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'' ' . y'r. :'; I-'-t ' .' fcj". ;.; ' . THE. SUNDAY OUEGOXIAX, POHTLiANT, JUNE 20, 1920 OVERBURDENED COMMERCE NOW HARNESSES THE AIRPLANE Talks With Experts Show How This Mighty Force Is to Solve Transportation Problems Now That Earth Is Congested yith Traffic Flowing From All Directions to Our Cities mi in i.li. 1.1111. m, . , , , lfyl'' :. V . '" " - - - V ' ! ' i - - ' i ' 1 V i i si VI - i ft; a r-. y v. r' ' 1iL-3 - - r' - ; , x --r - : S' , . - v y. i fcrt'r Jjp.V f -I'-.. , - - f a . . s c .uv,, f ; - -J x;"., -r,:,' :PtY' r- v - - :4t 1 ' ' -v CLlib'i - , : : ; : 1 )h . v ; ,.ya - J j Colonel J. D. Carmody, Major Tkomaa Scott Baldwin and Alan R. Hawley, Trho aee clearly tfce place at tfce - . - MM i1 - " t . ' airplane In the future. ' J ' ' VcX $ f? ' Ml -. - --, : n '-sy II- ,r- - 'III Alrplancd am freight carrier are by no means a mere Imaslnatl-re ideal of the future. Here are shown two ma chines loading: consignments of merchandise from jobbers In New York to be shipped to retailers In Min neapolis a 1500-mtle haul by air, where there Is no traffic congestion and delayed delivery. BY CHARLES W. DUKE. if 'T may not be known generally that the United States leads all all other nations at the present time in the number of airplanes actually engaged in civilian pursuits and in the number of aerial transpor tation lines being organized," Alan R. llawley, world's champion balloonist and famous aeronautical leader, was eaying," but U is a fact of which every flying devotee is proud." "More than 8000 pilots' certificates issued in this country, with 10,000 more pilots licensed in Great Britain, Krance and Italy, with prizes aggre gating $2,000,000 open this summer to the competitive flyers of all nations," chimed in Augustus Post, secretary of the Aero Club of America, who re cently returned from Europe, where he made an extensive study of civilian flying plana, "Tell the public, too, that the de mand for aircraft for civilian pur poses In this country is so enormous that American aircraft manufacturers will not be able to supply more than a fraction of the demand during the next six months of the 1920 season," added Henry Woodhouse, an ardent patron of the art and business of fly ing ever since the day, the Wright brothers first lifted off the ground at Dayton early in the present century. ' "Put this down also for the skeptics who said flying never could be made safe for America and all the world," was the rejoinder of Major Thomas Scott Baldwin, the first balloon para chute jumper and more recently the perfecter of aerial safety devices nines mat win not capsize, ma chines that will not burn, all-steel air parlor cars that can crash to earth without being smashed up and smash ing their occupants, improved para chutes with which a man or woman may leap into space and drift safely and accurately to any desired landing place." "Take a trip around the world as sufely as though traveling in the best protected railway train, but very much cheaper and altogether much faster," put in Liuctenant-Colonel John 13. Carmody p the United States army. "Selling air machines for your Un cle Sam In the navy department as fast as wo can put them together and ship them away America, Canada, South America, China, everywhere," Piped up Commander H. K. McCay, from the Philadelphia navy-yard. One after another representative leaders in the realm of American aviation were reeling oft the latest news in the way of civilian aeronau . tical developments the world over. Quietly, yet forcefully, while the world at large Is engrossed in all manner of mundane projects, the promoters of aviation are seeing their fondest dreams realized the earth taking to wings for the solution of its trans portation problems, just as the prophets and the poets anticipated many moons ago. Buddha smiled while all this con versation was going on. Buddha lived more than 2S0O years ago. but Buddha has his prototypes today in the many Images that are brought into this country by the art' connoisseurs from the Buddhist temples of far-off India and Burmah. A score or more of these idols sat grouped about the tea room of the Hotel Ambassador on the Atlantic City boardwalk, legs crossed, eyes widely aslant, intently listening while the disciples of avia tion spun their yarns of epochal air achievements. Scions" of an Oriental Civilization that flouirlshed centuries SO, they composed an interesting portion of Oeortre Hoyt Allen's col lection of antique buddhas put on Yirw for the summer. Was it tut natural that these im ages should lend attentive ears to what was being said by this group of recognized aeronautical leaders anent the latest conquests of the air? Was it not Buddha himself who enunciated the doctrine of the transmigration of souls? We were here through no fault of ours. We would continue to be born over and over. The next fetate into which we were born would depend upon how we used our present life. So reasoned Buddha. What, then, so probable but that the birds that lived in Buddha's time had, in the natural evolution of time, by the simplicity of their lives and the sweetness of their