Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-04
AVIATION INDUSTRY
/. TO GET ASSISTANCE
.-
Method and Sources of Aid
Are Problems to
Be Solved.
BY J. G.. ROYLE.

The aviation industry wants and will
receive assistance. That much was
made evident today by Government off,
Gals specializing in aeronautics. The
question pressing, however, is: Who
is going to give the assistance?
Government officials feel that no
small amount of the aid should come
from other transportation industries.
Aviation company officials feel that the
Government should take the lead in Of
fering aid 1t seems evident that efforts
will be made by each to attain the de-
sired end.
Helping Hand.
The transportation division of the
Department of Commerce holds that
the bright outlook for the baby industry
is due in large measure to the fact that
the railroad and steamship lines and
the various types of motor transport
have extended helping hand rather
than the clenched fist of opposition.
When the motor bus first made it's ap-
pearance in the transportation field. II
was opposed vigorously in many cases
by the street railways and the steam
roads. This opposition proved inef-
fective in checking progress of the new
methods of freight and passenger traf-
f1c, and the fractions and steam roads
finally adopted the bus and took it into
their own schemes of service instead of
fighting it.
Airplanes, dirigibles. gliders and other
forms Of air travel have not been OPP
posed by the Older forms of transporta-
ton. Aeronautics has been taken right
into the transportation family. This
trend is clearly shown in the interests
allied with the new Pacific Zeppelin
Transport Co. This line is designed 10
carry passengers, mail. express and
freight between the Pacific Coast and
the Orient. The first leg Of the journey
is from the Pacific Coast to Hawaii
The cooperation which the venture
will have from other lines of transport
is shown in its list of directors. These
include executives of all the great
American steamship lines from Pacific
ports to the Orient among them j.
Stanley Dollar of the Dollar Steam
ship Co.; Harry Chandler, head of the
Los Angeles Steamship Co.; P. w. Roth,
president of the Matson Navigation Co.,
and Edward P. Farley Of the American
Hawaiian Steamship Co. and the for
Board. The airplane industry is repre-
sented by F. B. Rentschler. president
of the United Aircraft e. Transport Co.;
@. B. Grosvenor, president of the Avia-
ton Corporation, and Col. E. A. Deeds
The list also includes men interested
in motor fuels, such as K r. Kings
bury, president of the Standard Oil Co.
of California.
Opening New Business.
The men interested in airplanes, rail-
roads. buses and ships have been far
sighted enough to see that instead OF
taking business from them the air.
ships, through faster transport of pas
sengers and mails are opening new
business with the Orient and that they
in turn will secure additional freight
and passenger traffic as result
Mr.. RentSchler takes the position that
it is essential that the Government be
the one to extend the strongest hand
to the infant industry. The Govern
ment still is the largest customer OF the
airplane and dirigible companies, and
the development of the air mail lines
mas been of tremendous assistance to
the industry Mr.. Rensselaer, holds that
the Government, through its programs
for Army and Navy equipment and by
its airmail contracts. is in the best
position to offer assistance.
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