The evening world. Newspaper, November 19, 1918, Page 14

*48 Hours Mail Time by Air, Biitieeny on Cy lew York to San Francisco, Over Wilson Air Highway” Transcontinental Mail Service by Airplane Part of United States Postal Plans to Utilize Planes and Aviators When They Come Home From France. “Aero Blue Book,’’ to Be Published Soon, Has Mapped Five Air Highways Across the United States, Main One, Eighty Miles Wide, Named After President Wilson. Department Atready Has Begun Work on a _ Series of Landing Stations, Planned to Include Light Beacons for Guidance of Night Flyers. right, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) SPECK against the void at first, until, with roaring motors, the big gray airplane soars above the city. Down, to catch a foot- hold on the landing stage built on the roof of the New York Post Eager hands reach for the fastenings of the mafl compartment, | Jong underbody is dropped, rushed to the chutes and contents dumped the heart of the building—the transcontinental mall is in from San four minutes later, after the unbroken flight of 3,200 miles in Tess than forty-eight hours. is sound like @ dream? Possibly, but if we listen to the word ‘Many experts on aerial navigation we will believe that such things aro within the range of probability, and, too, at a not far distant day. Nothing could be more matter of fact than the United States Postal and yet they are the very ones who have under consideration dealing with mail deliveries by airplane from coast to coast. It has) been announced that the aircraft programme will be taken up| the army and navy drop It, and after the signing of peace all air- that can be spared from the service will be put to work carrying | the mail, and the present day military aviator can look forward to a post- or oft % enseeele SE 13 fected. ‘With these plans in mind, and look- er publishing house, The aim of this new publication, which is the first of its kind in the world, will be to Fegulate air traffic. Aspue, 48 advance proofs show, a map Sore > Ban Francisco. ‘This pathway takes in most of the } large cities on what would be a nearly straight line from the Atlantic to the | Pacific and which would skirt the Tower edge of Michigan and pass ot ‘experts of flying expect to see ——- “Old King Cole ‘he a a the fifth century, wp operation. th | hours necessary at present even on the fastest express trains. with the Government as pilot in any one of these ships travelling bo- Aifferent points in the country. first beginnings of such a serv- started last May, when the New to Washington air lin put This service was con- more in the light of an ex- t at first, but facts and re- have ince shown that it Is ly practical and a paying tion from the standpoint of and cents, Since the time of first fight there has not been a serious accident; the planes left on schedule time regardless ther conditions and they have carrying mail at the cost of 43 per mile for every two hundred or something less than one- of a cent per pound per mile, puch a system as the proposed mail routes become effective the us saving in time is at once it, for mail could be delivered New York and Chicago in hours, against the twenty-three only one aerial mail route over this highway, but scores of others. A through mail ship, with a double crew, taking shift and shift, in che unbroken fight to the coast, local craft, coming to earth every few miloa to drop a bag at some crossroads or pick up another at the county seat. Looking at the programme from! this angle, it 1s no wonder that al mass of details will have to be worked out before anything like systematic transportation can be attempted. | Landing stages will be the first of those many details which will come under consideration, and the great question of prolonged fights at night. Mr. Henry Wé@thouse, who has been appointed editor of The Aero Blue Book, yesterday spoke very con- vineingly of the new project, “Transcontinental mail carrying is certainly very prastical,"" he said, “In fact, it is not only possible, but I con- sider it to be absoluiciy necessary, Remember our boys on the other side have done a thousand times more than @ mail carrier will be called upon to do, and there will be no shells to dodge. A package be mailed at tide water on the ¢ and it would reach New York ty-eight hours later, Four days takes to-day, and the time of the ‘craft could be cut down materially power and speed lines were Per) wrney win use big, heavy machines, twin motored, so that in case of acel- dent to one engine .they can come in on