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Volume 141

In the Day's Work

O

NCE more the newspapers are writing headlines over an unhappy naval event. The Service is mourning the loss of 32 officers and men lost in the submarine S-51 off Block Island. She was cut down at night by the City of Rome, and only three men were saved. The salvage vessels are, as we write, still hovering over the spot where the S-51 sank, in the forlorn hope that when its hull is raised to the surface there may be some survivors who escaped drowning or suffocation by chlorine gas.

The menace of such a tragedy is part of the day's work in the Naval Service. The Navy cannot train in peace for the risks of war without subjecting its personnel to many war-time risks. The officers and men of the S-51 did not throw their lives away; they sacrificed them that the Navy might be instantaneously ready for any emergency that might arise.

The bodies of these men belong in Arlington, beside their brothers of the air who lost their lives in the Shenandoah.

October 7, 1925

self in its thousands over the heights along the bay to see the fliers start on their great flight less than a month ago, and it was San Francisco that turned out in its thousands to see their return. Our correspondent on the Pacific coast, Mr. Hugh A. Studdert Kennedy, sends us an account of this great welcome:

Conscious that she was expressing not only her own joy and admiration but also that of the entire Nation, San Francisco gave Commander Rodgers and his men a welcome that was a fitting tribute to the real greatness of their exploit. An escort from all three branches of the Service was drawn up to meet them. The Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Theodore Douglas Robinson, was there, Admiral Dayton, and many others.

San Francisco has seen a great many celebrations during the past few weeks, but during the time the comparatively short procession was passing up Market Street, towards the Civic Center, vast crowds flocked from the business district and lined the way. The day was one long round of celebrations: the review at the Civic Center, the luncheon at the Commonwealth Club, the meeting in the afternoon when the five men were entertained by a thousand San Franciscan women, the whole being brought to a close by a civic banquet in the evening. It was particularly interesting at this banquet to notice the one sailorman of the crew, the machinist, W. H. Bowlin, in his traditional middy blouse and flabby pants, sitting beside Admiral Dayton.

His frank, boyish

Number 6

speech was one of the successes of the evening.

ness.

Commander Rodgers's speech will have been circulated throughout the country, but to those who heard it there was something peculiarly satisfying in its simplicity and its directSupplemented as it was by speeches from others of the crewspeeches for the most part clearly first efforts in public speaking, but for that very reason all the more delightfulit gave a vivid picture of the nine days' struggle and proved once again clearly enough that the truth is stranger than fiction. No sea story that Kingston or Marryat or Henty ever wrote could exceed the melodrama of some of the fliers' experiences. There was something peculiarly piquant in seeing this slowspoken Marylander, Commander Rodgers, with his firm set mouth, his sandy hair, and his "poker face," reeling off a story which would have filled the author of "Midshipman Easy" with envy. Literally millions. of people must have been listening in and holding their breath as he told the story of the famous nine days.

What happiness there would be if later we could record the fact that the crew of the S-51 received a similar triumphant welcome in New York!

Investigating the Army's Wings
W

HATEVER faults there may be in the military and naval aviation of the United States, they are likely to be unearthed before the President's Air

position was first located by an airplane

Board finishes its investigation. In the meantime it would be well for the public to hold its judgment in reserve. Both the Army Air Service and the Naval Air Service have fine records to their credit. All is not quite so gloomy as some of their critics seem to believe.

The Acting Secretary of War, Mr. Dwight F. Davis, in his testimony expressed his belief in the "skill, hardihood, and bravery" of the Air Service personnel and pointed to the "extraordinarily large percentage of world records in aviation" which the Army Air Service holds. He believes that among its various missions "the war mission must always govern." He points out that if the air defenses of the country are inadequate the responsibility rests with Congress.

Certain quotations from the testimony before the Air Board indicate certain points of view which the public, affected by criticisms of the Air Service in both. the Army and the Navy, have been likely to overlook.

General Hines, Chief of Staff, said, for example:

It is evident that, in all operations involving the employment of combined arms, there must be one directing head, and that directing head must be the commander-in-chief of the field forces. He alone can organize the forces with the general plan of combat. in all of its aspects in mind. . ..

