The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 11, 1928, Page 8

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New forecasts the future of commer- cial aviation in America and tells why he thinks this form of transportation is due for a great boom. see By HARRY S, NEW Postmaster General Written Especially for NEA Service and The Tribune To look into the future and vis- ualize just what will happen in any| given line of human endeavor is a faculty possessed, if at all, by few mortals, It is true that by looking back- wards and re- calling what has occurred in H the past, it is sometimes pos- sible to gauge fairly _accurate- ly what the fu- ture may have in store. Knowing what we do, therefore, about the develop- ment of rail trans- portation and of steamship lines, and the phenomenal growth of the automobile industry, it would seem the rankest pessimism to predict any but a glowing future for commercial aviation. I firmly believe in the future of the air service. The feasibility of the airplane has long ago been dem- onstrated and every-day improve- ments make it more and more prac- tical as a means for the quick move- ment over long distances of mail, ex- press and of passengers. To the next generation the air- plane, in my opinion, will have be- come as indispensable as is the rail- road train, trolley car or the family automobile to this one. The transi- tion will not come at one fell swoop but, with continued world peace, will grow and expand rapidly like a field of delta corn in favorable weather. Gen, We're Learning Fast It is true that the American pub- lic has not yet “taken” to the air as a means of passenger transport to the extent to which their Euro- pean cousins are patronizing this method of getting from one place to another. With the advent, however, of pri- vate initiative carrying mail and ex- press on regular schedules over regular routes with the reliability of established train service, I am of the opinion that only a short time will intervene before the American public will sprout its wings and sur- pass the migratory tendencies of the same species on the older continent. Familiarity with the time-saving powers of the airplane, and a bet- ter knowledge of the safety of the air vehicles as compared with other means of travel are the two essen- tials most needed now. With the continued and growing use of existing air lines between dis- tant points for the movement, not only of mail and express, but of passengers, I can picture a swift ex- pansion of these routes in no very distant future until every geograph- ical division of the United States will be linked up, both east and west and north and south, with every other section. At the same time considerable progress will have been made toward connecting air links between coun- tries in both North and South Am- erica so that the airplane will come into the field of its greatest useful- ness—that of the long haul. Ocean Fliehts Must Wait The plane will also play a con- spicuous part in reducing transport time between the two hemispheres, but the tragic conclusions of a num- ber of transatlantic flights have taught us that we are not yet ready for anything like a regular overseas service. I am convinced that even this will come eventually, but to hazard a guess as to how long it will take to devise ships of the air capable of conquering the wide and stormy reaches of the ocean as a matter of daily performance would be foolhardy. We should first direct our un- divided attention toward perfecting the service on land—and I am frank in saying that it is today far from being perfect. There are many ob- stacles, resulting in delays and some- times in serious accidents, which time and invention alone must overcome. Over a long route there is very often a spot each day where weather conditions present difficulties and the pilots are confronted with at- mospheric conditions, including fog, that too often rob the airplane serv- ice of the time it has gained over other methods of transportation. These kinks must and will be ironed out of the system and weather ob- stacles must be overcome to attain the CaM confidence necessary for service. Rate Cut Was Help ‘The test step toward lar- ‘faing the air ‘an in Aanetica wea the reduction of the An artist's conception of the interior of a mail plane of the immediate future in which, according to Postmaster General New, clerks will sort the mail while the plane speeds through the air. ductive from the mail standpoint to be made air mail stops. All of the twenty odd air mail contractors are very busy laying plans for larger and more efficient ships for hauling the greatly in- creased loads they visualize for the near future. The August increase taxed their present equipment to capacity. They are confronted, how- ever, with the realization that re- gardless of size of new ships placed in operation still larger ships must be devised, perhaps, before the others have served their period of useful- ness. It is a problem which also is being shared by the airplane manu- facturers and one which must be worked out simultaneously with the growth of the air mail. Need More Airways The growth will be restricted only by the speed with which lighted air- ways for night flying and adequate landing fields are constructed. The suggestion that air post clerks be provided to sort and distribute mail aloft in the same way that it is distributed on train by railway postal clerks and on ocean vessels by sca post clerks, is one which will come with time. It is not going to; be very long before the air post clerk will be a necessity. Already three of the larger airplane manufac- turing companies have submitted plans providing space for clerks and equipment for sorting the mail en route. MINARD URGES LIBRARY USAGE Ignorance Unexcusable, Says Dean of Science at Librarian Meeting Fargo, N. D., Oct. 11—(AP)—To be of the highest possible benefit to the publ: ibrarians must engage themselves in an active campaign to make the knowledge of a few the common possession of all, A. E. Minard, Fargo, said today. Professor Minard, who