Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-14

XVTASHINGTON, d. c.. June 1O.-What effect
w is the tremendous development of aero
W nautics going TO have upon American in
dustries and ways of life during peace time?
This is a fascinating question which is being
much discussed among the few men who realize
now great thing our progress in the air has be-
come They are agreed that the work of fifty
years of peace time has been done in three or
TOUR or war; that the modern airplane is the
highest achievement of mans mechanical genius;
that IN our aronautical training schools thou
sands of young men, who will be the leaders of
the rising generation gaining conscious
mastery of the air; and that a great industry,
with varied ramifcations, has been created.
The peace time uses of the airplane can be as
yet only vaguely foreseen; but it is certain that
none of these things will perish that the techn-
cal knowledge, the industrial development, and
the human sense of conquest over a element
are all permanent things.
Our new system of aerial coast guard patrols,
Tor which provision has been made in the current
appropriations measures, will absorb large num-
Der of the machines and the skilled aviators,
which the government is developing. It is
not probable that any great number of govern
ment planes will be placed upon the market, but
some WILL and these will be eagerly bought up by
enterpriSing men, and used for pleasure and in
dustrial purposes.
The greatest force in the developing of peace
time flying will be thousands of airplane pilots
and mechanics who will be released from service
after the war These will demand employ
ment in their and fascinating profession, and
the demand will surely create it's own opportuni-
ties, for the force of a widely felt human desire
world.
The carrying of mails by air, which has just
begun in this country, will doubles rapid
development. There hundreds of out-of-the-
way places where air mail service is far more
needed than it is between Washington and New
York Aerial mail service, and passenger service,
too, could do wonders for Alaska. The govern
ment once asked for bids a contract to carry
mail by air in Alaska, and no bids were made.
After the war; with the country full of am
bilious young aviators and many used planes on
the market, such offer will go begging. There
are many places in the west which need air
plane mail service as badly Alaska does.
The men who are close to modern airplane
work expect a much more rapid development of
passenger traffic in the air than the layman can
imagine. This latter cannot get away from the
idea that flying is very dangerous. He reads
continually of accidents at the aviation schools,
without realizing what very small percentage of
chance they represent when the number of men
in training is taken into account. He never thinks
about the automobile accidents which re-
counted in every paper, because he has become
accustomed to these and accepts them mat
ter of course. He will probably be surprised to
learn that $3.50 cadets in flying schools few
261,300 miles, which is ten times around the
world in one day. without fatality. Do you
lists could that many miles without serious
smash up?
The lace" aviator of the newspaper Stories
with his tiny wasp of airplane and his daring
hair-raising stunts has also prejudiced the con-
servative landlubber against flying He likes to
read about those things, but he cannot imagine
himself doing them. But as matter of fact
this lone scout his cranky little speed plane is
a passing phase of the great air game. The COM