LINDBERGH’S BIG PROGRAMME.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17946, 3 May 1928, Page 9

LINDBERGH’S BIG PROGRAMME.

World Flight Proposed.

VISIT TO EUROPEAN CAPITALS.

(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) NEW YORK, May 1. A message from Detroit says that the Washington correspondent o-f the “Detroit News” declared that Colonel Lindbergh’s world flight is positively confirmed. It is asserted that the ocean cross : ing will not be non-stop. Colonel Lindbergh will he accompanied by Major Thomas Lanphier, of the United States Air Service. He will. fly a tri-motored Fokker along the far northern route, making service stops at Labrador, Greenland, and Iceland. They will visit every important capital in Europe, after which they will proceed to Japan, but it is not expected they will fly home across the Pacific. “ MAKING A BIG MISTAKE.”

LONDON PRESS VIEWS. ■ ______ i (United Press Association-—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, May 1. ThO news from America that Colonel Lindbergh will engage in another Atlantic flight via Greenland, and Iceland prompts the “Daily Express” editorially to tell him he is making a great mistake. He is planning an anti* climax as elaborate and at the same time as unnecessary and inartistic as any recorded in history. There are two essentials to perfect achievement in any and every walk of life. One is the art of elimination, and the other is the art of avoiding repetition. Imagine Horatius defending the bridge net -once in a lifetime but two or three times a month! These things once done are done for ever, as far as the original author is concerned. Colonel Lindbergh’s heroic flight belongs to an honoured category.