A A A SHA SA HUE 0 561 MBA iy. \ . ' THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG WEDNESDAY, MAY 35, 1020. i ~Gloves and Mitts --Heavy Sox .~Underwear "THE CLUB' 112 Princess Phone 1372] 1 11's statement in the House of Com~ os. * " WINGS OF THE EMPIRE Published by Special Arrangement With the Aeroplane News Bureau. 3 dre - a a r The past few weeks have been alar- ums and excursions in the world of civil flying. After Winston Church- mons that "civil aviation must fly by itself, the government could not possibly hold it up in the air," no one was very much surprised to hear that Holt Thomas haa resigned the chairmanship of the Aircraft Manu- facturing Co., Ltd. I need hardly re- call the fact that it is the Airco which has been maintaining the daily air mail to and from. Paris throughout the winter. The continuance of this service seemed to be m something worse .than jeopardy. If it were to stop the blow to British flying would be immense, though the subsidized French machines and pilots would probably be able to continue to carry letters between the two capitals. The explanation given by Holt Thomas was as follows: "By the amalgamation recently an- pounced, the Birmingham Small Arms, Ltd, acquired control of my companies. Their interest naturally lies in » large factories, which, al- thouglytreated for aircraft, are adap- ted f6r other production, such as mo- tor bodies and engineering works and .equally naturally the first step is to foster these productions and cut down: all expense which is not like- WOOD Sawed in Stove Lengths BOOTH & CO., Foot West Street Phone 133 ¥ FRESH FRUIT and VEGETABLES Fresh Strawberries and Pineapples. Green Vegetables--Cabbage, Lettuce, © Radishs," Onions, etc. Ice Cream Bricks--all flavors. FRUITLAND ALLEN MASOUD, Prop. Phone 904 848 Princess St. Sn SOWARDS COAL CO. MAY PRICE cde sinsviia dn re avn $14.25 per $14.25 per EGG STOVE . . .. NUFF .¢83:-.... PEA: isi vives $13.00 per Wo used. The above price will be for May only. extra where baskets are ton ton ton ton $11 Sales For Cash. Phone 155 Plumbers and Tinsmiths 80 and 87 Princess street. LX 5 LY | WE ARE GOING TO THE CORNER OF | BROCK AND BAGOT STREETS. PAR- wrorD & WALSH 9 ly to prove remunerative in the near future, "Could 1 honestly advise my cO- directors, in view of the present apa- thetic attitude of the government, to continue an expensive technical de- 1 partment devoted to the design of airéraft? It was, therefore, in the position of not being, as a business man, able to advise them to contin- ue, while I could not, from the na- tional point of view, regard the dis- integration of a staff which has prov- en itself second to mone im the world without considerable misgiv- Therefore, Mr. Thomas felt that resignation was the only step open for him. < It was noticeable that this state- ment was published first in the Times and the Daily Mail. It was also recalled that Lord Northcliffe wrote the introduction to the book * Aerial Transport" which Mr. Thom- as recently published. It looked as if the influential section of the press which is controlled by Lord North cliffe was about to undertake a cam- paign to arouse the public to a reali- zation of how serious the position had become, and to organize pres- sure upon the government. It is in- deed the usual course of events in this country that so long as anyone is wililng to continue fighting a na- tional battle with his own resources against heavy odds, the public is will- ing to look on and contribute care- less applause. The press does the same while the government remains coldly apathetic, It is not until a dis- aster occurs which threatens national well-being that the press--or at least the sensational section of the press-- awakes to the necessity of stirring the public into indignation and of threatening the government tenure of office. Thus the "Fourth Estate" becomes at times the actual arbiter CASTORIA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears the . Signature of Webster's GROCERY TABLE DELICACIES Something New! CREAMETTES A new Macaroni product, made from the ereamy parts of the best Durum Wheat. Cooks in one-third the time. Place in boiling water, cook 5 to 8 min- utes only. Put up in packages and sell 18¢. Webster's BAGOT AND EARL STREET Phones No. 47 and 780. . {airships from -the- Laresst Sale of Any Medicine fn the Weld. Sold everywhere fis Canada, of the nation's destinies. The air mail was a good case in { point. Every Briton was proud of {it; but few saw the necessity of giv- {ing it active support. The press was | friendly and admiring, but lukewarm when the needs of the