THIS MOVING WORLD

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hello hey busy intro Jax never too busy to talk to you I'll be on him let's go into the office so that's it yes sir all done this is handled with care that's first-rate dick first-rate you followed your original plans very closely highly kingpin awful beautiful and fine proportions and practical from bumper to bumper I certainly hope you're right Uncle Jack don't forget that there are a lot of good brains designing automobile body I realize there's plenty of competition but y'all better have ideas and they have the courage to stick up water I'm not afraid to put my model against anybody's that's the talk while I was building it I was thinking yes dick thinking what by just thinking how it all started this business of going places I mean do you suppose people have always wanted to be somewhere else probably since the very beginning of things I guess there'll always been wandering tribes in every land from the dawn of history but I mean particular to many billion things like this well that probably started with the invention of the wheel and the accident and when was that you got me there why even the history books can answer that one I wonder who it was probably some young fella like you did with courage and imagination a way back in the Stone Age [Music] Oh [Applause] you [Music] you [Music] [Music] you [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] yes dick it might have been some young fellow like you thought up the wheel on the axle or you might even have got the idea from the petals of a flower in the stem that's right maybe your Daisy it does sort of look like spokes of a wheel without a rim where we're still a long ways knit hmm many thousands of years oh I I've got something around here that may help you what is it a project it's a book that can explain it better than I can here then and not mine history of Transportation but that's just what I was looking for better talk to you Nick it has a great story to tell well thanks a lot Uncle Jack after writing on it in some far distant day before the testimony of recorded time are now forgotten and uncelebrated genius made of wheel but then and even today man and woman to bear burdens or in some ways and in some places things haven't greatly changed since the dim past when fishes flew and forests walked and figs grew up on thorn from the beginning there have been beasts of burden in the Orient there were elephants piling teeth and across the mysterious meditative unapproachable desert for centuries has plotted the patient camel better known are the chariots of the Romans whose wheels rumbled through the pages of ancient history over the thousands of miles of road that laced England and the Covenant into the Roman Empire man first travelled on the water we may suppose by means of a rude raft which he pulled along later he learned to hollow out a log to form a boat and still later he fashioned a finer swifter and more graceful craft of birch bark the Egyptians rigged a sail more than eight thousand years ago but the best remembered vessels of antiquity were the galleys with their banks of oars sometimes one bank and often as many as five they served as transportation for the Greeks enrollment send also when armored at the prowl as battleships always there have been sailor men to sail the multitudinous seas men who yearned for the sting of the salt spray and who said I must go down to the Seas again to the lonely sea in the sky and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by interesting isn't it I should say it is a far Guerette why were just getting into banking under the mighty Arun our Rashid my even the names very exciting those were exciting times till the book says this was the age that gave birth to the gills of craftsmen those strong local organizations that gave so much of character and worth to the life of the Middle Ages that's what they say and I believe it too just how did they work well when a boy was 16 around your age he was apprenticed to a master workman for seven years he lived with a master and worked under his direction that certainly was a good way to learn a trade none better for those times they from the old guild came true craftsman where the training was rigid and the apprentice was bound to a high standard of sincere and honest workmanship you know Uncle Jack I'd like to have lived then maybe you did dick who can say maybe you did give you good day master uh now Richard now the squirrels are up this week from my life for the broad day is upon us and we must end our cast error nightfall master johan well boy i doubt not that you have long since world considered this matter what letter mean you our coaches are well and truly me be quite sure of it and yet upon that highway there is such a monster shaking and those who ride within that i do sometimes wonder how their very teeth continue firmly fix it in their jaws upon my life boy do not stretch your privilege your pride master young man but may it not well be that one day the occasion will drivers to build better than we now build death enlight richard come to the matter what they knew only this master should another coach maker hip perchance to find a way to ease the rattling bones then clearly