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I appeal for a common sense of fraternity and pride in every phase of American aviation. Practically, I suggest that the annual meeting of all organizations in aviation, who possibly can so arrange, be held at a common place, and at the same time, where the daily sessions of each organization can discuss their own problems, and where the evening sessions can be devoted to common problems. I can secure the campuses of any number of our great universities for such a meeting, and for such a program we can bring leadership from every field of American life to help us formulate gospel for a world that flies. 
I propose that the various organizations of aviation take an active interest in the Joint Aviation Council, and in to the deliberation of that Council invite, as active participants, all of those organizations of national scope which overlaps and dovetail into our own ambition to build a finer and a better nation.
Many of these organizations have facilities and influence which they would gladly utilize to help us attain an unselfish purpose. I have been readily astounded and chagrined to realize how eagerly many of our finest American institutions would respond to our call for co-operation, and how little we had ever requested them to do so.
Aviation was born in the United States! Its national birthday is the 17th of December! Why, on that day, can we not petition the President of the United States to declare a proclamation celebrating its advent, and petition the governors of the forty-eight states to do likewise, and have the mayors of 2,600 representative American cities and towns emulate such proclamations?