The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-27
Hawker and Griieve Safe

The world rejoices in the rescue of Hawker
and Grieve, the intrepid filters who essayed to
cross the Atlantic in an ordinary flying machine
and without the safeguards that were thrown
around the American aviators. For cold-blooded
courage no single act in the history OF aviation
excels the attempt No one will discount the eff
fort of the American naval filters, all will pay
tribute to Hawker and Grieve and rejoice in the
news that they were picked up.
Even the critics who believed it foolhardy, not
brave, for the two aviators to essay venture
that in itself seemed to carry the doom of death,
must honor Hawker and Grieve and rejoice in
their safety. They accepted the challenge of the
air to cross an expanse of water that might be-
come their unmarked graves. They failed in
their effort, but, as the Indianapolis Star points
out, their daring was the same as if they had
reached their goal"
The Cincinnati Enquirer, in tribute to the
American aviators, expresses sentiments that
apply to Hawker and Grieve as well, and I'M
doubtedly would have included them had news of
their safety been received before the editorial
was written.
"In the presence of actions that found epochs
one instinctivey seeks for a fitting phrase to
signalize the events says the Enquirer. Thus
Morse the inventor of the telegraph, sent as his
first message the famous line: What hath God
wrought
standing in awe before the mighty, the in
describable aye, the superhuman flight of an
American air fleet across the Atlantic, the words
of Byron, dedicated to the mightiness of the seas,
force themselves into utterance as the best trib-
ute to the conquerors:
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean-roll
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
Man marks the earth with ruin-his control
Stops with thy shore.'
GAS barrier against mans advance the sea
no longer exists, neither do its depths bring the
old terrors to his soul. Dominion over the air he
has wrested from it's native denizens, the birds,
and from the far Azores comes the intelligence
that makes him, indeed, the lord of creation
Nowhere does any boundary stop his control
Wonderful, more more wonderful, and thrice
again wonderful What privilege to have lived
as thousands upon thousands have lived, to behold
this masterful creature -annihilate time
and space with his telegraph, his telephone, his
electric car, his gasoline car, his tremendous
steam engine, his wireless communications, his
submersbe boats, and, browning ALL his air
plane and dirigible balloon!
mo doubt the nations of the earth will par
don the pride that the American people cannot
help but feel in their representatives who have
done this marvellous thing. No doubt, too, the
rest of the United States will be gracious toward
the people of Ohio if they give way to exultatior
because it was in this state that the genius OF
the Wrights gave birth to the apparatus which
made the world-famous flight possible. There is
glory enough in it for all whose minds and hands
have worked together to develop the science OF
aviation and to send back to Europe the Santa
Maria, the Pinta and the Nina of the upper deel
as Europe sent the caraves of Columbus over
the foaming waves to discover the shroudet
western hemisphere.