Show Q TT i I The rhe Pen ren or the Propeller I IQ Q 4 PHE rHE recent recen long distance flights have done tl- tl wore re than cement good will witt and friendships friend friend- tips ships between en n nations t which seems to to tobe be the tIle most flost o t stressed effect according to the analyzers They have also stimulated the latent poesy world into expression The Lindbergh flight especially caI ight ca-ight ht the the imagination of the poetic world an and the thc deluge ca came le One New York newspaper reported five bushel bush l baskets caskets filled with unsolicited un un- solicited verse It t reported a a certain s lm larity in each of the thousands thousands-of of poems re re- re- re The majority of the poets and poetesses poetesses poet- poet e esses s s ref referred to In Mi th Lochinvar wh who l came out of th f-th the West and i much l ink ink was wa I sp spent too in the phrase silver bird bid i Ve can can hardly know v for a a. few years whether any truly Immortal iines lines have been b i- i of these flights or not If there have been been t a t i is sure ure that in fifty or t 00 y years the flight wilt will be known for those lines History gives assurance that many men did as dr dramatic matic and important deeds on that night that Paul Haul R Revere verc ran his horse foam- foam flecked through the countryside near Boston Doston but it was about Revere that the lines were W written it e 1 A A hurry of ot hoots hoofs in a village street vj t. A s shape ape in the moonlight a bulk in the dark 1 Anc n beneath from the pebbles s in passing a spark Struck out by a a steed flying lying fearless fearlesS' and fleet r Its It's safe to wager that in 2077 the best ko koIn In of the many transoceanic flights of ol 27 7 will be the one which has the mu most mosi t dramatic dramatic dramatic dra dra- matic lines tines penn penned d about it Which is mightier the pen or the he propeller pro- pro F. F peller 1 |