beyond doubt we should lose our customer not so fast boy there are more ways of killing a dog than choking him with butter if the nobles be shaking in their coaches then let them mend their highways have done boy and let's about our business but master johan not to put too fine a point about it I have a plan where and we cannot fail I do well believe to banish all this buffeting of juiceless creaky joints pretty hearty master speak on Richard to heal the burden of the coach from imperfections in the highway would be a consummation devoutly to be wish'd is it not so verily verily animal what did you say on further they let that burden cradle to be and stopped and sturdy thongs of leather so let's weigh it's level untouched by ruts and humus in the road so like the pounding hair it will spring over jutting crag impact exactly mastered it was sane afraid unless I be a motley fool I am well content that there boy all had something for centuries adventurers longed to visit fireplaces were compelled to travel by ship others sail the seven seas in quest of all manner of goods remember it was a Western route to India and the treasures of the east that Columbus sought it is written that Cleopatra ships brother evany and myrrh spices and Kashmir ivory Apes and peacocks from distant lands saw the Spaniards sail domain in their folly even Imperial galleons but Dutch drove close bargains when they put in with their stealth merchantmen the British East India man was known in every important port on the other side of the world and finally came the Yankee Clipper whose snowy spread of canvas belied on many a horizon but while her weather-beaten New England skipper shrewdly scanned the alien scene by mid-century many hundreds of intrepid pioneers turned their faces toward the Setting Sun and fared forth into strange country facing unknown dangers with steady RI and dauntless courage crossing a trackless prairies in a rocking pitching schooners they called covered wagons they took the first firm steps toward the ultimate winning of the West meanwhile things were happening on the sea so early as the first quarter of the 19th century the first iron ships been apparent defiance of natural laws rode the waves and in the last quarter of the century the iron vessel was replaced by the steel ship rudimentary it seems now what it was majestic then but on the Mississippi the lumbering Stern wheelers still plowed along and now and then could be heard that famous cried destined to be the name of the man who rode of life on the Mississippi the cry of Mark Twain and in hand with a development of ships once the improvement of land transportation well the application of steam to the problem of moving the world by the middle of the nineteenth century one could travel by railroad train from the Atlantic seaboard to Chicago noisy dolls coaches were and dirty to slow indeed and equipped only with hand brakes what they got people from one city to another which is the main consideration if you want to go places by 1867 a Transcontinental Railroad had been completed but still for years scarcely anybody traveled for pleasure and only the very wealthy traveled in any sort of comfort then at the turn of the century came the amazing innovation that was deliberate the individual rich and poor alike and finally Nora can but I think it's in the top probably is now if we had a top of wall on piece then there simply couldn't be any squeaks around all one piece well I never heard of such a thing I never did either but I'd like to wouldn't you you couldn't do that John don't forget we're in the twentieth century now just look what Nikola Tesla and Edison and this fellow Marconi are joined why a few years ago you two said the telephone a photograph were impossible hello John hello dick hello dick hello Tom can I borrow a little graphic Oh what flavor will you have 23 for you boss you do well now I'll hand you a limb how not hand me the graphic first it's doc Whitcomb he'll break his neck one of these days without horses Kari I see by the paper a young fella drove an automobile like that from Detroit to New York and he made it in seven a half days not me I'll stick to my horse [Applause] [Applause] how are you doc have a better job just been up to your brother's house what do you think yes yes little Sally just getting over the big boobs now the baby's coming down with him oh there's a little fellow bad off no no looks like light cake probably doing good I'll be getting on more calls to make [Music] isn't that wonderful come on rubberneck I'll give you a grand fight gee whiz I'm so John do you think you'll ever have one of those cat tell dick I was just saying before you came in it seems it's all about anything can happen these days oh you're a loony John I tell you it's just a fad you can't tell you're just can't tell 901 when the first curve - Oldsmobile appeared there were only 7000 motor vehicles produced in the United States 30 years later there were 26 million cars and trucks registered in this country pink growth of what was called a fad at the beginning of the century organized in 1908 the Fisher Body company two years later in 1910 up from Cadillac for 150 of their clothes bodies in that day all cars were cranked by hand and it was a dangerous