| Show S U u. u bo So Should VlA P Aid Commercial Aviation in Definite Manner Postmaster General Declares By WILLIAM J. J United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON Oct 13 The The government g should abandon its standstill attitude toward aviation aviation aviation avia avia- tion and Inquire Into the commercial commercial commercial commer commer- cial future of aeronautics Post Post- master-General master New told the presidents president's dents dent's special air board today In his second before It New reiterated his belief that I the government should encourage commercial aviation by establishing a system of airways equipped with lighted landing fields for night flying The needed stimulus would be given the commercial field and the manufacturing Industry he heI I saId by setting up a continuing na national national national na- na program for promotion of ot aeronautics u tics SUPERVISION NEEDED There are many things to be bedone bedone bedone done that are absolutely prerequisite ite to to the success of commercial aviation not one of which is re receiving receiving receiving re- re a particle of attention at atthe atthe atthe the present time and Which never will unless it is made the business of someone to see that attention Is bestowed upon it New said The best forward step that can be taken he said would be In Inthe inthe the passage of the Winslow bill creating a bureau of aeronautics Inthe In Inthe the department of commerce I New pointed out that the government government government gov gov- extended aid to the railI railroads railroads rail rail- roads during their period of development development development de de- de- de I and said aviation should be accorded the same assistance This aid to aviation would come I from the proposed bureau which would provide lighted airways for commercial air companies MEANS FACTORIES Our first need Is for a continuing continuing ing lag national program for br the prom promOtion pro- pro m mOtion Uon of aeronautics he said Commercial aeronautics Is the cornerstone of the who whole e structure I If It as a result of such a program we succeeded in establishing air airlines lines that means factories and skilled mechanics familiar with the subject to build planes It means the training and keeping in practice practice practice tice of 1 pilots and the mechanics to keep ships In repair It necessarily means air ports landing landIng- fields hangars airways and all of these beginning with the productive capacity of theIn theIn- can qan be quickly turned to military account In case emergency emergency emergency emer emer- gency g arises I SEEKS AUTHORITY I New suggested that the postoffice department be granted authority and funds for development of aircraft aircraft air air- craft most suitable for commercial purposes Postoffice department experiments with air safety devices have produced results In the way of knowledge that can com compensate compensate pen pen- sate the government for all the money that has been spent by It I he said Informing the board of the fatal accident to Mail Pilot Charles S S. S Ames who crashed In the mountains mountains mountains moun moun- of Pennsylvania New appealed appealed appealed ap ap- ap pealed to the inventive genius of the country to devise an apparatus that will disclose to an airplane pilot his distance above the tree tops I |
