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...hike with the battery is planned for later in the spring; one platoon to be motorized, the other to be horse-drawn. The first and second year men will act as drivers and cannoneers, while the third year men serve as non-commissioned officers and as members of the Battery Commander's Detail...
...thing helts as if an unseen agency were tugging in an opposite direction, and the high have on which aviation found itself uplifted at the end of the war, with the world indeed at its feet, has proved to be non-tidal...
...seems clear now that America will non longer have need of unofficial representatives; under the policy of the new administration the Government again turns its attention to the affairs of the world. President Harding's inaugural address affirmed that we would neglect no just cause merely because it was not domestic. But the slogan of idealism has been superseded by plain "America First". League or no league, our government demands as a well-earned right that it be consulted in the disposal of the spoils. There are those who recoil with horror from this so-called "Selfish and mercenary" attitude...
...this moment, excepting always naval and military aviation which, though woefully windled, has become an integral portion of-national military power, the industry of aeronautics on a non-governmental basis of support is a negligible quantity compared to what was foretold of it and to what it was not, in 1919, too optimistic to expect of it. There are, it is true, many small flying companies and concerns and a number of privately owned machines, but, in the agregate, and regarded either nationally of internationally, by those who know the possibilities, they amount to a fraction of the sanely computed...
...pilots and crew to fly them and man them, and the audience is the flying public at large who commit themselves or their freight to the air. Unfortunately, in aviation, neither the first not the last are present in any considerable degree, in reality they are almost non-existent, and so it is not surprising that the soft pedal is down what time our orchestra is playing discordantly to itself...