Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 8, 1917, Page 20

NEW AEROS SPEED | 180 MILES AN HOUR Latest Battie Pianes Marvals of Mechanical Perfection, DEFY EVEN STRONG GALE Hurricane Nowadays Alone Keeps Avi- ators From Making Flighte—Sense of Speed Entirely Lost In the Clouds. Colliding With “Air Bumps”"—Engine Prevents Freezing. “It's exciting at times; but, generally speaking, it’s rather less sport than a motorcycle,” says a “wing” subaltern of the British flying corps, according to a correspondent of the New York Trib- une with the British armies in France. He chatted while tinkering with his machine—one of the latest types in a war that is changing and developing the aeroplane almost from hour to hour. . There were marvels of the air two years ago that have no more relation to the machines cf today than the clumsy attempts of a barnyard fowl to the flight of a swallow. An aerial scout that cannot register in the neigh- borhood of 140 miles an hour cannot be classed as truly modern. This speed is called for in “level air,” not in running “down hill” or in diving out of a loop. You may attain 180 miles an hour do- ing that. No Sense of Speed. “Oh, yes, the fighting’s fun!” resum- ed the subaltern. “It's when you go paddling through the air on patrol duty for four or five hours and nothing hap- pens that flying becomes monotonous. In spite of the almost unbelievable speed at which you go you have no sense of speed whatever—nothing like the thrill of forty or fifty miles an hour in a motor, with the trees whizzing by and a bumpy road beneath you. “Sometimes the air is bumpy, too, and that’s good sport. To collide with an air bump is almost like hitting a big rock in the road. They generaly lurk pear a cloud bank and give you an awful jolt when you least expect it On dull days, when the air is smooth, you can get a little practice and excitement by throwing her about a bit, for when you get to close quar- ters in a fight you need all the stunts she’ll do. In the air one doesn’t even get the sensation of the wind that you get on the ground.” Winds Are Scorned. Which latter fact may account for the absolute contempt in which the modern army fliers look upon the mightiest blasts old Boreas can blow. It was not so long ago that a ten mile breeze would upset all flying plans for a day; now nothing short of a hurri- cane can deter the intrepid aviators of the allles. They laugh at a gale and can almost take a2 nap while com- fortably riding a thirty mile wind. The real enemy elements are low clouds and ground mists. After a few more earnest remarks on the monotony of patrol work im smooth air, which he likened to driv- ing a motor truck along a cement road in a desert, the subaitern climbed into tbe “cabin” of his machine. It was a wasplike affair, with the imprisoned power of a hundred horses throbbing in its wonderful engine. Its guns were attached unobtrusively to the framework and synchronized where necessary to shoot through the blades of the fast whirring propeller in front. The “cabin” of a modern aeroplane suggests the pilot house of a palatial yacht in miniature. Everything is fin- fshed in hardwood, and there are pol- ished nickel instruments to indicate speed, height, angle and everything an air man ought to know. There are in- genious sights for the guns and range finders for bomb dropping and a little device to tell that the bombs have been properly released in turn and are hurtling on their way to the objective selected for attack. ‘When he is tucked away only the pilot’s head is visible above the free- board. Directly in front of him is a tiny little half moon of a windshield. “You can lower that in summer time and get more air.” grinned the subal tern. Engine Prevents Freezing. “But what about freezing in the winter time?” was suggested. “Oh,” he replied, “that all depends upon the machine. This little scout, for instance, with the engine in front of you, is as warm as toast even when you are 15,000 feet up and the mer- cury has long dropped below zero. You get all the warmth of the exhaust and can stay up indefinitely. The plane with the propeller and engine in front is a tractor. The ‘pusher’ has engine and propeller in the rear. In one of those you get the full effect of the cold, and you just naturally freeze, that's all.” ‘The control of the fighting aeroplane has been reduced to the simplicity of a gingle lever. By moving this a few inches one way or another and with occasional foot pressure on the rudders one can climb, dive, loop, side slip, fall a couple of thousand feet and flatten out “as right as rain.” You always have one hand free for the machine gun, and if necessary you can let the lever look out for itself for minutes at a time and use both hands for fighting. Or 1if the trip is a long one, you can let her float while you eat luncheon. An air menu generally consists of an apple or banana, milk chocolate and biscuits, with hot tea or coffee from a vacuum bottle. Real Treasure lsfands. There are quite a number of islands scattered about the globe whereon buried treasure exists. And pcople are always trying to find it. Quite a score of attempts have been made, for in- stance, to unearth the treasure