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Canadian National, which has thrived in the nine-year tenure of the Liberals, might well be satisfied with the retention of that party in power. Any expenditure of capital sums by Canadian National must have authority of an Order in Council or a vote of Parliament. On the other hand Bachelor Richard Bedford Bennett, Conservative leader, was onetime counsel for Canadian Pacific.
Direct utilization of the airways by the two rail companies might take two aspects: the speeding of travel along principal trunk lines by combined air-&-rail service, and the operation of air lines where it is not practicable to build branch roads.
Canadian Airways planes fly from Montreal to Toronto. Western Canada Airways operates from Calgary east to Winnipeg. Between Winnipeg and Cochrane, Ont. is a vast expanse favorable for flying, which might be made an extensive air link in an air-rail system, cutting nearly two days from the trans-Canada trip.
For the same reasons that air transportation is necessary to Canada (great area, scattered population) it is likely to be costly (long hauls, light passenger loads). Nevertheless the industry there has made tremendous strides since 1919 when a few military aircraft were released for civil works (TIME, Jan. 27). Of 88 companies engaged in commercial operations, ten are operating scheduled services over 6,984 mi. of airways. Last year Canada's air lines carried 86,242 paying passengers, 430,636 Ib. of mail, 3,903,908 Ib. of freight and express, flew 6,284,079 mi.
Flights & Flyers
Wales. Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Prince of Wales, made his first solo flights, in a Tom-Tit biplane, without a license (his father having requested that none be allowed him).
Rasche. At Tempelhof aerodrome. Berlin, famed Thea Rasche had a crash, was not badly hurt.
Derby. Twelve of the original 18 starters in the All-American Air Derby for planes powered by 100-h. p. American Cirrus engines, finished at Los Angeles the first half of a 7,000-mi. round-the-continent race, headed east to complete the circle in Detroit. In the lead was Lee Gehlbach of Little Rock, Ark. flying a low-wing Command-Aire.
*In 1921, however, the legal adviser to the chief of the U. S. Army Air Service opined that rights in property were so rigid that a constitutional amendment might be necessary to save aviation from becoming a deprivation of property without process of law.