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Show I AIRPLANE PROGRAM NOT -A FAILURE. In an address before the Rotary club in Salt Lake, Lieutenant Harold ', Van Cott, of tho medical corps, denied that $640,000,000 the original avia-j avia-j tion appropriation by congress had j ! been practically wasted. He declared that great things had been accomplished, accom-plished, and this fact later would bo disclosed. There had been blunders, said Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Van Cott, but the aviation board had profited by all its mistakes, i When the big program was undertak-I undertak-I en, the work was in part experimental J and there was bound to be error- Now marvelous results are being obtained. I A report has been received from I France that the Liberty motor is a great success and more are wanted. Tho perfecting of this motor was one cause of delay in airplane construe-Another construe-Another source of delay has been the constant change in airplane con-! con-! , structlon. Planes, that a year ago were j models, today are obsolete. |