An air service is an essential element of an army and a navy. In major operations these forces cannot operate efficiently without their own air services.

On the other hand, an air service operating separately is unable to strike such a blow as will win a decisive battle....

Aside from the necessity of cooperative action on the battlefield, there must be co-ordination in the handling and operating of all ground installations. This can be secured only through unity of command.

General Patrick, who advocates the great expansion of the Air Service, would have a separate air corps in the Army and a separate air corps also in the Navy, each similar to the Marine Corps in the Navy Department.

words similar to those of General Hines, declared:

Airplanes cannot win a battle alone, but need the closest assistance of the whole fleet. . . .

A separate air corps would not be analogous in any respect whatever to the present Marine Corps. . . . The Marine Corps or Marines form no vital component part of a naval battle. . . . If all the Marines were removed from ships in a naval battle, the naval battle itself would be in no way affected. The air forces, on the contrary, in the naval battle of tomorrow form a vital element or a component part of that battle. . . . The air force, therefore, is an integral part of the very fabric of the Navy itself. . . . The argument advanced by so many young, inexperienced naval aviators that they desire a separate air corps analogous to the Marine Corps is based on an utter fallacy and complete misunderstanding.

Similarly Admiral Eberle said:

The invention of new implements of warfare has always been followed by fantastic claims and unnecessary impatience on the part of some enthusiasts. . . . First and foremost, a naval aviator must be a seaman to be able to judge conditions of wind and weather at sea, to pick up and distinguish vessels at sea; and, should his plane be forced down, to be able to handle her when she becomes a surface boat. He must be a good navigator. He must have a knowledge of battle tactics and fleet formations; and also a knowledge of all units that make up a naval force this being most essential to enable him to give correct information to the commander-in-chief regarding the dispositions of the enemy's force. He must also have a knowledge of gunnery in order that he may give an accurate report of "spots;" that is, to make the proper corrections for range and lateral error, and be able to distinguish splashing of various calibers.

Later testimony brought out the desire of aviation officers for more rapid promotion within the Service. Of course this is partly the desire of men for personal advancement, but it is also the desire to see men with experience as aviators in positions of authority over the Army air pilots. Some of the difficulties of which Army fliers complained will correct themselves in time; but there is undoubtedly ground for some dissatisfaction with present conditions. It is It is important that the Air Board should find a remedy that is not worse than the dis

ease.

"A Tempest in a Teapot"

UR Government is not likely to try

to prevent American citizens from serving as airmen against the Riff tribesmen. Quite properly, it has called the attention of all Americans in Morocco to Federal statutes which might affect their status. This mild suggestion by our State Department has started newspaper comment which is described by a Washington correspondent of The Outlook as a tempest in a teapot.

There is a statute that provides a penalty for Americans who within American jurisdiction enlist in foreign armies or induce others to enlist. That statute evidently does not apply in this case. Another statute, however, our correspondent tells us, specifically gives to American diplomatic representatives in countries where the United States has extra-territorial jurisdiction power to do certain things to prevent Americans in such territories from serving in foreign armies. Conceivably, this may apply to our airmen in the Riff, and in that case the penalties of the other statute may apply. Having been asked, in effect, by some citizen whether laws did not exist to prevent Americans from soldiering about the world in any old army, fighting in any old cause, the State Department looked up the law and gave the information to all concerned.

Another question is as to what extent, if at all, the air men have surrendered their inherent rights to diplomatic protection by serving with a foreign army. It may be that they have done this, although they are reported as saying that they have signed no enlistment papers, taken no oath of allegiance, and are free to leave the service of the Sultan of Morocco (in which they are technically engaged) whenever they choose.

