Odessa Montour Central High School - Odessanean Yearbook (Odessa, NY)

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Recently aid was fender 3d by the Red Cross at the tires of the last Mississippi 'fFlood. Foodj clothes, and mone£ were sent to those who needed them. Hospitals were started and nurses were sent to care for the iniured» Food lines were formed by the Red Cross workers who prepared food fir the people and they were lined up and each relieved his or her share. These same thingd were done at the time of the New England Flood. Organized, workers were 3ent up there to clear the remains of the flood out of the towns. Even a bumch of the college boys from one of the New ngl:.nd colleges were sent up one day to aid the workers. It is hoped that by peace treaties which will help to prevent war and different ways which have been discovered to prevent,fire, flood, and disease, that the work of the Red Cross shall be lessened. But even though this organization is growing all the time I think it vri 11 always find enough to keep it busy and that a use will be found for all the money that it can collect. Beatrice Seailes Modern Inventions in Transportation and Their Benefits to the Busuness World. The first time that primitive man ever carried a d°er on his back or dragged the buffalo from tne place where he had killed it to his cave he made use of that tremendously important branch of our com ercial system that w $ now call transportation. From the time that beasts were first domesticated, on down through the ages to the present, man has continued to be an animal of transportation along with them. Time and the ingenuity of man soon brought into use the wheeled vehicle, the street car, and later the motor car, which has undoubtedly benefit ted more people than any other invention of transportation in the history of the world. So important has this method of travel become that to-day we find ourselves asking the question, ’’Will themotor car continue to revolutionize transportatio so that in the near f'ucuxe it will practically eliminate the use of the electric street railway? Judging from the nimoer abondoned in the past, the answere is Yes . Yearly the railroads report a marked decrease on passenger patronage. Why? Because travel by motor car is cleaner, more picturesque and allows a person to travel where he choses, in comfort, amid luxurious s,yr Oundings.,

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All of th fesiss th errsBTlttoiSfi .n'BEfit np, skill, strenght, money, and experimentation- Yet we are not satisfied for to be still greater is to keep ever striving, ever inventing. Diezel realized thfei. ahS had very recently introduced into the business world the Diezel engine. It is a great success. It os economical because it consumes crude and crank case drained oil. It is sanitary because it gives off no smoke. It is a very high compression engine with little or no vibration. The Diezel engine is being installed in medEnn vessels and smoke atack3 are being ommitted. To accomplish the union ct sea and air transportation people have been quietly revolutionizing the surface ships, while speeding the development of bigger and better armored planes. The United States, within a few months, will have added to its fighting fleet the last word in airplane carriers. Thses are being insltlied on the mighty cruisers, Lexiton and Saratoga, which are nearing completion. Thses vessels will be equipped with a launchingcatapult, which will allow the plane to take off immediately from a standstill. America leads all other countries in this invention. The aircraft carriers are the most wlerd and wonderful ships that ever put to sea. Huge landing decks, equipped with the most modern wind break invention are at either end of the vessels. Airplanes may be elevated from the landing decks to the catapult ready for a take off. Below the deck is an airplane factory and machine shop, capable of rebuilding an entire plane cr making any necessary repairs.With thses new devices in freight carrying planes or passenger planes will stop in mid ocean for fuel, be elevated to the catapult and shot out to sea reserving their entire lifting capacity for carryingthe load. Historians tell us of the Victorian Age, the Elizabethan Age and many rothers. Are ?;e not living in the-aircraft age? Never in the history of aviation have so many experiments been made, as in the past two years, and sucoessful years too. Charles A. Lindberg says, Commercial aviation, until recently a topic for ridicule will lead the world in transportation in a few years. Commercial aviation willcome more quickly than the railroad and the e.utomobile because the automobile has developed these qyickly.than the airplane. In less thar twenty years bt has grown from the crudest experimental stage to a safe reliable carrier with many conveniences and comforts. Europe to-day has well established com ercial lines using large multi-cabin 3hins equipped .o be as comfortable as pullman cars. The Governmet furnishes from fifty to ninety percent of the oprrating coats. Perhaps that d s why com ercial lines haveebeen pushed f forward in Europe . We have commercial lines here of course, such a3 the United States mail routes. There are several of these routes now in operation in the United States and more are being added constantly.