Show The Sentinel l 1 Lindy's Charmed Life 9 A Valuable Contribution A Across Atlantic J 0 An Axis for Society BY BY Bv IRVING lAVING HUDSON One cannot read the news news' these da days das s and faIl fall to really that a new era ern in methods methods' of ot transportation and travel Is h upon us On Sunday morning Colonel Lindbergh and two associates left the Grand canyon for Denver making the trip in exactly six hours Any person who has made the tile j Journey urney from lom Denver to tho Grand canyon by auto knows that six hours would still find the traveler within the bounds of Colorado Colo Cob rado to say nothing of all of New Ness Mexico and half or In more Inore ore of ot Arizona Travel by train requires man many times six hours for fOI the canyon trip There are some who are me inclined to think that Colonel Lindbergh bears something some some- tiling thing of a charmed life lICe True True there is something charming about this premier aviator but it is nothing that other individuals need be de do- do nied Charles A. A A Lindbergh is a standing example of ot what the in individual individual in- in individual can do when he combines well swell coordinated ted personality with an honest motive C C C Cincinnati is quite a distance front from Chicago as an anyone one knows knols who has made the journey by hy rail rall Yet the distance did not seem scent long long to the tIle two passengers who m made de the trip in ill the tIle air malI mall plane last Saturday Pilot Jiggs Huffman an of ot the the- Every- Every Riddle company flew Clew th tile the course In inI 1 I hour and 45 minutes minutE's Hat Ilat vel a gIn g- g In ing 1 4 miles mlles an hour over the tile mile mlle course COUlSe And Were there is no reason Why we may not expect a a a. similar speed in every section of the tile coun coun- try 6 6 6 On last Friday evening the tile people of America and other countries were thrilled by the flash that the crew of the tho German Junker plane piano the tile Br Bl Bremen men had made a landing on Greenly island off the coast of La Labrador brad 01 Millions of people all aU allover allOver over Ovel the world had been praying that this tills crew might be successful in solving the problem of the crossing crossing cross erOES- ing of the North Atlantic from east to to- WEt west While they failed in their effort t to make a nonstop flight light toNess' toNess to New Ness York the Bremen's crew did succeed in shedding much valuable light on conditions of North Atlantic Atlantic Atlantic Atlan Atlan- tic flying Their failure to reach New York was sas due duo solely to a lack of fuel Experience on this tills flight led to the tile discovery that In the tile past fuel requirements have been under under- estimated Now NO that the tIle problem has 1105 been solved one may expect other fliers to make tho westward passage in rapid succession So far the North Atlantic has been crossed by aviators eleven cleven times Only once has Ilas the distance from Europe to America been n ne- ne by an airplane Twice the trip wa was made by dirigibles But nut now that the tIle tl trip p has been made I folks can settle back in their thelt easy I chairs chail's and rest assured that the day j I I la is not far distant when regular passenger passenger pas- pas lines JInes will be operating be between between between be- be tween America Americ and Europe lie lie- ports from New York state that very soon tile tho du Pont company will commence the tile construction of the first of a string of or eight floating float float- ing airdromes across the Atlantic When completed each airdrome will swill afford aCCord a accommodations for tor plants pilots passengers and supplier sup sup- piles They will be spaced approximately matel miles apart and each airdrome will tower feet above the tue surface of the skeleton ocean on a skeleton skeie ton steel framework For Por supports buo buoyant ant tanks will be attached these to rest at t a depth sufficient to in Insure ure still water When completed completed com com- the tile designer r predicts a 36 hour service between America Americ and 36 1 1 Europe You have watched a measuring measuring meas meas- tiring worm as he slowly arched his w sv way y along That is exactly what a i diagram of the above plan bles blesS as the imaginary imaginary- planes wing wins I their thell way from point to point Can it be possible that there thele Is still as much in store tor man a as is measured measured meas meas- I ur d by the difference between the measuring worm and andl the tile man of today We Ve would not be surprised I Recently we swe read the tile story of ot the tile I I Oxford university Arctic expedition I by seaplane Later we read of a I trip made b by the tile Germans in a Junk Junker plane Now comes the tile news that Captain Nobile of Italy Itah ff flying a huge dirigible is is- isto to make a Yer very pretentious expedition into the the- North orth Polar regions A party of will make the tile Journey jOl One In Interesting In- In Interesting feature Is Js noted TheP The P pope Pe has blessed and presented to the tile expedition an all oaken cross which Captain Nobile proposes to drop on the site of the tile north po e. e One wonders how long things would hold together were It not for tor the axis on which this old earth rotates Not ot very long we ve Judge We are equally equal equal- ly certain that the cross is a pretty prett good axis for society Take Take- Takeout out of or the social world the principle if 11 sacrifice and there would be little use for planes and dirigibles |