The Washington times., 1925-09-09
HEA RST URGES INDEPENDENT
AND UNITED AIR SERVICE

Add fflbAfionA ble. iyothing can acs
count fon that except carelessness
ana incohnpe ence, grosser even.
than Mitchell charges.
nIf the President reeents Mitchell's
opinion, and the expression OF It,
he must also resent the public 3
opinion and the very general ana
Vigorous expression OF that, because
II clsif1ciaes exactly with MitcheIi, IS,
and fhA public is inclined to be
grateful to Mitchell for having ex.
pressed its own ideas SO exactly
and SO consciously.
Attitude OF Coolidge
$50 IL this investigation OF Nit
chell's charges il held, the President
may rest assured that the public
win not Be pleased II it eventuates
in the same way that the previous
Investigation Of Mitchell's charges
resulted, where Mitchell's charges
were absolutely sustained by evil
dence and experiment. and vet
Mitchell was condemned and pun,
ished for having committed the I'M
pardonable sin iii military circle1 Of
frankly telling the public the truth.
THE President Is, above all
things, wise in his day and genera.
ton.
He realizes that. the public wants
to knew the truth and has a right
to know the truth.
He appreciates fully the fact that
the day has passed when the public
belonged to the ruler and was chief
" valuable as constituting a human
source of supply for the rulers
favored military organization.
\. KNOWS Of Aatiquated Ideas
He knows the afitiquatsd idea
Of army and navy bureaucrats, that
the public is to be treated con
temptuously except when needed,
for cannon fodder, has no place. in
a modern state. Especially has it
no place in our democratic America.
According to American principle
and practice, the public. is the ruler
of state, and in order to rule right.
ly, It should be informed correctly.
'F'urthefmore; the public has to
pay the price when its government
or the departments thereof are
wasteful, and it has to pay the PEN
atty often In its best blood when
these departments are incompetent.
Wherefore. the pubiic.be.da damned
policy OF the bureauefats4 should be
discarded with the absolutisnl of
the past as not modern. not Ameri-
can and not In harmony with the
practical working of our republican
system of government,
Let there be substituted instead
the policy of informing the public
and serving the public, and if the
back numbers who swing in swivel
chairs in the military departments
in Washington are not In harmony
with this pfesent.day democratic
idea, let them be replaced with the
more modern and more competent
men who, are in harmony with 1t.
Should Realize Scandal
THE President should realize
that the, aviation situation is. a
distinct scandal in the minds Of the
public, a scandal more serious than
the oil scanda! Because very pusA.
bly, more .far.reacEing in its effects.
1.-THE President. relieved himself
of the slightest odillrn attaching to
the oil scandal by removing from
his Administra ton those concerned
'The public expects him to do the
same thing in regard to the avia.
tiot1. Scandals,
Those who know him and have
the utmost confidence in him ex
pect him to do even more.
They expect him, now that he
has undertaken to clean up The
to put American aviation
on q modern, practical basis, to
recommend the creation OF sep
arate department of aviation and
il Congress accepts his reeomman.
dation, as it surely will, and cree
ates such a department, the public