The incident has aroused adverse comment on what is assumed to be the reprehensible conduct of our airmen in aiding, as is said, two big nations to crush a small people striving for independence. This idea is based on ignorance of the facts. The aggression is on the part of the tribesmen, and their forays outside their own territory have made it necessary to protect Spanish and French protectorates over Moroccan territory from ravage and conquest. It is just as praiseworthy to aid a free people in the suppression of aggressive barbarism as it was for Byron to aid the Greeks in their struggle for freedom. Our airmen of the

old Lafayette Escadrille have, moreover, old associations of military service for France, and in no sense throw away American allegiance in aiding their former comrades under attack.

Uncle Sam Requests

"YOU

ou don't have to put on the street address when you write me. Our family has lived in this town for fifty years. The postman knows where we live."

There are many individuals and business concerns too who seem to take this attitude towards the addressing of their mail. It is an attitude which causes no little trouble for the Post Office. In cities of any size there are several postal delivery districts. The mail has to be divided into carriers' routes. The chances are that the clerks who distribute the mail are not as familiar with the names on the various routes as the carriers who go from door to door. Then, too, carriers get sick, and inadequate addresses mean all sorts of trouble for their substitutes.

In big business buildings with thousands of inhabitants it is as important to give the room and floor number as it is to give the street address.

If you want to win the gratitude of the Post Office, see that your correspondents address you at a definite street number wherever that is possible. If you use a lock box, see that its number is printed on your stationery. If you live in an

apartment-house, state the street number and the suite number.

Complying with these reasonable requests of the Post Office means that you will get your mail more promptly and efficiently and will save Uncle Sam a great deal of wasted time.

Radio Looks Back and Forward

AN

N interesting event in the history of communication recently took place

in the ether over Manhattan Island. At the annual dinner of the Old-Time Telegraphers and Historical Association, held on board the liner Olympic, a phonograph record of a telegraph message sent by Thomas A. Edison was "played" as a feature of the evening. This disk was made several years ago as a matter of historical record. The microphone of the municipal station, WNYC, was placed in the banquet salon, and it picked up the dots and dashes of the Morse code as formed by the hand of Edison, the most famous of old-time telegraphers.

As far as most radio auditors were concerned, these metallic clicks of the telegraph instrument might have been mistaken for static. But to the eight hundred old-time knights of the telegraph key present at the banquet the dots and dashes had a distinct meaning.

It was radio that released the message from the limitations of the wire lines and the confines of a phonograph record by

broadcasting the clicks in every direction at the speed of sunlight, 186,000 miles a second.

Audible Pictures

W

HILE this historical record of the past was producing a curious sound in hundreds of loudspeakers, another event, casting a glimpse into the future, was being radiated from the aerial wires of WJZ. The 455-meter ethereal channel assigned to WJZ also vibrated with a series of dots and dashes. but they were accompanied through space by a whistle-like tone. It was a strange sound for broadcast listeners to pick up, and the average fan who missed the announcer's introduction could not have been blamed if he had thought a wire in the receiver had suddenly snapped, or something else had happened to blot out all music. But to engineers these peculiar signs meant that a picture was passing through the air on the 455meter wave-length.

There was only one receiver in New York that could make an intelligent translation of these clicks. Slowly a cylinder of Captain R. H. Ranger's photo-radio apparatus turned on its axis at the Grand Central Palace, several blocks away from the broadcaster, and within twenty-five minutes the electrical impulses had sketched a picture of General J. G. Harbord. It was the first time a photograph was released into space by a regular broadcasting station. Previously, photographs sent by radio from Europe and Honolulu were transmitted on the 15,000-meter wave-length, far out of tuning range of broadcast receivers.

The transmitting equipment consisted of a transparent cylinder upon which the film of the photograph was placed. This cylinder revolved at a uniform speed. Light passing through the film entered a glass tube filled with argon gas. This tube is not unlike the human eye. Its back is coated with potassium hydride, which is so sensitive to light that it starts a flow of electrons, which are made to pass to a tungsten disk in the center of the tube. This produces electrical impulses which sound somewhat like the dots and dashes of the telegraph or wireless code. They represent the shadows and high lights of the picture.

These dots and dashes are broadcast and are detected by a special receiving apparatus, the operating speed of which is synchronized with the speed of the