Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-09-08 | Page 19 | Air Supremacy

Ai Air SU Su Supremacy n Cl LCY y yR R DECENT RECENT events e indicate that that- the United States not only owes Great Grent Britain a nj debt of gratitude e for the aid nid given in transporting American troops troop to Europe but is indebted for material aid nid a given to the air program of 01 the allies A little more than a n. year ago public announcement announcement an- an was made that a fleet of airplanes would be placed on en the battlefront by the United States ns a decisive cc factor in the war O Our r war psychologists talked f l much about supremacy in the air air and hailed it itI I as s the comforter of an inability to send troops to Europe as rapidly as n needed A great sum of or money was ap ap- pr for that purpose and then we turned our at attention attention at- at to getting men over o to Europe More than tuan a year Jea later inter it is interesting to note that our i greatest strength is found in what we believed to he be our weakness and nna our out weakness in what nhat we thought tt was as our strength Superhuman efforts must be exerted by us if iC wo attain that supremacy iu in in the air nil of which we C talked so freely in ill the tho first days of or the conflict When hen we made these assertions we did lid not make any IJ allowance for tho the progress made in the air by our allies and mul we did not consider thai thaL they would be contenders for fOL first honors Some Somo interesting r figures have just been issued by the he British recruiting mission which winch when compared with tho the recent aircraft report of or our investigating committee show plainly how far fur we wo are arc from air ail supremacy Tho The optimistic note in ii our report is the future but hut the future futuro cannot annot bo be con considered in accomplishments Consequently our cur attainments arc are limited to the results outlined in the the report of tho the in investigating committee Briefly tho the results arc six hundred 1 and ono one com combat hat planes shipped to France British figures figure show that in inthe inthe inthe the month mouth of Juno alone the British air forces downed three hundred and fourteen German machines and lost one hundred C In Tn July th they brought down lown four foul hundred and two eighty-two enemy machines and lost ono one hundred and sixty Another month shows five hundred bundled ci eighteen enemy aircraft accounted for andone andone and andone one hundred re and amI twenty twenty-e twenty eight ht British machines missing During the same month ci eight ht hundred and fifty tons of bombs homb were dropped chopped on military objectives On July 1 tho the United States did not not have luwe a single bombing ma mn- machine chine on the front d The Tho foregoing oin figures figurs represent combatant work only and some sonic idea of British reconnaissance work is gained when it i i. i is announced that in a single month more than luau photo photographs were taken over o the enemy lines by the British We Ye have lut not failed in our air ail program program program pro pro- gram gram because it il is announced that we are arc approaching quantity production but it is apparent that we arc a n along along long ways WO'S from that air supremacy which wo we hailed a year ago as the deciding clement element in the war Great Britain hns has the advantage antage of time but it is apparent that thaL the Germans lose more machines in a month than thane we e have hae shipped in a year Our success lies in the realization realization real real- that our air nil program is not as expected and the application of the proper remedies Si Sa Now Kota that tho allies have haye taken Ham ma may we wo not suggest that Mr r. lIener and the federal trades tracts commission commission commis sion conduct an investigation to make ke sure the tho bone inot i inot not gnawed too clos closely eh Pa Ea ta l Some people will undoubtedly devote the major portion portion portion por por- tion of their time in the next few months mont to obtain obtaining in office Some others will devote their attention to reten reten- tion Pa Pta Pa rn AThe Pa JQ PaThe The Democrats have selected parlor 0 for their head head- quarters According to the score board 0 is not a favorite favorite fa fn- fa- fa with ith winners fe Von Hindenburg has issued a at a warning against pamphlets Sane advice on meeting allied fire would be more to the point Pa l a l JIt Qt The barbers should not forget that thab a n great many of r the old fellows have not 50 cents' cents worth of hair left 1 te r-n r Pa A ta ri Look Loo at tho the charging in Europe if you would know why we arc are getting down to a n cash basis here nere 1 3 r Ha The government ban on beer should make Parleys Parley's canyon safe for sober people after December 1 tei r Paa Ha rI Wonder y if Judge Tobin took look nonpartisan san pledge and signed an nn undated resignation 7 Hn In P Pi These may bo ho quiet lays clays in the tho Berlin war office but we venture the opinion that they long Pa fm Pa And now Germany is turning to intellectual weapons Time to use the psychological n 1 taj Now that poets have been heen exempted from tho the work or fight order we may expect some new campaign aign songs sons o Pa Pa These are arc great grent days for the prohibitionists 1 A A