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Show -.,,,r.l ..' -'uiM ".I" "' IH',S"WCTF. T"" r AM! I K A UNIIM1II.I) f ; Hv Kric Johnston Li Frontiers of l'A;itision (f'.f.r.Vs K.'tr: This mu. le is ..no sour vm.i i'.viitt File oniurton's niw fc.w. V;., m.'imito.f." fl!r. M.-n i.v ,M .M.i.-iK ( if'.- I', i'. (7i.TM,l.rr l'omruor.-.) IT TOOK a ;',re:U war to domonstvato to America that its creative forces, far from beiai;' exhausted, had scarcely boon touched. The very officials who had repeatedly "proved" that the limits of the nation's productivity had been reached now set s;i;;antic tasks and stood dumbfounded by the speed, the surenVss, the efficiency with which those were carried out. It became manifest that immense im-mense untapped strength resided in our national museles, our senilis for mass output, our talents for "ration- t- s Ks all.-.ation in industrial in-dustrial processes, proc-esses, our re-sourcefulness re-sourcefulness in overcoming barriers. bar-riers. America has only begun to understand un-derstand its own productive capacities, capac-ities, and one of the most difficult gyY""" m inn n 1 1 Erie Johnston eratlon, ventilation, garbage disposal, dispos-al, and air conditioning; furniture made of plastics, nylon, composition composi-tion materials, embodying qualities never dreamed of in connection with household goods. Aviation of Tomorrow Will Prove Unlimited Aviation is another field wherein the potentials of expansion are so clear that the least imaginative are stirred by the perspective. The pressures of war have served to crowd decades of aeronautical Invention In-vention and improvement into a few years. The developments now being applied to destructive purposes will surely be adapted to constructive peacetime purposes. Electronic devices de-vices today used to direct deadly fire, to detect approaching enemy planes, and to locate invisible targets tar-gets will serve to make aerial driving driv-ing safe and easy, and to make accidents acci-dents in the skies less likely. Great systems of passenger and freight service through the skies, millions of privately owned small planes of the wing or helicopter types, thousands of elaborate "air yachts" do not tell the whole story. problems oi our future is to adjust our thinking to that capacity. Even in our most optimistic periods, it is now clear, we had underestimated our own abilities. In the last 20 years we have raised output per man-hour by about 40 per cent. More significantly, sig-nificantly, we have learned that this stepped-up production can be further fur-ther enlarged as the workers themselves them-selves become aware that they have much to gain in the general avalanche ava-lanche of abundance. We have found new materials and new uses for old materials, new fecundity in I . - x - I - Xj f f . ' t ? f t. f . ! - . . industrial branches thought sterile. We are only at the foothills of production, pro-duction, with mountains still to climb. There Is good reason for doubting the whole theory of frontier land as the chief source of American prosperity. The frontier, I am inclined to believe, be-lieve, was far more potent in forming American economy. The frontier developed our "pioneer" "pio-neer" instincts and character and gave us the invaluable inner conviction con-viction that "everything is possible." possi-ble." I am the last man to discount the importance of the frontier. But we should be playing false to our pioneer ancestors and squandering their spiritual heritage if we let the image of a territorial frontier no longer with us blot out awareness of other, greater frontiers still with us the frontiers of science, Dew industrial in-dustrial nroefcses, nev.' sa'.s cf "r--eral welfare. Beyond Old Frontiers Lies Virgin Wealth In the heart of that wide expanse beyond the old frontier are 11 states Nevada, Wyoming, Arizona, Idaho, Ida-ho, New Mexico, Utah, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado Colo-rado and Oregon, comprising an area of 1,107,780 square miles whose exploitation has scarcely been started. That region is about the size of India, where nearly 400 million people live; or of western Europe, where more than 250 million mil-lion people live. Yet that frontier empire of ours has only 6,400,000 population. Montana has potential water power pow-er of 3,700,000 horsepower, only a sixth of which has been tapped. New Food of tomorrow ma; be machine made. The whole quality of modern life will be altered by the plane, precisely pre-cisely as a generation ago it was revolutionized by the motor car. A great deal has been said and written about