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as tfcT case may be, for the
United States Postoffice Department has
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decided to make the delivery of mail by
aeroplane an every-da- y reality instead of
the dream it has been for the last two or
three years.

of the Ibst Office Department

Experiments In the delivery of mall by
aeroplane by the department have con-
vinced the officials of the utility and
safety of air-cra- ft
in transporting the
mails, so much so In fact, that Second
Assistant Postmaster General Stewart re-
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nber with the necessary appropriation
o put the system into effect.
The Second Assistant Postmaster Gen-or-
declared that it was his tirm convic-
tion, and that of other high officials of
the department as well, that a bill estab
lUhlnx the "United States Aerial Postal
Seriie" would be passed at the next ses-
sion of Congress. Within two years. Mr
Stewart predicted, postal aviatois would
be as commonplace In the United States
as railway mail clerks are today.
And two thousand postal aviators will
bo needed just as soon as the necessary
legislation Is enacted: 2.000 at least, ac-
cording to Mr Stewart, thus opening a
new field to the youth of the country who
are ambitious to rise in the world, a3 It
were.
As there are aviation schools In plenty
all over the country the father of the
postal aero service movement anticipates
no difficulty In recruiting a sufficient
corps. In fact, ever since the aero-ma- ll
experiments were started, many applica-
tions for places In the proposed service
have reached the Postoffice Department In
W asbington. Of course, only aviators
with licenses will be considered, and In
addition they must be able to i ass the
same rigid examinations, physical and
mental, as are required of the railway
mall clerk. Then the element of
"nerve" will play an Important part In
the selection of candidates, for Uncle
of having his
Sam cannot take e
mail scattered to the four winds because
of the absence of this prime requisite In
one of his aerial mall clerks.
The department has not settled the
question of the type of aeroplane to be
adopted. However, this will not be dif-
ficult, as there are several machines
adapted to meet all requirements. At Brat
the aerial mall routes, according to tenta-
tive plans of tho department, would be
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danger was coming from, and so even
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though looking ahead, his retina, sen-
&?& sitized to the rims, caught Impressions
necessary to warn him ot enemies or ot
v game.
Ever since woman has been the sub-
". ject of man she has practiced modesty.
$??: She has been forced to go along with
downcast eyes. And yet her coquetry
ji has enforced upon her the necessity of
seeing.
& a first line of battle or defense. The call By experiments at Harvard and
.&& for reserves always more reserves Vienna and at Paris, a woman's arc of
sounds through our aeroplane plans as sight has been measured. Manifestly
through all our military plans. the sight which more closely approaches
"The solution Is the preparing o'f, men the perlscopic Is better adapted for
who may serve as highly trained aerial flying, else a bird would not have de-
scouts, but who. until war demands their veloped this sight. A twig moving far
services, are ot use in other lines. The to his right In his Held of vision may be
Postoffice Department's plans are ot
great value In Jur that regard. The the signal of a hidden enemy to the
army, I am able to say, would gladly bird; in the same way it may mean dan-
by training aviators for the ger in a sudden gust of wind to the
postal service at the army schools; we aviator. ' v. i
Diffused attention Is the opposite of
frfit Si hope soon to have four of them. More
than that. It is our policy to offer to train concentration. Woman has the first,
man has the second. Diffused atten-
all national guardsmen who may Beek to
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civilians up to the capacity of our plant"
Then, too, this proposed aero-post- al
tion Is the quality of mind that can take
In a number of details at once. This Is
also a primitive quality.
ffsr service bids fair to open a new field to The advantages of diffused attention
women, although, the second assistant In flying are obvious. The contour
postmaster general hasn't said so. No of the ground, the appearance ot
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the sky. the sound of the motor, the
less an authority than Professor Rudolph
Henslngmuller, of the University of "feeding" of the machine, and a hun-
dred other things must be taken into
V?. Vienna, has declarc-- l that women are
better equipped, both physically and consideration and weighed all at once.
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mentally, to sail the air than are men. Only diffused attention of the most ex-
KJ&2 mm Why?
Because her vision is better, she hav-
pert kind can make a perfect aviator.
Her skeleton more approaches the
ing retained the primitive faculty of bird's. Her bones are lighter and more
seeing with her full retina. Entorced hollow than those of man. Jer specific
gravity Is less. '""
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modesty has caused this.
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.. Tf - The periphery, the outer rim of a She craves excitement, and has mors
woman's retina. Is as sensitive to objects nervous endurance than man. Watch
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the speed machines at the parks, the

about one hundred miles In length, or
less, with another aeroplane at tho relay
4tatIon. all In readiness to take up the
pouches brought by Aero No. 1. Thus,
little time would bo lost In winging the
mall on to New York or Cleveland or
Chicago, as the case may be.
Tho crew of an aerial mall car would
consist. In the beginning, of one or two
clerks and a pilot, Later on, when air-
craft became more and more developed,
additional clerks would be carried.
Ot course, there would be little sort-la- c
of mall on board the aerial postal car
as Is done in the railway coach, for with
the machine skimming through the air
at a speed of 100 miles an hour or more,
the wind might snatch a handful of let-te- n
from, the aerial clerk, ;and scatter
them OTer two or three counties.
More speed in transportation from sta-
tion to station or pouches is the aim of
the Postoffice Department In establish-
ing the air service, the delivery of mall
at short distances being a question left to
the future. - said, were for use on land, to be equipped
The War Department la eagar. to co
as Is Its center, he says. A woman can
operate ulth, the postoffice bureau in squadrons were tor marine service and look away from you and still see you. toboggans, the slides, etc. See the per-
training aviators for the proposed service. equippW with hydros. Her arc of sight Is almost twice that centage of women to men. Once she la
assured that a thing Is safe and If It is a
Brigadier General George P. Scrlven, "We have reached the conclusion," he of man's, in whom, as a rule, the
chier signal officer ot theJJnlted States said, "that the aeroplane Is Indispensable periphery of the retina Is extremely question of speed, she becomes a speed
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army, declared it is the immediate in- as 'the. eyes' of tfie artillery and we can bjunted to Impressions Try tho experi- maniac.
tention of the army and navy forcessup-to no longer afford to remain indifferent to ment ot having a woman look: straight She has more Intuition. Intuition la
open an aviation school In Texas to this branch of the service. But we can't ahead and telling yon how much she nothing more than the power of rapidly
plement the school already established at look for more than four squadrons of still can see on each side ot her without perceiving a number of .causes and in-
San Diego. CaL, and that the army and aerial troops at present. After all. directly looking at the objects. stantaneously synthetlzlng them. A
navy expected shortly to bave four aerial aerial troops' would be an auxiliary and There is a eep psychological reason woman cannot do this In abstract sub-
squadrons.- Two. of these squadrons, he we can't make them out of proportion ip for this. Primitive man. who. surround- jects, but In concrete subjects, in her
the. .general establishment and the gen- ed by dangers, had to keep looking on surroundings she can. Intuition la am
with aeroplaae; while the other two eral establishment is air a prorteleB tar very tide at ace, had, It U probable, essential la aeroplanlaf. '

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