The evening world. Newspaper, November 26, 1919, Page 17

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1919 Trans-Continental Air Hero To Eat His Thanksgiving © R } Meals Above the Clouds pin Eat Thanksgiving Meals Above the Clouds; Breakfast, Dinner and Supper in Seven States Vbieut. Maynard, the “Flying Parson,” Accom- panied by Lieut. Bradshaw, to Attempt a One-Stop Flight From New York to Cali- fornia; They Will Have Coffee and Rolls in New York State; “Regular” Breakfast While Flying Over Maryland and West Virginia;| Soup, Turkey, Cranberry Sauce and: Vege-| tables to Be Consumed a-Flying: Over Ten- nessee and Missouri; Fruit, Cake and Nuts Will End the Aerial Feast Looking Down at Arkansas; They Will Cover 1,400 Miles in First Lap; Aviators Will Enjoy a 14-Hour Holiday Ride. By Gerald C. Smith, Late First Laeutcnant United States Air Service. 010, by The Prom. Puhiishing Company Now Youk, Evening, Wort) LEN Lieut. Belvin W. Maynard, the “flying parson," went winging it along through rain and snow storms, over mountains and through canyons to win first honors in the transcontinental air race, he tok a place for bravery and heroism occupied by a chosen few. Now, how- prer, he has climbed to the pereh of the super-brave. For with eyes wide open and:in bis fall senses he has knocked to the Pour winds the long-made plans of his wife’s for a Thanksgiving dinner in Their little home in the married officers’ quarters at Mitchel Field. He has Mecided to start—weather permitting ~ ngage Coyrrignt et 410 o'clock to-morrow morning nao »p flight from New York to California, All of the tears and pleadings by Mrs, Maynard, augmented by those ef Mrs, Bradshaw, wite of Lieut. L. D. who is to accompany the “flying parson,” were of no avail. | Too much time has been lost already, fho flyer decided; each day lost at this time of the year is as good as @ week, and so, now that the rwper- DH-4, in whieh the trip is to be at- tempted, is finally ready, he is off. | But whatever Maynard has lost im household prestige through his deter- | mination to sturt to-morrow, he and| Bradshaw will win the distinction of Deing’the first to cat a/full—nearty*foll Bradshaw, course Thanksgiving dinner in the clouds. = Mrs. Maynard and Mrs.| Bradshaw being as good sports as thetr| husbands, have cfully swallowed! the defeat of their culinary plans and are getling up as good @ dinner as por- | sible for the aviators to eat while on} will have coffee and rolls in New York State before “taking the air.” “Two or| three hours later, while flying over Maryland, they will have their “regu- lar” breakfast of egg sandwiches and steaming coffee from a vacuum bottle, This repast will probably be finished while they are over West Virginia, and then, after the States of Ohio, Ken- tucky and part of Tennessee have been crossed, they will start work on the big feast—thelr Thanksgiving dinner. Just before leaving the small por- tion of ‘Tennessee over which the course will lead, they will tackle the soup from vacuum bottles. Turkey, cranberry sauce and vegetables that the good wives are going to pack in anil AAAS AAO this long-distance banquet will stretch out over 1,400 miles, They expect to be in the air fourteen hours, but as they will gain an hour and @ half messkits should last them while pass-| through the changes: in time, they ing over Missouri and into Oklahoma. | should reach Dallas a o'clock to- The fruit cake ami nuts, which are to| morrow afternoon. Next morning end the aerial feast’ should be con- sumed when Arkansas is reached, From there until they arrive at! Dallas, Tex., the stopping-off point in the hop from New York to San Diego, the aviators will have to go hungry. But after landing at Dallas they will leave at daybreak for the remaining 1,200 miles of their flight to San Diego. This part of their trip will take them over Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California. They expect to remain but a short time in San Diego. On the return trip fight. | , If Maynard and Bradshaw are able! a bang-up supper is promised them. sto got uway at 4.30 o'clock Thmnks-| Maynard and Bradshaw plan to fly ing Ynornifg, as they now plan; they'to Dallas “as the crow fics,” and so they will make the midway stop at Dayton, O. The round trip is ex- Pected to take less than seven days. “‘Incomparably r FRINGE, TRICOLETTE; ERY AN UNUSUALLY rt 4 It was not until yesterday that the a> k Smart’’ Froc Siectiel tar teattaeetes te | test flight about a wedk ago it was found that the regulation DH-4 wings which were being used were not strong enough to sustain the weight of the two additional gas tanks and their contents, In peril of hav | ling the wings buckle up, Lieut. May- nard, who was