| Show PRAIRIE SCHOONER TO SKY LINER sometimes wo we find ourselves saying that americans american are aie uko like no other people on the faco face of the tha glube globe it merely a narrow national pride that produces this attitude either its simply thu fact that our particular advantages in possessing individual freedom have made ua tw more alap adaptable table better ablo to move ahead and also butter better able to accept change as it comes I 1 thi chuse ne reflections occur naturally to luied upon reading a recent news item from now york city about tho the arrival by airplane from tho the west of au an 82 year old amer lean woman who had bad made the trip the ilo ather way many years ago lu in a covered wagon besides being au an indication of the great progress pi ogies tills country lias has made lu in less than uno one iff lifetime ettine the story helps to picture that IIo pioneer neer spirit that Is part pait of 0 most Amer clatis aud and lias has made our forward progress possible im not afraid of anything the intrepid passenger told why I 1 told my husband years ago that one day the DO skies would bl be full of flying machines macul nea aud and that id like to ride in ili one im certainly tal itly d to think that I 1 jumped from a covered wagon to an airplane in one lifetime tho the spirit that has brought america so BO far along the road of progress la Is as strong as ever 1 theres testimony to prove it I 1 our yer per capita debt for all branches of government totaled lu in 1013 ili INJO 1039 it totaled lu in other words ithe worker er with the smallest income who probably delays going to the dentist or hesitates to buy a now pair of because he cant afford it owes the government nearly 1500 some sollie day a start must be made to pay the public debt paying it will be painful but less painful than not hot paying it which Is 13 something all of tl ua 4 will eventually find out if wo continue to follow the line of lost last resistance those who have subscribed to the belief that we have been getting something tot for nothing are due for a rudo rude awak citing and the sooner it comes comes the bettor better oft off we shall be Cli charlotte arlotte N 0 observer |
