Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16
AVIATION INDUSTRY
|SBEL|EVED FACING
ERA OF EXPANSION
Increase in Travel by Plane
Held Likely During
Summer Period.
F0KKER SEES AIR FLEET
GAIN IF SHIPS ARE CUT
Trade Leader Thinks Different Type
of Armaments May
Be Adopted.
BY JOHN F. SINCLAIR.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, March 15.-Tony Fox
ker, who has just returned from Eu.
rope, predicts that there will be large
increase in the aircraft equipment OF
all nations II the Naval Conference.
now in session in London, limits the
tonnage of war vessels. =
That there will be considerable i'm
provement in the air-passenger service
In this country, no matter what hap
pens in London, is unqueStioned. This
Summer we will see air lines, carrying
Is persons in sleeping compartments,
operating over the western Air Express
between New York and San Francisco
on % and 80 hour schedules.
At the moment, Mr.. Fokker Is inter-
eSted in developing his 32-passenger
Fokker monaplane so that 1t may be
used in tranScontinental service. These
planes-F-32-are equipped with four
Pratt & Whitney Hornet engines Of
SIS horsepower each.
Here is something for fact-minded
people. There Is one registered plane
in operation today for every 1890 per-
sons in the United States. And for
every airplane registered there are
2,977 automobiles. No danger of satu-
ration point In airplanes being reached
for some time to come.
California, with 1887, leads the coun-
try In the number Of registered air.
planes. New York, with 1850, Is sec
ond. In the whole country there are
9,740.
The Aeronautical Chamber of Com
merce, which supplied these figures
says that of the total number Of
licensed planes, 6,645 are in actual OPP
Grafton, while 3.095 are private planes,
used occasionally.
Not so many, but in numbers about
where the automobile was In 1904.
Visiting Mexico.
Mexico Is much talked about, but
rarely visited, by Americans. Five
years ago, q committee on cultural
relations with Latin America was
formed and an annual visit to Mexico
City in the Summer was inaugurated.
During the last four years scores OF
educators, journalists, lawyers, business
men and clergymen have visited Mexico
together for two weeks in the Summer.
They have seen Mexico firSthand and
heard lectures from the leaders of Mex
lean nfe-educational, artistic and gov.
ernmental.
This year another seminar will jour-
ney to Mexico City in July 1t will be
led by Prof. ]. Fred Rippy of Duke Uni
versity, Prof. Chester Lloyd Jones Of
w AoSOA4SAAA, SdA4OC4 oCo1o Va 01CAlCO. LIZ
Ernest Gruening of Portland, Me-, and
Paul U. Kellogg, editor of the Survey.
II know of no finer way for a busi-
ness man or woman to spend a wonder.
ful vacation, and a most profitable one
than by taking in one of these Mexican
seminars In July" said Hubert G. Herring
Of New York, secretary of the seminar,
which is non-proflt-making and CO.
operative. '''..'.'' -
Thic xyaor NEav;ea ,,,t+R, - ,..,,, ..a-.s..
1stratlon In power, should prove par.
ticularly attractive to visiting Amer
leans.
Money Doctor" Returns.
Prof E. w. Kemmerer of Princeton,
the money DOCTOR of IL countries
since 1908, has returned from China
his latest "patient"-to become the di-
rector OF the recently established Blu
reau Of International Finance of Prince
ton University. .-
The establishment of this bureau hap
pened in this way: James Theodore
Walker, following his graduation from
princeton in 1927, took an airplane for
his home In st. Louis and was killed
on the way.
To commemorate his memory fund
OF 100000 was given by his family for
the Walker Foundation in International
Finance, contingent, however, upon
another 100000 being raised by the
university, for chair to be filled by
DR.. kemmerer: This fund now has been
raised, and DR.. Kemmerer returns to q
much larger work than the one he
formerly held as professor of finance.
AS the fund is unrestricted, it viii
give DR.. Kemmerer a rare opportunity
Tor research in very important field.
No man is better fitted to head such
bureau than this world-famous
Princeton professor.
"TOwnIess Highways"
Benton MacKaye wants the American
people to brush away mental cobwehs
and recognize that the motorist today
needs "townleSs highway" completely
free OF horses, carriages, pedestrians,
towns. grade crossings highway built
for the motorist and kept free from
every encroachrnent except the filling
stations and restaurants necessary for
the motorists convenience.
This regional planning expert sug.
gests. four specific detectives for the
townless highway:
First, to abolish the motor slum, or
road town. and develop the rural way
side environment:
Second, to stimulate the growth Of
the distinct community, compactly
planned and limited in size, modelled
somewhat after the old New England
village or the modern Radburn:
Third, to relieve the through road
and the local town from unnecessary
congestion and other sources Of fric.
ton, and
Fourth, to insure safety alike to the
through motoriSt and to the local pop
ulation.
Mr.. MacKaye believes that a national
highway policy based on such Features
Is badly needed to cope with present.
day trafac, community and cultural
problems.
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