Aeronautics: Good Short Name

Last week Representative Carl Vinson of Georgia, chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, revealed that the airship ZRS-5 abuilding, sister ship of the Akron, will be named the Macon. His reasons: “It is a good short name of a thriving southern community, the name of a famous revolutionary general,*and it has the same number of letters as Akron. It also gives the South representation as the Akron does the Middle West and the Los Angeles the West.”

Another reason that Congressman Vinson did not mention was that, as the result of reapportionment the city of Macon (pop.: 53,829) has been placed in his district, needs political cultivation by its new Representative.

*Nathaniel Macon (1758-1837) of North Carolina, onetimeSpeaker of the House, onetime U. S. Senator, vigorous advocate of Statesovereignty.