is dean at the school of science and literature of the state agricultural college, was a speaker at the annual convention of the North Dakota and Minnesota librarians, who will conclude their sessions here today. “The success of knowledge is no longer an undertaking of the indi- vidual student but a great social enterprise backed by wealthy men, great corporations and govern- ments,” ‘d said. “Nations allow themselves to be taxed that knowledge may be in- creased. It does not seem strange when a Roy Chapman Andrews, eager to explore the desert regions of Mongolia for traces of ancient life, animal and human, finds men to subscribe hundreds of thousands of dollars to finance his proposal and that a score of skilled workers in as many different fields join him in the usdertaking. Great individual corporations maintain corps of in- vestigators not only to solve their immediate problems but to make fundamental research in physics and. chemistry without regard to im- mediate gain.” Ignorance nowadays is left with- out excuse, the speaker declared, Pointing to the schools that educate the children and the facilities em- ployed to disseminate knowledge. “The universities, in their investi- gation, seem to be governed by the motive that ignorance is a reproach 1 PLANE TRAPPED 40,000 FEET UP Two Army Flyers Remain in Air Until Gas Supply Is Exhausted Dayton, 0., Oct. 11—()—Offi- cials at Wright field today awaited calibration by the United States fu- reau of standards of a barograph carried by two flyers yesterday when they ascended to an altitude of 40,200 feet, expected to be a new two-man record. Capt. St. Clair Street and Capt. A. W. Stevens, United States army flyers, took off yesterday on an aerial photographic mission. When 40,200 feet in the air, the highest altitude the plane would reach, the throttle froze, at 75 degrees below zero, preventing descent, and the flyers were trapped. They were forced to remain in the air until the gasoline supply ‘was exhausted, when they attempted to glide from Indianapolis, their position then, to ayton. They were able, however, only to reach Rushville, Ind., where they landed ina field, unhurt, and then returned here. The plane was not damaged. The purpose of the flight was to test the range of a new camera that had been developed by the air corps for military work. Previous at- tempts to make pictures from a high altitude resulted in frost forming on the camera lens and preventing ex- posure of the film. Capt. Stevens said he was virtu- ally certain results were obtained yesterday. * Season’s First Road Attraction Now Playing Around the World NOT A MOVIE to any people. Nothing should be allowed to keep knowledge secret, but all should be laid bare. Govern: | ments support the universities and in addition maintain their own bodies of researchers, all of whom tre testing and extending knowledge: knowledge, when acquired, is not secreted. It is made av: able to all whom it may concern, all Through the esols, ee ete schools, half-willing stadents.”»“°*°°4 °° Seats Now on Sale Boxes .............$2.80 Lower Floor ....2.00-2.50 Balcony ....1.00-1.50-2.00 TEACHERS HEAR EXPLORER TALK Slides Depict Lives of Eski- mos at State Teachers Convention Dickinson, N. D., Oct. 11.—(AP)— Descriptions of the lives and homes of inhabitants of the far north were given here today before. the South- western division of the North Da-. kota’ State Teachers Association meeting by Dr. M. C. Tanquary of. the University of Minnesota. The lecture was illustrated by more than 100 lantern slides depict- ing the life in, the far north. The slides were ‘made from — pictures taken by Dr. Tanquary and his as- sociates on the Crocker Land Arctic expedition which spent three. years in Arctic exploration. and research in northern Greenland and Elesmere Land under the leadership of Donald B. MacMillan. Dr. Tanquary was zoologist of the expedition and in his lecture’ gave special attention ‘to the wild animal life of the Arctic, showing pictures of the polar bear, musk-ox, reindeer, walrus, seal, narwhal, and many; other interesting forms. in their natural habitat. The headquarters of the expedition were at Etah in North Greenland, most northern tribe of Eskimos in the world, the Cape York Eskimos. 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Pictures of immense glaciers, the fronts of some of which extended for miles along the coast line, showed the birthplace of the huge icebergs that gradually float south- ward to endanger ships crossing the North Atl 5 The expedition was sent out under the auspices of the American Mu- seum of Natural History of New York City, the American Geo- graphic Society, the University of Illinois and Bowdoin College. The object of the expedition was two-fold —to determine whether or not land existed in that vast unknown region lying in-a triangle enclosed in lines connecting Elesmere Land, and the region of the North Pole, and to make scientific studies’ of northern life and conditions. GILL HEADS SYNOD Minot, N. D., Oct. 11—(AP)—H. W. Gill of Portal, was unanimously elected moderator of the North Da- ile ed of the Presbyterian church. CAL TALKS TO KING Washington, Oct. 11.—(4)—Presi- dent Coolidge.and King Alfonso are to talk to each other on Saturday, opening radio telephone service tween the United States and Spain. Alaska |’ New Voters Have 2 Registration Days New voters in Burleigh county are given two days this month to regis- ter prior to the general election of national, state and county officers November 6, according to an elec. tion schedule for the year published by Secretary of State Robert Byrne. New voters must register either October 23 or October 30. Registra- tion places will be announced short- ly, according to A. C. Isaminger, county auditor. Voters will be required to regis- ter in their residence precinct. Lahr Motor Company Handling Pennzoils Pennzoil-motor oils and greases are being distributed in western North Dakota and eastern Montana’ by the Lahr Motor. Sales company, it was announced in Bismarck. 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