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THE PHENOMENON OP LINDBERGH Rf ? by Sister Mary Seraphia Mcginty, B.S. Sisters of Charity, Leavenworth, Kansas. Submitted To z y THE PHENOMENON OP LINDBERGH rf ? by Sister Mary Seraphia McGinty, B.S. Sisters of Charity, Leavenworth, Kansas. Submitted to the Department of Education and the Faculty of Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts. Approved by: Summer Session, 1928 / CONTENTS I INTRODUCTION......................................... 1 II THE ASCENDANCY AND MAGNITUDE OP LINDBERGH'S INFLUENCE....................... 7 III THE EFFECTIVENESS OF LINDBERGH'S INFLUENCE................................... ...38 IV BIBLIOGRAPHY......................................... 56 312808 ALUM LBRJ 0 3 CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY I. INTRODUCTION The following study of the Phenomenon of Lindbergh is made with a view to help one in forming a true estimate of the nature, magnitude, and effectiveness of his educa­ tional influence. That the Phenomenon of Lindbergh has exercised, and is exercising a tremendous and far-reaching influence no thoughtful follower of the press accounts of the flier's adventures and accomplishments since May 11, 1927 will deny. On that date, the day of his take-off from San Diego, California, the natal city of the "We" partner, the Associated Press gave him a meagre front page recognition, not in an attitude of faith and trust, hut as an advertis­ ing element, a "dark horse” incident for the story of the pending Orteig Trans-Atlantic Air Race. A history of Lind­ bergh must needs chronicle the days, May 11-21, 1927, as the Period of American Incredulity, "the darkest hour before the dawn" of his glory. It was then he stood alone: alone. as Cl) one "in whom no one but himself believed"; alone,-unknown (1) "We", p. 318 a 2 beyond a small group of friends, backers, airplane build­ ers, fellow-pilots and mechanics; alone,-hailed as fool­ hardy by the public sentiment of his own native land. But this chapter of Lindbergh history sheds great glory on the undaunted character ready to dare and to do that in which he himself had indomitable faith. The hours he stood alone were a greater test of character than the thirty-three and one-half hours he "flew alone" in his meteor-flash from obscurity to immortality. The Associated Press report to the New York Times, some three hours before his triumphant landing, records the psychological setting of the Plying Viking* s entrance to the heart of France: "Lindbergh’s fearlessness and his will to win have aroused the admiration of the French public....With in­ tense interest and sincere admiration Paris awaits his arrival". (2) The landing on LeBourget field at 10:21 p. m. (Paris time) on the dark night of May 21 is, in the opinion of Fitzhugh Green, "the culmination of what might be called the mechanical aspect of his success" and the starting (3) point of the Phenomenon of Lindbergh. And, as his plane halted under the winner's wire, there stepped from the tiny cockpit of the pioneering ship LINDBERGH, THE MAN. When, on the following day, from the balcony of the Ameri- (2) Associated Press Report: May 21, 1927 (5) "We", p. 255, e; p. 255,e 3 can Embassy, impatient, waiting Paris beheld the smiling, ruddy face of the youthful hero, Prance caught the personal­ ity of the man. With radio speed the Spirit of Lindbergh flashed out upon the expectant world. His own America, al­ ready hilarious over the popular venture and the national triumph, began to awaken to the sterling character of her worthy son. On May 22, the public press immortalized "the (4) broad smile that now is widely kno?m". Letters, telegrams, cablegrams, radiograms swept in avalanche mass upon the Ameri­ can Embassy. His first awakening under the French noonday sky of May 22 found him not alone, but surrounded by thousands and the world in spirit hailing him as a hero; and by admiring Governments proffering their congratulations and their most distinguished decorations. Encompassed stood the modest, un­ affected, manly, kindly, inspiring idol of the multitudes, blushing like a girl, with the world at his feet. Popular interest was no longer centered about the glorious venture or its accomplishment. It was the simplicity, the courage, the magnanimity, the invincible coolness" of youth, the personality and the conduct of the boyish Charles A. Lindbergh that was rapidly generating "the greatest torrent of mass emotion ever (5) witnessed in human history". Prom that hour there has been no diversity of views as to the character and nature of Lindbergh's influence. A (4) Associated Press, May 22, 1927 (5) "We", p. 236,b Literary Digest, 1/7/28 4 mere chronicle of its trend, ascendancy, magnitude and en­ durance through the ensuing months of his almost countless, glorious accomplishments, of its reaction upon nations at war or at peace, masses and individuals, kings and peasants, political units, and executive "bodies of republics, commer­ cial and national industries, advertising agencies, cultural and