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Rh class of adults—and talk about teachers. They, the women and men who are shaping the women and men of tomorrow—give me a special urge to make at least one flight compulsory for all pedagogues.

In my magazine work I had letters from college students asking how to persuade deans to permit flying. In contrast to the liberality of some insti­tutions, there was absolute ban on it in others. This even went so far as forbidding travel by air between home and campus, on penalty of expulsion. Of course, in some instances, there was a great deal to say for the dean’s point of view. In one university an accident, due to carelessness, as I remember it, had occurred with the result that discipline too lax there before had been tightened unreasonably. All flying was taboo.

To my mind the sensible middle course, at col­lege as anywhere else, is to have supervised flying. A plane may be misused or mishandled and its safety characteristics abused, as may be those of any other vehicle.

My correspondence convinced me that young people today are increasingly accepting aviation as a matter of course. To the newer generation a plane isn’t much more unusual than an automobile. When they talk aviation, they are apt to know what they are talking about.

Speaking of this modern attitude, I landed for a night once in a small town in New Mexico. There was no landing field or any sort of facility for