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The aeroplane will not only enrich our national life but so simplify international world-wide travel, that a community of interests and friendships can be built with all nations of the world and a foundation laid for the Brotherhood of man, the desideratum the world is awaiting with arms outstretched. 

If all this insistence brings us to some belief that, after this epic development is upon us, what of the changes it must involve, the far reaching influences it must inevitably exert in all possible fields of human thought and activity?

Ponder the romance of it, the certainty that it must completely reorganize more than one fundamental factor of the present social order. And believe, as one must, (unless lost to all [[?]] and faith,)that present ills work for ultimate good, and inquire what it will mean to live under skies thronged with aircraft, to live in a world from which the artificial barriers of national boundaries and natural barriers of physical characteristics are, by advancing intelligence, erased past re-establishment.

What must be the result when, with a means of travel, limited neither by difficulties of topography nor by the sea, lending itself perfectly to individual use but not at all to the uses of monopoly, and not confirmed to the narrowness of specially built highways, the greatest freedom the individual can possess, the freedom of travel far and wide at will, supplied by a vehicle that will prove cheaper to own, maintain, and operate than any other vehicle that has ever existed. 

Dec. 1924-
Written 1923 
by 
Elwood "Sam" Junkin

and mailed to Mrs. Geo "Buck" Weave