Show FAILURE OF AIR SERVICE Though looked on as a nation genius with ith PO power er of ot I In the doinG ot of big Us things thines this coon coun country country try Is unable to get going oln In the I direction of ot building an nn air do de tense rense comparable with the air I forces Corces ot of Europe SInce Sine the war more mere mor than thin half a I billion dollars dollar hae ha e been expend expended ed cd on airplanes and dirigibles and up to date the showing has teen been benso so poor as to gIve tho ImpressIon that the money has been boon squander squander- squandered squandered ed edA A Washington correspondent tells ot of o the he divergent views s of at the tho I officers who ho are ar concerned with the building of or an air all force tore There Thero ls is a sharp line drawn between b army and navy air service Major General Patrick and Brig adler General Mitchell ot of the tho army air service Ca favor VOl placing both army and navy services sen Ices under a single e head an army anny man Rear Admiral Moffet of ot the th navy all air sen ice says sas such an arrangement would take tak good tood care caro ot of the th army but leave leav the nay y na y for tor I i Secretary of ot the th a 1 Nay y Wilbur agrees with Admiral Moffet but I Secretary of War Weeks We ks dIsagrees with General Genral Patrick and Mitchell Mitchell really Is the tho most whole whole illation lation man In Washington PatrIck and ind Moffet are Just as en enthusiastic but Moffet holds the tho alt all services to be b no more than army anny and Da nay Day y arms and Patrick con I i siders the combined services a military arm In a general way Mitchell looks on air po power poser er as entirely an Independent tion Secretaries Weeks and Wilbur take the same sam position that the th ten ten- tendency ten tendency dency of or the th army and navy Is to tode todo de do slop air forces Corces of ot e 0 character radically different In or organization methods plan of at oper opec operations operations and machine types The The two tao argue arpio thus The rhe Th army and n ny y y ha har hae e sops sepa separate separate rate missions The army fights on onland onland onland land and the navy on the th water ILand Land fighters have hav no business at at sea except possibly on their wa to 10 some other shore short where land fighting Is to be b done Sea fighters have hav no business on land except occasIonally lIy temporarily as ahen hen small forces of ot marines are landed Doth Both branches of ot the th service need aircraft to aircraft to help them not to fight Independent To get set just justI I it ht the kind of or help they need the army commander should have hive avi- avi avi under his own command and the navy commander should have theta them under his command With the 1 two to 0 forces contendIng for their points of or MCW the air service continues to le oo e undeveloped ed America today is the least pre prepared prepared I pared of ot the th fil fist st class nations to defend itself against an InvasIon through the th air |