The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-03-22
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4. AZ. SAYS.
Ev HAL BOYLE

langersa matter OF distance.
20 conquer the gap between us
add the moon is now a matter Of
money, relatively no more expen-
sive for the American nation today
tllaiGilt was for shoDgirI a gen
GRAFTON ago 10 gamble her years
SAVINGS on voyage 10 bermuda.
They. say they can reach the
moon = and they will.
The age of the ''rceketeers" has
changed all our standards. Nobody
any longer really knows what space
and time are, except by the old
measures Of how far the heart you
wafti To lie with is from you and
howl long it takes to reach her.
But space and time are words
the scientists use TO measure The
universe. And they are shrinking
that Universe like drying apple.
They are conquering the old bar
riers Of time and space, but wheth-
er they are getting closer to the
hearts desire Of rocketeers re-
mains 10 be seen.
Can / tell you of two personal
adventures in time and space to
point my meaning? s1 EsF
When was a boy, the biggest
voxaBe fofemembef In Space vas
Wihteryo 45-mile trip with my I'm
cl6slto was ID "a weather cracked,
MUaieH r Ford steelrin g
ACROSS the vaguely charted, muddy
landscape between Kansas City and
Lexington, Mo-, my fathers birth
place.
Our destination was known, but
cur route was a gamble. Our We
hicle, sturdiest then known, was
sill a doubt. But 1t held up. The
tires didn't. but they could be
flown up again. We didn't think
anything on four wheels in those
days could 60 that far across those
mud tracks in that temperature
i wasn't until | saw Korea that
! knew God gave men colder days.
But ! still remember The warm
sense q victory when the beaten
little car wheeled home.
remembered those AS miles Of
conquered Missouri mud again the
other day when ! sat in d New
York restaurant and heard 80
year-old man tell seriously how he
had4nnnde plans to go 10 the moc.l.
iiis name was Wernher Won
Braun, the German inventor Of the
deadly w rocket that almost
forged Britain 10 capitulatc iii tic
last WOrld War
Won Braun is d tall, blond. blue.
eyed scientist who now IS enlisted
oh he side Of American arms ana
says he wants ID be an American
ciNzen. There Is 10 doubt he is 4
:.eQills. lie has already proved Il.
his genius is now devoted 10
very simple proposition. He spcnds
selling Il with The same
simclN ardor Of d ycang. salesman
IDedlling new vacuum cleaner.
He has figured Out d way he can
shoot lip q rocket some j .O75 miles
81 So beyond the reach Of gravity.
He has figured that Ii ne can shoot
Up II Of them he can build dough.
nut'shdped watchsower holding 36
men who can spy down as thew
Circle Nthe earth every two hours
ana use their platform through RAJ
dar TO contol The world.
Al enemy just couldn't hide any
mdfen he said. 1--WE could cali
down fire on him wherever he was
If w don't build this space station
the Kissians win sooner or later :
vBH Braun says he can safely
geNemen up and back from This
whirling space station. even rocket
them aAilt0I an exploratory trip Il
the tNi66h' and return, them whole
~ 'Avctiid fake only four billion
doliAFss and 10 years ID do !. ii
saidlk That IS only a fraction 81
thet american military budget"
Listening to him / had no feel.
ing Of DOUBT that his project could
be done But ] had no sense If
victory over space. | only felt de.
pressed.
e Won Braun is voted the money
he wants and bold men carry on,
his plans successfully. thew will
have negated the obstacle Of the
sky. = e
But when, 30 years ago. | made
Q 45.mile trip into the unknown 70
visit my fathers birthplace there
was someone we had come far and
fisked much discomfort 10 sec
waiting III iOurpev's ord