Show for meditation by LEONARD A BARRETT BARREIT THE GRAF ZEPPELIN athe ANOTHER triumph in aviation hie safe arrival of the graf gra zeppelin I 1 it was the first successful attempt at commercial aviation the journey covered n nearly 6 5 0 0 miles much ot of which w was a through u g b severe and dangerous storms which would have played havoc with wilb an ordinary dirigible the important object gained by this arenture was ans not the establishment of another speed record across the ocean nor oven even the demonstration of the safety and comfort of airship travel but rather the creation of a new mode diode of commercial transit between europe and america that this Is now possible Is a demonstrated fact and not a mere query or possibility bilty the grat graf zeppelin and its successful voyage clearly indicates that aviation Is not only possible for passenger travel b but that t lar large g e quantity n of e es pressage es s a e lid tama qun and i mall il ann cnn e a n now 0 w be transported t 0 r te d across the seas when a mail service between europe and america can be established on a three day service we shall arrive at another milestone in the field of progress when the automobile replaced the horse and wagon we felt a marked advance had been made after the automobile comes the airship and in place of transatlantic steamers undoubtedly we ave shall have bare grat graf lins and why not this question leads to another what next mow how tar far distant Is the time when we shall hal have S synthetic so food and add thus thug do away awn Y with the necessity of cooking automobiles operated with electricity extracted froni from the suns rays the C cold old electric light clocks we do not need to wind because they are run by ian waves the split atom telephones which enable you to see the person with whom you are conversing the utilization of the tides to run all the machinery of our country pens which write automatically directed by thought waves wh not what next nest c 1328 1928 western newspaper union onion |