Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-06-06
SEC. DANIELS SPEAKS
TO CLASS or GRADUATES
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4 speciai study made of the many prob
lsnas involved ii the longest ilight ever
undertaken oycracas New in4tru-
zspasta had fo be Invented. and We de-
geloped the aerial sextanf. the speed
And-drift indicator. special chart 81
ne Atlantic. Weather conditions. Wind
currents and wave movements. cUndi-
tiona on sea and III the air were stud
led. Wireless telephones special radio
apparatus ard yart0us devices of re-
cent invention Wcre utilized The
whole project was planned ard carried
ont IN a scientific manner for We did
not undertake This flight as. mere
stunt, but as serious attempt In
aavlgafion of The air which would
blaze The way 81 that others might fol-
low and take advantage Ok the knowl-
edge our aviatnrs gained. might fully
overcome tlae difficulties they e,leoun-
tered, and take advantage If their sue
Gesses hut for the heavy fog there III
every reason I'd believe that all three
Uf the planes would have made the
entire voyage successfully The mis-
fortune of The Nt3-1 and Ng;s3 III being
compelled ia descend inst before
reaching the Azores served TO show
the hazards of the flight. and their ex-
pericnce Will be 81 value to the aerial
navigators who come after us The
flight of the NC-4 was not only his4
torEc achievement, hut one III high inl-
pOrtafee II science II has been dem
onstrated that man Is master OF all
ahe elements We have proved that
dying across vast spaces III sea is
possible ard We have given such an
impetus to the development OF aerial
navigation that even the skeptics no
longer doubt that some day immense
airshIps viii fIy from the United States
70 Europe with five times the speed
Of the fastest ocean liners. You have
before yois the examples 81 Read and
YOwers, Bellinger and Richardson,
slone and Breese md Me cnilough and
all the men OF tho gallant crews OF
the NC planes all Of them young men
who were eager 10 undertake this UNI
tried task, ready to risk their lives In
the glorious d agentlIre. They are good
examples III the type of men who sue
coed In thes Navy This has been an
epoch making achievement, bnt II lie
only the beginning III the development
of the aerunIane and aerial navigation.
1t opens mp i vast field for Inventive
genius and scientific accomplishment
You arc old enough To remember when
the WrIghts on the sandtlnes Of North
CAROLINA flew their first aeroplanes,
clumsy, crude aflairs which were
speeding when they made forty miles
mi hour. Now there are planes that
have rushed through the air at al
gpead or ITO niles an hour, and some
nyiators believe IL VIII not be long
before we have 200 miIe-an-hour ma
chine. A little more than year ago
saw the arst nail-niane leave wash
5ngton for New York, and now the air.
plane mail Is daily service What
Tho future holds no man can tell There
may be III this group plane that will
~ from New York 10 London and
from Norfolk TO Paris daily with the
same ease that THAI niail-plane flies
from Washington To New York Why
should you not have tie ambition to-
make such records
There nre So many things 10 be.
invented. and improved, SO many
things the world sadly needs that ]
DO not see how any ambitious young
man of the present day can be content
TO plod aIuFtg IN tho footsteps Of others
and merely reap where others have
nclwn. That's not the kind Of men who
are needed today We wish to de-
veiop Esrlcssons. Wilbur WrIghts,
Daweys anil Farraguts We want men
who will think the un,hlnkahle and
solve the unsolyabic who will dare
30 tackle the problems that have SO
long puzzled tile world.
IA man who loves To delye into the
past tells nc that IN the thirties the
chief Examiner Of the Patent Office
resigned. 10 sock. ais he said a ca
reer lii civil life, because lie saw no
future ia The realm Of invention. de-
claring that practically everything Of
Importance that could be devised BY
human ingenuity 1lau llcRil tllVenIefs
and there was Just nothing more To-
invent What would he have thought
II he could have seen the telegraph,
The telephone. the electric light, the
trolley car. thc nhonogranh moving
pictures. the wireless telegraph and
telephone. and All tho thousand and
ono inventions unknown 81 him which
are today necessities OF civilization?
More patents are issued ID Amer
tCans III month than were granted
iii years Iii tlfat Chief Examiners Ten
urc Of office And the man who now
thinks there Is nothing more ID IN
vent Is Just us foolish is was that
patent official Of that period We might
paraphrase John Paul Jones phrase.
II have Just begun Id fight and say
81 Americans, We have Just begun
to Invent
Take the matter Of ships About
the highest speed We have been able
Is get out u ship Of any size Is thirty
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