songs, climbed into tho souls of the mighty machines that wing their' way unerringly from hempisphere to hemisphere, linking up the ages-old civilization of Burma and India with continental Europe, ready now for the conquest of the Pacific that will bring Orient and Oc cident into intimate contact? A squawking seagull flitted along the beach front. Closely behind it, its approach heralded by a healthy steady roar of gasoline engines, lurched a mighty seaplane. The Buddha statues watched the two in silence, their minds wandering back through the ages. Meanwhile the modern birdmen pur sued their own fascinating conversa tion, all unmindful of the silent fie:- By rare chance I had come upon half a dozen of the world's leading "sky pilots" grouped-here in such a re-' markable environment, an environ ment linking past and present aim pointing the way to that dim future no less obscure than the Far East civ ilization represented by tl Buddhas. While the images silently communed among themselves concerning the possible evolution of the soul of a bird into the soul of an airplane, the "fliers" themselves "talked shop" for the benefit of the public press. . "How are we progressing in civilian aernoautics?" was the question pro pounded. It was but natural that the representatives of the army and navy should speak first, seeing they have so lately been engaged in aviation as a patriotic business, and qualified to speak from the standpoint of intimate and prolonged experience in the air. "Military aeronautics have been written into history," said Lieutenant-Colonel Carmody, who is . in charge of the heavier-than-air di vision of the army aeronautics branch. "The future cannot bej)laced in the hands of the military, unless and we hope it may not happen we are to engage -in another war. The burden of aviation for the future is to be taken up by those whose eco nomic interests can best be served by aeronautics. Our postofCice de partment, in the handling of mails and parcel post, has shown what may be done. .And what may be done al ready is forecast by what is being done. Freight and passengers are to be handled with greater speed and at a less cost, thus relieving the rail roads and tending to solve the prob lem of freight congestion. Through out the country new air lines are be ing established. One reads of them nearly every day. Very soon we shall have gone into commercial flying on a large scale and one may ponder at length on the significance of this movement from the economic stand point." At this juncture Commander McCay of the navy took up the conversa tion. "You want to know something def inite of what is being done to develop civilian flying now that the war is over? All right, then: listen- to this, Richt now the navy department i scllipg 600 airplanes $8,000,000 worth of them together with engines, spare parts, etc. The liberty engine that cost $4000 is being; sold for 2000 Machines that-cost $40,000 are being disposed of for $12,400, "Are they utnng taken up? How about this: Just the other day st the Philadelphia navy-yard we sold $280,- 000 worth of machines to one concern ikii will onerate air lines for thb- tnx.tr A aod freight between Great' - - Lake c'ities. A Cleveland group of capitalists is back of the enterprise. They propose to run lines from Buf falo to Cleveland. Detroit and other lake cities. These craft will have a capacity of 20 passengers and 2H tons of freight.- Before long they expect to have night air lines running be tween Cleveland and Toronto. "Canada is on the job. Just the other day Lieutenant-Colonel Stanley Scott, acting - for the Canadian air board, came down from Ottawa with $100,000 to take over ten of our machines. They are going to run lines this summer from Montreal to Halifax and the like. A South American company has negotiated for airplanes to be used in crossing the Rio de la Plata from Montevideo to Buenos Aires. China has come into the market and taken over 20 machines to be put into com mercial aviation at once." The buddahs seem interested in this near-home bit of news and one of them, a $3000 beauty with elephant tusk carvings, smiled when Colonel Carmody announced that the Cana dian government had offered rich prizes to any intrepid aviator who might go out this summer and con- CHILD FILMS ARE TAME, BUT LOST THRILLS HAVE REGRETS Camera at Home Requires Large Collection of Reels or Audience Tires, but Broken Adventures Jangle Nerves. BY JAMES J. MONTAGUE. E soon wearied of the little cir cular films that came with our boy's sized moving-picture our projector. There was the horse that trotted up to a hurdle and, lifting his forefeet in the air like a dog begging, leaped over it, much as a sawhorse would have done. The picture wasn't In spiring, even when it possessed the element of surprise. After he knew exactly what was going to happen. even the baby wouldn't look at it. We tried to introduce a little vari ety by slowing up the film. That was interesting, for a time. The horse would appear to be wafted into the air by a gentle zephyr. He would hang suspended over the hurdle, like an actor in a pantomime, and then alight on the other side like a butter fly, giving his