From Now On, Depressions Will Be Scientifically

In Honoring The Wright Brothers, It Is Customary And Proper To Recognize Their Contribution To Scientific Progress. But I Believe It Is Equally Important To Emphasize The Qualities In Their Pioneering Life And The Character In Man That Such A Life Produced. The Wright Brothers Balanced Sucess With Modesty, Science With Simplicity. At Kitty Hawk Their Intellects And Senses Worked In Mutual Support. They Represented Man In Balance, And From That Balance Came Wings To Lift A World.

The Life Of An Aviator Seemed To Me Ideal. It Involved Skill. It Brought Adventure. It Made Use Of The Latest Developments Of Science. Mechanical Engineers Were Fettered To Factories And Drafting Boards While Pilots Have The Freedom Of Wind With The Expanse Of Sky. There Were Times In An Aeroplane When It Seemed I Had Escaped Mortality To Look Down On Earth Like A God.

History Has Recorded Nothing So Dramatic In Design, Nor So Skillfully Manipulated, As This Attempt To Create The National Reserve Association, Or The Federal Reserve.

I Grow Aware Of Various Forms Of Man And Of Myself. I Am Form And I Am Formless, I Am Life And I Am Matter, Mortal And Immortal. I Am One And Many -- Myself And Humanity In Flux.

Why Does One Want To Walk Wings? Why Force One's Body From A Plane To Make A Parachute Jump? Why Should Man Want To Fly At All? People Often Ask These Questions. But What Civilization Was Not Founded On Adventure, And How Long Could One Exist Without It? Some Answer The Attainment Of Knowledge. Some Say Wealth, Or Power, Is Sufficient Cause. I Believe The Risks I Take Are Justified Y The Sheer Love Of The Life I Lead.