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We all recognize that flight over private property must in some way be legalized. If the courts were to hold that any entrance into the air space constituted a violation of the legal rights of the owner of the soil, it would indeed be a great blow to the aeronautical industry In order to legalize flight it would be necessary to secure the permission of all landowners over whose property a flight was made. It is conceivable that this could be accomplished along regular airways. However, it is often necessary to deviate from the regular course by reason of weather conditions—and sometimes the deviation is involuntary The time may come when travel by air will be confined to specifically defined airways. However, in the present state of the industry, if flight over private property at all heights was made unlawful, the future of air transportation would be exceedingly dark. It is therefore necessary to legalize flight over private property if travel by air is to continue its growth and development. Clearly it is to the interest of our government and of the public that transportation by air be encouraged. To be balanced against these public and social interests are the interests of the private property owner. His right to use and enjoy his property must be protected. In defining the right of flight over private property we must recognize the public and social interest in freedom of flight, but at the same time we must give due emphasis to the interests of the property owner. [One of a series of lectures on air law given at the Law School of the University of Washington.]

The main feature of the coup which the most principled, if not the most typical, British newspaper has called "the shortest, strangest, and most fraudulent election campaign of our time" are well known. Recapitulation has its uses, however, even if lack of space, not to mention more fatal inadequacies, must confine it to the narrowest of backgrounds and to statistics that lie near the surface of politics.

AbstractElectric power is rapidly becoming the dominant force in our industrial civilization. Its importance in the factory and home in the city and in the country daily becomes greater adn greater. An important though admittedly not the most important portionof future power development valuable water power in its St. Lawrence and Niagara Rivers adn its inland streamsDespite the extent of this untapped wealth New York did not evolve a power policy until 1921. Even now it cannot be said to have settled upon a method of development adn exloitationThis is due to the fact that the two dominant paities hav been at logger heads with reference to this problem. Present indications point to a determination on the part o both to substitute action for words, and in such a situation a brief resume of hte fundamental positions of each may have some value. Space does not allow the description of the efforts of commissions prior to 1921. We lead you directly to the Water Power Act of 1921 which represents the Republican position, and which has been teh policy adopted by the legislature o he state, but which has been nullified by the attitude of Democratic commissions charged with its administration