Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-16
CHIEF OF AVIATION BUREAU HAS
CONFIDENCE IN AERIAL
ACHIEVEMENTS.
ASKS FOR ssoo.ooo,ooo
TO MAKE U. s. SUPREME
Plan Of General Squier is to First Drive
German Aviators From Air and
Then Maintain Constant Ra'd'ns
Patrol Over Enemy Lines-Ameriean
Daring to Win.

Washington, June 10 Brig. Gen.
George o. Squier. chief Of the aviation
bureau Of the army, today issued
statement In support of the demand for
$500, 900 900 to give America a chance
to win the war in the air.
Congress will be asked to appropriate
this huge amount in addition to the
s64, 200 900 included in the war measure
signed by the president today.
Put the Yankee punch into the war"
Gen. Squier declared, and to do it, in
his opinion, congress must ratlty
huge aviation program which will in
volve more than half billion dollars
to begin with and probably grow into
an expenditure of much larger sum.
Must Drive Germans Down.
sour plan contemplates nothing less
than driving the German fiiers out OF
the air and maintaining a constant
raiding patrol over the territory for
fifty miles back of the fighting lines"
he said. 'If we build the quantities of
machines for which we have the ca
pacity and train our thousands of
available men we can tear UP the enc
nv communication lines and prevent
the movement Of troops and supplies.
The allies 30 far have not been able to
develop the use Of bombing machines
to the needed extent because they could
not secure enough airplanes to carry
out this work upon great scale.
1.-THE field Of glory for us in this war
will be in the air. By the Yankee punch
I mean Enthusiastically American
way Of working to get big results. We
have a reputation Of looking at old
things from a new angle and there is
no reason why the American army,
when it takes the field, should not live
up to what it stands for. We must
send our myriads of aeroplanes over
the German lines to teach Germany
that we have come to win.
Germans Had the Edge.
'It might be of interest to point out
that all the picturesque features in the
matter Of inventions and innovations
Of a startling modern nature have been,
,Ip TO now, advertised exclusively by
the German side of the European argu-
ment The talk of coming Zeppelin
raids, Of artillery ponderously magnifi-
cent. of schools of U-boats, was spread
thruout Germany.
'Every housewife, every butchers
boy in Germany impatiently awaited
the results Of the kaiser's sensational
inventions. And when Count Zeppelin's
monster went after England with
bombs while Big Berthas' began drop
piung unbelievably gigantic shells into
Belgium. It was signal for the Ger
man spirit to 60 wild with patriotism.
eThe U-boats were the next sensa-
= ton for popularity and whatever their
effect on Germany's beloved freedom
of the seas they have had their stinu
lating effect upon the Teutonic psy-
chology. They helped Prussia press
agent her war. Zeppelins, supercannon,
: U-boats have furnished the German
punch.
Offers Dashing Style.
81 haven't the slightest doubt of the
Yankees nerve and ability to endure
any hardship as well as-perhaps bet
ter than--the citizen of any other
country. But what I am considering is
how to give American qualities to our
brothers in arms at their maximum
efficiency. The answer again is air
planes and yet more airplanes. Every
young American worthy of the name
would be keen to join our flying army.
The game ideally suits our national
temperament.
Our young men can not go wild
over warfare in the trenches, however
splendidly they will do their duty. But
put the war into the air-and watch us
fight"