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YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW
‘ Copyright, 1914, by Star Company. Greap Britais
Rights Reserved.
I HE men now living will
see thel day when la{ll
VSNV travel across the
oceans will be in air
- ships.
We shall look back to the days of iron
vessels floating on the water as we now
look back to xfie Queen of Sheba pitching
and rolling on the hump oi her prize
camel.
And in the days to come we shall look
back to the airshi% which Rodman Wana
maker has just built, in an admirable
spirit of enterprise, to cross the ocean, as
we now look back upon the tiny ships of
Columbus, or the smaller craft of the
Norsemen who came here, probably, before
Columbus.
Most interesting and dramatic is this
great step in man’s last and highest
EARTHLY achievement, the conquest of
the air. :
Man already masters the land and the
water. He can travel above land and
above water, travel under the water and
tunnel under the land. Now he is to
make his last great mechanical effort on
this planet—and sail over the seas as the
migrating birds fly.
There may be destined for him in future
an even greater 'accomplishment—the
conquest of the inter-stellar ether that
separates the planets.
The great ‘‘aviation prize’’ of the fu
ture may be offered to the man who first
goes to Mars and returns with authentic
information. That will come when we
shall have learned to TALK to the other
planet, as we undoubtedly shall do.
It seems ridiculous, perhaps, to suggest
that men may conquer this planet’s power
of gravitation and go to another world.
Remember how ridiculous it would have
seemed, only a few years a%o, when Rod
man Wanamaker was a baby, to suggest
that when he grew up he would build an
airship to cross the ocean.
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Wondeérful in our eyes is this flight that
man is now to undertake. May the first
effort be successful. The enterprise of
builder and captain deserve success.
The Wanamaker airship in a way sug
gests the airship of the future. For the
airman in the Wanamaker car travels in a
closed cabin protected from the wind and
the cold.
In the days of the real navigation of
the air the airship will have enclosed com
partments of metal a thousand feet long
and much longer.
The great airship will not come to the
earth, but will remain floating six miles
above the surface, where the strong winds
never blow. They will stay away from
their dock, the earth, as the greatest ships
used formerly to stay out in mid-stream.
The passengers will go to the big airships
and from the big ships in smaller airboats.
Those great ships of the future will go
around the earth in twenty-four hours as
the sun seems to go. And then the chief
mechanical problem on this planet, the
great problem of the conquest of gravita
tion, at which man has worked for five
hundred thousand years, will be solved.
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Numerous are the wonders that have
first been shaped in that mysterious cham
ser. the brain of man, and then made into
realities by the ten fingers that obey the
yrderg nf the brain.
We get the oil from the earth, and make
of it gasoline to give power.
We get the ore from the earth, and make
the engine more powerful than the earth’s
attraction. ' -
We make an imitation of the lightning
that flashes in the sky, and with that
ignite the gas in the cylinder. .
The tiny lightning spark which we do
not understand flashes within the engine
wall. The power of the exploding gas,
stored away underground endless millions
0i years ago, moves the piston. The air
ship runs along the surface of the water,
rises 1n the air—and travels free of the
sarth’s attracting force. .
Ang sitting in the tiny flying room,
iooking out over the ocean, sits a man
nossescing that mysterious power called
the spirit, watching, guiding, defying the
law that tied him to the earth, defying the
supers’ition and the fear that once bowed
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Man Has Become a Flying Animal. The Creeping, Human Caterpillar Has Changed Into a Butterfly.
The Norsemen Came Here in a Rowboat—Columbus in His Tiny Sailing Ship.
Their Descendants Will FLY Back to Europe, Guided by Man’s Invincible Spirit, and by the Needle
Pointing to the Northern Star. ‘
him down before idols and hideous
dreams of divine injustice.
That spirit, the guiding brain that
unites the iron, the gas and the lightning
in a working engine, is the great wonder
of the flying machine.
