New Britain herald., 1925-09-28
FREEMAN TELLS OF
 PROGRESS IN AIR
Interesting Address Given to
 Members Of E, B, (,

That aviation is a coming thing. was 8 statement made by Governor John II. Trumbull and the state av- iation commissioner Major T. o. Freeman. at meeting of the Ev- eryman's Bible class yesterday. Major Freeman was the speaker Of the day.
 Governor John H. Trumbull was guest of the class and occupied q seat on the platform. Next to the governor sat George H. Dyson, vice. president Of the class and personal friend of the governor.
 President B. F. Armstrong, after completing the preliminary business of the meeting, turned the session over to Mir. Dyson, who in turn in troduced Governor Trumbul. The governor, after a brief address, in troduccd Major Freeman, The na- tional flag was suspended above the platform, and the state flag stood beside the speakers stand. The plat form was decorated with flowers.
 In his introduction of Major Free man, Governor Trumbul said:
 Through the activities of ajor Freeman the government appropri- ated substantial amount of money for hangars and machine shops for the 1l8th observation squadron. Ayi- ation is coming into its own and branch tbn rxto ot ip and t,fGIli gent work of the type of men similar 10 the one who will speak to you now, l believe that Connecticut will be one of the first states to consider air mail service and air passenger service. Anything l can do officially or privately or individually, to tur- ther aviation will be done. m be- hind Major Freeman because l be- lieve In him. Connecticut is fortunate in having men of his type to pro- mote the art"
 Major Freeman Talks
 Major Freeman. called attention to modern business conditions and stated:
 "If you will go back in economic history, you will find that business has gone on very regularly in cycles. We have periods of prosperity, then periods of over production, over an- iousncss to make money and we go into a period of depression, a period in which we all arc very pessimistic, and when conditions are changed so that we can start business going again we come into q period of pros perity aagin, If you will go over that, you will find that statistician Roger Babson is right when he says that the cause of the old panics are spiritual attitude toward life and money making. There is another period in which ne all want to beat out inc other fellow. We so ahead and indulge in questionable methods. We pyramid and pyramid until the whole commercial situation is bound 10 collapse in panic. If you will go Jack 20 more years you will find that there has been a constant effort Ip NulH tjlS HIS LldL tcIllS OIl Ol Cui present capitalistic system. This is brought out in our antitrust and pure food laws But the most mod ern IS the federal reserve system which has been introduced. Our et- forts have been toward ironing out the vicissitudes of life, smoothing things out to make life smoother for us all.
 We also find that cycles have gone on in business that have not brought us happiness. We have found periods where 1t has been necessary to smooth our lives out. Then the war came along and brought aviation. Five years ago the one objection I had to aviation vas speed. Here we have been try ing to calm the world down and