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LOS ANGELES EXAMINER .... A PAPER FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK 
MONDAY, MAY 10, 1937 

WOMEN PILOTS ON POLICE DUTY 

Los Angeles now has five aerial policewomen. 
Augmenting his male squadron of commercial and highly trained amateur pilots, who hold special police appointments and may be summoned to duty in any situation requiring expert flyers, Chief of Police Davis last week issued badges to five noted women pilots. 
The new policewomen of the air are Mary Charles, Karena Shields, Bobbie Trout, Bettymay Furman and Pretto Bell. 
Following their appointments the aviatrices were entertained at a dinner by the Women's Peace Officers' Association of California and were inducted into membership in that organization

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Contributions to the safety of aviation were - last night by the Aero Educational Research - with the presentation of plaques, - memberships. Left to right, standing, Dr. H. L. -]]

EDITORIAL 
PAGE OF THE 
LOS ANGELES EVENING 
HERALD EXPRESS 
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FRANK F. BARHAM, PRESIDENT AND PUBLISHER 

Colonel House Warns Against Unpreparedness Blunders 

Today, observed as Army Day, the United States marks the twentieth anniversary of its entrance into the World War.
 
It should heed the wise counsel offered by an elder statesman, who was Woodrow Wilson's other self in 1917.

Col. Edward M. House, writing in the American Legion Weekly, tells Americans that they COULD HAVE KEPT OUT OF THE LAST WAR IF THEY HAD BEEN PREPARED, and that they can keep out of the next if they are prepared. 

There could be no better text for Army Day, and for EVERY DAY, than Colonel House's warning. He says, in part: 

"Today the world unrest is due to the fact that a few great nations hold the desirable portions of the earth, both for markets and raw materials, while other powerful but hungry states take the position that as regards some of this territory the nations holding it must either share or fight. 

"Thus a social revolution already is showing signs everywhere, with the European continent distinctly divided into Fascist and Communist armed camps. The leading statesmen in all these nations feel that another great war is not far off, when not only democracy but our entire civilization may be at stake. 

"I pray indeed that the United States may be fully ready to meet this crisis if it comes." 

It was evident to Colonel House as far back as 1911 that trouble was brewing in Europe. 

As a result of his observations, after the election of 1912 he offered to President Wilson a plan for military service on the Swiss model. 

This plan, drafted by Gen. Leonard Wood and other military experts, was approved by Mr. Wilson, but later vetoed by him because of the expense. Yet Colonel House remarks: 

"It would have been well worth whatever the financial cost, because by 1914 we could have talked to the European powers with a million trained soldiers ready to answer the call. I firmly believe they would have been quite sufficient to halt the plunge into war. 

"As it was, our army, until we finally mobilized for war, was so small that any protest we made, even to looking to protection of our citizens and their property, was ignored. 

"SO IT WILL BE AGAIN, WITH A LIKE RESULT, UNLESS WE PREPARE TO PREVENT IT." 

He who writes this is the man who from 1914 to 1917 fought unceasingly for peace, but who found his nation inevitably drawn into war because it was SO WEAK AS TO INVITE ATTACK. 

Twenty years have passed, but that lesson has not yet been learned; and in a world gone mad we are still unready to keep our country out of war, and war out of our country. 

Today as we pay honor to the men of the army-- the nation's ultimate line of defense-- all citizens should emphasize to their representatives in Congress that there is a watchword for America in these dark hours in world affairs. It is: 
BE PREPARED.

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New D.A.R. 
Officers Take Helm 

Mrs. Frank B. Duncan of Los Angeles Heads State Group 

New officers, who take the helm of the State Officers' Club, California State Society Daughters of the American Revolution, today, are Mrs. Frank Barnes Duncan of Los Angeles, State president, and Mrs. Raymond [[??cut off]] vice- president. 

Delegates from California who attended the annual Continental Congress in week's session at Constitutional Hall, Washington, D. C., which closed today, are Mmes. Elmer H. Whittaker, William B. McCullough, Hartley C. Packer, Kempster B. Miller, Nettie W. Glover and Louise Ward Watkins of Pasadena; Charles F. Quillian, James M. Davis, William H. Nolan, Roscoe Breeden, Henry F. Charles, Walter Robbins, W. R. Goddard, Alexander C. Smither and Miss Julia Francis Smith, Los Angeles; Mmes. Hugh B. Knight and W. E. Webster, Riverside. 

Mrs. WillardV. Morse and Miss Louise J. McNary, Santa Monica; Mmes. Howard C. Dunham and Thomas J. Hanley, San Diego; Margaret M. Gale, Glendale; Percy M. Stoddard, Eagle Rock; Edward G. Tallant, Santa Barbara; John A. Metzler, HArry C. Marsh, Frank S. Boggs, Benjamin C. Allin and Miss Dorothy Jean Allin, Stockton; Mmes. Oscar Alverson, Sacramento; Charles F. Lambert, Willows; P. T. Phillips and Miss Mildred Beans, San Jose; Mmes. James H. Sinclair, Palo Alto; John K. Paul and O. R. Sheppa, Monterey Peninsula; Joseph Kottinger, San Francisco; Perry W. MacDonald and Chester B. Valentine, Piedmont; Frederick B. Warren, Alameda; Clara B. Davis, Fairfax; James S. Sweet and Carrie B. DExter, Santa Rosa. 

Reports of the congress will be given at the Southern Council meeting in Eagle Rock May 18 and at the Northern Council meeting in Berkeley May 28, after which the State society will adjourn until fall. 

Under escort of the California State regent, Mrs. Joseph Taylar Young of Piedmont, who headed California's delegation, the three good citizenship pilgrimage winners, Bernice Tramontini, Lodi; Virginia Tibbs,