plastics, which also open up alluring horizons of Industrial Indus-trial innovations and expansion, new opportunities for risk capital and dynamic brains. We have only begun be-gun to explore the frontiers not only of chemistry but of medicine, light metals, synthetics. Materials for new varieties of textiles drawn from coal, air, natural gas, cellulose, cellu-lose, casein, glass, soybeans, potato starch are already available, and the area of growth is almost limitless. Mexico has coal lands estimated to yield 192 billion tons. Our frontier empire contains nearly all the metals met-als and fuels necessary for colossal colos-sal growth. This great undeveloped empire is not necessary for our future growth and expansion. Apart from it we have nearly 2,000,000 square miles of land containing only about 80 persons per-sons to the square mile. Moreover, the techniques of farming and industry in-dustry alike the productivity per man-hour on the soil and in the factory fac-tory have been enlarged to the point where every square acre can comfortably give home and sustenance suste-nance to 10 or 20 times as many inhabitants in-habitants as it did a century ago. It happens that we still have in this country millions of peo-; peo-; pie, sunken in poverty, who can be developed and turned into gTeat national assets. They are people whs will demand houses and food and clothes, necessities and luxuries, on an even greater great-er scale than the poverty-ridden immigrants did. They might be described as enr "Internal Immigrants." Im-migrants." Housing, in its more modern forms, seems certain once more to provide economic impetus. After the last war we heard glamorous predictions for the future of the prefabricated pre-fabricated house, manufactured at the factory, delivered to the purchaser, pur-chaser, and assembled in a few days or even hours. They did not materialize. When this war ends we may expect ex-pect to see a mushrooming of the prefabricated house industry, bringing bring-ing unexampled comfort and elegance ele-gance at prices within the reah of the masses. The new homes will be soundproof, verminproof, subject to periodical revision by removing or adding panels and sections. It will have new ty(pes of plumbing, heating, lighting; new surface effects, ef-fects, special hygienic properties built into windows, centralized vac-tnim-clo.Tr.ing arrangements. It will be liinii.shrd and cjiii',.cd with me-ci-::i:lcal servants yt ' 1 1 : 1 n i n," from ol'-i-iiMnis; m-,v .:! s ul refrig- Edible fats, I am informed, will be made from coal or petroleum. petro-leum. Foods will be processed electrically, with ultra - violet rays, to improve their flavor; health-giving ingredients will be artificially added to make familiar fa-miliar foods more nutritive. Incalculable In-calculable improvements will be made in canning and preserving preserv-ing and distributing foods. The new science of electronics, an extension of the miracles of radio and television, offers almost inexhaustible inex-haustible possibilities for business ventures. Among the devices now in use or foreseen for the immediate immedi-ate future are those measuring speeds of passing objects, matching color shades, controlling temperature tempera-ture and humidity, detecting flaws In metal surfaces, detecting smoke and gas, sorting and grading any number of objects, providing burglar bur-glar alarms and signal systems, counting and other automatic calculations, calcu-lations, fulfilling a long array of medical and diagnostic purposes and that is no more than a starter. The war has brought into wider use the principle of "reactive propulsion" pro-pulsion" or the so-called rocket. It has been used to fire guns, to propel pro-pel gliders, to give us an anti-tank "bazooka." Jet-propelled airplanes on the rocket principle are already in production in our own and other countries. Talk, as I have done, to scientists acquainted with the as-yet-undeveloped potentials of the rocket and suddenly your imagination imagina-tion is overwhelmed by its possibilities. possi-bilities. How silly to talk of maturity! We are only on the outer fringe of technological tech-nological progress. Provided only that the free energies of free men are given the right of way, there is literally no limit to human achievement. achieve-ment. Talk to research cheaiists and you are thrilled by the same sense of the immon-jv of the unexplored now openiiiLi r. to our view and our practical use Vitamins, hormones and other ingredients are powers that will enlarge immeasurably the health. 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