Evening Star Newspaper, July 28, 1929, Page 35

__(Continued From First Page.) ing @ ing that a new student does -—lnd"gt::‘l saying a lot—until Jones 18 having as bad & time as though I |cases ‘were the dumbest pupil in the world. ‘That's when he shows whether he's they're very bad, and correct me quietly. In half an hour I can get a fine idea of an applicant—whether he’s just a pilot or a pilot-instructor. Must Act Plain Dumb. “Tt’s & real test, both cf the instructor and the department cxaminer, for the latter has to enter into the game ‘wholeheartedly and act plain dumb. But it's the best thing for the industry. There are scores of pilots flying regu- larly who make serious errors every time they take off; they were taught wrong and no one ever corrected them. Almost every inspector in the depart- ment has taken up applicants for pilots® licenses and found that they did not know how to make steep turns. least 1 out of 20 will fall into a spin from a vertical bank—and some don't Xknow how to get out of the spin. “This last is being eliminated now, for one of the school regulations is that all students shall be taught recovery from spins and stalls prior to the first solo flight. It is safe to say that this will reduce student accidents by 25 per cent, and probably more. “The rule about having not more than 15 students enrolled for each plane normally available may seem designed only to prof students, so that a ‘gyp’ school will not sign up 200 or 300 stu- dents on two or three ships. That is the primary purpose, but the rule serves another purpose, too. With few planes there will be few pilots at a school, and with a large number of students these pilots will be flying all day long, trying to finish as many lessons as possible. That's dangerous, for instruction is the hardest kind of flying, and pilots get ‘stale.’ That is, their reactions slow up somewhat and in emergencies they can- not_think quickly. “But, it takes a special regulation to eover that completely. We've settled on six hours & day as the maximum per- missible and one day a week off. Even that is too much if kept up a long time, 80 the school is charged with keeping the pilots within reasonable time Timits.” i Holds Future of Aviation. ‘The pilot-instructor has the future of aviation in his hands, for good air- planes, fine airports, airways and safety devices are useless in the hands of reckless and incompetent pllots. Too many students have finished courses which were in themselves lessons in recklessness. At one Midwestern school a certain pilot gave what he ealled an ‘indoctrination hop’ to each new stu- dent. stunting him violently on the first flight, and ending up with a trick land- A Man’s Man H (Continued from Third Page.) mindreaders, and I want you to re- member another thing. Anybody can be a mule driver. All he's got to have— ‘but he’s got to have it—is a shade more sense than the mule.’ “I admire my friend and I don’t think e should be discouraged.” Hurley has a well chiseled face. Its features are turned very clear and clean and very set. Nature made it that way, and a plainsman’s passion for the artifice of jocularity in solemnity has made it more so. The near observer, however, can pierce “Pat” Hurley's| Western mask. He has one feature that | betrays him. His Irish eyes laugh. | Obtains an Education. His schooling in shaft No. 6 of the Atoka Coal & Mining Co. came to a happy end. From driving Kicking Pete underground he was graduated, at the age of 14, into punching cows and liv- ing on the backs of horses in the open air. From time to time he examined a book in the evening. under the guid- ance of a Scotch schoolmaster named | Golightly. He was never in a grade | school. He was never in a high | school. His only primary or secondary | education was gained through occa- sional visits to Golightly's night school. Golightly did not have time to teach him all the words in the dictionary. In the midst of that transitory im- srfection in his development the boy ppened to encounter Dr. John H. Scott, who was the president of Indian University, now called Bacone College. Dr. Scott was attracted by his appear- ance and manner and had heard of his family. He said to him: |!" lunderstand that your people are “No, sir,” said the boy resolutely. “From what I know of them, they were all Irish.” Dr. Scott determined that the boy | needed, and should have, a college edu- eation, | Becomes Bachelor of Arts. . By 1905, accordingly, at the age of 22, Pat” Hurley had been transformed by Dr. Scott into a bachelor of arts. * One course which he took in Dr. Bcott’s institution of academic learning & most particularly deep impres- sion upon him. That was the course in economics. Further, within the course, there was one theory that opened up before his mind a blinding vista of pre- viously unimagined intellectual revela- tion. The theory was “the unearned increment.” . 