The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-23

uduLlCS Is Ill dDSO1uI6 pE6E6QuAS1tS
| to success.
"Of course, some money spent in
| that way will be money wasted, but
1t is necessary to try new devices
| If there is to be any progress. We
do not want the Government to
have this to do.
1.-THE first ideas of the depart
ment, therefore, were to supply a.
highly desirable service and, next,
to encourage and stimulate the
creation In this country Of am in
| dustry capable of engaging in COM
mercial aviation and to build the
| planes and equipment necessary to
that end" declared New.
Tells Plans for Future.
w. Irving Glover. second as
sistant postmaster in charge of air
mail followed New on the stand.
plans for future development of the
service.
Interest saved by banks in New
York and Chicago by speeding
negotiable papers between the two
cities overnight by air mail amounts
to approximately $2.500,OO0 year,
Glover said
"A single pouch OF 1875 pounds is
all that has been lost by the air
mail service" said Glover
A letter between New York and
San Francisco by air mail takes but
thirty-three hours, compared to five
days by train.
The air mail service is in its
infancy" said Glover. II the army
air service is the stepchild Of the
War Department, as General Pat
t..ta = ~ r. a..9T t.
the fifth cousin OF the Government.
Il think there should be more
liberal attitude by Congress toward
it, especially in the manner OF
greater appropriations"
Service Leads World
Since its inception in 1918, the
service has flown more than TO-
900 900 miles with but forty deaths,
! twenty nine pilots, nine, passengers,
and two employees killed on ground
| by propellers.
| No country in the world has
| developed its air mail service as we
| have" said Glover.
While Glover was still on the
i stand, Postmaster General New was
cross questioned by the board re-
/ garding substituting private air mail
] carriers.
New opposed an out-and-out sub.
sidy, but said that it might be
feasible in opening up new routes
| TO grant slightly higher rates until
the new lines become firmly estab-
| lished.
New unqualifiedly opposed link
| ing the air mail to the army and
| navy air forces under separate de-
partment in the Government.
Il think unquestionably that the
Postoffice Department should have
untrammeled control of the air mail
service, New said.
Opposes Unified Service
| New did not PROFOUND any de-
tailed argument for rejecting all
proposals for consolidating the air
service, but merely denounced the
plans with one curt, laconic SEN
ltence.
| II think unquestionably that the
Postoffice Department should have
untrammeled control of the air mail
service"
News opinion was strongly sun.
ported by w. Irving Glover, Second
Assistant Postmaster General, and
Carl F. Egge, Omaha, Neb., super
While the performance Of the air
mail has satisfied in every way the
| hopes held out for it, New said Hm-
provement the future can only
keep pace If the department is
given more money by Congress.
So far, Glover told the board, the
service has ben treated "as the
| fifth cousin of the Government.
| Like New, he urged that Congress
open the purse strings that the
Infant service" may grow fully
nourished to manhood.
Disagrees With Mitchell
Disagreeing with Colonel Billy"
Mitchell that the air force was
weakened by being under control of
Notifying officers. Egge said, in
reply to a query by General James
G. Hartford, member of the board.
that the morale of the personnel
is 100 per cent,
And yet you are in immediate
charge of the service, and you are
not pilot?" asked Hartford.
Eyes, that is true and we have
no complaint fro mour pilots on
no complaint from our pilots on
At the close of the morning SEES
sion, Dwight w. Morrow, chair
man, declared that Secretary of
Commerce Hoover would be ques-
toned by the board about com
mercial aviation.
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