Show PRESS PARAGRAPHS Much interest bas baa been awakened b by bythe bythe the recent remarkable feats in in aviation Savannah Mornin Morning News Not less than fifteen great grent aviation a meets and and contests have ha been heen arranged for this countr country and Europe to be held between June I 1 1 and November 1 The rho mo most t ambitious so far scheduled for this county country will occur in New York during the two weeks beginning Oct October ber l JJ is The rhe prizes offered to the winners at these various meets aggregate nearly neatly This is about four times as much as was offered in in automobile prizes when those vehicles t were as young as aeroplanes and diri dirigible ible airships of other patterns St. St Paul Press Pioneer No one can cau even estimate tho effect aerial navigation naY nave will wiH have upon the progress ot mankind There is ever every reason renson on to believe believe believe be be- lieve that the advance ad to be bo made during during durn dur dur- ing n tho next century will bo o even even greater than has been beon accomplished lUring during tho the last hundred years Mr Curtiss Curtis a and d others have hae that th the tho air can an bo navigated t l. l All AU that remains now is for scientists and skilled mechanics t to put into practical use 1150 the principles that have been shown to bo be sound Detroit Free Press Jf It so much pro progress can cau bo be made in a decade who can prophesy how far the science will go in another twenty years The dif dif- es in the way will be but incentives incentive's incon- incon t tive's tives s for inventors The mechanical obstacles yet Jet to he be met do not seem more extreme than those that have havo already al al- ready leady been overcome At all an events national pride finds room for tor exultation exultation exultation tion in in n the fact that America is first still in the tho air lanes Charleston News and Courier It seems that with th the advent of so dangerous dangerous dan dan- an and destructive a 8 power as the aeroplane wars will have to cease No Non n nation tion will II care aro fco ago o to to tower ar w when m her er great cities ar are arC at the mercy or of a tin tiny craft crait costing but buta a few thousand do dol mrs lars It is safe to predict that the p per perfection per r. r of aerial navi navigation will eventually even even- mean the end nd of war between civilized ch nations Denver Republican Wh What t has been lone done b by the thc aviators on the continents is Is but hut an fin tn earnest of the tho future No great reat invention in air flight ht has taken place since the Wright ht brothers demonstrated demon denion that Langle Langley's s 's mathematics were correct Some Somo fine tino day lay dayan an tn Edison of the thc air will appear with witha a revelation that he hRS has harnessed high explosives and then then then- There Thero will ill be bo room roOn for the dreamer to begin dreaming of the future a again of the dream of aerial battle Now Orleans Times Democrat The fuel capacity of these machines will have t to be bo increased but that wo we suppose sup sup- pose is only a matter of detail a- a most certain to he be worked out before a great while Exploration of the ticul possibilities of the tho plano piano may be said to be bo only beginning From this time timo forth there thoro need be bo no surprise cur sur price prise if if the record achievements follow follow fol fol- fol- fol low one another even oven more moro closely than thc they have bavo do done no in the tho recent past New Haven Rc Register It must bo be remembered that though men mou have haver r risen sen into the air in balloons baBoons for n n a century or so 50 and though the dirigible ble balloon is is by no means new the tho Teal real heavier than air nir air flying machine is is a distinctly recent development and has hns practically all an the room there is for advance All honor hODor to tho the pioneers pio plo like the Wrights Curtiss and the rest But dont don't suppose that they have reached success as we shall shaU un un- un success a II score of years cars hence Louisville Courier Courier- Journal Courier Journal Opinions ions lops differ ii as ns to how Soon tho the aeroplane will become a practical machine machino of commercial importance Orvillo Orville Wr Wright ht is is quoted as saying in a recent interview interview interview inter inter- view that it will be ready for pas pas- benger traffic whenever Over there thero is a demand de de- de mand for it Others who are nrc interested interested inter inter- ested not less intimately in aviation arc not BO so optimistic Cleveland Leader H In In the motor ve ye- hicle hick t field eld this thil country was lon long far short of tho the French records record but now all that is changed chanced and there are more moro automobiles built here in a year than France has ever po possessed In the tho air nir the Kinie American lead will be bo 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