1t had never occurred to “Pat” as he lloped mile after mile over limitiess and in pursuit of cows, with no neigh- bors visible, that neighbors. could make your land valuable for you, if only you 8ot it and had it where they were and then did nothing but sit upon it and let the neighbors multiply, which, accord- ing to the theory, they would gladly do. “Pat” determined to try this theory out just as soon as he could. . Comes to National Capital. Graduated and degreed by Indian University, and all set now to take the mext hill of knowledge on high, he pro- ceeded forthwith the whole way to the National Capital. There, through courses in the National University, he three years later was not only a bache- lor of arts but also a bachelor of laws. By this time the thirst for academic information seems to have got wholly the best of him. Concluding his studies in the National University, he plunged into further studies in George Washing- At | in ing that seemed about to become & crash. The idea was to show the stu- dent that the didn’t_have to be bandled carefully. The result in some was to implant a fear that lasted Indefinitely. rs accepted the pilot's statement and his standard of flying. same pilot blished This had an estal 4 , | habit of diving at cattle in fields, ur: on roads, ree “‘200ms’ r butldings, and acrobatics at four or five hundred feet. Not all of his students finished the course, but every one who did had the same tendencies. Each one either secretly or openly admired this so-called daredevil and determined 10 equal or even surpass him. Another instructor in a similar school was noted for putting studen through as fast as possible without the least regard for their future ability or thelr safety. There were no clocks in the planes and the students were fre- quently cheated of their time. ‘“Ten hours” at that school often means about six. Solo flights were made costly by requirement of high breakage bonds, so that most students had to forego solo- g. As a result large numbers were “graduated” to go out and “erack up” on their very first flight elsewhere. But that instructor and probably his school are doomed, for one of the new regula- tions states that schools shall maintain such standards of ground and flying instruction that nine out of ten grad- uates who apply for licenses will satis. factorily pass the Department of Com- merce tests. That rule, with the one assuring the students that they will complete the time limit, spells “finis” to the “gvp” schools. Within & year the schools of the country will have been rated, ex- cept those which carefully refrain from asking for such approval. Standards of instruction will be as simple as those of automobile driving. ‘Will Get Real Instruction. the air at specified signals and indicate their landing. Experts, approved by the Department of Commerce, will supervise the training of the airmen. Graduates of these schools will be real pilots. They will pay for that training, for flying is not & cheap game. But they will have fine instruction, equal to will learn acrobatics in safe ships; the: will be taught instrument or lind flying to be used in fog and storm; they will be night fiyers of ability and as air students will be forced to take longer courses and to pass more rigid tests. The new regulations make it possible to envision the graduate transport pilot of tomorrow: A perfect physical speci- men, schooled in modern planes under the watchful eyes of the Government alert, assured. informed—the product of a splendid system and a capable guar- dian of the air travelers he takes aloft. elps Run Army ' Nation to the value of some $35.000.000 in asserted rights and claims. His loy- alty and fidelity gave him numerous white clients out of Oklahoma's ol and gas enterprises. He became a captain in the Oklahoma National Guard. He watched Washington's corners. He formed a special for the numerousness of the neighbors at the corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Eighteenth street. There, presently, rose & bullding named the Hurley- Wright Building. Then “Pat” waited to see 1f the professor of economic philos- ophy in Indian University was right. He was! That bookish ghost, the theory of “the unearned increment,” came to life for “Pat” in Washington, and also in Oklahoma, and went heartily to work. “Pat” was on his way to being rich. All because of an education! ‘Wins Honors in War. His unfolding aspirations. however, toward solid and secure receipts of rents were interrupted by & war much more compelling than Spain's or Snake’s. On the Aisne, on the Marne, in the Meuse-Argonne, at St. Mihiel, as major, as lieutenant colcnel, the frus- trated “rough rider” and the Indian plenty of military modernity