The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-31
Other Mems Views
An Editorial That May or May Not
Square With The Forums
Opinions,

From The Montreal Journal Of
Commerce: AS a rule the Americans
are not considered slow in anything
that they have in hand. Their repu-
tation is well established in the other
direction. About the last thing in
which one would expect them to be
slow is the manufacture Of airplanes.
The flying machine, IL not entirely
an American invention, is one to
which our neighbors have given
much attention, several Of them
having won the very front rank in
the early operations Of the new
vehicle. Nevertheless, it is in respect
of this invention that the Americans
are now told that they are quite be-
hind the age.
Announcement having been made
of the intention of the American au-
thorfties to supply a large fleet Of air
machines, the proposed specifications
have attracted the notice of c. G.
Grey, editor of the British aviation
journal, The Aeroplane. One require
ment is that the machine at q height
of 10000 feet shall have q speed Of
not less than 102 miles per hour. To
most readers that would seem to be
quite smart going. But Mr.. Grey re-
marks that the notion OF calling a
100 mile. an hour machine pursuit
airplane would be distinctly humor-
Gus II II were not so tragic"
A machine of that speed, he says,
would have small chance OF getting
home when pursued by the German
machines now at the front. A speed of
$50 miles an hour is needed and the
British editor says it can be pro-
duced.
The st. Paul Dispatch: An in
teliigent woman, the mother of sew
eral children, has been found living
twenty-fiv miles from Baltimore
and the Atlantic coast who had not
heard, until approached by a can
vasser for the Liberty Loan, that
the United States was at war with
Germany. She had not been off the
premises for Eve years except to 60
to church. She learned nothing
from her husband who goes to work
daily at a. m. and returns from the
field at p. m. too tired to talk.
Presumably her home is not equip
ped with a telephone and news
papers are Systematically avoided.
What lamentable ignorance. what
eccentric isolation, what sodden stu
pidity, would be the comment Of the
world on This condition Of life. And
yet how refreshing! What a privi-
lege to prolong those happy days be-
fore the world went insane! What a
restful existence to have no tele-
phones buzzing trouble. Yes-we'll
admit it-what a peacefulness of
wind to dodge the shock of the
world conveyed in the printed news!
It is like going back to the log-hut
tdays of old Kentucky where the
daily routine OF life was softened by
constant communion with the fresh,
sweet elements and by the infinite
satisfaction OF a mighty appetite and
the ever curative power Of und!~"
| turbed slumber.
All, that is the life! 1t is not
without it's disadvantages, of course.
Just as 1t took some mountaineers a
long time to learn that the Civil
war was on, IL also took them some
decades to learn that it was over.
Indeed there is an uncomfortable
possibility that the little Baltimore
home which we have mentioned will
be fighting the world war and specu-
lating on the blockade Of Germany
till after some of the officers of the
war are in their dotage and Paris
is again giving German opera.