venture were i broached. The government being tru- |ly democratic, remained content so long as the aircraft industry was | willing to do work of national im- portance at its own expense. disappearance of ome of most active and 'powerful aircraft firms would have been no less--and the press showed signs of emerging like Achilles from its tent. The gov- ernment showed itself instantly re- sponsive, \ A few days later the air estimates came up again in the House of Com- mons, and Major Tryon, Under Sec- retary for Air, delivered himself of the following amazing statement: "When the secretary for air re- cently stated that civil*avijation must fly by itself, he referred to the ulti- mate way in which it should be sus- tained and did not mean to bar any government action that might be nec- essary to keep civil aviation going during the present which followed the end of the war, and before the whole thing could be built up again." . It one were an enemy of British civil flying, one might say more hard a statement which could only mean one thing to a plain man, As. it is, one feels that all's well that ends well. Three days later another Harms- worth paper announced that the B. 8. A. had reconsidered their decision and agreed to support the flying branch, while Mr. Thomas would re- sume his position at the head of that branch, The whole episode has its lessons, and they are lessons which will pro- bably be taken to heart more earnest- ly in the dominions and colonies than in the United Kingdom. The lessons are that if British civil flying is nec- essity ( which no one has denied) it must receive during its infancy the press, (3) the government, and that this support must not be mere ex- pressions of approdation, but active and energetic assistance. Several British governments have already shown a disposition to set an example to the United Kingdom government by giving such active help. The ex- act state of affairs in all dominions is not yet kpown over here, but from the info tion to hand one must ap- plaud the enterprise of the govern- ment of India in starting an air mail, although they mismanaged it, and of the Bermuda government in its en- couragement of the scheme recently described in these columns whereby the Avro Supermarine and Beard- | more companies have combined with | Messrs. Furness Withy & Co., Ltd., to promote flying in the Bermudas. ine, Australia. Apparently, however, In Austra- lia the- pioneers of civil flying are notvaltogether satisfied with the ait- uation. A cop of the Sunday Times, of Sydney, has just come to hand in which it fs stated that "the Austra- lian ploneers are faced with exactly the same difficulties that the first British compa had to contend with several a ago--Ilack of gov: on to remark that * Messrs. Broad- smith, Warnéeford and Love, of the Australian Aircraft & Engineering Co., intend to fight that apathy by making demonstration flights and establishing air communications be tween big citles until the public are educated up to recognition of the ae- roplane as a suitable means of loco- motion. = Accordingly their Avros are always busy. One went to meet the Vickers-Vimy of Sir Ross Smith and escorted it on to the company's aerodrome at Mascot when it arrived at Sydney: One reads with interest that Mr, Love. carried the mayor of Newcastle from Newcastle to Syd- ney in an hour and a quarter, and on another occasion took a cinema oper- ator from Sydney to Cootamundra about 250 miles, in three hours, which was quite a good effort for an Avro with a 130 h. p. Clerget engine; especially as the Blue mountains wére crossed at a height of 8,000 feet, while two heavy rain storms were met-and had to be circumvented. ------ * Airships for Commerce. From time to time during the last few months there have been rumors of a combine which -buy rigid ment and use them on commercial routes. Some future details have recently interested are: Messrs. Vick Ltd. Messrs, Beardmare, the Orient Steen Navigation Co., Marconi Com- pany, Lord Incheape and Sir Alan Anderson. The offer is under 250,000 pounds for the R.33 (sister of the R. 34) R.36, R.37, and R.80. The of- ficial reason for the low price is that -{ the airships are useless and obsolete for Service Jurpaues, i They will be used for, en airship serv- ices to on rimen and other parts of the continent, and when sufficient davgher of the Jats -| and - Cérolyn, John and Mrs. Crawford, were united i dla g i difficult year, things about this explaining away of | support of (1) the public; (2) the ernment sympathy." The paper goes | come to light. 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