Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05
LINKING AUTO AND PLANE
TO AID TRANSPORTATION
Development of Aircraft Is Cited as Hav-
ing Small Bearing on Work Per-
formed by Motor Car.

fight bus competition have seen the
error of their ways, and now are bend
ing every effort to put their own bus
and truck lines quickly into operation.
These men have found, as did their
more farsighted colleagues, that the
motor vehicle might be not an enemy,
but a valuable friend of the railroad,
and that it might be the instrument of
increased business. They now under
stand that the bus and the railroad
both have definite mission, that each
has and will continue to have an i'm.
portant place in the transportation
scheme of things, and that through
cooperation both will gain largely.
The utter Righteousness of the as
sumption that radio would supplant
the newspaper as a medium for the
dissemination Of news now is apparent
to all, and both units now are work
ing in the closest harmony. Never
before have newspaper calculations
been so great, never before have news.
papers welded so much influence,
and never before has radio, too, held
such widespread attention. The phe-
nomenon simply means that our civil.
lization needs both factors and that
eacn unit IS fulfilling a separate and
an individual mission.
cited to show that with progress come
greater and greater demands, and that
while adding newer forms the older
ones must be retained and developed
to still greater heights Of efficiency
and usefulness.
The automobile-and the designa.
ton here is used to cover all forms,
the pleasure vehicle, bus, truck and
tractor-has proved one of the most
Ihufo toll
field of transportation. In some re-
spects it probably is the greatest. It's
usefulness is attested in every country
of the globe, and each year sees new
lands and distant corners opened for
constructive exploitation and develop
ment through its benevolent offices.
Auto Best i'm Its Field.
The sphere of the automobile Is a
tremendous one, just as the sphere of
the airplane will expand and develop
until 1t becomes another brilliant field
for human progress. The automobile,
whatever form it may take in the dis
tant future, always will remain the
most efficient, the most desirable, the
best fitted vehicle for it's own chosen
work. Similarly the airplane will find
its realm of usefulness.
Together, then, these units will
move forward along with the other
factors in the field of transportation
. rv+,,ea time and experience have al
iotted a definite circle of influence.
Each is unquestionably pre-eminent
within it's own borders, each does q
particular and peculiar type of work
better than it's colleague, each must
develop and expand in its individual
manner.
Will the airplane supplant the auto
mobile? Why not ask, then, why did
not the development of the automo-
bile forestall the coming of the air
plane? The answer is plain-because
their missions are unrelated save in
one respect-the fundamental consid.
Grafton Of general transportation.
The automobile and the airplane
will grow in significance and influence
with the passage of time. The con-
tributions of both to human progress
will grow and expand, adding new
accomplishments to embellish an al
ready splendidly imposing list OF
achievements.
In this manner does a complex
civilization intelligently solve it's ever.
growing problems, jealousy guarding
every factor instrumental in their so
luton and reaching out for new and
distinctly different aids on the difficult
road which leads forward to progress.