alleged to be burled on Cocos island. Yet so far the adventurers have reaped'no re- ward for their toil. Fully £50,000 has been wasted, again, in futile attempts to recover the “pirates’ hoard” report- ed to be hidden near the lip of the crater of an active—very active—vol- cano on Pagan island, in the Ladrone group. Still, as a set off against many fail- ures, there’ have been some few suc- cesses. There is no doubt, for in- stance, that a Liverpool sailor named John Adams unearthed treasure to the value of between £150,000 and £200,000 on Auckland island some years back; nor that Willlam Watson, a shepherd, recovered in 1868 nearly a ton of gold that had been hidden on one of the Queen Charlotte islands. Likewise two runaway seamen named Handley and Cross successfully located and dug up a valuable hoard on Oak island, off the coast of Nova Scotia, and this after many others had failed.—London Standard. . The Judge Hit Back. A late police magistrate was a most painstaking judge in all his cases, and in important ones it was his custom to defer summing up untll the next sit- ting of the court. On one occasion he gave an exhaustive decision on a case, after which the lawyer for the plain- tiff rose and questioned it. “Pardon me,” said his worship. “1 cannot allow you to reopen the case after I have given my final decision. I may be wrong, but that is my opin- fon.” The lawyer quickly replied: “Then, your worship, I know it is no use knocking my head against a brick wall. I suppose I must sit down.” The magistrate adjusted his eye- glasses and, looking sarcastically at the lawyer, said: “8ir, I know it is no use you knock- ing your head against a brick wall, but I may add that I know of no one who could perform such an operation with less injury to himself than you.”"—Case| and Comment. Old Lord Mayors’ Banquets.' . . There used to be a good deal of sav- agery about London’s lord mayors’ banquets, even in times comparatively recent. The humbler guests at least struggled with each other for food and had to bring their own table cutlery if they wished to eat decently and in comfort. For instance, Samuel Pepys tells us how, at the banquet served up two years after the restoration, there were many tables, “but none in the hall but the mayors and the lords of the privy council that had napkins or knives, which was very strange.” 8till more strange to such a lover of female beauty as Pepys was the plain- ness of feature of the city dames. Of the ladies’ room he says: “I could not discern one handsome face. * ¢ * Being wearied with looking upon a company of ugly women, I went away and took coach and through Cheapside and there saw the pageants, which were very silly.” Old Time Theater Rowdies. Rowdyism in London theaters was a common occurrence in the old days. as is shown by the following from the London Post of Oct. 27, 1798: “Two men in the pit at Drury Lane theater last night wére so turbulent and riotous during the last act of ‘Henry V.’ that the performance was interrupted upward of a quarter of an hour. The audience at last asserted their power and turned them disgrace- fully out of the theater. This should always be done to crush the race of disgusting puppies that are a con- stant nuisance at the playhouse every night.” A “Friendly Match.” 1 speak of a “friendly match,” not at all forgetting that dictum of the old Scot to whom his opponent, break- ing some trivial rule, said, “I suppose you won’t claim that in a°friendly match?” “Ftiendly match!” was the reply *“There’s no such thing at golf!"—Lon-" don Telegraph. Morbidly Suspicious. “If you want to fight I'll hold your coat,” said the bystander to the quar- relsome man. “Great Scott! Can’t a man even stand in the street without having a check boy try to work a tip out of him ?’—Washington Star. Couldn’t Fool Her. The Mother—Do you think he has matrimonial intentions, dear? The Maid—I certainly do, mother. He tried his very best to convince me last night that I appeared to better advantage In that twelve dollar hat than in the fifty dollar one.—Puck. Foxy Jack. Edith—Oh, Jack told a dozen girls he loved them before he proposed to you. Ethel—Well, that's all right. ‘When I spoke of it he told me they merely represented steps in his pro- gression to his present ideal. — Ex- change. Cynical. Slane—So you believe in signs, eh? Well, when a man is always making pew friends what is that a sign of? Blane—It’s most likely a sign that his old friends bave found him out. ‘The one who has read the book that is called woman knows more than the one who has grown pale in libraries.— Houssaye. THEIR COUNTRIES HAVE FORBID US SEAS Photos by American Press Association. Count von Bernstorff, the recalled German ambassador, and Count Tar nowskl, the Austrian envoy, who arrived here the day after ruthless sub- wmarine warfare was announced. ' SEARCHES DEEP FOR PEACE "LEAK" TR 0 0 1G0T © TR o T o T > 2+ T T Sherman L. Whipple, the Boston lawyer in charge of investigation into re- mored leak at time of the president’s peace note. POLICE GRAFT CHARGES STIR CHICAGO State Amme,y Hoyne’s accusations of police graft excite Chicago. No. 1, “Mike de Pike” Heitler, a politiclan; No. 2, Attorney Hoyne. and No. 3, forme? Police Chief Healey. three of the chief figures ir the case. R »»]!