Show 9 Queen of the Seas NOT NOT since Charles A. A Lindbergh arrived in 1 1 New York after his epochal solo flight across the Atlantic has there been such an splitting ear celebration as that to staged welcome the newest newest newest new new- est queen of the seas the SS Normandie as she completed her first crossing By contrasting the two events both marked by screaming whistles swirling ticker tape and cheering thousands we I get a pretty fair line the on-the things which touch off enthusiasm these days In Iri its greeting to the Normandie New York was paying the homage due a great mechanical triumph This is an age of machinery not mere mere- ly because it has a great many intricate and in ingenious ingenious ingenious in- in genious machines but because it lives through them and by them So it is only natural that the Normandie's arrival should provoke deep interest A great ship of this kind sums up the mechanical age as well as any contrivance ever built In the mere details of its construction there is a series of near miracles and the final fitting touch is supplied by the fact that for all its size and perfection of detail the tho big ship probably will never pay So much for the Normandie Now for the demonstration held eight years ago in honor of Colonel Lindbergh That too was part of our mechanical age because the airplane is one of the most characteristic machines of this gen gen- But the celebration honored the man not the machine It was a peoples people's tribute to to a demonstration of f mans man's power to confront danger danger danger dan dan- ger hardship and fear single-handed single without faltering The moral is then that two things are arc able to touch off our enthusiasm these days fine machines machines and and fine line men mep And we have the saving saving saying sav say ing grace to realize that the machines are the less important of the two |