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- THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C-, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1938 2,000,000 Now "Fly Through the Air With the Greatest of Ease" Recent Celebration of National Air Travel Week Dramatiied the Amazing Development of Airplane Transportation of Passengers, Mail and Express During the K) Years Since a Famous Author Paid $400 for a 33-Hour Flight from Los Angeles to New York. e Wectcrn Newcpaper Union. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON S EVERAL thousand Amer icans recently enjoyed, for the first time, the realization of an ancient dream of mankind. They “flew through the air with the greatest of ease”—not on the flying trapeze, nor yet on Aladdin’s magic carpet, but in swift, multi-engined air planes that are the ultimate in comfort and safety. This “mass flight” of at least 50,000 people was a part of the observance of National Air Travel Week, sponsored by the aviation industry of the country, including the 21 domestic air transport lines and Pan-American, to cele brate the tenth year jubilee of air transportation and call to the attention of the nation the spectacular growth of a service which has risen in 10 years from an extremely small industry, chiefly de pendent on air mail, to one which now carries more than 2,000,000 passengers every year plus millions of pounds of air mail &nd express. To anyone who knows anything about the history of aviation in this country, the question imme diately arises, “Why call it the tenth anniversary of air transpor tation? If I remember rightly, they were flying the mail 20 years ago, in 1918, and the first trans continental service was begun in 1924 and within two years passen gers were being carried. Why didn’t we celebrate this tenth an niversary two years ago, in 1936?’’ The answer is this: It’s true that passengers were being carried by airplane in 1926 but in that year air transport was still an experiment. The air lines then in existence were using small single-engined planes and they definitely did not encourage pa ;enger traffic. These lines ex- Ja'.v I mainly to transport the mail and when they did take passen gers, these passengers rode on the mail sacks or crouched down in small, cramped cockpits. The pilots of these ships weren’t any too happy to have a passenger along and be made to feel the extra responsibility for his safety. “Lindy” Points the Way. Then came the year 1927. “Lucky Lindy,’’ otherwise Charles A. Lindbergh, a former air mail pilot, made the flight across the Atlantic and the whole world “flung his name against the stars.” The impetus given to avi ation was immediate. By the end of that year air transporta tion was emerging from the ex perimental stage. One factor which hastened it was the devel opment of the larger multiren- gined flight equipment. These powerful motors meant a larger margin of safety in carrying pas sengers. Then came another historic event, but one not so widely known, although it was widely re called during the recent celebra tion of National Air Travel Week. John Monk Saunders, a well- known American author, paid $400 for a one-way ticket be tween Los Angeles and New York and became the first pay passen ger aboard the first regular scheduled flight in a multi-engined transport plane. That marked the real beginning of modem passen ger air transport. As a matter of fact, Saunders was only one of 47,840 Americans who traveled by air that year. But not all of these were flown in multi-engined ships. Most of the small operators were still fly ing small single-engined ships since the only foundation needed for starting an airline in those days was to have a few pilots, a plane or two and a place to fly to. In 1928 the air lines had a total of 325 single and multi-engined transports in service and flew a total of 10,673,450 miles. In 1938, just 10 years later, the air lines have about 386 transports (all multi-engined) and during 1937 flew the astonishing total of 76,- 996,163 miles, carrying 1,267,580 passengers. In fact, one of the most amazing of all of air trans port’s accomplishments has been its steady expansion during a decade that has been marked by the contraction and retrenchment of other lines of industry. Pioneer Passengers. But it is in the “human ele ment,” the how-does-this-afiect- you-and-me side of the business, that the most interesting example of progress is noted. The first , coast-to-coast travelers were true mm * ■■■ '■ V y - ■ - ’ 4 , ’ ‘ • • ■ ; - i xJi \ ., ’ * , x If- i t # 'wr > , ' . > * - v , •'j imm mm ' |ji» v * ‘ Ik • : • '■ if.: % X A < Af ^ ^ '4 ‘.V <x i i; s, The remarkable advance in air transportation is visualised by the pictures of the various types of airplanes that have been flown in coast- to-coast service since 1928. The first coast-to-coast mail-passenger serv ice requiring 33 hours, was flown with a single-engined 90-mile-an-houz biplane shown at the top. Next came the tri-motored plane with a cruising speed of 105 miles an hour. In 1933 air transportation was revolutionised with the introduction of the world’s first “three-mile-a-minute” twin- engined, all-metal, low-wing monoplane. The bottom picture shows the latest refinement of the twin-engined type with a top speed of 212 miles an hour. adventurers. They paid $400 for a transcontinental ticket, sat up right in a small metal chair with little upholstery; their plane landed every few hundred