Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-09-27
MAN FLIGHT NEXT.
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waste the vanquished country with
/ great arrows of explosive shot down
from height of thousands of feet-ten
thousand times more horrible than now
war will be. Some persons hold that
the flying machine will make war i'm
possible through the new horrors it will
introduce. But this prcsupposes that
with its advent mans nature will some
how be iniraculously purified of the
fighting taint 'in the twinkling of an
cye.'
When man flies he will escape the heat
of the city overnight by ascending to
well-delined "anchorages" above the
scenes of daily toll, and as the COLONY
! of air yachts float" as 4 bird seems to
float. the wireless telephone will carry
to the occupants of each yacht" the
Jokes and songs of the stage folk in the
! 'anusencnt boat -
Up, up into the pure, microbeless, |
dustless air the sick and suffering will
be carried and nursed back to health in
private air sanatoria and state and mu-
nicipal air hospitals. (See Kiplings
With the Night Mall And go to the
same wonderfully realistic story for a
description of the air lanes, akin to the
ocean lanes of to-day; lanes one above
another-one at so many thousand feet
for the mail packets, another for hos
pital boats, a third for freighters, still
another for round -the-world expresses,
and so on.)
When man flies, good-by to the rail
! road for long-distance travelling, and
happy thought-to the rebate contro-
versy Good-by. too, to the present day,
| often false, weather prognosticator. Fly
r ing, man will Of necessity, both for per
! feet flight and other obvious reasons,
come into possession of a well-nigh
complete meteorology Then agriculture
all industry-will be transformed.
| Between midnight and dawn the
| morning newspapers Of New York will
, be whirled to Chicago, and vice versa !;
= and a New York business man will step
y into the San Francisco express at the
: close Of the business hours one day and
. be set down on landing stage at the
| Golden Gate next morning, before bust
r ness hours, after a lesurely fight (mark
$ the wordsD across the continent.
:. = When man flies, will the customs Off
d cials be hard put to it to circumvent the
smugglcr? How far up in the air over
it will a nation have jurisdiction? A
distance corresponding to the three
" league Jurisdiction on the sea, or as far
IS up as a cannon can shoot, as suggested
by the German savants, who want to
V have this and other minor questions set
n tied against the day of the flying ma
g chimes arrival.
IL And suppose, suppose a nation should
" succeed in buying up the secret OF man
10 fight, and succeed also, in sedulously
e. guarding it for its own uses-what
or then?
y, ~ A one nation world from Pole tC
pr Pole
"He who shall make himself master o
le the sea is destined to become maste
~ of the land" truthfully wrote Themi
to stoclcs long, long ago. And those of II
ID who are looking forward to the advent o
n air navigation as matter of course (st
- far along have we advanced towards &c
tual 1ght) can add in equal truthful
m ness "And he who shall make himsel
c master of the air, and shall hold tn
Ut secret thereof, will become master o
,at both"
Revolution, life itself we will not be
u gin even to dream their real meaning
Us until we hyl