the other, A stort will affect those filers about as much as tt does a house, because they can either go over it, under it or through it. “I expect to see the machines relay across, at least at first, with stations about five hundred miles apart, though there should be repair stations every twenty-five miles, The highway will be.manped, for night flying, with strong beams of light, possibly of dit- ferent colors denoting the location of different landmarks. No, there will be no diMeculty, not nearly as much as the average person might think. Those who have been interested in Aeronautics for some time past have foreseen just such developments as these." ' forward to the time when the Office air: ways will extend all the jand, a group of men have themselves together and pro- & book, to be known the Blue Book and Directory, even on the presses of a New York For the first been prepared showing the fiye air lines acroas the continent, foremost of these will be called “Woodrow Wilson Aerial High- and will be a belt eighty miles extending from New York to Bearing out Mr. Woodhouse's ree marks, an article published in the Electrical Experimenter for Novem- ber describes the details of these landing places, which, it says, are already being built by the War De- partment and, when completeg, will! form a chain across the continent, | Their plan is to have a large tract of land marked at all four corners by upright beams of light, an illuminated arrow will give the pilot direction from which, as he touches the ground, he will taxi across t eld until D reaches another illuminated spot, then | a turn to either the right or left will take him into the hangars, Th article goes on to say: | h Chicago and Cheyenne. The given for the extreme breadth ‘the pathway is ‘that some day the not ” an Ancient Sovereign first reference to “Olé King Cole,” the “merry old soul" of the famous nursery rhyme, was in @ book written by Dr, Wil- King, who was born in 1633, It Probable that the song was com- in the seventeenth century, al- Some investigators think it older. Halliwell identifies the Monarch with Cole or Coel, a mythical king of Britain who is to have reigned in the third » The Scotch also have an King Coul” said to have lived Freeman and historians say a King Cole ruled in the sixth century. There y who assert that the refer- to the pipe indicates that Old Cole lived at a period after had intreduced tobacco into but this does not necessarily asa “pipe” might mean a mu- “Another scheme would be to use a searchlight signal shutter on all the markers and to periodically blink the shafts of light on and off to give the telegraphic dots and dashes of the landing field's initials—as N. Y, for! New York, &c. ‘This could be done by automatic switching means, actuated by a time clock at periods of five to| ten minutes. The value of permanent landing fields, sufficiently together to establish well define routes across country, was empha- sized early in the training of Aine can flyers, It is predicted that before another year an aviator with a plano} of moderate power will be able to make @ transcontinental fight with-| out difficulty or inconvenience.” | close | la pos NZ » Roads Through the Air From Coast to Coast Mapped in First “Blue Book”’ of the Air to Aid Transcontinental Air Mail Plans of U. 8S. Government—Picture Above Map Shows War Department’s Plan for “Day and Night” Landing Fields Now Available for Air Mail Purposes. Newey hod AERIAL HIGHWAYS CROSSING THE ONITED STATES FROM THE AEROS BLUB BOOK. DAaeRonsuTic MAPS ASSOCIATION. Love Letters From a Candidate i. a Canniiices BY CANDIDATE ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER (13th Training Battery, F. A. C. O. T. S., Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky.) , AR MAE—Well, Gus, from where your lil’ brighteyes is lo- D cated, it looks as if the Kaiser is going to be slipped the w farer’s gavotte, ojherwise known as the bum’s rush. That bird stands like a broken leg, He hasn't got any more friends than an alarm clock, He had the works by the tail with a downhill pull for a long time, but any guy who forgets to pull his ears in when he goes through a tunnel is going to get low-bridged sooner or later. I'm pretty sore about this war getting cured before I can stick a spoon in the gravy, but It’s lucky for the Kaiser that he quit before I got a chance to hand my left on his simperial chin, I was just get- ting set to knock him deader than two barrels of salted herring. Still, as the married guys have it, when the war is over we will all g6 home