and that those with slippery intellects, by taking advantage of weak-minded people, were the cause of man’s degraded pursuits, the ring-leaders of which were the financiers who got control of the money system and used it to swindle everybody out of their earnings.
 Another thing I pointed out was that as long as engineers and scientists were hired by these financiers and based their success upon what they were paid for their services, instead of how well they could improve conditions, that they would never be anything more than infants in the knowledge of broad-gauge mechanics.
 So in the year 1907 when I announced to my business and scientific associates that I intended giving up money making pursuits for the purpose of founding a great new aircraft industry and airline service for the benefit of mankind without the expectation of financial reward they naturally hee-hawed like two-legged donkeys at the thought of it.
 At that time there was only one little calico airplane in America that had made a few jumps off of the ground into the air. That little grasshopper was invented and built by the Wright Brothers.
 That being the case it was quite natural for those pretentious scientists and engineers to laugh loud and gawkily at my “fantastic dream” and announcement that the time had arrived for the introduction of a world-wide air transportation system in which great passenger airliners would be operated around the entire circumference of the earth’s surface.
 Even my office boy claimed that I had ruined his reputation by making public such statements.
 But in the face of such behavior on the part of my acquaintances, I gave up my money making business in 1908 for the hazardous job of forcing upon the people of the world something they did not believe possible, did not want and for which after twenty years of continuous service of its development I had nothing to show for my labors except the knowledge that I had done my duty to God and man.
 Then—can you believe it—after the aircraft industry and airline service was finally put upon a self-supporting basis and the time had arrived when I could have accumulated great wealth by utilizing my aerological talents for that purpose, another “fantastic dream” got control of my mental machinery and I renounced all of my golden opportunities for the accumulation of wealth and forthwith offered my services to the people of the world as their economic adviser for the term of my natural life without pay or expectation of any reward whatsoever.
 In fact, as a pioneer in this advanced work, I must actually expect a great deal of rancid abuse and downright hatred against me for taking such a course.
 Why should a man be abused and hated for showing to the world improvements that are beneficial to everybody?
 The reason is clear. To improve mankind one must show the rottenness of the system