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Show SALT LAKE TO HE BID FOR lEfllfflTEfl Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary , Tells Bonneville Club That Washington Should Act. SAYS SUPREMACY OF AIR CONTEST IS ON Naval Official Declares This City Is Ideal Location .for Aeronautic Train-. Train-. ing Station. Moved to immediate action by a vivid portrayal of the vital importance of air power for the United States, as given them by Rear Admiral Kobert E. Peary, United States navy, retired, members of the Bonneville club of Salt Lakeat their dinner at the Hotel Utah last night voted unanimously to instruct President A. N. McKay of the club to send a telegram tele-gram to Utah rs delegation in congress urging them to use their efforts to have this session of the national body give to aeronautics in the army and navy of , the country all the attention that its importance to the nation demands. Pursuant to this actiou by the club President McKay will forward a message mes-sage today to the Utah delegation in congress, urging that they exert their influence toward bringing about due attention at-tention on the part of congress to army and navy air defense. Admiral Peary, who was the guest of honor of the Bonneville club last night, the occasion of the eighth anniversary of his discovery of the north pole, on April 6, 1909, addressed the club on the subject, sub-ject, "Air' Power for the United States," outlining a plan for aerial defense de-fense preparation which includes the creation of an aeronautics department of the government, with a secretary who shall have a place in the president 's cabinet, the establishment of eoa.st defense de-fense aero service sufficient to guard the nation against all enemies, and the establishment of a fleet that will insure in-sure the military and commercial supremacy su-premacy of the United States in the air of the North American continent, during dur-ing the war and in the time of dangerous danger-ous peace that will follow the ending of tho present world conflict. Club Indorses Suggestion. Admiral Peary suggested that an aero center should be established somewhere in the interior of the country, behind all natural lines of defense, where air craft may be manufactured and an army of expert operators of such craft m3y be trained for the handling of the "eyes" of the army and navy, sinews of commercial com-mercial traffic of the future. lie suggested sug-gested that Salt Lake is the ideal location lo-cation for such an aero center for air and sea planes and training station and urged that the people of the state of Utah demand of their congressional delegation del-egation that they use their efforts toward to-ward bringing about the establishment of such a center here. The suggestion of the admiral was received with great enthusiasm by the 500 or more club members present, and when Major R. W. Young, toastmaster of tlie occasion, oc-casion, offered a motion that the president presi-dent be instructed to so appeal to Utah's delegation, it was passed without with-out dissenting vote. Lectured Here Before. Admiral Peary -was introduced to the club by Major R. W. Young in a most complimentarv foreword in which he referred to the faet that the admiral, when a lieutenant commander in the navy and when seemiugly facing defeat in his long struggles to reach the north pole, had lectured in Salt Lake some fifteen fif-teen years ao. He told how the ad-j ad-j miral, with indefatigable encrgv had pursued his goal until on the lith of April, 1909, he had succeeded in discovering discov-ering the pole. "Hp conies back to us a rear admiral with two stars on his collar, one of them Polaris and the other its twin, which he plucked from the Arctic skies." said the toastmaster. He told now, having succeeded in the efforts of four centuries cen-turies to discover the pole, the admiral is now seeking other explorations and is no-.v striving to bring the United (Continued on Page Eight.) j SULT LAKE TO HIKE 810 FOR AERIAL CENTER Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary Tells Bonneville Club That Washington Should Act. (ContiuueC fr-m P&ie One.) J-V;'e to j'w-t u 1 1 i 1 1 n in tic worW in Ur: ' otii mu ii'l in I i.t- m a i j-. The toast- I ti, ;i -ti-r i i-i'iT) (( to ' hf vn r wi rh (ier- j inauv, tin i rn port tJiKe of air service in . v.ur and thoi) i's tr-'s-'jri Tin1 belief that Hi" fi'Tii.an-.iii'-i-,-;i.iJ ri t.i.ens of this 'oiuili".- to iIm- ..':t!iit of at l.-ast ift per (cut vtTt loyal W, tin nation in the ir'M'iil siituil ion. Discovery Ann! vorsary. J ii opening liin nl vr.f.n Admiral Peary Hpoke with much f( rliny of the mem-urifn mem-urifn t lint came to Ikim of the memor-tihlo memor-tihlo April fi, linii, wjicn Ins and two ot hi ciiim'(hiv rcu'tipd Hit' north poJe. "It wus eiht yearr, ajo today,'' said he, ''tliui. it was my p'i:iit uooa fortune to discover the nortb poli;, und it is a H'cuiiar coincidence Unit the sixth of ; thn month uveitis to be a fat ot u 1 day for ni' for most of the iviit events of my life Imvo hiii ened on Ihnt date, ho it i. with drop lettling that, i arista to address ad-dress yon here tonight, -when today, by thn signature of tht; precodunt, America cittern tke greatest arena, in the history of the. world for the protection of icr- . toll' and the rights of humanity." i Admiral J'eary ilescriUvd tfriiphieullv ! the scene at tho north pole when he had discovered it, how a.a iffcrts had closed llio liua chapter of a book of great, m hiove-meut and hw, eeir before he had returned to cLviiaxution, tho book, of ii Mother great arhie ennMit had been : opened at the first Ampler tho con- j finest of the air. JIo described how tho .1 liyht. of tJie Wright brothers had beeu mailt) across the Kngl Lsh eh aim el and i how ho had become interested in aero- j naut.ics and how it would please him if it were accorded him to be the instru- meat of aiding in raising America. ivhich gave the aircraft to tho world, to j t he place of tiupremaey in tho air. j ''1 feel most, strongly on the matter i of tin t iotui 1 preparedness, ' ' said the i speaker, ''and though J am limited in "what 1 may say to you by reason of being an officer of the navy, yet there are some points which I desire to bring to vou." The admiral (lion nead some extracts from the advice of Jonl Montague to the war committee of the house oi commous iu which