Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-14
THE GREAT AVIATION MEET

! IN the line of dgnfed publicity work nothing
could be more fortunate for Los Angeles than
the international aviation meet that will be
held here during Christmas week. Promoters OF
the affair seem to have planned wisely and there is
every to believe that this will be the great
est and most successful exhibition of the marvellous
new science of air navigation that has yet been
held, Nowhere the habitable portions of the
Igobe are the atmospheric conditions more tavora-
BILE than in Los Angeles and certainly no locality
in North America is SO generously endowed with
lall the conditions requisite for the successful
demonstration of the most advanced aviation de-
vices. That the merely commercial element has
been entirely eliminated from the affair by the res
oluton to devote its proceeds to charity is happy
circumstance Christmas week is charity week,
the Christian world over and thousands will sage
ly embrace the opportunity to kill two birds with
the same-doar; the bird that softly lilts Char
Iity and the bird that sings gladly in the sun and
lures to the open green fields of Los Angeles in
ImidWinter. But no. it won't do to kill these
birds. Read appease in place of kill-then the
metaphor may stand.
Many of the greatest aviators of the world will
be here. A number of them already have signed.
The keen interest manifested in the event. not only
locally but in the east and even on the other side
Iof the Atlantic argues greatly for its Importance
Expert aviators are of the opinion that several
world records will be broken at this meet The
scientific world looks forward to 1t with antc1pa-
tions that it will surely develop much OF substan-
tal value to the progress OF the youngest but most
pretentious of the manual sciences. Army and
navy officials, certainly of the United States and
doubtless of various nations, will be here to OBJ
serve every new feature.
If there is any help the promoters need from
the public beyond the enormous patronage that it
is bound to enjoy, every public spirited citizens Of
Los Angeles should be keen to bestOw it. Frank
1y it is a great ad for this city 1t is the kind OF
advertising that ctv of this Importance needs and
can without loss of municipal dignity well afford
to encourage in every possible way. The day has
gone when Los Angeles could afford, or could
proftab1y adopt, the country fair method OF ad-
vertising A great event like this will focus the
eyes of the world upon Los Angeles. Boost the
aviation meet all you can. It's step forward for
Los Angeles commercially, and perhaps severa!
steps in advance for the mighty science OF aerial
navigation which promises even to revoutlonize
economic and industrial conditions.
Agitation, theoretic and political reforms are
good but this is an industrial era and so Tar its
progress has been brought about by the inventor
and the promoter. Aerial navigation, reduced to
as practical science automobiling now is,
might change the traffic problems of the nation IN
la flash Don't laugh: It's too early. And even
stranger things than that may grow out OF prac--
ticabe aviation. Boost this big aviation meet and
you're boosting progress.