The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-10-21

Giles. to tho point where success IL
assured In consequence, Omaha Is proudly claim
Ing to be Americas most progressive aviation
center.
The purposes OF the congress praiseworthy.
The congress Itself In likely to be Of great I'M
portnnce.
One purpose Is to bring the flyers together for
4 big reunion the first since the World War; An
other IL to chow everything In connection with
aviation. In order to interest the people Of the
nation In flying. A third II TO form national
air body for the advancement Of aviation In Amer
lea. The big purpose Ia: "Aviation supreme for
America"
The formation OF national air body appears
20 be well under way. through preliminary orgnn
sations In the states. At this writing twenty Ave
states are forming state organizations OF the con-
gress and will be represented by delegates.
That there Ii necessity for the formation OF such
body seess hardly open TO argument. RudyHrd
Kipling. years ago. wrote OF aircraft: 1--WE are
at the opening verso 1T the opening page Of tho
chapter OF endless possibilities" We have read
far beyond that now and the march Of events
forces us TO keep turning the leaves. " we
wonid keep our place In the forefront Of the pro-
cession OF the nations.
In the opinion OF these who seem best qualified
to know. the United States has not kept abreast
with other countries In the development OF ayla-
tion especially In the matter Of development OF
airways For example. the best we can show In
the way OF a ,rnnscontnentni route II that follow.
tug the general line Of Cleveland. Chicago. Omaha.
Reno and San Francisco. The experts declare Il
te Be not more than 10 per cent complete In crgani
satiou
An essential Of the success Of big business IL
imagination. Imagine. II you can. what the part
OF aviation In the life Of the nation will be fve
years from now. II 10 wonder that men Of
large affairs want the organization Of 4 national
ar body and want II
Omaha's slogan inspired by the Aero Club
NJ nj
and observers Of the World War. Nevertheless
ali the city Is talking aviation these days Three
,nonths ago. Of course. II was not Omaha was
no more enthusiastic over aviation than any other
city. When Its citizens heard airplane droning
overhead they gazed skyward for a moment. 9th.
erwise they were uninterested.
Then Earl W. Porter president Of the Aero
Club Of Omaha. conceived the idea Of the con.
rress and went To work ON II. Now aviation Is IN
the blood Of the citizens They talk Of the many
phases OF air travel with the nonchalnncc of aces
In other cities the people may call ANYTHING that
traverses the cir nn alrshlp But not SO In Omaha
they rightly Use the word aircraft. DO You hear
hiimp 10 omahaf Welt hardly Omaha knows
that hllmp IL not only slang. hut obsolete slang.
whereas people In other cities are still npply,nr
the word .ndiscriminaieiy TO nll ballos,ns rigid
ard nonrIgd airships aud ilgh,er-than.air craft
You never catch an omahan these days saving
hydrcpiane when he means seapiane: he know.
that the former never leaves the water And vo.
md him correctly using airriane seapiane and
airshfp Instead Of aeroplane. eroplane and
dirigible. You may even oyerlaear a conversation
about the car,ise helicopter In short eyervone
10 Omaha appears 10 be enthusiastic about av,a
sicn In general and the coming congress In par.
ticuiar '
President Porter went 10 his fellow cluhrn.c
Ines hdorsed his idea and his plans and pledged
sbe'f support They also fixed on him AZ IN. lor,.
VI sns movement and hs Was dniy made