and fight. I’m going to have a lot of scrapping in my system that never got a chance to bloom, 6o you can warn those flat-footed, near- sighted, swivel-chair, celluloid-collared birds, who have been hanging around your wigwam to step off when they see Roger ricocheting down the esplanade. I’m a tough baby now. Getting so I shave with a ploce of cinder and scrub my teeth on a broken bottle. This army life is the drab. And just when I get used to it some bird comes up and knocks the war out from underneath me, A soldier without any war is like a fish without any water. So you can buzz those birds who have been spending the summer fanning you with exemption blanks, that, while armistices are étylish now, Roger doesn't know how to spell that word. Still, you can’t blame those birds so much, They were like the cuckoo who didn’t know whether to sign on the dotted line or not. If he didn’t go to war and get croaked what would he tell his grand- children? And if he did go to war and get flattened he wouldn't have any grandchildren to tell. By the way, Cerise, I ain't so sure what I'm going to buzz my grand- kids, Of course, I can slip ‘em a good line of salve, provided that they speak English, Things are so mixed up since this international ballyhoo that you can’t be sure just what language your grandkids are going to chatter. There are Frenchmen marrying Turks and Hindus marrying Democrats, Manchurians marrying Iberians, and all that kind of stuff, Anyway, if my grandchickens do happen to chirp my language, I'm sure going to be up against it for an alibi. When they ask me where I was when Gen.,Foch slapped the Kaiser for a goal, what’am I going to say? I'll have to teli the Ml’ Stage Cannot Imitate Hobo’s Clothes should decide that work chance of happiness, | cast for a “down would pass his re- | you see a “tram, * a man ruined und that maining days as a beggar, his id out” part. he ho might the wornout shoes and melancholy cost a lot of trouble, wreck of a sult. They couldn't bought at a second hand shop, for the proprietor would never have given » stamp for them, and they can't be imitated. One must actually sleep in his clothes to make them look as if they did service both day and night, searching for that would eagerly garment heaps, wornout No doubt, many a real shoes by some Thespian brother, The same difficulty faces the actor, Whon * true to life in every detail, shamble out on the vaudeville have trouble in getting his first outfit |stage, you may be sure the costume dahlinks that I was on the western sector in Kentucky picking razz berries out of army hash. When the Crown Prince took one on the chin, where was grandaddy? Perched on a bench in the mess hall, try- ing to dope the parallax of a salmon-colored card when the guns are at 7 o'clock and the B. C, station 400 yards to the rear of the player piano in the Y. M. C. A. Where was grandpop when the Yanks marched up the Linden strasse? Only 6,000 miles away, shining his boots with one hand and figuring a crest problem with the other. Citronella, your Roger's future has an outlook like the inside of a rubber boot on a damp day. I’ve battled this durned war all the way through with a lead pencil and a shoe brush. The only satisfaction that I have is that I've worn out a pair of boots for Uncle Sam, Which ain't much satisfaction at the present time, for unless those boots are fixed by noon, Roger is scheduled for eleven demerits. I'm off to the shoemaker's, who really ain't a shoemaker at all, but a whiskey salesman in civilian life, That's the way they do things in this man’s gun park. As soon as they found out that guy was a whis- key salesman they made him a shoemaker. So long; I've got to hop out and shoot @ few theoretical salvos at a theoretical target with a theoretical gun. The only practical thing in the whole operation is my lead pencil, Yours until Rameses the Third does a jazz dance, ROGER. \ wer TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1918 Once a Nation of ‘“‘Wasters,”” America Turned by War Into a Nation of ‘‘Savers”’ S. W. Straus, Financier, President of the American Society for Thrift, Says ‘‘Average American Has Discovered That He Really Can Save Money Without Losing All ‘Class’ as a Good Spender and a Good Fellow.” ‘(In 1916 Ninety-seven Per Cent. of the People of New York State at the Age of Sixty-five Were Partially or Wholly Dependent on Others—Of All Nations America Had Highest Wage Scale and Lowest Percentage of Savings Bank Depositors—War Has Doubled the Number of Families With Something savers before the