he pointed out the importance of air craft in the military operations of .England. . ' 'Tho contest for supremacy of the air has just begun and will continue alter peace has been restored. Heretofore Hereto-fore the contest has been for sea power, now it is a question of nir power. And tho air power will be far greater than the sea power ever was. Air power will include military power and commercial com-mercial power. "The lesson for t he T'nited States in ' the present war is that military command ! on land and naval command on the seas depend upon the air power. Military and J naval tones are useless without the high-1 high-1 er and greater air power. Air to Decide War. , ''The men or fores i slit and jutlcment in ; the nations today are savins these three things; that the time is here wtien the air service of a nation is more vital to its existence than t he army or the navy ; t ha t the decision in the present world struKRle will ennio in the nir; that every nation will be obliged to maintain a separate air department through that necessity which Knows no law and no Cod. ."Any one of four or five nations today to-day could on ier the destruction of our coast cities und in three waeks time, in a single night, accomplish great destruction. destruc-tion. I do not refer to Zeppelins, but by use of aeroplanes, sent here on vessels, or in subitum res. t lei man v now has ten war plane submarines fitted for operations , nqatnst other nations. Some of them may: be on our rousts now. j "The submarine menace is sreat. and , the only effective guard against it is i tound in the air craft, which can see and ' follow the movements of a submarine. , where no other yueney can. For service in warning, for offense and for defense.' a coast defense department of aeroplanes is imreraiive. We need nil the navy we. can gel. and more, and we need the army, i but we need the air defense department ; in addition to these. I Needs of Air Department. j " hat we need is this: ' separate department of aeronautics with a place in the cabinet. 1 "An avi.-ition corps of younc men of the country trained to operate aeroplanes and v ho may be commandeered at anv time for service at any point where they may bp needed. We need trained aero-chauffeurs who are as skilled in handling aeroplanes aero-planes as ordinary chauffeurs are in handling han-dling taxienbs. "We need an aeronautics man on the fjoor of congress, a man big enough to make congress see the importance of air service and who will awaken the press and the people to the importance of this department. "We need a comprehensive aero coast defense service, a pov. orful interest to comb. ne the conflicting air interests into one great air industry, a srrcat central aeio n:am::actui ing center in the interior of the coi:nt : . behind the natural lines nf defense where it will be best protected. "Toe millions spent on army and raw arc wasted and the safety of the nation is endangered unless we have an air fleet t lint y:ll dominate t he air of the North Amet ic.in continent."' Bulgaria's Air Fleet. Vi'iiirai Peaty then contrasted the aero row or of other nations with thai of the rutted States showing how Bulgaria has ;:iin planes. France has an aer-j force more than the army of the United States, and tit eat Britain has an aero force more than t '-e iili y of the United Slates. The United Siatcs. hi' said, lias thirty-seven ! i pianos and U';i men with fifty-three efr'iccs. while the army has tiuO aviation men und nine ty-three officers only. "The army and navy has heeii aptlv df's. lihcd as being Mind lor 'ack of aero servi'-e." s.;:d the admiral. ""c have nnt a plane armed with a gun and our men at.' not trained to detect and follow submarines. sub-marines. Men w-ir.t to enlist in the aviation avia-tion serene hut tvo can't handle them for le.'k of funds and enmpment. Canada in-t-nds to spend iA''H0.f,''e. on her aero n-im-v'.cp this ve-u The United Suites ap-propr.nted ap-propr.nted J I s.n'.inni and we need not a penny less man $ba.O''u.'i'M Say G!etha!s Is Man. "Wo must have one man at the head r .-f the a'ro S'Tiee bii enough to work i; out and develop it- And ran name :1:,; i;',r,i ru:'it o-i (he hat. He is C'leral i ;r ot h:i1v The man v. !:o huilt the Uana-nia Uana-nia i-iiual is the man to have at the head of ;hc aero department of this govern-! govern-! mrni. i "W't; need preparation in the norn de- fen.-e nmre for t he rea ' in nmen t of im-poeiish, im-poeiish, d nations after Ihe war than wc do for the war with Germany, and for that reason it behooves us to look to the future. We should be prepared for the great contest for commercial air supremacy suprem-acy which is conuns. j "What shall we do? j "Let congress be asked to create the i oftice of secretary of aeronautics and to i give the nation a great air department, j "One of your senators has introduced ; a bill in congress to have an aviation training station established here. I want to say this is the greatest place in the country for it. There is your lake for i training in the use of seaplanes and your mountain valley here gives most excellent , opportunity for training In aircraft j manipulation. This is the Ideal location I for an aero center of the United States for the manufacture of planes and for the training of experts to operate them. It has railroads leading In every direction; direc-tion; it iy behind the last lines of natural defense, where it is most protected and offers t he greatest of opportunities for this great development. Addresses Student. "You should demand of your representatives represen-tatives in congress the passage of a law I creating a department of aeronautics, and should look to it that this fs established as an aero center of the country. The only way you can get it is to have your congressmen work for it." Major Young immediately offered his motion that the club call upon Utah's delegation to act, and the motion was adopted amid great applause. Mr. Young then expressed the thanks of the club to Admiral Peary for his splendid address. ad-dress. Yesterday, after his arrival. Admiral : Feary was taken for a drive about the , city and stopped at the University of I Utah, where lie addressed the students : of that institut ion on the importance of aviation In the nation's programme of ; preparedness. The admiral will leave at 1 o'clock this afternoon for Los Angeles, i |
