| Show Cause for Pride One of the the most fantastic stories of or the war has not been told and will not be told until the guns me are are still That is the story of air trans trans- port Much of the fighting now taking taking taking tak tak- ing place in far-away far corners of the globe in steaming jungles and andon andon andon on minute islands primarily is to determine who shall shaIl control the strategic air routes of the future Fortunately for this country the commercial airlines had progressed far ahead of an any other nation and with the arrival of hostilities were in a position to render invaluable service It is largely airline pilots who in close cooperation with the Air Transport Command of the Army under the leadership of Major Harold Harold Harold Har Har- old Lee George are blazing trails over the seven seas and all the continents These pilots and the the managements back of them who built bum the airlines can rest assured that the dangers and tribulations I they suffered in pioneering air I operations were not in vain As the U. U S. S News observes The number of planes leaving each day for Cor Alaska for England for South America for Africa for India for China and for Australia is a military military mili mm- tary secret But it is no secret that the schedule calls for hundreds of of flights lights every day and that the number is growing swiftly It is no secret that the fleet of hundreds I of cargo planes in service this year is expected to grow into thousands by the end of another year Those who feel that the airlines I should be militarized for Cor the duration duration duration dura dura- tion are losing their American perspective If the airlines had failed to measure up to the tasks imposed on them such a position might be justified But they have not failed We Ve are fighting this war to save private enterprise not notto notto notto to destroy it Every pilot who wears I Ithe the uniform of a commercial airline airline air air- air I line can be doubly proud He is carrying carrying carrying car car- on a military mission against the enemy and as a civilian he Is helping mightily to preserve a nucleus nucleus nucleus nu nu- nu- nu cleus from which the airlines can expand in the peace to come over The entire world bringing to all allI peoples a good example of what the free Institutions of America I can do |
