The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-15
GROWTH Of AERIAL TRAVEL WILL SURPASS
SPEED WITH WHICH AUTOMOBILE CAME IN
AIRSHP TRAVEL DECLARED TO b L SAFER THAN ANY OTHER NOW
EXISTING MEANS OF TRANSPO INSURANCE COMPANIES WILL
MAKE AS FAVORABLE TERMS AS FOR OTHER MODES OF TRAVEL

the public. Where there is any pros
pect of an opportunity for a ride
one sees a mob of people gathered.
and where a man is taking up passen-
gers for just a few minutes at a time
he is kept constantly on the jump by
the demand for his services. This is
an omen not to be brushed over light
ly, for it clearly portends the rush
with which an organized transporta-
ton project will be met. Recently in
one Eastern city a pilot "a arrested
for flying on Sunday, which act will
stand to the eternal disgrace of the
city; but more than five hundred of
its citizens Immediately came to the
rescue by signing a petition stating
hat this pilot should be set free and
permitted to perform at any time be-
cause his work was a source of in
terest to them constantly &. Interest
leads to patronage.
Several efforts are already under
way to undertake the proposition of
lighter-than-air aerial transportation
in the United States and adjacent
countries. One of especial interest is
being formed in the East which prom
Uses to become the leader in this eff
fort because of it's fundamentally con-
sentative basis, and because of the
character and repute of the men con
nected with it. These men deserve
and will achieve everlasting credit
and this will also be rendered to those
who assist them in making it possible
for the United States to assume the
position which she should hold in this
endeavor.
All of the essentially pioneer work
in the case of this proposition was
done before and during the war, and
the science of construction and oper
alton stands before US perfected and
ready for use. Those who persist in
branching away from the approved
and credited methods will of course
have to hew their own path, which
may or may not lead them through an
interminable maze of experimentation
and pioneer work, with questionable
ultimate results; but to those with a
clear vision, who see their course
clearly laid before them, based on the
experience of already proven applica-
ton, will be opened a field of endea-
vor as capable of analysis aud pre-
diction as the Oldest established in
dustry in the United States.
The costs of operation are so rela-
lively low today that in order to pro-
vide such service as this, that will
cut existing travel time in half, the
fares charged will be but a few cents
more than is now paid for railroad
transportation; and should the rail
rates be raised they will be about the
same as will be charged for air travel.
In the course of the past few years
that there has been a considerable in
crease in the number of persons car
ried in lighter-than-air ships, the
number killed is far less per hundred
thousand than it is now on railroads.
and recently an ocean steamer met
with misfortune, carrying down over
four hundred with her at once. In
fact, this means of transportation is
safer than any existing means and is
already considered a good reasonable
risk by insurance men in general, in
spite of the fact that there has been
but relatively little so far for them
to Judge upon.
Remember the automobile and its
growth-this will be more rapid still.
The Williamson brothers depicted
every detail of Jules verne's Twenty
Thousand Leagues Under the Sea-
in spite of the ridicule at the time OF
its publication. Here is a new prob
lem that is upon us, and let us face ii
squarely, take it as it stands proven,
and help it to make our United States
what it should be and not what other
powers want it to be.