4 ! l Flying Boat Logical : for Inland Waters The huge flying boat plying ', along the routes of an earlier J mode of transportation the J steamboat Is seen by William P. tfacCracken, former assistant 1 , ' . secretary of commerce for aero- . nautlca, as a logical step In air ' J J transportation In the United States. ; 1 The thousands of miles of nsv- ; igable streams and lakes sre po- J ', ', tentlal flying beat routes where ; ; space for alighting and taking J , ', off la unrestricted and where J ; emergency landing places al- ', ways are at hand. ' ; ; UacCracken. who recently re- ', turned from a three months' trip ' J I ' abroad, said he was much Im- pressed by the use of large fly- log boats on various air lines In ' Europe. J "Europe Is far ahead In the ; development of flying boats," ', , the former air secretary said, ' "and there should be more de- ', vdopmeot along that line In this ' ' J ; country." , , II With unlimited space In which J ; ; ; to take off and land, huge flying boats . could carry beavy car- J ', I goea between the waterway ; cities, which formerly relied on ! I the steamboat as the principal J ; . means of transportation. - ; J They could carry heavier loads ; ; than land planes, aeronautic ex- J ! perts point out, because their X runways for taking off and 1 ! landing would not be restricted ' ' X as it la on land.