Sometimes, Flying Feels Too Godlike To Be

Any Coward Can Sit In His Home And Criticize A Pilot For Flying Into A Mountain In A Fog. But I Would Rather, By Far, Die On A Mountainside Than In Bed. What Kind Of Man Would Live Where There Is No Daring? And Is Life So Dear That We Should Blame Men For Dying In Adventure? Is There A Better Way To Die?

Instead Of Agitating For War, The Jewish Groups In This Country Should Be Opposing It In Every Possible Way, For They Will Be Among The First To Feel Its Consequences. Tolerance Is A Virtue That Depends Upon Peace And Strength. History Shows That It Cannot Survive War And Devastation. A Few Very Far-sighted Jewish People Realize This And Stand Opposed To Intervention. But The Majority Still Do Not. Their Greatest Danger To This Country Lies In Their Ownership And Influence In Our Motion Pictures, Our Press, Our Radio, And Our Government.

I Learned That Danger Is Relative, And The Inexperience Can Be A Magnifying Glass.

While My Hand Is On The Stick, My Feet On The Rudder, And My Eyes On The Compass, This Consciousness, Like A Winged Messenger, Goes Out To Visit The Waves Below, Testing The Warmth Of Water, The Speed Of Wind, The Thickness Of Intervening Clouds. It Goes North To The Glacial Coasts Of Greenland, Over The Horizon To The Edge Of Dawn, Ahead To Ireland, England, And The Continent Of Europe, Away Through Space To The Moon And Stars, Always Returning, Unwillingly, To The Mortal Duty Of Seeing That The Limbs And Muscles Have Attended Their Routine While It Was Gone.

I'm Not Bound To Be In Aviation At All. I'm Here Only Because I Love The Sky And Flying More Than Anything Else On Earth. Of Course There's Danger; But A Certain Amount Of Danger Is Essential To The Quality Of Life. I Don't Believe In Taking Foolish Chances' But Nothing Can Be Accomplished Without Taking Any Chance At All.