San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-09

failing TO get any response from the
War and Navy Departments to de-
velop this feature of air defense. Dan
Anthony Of Kansas. in the House of
Representatives and Harry New of
Indiana, in the Senate, pushed
through an act of Congress requiring
the President to turn over the battle
ships to us for demonstration. See
ing that the issue could be no longer
avoided, every attempt was made by
certain bureaucrats to evade it, some
of the worst methods being employed
that ] have ever heard of being car
ried out in any service, foreign or
domestic. Secretary Weeks stood up
fairly and squarely and made his de-
ciSions without bias or favor. The
result of these tests practically have
revolutionized methods of national de-
tense all over the world.
PUBLISHERS RESPONSIBLE
The question of cartoons of Secre-
tary Weeks in the book have writ
ten, is mentioned in the newspaper
dispatches. These cartoons are incor-
poTated in the inside cover of the book
and were put there by the publishers.
They appeared in the public press and
were published all over the country q
number of months ago. and l imagine
made Secretary Weeks laugh as much
as anybody else. 1 think they make
everybody laugh. Secretary Weeks
is a graduate of the Naval Academy
and was a naval officer and has many
friends in the navy, sees them fire.
quently, and this is bound to influ-
ence him as it would any other human
being: but / want it distinctly under
stood that as far as / am personally
/ have the kindliest feel
ings for him individually. no matter
what our views on public questions
may be.
Now then, If an investigation is de-
sired, am eager 10 have it. But it
must be entirely public and all the
evidence must be published for the peo-
pie TO know about. The board max
ng it should be composed Of represen-
-atiYe Americans instead of members
If the army and navy bureaucracies.
Let its members be from the East and
The West of our country, from the
North and the South, and men from
he fields and factories, as well as
rom the counting houses and the in
iustries. Then and only then will we
begin to get at the actual facts in
Tolved in this proposition and remove
/ from petty politics and entire bu-
repression. Let everybody
qualified TO speak appear before this
)ody and the American people will
'oon see what the result Of their de-
iberGtions is.
REPORT TURNED DOWN
We had a body Of this kind ap-
pointed once before TO investigate the
ubject of aviation. They investigated
I in this country and they investigut-
d it all over Europe. They recon-
nended unanimously and unqualified
y a united air service in this coun-
ny as being the only means Of keep
ng us abreast of modern national de-
1t was promptly turned
Down and Quashcd BY the War De
Dartment.
As far as I am personally concern
ID, il does not make any difference to
ne whether ! am in the army or out. !
II the bureaucracies wish 10 throw me
1ut, they probably have the machinery |
Tor doing it and it will be only one
more evidence Of the condition into |
which our national defense has drifted |
In or out Of the service. we have laid |
,ur hands 10 the plow and the field .
# our whole national defense will be |
.horouphlv cu1fivatcd and viz liznI no
ore we lay it aside. ! can tell you
low that when we get through we are
going TO mOdcrnize and simplify a
rood many other departments Of the
government
Concerning the anti-aircraft target