Show PRESS PARAGRAPHS The Tho aeroplane in war is considered Baltimore News There Is wide difference difference differ differ- ence dice of opinion as aJ to what the airship can cando cando cando do at sea iea Granted that it can go high enough and swift enough to be comparatively free from danger from the guns gnus of ofa ofa a a. ship it yet has to de demonstrated that It can do a battleship harm Cleveland Plain Dealer Aeroplanes will bear be-ar watching If by any good forI fortune fortune for for- I tune thc they could be developed to a of i efficiency to put a stop to war they would bo be worth all the lives sacrificed and money spent in their development If the they could rould only make the buildIng of dread- dread ts and super super lights wholly futile they would rank among th the tho most beneficent inventions the world has ever had bestowed upon it St. St Paul Pioneer Press The performances performances performances perform perform- ances of I the he aviators on tho the heavier than air vir lr machines eg have hao discounted so completely complete complete- ly Iy the skepticism of only a few years ago as to the possibilities of flying that it will not do to say that the battles of they the future may not be fought in tho the air all The chief discouragement to the tho adaptation of flyIng flyIng fly- fly ing machines to the purpose of war is the probability that it would become so terribly terribly terri tern bly destructive as to make malto war ble Charleston News Nes and Courier CouTier Our naval a authorities th seem to have reached the conclusion that the tho aeroplane as an engine n inc of war is js destined to great useful useful- ness Indeed since the successful l launchIng launch launch- Ing of such suel a ship from the tho deck of a cruiser there cap be no doubt as to either the availability ax of or tho the nece necessity sity for aeroplanes oper operating In conjunction with the naVies Boston Tra Transcript The expert of the patent office having most to do with passIng passIng passing pass pass- ing on n new nw W types of aerial machines says that the success of aerial erl l flight de- de de depends ponds 10 tO per cent on the machine 15 per ent rent on the motor motol and 75 per cent on thEman the man The aerial f fleet et must rely upon numbers rather than bulk and each In Individual individual individual in- in unit would be required to have not a 75 hut but a per cent man at the helm and behind the to guns Chicago Tribune ut Nr al aI till tf tt th in natIOns a lr S li Yf fr aeroplanes T Tic File e Gerian lias ordered ordered- forty carry gil guns ns A American mer caz a arm army viny officers have havo given Iven it as IS their opinion th that t thIs country should have twenty at ate once Probably con congress res will wm be asked f for r an tion What What Germany 11 has lias S England E 1 laud must have hav and a little more more and and France will t not bo be behind New Now Orleans 1 Picayune Despite the many st startling feats that till the aeroplanes have accomplished no other practical use has been suggested for th them than em- em nt t J 01 oi war ar purposes 1 That Tha t I the h machines can be bo utilized In scouting and in carrying mes messages ages and therefore bee become useful adjuncts to the intelligence department of the army there seems to belittle belittle be bo little doubt but It is If not so certain that they can an be successfully used for dropping dropping dropping drop drop- ping high h explosives on on warships or 01 on fortresses Toledo Blade The Tho d defects fedR of the aeroplane aeroplane aero plane so fAr as they concern the army do donot donot donot not apply to the nav nay I Now that It has has' been demonstrated that a tl flying machine can take tak to the tho wing from the tIlE deck of a I moving mo vessel its usefulness s upon the sea sei becomes apparent at once The fhe becomes in the navy an im important important important im- im adjunct both for offense and do- do f nse and the information gained by ItOC's It ft does OC's not have to be hn subjected to anal analysis 01 or questioned In the least Washington Star The stops stop necessary to hE bo taken at present to make the airplane airplane air air- plane piAn a valuable factor in marine warfare are arc so relatively simple that it will he be a marvel if Il any first class power finds itself within the tho next few months unread unready to conduct a campaign with tho the assistance of these sky fighters If Tf the United States neglects the obvious lesson taught by the heavier than air experiments of the last two years it will be he as RI derelict in Its duty as though it had declined to armor its battleships when the other nations began hegan to sheathe th the sides sIde of their h lr war craft with steel |