The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-02-09
FORECASTS
MADE FOR 1910
Men Of Prominence Predict a
Brilliant Year.
MARKED ERA OF PROSPERITY,

MARKED ERA OF PROSPERITY.
South Pole to 30 Reached This Year
and Air Travel In Five Years, Says
Professor Willis Moore-Mueh Prog
rsss In Aeronauties-RsaI Help For
Poor Women.
Predictions of continued prosperity
and a continuation of the wonderful
march in progress are contained In the
following symposium Of New Years
greetings from some famous men and
q prominent woman:
BY JOSEPH G. CANNON,
Speaker of house Of representatives.
The year 1909 has closed with the
people prosperous. They are earning
more on the average than they ever
earned before. l see no reason for a
change during the new year.
BY JAMES BRYCE,
British ambassador to United States.
The twentieth century will be re-
nowned for commerce. for progress in
the manner Of living, for the success-
full extraction from this world of all
the boons it offers to those who are
willing to go after them. Every ma
ton will strive for commercial su.
premacy, and this means that every
n Of its citizens will have to work
toward this end. The competition that
will follow will be but ar incentive
toward progress. The era of prosper
ity before us will be more substantial
than any in the past.
BY WILLIS L. MOORE,
Chief of United States weather bureau.
If I were to make a forecast for the
coming year and longer l should pre-
dict that within twelve months the
south pole will be reached and that
within less than five years passengers
will be carefully tucked away in alu-
minimum compartments. with air cush-
ions and electric lights and heat, and
glide through the air at the rate of
200 miles an hour over the route fol-
lowed by Peary, encircle the globe and
return to civilization without having
landed.
BY MRS. o. H. P. BELMONT,
Prominent woman suffrage leader.
AS the old year died some of the
traditions that women have chung to
died with it. A new awakening has
come with the new year. This en-
lightenment will make slow but grad
ual progress with the women of the
nation.
The more fortunate woman has
awakened to the fact of her obligation
to the self supporting woman not only
In the way Of charity, but in methods
that do away with the necessity of
charity. The woman who has every
thing is beginning to realize that she
has it in her power to enforce condi-
lions wherein ONE less fortunate
may benefit by her influence. The wo-
man suffrage movement is producing
this effect. The anti-women, who are
unable to appreciate this, are still sat
1sfed with the subordinate position of
the sex in general-praiseworthy, per-
haps, in some respects. but far from
an elevated standard.
If the suffrage bill, as now promises,
shall pass the legislature I should say,
as the greatest boon Of 1910, that the
wise men of the United States have at
last realized their inability to stand
alone In the government of the country
and that the extended help of the wise
women is grateful to them.
BY ORVILLE WRIGHT.
Famous aeronaut and inventor.
We are of the opinion that the new
year will see much progress in aero
nautics not only in America, but in all
the civilized nations that have taken
up the art Of flying. Better motors,
greater speed and improvement in de-
tails are some of the things we expect
In connection with the %aeroplane. It
is almost certain also that flying will
be aiken up by amateurs to a great
extent during the next few months.
Two big events that will arouse world.
wide interest will be held in America
namely, the Gordon Bennett interna-
tional balloon race and the Gordon
Bennett flying machine cup event.
Both Of these will add much zeal to
the flying business and are sure to put
aeronautics on a stronger basis in the
United States.
My brother and I will probably be
busy manufacturing aeroplanes in
1910. We expect to do little If any
flying ourselves and will devote what
time we have to the scientific end of
the business in the hope Of bringing
u machine to greater perfection. One
other thing that we expect to do in the
new year is to build some racing ma
chimes. We have built q ma
chine especially for speed. The one
we built for the United States govern
ment was faster than our others, but
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