Evening star., 1935-01-31
TELLS
WOMAN PATRIOTS
AIR FORCE NEEDS
Must Be Adequate to Meet
Effectively Threat From
Sky, He Says.
DEVELOPMENT LAG
DUE TO LACK OF FUNDS
Admiral King, Secretary Dern
and Others Urge Need of
Strong Defense for Nation.

An adequate air force is the only
agency with which the United States
can meet effectively threat from
the air, Lieut.. Col. Frank M. An
drews, commander of the newly
organized General Headquarters Air
Force, today told the Women's Pa
triotic Conference on National De-
fense.
Addressing approximately 1000
women at the Mayflower Hotel, the
aviation chief said air attacks against
vital areas would be a major catas-
trophe.
Army aviation has Jagged in its de-
velopment principally because of in
sufficient appropriations. Col. Andrews
declared, but the War Department
has carefully studied the problem to
the end that when funds become
available the United States shall
have an efficient, well-trained and
ell-equipped G. H. @. air force.
Isolation Held an Advantage.
War Department officials are con-
vinced. he stated, that this force will
be fully capable of meeting any for
eign aerial attack.
present aircraft and those to be
developed in the immediate future, y
Col. Andrews said, do not subject the
United States to the danger of any
sudden massed attacks from the air,
such as threatens European nations"
Naval aviation is not only an in
tegral and component part of the
feet and of the Navy. Rear Admiral
Ernest ]. King, chief of the Bureau
of Aeronautics, told the conference,
but it is today undoubtedly one Of
/ the most essential factors in feet
operations.
Readiness and Expansion.
Admiral King said the future pro-
gram of naval aviation provides for
mot only keeping up what we have
in as effective a manner as possible,
but also in improving it to the great
est practicable degree, ready at any
time to meet the ever-growing needs
of expansion"
The Navy air force is ready to de-
fend not only the country's interior,
but our coast and other possessions
with a fine complement of planes
which are ready at all times to meet
or drive off hostile armadas before
they can launch their heavy air at
tacks, he concluded.
An appeal for strict enforcement
of the immigration laws and drastic
reduction in the quotas of all nations
was made by Representative Martin
Dies of Texas.
Dies, member of the House I'M
migration and Naturalization Com
mittee, said there are 100000 aliens
in this country illegally.
"Maudlin sentimentality" and self
ish interests" to make use of cheap
alien labor is responsible for the
failure for impartial enforcement of
the deportation laws, Dies said.
The minute prosperity returns" 4"
the Texan added, 1T is proposed to
open the gates and let in hordes of
aliens"
Neglect Held Disastrous.
"The quickest way to precipitate a
disastrous war is to neglect an ade-
quate national Defense" William H.
Sardo, jr., president of the senior eve
ming class Of the Foreign Service
School of Georgetown University, said.
Sardo said he disagreed thoroughly
with the theories of pacifists that this
country can promote peace and dis
armament by disarming as an ex-
ample when other nations refuse to
do so.
The best method of attracting stu
dents to the cause of patriotism, he
said, is to steal a leaf out of the
book of the pacifist groups" and form
patriotic student organizations and
furnish them only with the true and
unbiased facts Of Americas problems.
Strides Under Roosevelt.
Under the guidance OF President
Roosevelt greater strides have been
taken during the past two years to
advance national defense than during
the entire remaining period since the
war, Secretary of War Dern told the
opening session last night at the
Mayfower Hotel.
"The United States Army will con-
tinue its mission of preparing for the
defense of our. country" he said, "if
and when the need may arise, subject
always to the authorization and the
directives of the proper civil officers
Of our Government"
The people bring about the wars
and the Army brings about peace,
the Secretary declared. THE Army
did not cause any of our wars, but 1t
stopped every one of them. Since the
Army of the United States has never
in the slightest degree been respon-
sible for bringing on war, where is
the experience which justifies the
friends of peace in listing the Army
among the causes of war?
Argument without Facts.
"It seems to me they are barking
up the wrong tree and that their con-
clusion is foolish because their argu-
ment is not based on facts. It would
be as logical to say that fire depart
ments cause fires and that the way to
stop fires is to disband our fire de-
partments."
xAC 6CIA CtdAy uC4CilhSo u1llAtd1y
training in colleges, declaring he re-
garded the Reserve Oficers' Train
ing Corps as indispensable to our ma
tional defense"
"The duty Of citizen to bear arms,
If need be, in defense OF his country
Is Fundamentals" he said, "and the re-
quirement Of some colleges that their
students shall devote a small part of
their time to preparing to discharge
this obligation Is entirely reasonable" !"
Two national peace groups were
criticized by Representative McSwain
of North Carolina, who also addressed
the first session of the conference.
strange Psychology" Hit.
81 can't understand the strange
psychology certain people possess" he
said. 'T mean the National Commit
zee on the Cause and Cure Of War and
the National Association to Prevent
War. They think you can cure war