El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-08-29

IT'S hard TO keep the right sense Of proportion
sdes his job the most important Perhaps he con-
sders himself the indispensable part Of the whole The
considers her home the essential; her husband
business secondary. He holds it vice versa
So also with the war. Each Of service considers
itself the prime essential
This is oommendable in so far as it places upon each
branch Of the service responsibility to do its utmost in
winning the Outside Of the service there are tans
for particular For instance, there are thou
sands Of people and many personages Of much influence
who believes arplaues viii win the war that the way
break down Germany is to drop thousands Of tons Of high
explosives IN German cities They say $4,000 airpanes
should swarm Germany and virtually blow the Ger
nation off the earth
Because this has not been done It is too much for
critics Of the government to say that the American aerial
program is failure What seemed to count upon
was the vast amount Of preparatory work necessary before
manufacture Of airpanes in quantity could begin We
made the mistake as it now appears Of trying to improve
On the alpane types USED by our aes great deal OF
time and money has been wasted in changing types and IN
experimentation Of one kind or another.
The arpane situation today is the the shipping
situation eight months ago The enemy vastly
forted concerning the alleged breakdown in ship
ping program The tremendous speeding up in shipbudng
is causing him huge discomfort
It VIII be the with the arplanes Let the enemy
take what Joy he IN fact that great bombing
sguadrons have not yet swamed over his country They
viii unless he surTenders sooner If most Of the
sOooo00 has been spent with few apanes yet delivered
IN France the fact remains that arpane program of
large proportions VIII be carried to completion
possible It may take billion dollars to do it. but it viii
be done The officers and men Of the air corps are ready
the planes VIII come
Of aerial bombs might well be dismissed fantastic
dream tt not possible for the United States any
other nation send out 10000 planes in bombing squad
at any time None Of the begerents has been
able TO make available than $500 planes for all kinds
Of aerial service at one time Demands on men are too
great For every fier there must be squad or COM
pany the ground For every plane in the air there must
be several in There is not enough ground
space back Of the lines IN France available the
needs nj 2oO0o-b bombing program
IF it were possible to send over such vast armada Of
bobers Germany might be crippled to the point Of seek
ing speedy ending Of the BY surrender but It could
Be done by any force such it has been possible for
al the allies combined to send over
Remember what the effect upon London and Paris has
been when they have been bombed almost every oonlt
night for months endi few persons have been killed
and many houses destroyed-and the millions remaining
uniuured have been resentfu bitter filled
with fighting spirit than before the raiders
It is the same with Germany. German residents Of
bombed fear the aerial visitaons but those who
mangled only embttered Only by awful devas
taon Of the whole country could the enemy morale be
shattered Such devastation does not IN the
realm Of possibility.
Keep with the air raids Let the bombs rain down
German long Germany to set the pace