miles for fuel; little food, if any, was served; and the coast-to-coast journey took 33 hours. In 1938, at the beginning of the second decade the flight between New York and Los Angeles or San Francisco has been reduced to an overnight journey in a large, comfortable berth aboard a sound-proofed transport. The coast-to-coast air fare has been reduced to less than $150. The passenger enjoys a hot full-course meal that is served without any extra cost. The business man journeying from his New York office to the Pacific coast does not lose a single business hour in spanning the continent. Fares Cut in Half. In a decade air fares in the United States have been reduced from an average of 12 cents a mile to 5Vi cents, while speed has been more than doubled and com forts not even thought of in those days have made air travel a lux ury form of transportation. Si- Col. Charles A. Lindbergh when he was an air-mail pilot and flew the first mail plane on the St. Louis-Chicago line in 1926. multaneously, with decrease in fare, faster schedules and great er comfort, the industry has written a record of safe, dependa ble operation in view of the tre mendous increase in flying, which is a standard for the world. With the inception of this vast air line system the number of seats available for passenger con sumption have increased from 600 in 1928 to 3,600 in 1938. In 1938 a total of 447,716,419 seat miles were flown by the nation’* air lines. Ten years ago an av erage of 131 passengers per day rode on air line planes. Today sees 3,200 persons board United States airline ships daily. Safer Than Automobiles. Safety has, of course increased tremendously in recent years, the best example being that in 1928, the air lines flew only 945,478 miles per fatal accident as com pared with 13,214,301 miles per fatal accident in 1937. Safety has reached the point that on a mile age travel basis, a person is safer on a modern transport plane than he is driving his own automobile between the same cit ies today. The ail line plane of 1928 had an average speed of 90 miles an hour. This was an exceptionally swift pace, but not the zenith by any means. Manufacturers set to work to build faster equip ment. By 1933 some of the air lines were operating planes with cruising speeds of three miles a minute. At the turn of the first decade the average air line plane cruises at 200 miles aq hour. Little or nothing was known about the supercharging of en gines in 1928—for that reason air line planes flew low, between one and two thousand feet. A flight above 4,000 feet was really high flying. Rough air was usually the rule at these low altitudes and approximately 10 per cent of the air travelers were troubled by air sickness. Little or nothing was known about the scientific ventilation of airplane cabins and it was not uncommon for a cabin to be filled with motor fumes. Heating of cabins was accom plished directly from engine ex hausts. The ships of 1928 car ried a limited amount of fuel and had to land eveiy few hundred miles for gas. The modem plane today has a cruising range of 1,000 to 1,500 miles flying at 10,000 feet, where smooth air prevails. The roar ing, booming noise of the throb bing motors of 1928 has been eliminated by soundproofing and the cabins are ventilated by the constant flow of fresh, filtered air. Steamheating is automatically controlled and the cabin of the modem transport has the atmos phere of a well-appointed living room. Long-range flying came in vogue a few years, ago and today some of the domestic routes are operating non-stop flights of 900 miles. But even this is not the epitome. The Douglas planes of today have bona fide cruising ranges of 1,500 miles and test flights of nearly 2,000 miles with out even stopping for fuel have been made. In air transport, an- in any oth er, the safety of the passengers depends ultimately, of course, upon the men operating it. The physical fitness, mental alertness and practiced skill of the man behind the wheel in an automo bile, in the pilot house of a ship or in the cab of a locomotive determines pretty much whether or not you’ll reach your desti nation safely if you travel by land or water. The same thing is true if you travel by air. But if you have an idea that you are entrusting your life to a “knight of th'; air,” a dashing, devil-may-care fellow, given to doing spectacular stunts and tak ing chances—forget it! That may have been true-in the post-war period of aviation but it isn’t true now. -- 'i - ff-.’ oota The average pilot of 1928 was a man who, if be had 2,000 hours of-experience, was regarded as a veteran airman. Ho knew little about 'night flying and had no faith in theories that some day air planes could be controlled entire ly by instruments in his cockpit. , The average pilot in command of a big 12-ton airliner today is a highly professional man who has journeyed a million miles or more in the sky aboard transport planes. He is a technical man, too, understanding that he has been provided with an airplane in perfect condition, every proven aid to the science of air naviga tion, and with corps of ground workers who are studying weath er reports, communicating with him by radio and generally di-. recting the orderly procedure of his flight with marked efficiency. Frequent Examinations. Today’s pilot is a perfect physi cal specimen. He undergoes a thorough physical examination on an average of every three months. He leads a normal, re tiring life