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Show DISPLACING OGDEN ON THE AIRJLINE. The Standard is not surprised by the announcement from Salt Lake that Salt Lake is to be one of the principal stations on the postal air-line service across the continent. When that city persuaded the war department to forsake for-sake Ogden and make Salt Lake one of the control stations in the flight from ocean to ocean, it became evident that sufficient pressure was being ex erted finally to prevail of the postof flee department to follow the example of the war department. The following on this subject is reproduced from one of the Salt Lake papers Salt Lake s importance as an aviation av-iation center and as stopping point on transcontinental lines, empha sized during the present tran? continental army flights, was giv-en giv-en am impetus from three differ ent directions yesterdav Two letters received a the Commercial Com-mercial club, one from the director of publicity of the Manufacturers Aircraft association, another from Ernest S Hightower genera! secretary sec-retary of the North American Al: Line association, bespoke Sait Lake as a landing field in future air travel. A dispatch from New York to the effect that the postal service intends the establishment of further air lines on which Ba'f Lake will be a principal station was the third sourc- of r.ood news for the city yesterday. Mr. Hightower will be In Salt Lake Saturdav , when it Is planned to have him meet residents interested inter-ested in aeronautics at i Couimei cial club luncheon. The aviation committee of the club will meet him and discuss plans for the fu ture of the landing field there. The members of this committee aie l w Sowies, l. b. McCormlck and Fred Goodcell Mr. Bell requests the formation of an aviation committee to cooperate co-operate with ihe national agen cies in the matter o. providing an adequate landing field The Commercial Com-mercial club wrote yesterday that such a committee exists and is actively ac-tively engaged in preparations for improving the present landing field and making it adequate for any aviation requirements of the present and future. 1 nder plans outlined by Mr. Hightower's letters Sal t Lake would become the aviation gateway gate-way to San Francisco, Seattle Denver. Helena, Mont, and Phoenix, Phoe-nix, Ariz. He states that his ?.ss' eialion means to air travel what the good roads movement has meant to motorists. He wl'l arrive ar-rive in Salt Lake on Thursday. How to overcome the advantage now possessed by Salt Lake calls for solu I tion by the people of Ogden The Standard proposed some days ago that Ogden organize an air Berv ice and. if possible, enter into spec ial I arrangements with li.e postoffice de-parlmenl de-parlmenl to carry mall matter from here to the coast, mnking connection with mail trains at Ogden With air service stamps provided th'.s pian might be worked out v.tihout much preliminary red tape. When the San F.ancisco Examiner engaged an aviator to fly to Ogden to speed up the Dempsey-Willard prize fight pictures which were we. abound, and when that piece of enterprise i m-1 m-1 onstrated the possibilities uf Mie air rervice in connection with mail trains entering Ogden, our people should have pushed for .mmediate recotni tlon by the postoffice department, before be-fore being displaced I is not too late, een now, to recover lost oppor tunlties. |