The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-06
IMAGINATION TAKES
FLIGHT WITH
LIEUT.. BROW
By HERBERT KAUFMAN.

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= LIEUTENANT BROW, plotting Curtiss plane. has
| just averaged 259 miles hour. AS ne few'
Imagination glancing down, beheld the earth
shrink like hatter's blank on a steam form
So progress and invention fast betting ugnt our
forty-eight States
Whenever airships set records, motor trucks gain
speed, and locomotives shorten schedules the four
corners of the Republic edge nearer Seattle moves
toward Boston; San Francisco inches closer to New
York. and the Gulf of Mexico hears the foot OF great
lakes sirens bit clearer.
Map-makers still blindly insist that Atlantic and
Pacific the distance apart as when prairie
schooners took the trail from Portland, Maine to Port
land Oregon, but mailpouches and freight shipments
nail the manifest lie.
Conquistadors, trappers, traders and wilderness
breakers rode through spring rains and winter gales
before they traversed the continent. They hitched
their wagons to mules and oxen.
We've harnessed ours to lightning bolts and winged
motors race neck and with the sun.
TUO More lettering Thrones.
ONT say that you'll never breakfast Puget Sound
| and sup by nightfan in Atlantic City. It's being
done right now
Aviators scribbng advertisements against the Clouds
unconscousy write the face Of new economic history
there.
Literal revolution is in their propellers industrial
revolution.
Car Steam sits on lettering throne. Old King Goals
due to abdicate!
Mohtier forces prepare to rule commerce and society
They're training their wild white horses for cam
naiOn of conuuest-massng in the heavens and among
the mountains for the relief of bus
ness-aning to down upkeep and shater the barriers
between ambition and opportunity.
The rich virgin West rescues the crowded, half-re-
sourced East before compromising distribution charges
reach the danger mark
Loud GrOnnS From OUerhe1d.
,T4E clocl-face of prosperity is marked with prema-
ture and needless wrinkles. DR.. Efficiency viii rub
them out.
Read balance sheets and note how much it costs TO
concentrate arders at end of the country and appe
tites at the other.
Hear overheads groan at the criminal extravaganza OF
bringing bulk timber from Washington and Oregon to
door sash and trim mills in Illinois and Pennsylvania.
What supreme asniny to expand manufacturing where
raw materials are disappearing where fuel prices rise
annually where every salary gain is offset by real estate
and construction advances; where congestion sustalns
easeless struggle between evermountng wages and fast
er jumping household bills.
Please PAGE Dividends and Dinner Pals.
LII ready for deal! Plug these billon-dollar
~ leaksl Factory moving time is here Locate better
and bigger and cheaper plants among exhaustless
xvoodniles water falls and boxeswith eectrca
ton Of railways and paved roads already on the premises
Establish branch lathe in sight of smelter to supply
= Ruv YOUR current from power dams within walking
reach. -
purchase your wheat from neghboring felds-your
Aour barrel slaves from the forestyour cartons and
paper products from pulp mill on the local telephone
exchange. -, anaa4M
Haul by rail or river. Take your pick of harbors
crowded with international and coastwise shipping.
Bring employees desperately balancing between income
and otpo to land where folk earning far less are able
to own spacious gracious bungalows with flower gardens
in front and kitchen PATCH poultry yard COW pasture
and garage in the rear.
Omnpresent churches theaers, schools and shops for
their wives and children And what tables! Prize fruits
and berries!
Mountain trout and fresh salmon free for the taking
from thousand streams Pheasant and quail and grouse
in meadows! Sheep and cattle lining the horizon; SHOW
capped ranges through window and the tang OF the
ocean through another. u (
OppOrtunity in Search of Experience.
TWENTY years ago Detroit was farther from Man
haitian than Seattle or San Diego is today
i Conveniences and luxury are no longer geo.
graphical privileges. - nee. -. A.,.4..
cities is matter of mentclimate, cleanliness
and health; and all in favor OF the newer America.
Too many people in part OF the land striving FOR
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for crumbs while lavishness