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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
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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. The com
edy dialogue will be written by La
tham Owens, who has done scripts
for Joe Penner, A1 Jolson, Ken Mur
ray and others. It will be heard
once a week, from coast to coast—
and if you don’t like it it won’t be
the fault of all the people who have
slaved to make it what it is!
—*—
ODDS AND ENDS . . . Tominy Riggt
and his trick voice, “Betty Lou,” have
their own program now; his it the first
child voice to head e show . . . Those
children’s voices seem to be. popular,
what with Fanny Brice’s “Snooks,” and
Molly, of Fibber McGee and Molly,
using “Tina,” and of course, Bergen’s
Charlie McCarthy . . . Barbara Blair
started it long ago with “Snoony” on
Fred taring’s programs . . . “The Lone
Ranger” boosted the receipts at so many
movie houses that now we’re to have
“The Lone Ranger Returns” , . . Noah
Beery may be the new “Charlie Chan”
. . . Another cartoon strip has hit the
movies; it’s “Blondie,” and Shirley
Deane, who appeared in so many of the
“Jones Family” series, will have the
lead.
• Western Newspaper Union.
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