeing to
that the adventure had some
way of pay-load. There were press
r ights, the photographs she could aell, the
lect,1re tours to be taken Jater and the
books to be written after that. Was not her
husband, after all, a publisher? And \\ as
she not a creature of her own age, devoted
as it is to publicity?
Of. course she was; the Williams impeach­ments
was probably accurate. We suggested,
however, that it would be a drab world in­deed
if Miss Earhart anJ the whole kind of
air heroes wen• to be restrided in their dar­ing.
After all, they flavor the routine of a
workaday world, making it. ind palata-ble.
So that we are delighted 10 iee Miss
Earhart intends to perservere, an
what the reason we suggested.
flight," says she, obviously thi
Major. ''I make no claima of scientific or
other accomplishment. . . . Perhaps there
is a place in this prosaic world for the right
K of adventuring . . . "
of
r ile a rticl ..,,,,,-.
syndicate on t"1 way out and by other de­vice
· ought to increase the flight' pay­load,
so to speak. There seems to be some
question, of cour of Mr. William' ac­curacy.
The aviation editors of the Ne
Yor · dailies divide into pretty much war­r
ing camps on this particular issue.
There's one thing, however, which we'<l
like to say in behalf of the Jay pub · e'd
like to remind Mr. Williams that the d%"s
or adven urc are fadmg into the We
don't breed individualists anym y
tep on the collective neck in wa
deciJed to contemn. But in uch
climate, a little heroism, indeed
flamboyan app
the ti rfect
w
0
famobs ftier and
tingulllbed Service
work in testing Na
New York Worl Telesa.m Major
Williams confided la reacUon.
The "flying laboratory'' is just an­other
airplane. with duplicates of
Instruments found n ordinary tran•
port planes. So h for the "l~
oratory." lrut tha is all part of
"scientific" backaround which
lused as an excuse for the rounct_t
worlcl 111ght. Sa Major Willi
Ila Earhart· "Flying La
" is the latest and mos
Ing stunt that bas been
--,..-: e-~n .-'o a trusting a enthus-lutic
public. There's Ing la
that "Flying Laborato
dupllcatee of the in rum.enta
and apparatus to be found on
board every major airline tran11-
port. .
But quoting the very words of
her husband: "Thie flight ls
purely sclentlftc; devoted to test­ing
sclentlftc. safety naviga­tion
devices. and last but not
lea t. a sclen r arch con­cerning
pllot
That is a the press
releases s(ven to the newspapeM
of the co try in the promotion
of this project.
H lo transpacific flights
already are being made on
by Pan American.
s releases flooded the coun-lth
th~ news tha.t her "Fly­Laboratory"
had lowered the
t Um betw~en
o and Honolulu.
San Francisco.
In ~xlstence and
bile her "Flying
Ing shipped
at a prMlt; maga,­k
royalUu, nftll-
• lecture engage­r
promotion. All
Earhart and the
simply and frank
try to do a sens&·
can lecture about
nd make a lot of
they don't 4o that.
Is "sclentlftc,n which
I flap-such
la beinl
11, hf
Now that Affielia Earliart lias
made a flop of hP.r. last publicity
tunt, it is to be hoped that ahe
will swap her choke b Is
for a skirt, bu hersel t,
and kee_P. oat of pcrc..i..;n.c..t.a..._ ____ .j
ROt; ·o .THE-WORLD: Betting i 50-
50 a~ to "hether Amelia Earhart Putnam
"ill ac-tuully r 1lobe-Jrirdlin,: ef-fort.
If ,h ,lo t t>xpert her to 1·ome
hark "ith a lot of "'lnable data. R 1u1lar
a· linl'f' already 1·0,t>r many part, of her
nnt-d route and aren't intert-,tecl in the
few hat'. more, no romnwr-
1 r type of hip for
g . for ,tudyinl,! ufi} in
e rould ,lo that better by ,.
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