Show for meditation by LEONARD A BARRETT THE ZEPPELIN atam triumph in aviation arx tle safe arrival of the graf zeppelin I 1 it was the first successful attempt at commercial aviation the journey covered nearly miles much of which was through severe and dangerous storms which would have placed havoc with an ordinary dirigible the important object gained by this adventure was not the establishment of another speed record across the ocean nor even the demonstration of the safety and comfort of airship trav el but rather the creation of a new mode of commercial transit between europe and america that this Is now possible Is a demonstrated fact and not a mere query or the graf zeppelin and its successful ful voy age clearly indicates that aviation Is not only possible for passenger travel but that large quantity of expressage and mall can now be transported across the seas when a mall service between europe and america can be established on a three day service we shall arrhe at another milestone in the field of progress when the automobile replaced the horse and wagon we felt a advance bad been made after the automobile comes the airship and in place of transatlantic steamers un we shall have graf lins and why not this question leads to another what net how far distant Is the time when we have synthetic food and thus do away with the necessity of cooking automobiles operated with electricity extracted from the suns rays the cold electric light clocks we do not need to wind because they are run by IIer tylan waves the split atom telephones which enable you to see the person with whom you are con the utilization of the tides to run all the machinery of our coun try pens which write automatic illy directed by thought waves why not what nest petern newspaper New paper untone |