and cos- mopolitanism. He earned a silver star citation for {;u-mry in action in “vol- untarily making a reconnaissance under heavy enemy fire.” He earned a Dis- tinguished Service Medal for ‘“services of material worth to the American Ex- peditionary Forces.” and on the ad- ditional basis of this record: Corps he ably conducted the negotia- tlo;?lmml between the American Ex- peditionary Forces and the Grand played sound judgment, marked zeal ditlons.” This was where his education came in again. border of Luxemburg and began trntl:s the Grand Duchy as if it were occupls enemy territory, Col. Hurley remem- bered that when he was in the Law School of the National University in professor that Eliha Root, as Secretary of State, had just signed a Hague con- vention which. with a special view to the condition of states like Luxemburg, had declared: “The territory of neutral powers is inviolable.” American general headquarters in France, upon being informed of Col. Hurley’s reminiscence, looked in & book and officially declared it to be accurate. Such education, it also intimated, en=- titled the possessor of it to see what he could do in negotiating with the author- ities of Luxemburg & friendly arrange- ment for the necessary use by the American forces of Luxemburg terntory and property in the course of the re- pulsion of the German invaders. Activities in Luxemberg. Col. Hurley, thereupon, now transe lated all the way from cowpuncher to thorities of Luxemburg. He found that Luxemburg was ruled by a nice girl about 19 years old who cal her- self a Grand Duchess. He found that her chief minister for foreign negotia- tions was a_ highly educated personage named Funck, who, besides speaking un- erring French and German, spoke Also faultless English, with just one defect; ton University, where so many of Wash- ington' ltllndmll. ticing la: d studying e was practicing law and studying, but he ‘was also noting ‘the merits of Washington’s street corners. He noted that some of them had more neighbors {han others. He remembered e scholastic science of economics. of him was ths gdventurousness of his 2il3k. faticesury. His father was born in County Water- ford on the east coast of South Ireland. He left Ireland shortly after an outburst of unusual activity among the Fenians. It is thought that the British govern- ‘ment and were in agreement on only one point—that it was best for Fenians ( to travel. He traveled to the Harbor ol New York, and thence by sea again to the Harbor of Galveston, and thence directly overland to the domain of the Choctaws. His Rise as Lawyer. In Washington, in the midst of the sometimes fatal fascination of the Fed- eral Village, the son did not separate Pimself from his recollections of the ecountry’s last frontier. He became at- torney for the Choctaw Nation in its dealings with the white man’s govern- mmu"polu:u and activities. He be- em:mmd&('nhhwn:‘n-ttggrn pract! e _courts of a- Wuhl.n&nn in the of d . Choctaw 's daytime workers are nighttime o he seemed to know no slang, either erican or English. 2 Mr. Funck seized upon his acquaint- ance with Col. Hurley to remove that S omeyea a1} the-post-Shagespear: ly convey: al r= ean idioms at his command to Mr. Funck, and he also endeavored earnestly rican blic_to g ng to add an Okl mmfll. international th to her ideas of horsemans d he breakfasted with her (in the lish language, which she ed to know well), and at a state ball he danced with her and doubtless broadened her narrow experience of European dance steps. Having performed all these duties, as his cita- tion states, with “marked zeal,” he con- cluded with Luxem! ble treaty which paid the Luxuml Ts for every~ thing we took. t was square and it was gallant, and it was all lke “Pat,” whether in race riot, A race war. the theriff to put Hurley in command. The sheriff did so. Hurley a volunteer neutral soldiery and laid down lines between the one p_of ment was: “The word ‘Malt’ i the #et lmpor- ‘There were shof were & few injuries to men who would not h the word that Hurley had mentioned and that Hui meant. Then one of the volunteer soldiers was able to observe: #They can hear me now three blocks away if I say it in & whisper.” That was end of that war. Hurley was now also a banker, a di- rector of a bank, a president of & bank, His interest in real estate “Pat,” was Hoover. He got out to do battle fer Hoover. He ultimately cam- paigned for Hoover by flying airplanes over the loneliest villages in Okla- homa and alighting in the nearest feasible pasture. When the folks came out to look at the airplane, “Pat” in- formed them about Hoover. g, is Hoover so wonderful?” - mma ask him, e “Because, when he is elected Presi- dent,” “Pat” would reply, “he is going to appoint competent men to office.” The first man Hoover ap) lnwdnz pof office