The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-07-16

distances such as from New YORK
to Chicago.
by 1916, it is expected that 70
per cent of the passenger travel,
now relying on railroad pullmans,
will 60 by air-about 10000, 900 pas
sengers year.
Exclusive of certain military air.
dromes, there will be about 1855
major airports in the United States
by the end of this year, all with
paved runways of $500 feet or more,
capable of handling the largest
planes, where fewer than 100 exist
ed in 1910. In addition to these,
there are well over 1000 smaller
fields.
'To operate these planes and air
ports after the war, there will be
the 100000 air-minded and trained
pilots, navigators, radiomen, airport
engineers, traffic controllers and 9TH
ers who will be in the air forces
by the end of this year."
The owl predicts postwar flights
of II hours from Washington to
Paris and London; Z hours from
Washington to Mexico City; 16 from
Washington to Moscow; 18 from
Washington to Cairo or Buenos Aires
and % hours from Washington to
Tokyo (if Tokyo is still on the map).
/ quote these statements to show
how tremendously the world we are
living in today differs from the
world we lived in before Pearl Har-
bora change which must affect all
phases of life tomorrow. Already,
as far as the military 60, the earth
has shrunk from the comparative
size of an orange to the size of a
marble. When the war is over and
we have had time to adapt what we
have learned in the field of aviation
to peaceful transportation, it will
shrink to the size of pea. When
we shift our war effort to peace
time production, it will shrink still
further.
Utopian Plans
Aviation is only one phase of the
achievement the war has forced
upon us; there are great plans burst
ing to become realities, many that
seem so utopian that the cynics
SCOTIA world organization to en-
force peace and achieve freedom
from fear; world cooperation which
will increase production and facili-
tate distribution to the point where
there will be at least an approx
nation of freedom from want-to
tick off only two of the four free
doms for which we are supposed
to be fighting.
Discouraged at our inability to
realize within our own vast bor-
ders all of the dreams of our found
ing fathers, we cannot believe that
the high aims for unity embracing
the whole world can be anything
but pure fantasy. But if we can
shrink the globe from orange to
marble, feat that would have been
considered utterly incredible to our
own grandfathers, must we say that
we cannot build world unity and a
world understanding greater than
anything heretofore conceived?
It took a dreamer to put the first
wings on mantle laboratory and
the machine shop did the rest.
With the widespread will to bet
ter future providing the psychology
cal inspiration, who knows but that
the energy which has made the
prosecution of global war possible
can be transmitted into a framework
upon which global peace can be
built?
It's a smaller globe, after all.
AS we begin to think in global
terms, we have to adjust our views
Of geography. For instance, sup
pose someone should tell you that
the important port of Siberia, for
which the Japs yearn but do not
dare attack, the port of Vladivostok,
were hundred and fifty miles south
Of the poetic city of Venice with its
streets of water? Of course, you
would know better but could you
say how much better?
Or if someone said fatty to you:
"You can't tell me what South
American countries line running
straight south from Savannah, Ga,
would pass through" you would feel
you could at least guess and get
one right.
No. No. Naples is $50 miles
north of Vladivostok.
You can't name any South Ameri-
can country south Of Savannah, Ca,
because the western coastline of
South America is east of such point.
Guess again.