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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, APRIL 16, 1943 r Next Decade to See Changes in Air Travel That Seem Fantastic to All but Aviators This Glenn Martin super-passenger liner is not a plane of the ‘‘far future”—rather it belongs in the ‘‘near future” for plans for its production already exist. But Most of Us Will Live To Learn Every Prophecy Has Come True! By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Released by Western Newspaper Union. C ALIFORNIA high school youngsters will spend two weeks’ study - vacations in a China reached after a fast hop in a plane or a huge dirigible. The graduating classes of Hud son’s Bay Eskimo elementary schools will fly to New York or Chicago for supervised study- visits. Half-naked natives from the forests of Malay will fly to uni versities in California or Aus tralia and fly back to the native villages as agronomists and physicists. “Impossible! ” you say — or perhaps only: “Not likely! ” As a matter of fact, it’s not only possible but it’s entirely probable. You can take the word of a man who knows! He is Harry Bruno, who grew up with American aviation and with its early heroes. If any man is quali fied to forecast what’s ahead in an America that has always pioneered in flight and that will probably be even more dependent on air travel in the future than it has in the past, he is that man. So when he makes such proph ecies as those given at the beginning of this article, don’t just laugh them off. Instead, read these words of his: “All this—and more—can be accom plished with the planes and airships that exist today. But the world of tomorrow will fly greater, faster, more economical flying machines and airships than now exist.” You’ll, find those words in a new book, "Wings Over America—The Inside Story of American Aviation," written by Harry Bruno and pub lished by Robert M. McBridge and Company of New York. It’s not only an interesting book because it’s the “inside story” told by a man who, as one of the six original “Quiet Birdmen” and as today’s foremost aviation publicist, has first-hand knowledge of every memorable and spectacular event in the develop ment of America’s aerial power. It’s also an important book—important right now when America is engaged in a life-and-death struggle. For, as Maj. Alexander P. de Seversky, who wrote the introduction to Mr. Bruno’s book, says: “The United Nations will win this war through superior science, or they will not win it at all. We must cut loose from the past and embark upon audacious new strategies, with air power as their core. We must utilize our superior technological set up to spring intellectual surprises, in machines and strategic innova tions, on the enemy. And thus it will be that the dreamers, the pio neers of yesterday’s aviation will be come the realists and leaders of to day and tomorrow. The dynamics of air power are so intensive that we must plan for tomorrow if we want to be on time today. Fortu nately America has the leadership to achieve this. Harry Bruno tells us where and why.” Such being the case, let’s “cut loose from the past” (so far as our ideas of the limitations of air travel are concerned) and “embark upon audacious new” voyages into the future with Mr. Bruno. You can do that by reading the last chapter in his book—“The Next Ten Years.” Always Look Forward. At the outset of that chapter he says: “The gods of aviation have one rule which all must obey: al ways look forward.” Then he ad monishes us to “Look ten years ahead to a post-war world in which the defeated Axis gangs are a thing of the past, and you see one of the most powerful reasons for each and every one of us to buckle down and do our utmost to guarantee this victory. Thanks to aviation, this is one of the most glorious ages in world history.” Besides his predictions about the California high school youngsters, the Eskimo school children and the half-naked natives from the forests of Malay, Mr. Bruno foresees also the day when: “Shepherds will fly from the crags of Tibet to universities in Vladivos tok and fly back to their native vil lages as doctors. “Plane loads of professors will take off from Madrid to train South American Indians in new universi ties established near new airfields in Colombia, in Venezuela, in Peru. “The whole world will become the oyster of any American with a two weeks’ vacation—and the low cost of airplane and airship travel will make a most enlightening vaca tion in Norway or India a reality for the Detroit mechanic or the Bos ton librarian.” Planes of tbe Future. How will they be able to do all this? Here is the answer in Mr. Bruno’s words: “The big planes of the next decade will glide through the stratosphere at speeds of 600 mijes an hour and more. They will enable a man to breakfast in New York and have dinner in Paris on the same day. Citizens of Detroit and Denver will be able to do exactly the same, even though their planes will fly non stop from their home towns to Eu rope and South America. “Their planes will not be patterned after the huge flying boats that now cross the oceans. The new planes of 1952 will be huge stratosphere land planes, whose sealed, oxygen- equipped cabins will carry more than 200 passengers in all the luxury and comfort travelers enjoyed on luxury steamships like the Queen Mary and the Normandie. They will be powered by banks of gasoline- PROPHET — Harry Bruno, who “grew up” with American aviation, makes some startling—but “too con servative,” so say his friends—pre dictions about air travel during the next ten years. burning engines of 5,000 horsepower each. But the use