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SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 1919 LOS ANGELES EXAMINER....A PAPER FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK SECTION-[[STAR]]-PAGE 5 ------------ WILL PUBLIC BACK LOAN? HE'LL SAY SO! ----- Henry S. McKee Sketches Plans for Victory Drive at Meeting of Los Angeles County Bankers ----- 60,000 Methodist Minute Men Ready to Aid; Longer Time for Payments Contemplated ----- "Will the public buy Victory Loan bonds?"--was the question asked and answered by Henry S. McKee, chairman of the Southern California State Central Liberty Loan committee, in his first formal announcement of the plans of the organization at a meeting of the Los Angeles County Bankers' Association at the Jonathan Club last night. At the same time announcement was made that 60,000 Methodist minute men of the United States who have been speaking for the last two months in behalf of the Methodist Centenary campaign for $105,000,000 will give their entire time during the period of the drive, April 21-May 10, to the service of the Government. In addition the entire Centenary organization in the United States, including 17,000 pastors, has been offered, which means that the 4,000,000 members of the Methodist church and the Methodist constituency of 10,000,000 people will constitute themselves committeemen in behalf of the Victory loan. BEING WORKED OUT The rate of interest and the extent of tax exemption are problems which are being worked out with extreme care, as they are considered vital to the loan and the bond market and will not be announced until just prior to the opening of the campaign. That subscribers will be given a longer time than heretofore to make their payments has been determined. Chairman McKee said: "Now the question is asked every day, 'Will the public buy them?' There is a great deal of slovenly reasoning on this subject and there is one particularly unsound view. It is that in which men are heard to say that while they bought bonds willingly when the country was fighting for its life they do not feel obliged to extend their credit to the nation now in time of peace. They say, 'If the Government wants to borrow money let it apply to those who have money to loan.' ENTIRELY UNSOUND "In reply to this it forcibly should be pointed out that if the Government were borrowing this money for undertaking some new project not previously authorized by the public that view would be perfectly sound, but under the circumstances that exist it is entirely unsound. "The Victory loan is just a bill that we have incurred eagerly and must pay honorably and there is no great money-lending class to whom we may direct the Government and thus evade our individual responsibility. "There is no such sum as $6,000,000,000 of surplus wealth in the hands of anybody, merely awaiting attractive terms for investment. These bonds must be bought, or a like amount in taxes levied, and they can be bought in only one way; by all the people of America, each in approximate proportion to his ability-just as heretofore. "If the war were going on still and the expenses piling up as we had expected them to be we would have bought not only this but a sixth and a seventh loan and perhaps others as well. But now this one is the last. Its success rests upon the honor and integrity of the American people. They choose their Government. Its acts are their acts they will fulfil its obligations." LONGER TIME TO PAY In announcing the terms of the Victory loan, Mr. McKee said: "There is a great ideal of inquiry about the terms on which the Treasury Department will issue the Victory loan. It is fairly well determined that the loan will be of about the same amount as the Fourth Liberty loan. It will be of short maturity, falling due within a few years. Subscribers will be given a longer time than heretofore in which to make their payments. "The rate of interest and the extent of tax exemption will not be announced until shortly before the opening of the campaign, but in determining these the Treasury has access to the most highly trained financial judgment in America as well as to public opinion and it is consulting both. The interest rate and Transatlantic Flight Sure, Says Harmon --- Crack Army Flier Declares Angeleno's Plane Has Great Chance to Achieve Feat ----- (Continued from Page 1.) ----- bilities. He has a biplane with a hundred-foot wing spread and two motors capable of developing a total of 400 horsepower, but it doesn't class with the other planes I have mentioned. The seaplane which our navy experts are constructing will have a wing spread of 250 feet, and the British super Handley-Page has five Liberty motors to develop 1000 horsepower. Furthermore, at least three efforts have been made to fly the Sunstedt seaplane and it hasn't got out of the water at this writing. I am of the opinion that besides being small, it is not efficiently designed. I don't say this in any spirit of invidiousness. I'm only giving the information which comes to me. I don't know Captain Sunstedt, and, should he make a successful flight in his machine, I should be only too happy to congratulate him. When I wrote the foregoing, at my hotel in New York, I had in mind the addition of a paragraph or two commenting on the possibilities of the Glenn Martin bomber as a machine to be used in a transatlantic flight. I meant to say that it seemed extraordinary to me that no plans had been made for this machine. The Glenn Martin is undoubtedly the fastest and most efficient of all the heavy-weight-carrying machines so far developed. It can reach an altitude thousands of feet in excess of that possible with any other machine of a related type. It has been developed since the outbreak of the war, and it has won the highest confidence