THE UNEXPLAINABLE SEX

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 116, 19 May 1930, Page 10

THE UNEXPLAINABLE SEX

, So much of luck enters into Hying from .England to Australia that it is easy to, over-praise the performance. But it is equally easy to under-praise it. ; The element of luck enters into many things. One day the hunter kills a■■ lion, and next day a lion kills the hunter; yet we adore hunters, devour their books, and equally admire the huntresses who sometimes figure in African printed pages. It has been shown that there are women who will face wild beasts in tropical jungle, and women who will make hazardous flights over tropical jungle; and the luck factor is no more to their credit or debit than it, is in the case of men. It may be said that these' huntresses and "aviatrices" are individuals among their sex; but are not the great aviators (for the" present) individuals among the other sex? The fact that fair more of the great aviators are men than women must be discounted by the parallel fact that hitherto all the opportunity, has been with men; even now the day. of the woman pilot is not more impossible than the day of the woman motor-driver seemed lo be twenty-five years ago. And even when the air is as full as are the roads of feminine Jehus it will probably be as ■■difficult' as ever to dogmatise on the sex aspect oi" the subject. Only one point seems to be clear. These successful girls are not "individual" to the point of being de-sexed. Miss Johnson has already changed her mind at least once concerning the blame for the Insein smash, and the nineteen-year-old English golf (champion,.-'fittingly named Diana, burst into, tears-when America was beaten.'