hind legs a slow, dig nified kick as he did so. When con stant use staled the freshness of this variant, we ran the film backward. Repetition Loses Charm. But even that soon lost Us charm. One horse, leaping one hurdle, when seen for the hundredth time palls on the vision, no matter whether his forelegs or hind legs take the initia tive. The, little children who rang around the rosy" were not fascinating at the start. -After we had looked at them a dozen times and discovered that never by any chance would one of them fall down and bark his nose, or even get scratched on the "rosy," we laid the film aside. , There is an inevitableness about a film that saddens the heart. You wait expectantly each time for something different to happen. It never does. The man . turning the handspring never altered the position of his feet when they left the ground or when they resumed it. The fellow's abso lute lack of originality was depress ing:. Even a wooden Jumping-jack gets up a new movement now and then, knowinsr full well that if he didn't there would soon be a heavy slump in the jumplng-Jack market. Decision. Is Changed. We had about decided to shelve the projector and charge the money we had invested In it up to life's little disappointments when we happened tn meet a movin z-mcture manufac- I turer on the train. To. feim we toid ipJE t&e dew had.' jr ----- j" i " 4N quer the Pacific in a long jump from Vancouver to the orient just as Uncle Sam's and John Bull's daring naviga tors leaped last summer across the Atlantic Augustus Post, he of the suave voice, the beard and the piercing black eyes, took up the conversation at this point. Long an enthusiastic backer of any and everything pertaining to the development of aviation. Mr. Post de picted the future of commercial flying in vivid colors. "There have been three eras in aviation." he began. "First came the inventive age, next the experimental, and now the age of practicability. It is into the third stage of flying that we have been ushered all of this ac complished - in less than two score years. What other scientific marvel has had such quick progress from the been dimmed on our moving-picture rose and the dust had been swept from our film butterfly. "Don't can the projector," he "said cheerily. "I'll send you some films for it some live ones." This, of course, was great news. We took it koine and distributed It around the family with gratifying results. Thousands of questions about what kind of films these would be were flung at our head. We parried all of them with a smiling "Wait and see." for we didn't have the least idea as to the nature of the treat that was in store for us. Enough for us. we said, that we were to have regular moving picture shows in our home, without so much as a war tax to pay. Three or four days later the films came along. We invited in the neighbors, cleaned up the projector, hung up a sheet in the dining room, and unpacked the films, feeling much as Columbus must have felt when he spread the sail of his little caravel on a voyage to a strange and beautiful new world. Remit Is Gratifying. The result was instantly gratifying. There were no titles nor subtitles to tell what the picture was about,- but none was needed. A man in -a silk hat dashed on the scene, pursued by - 1HE. TUB Jfll THE Rf 'j - - j unknown to the tried and proved than the airplane? "It is true that the war set the air plane forward many years. We were forced into it by the exigencies of warfare. But even without the war the airplane would have come forward rapidly as the automobile has stepped up rapidly from those first high wheeled awkward-looking machines. "One year ago at a convention we held here in Atlantic City a delegate flew to the convention from New York in his machine. This year, at one luncheon, we had 10 guests who had left New York but 60 minutes earlier In their air machines. A pair of honey mooners dropped in from Boston. An army colonel closed his desk in the war department at 10 o'clock in the morning and was with us for luncheon in time for the clam cocktail. "No one of common sense or experi ence speaks any more of the hazards of flying. They are- fast being over come. I would as soon travel by air as by express train, for the statistics will show that in peace time there are no more accidents in the air, in the general average, than on the rail. In Europe it is ,a common thing to take airship and go from Paris to London or from London to Brussels. "But the wonderful part of this new era of flying is the fact that flying is beconing so importantly linked up with commerce and general peace time public utility. There is no greater economic problem today than that of a large and apparently very irritable bear. The bear gained on the man for several- feet of film. Then the man came to a tree, which he ascended with more agility than you would expect from the kind of a man who would wear a silk hat. The bear reached the foot of the tree, gave a nasty look toward the branches where the feet of the silk hatted man were being gathered up after him, and began to climb, lien followed a scene, well up in the tree. with the man swaying on a limb' and the