The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-10-13
Planes WILL Be
/ READY IN TIME
..uuoRs OF DELAY IN TURNING
OUT AMERICAS AIRCRAFT
ARE UNFoUNDED.
ENOUGH SPRUCE IN SIGHT
s,ehInes Can Be Built in Many Fac
,ories ard Will Be Done in Time for
the Wonderful Liberty Motors to Be
Installed.
sy EDWARD 8. CLARK.


Observation-Disclosures for a day
:. two has been troubled with rumnrS
a the effect that while the United
mates will have the best flying ma
mine engines ever built. and these in
mick order, the whir of their machin-
~ will not be heard over the heads
%the Germans until twice a twelve
uonth has gone by.
There is delay enough In n score OF
tnnches Of the government depart
reuts In all that pertains to war work,
INIT the people probably can reassure
,Aemselves on the flying machine mat
,e. We will have battle planes and
Senty of them flying in Europe with
tbeIr fast dropping cargoes of high ex-
,IosIyes before the next crop of blood
nd cOqueIicOts springs In the fields
4 France.
n Secretary OF War Baker came pretty
dose to putting himself In the class
a the exubernnt when he issued his
LOO word statement about the new
arcraft motor. but inquiry makes II
appear that while the exuberance Of
ne secretary may not have been In
keeping with the o. mary conventions
II secretarial life. IL perhaps was JUS
rned from the human nature point Of
view.
Battle Planes viii Be Ready.
After Mr.. Baker had tod the coun-
m that the greatest thing that ever
happened In the way of. motor had
been purchased. there came the story
dat the motors were all very well.
bat that there would he precious little
use for them because there would be
no airplanes in which to install them
until many a weary month had gone
INTO times discar'.
Congress and those members Of the
administration who are not intimately
n on things" looked bluer for day
than the unprotected face Of any avia-
tor after a nipplng ride In the upper
air. Now Il can be said that as soon
m the motors are turned out. which
viii not be long. there will be battle
Planes to carry them and to he pro-
PEELED by them. All Of which Is ex-
ceedngly cheerful news to a capital
which has been hearing that only
half dozen submarine chasers have
been turned out. that none Of the new
destroyers will be ready for eighteen
months. that bad ammunition is being
hA nd hot
fher steel nor wooden ships for COM
merce bearing will be ready until the
waters Of earth have several season.
able chances to freeze.
Some time ago In these dispatches II
vas said that the government was ex-
periencing difficulty In securing a sup
ply Of proper spruce from which to
make the framework Of the airplanes.
Friends Of the enemy have been busy
IN spiking some Of the spruce trees and
In doing damage to timber already cut.
hut Of course not even enemy aliens
inspired with the hate Of all things
American can ruin the entire spruce
crop Of the United States overnight
Plenty Of Spruce.
Now II Is said that the spruce Is In
drht and to this cheerful bit Of In
Is added word that II does
aot take long TO build an airplane and
that they can be built not only In au-
tomobile factories, of which we have
perhaps some scores of hundreds. but
10 furniture factories and even I'm the
carpenter shops Of every day city and
country acquaintance.
So today II seems to come down to n
dtuation which promises a plentiful
upply Of airplanes within fairly short
,rder with motors to run them and
Nth fair prospect that they can
make themselves felt from their van
age points above the head of the en-
my before the next cold season has
'een melted by the breath of a genial
pring.
Many Wish To Be Aviators.
At army headquarters In Washing
on there have been from time to time
IMPRESSIONS OF surprise. pleased sur
rise, ut the great numbers of young
Americans who have expressed will
ngness to enter the aviation service.
II reqp'-es the possession of a GER
nln temperament to make q success
ni aviator and the army examiners
''e determined that only the men who
ne fit shall enter the service, and in
MS can be found one reason why
mere is qualification because of the
arge numbers of young men who are
moving a desire to become battle
lane fiiers and fighters.
Within day or two there has been
viewed from France an account of
e first experience In battle of an
lmerican aviator. Charles ]. Trinkard.
mw.xxN.