The Pulaskian., 1917-10-12
PLANES WILL RE
 READY IN TIME
RumoRs OF DELAY IN TURNING OUT AMERlcA's AIRCRAFT
 ARE UNFouNDED.
ENOUGH SPRUCE IN SIGHT
Machines Can Be Built in Many Fac tories and Will Be Done In Time for the Wonderful Liberty Motors to Be Installed.
By EDWARD 3. CLARK.

By EDWARD B. CEARk.
 Washington.-W Washington for day or two has been troubled with rumors to the effect that while the United States will have the best flying ma chine engines ever built, and these In quick order, the whir of their maehin- cry will not be heard over the heads of the Germans until twice twelve month has gone by.
 There is delay enough in a score of branches of the government depart ments in all that pertains to war work, but the people probably can reassure themselves on the flying machine mat ter. We will have battle planes and plenty of them flying in Europe with their fast dropping cargoes of high ex- plosives before the next crop of blood red coquellcots springs in the fields of France.
 Secretary of War Baker came pretty close to putting himself in the class of the exuberant when he issued his 1,500 word statement about the new aircraft motor, but inquiry makes it appear that while the exuberance of the secretary may not have been in keeping with the ol mary conventions of secretariaI life, it perhaps was jus tified from the human nature point of view.
 Battle Planes Will Be Ready.
 After MT. Baker had told the coun- try that the greatest thing that ever happened in the way of motor had t1.e e4fAf thas the motors were all very well, but that there would be precious little use for them because there would be no airplanes in which to install them until many weary month had gone into times discard.
 Congress and those members of the administration who are not intimately in on things" looked bluer for day than the unprotected face of any avia- tor after nipping ride in the upper air. Now 1t can be said that as soon as the motors are turned out, which win not be long, there will be battle planes to carry them and to be pro- peiled by them. All of which is ex- ceedingly cheerful news to a capital which has been hearing that only q 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 made at the arsenals, and that nei- ,ther 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 it was said that the government was ex- Neriencing difficulty in securing a sup pay of proper spruce from which to make the framework of the airplanes. Friends of the enemy have been busy in spilfing some of the spruce trees and in doing damage to timber already cut, but 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 1t is said that the spruce is in sight and to this cheerful bit of in- formation is added word that 1t does not 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 in furniture factories and even In the carpenter shops of every day city and country acquaintance.
 So today 1t seems to come down to a situation which promises a plentiful supply of airplanes within fairly short order with motors to run them and with a fair prospect that they can make themselves felt from their van- tage points above the head of the en- emy before the next cold season has been melted by the breath of a genial spring.
 Many Wish To Be Aviators.
 At army headquarters in Washing ton there have been from time to time expressions of surprise, pleased sur prfse, at the great numbers of young Americans who have expressed will sngness to enter the aviation service.
 It requires the possession of a cer- tain temperament to make a success fai aviator and the army examiners gre determined that only the men who are fit shall enter the service, and In this can be found one reason why there is qualification because of the large numbers of young men who are showing a desire to become battle plane fiers and fighters.
 Within day or two there has been received from France an account of the first experience in battle of an American aviator, Charles J. Trinkard. Permission to publish the account of this young Americans first encounter in the air with the German enemy was given by the censor and even the name of the town near which the encounter took place was allowed to be printed.
 It is probable that from the already