Ol ma was ‘Pat.” all “Pat's” witticisms can now subdue the hosts of Oklahomans who want to . | shout after him: ¢ fison, U. 8. N. Patricia, Ruth and Wilson—will prob- ably never have any conscientious qualms about undertaking physically to “defend” the Constitution. Turns Oklahoma to Hoover. S0 “Pat” ‘might have vibrated be- tween office and home to a good, quiet “You knew he'd lgpulm competent men, didn’t you, ‘Pat'?” ell, in this case Mr. Hoover cer- tainly did. As this warrior aad business man goes on with being Assistant Sec- retary of War the jigs and gauges and dles for war-time use in our factories will all be standing at brisk attention. He has the military enthusiasm and the JULY 128, Agriculture, Colonization and Railways Big Factors in Manchurian Development (Continued From Fourth Page.) cated near Mukden in this fleld. ‘The Penchthu Iron & Smelting Works can ice about 80.000 tons of metallic n annually, but has been operating below capacity. Steel Works Adopts New Process. ‘The Anshan Iron & Steel Works, og- crated by the South Manchuria Rall- way, has recently taken up a special concentration process, which turns out .| turn movement 1 templates the production of 400,000 tons of p;&.’whleh will have a value of 25, 000. ‘The Eflxmfl Chinese il}'a Man- churia n increasing for years. In 1924 and 1925 there was a backflow of almost 50 per cent, indicating that of the im: ition 1924 re- increased, leaving about 52 per cent of settlers out of a half million arrivals. In 1927 immigration took a sharp jump, the number of arrivals doubling to more than a million, and the percent- age of settlers at the same time rising to 76. The influx was still larger last year, about 1,500,000, and almost the same high ratio of colonists continued. The settlers mostly occupied farmland in the districts surrounding Harbin and the regions along the Chinese East- anfy, .on Mukden. At Taonanfu a new work, known as the Hsing An development and wm:utuch':- w‘;ol‘un, has ac- quired modern farm “ cluding nine American e o Present Population 30,000,000 ‘The present tion of Manchuria is approximately 30,000,000, making an a of 82, 5 to the square . It 18 Dbe augmented by a mqéhmnux of settlers, mostly from two Chinese provinces, Shantung and Hopel (formerly Chihli). In 1890 the population was about 5,000,000. In the next 15 years it doubled and in 20 it trebled. estimate made in the census of the Chinese ministry of the interfor in 1910 was 14,017,000, rep- re:lennnl 41 persons for each square mife. ‘The method followed in this census was to ascertain the number of house- helds, and to muitiply this by the average number of persons in a family. The general average was set at 5.5, but in the case of Fengtien Province of Manchuria the much higher figure of the western side, morth of | churia 22,083434, an average of @i persons to the square mile. Mukden, the “capital” of Manchurls, Is its largest city, with a population of 400,000. Here the Peiping-Mukden Rail- way is completing a fine new terminai and locomotive shops. The city has splendid streets, and several motor roads lead into the surrounding coun- try. Two more motor roads, to Pefling and Tungling, 14 and 19 miles, respec- tively, are now under construction. In the first six months of this year 11500 building permits were issued. Sixty of these were for storés. and | several for new structures, including e concrete stadium of the Northeastern Ulgv:r!lty. alren, on the Liaotung Peninsula, Shanghai and Herbin, at the junction of the two main lires of the Chinese (!:;l.tflw:m Rallway, are the other modern Marking completion of the first piece of practical construction to be under- course within a prescribed, reasonable || A traffic control will send planes into | at of the || Army and Navy air schools, though || directed into commercial channels. They | ||| travel becomes more universal these ||| all conditionr of weather, trained under || Territory cowboy captain of militia got | ||| “As fudge advocate of the 6th Army !/ Duchy of Luxemburg, wherein he dis-f and keen perception of existing con-| ||| As our American troops crossed the ||| ‘Washington he had been informed by & | diplomat, addressed himself to the au- | iron ore that is 60 per cent ferrous. This has increased productivity, so that success. His countenance will be that | this ?ropefl.y, heretofore somewhat un- ot a statue, but his eyes will give him | certain, is expected to return substan- away, and he will still be just “Pat.” tial profits. e recent program con- — ern Rallway and the Lower Sungari 8. River. Large numbers of the immigrants this Spring were placed in the regions surrounding Tungliaochen and Taon- commercial skill ‘and the diplomatic seen in 1928 that el AR Ko adrofiness needed. 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