New Britain herald., 1917-11-05

OlueE. 1A0 women can take. CaE0 OI
 one side, the men can and will take
 care of the other.
 Experts now contend that the war
 will be won by the nation that can
 throw into the field of operations the
 greatest amount of men and muni-
 tions, with the accent on the muni-
 tions. The United States can do this.
 It is preparing now to ship abroad
 the necessary instruments with which
 to bring the war to a successful con-
 clusion. Germany is not yet defeat
 ed. It is baked, after a fashion; but
 not in the degree it will be stopped
 later on. Time will tell what the
 might of the United States is, and
 every day that goes by adds to that
 might.
 This time next year America will have for it's use in the war something like 25,oo0 airplanes. These heavier than-air machines will play an i'm portant factor in the war game They will have 8 hand in deciding the struggle which is now practically deadlocked on land, which has ceased to be a great struggle on sea. The war will then be taken to the etherial regions, where modern warfare be- longs. Germany cannot build the airplanes this nation can, although Germany is now preparing to launch forth a mighty fleet of such craft be- fore the next Spring. With what ma- chimes this nation can build and send into service interior Germany will feel the weight of formidable air campaign. The aviators will go back of the lines and bring death and de- struction to the intuition centers. the very heart of Germany. And, when this is done, the people of the United States will find that it is| more ad- to strike at intuition fao- tories than it is to battle against a line of men.
 Brigadier-Genera1 squier, chief of the signal corps under which is placed the aviation section of the United States Army. recently had this to say:-"An army in the air, regi- ments and brigades of winged cav airy, mounted on gas driven flying horses, could blind the eyes of Ger many until her gunners, absolutely deprived of range finders, would be put out of business by the Allied ar- magnif1cently obvious thing then is to knock out Germany's eyes by g thrust through the air. But my idea would be something vastly larger than a thrust. An inundation of airplanes would better express the Idea in its magnitude. Sweep the Germans from the sky. blind the Prussian cannon, and the time would be ripe to release an enormous flock of flying fighters to raid and destroy camps. ammunition depots, military establishments of all kinds. Once given an upper hand, the flying become frightful engines of destruction. The greater the air fleet the safer it becomes to the aviator connected with 1t, and the more deadly to the enemy against which it is sent"
 That Is the whole plan in a nut shell. That is the plan that must, and will. be carried out before this war is ended. The great aerial drive will be inaugurated next Spring, or the United States will have fallen down on the job. Men against men, battling on the land with machine guns and heavy artillery, have become as nothing in this war. This be- cause there has been no great advan- tage on either side. Germany with her forty years of preparation was over taken by the Allies in three years of preparation. Now they are to all in- tents and purposes deadlocked. A re- treat here, an advance there, means nothing in the long run. At the pres- ent rate the war would not be over in twenty years. for 1t cannot stop until
 one side, or the other Is wiped out. And that cannot happen so long as
 there are factories in back of the
 lines to make new instruments of
 death and destruction for the men at the front The obvioug thing to do
 Is to send Q great fleet of airplanes
 against the enemy and Knock out
 Germany's eyes,"