educational organizations, above all upon the budding youth of the age,-all these tend unanimously to prove the in­ fluence of the Phenomenon of Lindbergh is preeminently edu­ cational. This present age which proudly bequeaths to posterity a Charles A. Lindbergh is one in which the meaning of "educa­ tional influence" has taken on a broader and more far-reach­ ing significance developed from the mistakes, the struggles and the triumphs of the great educational efforts of all preceding ages. Those educational ideals of the ancients which centered about the individual and the state, and the individual for the state were tempered and perfected by nine­ teen centuries of the Christian influence of the Church un­ til today they embrace all that is scientific, true and god­ like in education. In the present day acceptance, those influences which are transforming modes of thought, mass activities, social intercourse, civic and national life are educational. 5 Applied to the individual these influences must transform the mind and heart of man giving him power over himself; broaden his outlook on life, providing means of livelihood and leisure- time activities; and fit him for his part in the great civic (6) and industrial activities which now are largely governed by the new developments quite foremost among which is aviation. Time afforded the individual for his perfection is time destined to give scope to the perfection of the htlman mass. The education of the mass has its periods of development sim­ ilar to and simultaneous with those of the individual. His­ tory is replete with educational factors each specific and distinct to the age in which it operated. Bach has been un­ folded at the time when in the plan of the Divine Educator it was to play its part in broadening the field of human activities apace with the increase of population; in develop­ ing human efficiency in the masses, the nation, the World unit; and in advancing modes of interactivity of man with man, industry with industry, nation with nation. Specific ends of education imply specific factors for their accomplishment. Bducation today is confided to special­ ists for each particular phase; each particular phase blending into one perfect and complete unit. Bor the moral and the aesthetic is provided a galaxy of ideals. Although no other is needed than the example of Christ, each age has provided (6) Current Events, p. 38, Vol. 26 6 its living saints and exemplars for the enlightenment and encouragement of those not able to assimilate the lessons at the fountain head. A general consideration of moral and physical or even intellectual factors as such enters into the sub.iect matter of this paper but incidentally. Its primary purpose is the discussion of a specific popular factor emanating from a world- famed and world-adored idol. He, by the adroit and harmonious exercises of the sterling qualities attributed to him in the reports on file in the Militia Bureau of the War Department long before his famous exploit,..."'intelligent*, * industrious*, •energetic 1, * dependable', *purposeful•, •alert*, 'quick of reaction', 'serious*, 'deliberate*, 'stable*, 'efficient', 'frank', 'modest*, 'congenial', * a man of good moral habits and (7) regular in all his business transactions"*,...has unobtrusively and heartily done more than any one single agency in the world to exercise a world-wide influence in transforming modes of thought, creating mass activities, stimulating social inter­ course; in developing a growing sense of natioalism; and in­ spiring world-wide international good will; in establishing national and international air-mindedness; in speeding the wheels of industry and international business. He has hitched the chariot of youthful ideals to the stars by an unprecedent­ ed example of the ideal youth, the ideal American, and a world- idol all their own. This new, attractive, inspiring educational factor is The Phenomenon of Lindbergh. (7) "We", p. 275,c 7 II. THE ASCENDANCY AND MAGNITUDE OF LINDBERGH'S INFLUENCE. "We measure heroes as we do ships by their displace­ ment. ..Colonel Lindbergh's displacement is beyond all cal­ culation". (1) Superlatives of every tongue have been exhausted and new ones coined in attempts to describe the reaction of the Phenomenon of Lindbergh on the world mind. The universal en­ thusiasm and ovations which have endured and multiplied be­ yond the bounds of verbal measurement can be estimated with some relative accuracy through a survey in chronological order of his audacious ride from obscurity to immortal fame and the affectionate admiration of the world. There was the proverbial "darkest hour" and then a faint dawn before his sunburst of glory. The eight-year- old Orteig challenge to the aeronautical world had incited the pioneering instinct of airmen, tried and new. But when 1 (1) Honorable C. E. Hughes, "We", p.Sll 8 the challenge of the $25,000 Orteig prize was accepted ser­ iously, the entrants were with one exception veterans and world-famed pilots.
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