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Show PEED CRAZE. An army airplane the other day flew at the terrific Kpeed of over 220 miles an hour. Lieutenant It L Maughan was the pilot. This was faster than any human being be-ing ever had traveled. A great fuss :1s being made about it, in scientific circles Admittedly, it was an "ac- compllshmenL" But, after all, are people being made any happier or tho rorld better place to live in, by 1 American ability to travel at such 'dizzy speed? Until the automobile was invented, people took life as It came calmly, happily, without any feverish rush The auto ushered in a craze for opeed. Everything lollowed tho auto s lead and Bpeeded up. Fast living, of two I kinds, arrived Efficiency experts began be-gan adjusting the processes of llfo to ' gasollne-tnlno pace. The shipping elerk was shown how to drive more nails per minute, the hod carrier how to get more brleka on his hod People began to gulp their meals, where eating had onre been a delight- ful ceremony, lingering on each mor-a1 mor-a1 of luscious food. Slow, dragging sentimental ballads gae way to nwllt-inovlng nwllt-inovlng Jazz music. Oanclng becamt fs iter, Life all around wa-J geared to ! higher speed And, with tho process, came a nervous tension, result of noise and rush. The speed mania, of course, has been Icsb noticeable on farms and in mall towns than in the big cities. But Lhey, too, are c.Mchlug the fever. '.Mr Fanner wants hla news bj radio. I can't v. alt until the rural postman i flashes by In his overheated flivver i Oven tho once plodding fisherman, who formerly purred with content mi of as he rowed to hla favorite bass ipool, now 6qulrrus like a lad with Vitus dance, uutil he gets a motor to bustle up his boat, also fast multiplying multiply-ing reels Show people how to move faster, how to shave off a second or two. and name v(,ur own price. The auto couldn't keep up with tho public appetite for speed, so the airplane air-plane Is being developed. Some . i perts assert that airplanes soon will make 1000 miles an hour. Sounds probable But Is thiG frantic rush really mak lng life more happy" What are we all bo afraid oi, that we are hurrying to gt past it? It's a mad rush, by bundles of nerves." with no destination. destina-tion. In the long run. Is it any more lm- ' portant than If all rabbits learned how to leap twice hs far and take two leaps where only one was leaped before? If any of the lower animals suddenly speeded up and began rushing about, as we humans have in the last two decades, scientists would cry. "Wave of insanity social neurasthenia." Not satisfied, they are carting us away in auto-hearse Soon they will learn they can get us burled quleker by airplane It's "the pace that kills." no v |