The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-13
Germany, After
Z rying to Bluff
France, Has a

Of peace and time of war of aeroplanes When the
French led in all these things other nations followed
French imagination stirs, French pride quickens
at such achievements. At the lowest estimate half
million of persons assembled June Sunday morn
ing at Vncennes to the start of the circuit through
Belgium. Holland and England. By the hundreds
Of thousands the Parsians and the inhabitants of all
the region round about forth to the
Madrid and the start for Rome. Every sort and con-
dtion of and woman in these throngs, united
in interest stirred by pride, eager
for common glory.
''In divided and sub-divided France nothing
national has been known in years. The government
itself has had perforce to order these national fetes
for they nothing ess-o police them with its
soldiers and its gendarmes, One another
paper has 'organized these circuits and given the
major part of the prizes for them No whit the less
the other journals have treated them events of
the widest and the liveliest public interest Vedrnes
makes his way to Madrid. Beaumont descends upon
Rome and all Paris talks of their feats devours every
detail OF their journeys appaud every honor that falls
to them The parliament associates ITSELF with the
nation and the avators eulogized in the tribunes
of the senate and the chamber. The president in
scribes them for the Legion of Honor-nnd the came
lots hawk picture postcards of them along the boule
wards. Monsieur Rostand indies verses in Beaumont
20, lie plus pour effet du plus grand des exploits
and the newspapers almost songfu with dthy.
rambc prose that ranges from Icnrus through Victor
Hugo to Plus X and King Alfonso. And the refrain
of these chants is and the same:
France in the lead of the nations in the conquest
Of the airs France proving the prowess and
the devotion of her They die. three of them
died only the other Sunday, and again the French
Imagination Is deeply and sincerely touched Once
Imagination is deeply and sincerely touched Once
moro the chambers associate themselves with tho
nation. Again the newspapers dithyrambic. They
mourn it is fitting for them do; but pride with
touch Of the ngraincd Latin hardness the dominant
emotion. Men fall and die but aviation advances
ND that is the spirit of modern France in the
n words of Americana that is the popular status
of aviation which appealed instantly to the national
and. individual temperaments.
The conquest of the air has brought laws of the
Aeroplanes make flights independent of frontiers
and it is not desirable for example that aviator
should ascend in France under set of regulations
and descend in Germany, for example. under another
There is coordination, every traveller in Europe
knows, between the rules state and another lay
upon the and the speed of automobiles The far
seeing eager 10 avoid these confusons in the
and the inevitable code Of the air They would have
each state accept certain general principles in its reg
ulaton of aeropane and then proceed under them Six
weeks ago, international committee the origin of
which seems rather obscure assembled in conference
upon these matters 1t wholly private meeting,
privately organized Sixty delegates from the
continent from England and from the United States,
met in daily discussion and in the end suggested Ger
tain promises for common legislation. They
mended the registration of aeroplanes state by state
affirmed the right of aeroplanes frontiers
freely subject either side of them to such regula
tions each state night impose for the protection
Of it's inhabitants They suggested that aeroplane
should have the right to land in any unenclosed space
unless it lay within fortified town; they respect
fully submitted other recommendations that will be
duly filed IL pgeonholes until the European govern
ments ready to proceed to some common action.
What deters these governments what the confer.
ence had really TO evade the vexatious and rising
question of the of aeropancs warfare. Beyond
peradvcnture the French have made the aeropane a