DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 110, 30 July 1927, Page 16

DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

MULES AND AIRPLANES (Copyright, 1927. J STATISTICS are a wonderful thing. They sometimes knock our pressions sky high and seriously alter our opinion of things. Time was when railroad traffic was considered rather dangero-Ui. nowadays a man is safer in a railway carriage than he is at home. Relate more people die in their beds than do from train wTecks. The same is true of airplanes. , # Flying used to be very dangerous, but now it is not consider much so. . Statistics show that eight pilots lost their lives in commercial € last year, while 80 persons were kicked to death by mules in Missouri So it is more dangerous to keep a mule and to go near his business than it is to keep an airplane. - The rear end of a mule seems to be more perilous than the fron of an airplane. Many a man who drives a team of mules might lay this to kf ar *'j oU 3 thinks when he sees a person sailing in the air that it is a ha:» business, but after all it is not so hazardous as riding behind a m *v s 'ctate& A great many people are killed by automobiles in the United *- gg but there were probably a great many more people killed by skittisn before motor-cars came into general usage, only their deaths wer recorded. The old family horse was a great pet but he was a dangerous ins J You never could tell when he was going to take it into his head to rua j e Statistics are not handy just at present, but probably as many P eu were injured by runaway horses as are now injured by automobiles £ When you drive an automobile the only uncertain element is 30 When you drive a horse and buggy you are not only uncertain & horse is uncertain. Altogether it seems to be safer to trust yourself to an airplane to a skittish horse. rfecttf Of course, there are some people who think that all horses are P €l . safe if you understand them, but then there are some people who thin airplanes are just as safe.