While browsing a 1929 manual for reporters and editors produced by United Press, I was taken by two observations made by the manual’s editors:
“Prohibition is a vital topic and it should be handled impartially, with both sides presented fairly and calmly.
“Aviation is even more widely interesting than prohibition.”
The juxtaposition of aviation and prohibition as news leaders is an interesting sign of those times.
If you are reading this, you probably share my ongoing enthusiasm for the importance of aviation.
The note from United Press serves as a waypoint in the growth of airmindedness that followed Charles Lindbergh’s electrifying solo transatlantic flight of 1927.
Sadly this great aviator was caught up in the pro nazi pro fascist sentiment of the America First movement prior to WWII. You can’t avoid the juxtaposition of history.