HUMAN FLIGHTS

Evening Star, Issue 20048, 13 December 1928, Page 5

HUMAN FLIGHTS

CONQUEST OF THE AIR MR GOOLIDGE REVIEWS POSITION Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, December 12. (Received December 13, at 10 a.m.) President Coolidge opened tho International Aeronautical Conference with an address which reviewed the progress of human flight from antiquity to the present day. He said, in reference to the Wright celebration this year, that it would mark the third quarter of century of the history of human flight. The desire to learn to fly had probably always been in the human breast. The President quoted from Tennyson’s tvords: “Saw the heavens fill with commerce,” and added that 70,000 miles of air routes are now regularly operated in. the world.—Australian Press Association. TENNYSON'S VISION The above reference is to Tennyson’s prophetic lines in ‘ Locksley Hail’ ; Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new: That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do: For I dipt into tho future, far as human eye could see, Saw tho Vision of the world, and all tho wonder that would bo; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down their costly bales; Heard the .heavens fill with shouting, and there rain’d a ghastly dew From the nations’ airy navies grappling in tho central blue; Far along tho world-wide whisper of of the south-wind lushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro’ the thunder storm; Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and tho battle-flags were furl'd In tho Parliament of Man, tho Federation of the AVorld,