of our army experts. FAVORS GLENN MARTIN PLANE Before I finished this article, I met Glenn Martin and he told me that he was building a machine especially for the transatlantic effort he said that its construction had been rushed and that it was not far from completion. Therefore I should, perhaps, add one more to the list of four planes which are likely to begin tuning up for the 'cross-ocean trip within a few weeks. At least, I certainly should say that one more contender with a great chance to win will be ready very soon after the four I have named. The Glenn Martin machine is being built at Cleveland, Ohio. It will have only two motors (Liberty) and will be not much bigger than the Sunstedt machine, but its chances should be estimated on a very different basis. It is of a known type of efficiency, and it will have tremendous speed. With a favoring wind it could do the seventeen hundred miies in ten hours or perhaps even less. Additional interest is given to Mr. Martin's announcement, since it means that our Army as well as our Navy will be in the transatlantic competition. Undoubtedly, the Glenn Martin flight will be under Army direction. The flight from continent to continent across the Atlantic will be made soon--I should say, within ninety days, perhaps earlier. There may be failures, first, and some ambitions for a place in history may vanish tragically in an ocean waste, but that will not deter others from going on, because as any experienced flyer can tell you, to fly across the Atlantic is a cinch--if nothing goes wrong. Among the six machines built or building which we know of--and there may be as many more that are being prepared in secret--two, at least, under normally favorable conditions, ought to be able to fly across the Atlantic and back again without landing. That feat may furnish the conditions for a contest in a year not far away. Some one is going to fly from America to Europe or Europe to American before midsummer. There's nothing to prevent it. Besides, the bait of an aggregate of about $110,000 in prizes is an inspiration. DESCRIPTION OF NAVY ENTRY The men who are hastening their competitive plans, each with the hope of being the first to accomplish an epochal feat, are just about tied in their efforts. You see, they all got started at about the same time. Instantly the war was ended, the great flight from continent to continent drew again the eager attention of aviators. I was asked, within forty-eight hours after the signing of the armistice, if I would undertake a transatlantic flight. The plane which is being build according to the plans of our Navy flying experts at the Philadelphia Navy Yard is simply the best model in the Navy multiplied by two in all dimensions. The Navy people believed that their seaplane with a wing spread of 125 feet had a good chance to fly across the Atlantic. So, to accomplish the feat surely and certainly, they started building a seaplane just twice as big. No machine with such a wing spread has ever been built, unless it is the British super Handley-Page. The "lift" of the plane which I am to pilot is about eight tons. That plane has five Liberty motors, and the super Handley-Page has the same number. The British have a dirigible--a balloon with motors for propulsion--which has already been given trials to determine its probable success in a transatlantic flight. It is, of course, a lighter than air machine. Should it --- Broke World Speed Records LIEUT. ERNEST E HARMON, an instructor at Bolling Aviation Field, Washington, D. C., made two world's records for speed flights in February. He flew from New York to Philadelphia in thirty-five minutes, and, on the following day, from Washington to New York in eighty-five minutes. On the latter flight his average speed was 165.1 miles per hour, or two and three quarter miles a minute, a rate of speed which had never before been equaled by any moving thing with a human being aboard. Since Lieutenant Harmon established his record of eighty-five minutes between Washington and New York, the time for the trip has been reduced five minutes by Col. H. A. Dargue and Lieut. Philip Lucas, adjutant of Bolling Field, flying in a De Haviland plane. They made the flight, however, without a stop. Lieutenant Harmon stopped at Philadelphia to take on gasoline, losing ten minutes there. His average speed per minute on the trip has never been equaled. He is but 26 years old, but is counted one of the most expert flyers living. At Bolling Field he has been the experimental pilot to report upon new machines and devices. He was an athlete at the University of West Virginia, where he was graduated in engineering. He was a flying instructor throughout the war, and one of his pupils was Captain Chamberlain, who brought down five enemy aeroplanes in one day. His record speed flights were made in a La Pere, two-seater scout machine with a Liberty motor. Lieutenant Harmon is scheduled to pilot one of the contending planes in the transatlantic flight effort. --- that an epochal achievement has been made in demonstrating the practicability of regular transoceanic flights. Should a dirigible successfully make the trip, it might only demonstrate that it had been strangely favored by fortune and was lucky enough to have been blown across. I am unable to state just what lift our Navy aspirant is expected to have, but it will be the biggest plan in the world, modeled exactly upon the design of one which has shown the highest weight-carrying efficiency and, therefore, it should have a bigger lift than any competitor. At any rate, we may feel quite sure it will be able to carry the necessary crew and supplies and, if it's as good a boat as the smaller one of the same model, the Navy may take the transatlantic flight prize with ease. The Handley-Page