New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-10
WARNS OF u. 5.
AVIATION NEED
Premier Company Head
Urges Substituting OF
Motor Building
By J. c. FLOWERS,
.I... prenier Motor Cooperation

prco;dent Premier Motor Corporation
America will be the worlds grea.
volume producer Of air craft ana VIII
carry the science of flying to the same
degree Of development as she mas NJ
tanned in the development of the motor
car. At the present time the map OF
Furope is one huge aviation laboratory
test room. Much OF the fundamental
and early work done by the wright
brothers and Glenn Curtis has innu-
cnccd the construction Of Europe's air
craft. In fact, the war is being fought
largely with American tools.
Americas orly chance against the
r,o, nower organization OF the rest OF
the world lies in her inventive genius
and in the scope Of her manufacturing
facilities I am fully convinced that
America thinks more rapidly than other
neonles ana that she tas the native
ability 70 make machinery do her work
10 n moro marked degree than has any
other nation. L...,d
This American characteristic ~ bound
IN leave it's imprint on the developmeni
Of the fying machine, and the "orl1
must look 10 America for the hhai
developmcnt of air craft, just as IL
will be necessary to look to US Tor inc
volume production Of air craft =,
Tho most Urgent military need OF
This country is the immediate develop
ment of a dependable aviation motor,
and no one is to blame for our slow
ness in this direction but the govern
ment itself. If the government IS eK-
meeting any individual factory TO de-
velop an aviation motor at ITS own
expense. and without any assurances
Of compensation either directly or in
directly. such expectation IS not
founded on good business sense.
believe that there are dozen rae
tories in America sufficiently expert
enced and educated to build the hnest
aviation motor in the world, but u
would be suicidal for any one OF them
10 gidetrack it's regular work 10 go
after a mirage.
What does Congress know about
motors? The average Congressman
would rather have a postotflce at Iapps
Crossing than battleship on the HI gh
seas, and 10 is knowledge OF TINS Ia
mentnble fact that has, discouraged the
American engineer from giving his
country his best thought and his best
effort.
We need and we must have de-
pendable aviation motor in this coun-
try. and provision must be made for the
production of this motor in great
quantities. Why doesn't the United
States government take q tip from the
German government and Count Heppe-
lin? Think Of the years that the Ger
man government supported Zeppelin in
his work and how time after time 1t
recapitalized him when one of his eX-
detrimental machines went bad,
We have everything over here neces-
sary TO the development of dependable
American aviation motors-eyerything
but the one essential thing, which is
government support.
In my opinion, when the motor we
need is finally developed, it will be
aluminium, it will be built in cylinder
multiples of six. and it will be the
product of q motor car engineer, not
the product Of an aviation engineer.
Europe has found that the motors pro-
duced by her automobile engineers are
superior to those produced by en-