Evening star., 1939-02-22
Permanent Setup
To Seek Aviation
Goals Is Studied
National Airport
Program One Of
Points Considered

Creation of permanent national
organization representative of the
IS national groups supporting the
National Aviation Forum to carry
on an unceasing fight for American
aeronautical supremacy is being
studied as a result of the two-day
forum which adjourned here late
yesterday.
The permanent body would be
built around the Joint Aviation
Council, which, together with the
National Aeronautic Association,
sponsored the forum. according to
plans of Gill Robb Wilson, World
War aviator, State director of avia-
tion for New Jersey and forum
chairman.
1t would be the purpose of the
permanent organization to carry to
the American public the aeronauti-
cal requirements of the Nation for
is safety. efficiency and prosperity.
Among the projects for which the
group would seek support, Mr.. Will
son listed:
Cd A national airport program,
held to be vital to national security
and the efficiency of interstate COM
merce.
(2 An expansion of air trans
portation until it actually, rather
than theoretically, serves the trans
portation needs of all of our people" J"
60 An expansion of our weather
reporting facilities.
a. Increased research as the
spearhead of industrial and COM
mercial progress.
90 Provision of adequate air de-
fense, backed by training program
for aviation personnel, including
gliding and soaring, ground school
training in aerodynamics and me-
chanics, seaplane flying and other
subjects.
Isolation Becoming a Myth.
In closing the forum yesterday
Mr.. Wilson pointed out that aviation
belongs to all humanity"
There is no man, woman or child
on earth today who is not vicariously
in the Skies" he said. The noun
tains are leveled in relation to all;
the earth in shrunk for all; the maps
are remade for all. Isolation is be-
coming a myth. The grip of time
and space has been loosened on
human destiny. Aviation is the ex-
pansion of all three dimensions of
life. We must define the influence
of that oyno ~ ~, ,,voy, oyorx, nlo a
of civilization before we can proceed
much further. The lay world is now
uncertain whether aviation is a
great liberalizing and constructive
force or whether it is an agency of
violence. and step too complicated
for universal use."
Organization for air progress, he
said. will depend first upon the
craftsmanship of the Nations avia-
tion leaders. Those who do not pos
sess the broad vision of the role OF
aviation in human society, he pre-
dicted, will be buried with the gad-
getmakers."
Warnings that the newly created
Civil Aeronautics Authority must be
preserved as an independent, un-
trammeled organization if American
civil aviation is to continue to pro-
gress were sounded by Senator Pat
McCarran of Nevada, co-author of
the McCarran-Lea Act. which Gre
ated the c. A. A. last year. and by
Col. Edgar S. Gorrell, president of
the Air Transport Association of
America.
Urges Adherence to Act.
Let us not retreat one step from
the decision that civil aeronautics
will have a chance to grow healthy,
that tir transport will have a
chance to adjust itself at last to a
definite. stable program" Col. Cor
rell said. Let us not send this
young industry once more to wan
der in the wilderness of govern
mental conflict and confusion. Let
the next decaded reject the mistakes
OF the last, and find us adhering
strictly to the Civil Aeronautics Act"
Senator McCarran declared that
only by progressive laws, assuring
uniform and equitable regulation,
can investments be encouraged. the
business Of air commerce developed,
the vital national defense aspects Of
civil aviation be furthered and
labor in this highly skilled service
be protected and properly compen-
sated."
The success Of the forum, Senator
McCarran said, Is evidence that
the people now realize the signifi-
canoe Of air power as q national
safeguard"
Thomas H. Beck, president Of the
Crowell Publishing Co. and editorial
director Of Golfers Magazine, told
the forum that among important
things toward which energies of the