The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-03-23
Buildings 5000 Feet High
One of the Necessary Results of the Flying Age That
Is Almost Here.

The purpose this editorial interest readers in the follow
To limit the height of buildings is to lima human
cchiepemeHt and iujure cities and the future
THE GREAT BUILDING, CLIMBING UP TOWARD THE
CLOUDS, IS DISTINCTLY THE AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION TO
ARCHITECTURE.
It should be encouraged, not hampesd hiedered.
This city and any other city must be kept back kept
place. prevented forbidden to develop possibilities
value, long architects builders, mechanics HUMAN iMAG
NATION are forbidden to do their best
Man able to remember yesterday today, and plan
Ter tomorrow, But beyond TOMORROW he rarely plans
Few imaginations go beyond the day AFTER tomorrow
The cliff jewellers Of the West in their holes on the
cGde thousands of years ago. could not have imagined
that would build themselves skysCraper cliffs Of marble
steel and glass that the electric power Of the lightning
would be hsrnessed to elevators carrying up and
down inside of these modern cliff dwellings.
The Queen Of Sheba jolting, lurchng humping the
back Of her camel she travelled to meet Solomon could
not have imagined limousine riding air cushions
We who live in this day of wonders ought to realize
that the only impossible thing to suggest something that
REALLY Is IMPOSSIBLE. But we cannot actually
imagine or BELIEVE what life will be when this becomes
FLYING WORLD when the feet of the traveller viii know
little about walking the ground the seagun knows
about swimming the water. The seaguu sWms little.
His real travelling is on his wings
Man soon will move about the earth but little. His
travelling will be on wings, hundred FIVE hundred perhaps
I've thousand feet across moved by engines powerful
than any tempest infinitely safer in the greatest storm
than ship Of iron rough
What viii the FLYING WORLD be like, and how
should men prepare for 1t?
The flying machine win help to end war by making it
zoo dangerous too expensive for the powerful that
CONTROL war
In the old days before men had gunpowder the business
of every nobleman fighting he put his coat Of
Jua-arrows and spears could not pierce it. he pulled
mis- steel helmet down his head then rode out his
war horse. he SAFE and could kill the people,
unable to hurt him
When gunpowder and bullets came steel armor became
joke Then there less fighting You did not find noble
and kings riding out to battle quite often when
the meanest peasant could send bullet through them.
What bullet and powder did to discourage individual
warfare between men the flying machine will do to discourage
war between nations.
What good the great feet of England if thousand
flying machines secretly built could in night drop
London enough dynamite to destroy it?
What good are armies marching up and down the
land few thousand adventures In the air could with
poisonous gases and explosives wipe out entire regments
The flying machine Will make man a more highly de-
Yeoped physical creature and it will make him more
peaceful for when the meanest malcontent in his little
fivver flying machine drop dynamite the greatest
palace the powerful will agree that they have had enough
of war.
The flying world will be world in which men phys
caly and mentally will be far above the men of today
after few centuries of thinking and flying as the men of
today above the northern hordes that poured into Italy
the hordes from Asia that western Europe.
The flying world will be world Of peace In the first
place with the flying machine will be too dangerous
al engaging in it must lose win Imagine swarm
IKE smells instead OF
biting the leaves Of trees and you know what would be
ike in the flying centuries.
The flying world will see different architecture from
what today That emphasizes the Importance of the
matter referred to at the beginning of this article NO
Law SHOULD LIMIT THE HEIGHT OF BUILDINGS IN
AMERICA; ON THE CONTRARY, EVERY LAW
SHOULD ENCOURAGE GREATER HEIGHT, GREATER
IMPORT.
The picture that the artist has made here imaginary
q course for he does not know exactly HOW buildings
VIII look how the landing places and the flying machines
win b arranged but there doubt that hereafter men,
i1ead Of living In the valleys where IL cold in winter
shd bot IN sumner VIII live the mountain tops and the
tgh ha nov neglected and In gigantic buildings perhaps
or budinF 10 a city
Tksy Wil NJ from high dwellings 70 their business In
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