| Show postwar post war period in Us S to be an age of wonders 9 after war years will see astonishing changes in ways of living mr and mrs average american of the postwar post war era probably will find themselves living in a world full of corn comforts conveniences and gadgets that at a present day view have a decidedly jules verne flavor they may own a home that was erected from the ground up in eight hours and is just as stable as one which before the war required six months to build the home w will have conveniences undreamed 0 oi f even for comfort loving americans they probably will drive a modestly priced automobile that runs 35 miles on a gallon of gasoline and will negotiate terrain and hills formerly suitable only for the time honored mountain goat if they live on a farm they probst probably will have an amazing vehicle that can be used to plough harrow milk and round up the cows when vacation time comes around they may fly over to cairo or down to buenos aires for the weekend week end or they may even make an around the world trip during the head of the fam ilys traditional two weeks off with pay these are not fancies conjured from a lewis carroll who authored alice in wonderland imagination they are practical potentialities all which industrial experts already are forecasting as the logical peacetime application of armament developments war is a forceful spur to the progress of industrial science and invention ven tion under its ita duress there is no time for the cautiously slow experiments peri ments which mark the reception accorded new inventions and discoveries in years of peace new methods new materials are accepted overnight and are tested in the acid furnaces of combat the tragedy of modern warfare is an anachronism of progress distance annihilated there Is no better illustration ot of this than the advancement made by aviation as a result of world war I 1 the airplane represented u new ew potentialities of speed and des destruction truc tion and as such was seized upon as a weapon of offense by the allies and their enemies alike in the short period of four years aviation made an advance that would have required a quarter of a century in normal times today the same situation magnified ten times over obtains only recently glenn martin the noted aircraft designer announced plans tor for a ton behemoth of the air capable of transporting pounds of equipment at speeds of to miles an hour to bg be built after the war this plane said mr martin will be as big as a 30 room house bouse meanwhile another company is reported to have already completed the wooden dummy of a ship that will dwarf the martin monster a ton model which could move whole battalions across the continent overnight already in use ar are e new methods of construction which lighten aircraft by hundreds of pounds and so tremendously increase their passenger and freight carrying ability naturally these planes are at present only in military form when peace comes however when peace comes these goliaths Goliat hs of the clouds will be interpreted in terms of pleasure and convenience for a travel loving nation the almost unbelievable speed which has been developed tor for mill military planes some of which fly in excess of miles ashbur an hour will place far flung continents and their cities within a comparatively few days or few hours flying distance of the united states flying freight trains pr probably will become the order of the skies the increasing public interest in aviation the training of thousands of young men as expert pilots and the strides made by safety in aviation also presage a new era of private flying ten years even five years from now plane rental and fly lt ito youself services probably will be too comm commonplace outplace to be news when priorities are no longer necessary a tall stall proof spin proof planes such as the Er coupe and notable for folding wing features probably w will III travel side by side with automobiles to along the highways highway a as all they shuttle from air field to garage As C R smith former president of american airlines recently declared in the postwar post war period non toward a new era even as the nation de devotes votes the full energies of its industrial power and scientific genius to victory its citizens can still lift their eyes above and beyond the holocaust of world war to an era that will bring with it a new pattern of et living at once finer and more dramatic in its benefits than anything civilization has known before L stop operation over the ocean will be prosaic with most of the crossing to europe done at high altitude speeds in excess of miles per hour miracle car forecast tor for farm use As in aviation so in the world of automotive progress the developments of war will become integrated into americas peacetime pattern of life a few years hence in recent tests conducted by the united states department of agriculture and willys overland motors ine inc makers and manufacturers of the standard design jeep at auburn ala and toledo ohl ohio the vehicle gave promise of performing with the same versatility on the farm as it presently is doing on the battlefields of europe and the far east during these tests the car did everything ery thing from and harrowing a field in one operation using gallons of gas per acre to hauling almost a ton ten and a half of farm produce a distance of at 13 miles on oa a gallon of gasoline already known as the ardys miracle car the jeep is the descendant ant of a motor driven platform on wheels known as the belly flop per which was first demonstrated at fort benning ga in 1840 1940 A at t the request of army officials joseph W frazer president of the will willys Ys overland company and other automotive experts undertook the design of a car which would not exceed 1400 pounds in weight and should thesis a modern version of beating swords into plough ploughshares shares con can averting the ardys amy miracle car the jeep into an n agricultural vehicle of many uses who knows know but bat that some come future day old bossy down in I 1 the south pasture will be herded by means of such a jeep be capable of carrying a pound load I 1 that a peacetime version verlon of this athla vehicle which can climb grades that balk a tank and negotiate rough ter rain at 40 miles an hour should be developed Is of course logical find and the american farmer will thus inherit one of the nations most valuable pieces of military equipment these automotive principles of high powered engines which consume a minimum of fuel also will be applied to pleasure vehicles automobile to designers predict forecasting a light yet powerful car which will require only about one gallon of gasoline every 35 or 40 miles on the sea too on the sei sea als also othe the war effort is providing amazing new inventions applicable to the count rys peacetime pattern of living the united states has experimented with an all aluminum destroyer which they believe will cut through the water at 52 knots an hour Sea cratt designers declare that the use of aluminum in boat construction may well be the forerunner of high speed passenger transport ships faster than anything previously dreamed of row and sail boats so light that a halt half grown boy can carry one across country and fleet pleasure craft that will rival in water the speed of their automotive cousins on land undoubtedly will make their appearance in the postwar era at prices within reach of the american in the smaller income bracket describing the postwar post war house which americans americana may be bocc occupying ten years from now norman bel geddes who designed the Futura ma at the new york worlds fair pictures a prefabricated house which a crew of six men could erect in one eight hour day ady with such a house a family might well e eat at dinner in a home that had been no more than a pile of materials the same morning we have all the techniques and facilities to build houses such as I 1 have described says mr bel geddes today we have an opportunity to change over from old fash cloned and costly methods to the modern mass production way of building better homes at lower cost he estimates that thatah at least new housing units will be required after the war still another noted american architect ct walter dorwin teague declares that we have only to apply to 6 homebuilding home bome building the same techniques of design manufacture and selling that have provided one motor moter car for every tour four people inthe in the united states to produce a type of home which will be within althin reach of the man in the very low income bracket mr teague las has designed a house to sell lor for 1000 to 2000 which can be rearranged even when bocc occupied u pled as to size and floor plan almost alm eat as easily as one changes the furniture in a room the teague house not only can be enlarged or reduced to in size elze at the owners will but also can removed be moved from one building site to another such a factory fabricated house he says will compare with present day houses as a modern automobile comp compares ares with an old fashioned buggy if the owner of such a house discovers that his bis job necessitates a move across the continent he will simply take the house down call a truck and have the house transported to his new place of residence if after six or eight years he be wants a new house he will trade in his old one just as he does his automobile still another architect who has been studying postwar post war housing problems william hamby urges that for better living the postwar post war home must be improved for the one who has the most to do the woman in a house bouse planned to take the drudgery butof out of housekeeping mr hamby abolishes the usual kitchen and substitutes a streamlined and beautified unit so planned that while the homem hom emak aleer er gets dinner she can also participate in the fam ilys activities tivi ties 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