New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-12-24

high explosives on the enemy lines
and supply depots and railroads be.
hind the lines.
From 5000 to 1900 trained aviators
were with the various branches OF
our armed service abroad. In this
country there were thousands trained
and many more thousands starting
training or in line for such instruc-
ton. Upward of 10000 motors had
been delivered, with orders for $4,000
more under way.
Turned from martial life into peace
ful pursuits it is fair to presume that
a proportion of these young men will
go in for flying. The era of dreams
has gone; the period of materiali5a.
ton has been here for some time.
FIouted first as a dangerous expert.
ment, the airplane has come to stay
as part of the new civilization. What
may be accomplished is a matter for
speculation that leads the human mind
into elysian fields of fancy.
ITO fly over the top of the world
and cast the shadow of my airplane
on the North Pole, and then continue
on into Asia, is my PLAN" says Cap
tain Robert A. Bartlett. There's no
use stopping at the pole, for Admiral
Peary already has found it. l In
tend to fly over 1t from Etah, Green
land, and continue on to Cape Cho-
luskin, Asia
-oYo I'LL
outfit. With a capacity Of two tons
it will carry also dog team, sledge,
provisions for month and men and
guns for hunting.
Across the Atlantic or Pacific and
over the North or South Poles! Dream
on-and wait for developments! Mean.
while glimpse this broader aspect of
aviation for the future as presented by
a writer who has seen the dogs of war
go over the top OF the clouds over
there:
Flying, in the opinion of British
aviators, is going to change the char
acter of the worlds thought. It Will
have a broadening influence, and il
will bring a fresher, cleaner flow OF
IDEAS into the brains of men.
"a man, the flyers argue, who has
seen before him at the same time the
cliffs Of England, the long, fiat fields
of Holland and the smiling country.
side of Belgium and France, is bound
to think in a different way from man
whose horizon has always been
bounded by bricks and mortar, or even
by hill and dale.
Thinking internationally
''Traveling may have made him
think nationally, but flying will make
him think far more largely. He will
see England and France lying close to
each other, separated only by a shin,
ing strip Of water.
He will see the green and brown
mosaic of Belgium, which in its turn
merges into distant shadow Of Hob
land, while still farther on across the
wide Scheldt he will see the distant
lowlands sweep on over the rim Of the
world.
How will he regard petty spites be-
tween individuals and cliques then?
the birdman asks. He can cover with
his thumb from the heights a feverish
city swarn1ing with million persons.
What will be think of those who live
next to each other and will not speak?
How mean and petty their quarrels
and jealousies and hates will seem.
THE true meaning of human inter-
course and friendship will come home
to him. He will gain an almost di.
vine outlook upon the world He will
smile to see the little brown smudges
which are great towns and the fine
drawn spider threads which are the
great railway systems. Intrigues, dis.
honesty, civil strife, all will seem to
him contemplate. Perhaps, say the
aviators, this is the new view which
will bring the Millennium