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NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1916
The Winged Victory - Ruth Law
Our lady of the pathless skies through wide, uncharted azure flies, and, fearless as the birds that roam the spaces of the vast blue dome high arched above the land and sea, she wings her flight successfully. No Phoebus in his wildest dream could drive so well his high strung team as did our lady when she came along the sun route into fame, and if young Icarus her skill had shown he would a safer course have flown and not have landed in the wet, from which he's not been rescued yet. What man has done they tell us man can do again by that same plan, and we are told no woman can compete in man's field with a man, yet here a woman sets the pegs that make man wabbly on his legs and scare him almost black and blue to think what next she's going to do. No ruthless law controlled her course, but, starting at the western source, she winged her own appointed run to meet the rising of the sun, and well she met it, fresh and fair, a messenger of light and air, and left her record on the sky for womankind to pattern by as something higher, better than the average pattern set by man. Hail, lady of the pathless skies, you've got the proper enterprise, and if all women follow you nobody knows what they can do!
W. J. LAMPTON
EDITORIAL PAGE EVENING JOURNAL NOVEMBER 22,1916
OF THE NEW YORK
NEW YORK JOURNAL
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Hurrah for Miss Law!
Miss Ruth Law found she couldn't
get to New York before dark. She
had left her lights in Chicago so as to
lessen the load on her baby aeroplane,
and up there in the sky without a
light she couldn't see her indicators
and things, so she decided to stop at
Binghamton. It was a disappointing
thing, because when she left Chicago,
Sunday morning, she hoped to get to
New York in time for tea, and to
have a sunset out of which to come
sliding down the airline to Governor's
Island. However, what must be
must be, so she tied her aeroplane to
a tree, and a fat policeman assured
her he would watch it during the
night and see that no bad little boys
mixed up the works. Then the young
lady hailed a passing automobile, put
a skirt on over her several woolen and
leather thingamybobs, and went to
Binghamton to have something
to eat. She had only traveled
680 miles--590 of them without
a stop--broken the distance flying
record, broken the woman's flying
record, and had a very good spin from
the middle of the continent almost to
its end. When he think of the weeks
it took George Washington to get as
far as Pittsburgh on his surveying
trip, we can marvel at the great
development of the agencies of
transportation which enable Miss Law
to make almost twice the distance
between 8:30 in the morning and 4:30
in the afternoon.
THE TIMES
NEW YORK CITY
DEC 3 1916
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LIBERTY ILLUMINATED.
The World is to be congratulated on
the successful culmination of its public-
spirited effort to make the message
of BARTHOLDI's Liberty in the harbor
as clear by night as it is by day.
Illuminated by electricity, not
only the torch but the symbolic figure
which holds its aloft will hereafter
be visible at all times. It is not to be
forgotten that one of the earliest
achievements of The World was to
collect by subscriptions from a public
which had seemed ungrateful for
BARTHOLDI's gift the money needed to
place the big statue on a pedestal. Last
evening the installation of the illuminated
The Winged Victory
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RUTH LAW'S GREAT FEAT
Ruth Law's Chicago-to-New York flight is a record-
making feat, so far as America is concerned.
Aviators abroad are just now out of comparison.
In a three-year-old, 28-foot machine, with but
half the power of Carlstrom's, Miss Law made the
distance of 807 miles in [[?]]
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Flighty Femininity
MISS RUTH LAW has made [[?]]
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New York Tribune
First to Last-the Truth: News-Editorials-
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1916.
The Lesson of Miss Law's Flight
Miss Ruth Law's record breaking flight
from Chicago is a great triumph. But it
is peculiarly a personal triumph, and may
lead to much foolish talk and loose
thinking about aviation. It was a great
achievement for a young woman without
experience in 'cross-country flying to
surpass the best American record and come
close to the best world's record men of
great experience, skill and endurance have
ever made. That she should do this in an
out-of-date machine instead of in the latest
and best product of aeroplane factories
makes her achievement truly marvellous.
But the marvellous part of it is the
splendid imagination, courage and
endurance of this slight young woman herself.
The quiet way in which she went about it
and her simple modesty give a delightful
setting to the whole thing. But everybody
with any experience in flying knows
the grim chances she took, and everybody,
admiring her pluck and hardihood, hopes
she will not try to do the same sort of thing
again. Twice her supply of gasolene
failed when a difference of a few minutes
might have been fatal. Once she narrowly
escaped disaster over the tree tops;
and during a great part of nearly nine
hours she was in danger. Any notion
that Miss Law's achievement shows that
'cross-country flights are as simple and
safe as travel in motor cars, or that
American aeroplanes and motors are as good as
any, or that our army aeroplanes and
aviation are good enough, is arrant nonsense.
The worst of such loose thinking
and careless talk is that it misleads many
people also ignorant of aviation and
retards true progress toward safe flying,
better aeroplanes and an adequate military
aviation service.
Carlstrom's experience is a better proof
of the great fault in American aeroplanes
--the common fault in all American workmanship--
indifference and lack of care in details.
The best aeroplane, equipped with the
best motor and flown by the best aviator,
is brought down by a loose nut on a
gasoline pipe. Whether it is landed
safely or is wrecked and its pilot injured
depends largely on the country below the
machine at the instant. Details are
important enough in motor cars and other
machines, but in aeroplanes that are
matters of life and death. No excellence of
design, material and general construction
can excuse neglect of details in aeroplanes
and their engines. This must become the
first article in the creed of American
aeroplane makers and their workmen.
We may as well admit that infinite care
and attention to detail is not a strong
point with American manufacturers or
American workmen. If we are to make
aeroplanes equal to those built abroad we
must master this matter of detail till [[?]]
