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Show FUTURE PROGRESS OF U. S. AVIATION ONE MAN I KNOW, and another I did know, both rather intimately, to me point the way to the possibilities possibili-ties of the future of aviation, though neither of them ever flew a plane. One of these men, J. C. ("Kid") Nichols, is a Wyoming ranchman, a lumber manufacturer on a large scale, an ardent sportsman and big game hunter. His home is an elaborate elab-orate and unusually attractive ranch house near Cody, Wyo. His business office is in Chicago. His mills are scattered over a number of southern south-ern states. He commutes by plane between his home, office and plants. He uses a plane for the transportation transporta-tion of week-end guests at his ranch home. To his intimates, and they number num-ber thousands, he is known only as "Kid." The name was acquired dur-! dur-! ing his youthful days as a lumberjack, lumber-jack, when he was the champion wrestler of the northwest lumber camps. He is proud of that name, feeling it represents his start at the bottom of life's ladder. He is also proud of the friendship he enjoyed, as a boy, with Buffalo Bill Cody. He built, equipped and maintains the Cody museum at Cody, Wyo., visited by thousands of tourists each year. As a big game hunter "Kid" Nichols Nich-ols has, as personal trophies, the hides or horns of everything in the nature of big game found on the North American continent from the shores of the Arctic ocean to the Isthmus of Panama, and a goodly proportion of all the many species found in Africa. When the war is over he expects to use planes as a means of transportation to add to that African collection. The second of the two men was Charles Walgreen. I knew him first, many years ago, as a young apothecary apothe-cary clerk in a small neighborhood drug store, in Chicago. A bit later he bought that store on something like a dollar down and a dollar a week payment basis. It was from that small beginning that the nationwide nation-wide chain of drug stores grew. To give to these stores an element of personal attention called for almost constant travel. To facilitate such attention he purchased a plane and employed a pilot. That was his mode of travel for several years prior to his death, caused by illness, some four years ago. Charles Walgreen and "Kid" Nichols are among those who have demonstrated the practicability practica-bility of the airplane as a business busi-ness convenience. These two men have also demonstrated that America is still a land of opportunity for the go-getter, those who are willing to apply their talents. Each of them started at scratch and by their own efforts achieved success in a land in which our bureaucratic economists tell us there is no longer a possibility of success. POST-WAR PLANNING FOR EVERY TOWN WHEN THE WAR IS OVER, with constantly increasing supplies sup-plies and materials available, every ev-ery town will offer opportunities for new small business ventures. Returning servicemen will be seeking such opportunities, and with or without government assistance, as-sistance, will be in a position to finance them. There are some such opportunities in this town. It will be a real service to think of and suggest them. Doing so will not,, alone be of value to some returning serviceman, but will be beneficial to the community. commu-nity. It will mean business growth, new lines of enterprise. It should be an organized effort starting NOW. IN THE LATE POLITICAL fracas iboth sides were insistent upon, "let us have a look at the record." Here is one that was not looked at. From the inauguration of Washington to the inauguration of President Roosevelt America had 32 presidents. presi-dents. During that period we had fought some six major wars, including in-cluding the Civil war and World War I. We had passed through some 12 major depressions. We had grown from 13 to 48 states, and had extended ex-tended our civilization from the Allegheny Al-legheny mountains to the Pacific coast. From the days of Washington to 1933 there had been issued by our 32 presidents some 6,000 executive execu-tive orders. In the 10 years from 1933 to 1943 President Roosevelt issued is-sued more than 3,000 such orders. NOW THAT WE WILL NOT have another presidential election for foul years, Senator Byrd and his committee com-mittee may be able to secure a reduction re-duction in the number of federal government employees. THE PEOPLE AND THE GOVERNMENT GOV-ERNMENT want the returning soldier sol-dier to have a job. Will the government govern-ment undertake to pay the unior initiation fee for him so he may be allowed to have a job, or must he provide that out of his mustering out pay? If he must it would mean, in a large proportion of cases, deciding de-ciding between a job and that suii of civvies he had intended to buy. . . . THAT TOMORROW ON WHICH we will do something we should have done today, seldom, if ever, arrives. |