when he’s not putting in his maximum of 85 hours in the air each month. The av erage air line captain has his own home and flower garden, plays a good game of golf, is a camera enthusiast and spends as much time as possible with his wife and children. He is a solid citizen in his community and is a great student, always seeking to improve and strengthen his knowledge of air line flying. Often you can find him at his terminal flying a training device that sim ulates every conceivable flight characteristic at an airplane, even to the guidance of airplanes by directive radio beams. The cockpit of an air liner has grown to a scientific office where the pilot has been provided with proper tools to accomplish his work. The cockpit of 1928 boast ed of sparse instruments and a few controls. Today’s air line has an automatic “robot” pilot, for example, that is capable of guiding the airplane in the same precise manner that the human pilot does. Hence, the human pi lot can tum over command of the plane to the “robot” pilot at any IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HA Dean HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. L>. of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicaco. C western Newspaper Union. Lesson for October 23 OUR DAY OF REST LESSON TEXT—Exodu* J0:S-11; Luke 13: 10-17. GOLDEN TEXT—Remember the Sebbatb day. to keep It holy.—Exodus 20:8. Pilot W. L. Smith ready to start on the first flight of the trans- continental air mail service in augurated inly 1, 1924. time. All instruments are in du plicate and the pilot can guide his airplane by looking at his in struments. Motors have reached such a high degree of perfection that emergency landings because of motor difficulties are virtually unknow . Today’s transports are capable of taking off and flying with only one engine operating. New type propellers have been perfected that greatly reduce mo tor noise. Weather has long been an ac knowledged factor in air trans portation and was an early handi cap to schedule efficiency. The system of weather reporting in 1928 was far from satisfactory and pilots were not provided with two-way radio communication so that, like today, they could re ceive up-to-the-minute weather trends. Because nothing was known about instrument flying,- schedule after schedule had to be cancelled. Weather is today still a factor in schedule -»fficiency, but not the great problem it was 10 years ago because much has been learned about the science of me teorology as applied to aviation. The airlines still have complete safety as its goal and when weath er conditions of extreme propor tions arise, flights are cancelled. Rest—how full of meaning that little word is when we recall that it means quiet for the struggling one, calm for the troubled, repose for the weary, tranquillity for the disturbed, cessation of labor for the worn-out one. God in His infinite wisdom saw that without rest man would soon destroy himself, and He made provision for one day in seven when labor should cease and man should be free for that re-creation of soul and body which should fit him for the labor of the week. Men in their greed have coveted the time God gave for rest and have used it for themselves, and the ragged nerves and broken bodies, to say nothing of the impoverished spirits of our day, testify that it can be done only at our peril. Our study centers around Scrip ture passages which have to do with the Jewish Sabbath, but since it was essentially a day of rest, and afford ed an opportunity for the worship of God, the principles surrounding it are applicable to our day of rest— the first day of the week, the Lord’s Day. I. Why We Keep a Day of Rest (Exod. 20:8-11). 1. God commanded that there should be a day of rest—one out of seven—and that should be sufficient to cause His people to “remember” the day “to keep it holy.” It is cause for grave concern that Sun day has become a day of swimming, hiking, auto-driving, golfing, and one a might go on with the list almost’ indefinitely. Many men or Women who have had built into their own characters the stalwart virtues nur tured by family attendance at the house of God, have not only for gotten their own need and responsi bility but are destroying every ves tige of interest in divine worship in the hearts of their children. It is serious business to go astray one self, but infinitely, more seri<xis to mislead one’s own children. Notice that the day of rest was to be not only for the family but also for servants and for visitors. The employer who operates his fac tory or office on Sunday violates this commandment. Note also that the man who is to rest on the sev enth day is supposed to work on the six days. Some folk neglect to do both. 2. God’s command is strengthened by the divine example (v. 11). We are not able to do all things that God does, but here we are privi leged to follow His example. II. How We Keep the Day of Rest (Luke 13:10-17). The incident recorded by Luke {does not give us an exhaustive list jof things to be done with our day of rest, but it is interesting to note that our Lord was 1. In the house of God tv. 10). Jesus was in the synagogue. The distinguished Apostle Paul never be came too great or too good to at tend divine worship. We all need to go to church (if it is at all possi ble for us to do so) to fellowship with others in the things of Christ. Let us have a revival of church at tendance, and not only on Sunday mornings, but also on Sunday night and for midweek prayer meeting. 