™ In Doubt. “You shouldn’t be afraid to go to sleep In the dark, Elsie. Remember that angels will come and watch over you.” “But, auntie, maybe the new janitor won’t let ’em in.”"—Boston Transcript Ireland has a breed of cattle that seldom grows more than three feet high and thrives on the poorest pas turage, yet the cows yield twenty quarts of milk daily. Trying a New Plan. “Doing anything for your bhealth these days?” “No.” replied the chronic invalid “I'm letting 1t aione, and 1 baven't feit so well in years.”—Birmingham Age-Herald. Regulations of the United States steamboat inspection service require persons to be twenty-one years old be- fore being licensed as masters or chief engineers. COEPPIPFS P S L EP PRI EPY AMBITION. If you would rise above the throng And seek the crown of fame, You must do more than drift along And merely play the game. Whatever path your feet may tread, ‘Whatever be’ your ‘quest, ¥ The only way to get ahead In striving for the best. *Tis not enough to wish todo . A day’s toil fairly well; It you would rise to glory you Must hunger to excel. The boy who has the proper stuft Goes into every test Not seeking to be “good enough,” But eager to be “best.” The best must be your way fin life, ‘The best in sport or work. Success in any form of strife Falls never to the shirk. The crowns of leadership are few, ‘The followers move in throngs, If you would be a leader you Must shun the “drift alongs.” * T2 212222 L 2L L2 i i Lo 2222222222 2222222222222 22227 IR R Y Y YT Y Y Y | 200 Fighting Wind and Wave In a storm at sea, with a gale blew- ing in one direction and the sea run- ning in the opposite direction, it takes a stanch ship to stand the water pres- sure on one side and the contrary wind pressure on the other. Stability is one of the greatest prob- lems to the constructor of a steamship. Naturally the center of gravity should be low. The hull must be of such a form that when the vessel rolls to.one side the center of buoyancy shall move sufficlently far to that same side for the forces of buoyance acting upward to right the vessel. A badly designed ship is liable to many dangers. If light in the stern the screw may come out of the water, race and be snapped off. If too low in the stern when running before a storm breaking waves may fall on board and #0 tend to swamp the vessel. A ship may be top heavy. There comes & mo- ment when the upward force of buoy- ancy no longer tends to right the ship, but instead exerts its force in pushirg the ship still farther out of perpendicu- lar, with the result that she capsizes.— New York World. Winning a Fur Coat. The artist Hans Canon once painted a Russian prince in a magnificent fur mantle which took the artist’s fancy so greatly that he endeavored to hit on a plan by which he might retain posses- sion of it. On sending home the por- trait he omitted to return the garment, and to the letter requesting him to do #0 he made no reply. One day when looking out of a window he saw the prince coming toward his house. Has- tily slipping into the garb, Canon sat down in an armchair near the fire. The prince, who had come for his coat, started on seeing Canon groaning and trembling at the fireside. “What is the matter with you?” he asked. “Oh,” groaned Canon, “I don’t know what it ts, but 1 feel so weak and wretched, and I cannot get warm. Two daysago my brother died of smallpox, and I am a bit nervous about myself.” The art- st kept the coat. The Lion of 8t. Mark. The symbol of the Venetian republic, the famous lion of St. Mark, is made of bronze. There is a tradition among the Venetian people that its eyes are diamonds. They are really white ag- ates, faceted. Its mane is most elab- orately wrought, and its retracted, gaping mouth and its fierce mustaches give it an oriental aspect. The crea- ture as it nov stands belongs to many different epochs, varying from some date previous to our era down to this century.” It is conjectured that it may have originally formed a part of the decoration of some Assyrian palace. St. Mark’s lion it certainly was not originally, for it was made to stand level upon the ground and had to be raised in front to allow the evangel to be slipped under its fore paws. Course of Your Tears. Have you ever noticed two tiny holes at the “nose” end of each eye? Prob- ably not, for they are very tiny, like pinholes. But if you look at your eye carefully in a mirror you will find them. They are tear ducts or tubes. Your tears start behind your eyebrows, at the narrow end of the eye. They pass out below the eyelids, and the blinking of the eyelids carries them to- ward the other end of the eye, where the ducts or overflow pipes collect and carry them down into your nose. That is why you are apt to blow your nose when you cry. A flow of tears is going on all the time to lubricate the eyeball. It is only when you are under powerful emotion that they overflow. Conquering a Critic. William Simpson, a British artist who accompanied the army during the Crimean war, said that Lord Cardigan, the commander, examined his early sketches of Balaklava with “a vacant stare” curtly remarking, “It is all wrong.” Still