PUBLIC SERVICE.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1928, Page 4

PUBLIC SERVICE.

Time limy come when the Dominions will exceed in wealth and power the Mother Country. The next sixty years may be as eventual as the last sixty years. A city on the St. Lawrence may lival the city on the Thames. But Ike triumph of the Dominions will brine no bitterness to Englishmen at home They share 100 keenly in the prosperity of the Dominions, and there is

scarcely a man or woman in England who does not speak with pride ol some relative who is seeking his career in some part of the British Empire, it is, perhaps, easier for thq dweller on a small island than for the cultivator on a vast semi-continent to think imperially: for he has to look far afield for his food and knows himself to be dependent upon the Dominions. Whatever he the future of the Dominions, let us hope that they will not forget the essential ,duty ol cultivating a public, spirit. Public sendee has without doubt saved England from disaster. anti there may come a crisis t -i any one of the Dominions which can only he surmounted by pub'!:- loyalty and sacrifice. Public service is a sound corrective.- flic orkshir ’ Post, ” All! PIS \STEPS. In wind way, it is asked on all sides, can the frequency of these ae.idents to members of the Air Force he min - ed.-' One answer which suggests itso.s

ivs tluit it possible means of increasing tin- security of I heir lives, like tlml I'm- ilcfcni e of l.nndon. would lie to r.,ui]> nil units at Ik" earliest possikk' inomeiit Avitli modern-typo machines. 'Flint might- at least serve to remove the suspicion that there may he some connect ion between the accidents and the design and age of some of the wartime models in use. It must, lumever, always In* remeinhered that the ofiieers and men of the Air Force are constantly engaged on active service, and that their peace exercises are an indispensable part of their training for getting themselves out of difficult and dangerous emergencies in time of \tai. In the case of squadrons engaged, for instance, in co-operating with an anm on the ground, the low elevation at which they must often necessarily fly. and the need of fixing their attention ni objects below them rather than on their machines, are examples ol the many factors in military aviation

which arc bound ro make it more dangerous than Hying as practised by civilians.- “The Times.”