makimg the test, was jforced to r the air three hours, until enough gasoline had been con- | sumed to permit a safe landing. These wings have been replaced by one: sufficiently strong to carry the extra weight. Col, Archie Miller, J officer at Mitche 1d, | sponsible for the construction of the reyhound, as the ship in which the | fight is to be made is called. Four months ago hr conceived the idea that a one-stop flight to the coast | would be possible if one of the ordt nary army planes coukl’ be remodelled to carry sufficient fuel. Lieut. Brad- shaw, then in charge of the repair work at Hazellurst Fiekl, was called in and the plans put under way. A DH-4 of war type was placed In the shop, The gas tank between Ohio had sent his son to a good school of music so that he might receive the best instruction from the beginning. It was necessary {to buy a violin for him, but he was such a little chap that his teacher | thought that a so-called “half-violin” would do, The father, whose resources had been badly taxed, was loath to part with the money for the instru- ment, but finally did so. The lad made rapid progress and became so proficient that a half- | violin was no longer good enough |for him. Aguin he went to the music |store with bis father, to whom the salesman showed the entire stock of violins, ‘The parent was apparently dissatisfied with all of them, and his gage wandered round the shop seeking for something better, Finally he saw a vicloncella. “We'll take that big violm there,” maid hea as a swile of satisfaction | spread over his countenance. “The boy won't outgrow that right away!” | Harper's Magazine | —e | A ectentit tm Germany claims to ALL OVER EMBROID- jcure obesity by treating patients with certain metala, introduced im small SMART, COMBINATION, \Guantities,into thelr food, y commanding SHEER FORESIGHT. HARD-WORKING farmer in | the pilot and. the observer was re- moved and placed back of the engin« Thus danger of tho pilot being crushed in case of a forced landing | Conditions Superior tise By Fay Stevenson. basta ing Work) LL Europe is like an invalid who is just recovering from a long nerve-racking illness. It will be a long while before she can | receive tourists 166 n the large numbers she did before the war, Like @ wasted and worn invalid she must wait until she pulls herself to- until she rates her ength to and a ability aie our | So declared Managing Asturia, McAlpin tela, who has just returned from ™M. Director of the Wander | | Lucius Boomer, and Claridge Ho- eng land, Holland, Belgium, France, Italy, Switzerland and Spain, | “Eliminating Belgtum, which of untries do you think is suffer- mst?” L asked Mr, Boomer veply, “igut every country is having ja bitter #ruggle to regain its former pro-war donditions, prices are way up | in the air and they absolutely haven't the space to store the hosts of tour- ists who will want to flood there this | spring and summer. The tourists who | | these ¢ think they can flock to the other sid¢ ag of old are going to meet a bitter | | disappointment | "Many people who will persist in | sing to F will face discomfort, uncongen jal ging and the more erious dilemmy being stranded in| @ foreign city with the painful knowi- | jedge that no ac tor thean, “If L were punmodations exist | xdvisings my sister or any member my family in regard to touring Europe,” continued Mr, Boome looking very serious but em- phatic, would say, y home don't go yet, Murope is not ready" | “But there are many bereaved) fathers and mothers, sisters and| brothers and heartbroken sweet- | hearts who will feel that they must go there this summer,” I reminded Mr. Boomer, “I am perfectly aware that there | are three classes of people who wil! | feel that they must journey to Europe,” said Mr, Boomer, holding up three fingers, “the people who go lthere for sentim al reasons; thom who go on matters of business and | last but not least (for I feel certs there will be more of them than an! other class), the sight-seeing tourists. | ran THANKSGIVING OINNGE Asove. 