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abit of Thinking By the Rev, Thomas B, Gregory. Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co! (The New York Mrening World) HE word Man means “thinker.” Man {s the thinking animal. So much for etymology, theory, and so forth; but the cold- blooded, humiliating fact of the business is that the great majority of human beings think but little, if at all. : The reason for this fact is that we have not acquired the habit of thinking. Most of us allow our minds to pick up ‘whatever ideas they can readily absorb without any partioular effort, our minds, like the river, following the lines of least resistance, We learn only the thoughts that others have worked out. As for the evolution of thoughts for ourselves, We are as innocent as so many cabbages or sunflowers. Thinking is the hardest work in the world and implies much hard training, without which it is impossible. ‘The natural thing would be to place the children and youths in the | midst of the environment that would lead to the exercise of their rational and logical faculties, and that would by gradual stages help them to the hebit of real and independent thinking; but, unfortunately, such environ- ment does not exist. As a rule, our instfutions for the education of young minds work in the wrong direction. Instead of teaching the pupils to think, they teach them not to think. Instead of introducing them to facts, they are forever dealing out to them mere theories, most of which are baseless theories, Instead of making thinkers, they are contented with making parrots. Hamlet declared that he knew the difference between a “hawk and u handsaw,” which is more than canbe said of the rank and file of college graduates. ‘ To educate is to educe—that s, to draw out, ty develop; but the prat+ tical net result of most educational processes is to suppress rather than to develop, to make conformists rather than reasoners and truth-seekers. The grand objectives seem to be, not facts and the logical conclusions from them, but the conformity just referred to—the shaping of the theugnt to the conventional. moulds. ‘i What the world needs is the education that will develop thought Instead of cramping it; that will draw out and exercise the mind along the way of freedom and independence instead of keeping it marking time and making no progress. The world needs thinkers, people who. shall know the differenco between sense and nonsense, between mental pomposity and real logic, between the things that are good for us and the things that are bad for us. “Know the truth, and the truth s2all make you free.” But how can you come to know the truth if you refuse to think about it? Would you do your part toward helping along humanity's progress? Then you must acquire the noble habit of thinking. Betty Vincent's Advice to Lovers if I were not jealous tt would prove I did not love him. Finally, on each occasion, we kissed and made up, but we were very unhappy. Now, which of us is right and which wrong? Won't you give your opinion about it and suggest what wo should do?” I think you'are altogether wrong and that you will make your marri- age miserable both for yourself and the young man !f you do not conquer your apparently groundless suspicion. Love implies trust, if it is the kind of leve worth giving and having. Either decide that you do not believe in the young man, therefore do not love him, and give him up, or con- quer -your foolish tendency to sus- picion-and recrim;nation. YOUNG woman asks me to A write an article on kissing. She says that she has many girl friends and that, although they are of the finest character, all of them at some time or other have allowed young men to kiss them, She says that she has always considered such a procedure improper, and has refused to permit herself to be kissed, It {s true that kisses may be taken and given lightly in the course of so-called hartnless flirtations. Never- theless, the young woman whose taste and refinement are as tmpec- eable as her morals will not allow herself to be kissed by any man ex- cept one whom she believes whe 16ves well enough to marry. ’A kiss is the coin of love; why should it be wasted in exchange between persons whose relations are trivial and superficial? . Besides, the girl who allows herself to be kissed easily by her young men friends 1s always likely to subject herself to misunderstanding, how- ever innocent her motive and her outlook on life, Jealousy "W, M.” writes: "T am twenty-two/ years old and very much in love with) @ man three years my senior, In fact, we are engaged to be married. I real~ ly believe that he cares for me andi know I am devoted to him, Neverthe- less we have quarrelled several times because of my jealousy of him. Oa GUYNEMER’S OF HIS 53 VICTORIES Translated by Cli each occasion the beenaing of the fc ea ‘puna He sat fiero heb it me when he telephon: 0 an ee ly ‘ ry i} Gisestty on pK Hes, fitervers Gurnemar odd me that he could not come to my house on an evening when he was engaged to do so, because of extra work for his employer which would keep him late at the office, On each when he excused himself [ jaleagi reach him at his office by voted to him, which I had writ nobod: ten for various papers and mag- penaanac : apr rer Bee azines and thanked me not for hav~ ree ing talked about him, but for not te get a reply for several minutes, Reais Bish bat, for act “Therefore I assumed that my having made him play fiance was not in