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Show ALL DUNN by Roy Dunn such crafts without drastic changes. Even now our big 100-passenger planes are stuck at every airport, ten of them an hour, and baggage and people are hopelessly snarled. Flight efficiency, already messed up, will simply vanish with fivefold of the present mess. Are we doing anything about this? Perhaps. We have blueprints, blue-prints, but blueprints are not installations, which eat up the years. So here we have the greatest flying machine ever built, a triumph, but we are not looking inside the triumph to find the knotty problems it threats us with. In two hundred years of gripes since the Watts steam engine, how much have we really real-ly learned ? SEE YA'AL LLATER This atmosphere or revolt, dissension and the pulling apart of the moral fiber of society so-ciety is very evident on all sides. It touches our lives every day in a thousand ways and we have learned to accept the permissiveness. per-missiveness. If we haven't accepted ac-cepted it, we must live with it whether we like it or not. We see what we want to see and believe half of what we hear and charge down the road, pell-mell, pell-mell, toward a total computerized computer-ized way of life. And all the while we gripe and complain about something, anything and everything, to anyone who will listen. Dadgummit, looks to me like we can't see past the end of our snczzle which is usually stuck in something it shouldn't be. Every American finds something wrong with the United States, if nothing else, taxes and the taxing authority. This doesn't mean most of us are disloyal, and about to rush to the nearest campus where it is permissable to burn the American Flag without penalty (just try burning the flag on your front lawn and see how quick ycj hit the bucket). Anyway, it's human nature to gripe, and human nature to find flaws in what seemed like magnificient ideas not long ago. For example, automobiles were a magnificent idea. So many of them is one of the things distinguishing Americans from other people. We can't conceive a national life without with-out them. But in recent time we have acquired so many of them, and use them with so much zeal, that they are beginning to defeat de-feat their purpose of persanal mobility and doing work. We have no solution for this dilemma dilem-ma and dread tomorrow when it will be worse. Petroleum as a source of energy en-ergy is good in itself. Fifty years ago, steel measured the power of a nation but now it must share it's potency with n RnclwnrH natinnQ which find oil become less backward and some even educate their illiterate masses. Advanced nations na-tions with oil, pyramid it into new advancement. All over the world there are great oil reservoirs in offshore off-shore ocean waters, and we tap them. But when one springs a leak, fouling beautiful beaches, or an oil tanker breaks up ashort, we have no solution for it. We blame the drilling companies, com-panies, or the public officers whose duties are to regulate them, for not being able to for-see for-see such a mess. But in fact, we are at fault. Santa Barbara's oil slick is dramatic, but actually it's just a part of the continental water and air pollution due to our bumbling with carbon wastes. Up around Thistle I recently saw a huge trailer house whose sewer hose emptied into the little stream nearby. And farther far-ther up the canyon, in the red narrows, there's a drinking fountain which is surrounded with beer cans, paper plates and all manner of trash. It's been there all winter. Beginning to look somewhat like the Springville dump. So petroleum is one of the triumphs of this age, but we fail to look inside the triumphs to see how they can harm us. And we fail to take steps to forestall the possible harm, or even to minimize it. Recently near Seattle there was a test run of a 350-ton plane, capacity 490 passengers. Except for a minor defect, it "flew like an arrow" so it is a triumph. We say, "Wait 'till there's a hundred of those in the sky and we can fly 50 thousand people across the continent con-tinent in four hours." But every airport authority on earth knows present airports can't handle any number of |