The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-16
Next Decade to See Changes in Air Travel
That Seem Fantastic to ALI but Aviators
But Most of Us Will Live
To Learn Every Prophecy
Has Come True!
BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON

Released by Western Newspaper Union.
CALIFORNIA high school
~ youngsters will spend two
weeks study vacations in a
China reached after q fast hop
in a plane or a huge dirigible.
The graduating classes of Hud-
sons Bay Eskimo elementary
schools will fly to New York or
Chicago for supervised study
visits.
Half-naked natives from the
forests Of Malay will fly to uni
versities in California or Aus
tralia and fly back to the native
villages as agronomists and
physicists.
'Impossible!" you say = or
perhaps only: ''Not likely!"
AS matter of fact, it's not only
possible but it's entirely probable.
You can take the word Of a man
who knows!
He is Harry Bruno, who grew up
with American aviation and with its
early heroes. If any man is quail
fed to forecast what's ahead in an
America that has always pioneered
in flight and that will probably be
even more dependent on air travel
in the future than it has in the past,
he is that man.
So when he makes such proph-
ecies as those given at the beginning
of this article, don't just laugh them
off. Instead, read these words of his:
"All this-and moroccan be accom-
plished with the planes and airships
that exist today. But the world of
tomorrow will fly greater, faster,
more economical flying machines
and airships than now exist"
You'll find those words in new
book, "Wings Over America-The
Inside Story of American Aviation"
written by Harry Bruno and pub
lished by Robert M. McBridge and
Company of New York. It's not
only an interesting book because it's
the "inside story" told by a man
who, as one of the six original "Quiet
Birdmen" and as today's foremost
aviation publicist, has first-hahd
knowledge of every memorable and
spectacular event in the develop
ment of Americas aerial power. It's
also an important book-important
right now when America is engaged
in a life-and-death struggle. For, as
Maj. Alexander P. de Seversky, who
wrote the introduction to Mr..
Bruno's book, says:
"The United Nations will win this
war through superior science, or
they will not win it at all. We must
cut loose from the past and embark
upon audacious new strategies, with
air power as their core. We must
utilize our superior chronological set
up to spring intellectual surprises,
in machines and strategic innova-
tons, on the enemy. And thus it
will be that the dreamers, the pio-
neers of yesterdays aviation will be-
come the realists and leaders of to-
day and tomorrow. The. dynamics
of air power are so intensive that
we must plan for tomorrow if we
want to be on time today. Fortu-
nately America has the leadership
to achieve this. Harry Bruno tells
us where and why ao
Such being the case, let's "cut
loose from the past" ESQ far as our
ideas of the limitations of air travel
are concerned) and embark upon
audacious new" voyages into the
future with Mr.. Bruno. You can do
that by reading the last chapter in
his book-"The Next Ten Years."
Always Look Forward.
At the outset of that chapter he
says: "The gods Of aviation have
one rule which all must obey: al
ways look forward" Then he ad-
monishes us to "Look ten years
ahead to a postwar world in which
the defeated Axis gangs are thing
of the past, and you see one of the
most powerful reasons for each and
every one of us to buckle down and
do our utmost to guarantee this
victory Thanks to aviation, this is
one of the most glorious ages in
world history"
Besides his predictions about the
California high school youngsters,
the Eskimo school children and the
half-naked natives from the forests
of Malay, Mr.. Bruno foresees also
the day when:
Shepherds will fly from the crags
of Tibet to universities in Vladivos-
tok and fly back to their native viii
lagos as doctors.
"Plane loads of professors will
take off from Madrid to train South
American Indians in new universe,
ties established near new airfields
in Colombia, in Venezuela, in Peru.
The whole world will become the
oyster of any American with two
Aviation Pioneers M