laborious and frequently maddening operation then in 1912 came another history-making measurement on the electric self-starter was embodied in this automobile as standard equipment another two years passed and again the same manufacturer took the lead by introducing two American motor 'dom the V type 8 cylinder high speed engine quite a different contribution to transportation was the opening of the Panama Canal a 50 miles cut that connected the Atlantic and the Pacific a long period of research and development culminated in 1923 with the introduction of do coal by which an automobile was given not only a finer and more durable finish but also the process was shortened from a month to four days as motorcars gained in power and speed the need arose for safer and more positive brakes that problem was solved by the introduction on the 1924 Buick of four-wheel brakes till another milestone on the road to safety and motorcars was the introduction of safety plate glass in 1926 probably no single feat in this business of going from one place to another so captured the heart of the world as the solo flight across the Atlantic I think of Charles Lindbergh what are two mulches welcome he was given on his return to New York in 1927 that same year the first of the vehicular tunnels under the Hudson River was completed at killed nearly two miles in length an ethical voyage was made in 1929 when the Graf Zeppelin flew around the world meanwhile far down under Admiral Byrd was flying over the South Pole that same year two countries were joined by still another bomb the Ambassador Bridge that was flung across the Detroit River as a tangible evidence of more than a century of neighborly friendship between Canada and the USA and incidentally at this point the Dominion is south of the United States believe it or not new peaks of luxurious motoring were scaled in 1930 when the first 16-cylinder car was offered to the public surely there was never before such a superb power plant as this that same year a motorboat traveled the astonishing speed of more than 77 miles an hour to retain for this country the International Harmsworth trophy the automotive engineers were releasing season after season the fruits of their study and experimentation for the health and comfort of driver and passenger no draught ventilation in 1933 was a welcomed refinement the action in 1934 was another great achievement smoothing out the roughest Road in absorbing shocks so that the passenger rolled in cradled ease never before dreamed of truly we've seen now to be attaining the ultimate in swift and luxurious transportation crowning their efforts the builders in 1935 surrounded the bodies with a solid steel turret top here was the strongest and safest automobile body that ever traveled a highway across the continent streaks streamlined trains cutting schedules by hours and diesel powered in the modern way for speed and economy regularly between San Francisco and the Philippine Islands flies a fleet of China Clippers great flying boats that skim the vast Pacific on the eastern seaboard is another marvel of our time the huge ocean liner that spans the Atlantic in just a few days bringing our continent and England almost Within hailing distance most of us little realize how much we depend on others in our daily life how difficult it would be to get along without quick and cheap transportation let us look about the average dinner table and examine origins the rug comes from Turkey the silk and dads tie and mother stockings from Japan a rubber in the percolator cord from Africa the coffee is from Brazil and the tea from China pepper from India Ali is from Italy sardines from Norway cheese from Switzerland marmalade from England the oranges are from Florida and the lemons from California from Oregon come apples and from Michigan celery Texas sends pecans Maryland oysters and Delaware peaches not to mention duckling from Long Island scrapple from Philadelphia and beans from Boston people and things roll over the roads from coast to coast and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf and what roles in 1910 there were only 200,000 miles of improved highways in the United States now there are more than three million miles as motorcars multiplied the road builders tried to keep pace gone forever are the days when travel was only for the fuel nowadays in this moving world of ours we all go places we all can say with the port light-hearted I take to the open road healthy free a world before me we in this Maximus age truly have the world before us because of the development and refinement of the motorcar safe comfortable and economical transportation is now available to all of us great advances have been made in the past three decades greater advances are to be made in the years to come and when they are made it will be as it was in the past because of the forward-looking youth of our country in whose courage imagination and ingenuity why is the future of Transportation and he who serves Progress serves America look Uncle Jack look well weld it what's the big news I did it I'm good jack I did it did what let me see I've won think of that my model is one I'm so glad what you deserved it isn't it wonderful I just like to let out a yell go right ahead [Music]