The evening world. Newspaper, June 3, 1919, Page 20

TUESDAY, Glenn Ham Designer FORECASTS Regular Trips to Europe; Air Flivvers Balloon Boarding Houses. By Marguerite e590 great flight? What is the future of flying? Will the day come when every man who now owns an automobile will own an aeroplane? Shall we ha’ Shall we a ne ‘What, if any, are the dimits to man’s house boats? @lement ou which he has learned to Naturally, however, when I met the slender, quiet-voiced, blue-eyed in- many a prise for fying—in his beau- ‘tiful, white-pillared house at Nassau Boulevard, I first congratulated him om the achieveent of his world- famous fying boat, just a few hours earlier brought safely into Plymouth, Mangiand, by Lieut. Commander A. C. of the United States Navy. Plymouth will be on the map ATE 3 | . Hey f La E & t i 3 & i HH a ith? 54 iF our see what this means for practical future of fying, for the of this means of transpor- for rge numbers of passen- and large amounts of frielght.” my questicn, “What will be the | next thing in aviation?” Mr. prophesied the non-stop flight the Atlantic, and disclosed the be has worked out the de- & non-stop hydroplane larger of the NC's now in «: i 34 if tF however,” he added, “that stop Sight, after it has been low times, will be abandoned of @ regular tfans-oceanio from the United States to the Asores and from the Azores to Europe. A plane large enough to carry pas- gengers and freight would need to PS Eee are aH might better be utliized for more pas- pengers or more freight. “When the Secretary of the Navy a regular trans-oceanic was burrying the time, in my opin- jon, Remember, that after the dis- covery of the steamship it was fifty years before a regular schedule across the ocean was laid down. However, things move more quickly to-day, In five or ten yea shall be carrying passengers to Eu- rope regularly through the air, A two-day trip would do it comfortably nd a night. The first day ® very large plane would carry ail the passengers to the Azores, They would stay there cvernight; then in the morning many email planes would be waiting to carry them to their dif- nations—England, France, ly or any country where For trans-oceanic service Mr, Curtins frankly bulicves the hydroplane will be found must desirable. “We must never forget there will be water underneath,” he sald. “Zometimes it will be rough JUNE 3, Coprright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New Tork Brening World). MERICA has crossed the Atlantic by air, What will be the next trains, aerial grocery wagons? Will women learn to be chauffeurs of the ‘air? Will flying ever be as safe as motoring—or safer? favor of air conveyances and air routes? Shall we have house planes as we now. have 19,19 mond Curtiss, of NC’s, Development of the Airplane in America for Families; Mooers Marshall ve aerial buses, aerial transcontinental bandon other methods of travel in mastery of the air, the third move? iv ” = PROV! ohericaviy Wixerieat bE Seas WMO Blew tr eM Towers's machine was a remarkable Proof of its powers of navigation.” Then wo spoke of the future of fly- ing on land, The light of enthusiasm shone i Mr. Curtiss’s cool, blue eyes. “I am sure we shall have trans-con- tirfental travel by air-routes between all the principal cities of the United States!” he exclaimed, | “What we need now are two things —alr maps and municipal landing Places. The Jatter ought not to be left to private enterprise. I should say the War Department and the Postoffice together might establish them, Sup- Pose at present you wanted to fly to Binghamton, N. Y. You wouldn't know it when you got there, because things look so different from the alr. ‘Then, if you tried to make «@ landing, | you probably would smash your ma- | chine, and lay yourself liable to dam- ages for coming down on some one's private property, “We must have maps at which any- | ene can glance and say, ‘I am five! miles from Binghamton, because that line of trees is just under me, and when T am over the town I shall know, be- cause the towers of two tall buildings Ne at just such an angle from each other.’ And there must be clearly them 4t our factory in a year. And the engine would be as eafe as the engine in the larger machines It isn't the initial cost of the family fying machines*— “It's the upkeep," I punned wick- rvice next year, he) I should say, we} edly, Rather, it's the downkeep,” smiled Mr, Curtiss, “A flying machine can- not be kept in a 20-foot-square garage. The wings are bulky things to find space for, Then, again, where could the individual owner land, at pres- ent? He would need more space than 4 clty roof or his own small suburban lawn, marked, roomy landing fields.” ‘The essential factor of safety in fly- ing will be greatly strengthened, Mr, Curtics believes, by an adequate sys- tem of raps and landings, “Most accidents,” he pointed out, “are due elther to improper landing or to flying too low, Where landing places are near together it is safe to fly low and enjoy the scenery, On the other hand, if a flyer has a map to tell him exactly where he is and the “However, we all can remember when every one considered the ayto- location of the nearest landing he wil! |™obile the rich man's toy, The pop- know how high he must fly in order| War flying plane can be built, and if to glide down in safety if his engine | Mere 1s @ real demand for it arrange- |stops. Stopping the engine in the air| ents for landing and storing it will is no more dangerous than stopping | Worked out. the automobile engine at the top of ‘an women run it?’ I asked, @ hill—if you are sure of a good piace|thinking of the suburban woman to hit when you are through gliding|Who usually serves as the family or coasting, The further you are from @ landing the higher you should fly in order to make your glide take you ever as much country as possible if you have to come down, ffeur nine-tenths of the time, here ig no reason why she shouldn't," promised Mr, Curtiss. “Ruth Law and Katherine Stinson certainly have made good as pilots. “Flying is safer in many ways vian|Running an airplane requires no motoring. There is little danger of|™ore physical strength than the av- collision with another maghine and no | * woman possesses, In tact, it ie chance in the air of hitting a tree or easier and simpler work than run- a stone wall or of dropping off a|"ing an automobile.” wheel or of skidding.” The scarcity of places to land and “Then shall we have the family fiv-|the amount of room needed for stor- ver planc?” I suggested, ing planes will make their use as “Every man's flying machine can| grocery and delivery wagons and as water, but there always wil) be shel- sored Rare take refuge, I think—don't you?— ‘If there is a sufficient demand for ror popular fying machines we will build! yet tor short hauls,” he says, And' 47, cheaply as every man's jitney buses about the last thing we declared Mr. Curtiss, do with them, he thinks, “They are economical for long hauls, but not 2 e 5 3 5 s From Ill-Fated Langley Machine to NC Class Langley Machine, Built in 1903, Was Flown Eleven Years Later—Wright Brothers “Glided” in 1900; Flew 24 Miles Under Power in 1905—Curtiss Flew From Albany to New York in 1910, Rose From Water in 1911 and in 1912 Designed First “Flying Boat.” WRIGNT BROTHERS| BRST Gui $5: AIRPLANE im WHICH CURTISS FOLLOWED Tw! mUuOSON FROM ALBANY TO GOVERNORS ISLAND just as we keep on using the cars, although we have the railroad, he be- leves we shall not scrap our poor old railroads when we all can travel by air, “hey will bear the same rela- tion to planes that canals bear to trains,” he prophesied. Another possible development of life in the air, in his opinion, is the development of stationary gas bal- loons into alr house-boats and cool, ‘airy’ summer boarding houses. “Only they must be safely moored,” be warns smilingly. “Is there any limit,” I asked finally, “to man's conquest of the air?” “I think there are fewer lmits-to aerial transportation,” he said, with seriousness, “than to our progress by any other medium. Some day, un- doubtedly, men will be flying around the world, Before that, however, I think we shall have what interests me most of all—the transmission of bower by wireless from huge power stations on the earth, the power, per- haps, generated by water, to planes in the air, That would eliminate the problem of fuel and increase enor- mously the carrying space and prac- tical usefulness of the flying ma- chines. It woul! save so much wasty!"* There spoke the scientist. Puck, might “put a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes.” _ BIG DEMAND FOR AMMONIA IN JAPAN. The supply in Jar a nia fore the war the annual impo! amounted to 110,000 tons, valued ,000,000, ‘ And then we all, like Shakespeare’s| n of sulphato of * not meet the demand, and it is thought that this commodity will again have to be linported, Be- | | ee ME FIRST CURTISS "FLYING BOATS ANCESTOR OF THE N=C &, QUILT IN n Milk Bars for ditions, Look After TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1919 Babies, London’s Way of Using Its Vacant Saloons Child Welfare Centres, Outgrowth of Wartime Con- Baby Until He Goes to Schoot, Then School Authorities Become Ré- sponsible for His Health—Dental and Medical Clinics Aid. Beatrice Barmdy, who has had long experience in the business world, doth in London and New York, and is author of “Betty Mar- revisiting London and is writing articles on post war conditions for article, English children?” “No,” she answered thoughtfully, the average mother has had a defini that many of the children have been bringing fruit to echool—an indication that some of the high wages has been spent in the right direction.” Her opinion tallied with my own observation of the children’s sturdy figures, their glowing red checks and bare knees. Perhaps it ts the red cheeks which give them a more ro- bust appearance than that of the American child. On a day in early May which was cold enough to make me welcome my heavy coat I watched them on the shore of this seaside place, which is within sight of a large city. On one sand castle I saw the well bred face of a college boy, badge on cap, immaculate white ‘Eton’ collar at his neck. Next to him were three ragged, capless urchins—having the better time too I should judge— whose bare feet were hardened by the pavement of the nearby city. For the firm yellow miles of sand are free to Ignorant Essays CHOP SUEY The Mystery of Chop Suey Isn’t All in Its Sur- roundings or in the People Who Eat It— The Mystery Is in Them Only After They Eat It—What Is in Chop Suey Only the Waiter Knows, and He Can Only Sing It—So Much for the Prologue—Now Go On With the Story. By J. P. McEvoy. Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York ROM the dawn of history pelling them to do so, This is F the Chinese have been one of the impenetrable mys- famous for the ingenuity teries. of life. of their exquisite, diabolical tor- Chop Suey is served at tables tures. Their masterpiece is which have a road clearance Chop Suey. like Jess Willard’s, The chairs It might also be called the also are 98 comfortable as the Yellow Peril. Likewise it is the spine of a discouraged horse, original Macked Marvel, The bowl in which Chop Suey is Once an Aryan sage an- parked is large and blue, and nounced that he had discovered the ingredients of Chop Suey, but a committee of pale-browed ullenists Investigated and found that not only was there nobody home but there were no accom- modations up there for them, so the sage was removed to an up- holstered room, where he now chases his thumb as a life-long guest of the state. the waiter is a tight roan with @ straight black mane. He is very inscrutable but not nearly so much so as the Chop Suey. For inscrutability Chop Suey makes the Sphinx look like Charlie Chaplin, Chinese waiters are very quiet except when they talk. Then they sound like corn shellers or chambermaids eating Swedish Many people eat Chop Suey, Health Bread to the accompani- although there is no law com- ment of @ cracked record, It is f 0 Brentng World.) Pleasantly reminiscent of an gld-fashioned Fourth of July celebration, And infinitely more intelligible than any Fourth of July oration. One 1s served tea with Chop Suey and it comes in a little ‘pot modelled after the pagoda Bhoda ran. Comes also a bottle of bru- nette liquid which smells like wash day. You are told to squirt this oveg the Chop Suey. You do, There isn't any answer. Chop Spey is cheap. This ts as it should be. If it were ex- * pensive it would be fashionable and then everybody would have to eat it, Chop Suey is not the great ghashional game of China, They know what goes in it, chand,” a novel telling the business career of a young woman, is now for The Evening World a series of women workers, This is the second By Beatrice Barmby Copyright, 1919, hy the Prese Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). ‘ ‘I |‘ the war seriously affected the physique of the new generation of I put the question to a woman who has worked all through the war in a Child's Welfare Station in the second largest city in England. “T don’t think they are any the worse, in spite of the shortage of sugar and fats and the scarcity of milk. You see te amount to spend on the children’s food; there has been no chance of a sudden decrease through a fit of drunk- enness on the man’s part, because he has been away at the front. Then many of the mothers have been earning high wages at munition centres, while the soldiers’ wives have been well looked after by the volunteer worker, This has favorably affected child life. The school teachers tell moe every one. No splendid estates with their private beaches reach to the water's edge, like at beautiful Green- wich; no bathing house proprietors have been allowed to erect substantial palaces which block the beach except to the opening key of money. The Poorest mite in the city has but to possess himself of 3 cénts, for which he can cross the ferry, and then for some magic hours he is on @ par with the son of the millionaire. Along the beach are a few eteel structures which are covered with canvas, and in these he can undress without any one saying him nay. Then he has the water or the sand, and he runs giec- fully oyer the pebbles which lay along the edge, disdaining the care of “the cove with a ‘at,” whose fect are more tender. Child welfare tn England has be- jecome a matter of state interest. Within one year of the beginning of the war, Treasury grants in aid of the care of child life had become an ac- complished fact, stimulating municipal activity and voluntary effort through- out the country, effort which has finally established the long desired Ministry of Health. Under this bill various consultative councils are to be set up, and the Viscountess Rhondda— whose name is so familiar to Ameri« cans as the daughter of the late Brit- ish Wood Controller—is even now working for one such council to be composed entirely of women, its Chairman to have direct access to the Minister, As she most rightly says, “women are responsible for the health of their children, and therefore for the health of the nation.” The public conscience ts dafty ac- cepting @ keener responsibility toward its child-life, A few days before the outbreak of the war there was for- mally opened the newest and largest hospital in England for the treatment of surgical tuberculosis, a disease ex- isting to an alarming extent among the children of the poor, ana resulting in unnecessary deformity and mortal- ity. This splendid institution was the outcome of state aid and voluntary enterprise, and in spite of the difficul- ties of wartime—lack of nurses and doctors, and scarcity of funds—it has carried on its work 60 successfully that 80 per cent. of the chikiren ad- mitted have been discharged as cured. And here finally is a suggestion for American enterprise. In a narrow street in London there is a prim little house, dazzling with whitewash, which was once a saloon. It is still a salaon —but for the convenience and re- freshment of Mr, Baby. Over the bar baby’s favorite drinks will be sold, including condensed and dried mill,” Furthermore the centre has rom fitted up with funds supplied by the American Red Cross, and makes the third centre in the borough, which bids fair to be a model in connection with mother and child welfare, It works in conjunction with the London vounty Council, the Local Govern- ment Board, the London Hospital and 1ocal midwives, Such centres look after the baby until he goes to echoo!, then his case papers are passed on to the school authorities, who are then responsible for his health, They have an ante-natal, a dental and a minor ailments’ clinic, so that at any rate in this particular borough baby would seem to have a very fair chance of reaching a ripe old age. Now that Prohibition will soon. be lan accorgplished fact in American his~ tory, why not use apme of the vacant saloons for the health and conveni- ence of Mr. Baby? They have done it in London, they might do it in Ni York, and there would ‘seem to kind of poetic Justice in the the place which previow4™ro) of so much of the joy! Bow minister te his 4 rf