Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-07-01

Enthusiastic editors commenting on
the success that crowned the efforts
of Lieut.. Russell l. Vaughan in his
dawn-te-dusk flight across the conti-
neat predict that within a few years
every man may be a modern Aladdin.
who can wish himself in q jiffy from
New York to Peking On an airship
carpet. The press generally points
out that this flight demonstrates not
only the practicality Of the airplane
for transportation purposes in times
OF peace, but also as q more than ever
effective weapon Of war.
AZ the Baltimore Sun sees it; THE
peaceful and commercial aspects of
the Airplane space-killers are more
pleasant to dwell upon than it's war
like Implications. Yet that is one
MsuEhan's achievement which must
give us pause. If We can fly in less
than q day from New York to San
Francisco. a foreign airfieet of the
future might ny in the same time
from the Pacific to the Atlantic. The
east is no longer SO far away from
the west that we can feel no concern
In it's troubles. Science Is making US
all next-door neighbers, and is en-
phasiIing the necessity of interna-
tional harmony and understanding, If
the peace Of the world is not to suf-
fer by reason of its very advance in
knowledge"
This remarkable accomplishment
points of outstanding intrest," in the
opinion OF the Nashville Banner, be-
cause lit furnishes a startlingly en-
phatie commentary on the progress
which has been made in the, manu-
facture Of airplanes in the compare
lively short time they have been seri-
eusly regarded as factors. in the
scheme of things; it is likewise
tributs to the courage and determine
ton, Of the pilot, and it puts another
feather in the cap of America and
sets another record which is likely to
spair Of others for time" 1t be-
comes more remarkably when one
considers that Lieut. Vaughan had to
light illness as wen rs fatigue" OBJ
serves the Chicago Daily News, but
ance, coupled With Weii-nish perfect
mechanism. make possible such as
tonishing feats." All honor is due
the valiant bird man. his nerve, his
skill, his physical and mental ability
TO euUuI0 tuc lcSI, dSSeFtS Ine Ian =
sing State Journal, which believes
"a daily passenger service across the
continent may be expected as the
eventual development-speed is the
symbol Of America, and Lieut. Vaughan
Of it."
Even this speed will be improved
upon, the Duluth Herald contends,
and presently, no doubt, men will
quite casually breakfast in New York
and sup in San Francisco. with little
note taken Of it by the public" The
Milwaukee Journal sees in Maughan's
flight q new era of transportation
-four times swifter than any We have
known" for, lit says to the man in
New York, You can open m Office in
San Francisco and spend two or three
days a week there and the rest of the
time at your home once; 1t says to
the whole nation You are one COM
munity bound by the span of a single
day.
ain this sueeassful flight the sig
nincant fact Is that the engine and
the plane performed without mishap,"
points out the Hartford Times, which
feels sit was almost . foregone con-
clusion that the pilot would prove
equal to the test" Recalling that
success came after two failures due
to mechanical flaws, the st. Louis
Post-Dispatch suggests his final sue
cess proves the need Of mechanical
attainment" therefore 1T means
much to mechanics and the develop
.ment Of the plane" While tremendous