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Thousands of years ago, said the
WE SHOULD ALL BE IN incredulous, the Ancients dreamed
THE AIR BY NOW.
Max Pemberton and the Sleepers Awakened
AND THEN CAME AMY.
Sir Max Pemberton, who con- tends that "we should all be in the nir by now," writes in the Evening News:
The eyes of many to-day are lifted to the skles. Sleepers have been awakened, and the dreamers are stirred once ΠΟΣΕ from
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as We
are dreaming, and old Daedalus became #fable. The "gods" thundered in their heavens, and their chariots of fire were the thunderstorms of their day. These wonders went well in Greek, and many a schoolboy stirred uneasily in his seat because of them. But as facts-Oh, my dear sir!
-And Then Came Any,
raw
So Master Don't-Tell-Me settled down in his armchair, and continu- ed to read about cheaper money and the over-production of material. Flying progressed steadily; but, from a commercial point of view, aomewhat laborious. ly. We won Schnelder Trophies, conquered the oceans, did honour to many noble martyrs, and flew regularly to Paris, for the Grand Prik or the new
revue nt the Follies-Bergere.
lethargy, An Incomparable lady has stirred the imagination of mil- lions, so that forgotten prophets are honoured anew, and the wide heaven is already peopled by futurity. Perchance the very stars "look down on earth with all their But we had ceased to dream of eyes." They may be asking already this earth as but "the frozen echo when Miss Amy Johnson is about of the silent voice of God," and to pay them a visit.
only a brave German desired to shoot himself to Mars in a sky rocket. Gone were the propheta to their studies or to Carey Street. The planets blinked and went back to bed, telling Sister Anne that nobody could be coming in spite of her optimism.
Latterly, it may be, this dream of the air has perished in the hours of the national Indigestion. Prophets, overdrawn at the bank, nee few visions beyond those which blue papers provoke. This mean earth can be no home of imagined glory for him who is watching & bottomless market ... and the King's writ may run on Mars for all we know to the contrary. Nevertheless, reality stalks in the dows and its volce presently must be heard.
We shall all be flying soon!
Progress and Prudence, How often have we said it but hesitated to belleve it. Just as, at the beginning of the motor car movement, the experts said that the horse was as'good as dead, so
There was no atrange music in the stirring wind, nor did we re- member any longer the aspiration of the American Winthrop "A Star for every State and a State for every Star." This flying business was but a luxury for the few, after all, Not too comfortable, said some; and very monotonous, said others, In- deed, it needed an Amy Johnson to recall the visions as thess later days have recalled them.
As Flam
afgnificance before
THE CHINA
many years have passed, no thinking man may doubt,
MAIL.
ELECTRICITY FROM TROTSKY TELLS HIS
THE AIR.
"Spheres Harnessed for for Fascist Italy."
Growing attention IN being given in Rome to the claims of Saverio Natella, a Neapolitan youth, to be able to extract elec tricity from the atmosphere and to transform it into energy.
STORY.
TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1930,
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
Man Who Organised Victory on 16 Fronts.
AT THE NEW SILK STORE.
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Trotsky was-both in the 'good and the bad sense of the word- the most dramatic of the leatlers of the Bolshevik Revolution,
His experiments have nothing to do with wireless or Herzlan' waves, And Trotsky's rise and fall is but concern a new principle by therefore. naturally enough, the which, he declares, he has succeed.
ed in locating and utilising new big personal denia-tragedy if electric waves already indistinctly you will-of the Revolution, known to exist in the upper air Here in "My Life" (Thornton In an interview Natella said. "Butterworth, 30s.) is his own atory, have catablished and proved that
In the air there are positive and told in his own graphic, vchement, negative waves, the former at a pugnacious way..
height of not less than 62 kilo- Trotsky does not apologise. He meires 320 metra (about 10 boasts and he fights.
Kiles) and the latter a little higher His purpose la not to defend him. at 63 kilometres 823 metres. The self, but to denounce his victorious earth does not, therefore, serve as enemies.
waves
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I like. The strength, in fact, do- takes were mate when on occasion, pends on the size of the apparabe differed from Trotsky. tus, but with my small experimen
Second Napoleon.
tal machine I have reached 4% watts, and this I have transmitted It was his dynamic leadership a short distance without any dis-and organising power that built persion of power.
and inspired the ragged army that, "It is the energy of the cosmic fighting.on 16 fronts, saved the ether with which I am in touch. | Revolution. He was Danton and and I foresee that this energy will Carnot in one.
be at our disposal for driving Was it as he has it-base in- power for factories. ships' trains, gratitude and the low scheming of end aeroplanes at a relatively ambitious rivals that inter brought trilling cost."
his fall?
Or was it that his colleagues
As soon as formalities to protect his apparatus and ideas are com sensed the danger that his genius, pleted the young scientist will give coupled with his enormous egotism, a demonstration before a com-might have made of him a second petent commission of experts.
Napoleon? Did the Bolsheviks, Meantime the Italian people do when they broke him, save the Bej not quite know what to think of volution from the Bonapartist | this young man who claims to have fate so often predicted for it?
"harnessed the spheres for Fascist His own book suggests that there Italy."
was no little reason for such fears. But what a story it is." The childhood of this clover.son of a small Jewish farmer in the Ukraine. The quick gager, quest. ing mind, leading him inevitably Into the revolutionary camp.
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of 1917. coroners juries all types of the population
The story has been told mostly condone the slaughter. bookstalls and from booksellers in again, by one of the chief actors,
a hundred times. But here it is Many timid folk, who would have Great Britain yesterday. shrunk from the thought of an
What fon. The circulating libraries are surtastic odds could one have yet in aeroplane five years ago, now be- prised at the number of such re-November 17, for a bet that in gin to make halting inquiries about quests from habitual novel-reading 1930 all the lussias. would be a it. Ia flying really so dangerous, clients.