the office, but, for Par a ra oa dale purposes of his own, was negiecting| Wit usual or his appointments with me. I taxed )mes : him with this, and I could not help| “You wrote, by some miracle, tha crying and scolding. Then We be-|I had taken up aviation after having came angry and explained that after|been rejected five times. But here I five o'clock the telephone girl in bi8|must correct you. You said that I office goes home and the telephone 18/had been cured, but that 1s only be- not to be used, But he said that if 1/ing postponed. Let it go at that! I had real faith in him I should have| began by becoming a student-me- accepted his first explanation and/chanje in the schoo! at Pau. I worked hot bave tried to verify it by phone. |and jearned all that I could with but He said that I had insulted bim and|one purpose: to become an aviation that our future life would be most|pupil, It took a long time, was very Unhappy if I were to continue to beltrying and discouraging! “At last I L argued that |gained my entrance, Jan. 26, 1915. =| “On the very next day I began pags training, But that ts really only @ Soap Dish Fastened Con-|way of speaking, for the training in veniently to Faucets. CHAPTER IV. SAW the hero a fow weeks later. ‘He had read the articles de suspicious and je the first few days is nothing more than shoveling snow. I put all my AP dishes fre y are allow.1|heart into it while waiting for bet- to remain dirty because of the |ter things, for I knew that the rest g them from |was fated to come in normal fashion. I had only to be patient, “On Feb..1 my apprenticeship ae & pilot took on aerial character, I drove a taxi, and then the following week I mounte@-an aeroplane, going jin straight lines, turning and gilding, jand on March 10 1 made two flights lasting twenty minutes in daylight. At last I had my wings, Then I few jon @ Blertot, but they authorized me to try a Morane, and I was sent to the schoo! of Avord. On April 2th I received my military commission. “May 22, 1915, I was ordered to leave their fastenings. Soldiers in a United State. army cu nt have over- cme this dificulty by mounting a wire dish on ooii springs between the faucets, as il)....4ted, Thus the 2 ts at once in 4, bendy, position and ‘Mechanica, “ BY THE GREAT FLYER TO THE NARRATOR SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERs, , “the winged sword of France. had a difficult Umé in joining the Aviation Oorpe dnesday, November 13, 1918 PAGE ARN Ri AMILY 74° Y To HOLLAND (A BEATING LU ag By Maurice Ketten | Original Fas For The Evening World's Home Dressmakers By Mildred Lodewick ‘ Coprright, 1918, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The Now York Krening Worlds ‘ Winter Frock BLVETHEN $ into favor this fat, and many are the smart frocks made of it Serving for morning and aft- ernoon alike, not mentioning the eve- ning restaurant houra, it bas proven its adaptability be- yond a doubt, It is both practical and dressy, which can not be sald of many fabrica, Therein docs the woman of limit- ed Income = regelve full value from the money expended. 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From under the low~ wide lapping of the front portion over the back, ® one and @ half inch sash end emerges to meet @ mate that appears from under @ braided orna- ment on the right side front of the waist line, and ties naively on the left wide back, Two velvet or fur balls weight the ends, The sleeves and irt agree on & OWN STORY IN THE AIR, AS TOLD fton Harby Levy was accepted. After a period as observation Geroan lane, “Pshorefae several aitcnwns Men received the military medal and acclams- other victories and. began to be known as ® ‘sown words, as told to the narrator, eelved an appointment. On June 8th I reached M. 8, 3, established at Vau- ciennes, It was commanded by our master in all things, one of the cre- ators of ‘hunting,’ Capt. Brocard. I found Vedrines there, and he received me in friendly fashion, Famous for his special missions, which added a new page to the glorious sum of his successes, be gave me all the infor- mation possible. To him I was a boy, who amused him He took pleasure in giving me all the advice that I wanted. And there was much of this! He took me’ to the lines, had me visit the sector, and accepted me even as @ partuer in @ special mission, my first. “I began my work with recon- noissances, Now this kind of work does not interest me any more, but when we are new, and want to do something, it is really thrilling to. be way up there, studying the ground, asking oneself questions with the help of the map, and above all ad- miring the stoicism of our soldiers who live there in those holes, be- neath those murderous mounds, hav- ing ae thelr companions the caanon, cooking-pots and grenades. Poor fel- lows, bow the aviator should love and venerate them and help them when he can! Capt. Brocard is the one who has instilled into us this love for the infantry, “In order to make @ reconnoissance @ man must put bis whble heart into it, ‘The command wants facts, and it is indispensable to bring them to the commander as gomplete as possible. Tt te at the risk and under many perils of the pilot, and I admit that I have returned frequently after more or less serious attacks, On June 17, notably, I came back with eight wounds, anothe? time with aine, while a tenth bullet passed only a few from my face, The Bocho for the General Reserve, where I re inches cannon shoot straight, but we have to show them