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Show AEROPLANE WILL AID TfiE ARMY St. Louis. Oct 4. Major General Leonard Wood, chief of staff of the I'nlted States army, was an impromptu impromp-tu speaker at the convention of tho National Guard association here. Tho National Gu.ird ho said, Ij tho standby stand-by of the nation. He elaborated on li is former statement state-ment of the use of aeroplanes by saying say-ing that the aeroplane would be the gieat aid to the army In the future. Its usefulness) howeer, can be demonstrated dem-onstrated only by young men who have money and time, as the ar:nv is facing an economical crisis. Papers of a technical nature were read by the officers of the regular army today. |