Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-26
A|RPLANES ASSURE
PEACE, SAYS PASTOR
Development of Skycraft Over
shadows League as Greatest
War Result, Says Dr.. 'conwell
PAYS TRIBUTE TO HAWKER

You'll be getting on your airplane
just after breakfast one Of these morn
ings to take your supper in England"
said the Rev. DR.. Russell II. Con-
well last night in the Baptist Temple.
He was commenting on the progress
of the airplane, after he had announced
to the congregation that Harry Hawkcr
had been rescued at seas
"The greatest result of this war,
with no exception, is the perfection of
the airplane," said Doctor Conwell
'.s'sMore than your league Of nations,
more than any other single force, the
airplane will bring permanent peace to
: this troubled world.
Sea Bridged by Plane
"The airplane has bridged the sea.
1t has made possible the exploration
of territory heretofore unapproachable
on foot or by rail. 1t has brought
every land neighbors. And whether we
want to be or not that means we will
be neighbors of Germany. The airplane
{ will bring countries so close that we
will have to learn each others language
or else adopt one common language.
This news of the rescue Of these
brave men has excited me, and I am
speaking hurriedly, but I am not say
ing anything that ought to strain your
credulity. You'll all be making the
trip to Europe in an airplane sooner
Z than you expcct-in six months, per-
haps, a couple of years at the most
England is now constructing eighty
one sea goers and the United States is
making sixty-one
Cheap Planes Constructed
"And the cheap little plane they are
constructing in France makes it very
possible that in short while each one
+ Of us will be owning our own air run
about to take our. trips to our friends
and relatives with.
"1f our boys. by their great sacri-
fee, have made possible no more than
just this. the perfection of the air
plane. they have not sacrificed in vain y
Mrs. Il. Burd Grubb. of Edgewatcr
Park, n. J., was satisfied today when
4 she learned of the safety Of Harry Haw :
ker, the aviation. Mrs. Grubb is sister
4 Of "Tom" Sopwith. the English avia :
tor, who invented the machine in which
who invented the machine in which
Hawker flew.
'I had about given up hope said
Mrs. Grubb. 1T was wonderful
achievement and I am overjoycd Mt
news of Harry Hawker's safety. He
I ISL brave boy
Alan r. Hawlcy. president of the
Aero Club of America, said:
II ain overjoycd at the news of the
X rescue of Iawker and Greve and moth
ing could give me more pleasure than
! news of their safety. We need aurl,
rugged pioneers in aviation. Their
4 achievement has added luster to aero
nautics and shown to the world just
what hardships man will go through to
advance the game.
Henry Woodhouse. vice president Of
the Aerial League, author of textbooks
of military naval aeronautics, made this
comment;
''The world will rejoice over the good
Z news. Hawker and Grieve. like Com
manders Reed, Towers and Bellnger.
are good sports, and the world loves a
good sport.
Both fights have afforded su-
preme test to the factors necessary TO
make a transatlantic fight a success.
and the test has shown that the aero
engine is the weakest factor. We must
4 therefore. concentrate on perfectlng en-
rines so that aerial transportation across
the Atlantic may be made possible
soon"
t Joseph A. Stcinmctz, president of the
I Aero Club of Pennsylvania, said
'If there were ever two men who
deserved to live and receive the
congratulations of the world, Haw
ker and Grieve arc the men. took
my hat off TO them when they started,
3 and / take it off again in the thanks
giving that they are saved. Real men
with vision men with nerve men
with red blood of pioneers in their veins
z are needed in the game. These dar =
X ing Englishmen are that type"