that they do not fright- en us” ‘What Guynemer did not tell me, bat I learned from his comrades, was the story of one of these reconnoissances. ‘The last comer to the squadron, with the air of a “young girl” as Vedrines used to say, he felt in the beginning that they did not take bim seriously, notwithstanding all the work that he did. He thought that they had a kind of protective friendship for him, which was pleasant, but that . they had no great confidence in him. Therefore, he decided to show them something very decisive, after which they could be no longer tn doubt. One day while on a photographing mission he was picked out especially by the aerial batteries of the enemy. According to the Captain who ac- companied him as a passenger, more than a thousand shells were fired at them. Without flinching from this terrifle deluge, Guynemer did not make @ single turn to escape the at- He went straight toward his tive. The reconnoissance lasted an hour, When he had finished bis work the observer gave him the s! nal to return, But the pilot drove di- rectly toward the guns which were trying to beat him down, and hold- ing his personal photographic ap- Paratus out to his companion asked him to take some pictures of the mortar attacking the aeroplane, From that day on not a person in the squadron doubted the future of this youth! “What I must tell vou.” sald Guy- nemer, modest to excess, “is the courage of the observers, When we stop to think that those officers de- liver up their lives to a pilot who may make one mistake, be the victim of a moment of dizziness or of a fainting fit, or even of a mortal wound, or anything else, and that they busy themselves only with the ground and thelr map, in order to bring back the best possible report, we cannot admire them too much. I admit that I would not like their Profession. I am not afraid, but I Accept that danger against which I can fight, while the observer has to have blind confidence in his pilot and never stop to consider the steering of the aeroplane. Almost always knows noth whatever about the mysteries of jating,.and yet he is there with you to whom he has given his life in charge. It is an art in It- if and you must take into consid- eration these unknown artisans of victory, the most useful collaborators of the commander, I assure you that an observer, like Lieut. Colomb for instance, deserved well of the en Guynemer me @ al- ist in pursuit he naturally oe all reconnolssances and found him- self amsigned to a single-seated aero- plane, In January, 1916, he did not add @ single victory to bis list, but February was to give him new suc. Im April I had @ chance to pass « “ G CY NEMER-THE ACE OF ACES BY JACQUES MORTANE few minutes with him and second Lieut, Raty, one of ‘his intimate friends, a remarkable “hunter,” made @ prisoner, but im whom all saw @ future Ace. Of course both of us asked the Ace, Raty, to get information about hunt- ing and the way to fight, I to add to my documents about him whom we all considered a phenomenon, for it must not be forgotten that at that time aerial encounters were not yet 80 common. Indeed, on Feb, 3, 1 in the course of a single fight, G nemer succeeded in getting bis first official “double.” “I was making my usual round in the Roy sector,” suid he. “Just be- fore luncheon, I was about ending the flight, when looking around to I might leave safely, I saw an aero- plane in the distance. Ab! the game was coming to me. Good, all I bad to do was not to let it escape, It was an L. V. G. I gave chase and pm caught up with it.’ He did not seem to wish to avoid the fight, as so often happena. Possibly he had not seen me after all. Being faster than he I got in back of him, open- ing fire at 100 metres, and firing at intervals soon exhausied the 47 car- tridges of my Lewis. At that instant a cloud of smoke, which increased rapidly, made a sinister tail to the Boche, which dived, severely wound- ed. Alas! he fell within his own lines and I could not follow him to the earth, I certainly considered that I had one enemy less, but my total was not improved, and I admit, that I re- gretted it, for I needed my fifth sProvidence was on the watch! I coming back, thinking over the methods of fighting, considering bow T had attacked, asking myself wheth- er I would not have done better to approach from some other direction, when at almost 11.80 I found another hunting L. V. @., disguised, armed with a Parabellum. Yes, I had made a mistake just now, when I opened fire from so far away--I should have waited. At 100 metres we cannot he sure of the aim. My method, which up to this time always consisted in attacking almost point-blank, seem- ed to me much better. It is more risky, but everything les in manoeu- vring #0 a# to remain in the dead angle of fire. Certainly it ie rather diMeoult, but nevertheless it can be mastered with akill. 