2. Alert to the needs of others (w. 11, 12). It is not indicated that the woman asked to be healed. Jesus saw her need and met it. We can not do what he did, but there are needs that we can meet if we are but alert to see them and willing to help. 3. Active in service (v. 13). In spite of the criticism which He knew would come from the lazy and help less standers-by, Jesus did the work of God. We may glorify God by be ing ready—yes anxious—to serve in the church. Our daily work is set aside on the Lord’s Day not that we should be indolent, but that we should be free to do the Lord’s work. 4. Contending for the faith (w. 14-17). Jesus met the unjust criti cism (which, by the way, was lev eled at the poor woman because the critic feared Jesus) by a mas terly appeal to the law of the Phar isees (w. 15, 16). But He did more than that, far He ably defended the rights of humanity as superior to the formalities of man-made law. The law is always supreme until the Lawgiver comes, and no law can hinder Him by its letter, as He fulfills its spirit. We may not speak as Jesus did, that is to declare what the law is, but we may in His name, and by His grace and power declare the full counsel of God, defend it against its critics and withstand those who while bearing the name of Chris tian leaders only hinder ths work of Christ (compare III John 9, 10). For such service we need His guidance. His wisdom, His power, and His grace. Star Dnst ★ Charlie Is Stumped ★ Goddard and Rainer ★ Grade Going It Alone By Virginia Vale H AVE you heard thpt there is one thing that Charlie Chaplin has not yet been able to buy? And it’s something that he wants very much. It is some of the first com edies that he made, years ago, for Essanay, in Chica go. Since he became famous and wealthy he. has bought most of those early pictures, but he missed a few, which were acquired by somebody else. They’ve been put together, with a prologue by someone else, and the great comedian, who won’t talk for the screen, can’t do anything about it. —$— Paulette Gaddard’s first picture was “Modern Times.” She is now working in her second one since that one, “Dramatic School,” tu which Luise Rainer also appears. And— .Ask Me Another A A General Qaist The Questions 1. What people are considered the most law-abiding? 2. What is the highest state in the Union, in average altitude? 3. How high above ssa level is its principal city? 4. What do the letters L H. S. stand for? , 5. A township is composed of how many square miles? 6. What is St. Elmo’s fire? 7. What -ports event attracts the largest crowd? The Answers 1. Generally speaking, the Fin landers are the mest law-abiding. A police system is not necessary. 2. Colorado. 3. Denver is one mile abov* tea level. 4. Jesus Hominum Salvntor (Jesus the Savior of Men). correctly IHS, the first three let ters in the name Jesus in Greek. 5. A township is composed of 36 square miles. 6. A flame-like appearance oc casionally seen during storms and other atmospheric disturbances is suing from pointed and elevated objects. 7. The world’s largest sports gallery is that watching the an nual Tour de France, a 2,755-mile race in which the field consists of around 100 professional cyclists. More than one million spectators line the route of the race. Gracie Allen The Wise Man The wise man is like the drug gist’s chest, silent but full of vir tues; and the blockhead resembles the warrior’s drum, noisy but emp ty.—Sadi the Persian. PAULETTE GODDARD they will be co-starred! Better see the picture when it’s released, and find out whether Miss Goddard is a genius, or whether experience fast don’t mean a thing where acting in pictures is concerned. * The executives of Twentieth Cen tury-Fox feel that something ought to be done about an outrage that somebody else plans to commit. And Shirley Temple is involved in it. New Grand National wants to do “A Life of Shirley Temple,” in which several shorts made in the days before Shirley was America’s Sweetheart would be used. Looks like another case for the lawyers. While we’re on the subject of Shir ley; it was discovered that she pho tographed better without make-up for technicolor shots. You’ll see her just as she is in “The Little Princess.” * Gracie Allen is stepping out by herself these days—and rather im portant steps they are, too. She is mak ing a picture with out George Burns— ’’The Gracie Allen Murder Case”—and she has been exhib iting some of her own paintings at a New York art gal lery, and is finding out how it feels to be an artist. —*— Auditions were held recently at NBC for a client who didn’t know what type of singer he wanted for his program. Finally his choice simmered down to two of the people he heard, a soprano and a tenor. That evening Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hufsmith were discussing their day. Both are singers, both had had audi tions that day. Not until then did they discover that they had been trying out for the same job; he was the tenor, and she, known on the air as Muriel Wilson, was the so prano. ^ Avalon Time, one of radio’s new shows, is strictly All-American. It features the Andrews Sisters (the girls who did so much to make “Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen” a hit,) Red Foley, Kitty O’Neill, the laugh ing lady, the Neighbor Boys, the Rhythm Singers, the Avalon chorus and a 16-piece orchestra. 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