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Page 6. governmental organization for the development, control, and employment of aircraft in its many phases, peace-time, as well as war-time, require the formation of an executive department of the government, "The Departure of Aeronautics." [[underlined]]LEGISLATION NEEDED.[[/underlined]] There should be a legislation to establish and authorize a Department of Aeronautics along the following lines: (a) There should be established a Department of aeronautics with a cabinet officer as the head of the same. (b) This department should be charged, under the direction of the President, with: 1. Development and operation of all government aircraft. 2. The provision and operation of all government landing-fields, except such as may be assigned for the uses of other departments of the government. 3. The provision and operation of "aids to navigation" such as beacons, land-marks, etc., throughout the United States, and its possessions, for governmental and commercial uses in the same manner that light-houses establishments provide aids for water-navigation.