war, The war has given us the (been taught to a Nes now in relaxat So writes S. financier and the Put By for a Rainy Day.” By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World), NLY one-half of the families in the United States were money Now every family belongs in this class. greatest lesson in thrift that has ever nation. To-day our thrift record is one of which we may well be proud. Our greatest danger tion.” W. Straus, a well-known New York President of the American Society for ‘Thrift, in the current issue of the Thrift Magazine, For years Mr, Straus has been a prophet crying in the wil- derness of American happy-go-lucky waste and extrav/ agance. But, as hi of the worst of all discovery that he for War Savings Stamps and even ai Has our vaccination with the thrift virus, made compulsory by war, really taken? Are we going to continue to | save our pennies and our dollars, now to do so? office at No. 150 Broadway. “As a nation and as individuals, he declared, “we must continue the practice of thrift if we wish to sur- vive. When imperial Rome became merely an aggregate of thriftless rich and thriftless poor, Rome fell. Let us not follow her example.” I respectfully recommend this his- toric deduction to all the anti- feminists who in the last decade have been pulling down Rome with Woman Suffrage and with other feminine emancipations, @he woman didn't do it, after all! “Thrift,” continued Mr. Straus, “is the only possible way of repairing the world waste caused by war. The world cannot lose millions of men in the full flower of their productiveness, of property, without in some way making up for the destruction. Thrift, conservation of resources, avoidance of wastefulness, must make good the deficit. “We have been the most wasteful of all nations. I do not think any one will arguc that. As I pointed out a year or two ugo, the rewrds of the Surrogate Courts show that elghty- two of every 100 men who die leave no income-producing estates at all. table circumstances, Forty-seven others are obliged to go to work and thirty-five are left in absolute want. “Before the war the number of per- sons who were drifting on without apparent thought or provision for the future was alarming. Statistics com- piled in 1916 revealed that 97 per cent. of the people of New York State at the age of sixty-five were partially or or the public for support, lowest percentage of savings bank de- BIANCA SAROYA HAVE to believe In Luck, because | | I've had so much of it in my stage career, My tather ana| | mother lived in Philadelphia when I | was born, and I grew up there, and went to the Ellison School and tBen | to the Convent of Mercy, when .ny | | education was supposed to be “fin i8hed.” But really and truly it had just begun! Wor I had sung | school entertainments and I believer I had a voice, My parents believed though they were not able | to afford to have it cultivated, in the ‘Then Luck took the matter in hand and one day when I was singing at an entertainment for charity 1 was heard | by a group of musicians, and the con of bs Ae h tiers, hate) It is sald ve | that actors have been found at dunp some add reality to the parts they had to play “hobo” has been dazed by the price offered him for his battered plug hat, or soleless ductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra | asked me to sing for him, At sevan- teon I made my debut there in and whenever I go back to Philadelphia they are nice to ine and “make me a fuss” - | godmother told i edian says! It was while I was sing- | gone there will be ing in Philadelphia and just longing | lappy I was! to go to Europe and have @ career italy--to Rome! . that I met a fairy godmother Der | again! $1,000 study,” to my giving you rope and begin go as the co ore!" Oh, How | Began My Sta Lueck, | and 1 to fairy ‘and when that is | Wisest, even how | ge Career war was declared, $1,000 was gone, conditions had changed with my fairy godmother, and I was stranded in Europe. I was just as despairing as I had been hap- py. I finally got enough money to- gether to take passage for America, And you can never guess what hap- pened to me on shipboard! No, not a submarine nor a shipwreck, bul such Luck! In mid-ocean, lonely and unhappy | as I was, I met a group of the grand opera stars returning for the season at the Metropolitan, They were these great artists, to the poor lit student of singing, stranded heart-broken at the very outset | her career, And among them was Riccardo Martig the grand opera » who ‘heard my voice and de- dd that I must not think of