5 “While going over thene tiings to myself I bad come near enough to the Boche without running any great danger, At twenty metres I fired, Almost at once my adversary tun, bled in $ tail-apia, I dived aft im, continuing to fire my weapon. I plainly saw bim fall in bis lines, where he was crushed, That was ali right, no doubt about him. I had my fifth! I was really in luck, for les than ten minutes later another L. V. G., sharing the same lot, spun down. ward with same grace, taking Gre the clouds, “The second afterwards, Frise, in a new tete-a-tete with an L. V. G., I leaped forward, cnught up it G. with him, got in backof him, @ little below to avoid his fire, and at fifteen metres fired forty-five cartridges. He swayed sadly, in the shock of death, which I was beginning to be able to diagnose, then fell like a stone, tak- ing fire on the way. He must have been burned up between Assevillers and Herbecourt. “Although he was really my seventh Boche, he alone gained me the honor of a special communication.” A fifth citation recompensed the Ace: “A hunting pilot with audacity and energy for any emprise, On Feb. 3 he has caused the fall of three enemy aeroplanes in succession, in their lines, On Feb, § be attacked an L. V . aeroplane and beat it down in flames over the German lines.” Raty was not satisfied with mere side-anecdotes—he wanted the facts as to the method of fighting. Guyn mer acceded with enthusiasm: “The most diMficult thing is te oom. pel the Boche to accept the duel. Ho does not lack courage, but he prefers not to run the risk of being brought down.” CHAPTER V. NE VICTORY which amused me greatly wae that which I carried off on March 12th. I was then ordered to go and reinforce the aviation of the Verdun army, which had great work to do against the fifth Boche army really redoubtable in this sec- tor, Here we encountered all kinds of new models of hunting aeroplanes. We were therefore certain to have plenty to do, Before Navarre's ar- rival the supremacy of the air plainly belonged to the enemy, all during the month preceding the offensive of Feb, 21, Navarre accomplished many deeds of prowess, and equalized the chances of the belligerents. Now we had to gain the advantage over them. ‘Thus several squadrons, including No, 3, had been appointed. “We left on the lth, I had my rapid-fire gun ready for anything that might occur, but I did not think that during the trip I would bave any opportunity to use it. There I made @ mistake. Near Thiescourt I caught ht of a two-seated L. V. G. 1 overtook it near Ribecourt. A few shots, Bre! It was all over; one less Boche, one more for me. I thought that thig success out of the beaten track, I might ay, was to bring me some stunning work when I was on the track. “So op the next day, % was the Uth—but an aviator can not stop on account of superstitions—I tt with the firm determination to bring down at least two, for there were ee many in the sky around Verdun. I began by putting to flight what I think was a group of reconnoitering janes—a pity I could not eateb up with them, On the way back I saw two Boches. There were the two that I was to bring down. I rushed at them, speeding all I coutd, getting beldw one, to the rear, a litte to one aide, firing seven shote at point-blank distance. He turned about and went away with lead in his wings, but I could not take up time with one of his kind. “As to the other—he was certainly an ace. He was not afraid and fired as hard as he could, My aeroplane knows something about that. I wanted to cet myself under the body of his machine to bring him down safely, Unfortunately I had speeded up too much, going faster than he, and I passed beyond him, Quickly the Boche took advantage ‘of the situation and sent a hot fire at me. He could shoot at me na ho pleased. My cape, shot to bits, Mew in ribbons, A deflected bullet struck me in the! face, slashed my cheek and nose and two bullets went through my left arm. I atill have a splinter in my Jaw, and the surgeons say it Is better to leave it there. It is a souvenir, #0 jong as it is @ fetich and allows me to avenxe myself. In fine, | was eprinkled all over. “I bled freely and actually suf- fered. I had to look out that T did not ‘drop like an apple.’ I studied the situation hastily, I let myself fall, plunging downward 300 metres to make him think that I had been knocked down, And as now another aeroplane came up to help my rival in the attempt to finish me. I turned about, and steering with one hand I succeeded in rogaining our lines, landing at Brocourt. “But soon I was almost well, and I tell you that I determined to ‘put in rt good licks’ to compensate for lost time, They would have to pay me for my sojourn at the hoepital,” And then came two aitations, the sixth and seventh: “On March 6 he has engared In a combat with a German aeroplane in the course of which his aeroplane, his garments and. thore of his observer were pierced by bullets. On n 12, 1918, he attacked two- rman aeroplane and beat tt down | d n one aerial battles tn eieht months; eight German aeroplanes beaten down, seven of these within or near the French Itnes.” “Beoond Lieut. Guynemer to rejoin the Verdun arny, ber an enemy aeroplane on the way. Hardly arrived, he took part in five aerial battles. Tn the course of the last. being cancht hetween two enemy aeroplanes, he had hia loft arm werced by two bullets. Harty was he {m- proved when he took ap again his work at the front.” We mist recotost that the first Boche dates from Juty 19, 1915. In lows than eleht months the ace of aces had seen seven palms find a piace on Mr War Croset (Te Be Continued.) caeinnpnrantetstaniin CLARET | “SHADE FOR’. THIS DBGION. ; the [quiet but rich self: pp of . est one, which brings te notice quiet Das rol agate bles i i flames tn the French lnes—twenty- | ——/ hion Designs of Velveteen. RED WOULD ‘BE A. PRETTY Matas} Antwérs to” Quertes, Fashion Baitée; Tae Epebing World: . Wi you sid me ‘with-a simple design which I may copy fora drevs to be ™made from 4 small M%-yd. length of * brick red velour? 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