Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-25
A|RPORTS VITAL,
JAHNCKE WARNS
Likens Tagging Cities to
Those Who Ignored Rail-
roads in Past.
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awaken in Dayton, Ohio. and lunch IN
Washington, D. c.. 1t Is time for Amer
iea's cities to provide the airports that
will put those cities on the map and
reap the harvest that is waiting to be
gathered"
Mr.. Jahncke's address was broadcast
locally from Station WMAL. Following
is the text of his remarks: $
The peace-time activities Of the Navy,
rejecting increased comfort. ef1clency
and progress In civil life. form one OF
the outstanding impressions in my MIND
on my 15,0OO-mile tour Of inspection OF
the American fleet and the naval ac-
tivitieS on the Pacific, which I have
just completed.
40 air hours we had crossed the North
American continent twice, once by the
southern rim. once by the northern
rim. We had flown every inch OF the
Pacific Coast from Mexico to BRUSH
Columbia. We had Travelled more than
IL 600 miles by air and I had learned
the lesson Of the complete dependapu-
itv of modern air travel.
BY grace of the airplane l mad neen
able to imprint upon my MIND sucn
pictures of the navy yards at Pensa-
cola, New orleans, San Diego. san
Francisco. Seattle and Honolulu as
never could have obtained by any other
means. BY grace Of the airplane
have spanned continent twice. as
easily and comfortably as a business
man I had stepped into my automoohe
and spanned the distance between my
home and my Office. and as safely and
dependably.
As q civilian see things through
the eyes of business, as do millions OF
other Americans, and today see Amer
lea through the eyes of the airmen VINO
ave bringing to this Nation as great a
TRANSFORMATION revolution as the rail-
road men once brought. as the automo-
bile man brought. within the memory
of millions living today. America mas
taken to the air. The airplane Is no
longer a novelty: IT. Is hardly an adj
venture; it Is nothing mysterious any
more.
Prospects Of Flying.
The airplane is. with us, as much
vo,ltine as the automobile: II not as
numerous. as dependable as the rail-
road train; and the next 10 years Will
see our Skyways charted and niled as
our highways are charted and nlled
The American cities that recognize
this fact and build airports to meet 1t
will tap new sources of wealth SO great
that the most optimistic are more
likely to underestimate it than to over
estimate 1t.
THE American cities that ignore the
airplane or think 1t a minor factor IN
tneir development, before long Will ma
themselves in the same position as the
cities that two or three generations ago
ignored the railroad.
The lack of community foresight in
cities and towns that fail to provide
AirportS today. can only be compared
to the lack Of foresight in q community
that today would build road fit for
three or four buggies when from $50
10 500 automobiles day would use
modern highway were it built.
On this 12,000-mile flight it gave me
q thrill to see the little cities keen and
alert to the future, that have built
modern airports. In my memory stands
such names as these: Milford. Oregon,
o little city that saw sky trafnc over
the erests Of the klamath Range and
built O great airport to meet 1t when
It came. We refueled there. Cheyenne,
Wyo, . clean, keen city set in the
midst Of endless plains, where today
the airplane can find all it needs on
q great landing field just as once that
city stood ready to equip a cowboy.
North Platte, Nebr, where, In the midst
Of the Nebraska prairie once the home
Of the buffalo, the transcontinental air
fleets today can come to anchor and do.
Little Cities on Air Maps.
Patterson, La. where the enterprise
Of one Louisianan has provided an air
port In which one can refuel between
New Orleans and Houston. Moline, Ill,
Just across the river from Davenport,
Iowa. These are the little cities that
have won their place on the air maps
Of America. They have tapped this
new source Of wealth. money is COM
ing into their Golfers already from that
investment. Just as American COM
munitieS had to awaken a generation
ago to the great new movement Of our
people brought by the automobile. SO
Americas cities, small as well as large,
must awaken to the great new move
ment by air. Two weeks ago. 10000
feet in the air. full two miles above
the earth, was flying across the face
huge peak crowned with eternal snow
rose 2,400 feet higher, yet looked far
below. Two miles beneath us was
tiny thread Of steel on which toy cars
and q toy locomotive crawled while we
wfiStled past at more than 100 miles
an hour. and remembered how Is
years before I had seen Mount Shasta
from that train. I remembered how
tremendous an engineering feaat that
Then the work of the engineers had
stunned me, now the airplane dwarfed
10. Americans hereafter must see with
the eyes OF the eagle. No man can
ny $4,000 miles without changed out
look.
I have been a yachtsman for years.
At Anacostia Field, in Washington,
stepped aboard the Nays tri-motored
9n-metal Ford transport monoplane to
start this trip. With pilots, mechanics
passengers and baggage it weighed five
tons. That was load would have
hesitated to stow on my yacht to cross
Lake Pontchartrain at New Orleans, yet,
with that load, breakfasting in WASH
ington, we few to New Orleans by way
OF Spartanburg, NJ c.. and Montgomery
Ala, and reached New Orleans half
m hour ahead Of dinner time that same
day.
Speed Of Transportation.
I have stepped into that plane at
San Diego, Calf, on the Mexican Dor
der, and 10 hours later stepped out at
Seattle, WASH, on the border Of British
Columbia. have entered that plane
ut San Francisco and four hours and a
quarter later stepped out at San Diego,
half the Pacific Coast away.
The era Of the air has come. The
Auplane, properly inspected, cOmpeCenb-
" piloted, is swift, dependable and safe.
The plane in which flew $4,000 miles
started that flight after 100 air hours
without q major overhaul. In the
$4,000 miles it carried me across the
Great American Desert, over the Rocky
Mountains, over the Allegheny Noun
tains and over the Mojave Desert.
From border to border and coast to
coast, one spark plug wore out and one
rocker arm was renewed and that was
all. The airplane has come not merely
to stay, but to grow.
It Is UP to the States and cities OF