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inherent caution and respect. You spend your ingenuity in another direction. When you act, you act with discretion.  You ravish neither your rivers nor your forests. Your land you treat with discretion. You move with unobstrusive demeanor as if it were your business to pass unseen and unheard through a country in which your presence is always felt and your power respected. Your shadow is that of an eagle, cast in strong, unhurried flight. The nursery tale cannot vie with  you in simplicity. America's wisest citizens cannot match you in profundity.

My faith in the future of aviation is like a buried treasure. I guard it. I try to learn how to use it primarily for my country's salvation and, secondarily, for our national prosperity. Some thought, a word, a service by citizens such as you, are all that is needed to liberate aviation's possibilities which have so long been shackled in bondage. I confess I am covetous of success in that mission. Undoubtedly, you and I both desire to be included among the men who will restore these possibilities to their rightful place in our nation's daily life. It will be the greatest happiness of my life. My duties are too many for any one man. I need your help. It is work for the heart, for a particular sympathy, and for an informed intelligence. Let not our efforts be but idle and empty words. Our haven of national defense is yours. I am but a servant in it. Let us all join in building for the future.  

Although I am now in my twenty-third year of flying, and although I have participated in many of the world's fundamental decisions pertaining to aeronautics, such knowledge as I have of its whys and wherefores is sufficient only to cause me to feel that man's knowledge is limited to but little of the future scope of this newest of sciences or its business possibilities.