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this law owns a great pyramid. apex
ing at the earth's center and extending
out into space in diyerging lines in
fnitely. SO that If he can show that
these lines of boundary take in Mars
and her canals he would have a per-
of fields and tolls over waterways if
he could get service and bring the de
PENDANTS into court.
Land. Land. The mystic word
that rules the world. The woman who
CALCULATES Good land..' conjures by
thing more potent than all the gods Of
Olympus.
The air above our land is a part of
it. You know it. Why else have you
recognized Reimer's appeal. 100 Penn
sylyania state as good law? What
was that case? A bay window many
feet above the sidewalk was declared
nuisance because it jutted out into
the air that was a part Of the street.
And see also Bybee versus the state.
81 Indiana. You hang your cornice or
string a wire in my air and will hale
you into court. Don't presume to fly
a kite over my land except by my con-
sent; you have no right. And remem-
Der that the city Of Cleveland was
mulcted in the sum Of $4,000 for
swinging bridge few times day
a hundred feet above an inch strip of
land.
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the airship. which may drop mon
key wrench, a spaDner, a COB of bal
last or casual remark into my priva
cy? Aeronefs will fall into the rural
silo, drag ropes will rip up barbed
wire, and Pyramus and Thisbe in their
Arcadian wooing may be smothered
under falling gas bags or torn asunder
by dragging anchors inserted in their
futtering hearts! shudder. your hon
ors, at what may happen when the air
is populous with flying jiggers, pop
popping about, raining ballast and
wine bottles and bacon rinds and stale
bananas and hot coffee and soft boiled
eggs and lobster la Newburg on a
lost and undone republic, and when
shudder persons of ordinary sensitive
ness fly into fragments with the shiv-
ers, for l am no light and habitual
shudderer.
II have spoken in my weak way of
what might make a landholder IN
willing to have his air used as high
way. But he doesn't have to give a
reason-he can show his deed and tell
the whole world to go toto the cap
tain's Office and settle. Your honors.
adjure you to cling to your unbroken
presidents and uphold property, on
which society is based To say that
we do not own these strips Of land
but only rights in the air, is foolishness
of the damphest sort. The landowner
minerals or sell the mineral rights
down to China and keep the surface
Our grantors owned and sold these
rights to us. 1t is slanderous to say
that we have hornswoggled-to coin
a phrase-the farmers by promising
cheap nitrates by the Craighead meth
cd. 1t is my intention to take few
moments some day to perfect the
Craighead method and begin to extract
nitrogen, but that is another nara
tive. The point is that we've got those
rights. We have what nobody ever
had before-the proof that defendants
pass over our lands, because they have
to-. Nobody else ever had lands hem
ming in everybody. We have. This
makes our proof simply pie, and we
call upon you to protect us in the
name Of the law of landownership, on
which every government in all the
world is founded.
"They say we seek to enslave travel
ers. This absurdity applies as forcibly
to surface rights or mines. If the tray.
| eler can't pay our scale let him go by
public highways or by boat or rail-or
stay at home. We anticipate that
rights to air navigation will become
more and more valuable. We expect
to charge whatever the situation
makes possible. This is as moral as
increasing rent for lands. We shall
grant licenses or not, as we please.
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airship inventions before allowing
them to be used, thus applying the
rules you and your predecessors have
so wisely laid down, He who owns
land owns to the sky! How beautiful
the principle! What stimulus to en-
terprise it offers-in cornering space!
Our getting of these rights may be a
horse on Mr.. Shayne, but the rules of
the game-and what a game it is, your
honors!-give us the pot. The costs
constitute the kitty"
Justice McFadden tapped on the
desk, and Craighead paused.
"Your language, Mr. Craighead,''
said he, lis unusual, though your
points seem we'll taken.''
You're onp' CALCULATED Craighead.
you're on. In fact, to speak gram.
marianly. You're on, your honor;
you're honestv"
A bailiff interrupted by handing a