is a good plane for carrying weight and sustaining long flights, but it is heavy in proportion to its lifting power, and has not the same degree of efficiency as the Glenn Martin machine, developed in this country since the beginning of the war. Of all the weight-carrying machines I have ever flown, the Glenn Martin is the best. ITALIAN HAVE AIR ENTRY The Italians may be depended upon to produce a machine which will fly across the Atlantic, and no doubt they are very nearly ready to make the attempt. In such a flight the problem of carrying enough weight in the shape of crew and supplies is the main factor. Caproni was the first man to experiment with the heavy-weight-carrying ship, and for a while he had undisputed sway in that field. Of late, the Handley-Page and the Glenn Martin planes have been competing with those of Caproni design, but Caproni knows his business and he has shown readiness to adopt news ideas--for instance, in planning to use our Liberty motor instead of the Italian Fiat. The new super Caproni must be very nearly finished. Photographs have been shown of its enclosed cabin de luxe and other features. How many motors it is to have and what wing spread, however, are details that are not yet ascertained over here. The Italians, when they projected a transatlantic flight before the war, intended to ship their plane to this side and make the trip home. That was because the prevailing winds favor a flight from west to east. If the Italians still have that plan, they will probably not be able to be ready as soon as someone over here, and should they attempt the flight from Italy to America, they will have the more difficult undertaking with the probability of head winds. Naturally, I am inclined to believe that the plane which I am to pilot will have a good chance to win the 'cross-ocean prize. If it meets the expectations of its designer, Mr. Herrman, the Atlantic flight will be an easy thing. It should be able to fly twice the distance without stop. It is now being assembled at Langley Field and will be ready for a trial within a few weeks. SEVEN SUSTAINING SURFACES It is called a multiplane, and it has seven sustaining surfaces. These are arranged, you might say, in ranks. There are a pair of planes in front, three abreast in the middle and two in the rear. The planes BUSINESS MEN AS CITY CHIEFS --- Association for Betterment of Public Service Urges Higher Standards, Says W. A. Faris --- BY W. A. FARIS of the Faris-Walker Company Lethargy of interest in public affairs has been the bane of the body politic of California in the last few years. Scarcely 25 per cent of the registered voters cast their ballots either at the primaries or at elections. Many who have the right to vote even fail to register. That is a sad state of affairs in free America, where the government is by the consent of the governed and for and of the people. To this indifference to public matters may be ascribed many of the abuses of our system of government which must be staunch indeed to survive the forays of selfish and rapacious politicians--parasites as tax-eaters and delinquents as to returns for the money they use. The awakening is about due; the dawn of a better day is at hand. Business men and other good citizens are being aroused to the need for protective measures which will clear away the political moths and fossil-dust that do corrupt, and refabricate the governing garment that clothes with powers above their stations the so-called servants of the people. BUSINESS NATIONS'S BULWARK Once wars and forays were the chief business of all nations. The feudal lord who wielded the mightiest sword ruled the land; the chieftain who gathered in the most spoils of conquest was the richest and best favored. Nowadays the most industrious nation in manufacturing, in producing, in salesmanship and saving, is the power to reckon with. Our laws are--or should be--destined to guard lives and property rights and to deal justly as to dollars and acres with every man. Business therefore is the present bulwark of nations. Only when a nation and its individuals are successful in business--honest business--are they grown powerful. Therefore, it stands to reason that if individuals or nation wish to be successful, they must have a businesslike government. Woe to the man in business who is slipshod and lazy--he is a failure. So is a nation, a State, a city headed for destruction unless managed in a businesslike and efficient manner by men big enough for their offices. GOVERNMENT A BUSINESS Formerly business men considered government as a matter of politics. Now they are awakening to the fact, after all, government is a specific form of business. Just as they demand efficient managers for their business, so they demand efficient management for their government. They are beginning to realize that they cannot entrust such governmental business to whomsoever applies for the job; they must make selections--this man is fitted for one part of government business; that man is capable of performing another phase of it. It is idle to distinguish between business man and plain people. Every man is a business man, and in the new order of things every woman is a business woman--at least at this stage of her emancipation every woman is a voter or a potential one. Therefore, when we demand a business administration of business affairs we include in account every man and woman, whether proprietor of a business or an employe of that business. Each is equally interested to see that that business is well governed and protected from unjust measures. ASSOCIATION FORMED HERE Therefore, when business men band together to obtain good government every voter has an equal interest commensurate with his position. 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