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This continues because it is not a human trait to benefit very much by experience.  Safety in the air must be made a matter of federal laws and regulations or we will never reach our goal -- maximum air safety.

THERE IS A TREND IN THE INDUSTRY TO LESSEN THE RESPONSIBILITY of the government by federal laws and regulations and to advocate giving the air carriers more responsibility.  The President's Commission must not be fooled by this line of approach. Certainly, an industry can be over-regulated.  Air transportation is so closely related to national defense and to the best interests of our government and its people that the government must keep a watchful eye on the entire overall picture or the many changers and profit seekers will keep safety on the category of an orphan.  Profit seekers don't like control; they can be depended on to oppose safety and oppose the re-establishment of the independent Air Safety Board.  You can bet your bottom dollar they will also oppose strenuously the idea of the air line pilots to create a Bureau of Standards for Air Safety.
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Now we come to the last paragraph, No. 4, which, I believe, has already been answered to a large extent by what I have said:
"WHAT ARE THE POLICIES OF GOVERNMENT WHICH WILL PROMOTE AND OBTAIN IN PEACE AND IN WAR THE KIND OF AN AIR ESTABLISHMENT THAT WE NEED - MILITARY FORCE, AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY, AIR TRANSPORTATION?"

The answers to this paragraph have already been spelled out in this statement; but, to be more specific, we must provide the necessary money for our military forces to keep them at top levels of efficiency and potency, to afford our citizenry the degree of protection they so richly deserve to protect them from our enemies who will one day approach, and even now are approaching the potency of the enemies of democracy that attempted so savagely to overrun civilization prior to and during World War II.

If we keep our military air fighting forces at the peak at which they should be maintained, our aircraft manufacturing industry to keep them healthy and active.  The real outlet for our air line aircraft industry should not be air lines equipment; it should be military aircraft. Competition in fighting planes -- long-distance bombers, interceptors, jet bombers and fighters, troop carriers, combat aircraft -- is so keen, and will become so much keener with the passing of time, that our aircraft manufacturing plants will have to retool and re-equip our air fighting forces at frequent intervals if we are to develop the necessary wherewithal to retain our air fighting supremacy.  We will have to turn out greater quantities of new types of aircraft to keep up with the changes and advancement in modern aerial warfare, and to maintain a large air fighting force at the peak of training at all times.