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.

-. To limit the height of buildings is to iimh human
cchiepemeHt. and injure cities and the future
: -, THE GREAT BUILDING CLIMBING UP TOWARD THE
LIQUIDS. Is DISTINCTLY THE AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION TO
1t should be encouraged, not hampersd or hiadered.
This city and any other city must be kept back kept common
ue, long architects builders mechanics, HUMAN IMAG
ATloN are forbidden to do their best
% tomorrow, But beyond TOMORROW he rarely plans
Eew imsginatiOns go beyond the day AFTER tomorrow
The cliff jewellers of the West in their holes on the
dde thousands of years ago, could not have imagined
that man would build themselves sysCraper cliffs OF marble
steel and glass that the electric power of the lightning
would be harnessed to elevators carrying up and
down inside Of these modern cliff dwellings.
The Queen Of Sheba jOlting, lching 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
chat the only impossible thing is to suggest something that
REALLY IS IMPOSSIBLE. But we cannot actually
FLYING WORLD, when the feet of the traveller viii know
IS little about walking the ground the seagun knows
ab0ut swimming the water The seagun swms little
Bis real travelling is on his wings.
Man soon viii about the earth but little. His
travelling win be WINGS hundred five hundred, perhaps
i've thousand feet across moved by engines more powerful
than any tempest infinitely safer in the greatest storm
What win the FLYING WORLD be like, and how
should men prepare for it?
The flying machine win help to end war by making it
dangerous, too expensive for the powerful that
CONTROL war.
In the old days before men had unpowder the business
Of every nobleman fighting He put on his coat Of
mail-arrows and spears could pierce it. he pulled
mis- steel helmet down his head then rode his
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
she meanest peasant could send bullet through them
What bullet and powder did to discourage individual
warfare between the flying machine will do to discourage
war between nations
What good is 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 on the
land few thousand adventures in the air could with
poisonous gases and explosives wipe entire regiments?
The flying machine will make a more highly de-
veoped physical creature and it will make him more
peaceful for when the meanest malcontent in his little
Vver flying machine drop dynamite the greatest
palace the powerful will agree that they have had enough
Of war.
The flying world will be a world in which men phys
,cay and mentally will be far above the of today
after few centuries of thinking and flying the 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
lace with the flying machine will be dangerous
III engaging in it must lose, win Imagine
If ocusts exploding like dynamite shells instead of merely
biting the leaves Of trees and know what would be
Ike in the flying centuries.
The flying world viii 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
EFFORT.
The picture that the artist has made here imaginary
q course for he does not know exactly HOW the buildings
viii look how the landing places and the flying machines
viii be arranged but there doubt that hereafter men,
instead of living in the valleys where is cold in winter
snd hot in summer will live the mountain tops and the
high hills neglected and in gigantic buildings perhaps
ONE building to a city.
They will fly from high dwellings to their business in
the city The cities will not be made up of little
streets and small buildings the passengers running up and