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unnecessary to make provision for permanent air force to perform these functions as the state of the art both in this country and abroad renders such a force of relatively minor importance as a weapon of national defense when compared with the value of the strictly military and naval air force for that purpose. 

The moment that aircraft reaches that stage of development which will permit of one ton to be carried from the nearest point of a possible enemy's territory to our commercial and industrial centers, and to return to the starting point, then national centers, and to return to the starting point, then national safety requires the maintenance of an efficient air force adapted for acting against the possible enemy's interior. 

AUXILIARIES.

The Department of Aeronautics will require the various branches for internal administration similar to those required by a war and navy department, namely: A legal and judicial, similar to the Judge Advocate of the Army, financial and dispersing, medical, supply, transportation, and ordnance, and engineering, etc. (At the present time, some of the functions of some of these "auxiliaries" could be performed for the Department of Aeronautics by the auxiliaries pertaining to some other department of the government with more or less difficulty and expense. It is believed that by the time that Aeronautics is organized, the need for the various auxiliaries will have