The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-06-22

The boys who tell us by radio Tv about the newest
motor to be uban in reporting the very ultimate
smooth speedy of speakng safe anSporta
ton And yet there is something little shr in their ardent
something ie apprehenve seems though they
dmy that they handling product to be alto
geher outmoded and had better off their hands soon
convenient
OF course todays model is to-morrows jaopy. The
thing called forever tripping its votaries You
purchase the newest gadget keep new there
will be sale before get purchase home
Your brand shining with factory glow, is second
hand the you behind the wheel and put in
is of this evanescence Progress that think
when we hear the saean paaver and sense his unspoken
apprehension larger change direly imminent which
will put all motor the heap For it is the age
of let The day of mere surface travel is at its sunset Heavy
commodities will continue by rail- by truck, by ship
But the traveller about ready to join the BIRDS to
align himself with rays of light
Henry is reported to said probably didn't
that he had put mankind wheels and people would
be able to be quoted saying that he has given man
aerial and ETHEREAL propulsion and people will wheels
again
the nations the earth refrain FOR while from blowing
another bits shall such advance in jet propulsion
will make the swifest modern arplane ridiculous the
crate used Ktyhawk in 9o3yes much ridiculous For
have passed the sound barrier and ecnoogs
now leveling at the light barrier.
You can right this minute zoom across our continent
four hours flying time Mrs Jones of New York her
husband off to work. the children to school, and then
hop Angeles for lunch with old school chum
And only the nuisance of flying against the sun keeps her from
being home again by the end of the woray that she
be home for late dinner with her dear ones.
Already terrestrial distances inadequate the de-
ses demands of jemnded He talks of journey to
moon At fifteen miles could make the
trip hoursust eight less than week Of course
problems that be solved before he the kit
bag and takes off He must find materials to build Jet
tough enough stand journey; he find stronger and
has avalabe he find
some substitute for atmospheric air for breathing and
he of
for the time of his lunar unatc visit Yet is conceivable
that he will find all these things Then no. for the svern Courts
of Diana!
And what will of it ALL if the accomplished?
Mainly of moontory novels spa moonsory movies
and TV shows rash agencies for vacation moonours There
doesn't progress much after all The same
old pattern of routine human empoyment only the locale
will be different.
Nor will the situation essentially changed when
has learned the of flying fast light travels That's
1856 900 miles second Well light do it. why can't
letters You and Just be patient for couple of
ture and you can make that trip to the moon less han two
seconds You hop there and you don't like it. be
home again before you're missed For the moon you know is only
about 100000 miles away; mere step.
You will be able to visit the sun if you like and make the
journey about minutes; however you'd probably not
person cannot rightly enjoy scenery when he's
before within ten million miles of the place.
Sun visiting raught with disadvantages and difficulties
with which technology seems slow to cope
For long has depended upon speed to fur.
the excitement which will raise him out of state of per-
boredom is mans SOUL and the bodily
plane only be distraction and not cure
who bored home will be bored the moon or
planet Only the who the high adventure
its eternal pan and its boundless possibility of ever
Danish boredom and have real zest in living
this he needs neither motor not jet For this ne
trip outlying planets Until knows the meaning
and use planet which he stands he looks in vain to
sustained delight in other and far less interesting
places.
The poet Francis Thompson has told all this in his Hound
from conscience and responsibility
even on "the deep savannahs of the blue