A Feminine Columbus.

That scientific urge that has made human conversation possible across the world—possible even for a man so conspicuously deaf as Mr. Hughes has been for many years—is not likely to leave flying development in its present transitory stage. Flying, like wireless, and like most other progressive development, is a commercial as well as a scientific problem. In age, flying is younger than wireless, for this century was several years old before the Wrights flew in the United States. But in some countries, at any rate, it does not lack pioneering capital; and though Stock Exchange publications have recently stated that flying companies do not pay, the confidence behind them in the United States, Germany and Britain is unabated. It does not, however, proclaim itself in the cablegrams as page 10 loudly as do the failures and accidents. Contrasting with these is the solo flight from England to Australia, of Miss Amy Johnson, a girl flier. Technically, her flight may not prove much, but psychologically it is for flying a magnificent advertisement.

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