Nothing in this world is worthy of ad
miration except THE THOUGHT IN
MAN, the spark of immortal fire put in
each human being, the energy possessed
by the entire human race that will solve
all its problems—that is the wonder, the
marvel, the great and beautiful feature
of every human effort and of every ac
complishment.
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One other mystery accompanies that
airship on her daring flight. And that is
the tiny, quivering needle in the compass.
Our earth turns on its axis, or axle.
And one end of the axle points toward a
star.
* » * (The morthern star,
Of whose true-fix’d and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.”’
Why the needle points to the star, or
rather toward our North Pole, no man
knows. But so it points forever.
And the pointing of that tiny needle
quivering and moved by the electric wave,
as the leaf is moved by the wind, is THE
OTHER CAPTAIN, the silent, automatiz,
faithful helper that makas direct travel
in the pathless air above the ocean pos
sible,
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If your imagination needs stirring, look
back to the day when man huddled in his
cave shivering with the wet and the cold.
See him crouching in terror at the
lightning’s flash, afraid of beasts, wind,
rain and sea. Then look at the man in the
Wanamaker machine flying one thousand
feet or more above the surface of the ocean
in a machine made from the iron in the
earth, with an engine moved by gas and
lightning, and guided by the quivering
needle that points to the north.
Who, seeing this sight, can doubt the
power of man or estimate the untold
wealth, authority and happiness stored in
that marvellous brain?
Contrast the thinking, conquering hu
man being of to-day with the timid, super
stitious, ignorant, helpless, brutal crea
ture of a bygone day, slaughtering Lis
animal, laying the bleeding body on the
altar of an imaginary god and begging for
mercy now and hereafter.
A splendid change has come. Man says
to the elements, ‘‘ln my brain I have tie
power to conquer you, I'll sclve my owr
Eri)blems here on earth to-day with an
elp.
‘“And I'll trust to the everlasting justice
that controls this planet for what may
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happen to me when the mnachine in which
my brain lives fails and crumbles away.”
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Columbus came in his little ship, his
mutinous sailors, full of religious super
stition, convinced that they were going to
fall over the edge of the ocean. But he
did come, and gave a new world to the
race.
Long before his day, the Norsemen
came, in boats rowed with the power of
their arms. They did not cross the wide
ocean as Columbus did, but crossed far
north, where the waters are narrower.
They defied the ocean in a spirit of bra
vado, like the ancient Gauls rushing on
the rising tide with drawn swords. Very
dangerous was the Norsemen'’s crossing.
But they got here, and a man of their
Northern race, Fulton, made the steam
boat, doing with fire the work those
Norsemen did with their arms. -
Now is to start the first airship.
And that journey will be dangerous and
difficult. MAY fail, as thousands in the
far past failed in efforts to cross the seas.
But this pioneer of ocean flight, or an
other, will try and SUCCEED.
His boat will be followed by air boats
as unlike it as the modern iron ship is
unlike the Norseman’s rowboat.
The airship a mile long will be seen
by those now alive.
01d ladies travelling by airship will set
tle themselves in comfortable chairs,
bound for Paris—and get out at Paris
four hours later—congratulating them
selves that they live in safe airship days.
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Those who follow the experiments
with the Rodman Wanamaker ship see
the beginning of a new era in man’s life.
With the flying machine, man will at last
SEE THIS EARTH HIS PROPERTY.
He will look down upon the mountain
tops, instead of looking up at them. He
will see the planet as :rfif.rdener sees his
garden. Little boys will travel around
the world several times, taking their
course in geography.
We shall know the earth as each man
now knows his front yard. Then, dis
satisfied, we shall look away from this
earth to study the other planets and strug
gle to reach them—first, perhaps, by wire
less talk, then by physical flight. ;
None of us realize what a wonderful
thing it is for man to be at last a flying
animal. The change that has come is ag
great as the change that transforms th:
creeping caterpillar into a flying butter
fly. You are living, ladies aa.ngl gentlemen,
in a day of great accomplishment, and
should appreciate it—or try to appreciate
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