AERONAUTICS: Colonel-General

Paul Henderson has at least two titles—Colonel, because he served with distinction in the Army and attained that rank; General, because he is Assistant Postmaster General, in charge of the Air Mail; and to such officials Washington tradition always grants the courtesy rank. Still young, though his forehead has climbed very high, with clear blue eyes and a square chin, Colonel-General Henderson has shown remarkable executive ability in developing the Air Mail service. And he is able, too, to stir up public interest in the work of his department. The microphone has no terrors for him. Broad casting under the auspices of the Aeronautics Department of New York Uni versity, he gave last week as chatty and graphic a talk as the wireless has ever carried to listening thousands. “I predict air transportation at a cost of less than 30c a ton mile. I predict a Nation-wide connecting-up of all important commercial and industrial cen tres with air mail operating at night between such centres as are approximately 1,000 miles anp.rt.”