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mee C ) _—_—— . mons Hl ‘Pomme Lindbergh —__ a0 mo (See map on Picture Page) — fe regret extremely that the War Department has oom — “accepted Charles A. Lindbergh's resignation as a colonel —_ “dm the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve. The nation, especially - ow. in toe “at a time like this, ought not to lose : Ce ee the services of 20 valuable a man. ew Lindbergh tendered his resignation —— because the President, at last Fri- day's press conference, called him a eopperhead; or, in effect, a traitor. We can understand Lindbergh's “feeling, that he had no other honor- able course than to resign his reserve « “@hramisaion. And we can understand “how the President, having for eight “yéars carried successive burdens of national depression, prelude to World War I, and World War I itself on his back, would feel irritable toward anybody who disagreed with him on a matter which he @eemed vital to the interests of this country. For all that, this is no time to Jose Lindbergh’s actual and potential services to the United States. We don’t now eonsider his politics and his views on U. §. involvement in this war; we're thinking only of his value to this country Qs a great aviator. ‘Mttempts have been made lately to smear Lindbergh Bot only as an {solationist, but also as an allegedly punk flyer who had one enormous stroke of luck which he has been capitalizing ever aince. This is simply a false picture of Lindbergh the aviator. | e e e In the primitive days of mail flying, Lindbergh was so @aring a mail flyer that he had to bail out four times in \peasoup fog over dangerous terrain. _ . The 33-hour New York-Paris flight May 20-21, 1927, “was no flying fool's lesp in the dark. Jt was made in a 6S-14499- ff Byan monoplane whose construction was supervised by atl oT * Lindbergh; and {t was preceded by a test flight Vv Flying from San Diego to New York which beat the a rd then solo transcontinental record. ‘Wisard “sn 1924, Lindbergh wan graduated “Brooks Field at or near the head of his class. He was APR 3.0 194 ‘ef the only four men in that class designated as fit fe 1 spursuit plane flying. «a tee #7" =" WASHINGTON TIMBS-RERALD oe Page -