of gasoline, in aviation, will some day be as ob solete as the era of steam in auto mobiles. Electric engines of 10,000 horsepower, receiving their impulses through rays transmitted from ground stations will supplant gaso line engines within two decades of the end of the war. “Passengers with more time, out for a more economical ocean cross ing, will ride in the comfortable helium-filled dirigibles of the new world. These giant cargo and pas senger airships will cross the Atlan tic in about 36 hours, carrying fast freight and about twice as many passengers as the fast planes.” If you decided to sell your auto mobile because of the inconvenience of gas rationing and wait until after the war to get a new one, don’t count too much on becoming a “motorist” again. For, according to Mr. Bruno, automobiles “will start to decline almost as soon as the last shot is fired in World War II. The name of Igor Sikorsky will be as well known as Henry Ford’s, for his helicopter will all but re place the horseless carriage as the new means of transportation. In stead of a car in every garage, there will be a helicopter.” Why? Well, these marvelous ma chines can do everything an auto mobile can do, do it better and be sides take you up in the air, far from the gasoline fumes of the crowded highways. Look at this pic ture of a Sunday afternoon pleasure “drive,” as Mr. Bruno paints it: “The family will take off in its helicopter from the backyard or the roof hangar, climb straight to the level authorized by government reg ulation, fly on to their destination, and land on earth, on a roof top, or on water—as fancy dictates. In stead of wheels, the craft is mounted on rubber floats—inasmuch as it rises and descends like an elevator anywhere, wheels are not needed. These ’copters will be so safe and will cost so little to produce that small models will be made for ’teen age youngsters. These tiny 'copters, when school lets out, will fill the skies as the bicycles of our ycuth filled the pre-war roads.” But ’copters aren’t the only ma chines that your children and their children will be driving. For, says Mr. Bruno, “the great sport of our youth will be motorless flight. Glider meets will be held all over the coun try, much like the sailing meets of other years.” However, the glider won’t be a machine for “pleasure driving” only. It will become an important economic factor in the transporta tion of the future. “Powerful cargo carrying sky trucks will tow trains of cargo carrying gliders—since all but the bulkiest slow freight will be carried by airplane or glider-towing, cargo-carrying dirigibles. The glider will also become the great transpor tation medium of commuting." Trains of Gliders. Which means that when you de cide to visit Aunt Emma back in Syracuse or Cousin Will out in Ore gon, here’s how you’ll go: “Glider trains, towed by a lead passenger-carrying plane that will fly hundreds of miles, will drop glid ers carrying local passengers at air ports all along the route. Thus, a trip from New York to Albany, for instance, would be made in a glider attached to the New York-Buffalo sky train. Passengers would board the train at the overhead station of Rockefeller Center. The sky-train, which started from LaGuardia Field, would pick up the Albany glider at Rockefeller Center (and pick it up in flight, too) and continue on toward Buffalo. Over Albany, the conductor-pilot of the Albany glider will cut his craft loose from the train and glide to earth. By the time the lead plane reaches Buffalo, he will have dropped all of his glid ers along the route.” “But all of these machines can still fall down and kill people—no, sir, I’ll stick to good old Mother Earth!” you say. The aviation of the future will become increasingly safer, Mr. Bruno believes. He writes: “All aircraft will have tele vision weather survey sets, enabling them to see and hear weather con ditions along the routes that lie ahead. In this manner, they will be able to fly above or around storm areas and add to the comfort of each flight. “All airplane factories will be en tirely underground, air-conditioned and deep enough so that no aerial bomb can ever hurt them. Airports will also go underground and what will appear to be an empty field will suddenly become active when a plane lands on it. A quick taxi to a designed spot, and down will go the underground hangar as the surface sinks under the operation of a large elevator. An international police fi rce, armed with the newest type of air weapon, will have no trouble maintaining order and understand ing.” Such is Mr. Bruno’s preview of “things to come.” Do you find, them hard to believe? Then reflect upon these final words: “These predictions are a lot more conservative than the flat prediction, in 1900, that before the century was over man would build a machine that would really fly. If anything, most of my friends—men like Igor Sikorsky and C. M. Keys, who read this chapter, for instance—mark the predictions down as being too earth- bound, too conservative. And thii should tell you that mojt of you will live to see them all come true!” Aviation Pioneers Made Possible Heroic War Exploits of Today America will never forget the courage and heroism of such World War II heroes as Capt. Colin Kelly Jr., Lieut. Edward H. O’Hare, Gen. Claire Chennault and Gen. James H. Doolittle, who wrote their epics in the air and signed them with their honor. Let us not forget, however, the names of the pioneers who made these war exploits possible—not only the Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtis, Billy Mitchell and Admiral Byrd, with whose activities we are all familiar, but the many other auda cious men whose reputations have been obscured. Here is a partial list of the roll of honor: Galbraith Perry Rodgers, the man who flew across the continent in 1911 and one of the outstanding aviators of pre war America; Jimmy Taylor, the unassuming, little known flying genius who for 20 years was one of our ace test pilots; Lincoln Beachy, a great exhibition pilot who made tests that saved thousands ol lives; Vernon Castle, a brilliant war time aviator who is remembered (il at all) as a dancer; Roscoe Turner a speed demon with a useful pur pose; Clifford Henderson, the Bar- num of aviation, who did more thar. any aviator except Lindbergh to at tract American attention to flying. These Americans gambled theii necks, their brains and their money that aviation might grow.