bear, open-mouthed, swarming up after him. Then there was a click in the camera. The film had run out. We hunted frantically through the box for the rest of it. But there wasn't any rest of it. We did not know, and probably shall never know, whether the bear munched the man, throwing his clothing to the ground as a monkey throws down the husk of a cocoanut.'or whether an airplane came by and rescued- the victim. We are betting against the latter con tingency, as airplanes and bears do not mix much in the same localities, but, alas, there Is nobody to decide our bet. Andience Loses Nerve. The next film was like the first. A locomotive was approaching a hero who was securely lashed to the rails. At a little distance a heroine, with a carving knife in her hands, "was speeding to set the hero free. But before either" she or the locomotive arrived the film gave out and left us in an ecstasy of disappointment. Another search through the box availed us nothing. All the films were like that. They just got you ex cited and interested, when they coldly quit on you. The manufacturer had 31 BROKE OFF, "jfkim mi nun -fqr transportation; ad of nothing am I more confident than that aeronau tics in the next few years will go a long way toward solving this sphinxlike riddle that for the present time seems to baffle our best railway brains. "There is now an immense civilian demand for airplanes in this country, large enough to absorb all surplus government machines in sight and oc cupy all existing airplane factories to their limit. -Wise-headed is that captain of industry who foresees the Impending era of universal air com merce and lends himself to the devel opment of airplanes and airplane equipment. He will make money hand ever fist, once he gets his eyes open and starts to supply the demand. Throughout the country there are more than a score of companies engaged in the manufacture fo air equipment of all kinds. These people are the pioneers in laying the foundation of a great business that will develop Just as the automobile business grew from the manufacture of. 100 motorcars a year to the making of hundreds of thousands of them." Piecing together the fragments of conversation inserted one after the other in this conclave of aero-engineers, the writer found their pro gramme for the present contemplates these features: 1. - Placing aerial navisatlon on a prac tical basis a an art. 2. KptabliHhlnB organized aerial trans- given us only remnants and these were remnants of plays that had been given up at rehearsal so long ago that even the scenario writer would not know what happened. AVe aren't using the projector any more. A man has . only so many nerves in his body, and when half a score of these snap every night he will soon be ready for a nutsmith. Anyone wanting these fragmentary films can have them. An experiment by one of the children which fortu nately was detected in time has shown us that they are excellent for fuel, albeit a little sudden. CCopyrlght. 1020. the Beit Syndicate. Inc.) WOMEN IN EGYPT SERFS Men, lords of Creation, So Far as Other Sex Is Concerned. LONDON, June 19. The treatment of women in Egypt is the darkest phase of Egyptian life, says G. N. Barnes, member- of parliament, who has re cently returned from a tour of that at will from mere whim without rea son, and it was not uncommon for a man to have three wives. "In many" bouses," continued Mr. Barnes, "I never saw a woman and you can take it from me that the po sition of the women in Egypt is ab solutely one of serfdom and depend ence. They spend their lives in miser able hovels; in working in the adjoin ing fields, or in getting water. "They are serfs of the men and as much beasts of burden as the donkey and the camel. A people which uses women folk in that way la destined to be a subject race and do not deserve to govern, country. The men In Egypt, said Mr. Barnes, so far as sex relations were concerned. thought themselves the lords of crea tion. They could divorce their wives WOMEN ASK SPECIAL CAR 1 Traditional Gallantry of France Disclosed to Be Dead Letter. PARIS, June 19. So bad have the traveling conditions become on the tubes here that the women workers, including the midinettes and modistes of the fashionable shops, have de manded that a special carriage op each train be reserved for women. They protest Indignantly against the pushing to which they are sub jected. "The traditional gallantry of Krance is a dead letter," said one typ ical business girl. "Traveling on the metro at certain hours of the day has become nothing more or less than a battle in which the -weak have no chance against the strong." -.w... 1 II v 'r;- -T-r. ;ll i I If 311 I 1 I I I - V n CM'N.-M III m j mm jW AnsTustna Post ftnda n now approach ing; the age of practical adoption of the airplane for the needs of com merce "Aeronautics will go a ions; way toward solving; the riddle which seems to baffle our beat railway brains." cortatlon as a self-supporting business proposition. a. EncouraKins and developing aero nautic sport, nationally and internationally. 