Simpson persevered and was rewarded in the end “with the expression of Lord Cardigan’s highest admiration.” “The real truth was,” Simpson adds in his simple way, “that in the last sketch I had taken greater care than in the first two to make his lordship conspicuous in the front of tfie bri- gade.” S — Positively Rude! Because she wanted everybody else to know as well as she knew that she had small feet the woman who had of- tered to lend rubbers to a‘friend added apologetically. “But they are so big I don’'t suppose you can keep them on.” “Oh, I guess I can,” said the friend serenely. “I have big feet too.” Since then the woman with small feet has refused to see her friend, even when she brought the rubbers home. Rapid Painting. .. - . Landseer had plomised a the spring exhibition of the mumummlsw.mcmtz/ - before the exhibition was to J the hanging comitnittes had 3 'was m‘mpty_mne..wm hung in the position of honor. prospect of receiving a pic- * T for the frame seemed to the com- * R And he was as good as his word. ANy few hours later the completed pletu ! was delivered and may be seen today in the National gailery. This wonder- ful work of half a dozen hours was none other chan the universally admir- ed “Cavalier’s Pets.” Chant of the Maori. An interesting and pathetic scens is often witnessed in the camps whers there are Maori soldiers. These occa- sions are when Maoris who have been wounded in battle take leave of their comrades on the eve of their retura to their homes, in many cases to fight no more. =1 Before their departure those who left behind set up a mournful, thoug! melodious, dirgelike chant, the pathos of which invariably brings tears to the~. eyes of those who hear it. It is their chant of farewell to those brothers in arms who have shared their dangers ! and who will never fight side by side with them again. ¥ The Maoris place their faith a great deal in green jade luck charms. Green jade has with them a traditional in- terest, for it was of this material that the tomahawks of the ancient Msosi chiefs were fashioned.—London Mafl : Eating an Egg. 1s there any corner of the earth where the homely egg has not found its way? It forms a substantial food to all nations, and it is not curious that different nationalities have different ways of demolishing this eatable. -~ Eating an egg with a spoon would JUN be sacrilege to a Spaniard. He bofls . his egg just one minute, then bn‘z’ b the contents into a glass and drinks: as if it were wine. The Italians place their egg in cold water and remove it just as the water boils. Then they reak it on a plate and eat it with bread. ' English cooking prevails in Framce in regard to the egg. Three minutés in bolling water is the rule. It is them broken into a glass and mixed togeth- er with salt, pepper and butter.—Leos- don Mirror. Madrid’s Fearful Climate. Madrid is afflicted with the mest changeable climate of any Europe capital. The temperature varies fiofn as much as 107 degrees in the summer to as little as 16 degrees in the win- ter, and at all seasons of the year it indulges in violent fluctuations. It is by no means uncommon in December B to wake up with the thermometer reg- istering about 20 degrees and to find it mount to more than 60 degrees by the afternoon. No wonder. therefore, that lung troubles are far more preva- lent in Madrid than in Petrograd— London Chronicle. i Drawing the Line. “Why don’t you take up aviatiom stead of motoring?” “I can't see the advantage,” replied Mr. Chuggins. - enough as it is. ta- “An accident is bad I don’t want a vehicle that’ll put me in the hospital evesy time it goes to the repair shop.— Washington Star. A Mistake. “I like that fellow Mr. Smarty, who is coming to see you, Matilds. He is a man after my own heart.” “Indeed, he isn’t, then, pa. He's afy- er mine.”—Baltimore American. Word From Brler Wil Be thankful fer de hope of heaves, fer in de end you sho’ will be thankful ef you kin des manage ter slip im while de gatekeeper ain’t lookin'.— — lanta Constitution. . Her Selections. Justired—After marriage a man finds gaN out who his real friends are. Friend— - How? Justired—His wife unerringly picks them out for him to shake.— Boston Globe. Yesterday is the time you should have begun some of the great things you are going to do tomorrow. “Is your wife a sound sleeper?” “Do you refer to intensity or audibil- ity ?’—Boston Transcript. [ia lal o d2l I 2l iletal i FACING TROUBLE. Should life’s storms be blowing gus- ty or the road be hot and dusty Don’t give up and pull a face all glum and blue. Cheer up, man, and tackle trouble! If your efforts you redouble There’ll be brighter days ahead awaiting you. ‘Where's the use of whining, moan- ing or of wasting time in &ros- ing? Never yet have such things pulled a fellow through. ‘When you've trouble you must meet it. That's the proper way to treat it Always bear in mind “results” de- pend on “you.” If you mean to conquer trouble you must take it “‘at the double.” You must act the man and face the matter out. Tackle trouble, gamely fight Shirking it will never right it. Face it bravely and your trouble you will rout. (22 Z22E2I XTI LI 2L LI LA 2s2y P00 000 PR G20 L L PV PP L 200002 9D | 3 — Defective : :