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Show Air Mail Route for Salt Lake We want airplane postal service for Salt Lake! We can get it if we pull together and insistupon it. Rear -Admiral Robert N. Peary, chairman of the aerial coast patrol commission, and member of the committee on maps and charts of 3ie Aero Club of America, in an interview in The Telegram, Tele-gram, says, the time is here 'to establish the eight great American transcontinental and coastal airways. , Theseteight airways are being mapped and charted now. i The postoffice department is to use the Atlantic leg of the j first of these "The Woodrow Wilson Airway" in the New York--"OicagoTerfarmaTT Tine" whiclTis on lhe-poTnrorbeing established, i ; The present aerial postal service between New York and Washington Is a brilliant success. It is notionly saving time and money for the citizens of those and 'intermediate and connecting cities, but it is paying for itself. The postal charge has been reduced from 24 cents to 16 cents for the first ounce, and 6 cents for additional ounces of first class j mail. This includes' special delivery from thenoment the letter is mailed until it1 is delivered. -!-. The-p9otffte-deprtwent will make teni,iing A( the gerial i mail service asrfasbas planes are available. In a 'short time mail ' undoubtedly willibe going from coast to coast by aeroplane. Mail by airplane is no longer an experimental thing. The mail is being carried now, rain, shine or storm, without a miss, j The only thing that stands in' the way of the extension of air I mail service to every city and town in the United States is lack of necessary airplanes. Postplanei are of exactly the same type as the "advanced training" planes buflt for the army. We have thousands of training planes and thousands of cadet airplane pilots who need cross country flying as part of thdr training for army use. If the army will cooperate with the. postoffice department a f- hundred or more aerial mall routes can be established at once. Admiral Peary says that there are in addition plenty of unutilized un-utilized manufacturing facilities for producing mail planes now. IThe Telegram predicts now that when the war ends we will see an era of tremendous development in aeronautics we will have air nail, express, freight and passenger carrying lines all over the - United States. Post officials are laying out air "zones" to be used by govern-i govern-i menf planes exclusively. j We don't want to be the last to be placed on an air mail i 'line, ' If our business men, our congressmen and senators will sup-port sup-port the demand of'Salt Lake we can get an aerial mail line within ', a short time. We have plenty of available land near the city for a landing field and aerial postoffice. , We want to get on the aerial mail map! What do you say, citizens? Shall we get an aerial postal service for Salt Lake?, , . |