Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-19

~ n boiling hot June day in the
Business Esas Of Man M sts f A%sF,es an
his desk in his Office throwing
furious glances at a cable
gram he has just received from his
representative in Japan. He had al
ready made arrangements for taking
vacation and joining his family in
Biarritz, France, and now this cable
telling OF unforeseen difficulties with
the Japanese government and indi-
eating that his presence In Toxic Is
imperative has come to upset all his
plans. Mr.. American Business Man
meditates for a. few minutes. Then
he summons his secretary.
call up the Asiaic Airship Line,
he says to the young man, land find
out the best and quickest connection
to Toxic and from Toxic to BiarritZ,
France. / wish to sail al soon as pos.
sible. I'll have to spend three days IN
Toxic"
The secretary withdraws. In five
minutes he returns.
n X II X
"VOU will be able to make the trip
= in II days. sir" he says. looking
at his notes, including three-day
| stay in Toxic. The airship America
is sailing tomorrow at 10 o'clock from
| Washington. If you take the lines
special airplane at in New York you
will be on time for the sailing. The
Washington Y okohama trip takes about
| five days, including a siX-hour stop in
Los Angeles. The company's airplane
will take you in a few hours from
Yokohama to Toxic. Three days later
| you can embark on the airship New
| York, which stops for six hours in
| Moscow. This is Monday; week from
Saturday you can be in Biarritz. State
rooms on both the America and New
| York are still available. Shall j ar
, range for accommodations
Little journeys like this may be, in
! 20 years or so, as common as is today
! the NeW-York Chicago trip on the
| Twentieth Century Limited, that Is, If
the gigantic plan of DIR. Hugo Eckener,
! director of the German Zeppelin Co.
aa1 famous designer of airships, shall
materialize. His is plan Of colossal
dimensions and it's realization would
mean nothing less than the establish
/ inG of a regular airship service all
ar und the world connecting the five
continents by airships flying over the
oceans on schedule time as regularly
as the big transatlantic liners. DIR.
| Eckener has worked out his plan to
| the smallest detail, and he speaks
about it with the enthusiasm of
/ LSIiipSIEd Will Tic COOlItSoS
of mathematician.
J "The basic element Of my PLAN"
said DR.. Eckener, when ] visited him
In New York during his short sojourn
| there, sis the fact that the air.
| plane can never be developed so
| far as to be fit for transoceanic travel.
! Flights over the Atlantic will never
| be anything more than sporting
achievements. 1, for my part. con-
! slider the airplane the ideal means
OF communication for short distances,
I, but in transoceanic flights it never
will be able to compete with the air.
ship. The problem of making an air
| plane big enough to carry more fuel,
more passengers and more weight
cannot be solved beyond a certain
limit. If you increase the size of
an airplane the dead weight 1t can
| carry Is in no direct proportion with
the increase. Just the reverse, how
ever. Is true in the case of an air.
ship. The problem Of building an
airship for $50 or 200 passengers can
easily be solved. Airplanes usually
do not travel during the night. be-
cause If anything goes wrong with the
motor landing In the darkness Is
almost impossible. Such problems do
not exist for the airship. 1t can
travel during the night. there Is no
| such a thing as the absolute neces-
sity Of a sudden and unexpected de-
scent, and it affords greater safety
for ks passengers. ...----------