The Washington times., 1926-09-11
AIPPLANE TO
BE SOCIAL
ASSET
Winged Travel Makes It
Possible to Lunch Here,
Dine 500 Miles Away
By JEAN ELIOT

~HE Importance oe the airplane
IN national defense and its
commercial possibilities have
bean discussed repeatedly under
fnch.hfeh headlines. There has
evan been some comment on lfs
influence on the practice Of medi.
efT,n. aviation madeleine being the
newest branch Of science taught
81 the Army and Navy medical
schools. But, somehow, one hears
nothing Of the airplane as social
asset.
yet. think Of the visiting and
lcng.distance touring that IS made
possible with flying as means q
travel
The three new aviation secre.
faries." f. Trubee Dawson, Assis.
tant Secretary Of War; Prof. Ed
ward Warner, Assistant Secretary
of the Navy, and w. r Nc
Cracken, jr., Assistant Secretary
Of Commerce, have all been flying
around the country since their IN
eiuction into office, combining In
spection business with the pleas.
ure OF dropping IN for luncheon
In one city and dining In another
500 or q 1000 miles distant.
By Air to Marine Revue
The airplane as tin1e-saving
device made II possible for such
q busy man az Theodore Douglas
Robinson. Acting Secretary OF the
Navy. TO slip over to Atlantic City
to take part in its picturesque
Marine revue. dropping In on Phila.
delphia the same night to- attend
the banquet Of the National Aero
1lautic Association
And Assistant Secretary Of War
J. Hanford MacNider has but re.
gently returned from O flying tour
during which he Travelled over 5000
miles III less than seven days.
made inspections in such widely
scattered States IS Ohio. Illinois.
Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, took
part in various ceremonials and
made daily q several hundred d-mile
jump between luncheon and din.
ner.
On Wings Of the Wind
a glance over Colonel MacNider's
itinerary Il truly Illuminating On
AcCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, reached
scott Field. M. Is tine for ineoec-
ton and lunch and arrived at Hat
8LAE &1G4t&sz &AN6E0A EZR 70 utt1G A1tA
make an inspection. Next day be
lunched IN Dallas and dined at
Kelly Field, San Antonio. Septem-
Der 3 was diversified with inspec-
tions Of four different military
units, luncheon with the Ninth
United States Infantry, dinner with
the American Legion in "san An.
tone" and an address afterward
- k4aA TrM%@eso v1n - Ty0vaey
San Antonio, Fort Sin, Okla. and
Tulsa. OKLA, were visited in one
day. Another saw the .dashing
young Assistant Secretary Of War
taking in = legion convention at
Ardmore, Okla, and an American
lxatIon meeting. He visited the St
Louis Industrial Exposition, wit
hessed sham battle at Jefferson
Barracks. and. leaving Scott Fled,
hear st. Louis. on the morning Of
Eeptember Z, was In Columbus,
Ohio. for luncheon and back in
Washington for dinner. Verify
that's travelling on the wings OF
the wind Colonel MacNider flew
ln an OIL observation plane. with
Capt Robert O.. Erwin as pilot.
Treating the Birdman
Apropos OF aviation medicine, $
the powers that be In the military
and naval services have decided
that an aviator Is q highly special
lied creature and that he must he
treated from a different angle than
the landsman or the seaman. So
both the Army and the Navy are
training a special class OF medicDs
IN the science of handling birdmen.
The psychological note enters into