giv- ing up a musical career, He sald “There are patrons of art in New York who will listen to me when I {tell them about you and will help | you. For you must go back to Italy tudy.” He was as good as his word, [ ck, almost on the next ship hed my training. Then It to war and I thought it without a | debut, to come home to America. Luck was with me every bit of the and when my of | went b and fir went thi I went to Europe, (0| way, and I made my debut in the It was the year that Boston Opera Company two years ago that peace has come, and ought we I put these and other questions to Mr. Straus yesterday afternoon in his cannot lose millions of dollars’ worth | Thus out of every 100 widows only} eighteen are left in good or comfor-| wholly dependent on relatives, friends | Of all the| great nations of the earth America| had the highest wage scale and the, European | e and all of ue realize, one good result’ wars has been the average American's really can save money—enough money for Liberty bonds—without losing in- ctantaneously all “class” as a good spender and a good fellow. Postters. Our record of thriftlessnesa was indeed appalling. “During the war, on the other hand, we practically have doubled the num« ber of families with something put by for @ rainy day. Five years ago there were, according to fair computation, Perhaps 10,000,000 such families in this country. Now there must be twice that number who own Liberty bonds, to say nothing of the millions @@ in« dividual Durchasers—including great ry of children—of War Savings “And has anybody sutfored? has not!” Straus, He vigorously asserted Mr, “We have found that we dq not need to eat meat every day, that we do not need so much wheat, sa much fat, 60 much sugar, as we thought. We have found that we ean get along without some of the things Wwe considered necessities and many of the things we deemed luxuries, We j@re learning thrift in every sense of the word—in time, in hi iehae ealth and im “How do You define thrift?” Tasked. Thrift,” he replied, “is submission to discipline, self-imposed, Thrift is denying one’s self present pleasure for future gain, Thrift is the exercise of the will, the development of moral stamina, the steadfast refuiat ¢ yield to temptation, i “In the present Period of recon+ struction and in the future every man must practise thrift, and every ‘man must have the chance to Practise it. That last clause is as important as the first. It will be the duty of every man, no matter how menial may be his employment, to Practise jthis virtue, and it will be the duty of every employer to see that Ployees DO practise thritt—that the conditions of employment are such {hatsthey C..N practise it. The au seagy Of pusiness as well as the ocraey of politics ct day of reckoning.” ae Bk “How much shoul order to be theteey Mr. Straus, “He should save something,” wi financier’s quick reply. "The amount depends on circumstances. Some mam who saved only 5 per cent. of hia salary might be really more thrifty, than a man saving 20 per cent. bec cause the first man might have more dificulties with which to contend im his attempt to practise thrift, The point is that mo young man, no young woman, really has taken the first step on the road to getting somewhere until he or she has put aside regularly some portion of his or her current income, And the only way to start saving is—to start sav- ing. Like education, thrift is ap-= [proached by one common and no royal road, “Do you think that we should give up ali” pleasures, all recreations, in order to save money?” I questioned, waNot at all," he reassured me. Pleasures which we really enjoy | bring us a definite return in increased [health and contentment. It is tho | expenditure of all we have for pleas- | ure—perhi for pleasure which is © us, but which js consid- thing by our neighbors that spells wastefulness and extrava. gance “We never shall ‘tightwads' in the expression of the | day. We need not worry about that, | But we are a young nation and wa have had at our disposal apparently ‘boundless resources tempting us to spend without thought of the mor. |row. In a little over a year we }had forced on us a lesson in thrift which a hundred years of peace might not have given us, But as a | People we tend to-forget our lessons, so I would have thrift taught tm ali ‘the schools and thus moulded nto the natures of the coming genera- tions. It ts the very foundation of alt individual efficiency, and individual efMclency is the foundation of all suc. cess,” Sd save ij really thrifty?” I asked become misers,