4. KncourasinK and popularizing the Individual use of airplanes by nomine or ganized aerial tours on the principle of the midden auto tours. S. Protecting lawful aeronautic activi ties by the elimination of stunt flying and dangerous operations and by adopting wise legislation and sound conditions for the issuance of Insurance policies. Some of the things they point to with a manifestation of pride are the Energy Is Incalculable in Atom, Says Scientist. World Havoc Possible Through Misuse of Terrible Secret. THE nearest physical approach to the algebraic minus quality is an election, one of the constituent parts of an atom. If, for example, an atom could be Lmagnified -to the size of one of the pyramids, an electro under the same glass would be only a dot, and very small dot It would be. According to Sir Oliver Lodge, who succeeded in taking an atom apart, we may well fear future wars if the terrible secret of how to utilize the energy contained in the atoms falls into the hands of an uncivilized power. Not only human life, but the whole planet could be destroyed, he assert3. Eadium is merely the ex pulsion of electrons . from highly "charged" atoms. They are discharged with sufficient force to carry them at a velocity only a trifle slower than LADIES! DARKEN YOURJRAY HAIR Use Grandma's Sage Tea and Sulphur Recipe and No body Will Know. . The use of sage and sulphur for restoring faded, gray hair to Its nat ural color dates back to grandmoth er's time. She used it to keep her hair beautifully dark, glossy and at tractive. Whenever her hair took on that dull, faded or streaked appear ance, this simple mixture was applied with wonderful effect. But brewing at home is mussy and out-of-date- Nowadays, by asking at any drug store for a bottle of "Wyeth'a Sage and Sulphur Com pound" you will get this famous old preparation, improved by the addition of other ingredients, which can be depended upon to restore natural color and beauty to the hair. A well-known downtown druggist says It darkens the hair so naturally and evenly that nobody can tell It baa been applied. You simply damp en a sponpre or soft brush with it and draw this through your hair, tak ing one strand at a time. By morn ing the gray hair disappears, and after another application or two. it becomes beautifully dark and elossy, r-Adv, Heary Woodhonsc. author of "Tesv book of Naval Aeraaautlca.' work of the aerial police in various cities; the part played by the airplane in city planning; the value of aircraft for advertising by day and by night; the aerial mall developments in the United States. Canada and South and Central America; millions of dollars' worth of valuable woodlands saved through the vigilance of aerial forest patrols; aerial exploration and the usi of aircraft for coast and geodetic sur vey: how the weather forecasts can be extended and made more efficient by use of aircraft in exploring the upper air, and various other kindred topics. "Only the other day came the newi that an American had flown ovei . the ' highest roint of the Ande mountains." said Henry Woodhoust the little bundle of energy and enter prise who has been one of the main springs in aeronautics from the be ginning: "Just think what the future holds by way of commercial communi cation with our Pan-American neigh, bors. It will not be necessary to rel; on. slow-going ocean-traveling car riers. If the motorcar ..'as expanded from a single-seater carrying les than 200 pounds to a monster trucl carrying many tons, may we not pic ture that near future when our car riers of the air will flit away south ward with their cargoes of Nortl , American goods bound for Soutt American markets. All of the Tan American republics are ready to joii us in extensive aeronautical activi ties." The Buddha figures were nodding . approval as these pioneers of the new aerial era withdrew from the board walk temple. It may be their mlndt " had wandered again to the great bud--dha. who. after he had thoroughly worked out his solution of life's prob lems, settled in Benares, gathered five choice spirits who had been com panions in his life as an ascetic, im parted to them his discovery of what he believed to be the path of truth and spent the rest of a long life de veloping truth as he believed it. May be the five spirits were speaking through the tongues of the air prophets. At any rate, they crossed their arms and sat with bowed heads as though acknowledging again the spirit of truth. that cf light. This power Is dormant in each atom. Sir Oliver gives credit to Professor Robert A. Miiliken. of the Univer sity of Chicago, for discovering the method of studying the action and nature of the electron. Discovery of the electron itself in 1881 meant little until the study of radium gave the clue. Dry Area Aids Theaters. CLEVELAND, O. The theatrical business has increased 60 per cent since the country went dry. according to John Cort of New York, one of the country's leading producers, on a re cent visit to Cleveland. He declared the dry era staved off a disastrous period for the theatrical world. NERVOUS PROSTRATION Mrs. J. Christman Proved That Lydia . Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is a Remedy for this Trouble. Binghamton, N. Y. 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