New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-06-25
WILL
Be DEVELOPED
NAVY DEPARTMENT PLANS BIO
THINGS FOR FLYING DURING
COMING FISCAL YEAR.
CONGRESS GIVES SEE, 900
Large Part Of This Will Be Spent in
improving the Naval Air Stations,
Especially on the Pacific Coast
Summer Schooling for Lads.
BY M p.

BY JAMES p. HoRNADAY.
Washington. - Extensive develop
melts in aviation are scheduled by the
navy department for TIE coming fiscal
year. Congress has set aside $23,OOO,'
600 for this purpose. The senate in
creased the appropriation over the
amount originally fixed by the house
by s9,0O0,OOO. The upper branch of
congress took the view that the war
showed clearly that aviation is of vital
importance to all military operations
ashore and ahoat. II was argued in
committee and also on tie floor of the
senate that money .judiciously spent
now for attacking the problem will
save wastage later. 1t was the further
view of the senate that development
should not be permitted to lag behind
that of the navy service of other gov
ernments.
Congress is very certain that from
this time on more attention must be
devoted to aviation. 1t maintains
thtit AN ne IO uOuHl tIut tHC ioNui
flying machine. the hydroairplane, is
now and will be one of the most i'm
pOrtant branches of the naval defense.
A considerable part of the $25.OOO.0OO
appropriated for use during the next
year will be used In improving naval
air stations. For instance. $4,000 Is
to be spent at Cape May. $4,000 at
Hampton Roads, $lSO.OOO at San d.
ego. Cal. $27O.OOO at the station at
Pensacola, Fla, $155.0OO at QuanticO
on the Potomac river. $S7, 600 at Paris
Island, N. c.. 100000 at the Great
Lakes training station. H., $4,000 at
Charleston. $. C.. $459,OO at Lake
Eurst. n. j., 100000 at Rigid station.
Fla. S2.775.OOO on the Pacific coast.
$Sl 900 at Narragaasett Bay, X. l., and
S93O.OOO In the Hawaiian Islands.
Large Sums for the Pacific.
An appropriation of such a large
sum for development of naval stations
on the Pacific coast and in the Ha-
waiian Islands has not gone unnoticed.
In discussing these appropriations SEN
atOrs We're very frank in saying that
the Pacific coast needs naval defense
more than the Atlantic coast ut this
time. Attention was called to the fact
that under the new naval policy the
governments naval fleet Is divided,
that Is to say one-half Of it from now
on Is to be maintained In the Atlantic
ocean and one-half in the Pacific ocean.
II is highly important. so the naval ex-
perts say, that the naval aviation sys-
tenn on the west cOas be strengthened
as RAPIDLY as possible.
The naval bill as II whole is progress
sive In spirit. 1t Is based on the prin-
ciple that the navy Is now and always
will be the country's first line of de-
Tense. The bill as 1t passed the house
appropriated $425 ,2S9,574. The SEN
The estimates submitted In November
last year by TIE navy department for
the support of the entire naval estab-
lishment for the next fiscal year to-
tailed S573, 131 pa. So 1t will be seer
that congress. while 1t has made most
liberal appropriations for every branch
of the navy, has kept the total amount
considerably lower than the estimates.
A new feature of the bill is a pro-
vision authorizing TIE secretary of the
navy in his discretion to establish at
each of the permanent naval training
stations summer schools for boys be-
tween the ages of sixteen and twenty
years. The secretary is also authorized
to lend the necessary naval uniforms
during the training and to furnish SUBJ
incidental expenses for |
those attending these schools. For tie
purpose Of carrying out this plan
is appropriated.
The naval officials represented to
that 1t Is practically impos-
sible to get recruits for the navy un-
less an opportunity is afforded to edu-
cate boys who have naval procllvities. |
Under the legislation agreed on about
5000 boys n year can be called into
the naval service. They will go into
these schools and receive instruction, |
and they will be enrolled In the naval
force.
Help for Disabled Men.
Records Of the federal board for
vocational education show that to
May I. 1920, more than $1,000
disabled men have entered courses
IF training and that 10000 adj
men had been accepted for
of which there are 125, I'm
iechnical. agricultural, professional
md academic institutions, public and
The Red Cross is in close
cooperative touch with the work Of
he federal board and is in a position
o advise the disabled ex-service men
concerning training which will restore
hem to their communities as useful.
Producing citizens. Thousands OF the
men know the value of the friendly as
which the Red Cross offers.
In practically all Of the IA district
-ocationai Offices which the federal
,oard maintains the Red Cross has
Is workers. and In most of the COM
nunities where the men are in train
ng in schools and colleges there is a
red Cross worker to look after the in
erests of the students. In ~associa-i
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