Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-13

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Dhtch began January 20. The story,
with all its intimate details, WtH
continue in The Star until completed.
BY REX COLLIER.
President-elect Hoover's visit to lair.
minded" Peru stimulated interest in one
of his pet projects-a far-reaching sys.
tenn Of Pan-American airways.
For years he had advocated the link.
ing of the two American continents BY
air and his trip down the west coast
of Central and South America was con.
vincing him of the potential impor.
lance OF the airplane as messenger OF
international good will
President Leguia's enterprise in send
ing an airmail plane to greet him al
Guayaquil had struck a responsive
chord in the Hoover symphony of ideas
Step by step the President-elect's vision
of great North and South system OF
airplane routes connecting the cities Of
North America with the capitals below
the Equator was taking shape.
The vision was an inspiring one, and
1t impelled him to deliver in Lima one
of the most eloquent and most signifl-
cant addresses of his goodwill tour
The speech, made at the state banquet
rendered in his honor at the PizarrC
Palace by President Leguia, disclosed
that Mr.. Hoover had given careful
thought to the future of aviation in the
Americas from the particular stand
point OF Pan-American comfy.
Backs Always Link.
"It is impossible, he told the PERU
Wan President, Ito estimate the impor-
tant consequences of this revolution In
communication and transportation be-
tween our peoples.
II should like to take this occasion
to suggest that the time has come when
by mutual cooperation of each of our
governments it is feasible to secure at
once this further important link be-
tween our nations.
II am convinced that by few prac-
tical steps in the organization of air
ways and at no great public outlay we
can secure the establishment of this
service through the enterprise OF the
citizens of each of our countries"
So enthuSed was the PreSident-elect
over aviation prospects in South Amer
lea that he ventured the prediction
that practicable airway system could
be placed in operation within a year
were the nations involved to gather
around a council table"
I'm the days of the early settlement
of the Western World" he stated, lit
would have required three months to
travel from Washington to Lima. BY
air we should be able to travel that
distance in less than two days."
Statement Nothing Rash.
There was nothing rash in this state
ment startling though it seemed.
The American Pre6ident-elect had
spent much time over maps in the
study of possible air routes before he
had reached the conclusion 1t was
possible to secure at once" o system
of Pan-American airways. x
He knew that the American postal
authorities already had projected an
airmail route to Panama. From Pan
anna the route lay through Colombia
where airways were in successful opera
ton under supervision of German In
terests, and then southwark through
Ecuador to Peru. The establishment
of an airmail line between Lima and
Guayaquil had paved the way for an
airway program in Ecuador, which had
been tagging in aviation development.
Peru itself was being supplied with
efficient airplane service through the
aggressiveness Of American aviation in