Show 0 j R za wy V 1 7 A irm I 1 NEWSPAPER association 1 NUMBER the use of building great highway systems at an expense ot of millions and millions of dollars when in t a few short years aalthe e freight and passenger traffic will be carried in the air the question Is always being asked by someone usually someone who Is by nature with faculty of thinking thin kinZ straight stra but sometimes by those who think but without data on which to go the next ten or the next nest hundred years will see enormous strides made in aviation mall mail some express some passenger traffic will go via plane and much sport and travel will use it but no future development of 0 aeronautics nau bics tics can overcome the fundamental fact of nature that to raise a weight in the air and maintain it there requires power and that power Is an equivalent tor for value in our terms money therefore no matter how desI reable otherwise no system of transportation which requires an expenditure re to support a weight can n compare I 1 in cheapness with with those in which the weight weichi Is borne by tiie the earth there will always be railroads a always be vessels on the water always be e roads and road vehicles they will change improve become more economical more speedy more sate safe but the earth will continue to carry the bulk of the traffic simply and solely because it charge anything tor for holding up the weight whereas nature makes us pay and heavily to hold the weight up in the air while we transport it those who build roads today will not live to see the time when their roads are not used those who bond themselves tor for roads today will never see the day when those bonds are outstanding against disused highways the airways will be increasingly used but not tor for freight |