New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-20
Generals Will
ride Air. i'm
Future W ars
Battles To Be Directed From
Planes, General Menoher
Tells the Aero Club
Aces Are Dinner Guests
$500 Fund for Roose-
welt Aerial Arctic Expe-
dition Is Announced

The war of the future will be di-
rected by the commander in chief from
IAN aeroplanc.
This was the prediction Of Major
General Charles T. Mencher, director
of the Air Service at the thirteenth
annual dinner of the Aero Club of
America last night The dinner was
at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
Upward Of thousand aviators OF
the Allied forces and their friends
were present at the dinner, at which
plans for the commercial and military
future of aeronGutics were discussed.
Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker, the
American ace Of aces, made an elo-
ouent plea for the erection of a per
nanent memorial in the little grave
yard OF foul, France, where so many
of his fallen comrades arc at rest
Immediately after inc dinner Alan r.
Hawley, president of .he Aero Club
announced the following plans for the
coming year:
The establishment of a S25o,OOO fund
for the Roosevelt Aerial Arctic E,x-
petition, which viii be commanded by
Captain Robert T. Bartlett W. K
Vanderbilt has donated $4,000 and
Charles II. Sabin $4,000 to this fund.
The development or direction find
ing and surveying wireless apparatus
for aeroplanes by John Hays Ham
mond, jr
Internal aviation and balloon races
to be held in France and this country
the coming year.
General Menoher, new chief of the
Air Service, gave a complete survey of
conditions in that branch of the ma
TONS armed forces. He said, speaking
of future wars: The moral effect of
observed victory in the air is tremen-
dous, but it never can be the determine
game is the one for whom all others
in the service are the servants. He is
the one who searches out and reports
troop movements and concentration
and all other enemy activities.
Referring to the commercial future
OF aviation he said:
Il look to see in the near future, in
Il matter of months only, perhaps, the
command Of the line of battle eXer-
cised from the air instead of from
some dugout out of sight and more or
less out of touch with the situation"
AS in the case of any commercial
activity, there should be constant en-
deavor toward Standardization. To
adequately accomplish this there should
be:
"A national aircraft engineering
standards commission working in CON
junction with our Bureau of Standards,
which commission should be in touch
with similar international standards
commission.
pa national aerial digest bureau,
charged with the collection and pub
LEGATION of data which marks new ad-
vances in the development and use of
aircraft and aircraft material, and the
results of physical and medical re-
search pertaining thereto.
"C.The publication of revised,
up-to-date aeronautical dictionary.
D.-The formation of aero clubs,
either branches of or affiliated with a
central national association, which
should have dictatorship consisting
OF representatives from the army
navy, postoAice. weather bureau
Smithsonian Institution, National Adj
visory Committee for Aeronautics
Aero Club of America. American So
clety of Aeronautical Engineers, Man
ufacturers' Aircraft Association, in
tercollegiate representation, etc.
Two 'Cross-Ocean Entries
Ir. Hawley read a cable message
from the Royal Aero Club of Great
Britain announcing it had received TIVE
entries for transatlantic fight in com
petition for the $4,000 prize Offered
by Lord NorthclifTe. There were mes
sages from General Pershng, Newton
-. Baker, Secretary Of War; Majol
General Leonard Wood and Major Gen
eral W. L. kenly praising the skill anC
daring Of American airmen and ex
pressing gratitude TO the club for it,
cooperation in the development o.
aviation. Messages from Rear Admira
Robert Peary, William G.. Sharp, Am
bassador 20 France, and others empha
SIZED the necessity Of developing aero
1auUics along commercial lines.
The military phase of aeronautic
was discussed by Brgadier General c
i, Lyster, chief Of Medical Corps, Al
Division, and Brigader General Charlie
T.. Menoher, director Of Air Service
General Menoher spoke Of the 90 pc
cent OF casualties in the air which wer
caused by accidents, and declared tina
ally so per cent of them were pre-
Ventablc.
Medical preventive measures ha,
caused Il considerable decrease befor
the armistice was signed, nc said. H.
recommended that the selection O
pilots IN the future be made with tn
same care and with careful reference {,
ne advances made in medical exanjna
tion during the war