Of course, the public must be converted to the use of the airship, just as the people of Germany were converted—by actual operations. There probably exists no other field of human endeavor so essential to our civilization as that of transportation. The traveling public has accepted other mediums of conveyance after they had demonstrated inherent qualities of safety and reliability. So it is with aircraft. Heavier-than-air machines have gradually popularized flying. Persons are riding by the air route in constantly increasing numbers, here and abroad. Their faith in commercial aviation is due solely to the BRAVE pioneering efforts of a few men of vision these last twenty years. Popularity and general use depends on the efficiency of the organizations which now carry on the work so well begun. [PLATE 59: Zeppelin Fountain at Friedrichshafen. Dedicated by the townspeople to the memory of Count Zeppelin.] Zeppelin Ready to Participate in Development Throughout the World It is the privilege of Zeppelin to participate in this development along the lines laid out by the founder, to the end that the rigid airship may do its part in bringing men and nations more closely together and facilitate mutual understanding and good will throughout the world. ENGRAVED AND PRINTED BY WELLS AND COMPANY CHICAGO End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Zeppelin, by Harry Vissering