New Britain herald., 1925-10-12
ARMY AND NAVY IN
 ORGY OF SPENDING, IS MADDEN'S CLAIM
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planes that a pilot has difficulty in seeing out of," he exclaimed.
 Failure of the army and navy to spend their money "intelligently' in the air service, he declared, is not unique, as similar extravaeant. get-no-where programs are being carried on in tank development, ar~ tlilery development chemical war rare and ammunition development"
 MT. Madden submitted a plan for promoting army and navy aviation, at cost of $S7,500,000, which. among other things, would provide Tor discontinuance of all aeronauti- cal engineering and design work by the two military, services, with the apolition of the naval aircraft fac tory at Philadelphia and the army engineering aircraft division. He would place all designing and con- struction of planes in the hands of private manufacturers. with the re. sponsibility of performance under design. and with the military serv- ices furnishing only the specifca- tons desired.
 Predicating his recommendation upon present expenditure of s86,. O00,O00 a year for army and navy aviation, he said that "worxing backward from this sum, in other words trying to determine just how much aviation of a military charac- ter might be indulged in for this expenditure, suggest the following:
 Fifteen hundred new airplanes of various designs, at 10000 each could be purchased annually, amounting in the aggregate to ESQ., 100000.
 Ten ground service men for each airplane. which Is more than ample to properly care for the airplanes, at $500 each per enlisted man, which think would be g. fair average to cover his army pay. his clothing, subsistence, etc., would cost $22,500,- 900.
 Fifteen hundred officers or one officer for each ten enlisted men, or one officer for each of the I500 air planes, would cost approximately $7,500 900.
 ''lf these airplanes are each flown 300 hours year tat would be an approximate mileage flown of 45,- 100000, many times the mileage of these past year liberal estimate of the cost of maintaining them and their power plants could .lot exceed 50 cents per mile, the labor having been provided for in the enlisted estimate above; or a total of S22. 5O0,000 s5,000,000 would be lib- eral estimate for the maintenance of all the flying fields necessary as bases of operation for these 1500 planes.
 "A total of $ST5o0ooO as against sS6,000,000 now being expended for which we have received nothing"
 After the first year, under such a program, MT, Madden believed $75,- 000,000 annually would suffice for aviation work.
 Afr ing his belief fin the "po- tentialities of aircraft both in war and peace, Mr. Madden declared that in his opinion i've are barely past the threshold of aeronautical de- velopment."
 Challenges Criticism
 If reports reaching him were true, he said the "charge has been made here that military aviation has been retarded because congress has not voted adequate appropriations" AS chairman of the appropriations com mittee he would mot let that charge go unchallenged."
 Reviewing appropriations for avi- alton both during and since the war he was, ready to concede that enough planes and spares are not available fully to take care of (the air services) plans, "but in view of the millions spent" he said, "it is not too much to expect more than is in evidence in tangible results"
 "Why the demands" he continued, "of some of these bureau people who como before us would bankrupt the government. The army and navy are the least concerned where the money is coming from and they want to be ready at the drop of the hat to 20 after or meet the other fellow. q don't condemn them for that, but I do condemn them when congress has appropriated all that the country can afford for trying to blame con gress when they find themselves in difficulty because they have not wisely applied the money placed at their disposal"
 Assailing the experimental policy of the two air services as having developed almost if not quite nothing," MT. Madden cited state ments before the house appropria- tions committee by both Major General Patrick and Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, naval air chief, as 10 the result of that policy.
 Quoting Admiral Moffett as having told the committee that the navy's experimental expenditures have re- suited in placing it "on parity. if not in advance, of other nations in so far as types of aircraft are con