The wholesale stocks are Union of Soviet Republics! after all? Must not it be nice to being speedily depleted and tha get to Paris in three hours instead Stationery Office staff is overtaxed of in eight? And how jolly to to meet the telographed orders painful task of restarting economic avold that tedious journey to Scot-from all over the country. land and to be eating haggis a few.
The Report promises to attain hours after leaving London. Sure the unusual distinction for a Blac ly, if Amy Johnson can fly all the Book of becoming a bestseller.. way to Australia. alone, Mrs. Vapours, of Hampstead, need not
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The elvil wars and the interven
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DAILY CROSS-WORD
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(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
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Lastly, the struggle for power that followed Lenin's death. And
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American Opinion.
'New York. June 11..
at the end, once more prison, once more exlie.
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. Editorials express themselves
COURT MURDER.
spread. But it is the mere pro-fairness displayed in the Simon re-
This talk is being heard and will deeply impressed with "British tragedian: or for a Shakespeare!
logue to the Air Dream. Weport." should all be flying by this time.
The New York Times finds parti places sa cabatands. in all the of the Commission to rid itself of There should be as many landing cularly striking the obvious effort cities. Every new house should English presumptions and pene, have a flat roof whereon the gyros-trate beneath the alien surface tol copic plane of the future can a real understanding of the charae- PROMINENT FINANCIER SHOT
roaat: & stage wherefrom the ter and aspirations of Indians owner can drive to his ice in It concludes: "If the Indian In the morning.
dependents donounce this tactfu Clearly, the time is coming when and appreciative effort to under
we must get off the roads and take stand the real political problem of
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to a highway which needs no sur- India, It shows itself capable ofhere to-day as Frank D. Keaton, be veyor's shovel.. Vast spaces are disregarding the advice of sincere lleved to be insane, shot and killed before us to conquer, and if there and loyal friends.”
Matley H. Flint, prominent finan-
tis.
be neither empyrean, there is a The Herald Tribune describes tier of Los Angeles and brother of mere land can give us. vast vision of the infinite which no the report as "almost painfully the late Senator Flint.
temperata."
... . :· Flint was killed as he stepped. A dream of the Far Away! It The New York World is await from the witness stand. "He had may be so; yet the work of the ing with the greatest Interest the been testifying in connection with Incomparable Lady surely has second volume "because of the In-a bank suit in superior court.. brought reality a little nearer to telligence, fairness and sense of Keaton said he had lost money reality embodied in the first re- in the crash of the $100,000,000] port."!
Julian Oil Company some time ago. Under British Control. He held Flint responsible for his
losses and therefore decided Le Temps says that the Simon take the financler's life. Report is a most important docu- Authorities who grilled Kenton APPOINTED BY POPE TO BE unimity of the Commissioners murder expresset, belief that he was ment and the announcement of the after the sensational court room
ARCHPRIEST::
Paris, June 11.
clearly gives it great authority at least temporarily deranged and tends to confirm the absolute United Preas. sincerity of the Inquiry;
Nearer to the Great Air Dream. did aeronauts tell us at the end of Some of us, perhaps, have dream. the war that we should all be ined the fantastic dreams of a Vah aeroplanes before another decade tek or a De Quincey. Sleep has had run. We said "certainly," but carried as far from this world of nobody believed a word of it. It sin to the eternal spaces and the CARDINAL CERETTI. was so dangerous, you know. Big mysteries of stars. men told you that they would not marlon bade us to do, we have look out of the topmost window of flown so far away from old Mother a skyscraper if you offered them a Ges that time has not kept race- thousand sovereigns. Others said, with us, and we have seen, through "In a car smash, you have a the "forty million magnifying chance; but fall from an aeroplane glass of Sam Weller, the march from a thousand or from fifty feet of Alexander to the Orlait and and you are as dead as the Dodo. the severed heads that grinned on Moreover, you will possibly be the city's gates when the Han cremated to boot, and there is no marched on ancient Rome in the extra charge for that."
non object we have lost.aur way in These were the common objec ether; and calling upon the people
The second part of the report, per tions. But they ignored the truth of Mars by accident have been re- Cardinal Ceretti, an Italian, is 58 hapa, may bring out some alght of that "Knowledge is the wing galed with a wine-cup thefr baffling years of age. In his new capacity it, but it is quite certain that India, wherewith we fly to Heaven. The snows have crowned.
he becomes Bishop of Ostia and as revealed by the Commission, can dream was amusing because it was Those adventures, we realise, Palestrina, Dean of the, Sacred only subslet in the framework of the wildest-ever dreamed by man, are not to be told to anybody but College and Datary of the Pope. the Empire and under British con- but Mr. Well'e "Martians' Reamed ourselves and do not make Cardinal Vennutelll died last trol, which will be anything bu fast as worthy of ballef, and credible gossip for clubs. We must wear at the age of 66, His ancillusory tutelage, milyard Gulliver's floating island could become nearer to the earth if the ceasor was elevated to the College Even Dominion stitus appears noclon CENTAR Impossibility If the Air Dresi is to have real signiß-, of Cardinals In 1925. United as a rail experiment, full of danger Trophéer, were trûn..
cance. And that it will have reil
for the Empire and India herself."
Vatican City, July 17. After stating the probleme of Popa Plus XI to-day appointed race, religion and caste in India, Bonaventura, Cardinal Ceretti, to Le Temps concludes: Major Basilica, succeeding the late conditions, an independent India? be the Archpriest of the St. Mary
"How can one conceive, in, these Vincenzo, Cardinal Vannutelis.
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