—“Wings Over America.” SSS9 IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D. Of Tbe Moody Bible Institute of Chlcafo. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for April 18 . Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. PETER AND JOHN IN GETHSEMANE LESSON TEXT—Matthew 26:36-46; Johr 18:10-12. GOLDEN TEXT—Watch and pray, that yt enter not into temptation. Matthew 26:41. The morning of that great day when atonement was made for the sins of all the world was nearly at hand. In the darkness of the night, following the institution of the Lord’s Supper, and the words and prayei of our Lord (John 15-17), He and His disciples came to the Garden ol Gethsemane. Taking three of His disciples He went deeper into the shadows to pour out before the Fa ther His soul, “exceeding sorrowful even unto death.” It is a sacred scene, and we feel a sense of awe and reverence' as we approach it, feeling that we .too would prefer to tarry outside the garden, did we not feel that we should try to understand a little bet ter what took place that night. We are especially concerned with Peter and John, who with James shared our Lord’s sorrow up to a point, and then so sadly failed Him. We note that they had a I. High Privilege (Matt. 26:36-38). To be asked by Christ to stand by in this crucial hour was to be en trusted with one of the greatest privileges a man could ever know. As there swept over His holy soul a great tidal wave of sorrow unto death, He wanted and needed their fellowship. As Dr. Maclaren puts it. He “grazed the very edge” of hu man endurance. “Out of the dark ness He reaches a hand to feel the grasp of a friend, and piteously asks these humble lovers to stay beside Him; not that they could help Him bear the weight, but that their pres ence had some solace in it. His ag ony . . . they could not bear with Him, but they could watch with Him, and that poor comfort is all He asked.” Undoubtedly they intended to do it. Jesus bore witness that their spirit was willing (v; 41), but in spite of that, and all the boasting of Pe ter at the table that he would never desert Him, they failed Him in His hour of need. It was U. Sad Weakness (w. 39-46). Our Lord’s prayer showed great faith in God the Father, the terrific recoil of His soul against being blackened with the burden of sin, and a complete surrender to the Fa ther’s will. Here was true denial of self and submission to God, but it was nonetheless an appalling expe rience for our sinless Lord. So He went back for fellowship with His three trusted friends—and they were asleep. Jesus recognized that the weak ness of the flesh caused them to for get and slumber. We may profit by a little closer scrutiny of the scene. Was it just a physical tiredness? That doubtless entered in, but was not Jesus even more tired than they could possibly be? Was it not rather the weakness of indifference? They did not yet fully believe that their Lord was about to die. 'That was why they were quickly scattered in unbelief when He did die. This mat ter was not so serious in their sight, so it was not difficult to yield to the tired body and the deep, quiet dark ness, and fall asleep. We are in much the same posi tion. Danger—grave, spiritual dan ger—threatens our souls, our fami lies, our nation. We who call our selves Christians have declared our readiness to stay awake and alert. But we hav become at home in this world, the enemy soothes us with the assurance that all is well, time goes on and nothing too seri ous happens. So, we go to sleep right in the midst of danger, and sleep on even though the Master awakens us again and again. But now the scene changes. The mob has come to take Christ, and then the sleepy Peter, now much awake, indulges in III. Foolish Courage (John 18:10- 12). The act of Peter was courageous, even to the point of recklessness. What chance had he against a great armed multitude? It was the natural impulse of a loving heart, but it was misguided and foolish. What did he think to accomplish— to deliver Jesus from those who would crucify Him? That would have meant no death on the cross and no redemption. The hour for the offer ing up of the Son of Man as Saviour had come. Peter might have learned that with our Lord in the garden, but then he was asleep. Christ who had hitherto walked right through the crowd of enerhies (Luke 4:30), now submitted. In the dark hours of the night He had been prepared to drink this bitter cup (v. 11). We need to learn from this expe rience of Peter’s lest we make the same mistake. There are all too many in the Church who are asleep as far as its spiritual struggles and opportunities are concerned, who are eager to wield a reckless sword in outward conflict. In their folly and ignorance they do more harm than good, and yet they think they are working for Christ. 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