"RAIDS" BY PARACHUTE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 241, 5 July 1919, Page 7

"RAIDS" BY PARACHUTE

_ —_ ■PESSIMISTS VISION OF.dVI]JAN . FLYING.s . "Of all tho so-called 'modem propress,' " said a pessimistic visitor as he walked awav from Iho Handley Page aerodrome at Oicklewood. Vl.regard this new development: ol parachuting as the mast, disturbing and menacing" (writes "T.R." in tho "Daily Mail"). "living does not interfere with the privacy of tho ordinary citizen. Aeroplanes' pass 100 high ahove his home and his garden lor tlieir passengers to quizz at him or annoy, him. When aeroplanes land thev can land only, at proper landing places; their pilots do not descend, voluntarily •upon .private property. ' Flying ho more vioThfcs privacy than a :ailv/ay line does ai the end of ono's garden. ' "But what will a general extension of this parachuting mean You can take it for granted that, just as everyone will soon fly, fo everyone will soon parachute.' 'That, means the., end of tie legend that an Englishman's home is his castle. What is more annoying than to have unwelcome visitors 'drop in'? Jivcrvone suffers from that affliction at times, but, at least, when Oho undesired visitors call at the front, door, you ran fob them off by telling a moid to say, 'not at home.' "But how about when they have learned Hie trick of, literally 'dropping in' to one's garden by a parachute? There are" hosts of social thrusters who will go in for parachuting. People will bo'defenceless against them. They need not even have rlio front to say that they have deliberately called. They will 'drop in' on gffrden parties and family teas on lawns and say (hat they have 'dropped in' by accident. "How ,00111(1 one. refuse a cup of (ea ro ,i peison who had tumbled trom (lib t-ky? IToff could one send for o servant and <-'ay coldly, 'Show this gentleman (or lady—lor some women will be enthusing lie naracTiu(iste) the gate'? "There is another aspect of it," continued the pessimist, '"llicy will come down in the middle of your pet flower holders, on the top of yoiw grtenliouse, <)ii your asparagus bed, and " "Somelimes on top of your dog kennel," .-aid .a friend consolingly, "don't I'crgel that." The pc=simi.-:l was cneered. "Yes," he agreed, "there's going to be a furore for bulldogs."