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Show dream, but that is merely because people are afraid to ride in planes. This fear will dissapear when flying becomes primarily a useful business Instead of a sport when the aviator's craze for speed and long distance gives way to concentration on how to make planes safe, fool-roof fool-roof and cheap. j Flying homes would solve the rent problem if government provided ( free parking space. We may live to see the day when giant corporations will be fighting for a monopoly on desired airplane parking grounds. 1 HOMES ON WHEELS. A home on wheels was built by Will A. Harris, Texas, educator. He constructed it on a motor truck. Painted gray, this traveling house of two rooms Is 18 feet long. In eight weeks Harris and his wife and young daughter traveled almost 4,000 miles this summer. Such homes have become numerous. numer-ous. They are vivid illustrations of how the automobile has In less than a generation virtually placed the United States at the door of the car owner. Distance, which was like jail bars, has been conquered by the automobile. A man of very moderate mod-erate means can get into his flivver and take a vacation trip such as was available only to the extremely rich not so many years ago. The '. automobile has given a new form of liberty releasing us from being confined to a very small section of . the earth's surface. j With the invention of the automobile, auto-mobile, Americans have become a nation of rovers. Jsenrly every one can gratify the wanderlust instinct that lurks in all human blood. Back in Spanish-American war days, a man who took a trip of a few thousand thous-and miles was the talk of the town for years. Now he comes back; few have noticed his absence; they merely lift their eyebrows politely when he recounts the marvels of his trip. Travel used to be almost exclusively available only to the! rich. Now every one can travel; "see the country." The next step in human liberation will be popularization of the flying machine. . Wandering airplane houses will come, Just as surely as we now have traveling homes on motor trucks. It may seem a wild |