The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-30

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 Army and navy experts consider the fighting SQuadrons merely the front line defenses of the country. They hold that without a large civil aeronautics establishment to act as g man power and equip ment reserve the combat forces are fatally deficient.
 U. s. civil aircraft is the peer of any in the world, but 1t is inferior in quantity in compari- son to the size and resources of the country and its far-flung de- fense problems. A large eXpan- sion of civil aviation would mean not only the training of thou- sands of pilots and mechanics yearly but the development of a large-scale aircraft industry that would make the nation iInpreg- nable in the air against any com- bination of aggressors.
 That is the goal of the War and Navy general staffs and to attain 1t this is the plan they have worked out with civilian ex- perts and authorities:
 l. Increase civil aircraft
 through direct and indirect
 government subsidies from the
 present total of 10000 planes to
 100000.
 2. Development through di-
 rect government aid of a plane
 that would sell for less than $1,-
 900.
 3. A large-scale government
 financed airport building pro-
 gram, the ports to be used as
 centefs for local air clubs, which would be promoted through gov-
 ernment assistance.
 4. Establishment of aero-
 nautic courses in every univer-
 sity, college and high school in
 the country. In preparation for
 this plan the Bureau of Educa-
 tion has sent questionnaires to
 more than 10000 schools inquir-
 ing about the aviation training
 they are offering in their cur- ricula. What officials are after
 is an annual student body of not
 less than 100000 taking courses
 in aeronautic engineering, me-
 chanics and flying.
 Unread Record
 Prominent among those who took an active role at the South ern Conference on Human Well fare was Birmingham's spright- ly New Deal Representative Luth- CT Patrick. He presided at sev- eral sessions and took a leading part in every important discus sion.
 But at a meeting of the youth group of the conference, Patrick was taken to task for voting against the anti-lynching bill last spring. He defended himself on the ground that the measure was one-sided, in that it did nothing about gangsters in the north.
 q was not aware that was . major consideration when the legislation was being debated in Congress" spoke up Mrs. RoOse- welt who was present at the round table debate.
 "Oh, yes it was," replied Pat rick. 'Tt was widely comment ed on by the newspapers and in the Congressional Record"
 Well, don't recall seeing It in the papers and no one reads the Record"
 "You are right there, Mrs. Roosevelt" Patrick said, after the laughter had subsided, 'and tits a good thing, too. That's how a lot of us are able to stay in Congress"
 NOTE = The large Municipal Auditorium was unable to hold the throng tLat turned out to hear Mrs. Roosevelt address an evening session of the conference. When she heard there was an overflow crowd, she went outside and repeated ilcr talk.
 AristOcrats
 White House servants are the aristocrats of their class in Wash ington. Not only are they tops socially, but their pay is consid- erabiy above that of the avc-- age domestic.
 Fot example: Even the third cook gets S20 a week. The second cook gets $25 and the first $S1. The first butler also gets $31. The lowest paid butler gets $24. There are four housemen who re- ceive $22 a week each. The low est wage on the White House do- mestic staff is $19 week, paid to each of five maids. Past, Present and Future
 Washington has changed since the days of "Queenie" She MK$Ks rsaHFs nrNnnn