Show Dr Frank Cranes Crane's Daily Editorial j The Tile Airplane anti and the Future By DR FRANK CRANE ORANE There Is little doubt that the means of rapid communication In inthe inthe will be the airplane the thC Recently future a three hour service began beian between New ew York ork sin San Francisco This cuts the time by rail three sixty-three hou hours and been done by the government and Most Alost of the Pioneer work has th the arm army which is but natural as the railroads who shou d have done l this this' are too to undertake such enterprise It is is' is riot unreasonable to believe that In time to come the airplane MI M-MI will v b be n as common as the automobile There Thero a are very ery many persons already alread In the tho United States who familiar with their machinery are running g automobiles and who are The These o can easily become drivers ers of airplanes For national defense defensa the airplane Is a more moro sensible means than anything else Keeping up great which have ha no use InI In I commerce costs a great deal deat We e need something which can be us used 1 I In time of peace and can be easily transferred to tho the army In time 1 I of war This ThIs Is the airplane And a nation that can can summon fifty or a hundred thousand airplanes at a moments moment's notice will be Invincible The The- command of ot the air therefore it if It itcan can be made mado useful for fot commerce and transportation can also be made useful for attack and defense I It is interesting to look into the future and see what what I win will m happen or What Is likely to happen We may depend upon the future being a development of those tendencies at present In operation It Is reasonable to suppose that the predominating forces of ot the future will be in the air all and that nation will command the future which shall command the air all Communication by radio Is being rapidly developed and radio adlo will undoubtedly furnish the means by which t tho the country countr can intellectually become a unit If It the airplane keeps pace with this and If It continues to develop as a practical machine we may look Jook forward to fo its its' future with Interest Tho The atte attempt pt to unite all nations In a common government an and anA to Induce each nation to give up ouch euch portion of Its or-Its its sovereignty as shall shaH be necessary to that cox common mon government was made at the tho close of ot the last war but it does dols not seem entirely successful We have chosen to fall back to the old order which consists In making each nation Impregnable to the other and as least so o long as we continue to be beof beof of this opinion It shall be necessary to develop the Internal resources of every country to resist attack by the others Copyright 1924 by bv The McClure Newspaper Syndicate |