Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1917 — ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND AIRPLANES [ARTICLE]

ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND AIRPLANES

The government is to have 100,000 airplanes /built and sent to France as quickly as they Can be constructed. Our own men will pilot these planes. . Many a fair young life will be Sacrificed in the clouds, but for every one who falls to his. death the lives of 100 will be saved in the trenches. No saner or more far reaching plan was ever devised by our government than the sending of these 100,000 planes to the French front. With TOO,OOO, or 50,000.. additional planes in the air the eyes of' the German army will be blinded while ours will s;ill have light. ’ . The rest will be but a matter of time, strategy arid nerve.