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Show c ' our eyes back over a comparatively few years of history to see how the world has been revolutionized by the development of inventions which were unknown early in the nineteenth century cen-tury the telephone and telegraph, electric elec-tric tramways, fast mail trains, electric light and power, fuel oil and motor trucks and cars. The airplane is an invention of the twentieth century and probably will be historically the distinguishing discovery of the century. cen-tury. Soon all the continents will be - linked by aerial highways. Mail will be transported from continent to continent and across continents in a few hours and, a littlo later, safety devices will make aerial travel secure. Perhaps we shall soon see surgeons flying from New York to perform an operation in Salt Lake or San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Perhaps we shall see necessary medicines or instruments whirled in a few hours half way across the country. Mayhap captains of industry will attend at-tend board meetings in several cities, going by airplano in a single day from New York to Chicago or St. Louis. The president might miss the noon express and take an aeroplane after dinner and speak in Boston at an evening meet-ing. meet-ing. A member of congress whose vote was needed to carry a bill might fly-in fly-in a few hours from Minneapolis to the national capital. A diplomatic courier, leaving Washington Wash-ington one day might be in London or Paris the next, bearing a message that could not bo entrusted to the wireless or the wires. Or, to speak of more lowly things, the vegetable gardener and the milkman, might make their rounds in airplanes, doing their work in a fraction of the time now required. AERIAL HIGHWAYS. Logically Salt Lake would be one of the division points on any aerial highway high-way from New York to San Francisco. If can be taken for granted that this will be the first transcontinental aerial route established and we should not neglect to prepare for the new system of transportation. If we ate apathetic the aviation fields and depots may be provided by some smaller Utah city. Already aerial mail routes have been established between New York, Philadelphia Phila-delphia and Washington and the transport trans-port of mail through the air is about to begin. It is suggested that the transcontinental trans-continental air route will become an accomplished fact after the war, but there is no particular reason why mail should not be carried from coast to coast by air even before the war ends. Indubitably there will be a swift development de-velopment of aviation for commercial purposes as soon as peace returns. There will be hundreds of accomplished aviators back from the war who will be eager to make aviation their life work, and inasmuch as there will bo a general demand for the development of all the possibilities otnerial travel and transportation we may expect some marvelous results. We have but to I H. WariuRjr 5v. |