Show I EARTHS EARTH'S BEA BEAUTY UTY SEE SEEN FROM FRO FROMSKY FROMSKY SKY SIY BY AIR MAIL JAIL PILOT I won won-I From the sk sky the world worl is wonderful wonderful won won- I said John L L. L Eaton air all marl mall pilot flying on the Reno Recto leg of the theair theair theair air mail mall service upon his arrival iu fu Salt Lake from Chicago Eaton with Kenneth Unger hopped fr front from m mN North N th Platte to Salt Lake Lale a little jump of some GOO miles mlles traveled between 9 30 o'clock in the morning and in the af afternoon without a stop I have gone across the country over pretty nearly every railroad and on nearly every tr train ln said Mr Eaton Eaton but there is is- nothing which gives one such a true conception of the wonders of the earth as does the view from from the sky The The manufacturing manufacturing turing centers the roads leading I from the farm lands to the cities the mountains the autumn bedecked I trees the autos skimming along the i streets of the cities and the grazing cattle In the fields all go to make makeup i up a picture which truly no artist can or at least never has painted The aviator goes over liver the ground so swiftly and sees so great an expanse expanse expanse ex ex- of the country at one time that he is to obtain a perspective that the person who travels on the ground cannot possibly have While the picture shifts as the plane travels travels travels trav trav- els the shift is a different sort from that panorama obtained obtained from from a movIng moving moving ing train or automobile and different different different differ differ- ent again from the view to be had rr from m a mountain peak where trio the scene is limited by the strength of the eyesight with a constantly dimming dimming dimming dim dim- ming horizon Near Cheyenne we saw sawa saw a calmly grazing herd of ante ante- lope No landsman could ever obtain obtain obtain ob ob- tain such a sight As we came out of Chicago the view shifted from the clustered buildings with the people swarming about like a myriad of ants to thE larger and more more impressive structures structures strut tures housing vast Industrial enter enter- Then came the peaceful farm lands laid out In order ordered d rows like the squares of a checkerboard In the distance to the westward tho the greater expanse of the midwest plains and the great grain fie fields cIs were yellow In the afternoon sun sun- 2 J I l l light Then we topped the moun moun- mountains ains some som snow snow- snow covered some sonic just masses of rock their hars harshness ness softened softened softened soft soft- ened by the blending of the contour contour con contour con con- tour and the varicolored formations ns Splashed here and there were the forests with the leaves in the orange and pink shades wrought by the touches fot of frost Mirrored at spots were lakes with r of silver leading away to tiny threads at the source of the water water ater supply 0 o o I |