3 3 = | —~_HE C6U6S- a aes | ~ — UT L.0, BRADSHAW (FRONT) LTB. Ww MAYNARD (REAR Some fy Samane magme teen was removdd power, ‘To get more lifting practically all of the dihe was removed from the machine, Two additional gas tanks capable of hold- One Reason to Be Thankful To-Morrow machine in which the flight is to be/ That New York Prices Are Lower and Living| out a sip for her stating that she to Those in Europe before their eyes," said Mr. Boomer, closing the three fingers up and bringing his hand down with a good deal of force upon his deak, “is that Uney are going to. face outlandish prices, seareity in food and lodging ind many hardships. Unless they nako definite arrangements before- hand about rooms, 90 per cent. of hem are joing to ‘have to sit up al nisht, go without food and suffer hardships was a tine buy anything in dys of money; I's a case of labor, of get- ting the food toyether and obtaining wpwce, ‘Tourtng parties need not think thoy have sufely provided for th ‘Phere vuld when money Eurepe, but selves because they have cabled or | ont on % to different hotels tor eserviations, nat is the old way of doing things. ay it is unsafe for one to 4 pe without re elVINg & Personal tter stutings that a@ room will be awaiting or without inquiring from established agencies naking definite arrangements,” “And even then you would advise tourists and all who are planning to g0, to the other side to wait? I asked. “That is what [ would advise ali who are near and dear to me,” ro- turned Mr. Boomer. “If you think prices are high and apartments, hotel suites and lodgings hard to get In Now York City, conditions are every bit as bad and in many cases worse in all parts of I has very little coal, Italy none. ‘Tourists who go to FE this winter are votually going to suffer, Sugar can nly be obtained in a few of the very best hotels, but many of the second class hotels and many private homes have quite abandoned using it “In France silver \# at a premfum, You ean imagine how e is a rule that you can only 10 francs in silvers value out of the country, Change is so searce iat stamps are given in many cas and in large stores a ticket marked that you entitled to #0 much change, But this method is very onvenient and frequently emibar because in many cases you « than you want in ue of the tieket ange you have to nwontly they have been trying to get « business bo ind e@#ablishments lo accept these pieces of paper, and this has made ‘ousiness a little better. “To illustrate how scarce silver is and how thiy increases the price of goods, Which has already soared its highest, [ watched a woman purchase suine carrots the other day from @ street vender, ‘The peddler’s cart con tuined nothing but carrots and when searce it is some ri have If there is no trade it out, I in which was worth twice the ‘The peddler rched every pocket for change; he around to the various nearby n A ¢ mount of the carrots. It isn't a case | ‘| TWO MINUTES | had made her purchase she gave | hee fifty-two gallons e to otther side of the fuselage and | onjected with the main gas tank, The capacity of the gravity tank was | | nereased by nine gallons, and thus the machine was provided with 306 gallons of fue!, sufficient for a non- stop flight of 1,400 miles. Next a strong landing gear wae con- Istructad to replace the regular one, | ana to overcome the additional weight] of this gear, Carl Ktrom, « elvillan employed at the depot, designed an additional wing to be placed between the landing gear of the machine, ‘The | machine was then considered ready, and now that the weak wings have been replaced Air Service officers ex~ } pect that it will make the long trip with ease, but without avail, Finally he wrote | was entitled to another bunch of | carrots and the poor housewife had j'to let it go at that, And while that is only a small picture, it illustrates what happens on all occasions, so that one not only has to meet the HL C, of L., but on top of that face a lack of silver and loose change, “some one is always taking the joy mt of life,” concluded Mr. Hoomer, ‘but Tam only picturing conditions 4s [saw them, and to the many tour. its Who have planned to visit’ the ther side this next spring and suminer L should just like to warn them that they better be sure of their reservations first.” | | OF OPTIMISM }; By Herman J. 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(The New Youk Eveuing Word) HANKSGIVING to-morrow and all is well with the lords Give Us Ten Days’ Notice an’ Turn ™, t trust. Turkeys are 60 cents a pound, or as much as they were 4 year ago, when the beef ¥ Us Out. < & barons put ‘em in storage. One thing about turkey the magnates are thankful for—it never depreeiates from year to year. Parts of the turkey haven't changed since nature turned out the first demonstration model. Road test for the turk is satisfactory om any road so long as refrigerator cars rum on it, LS, Nineteew-nineteen ‘thanksgiving should be a — big success, Guy that buys to-morrow’s dinner still has something te f be thankful for, Turkeys ave higher, there’y no sugay for the cram. berry sauee, potatoes cost more and demistasse now passes for a full cup of coffee. But the temperature’s no higher thag it was last year! ministration ean claim credit for that, Not only that, but the eld Admin has promised even lower temperature before the end of the year! Pilgrims pulled off the first Thanksgiving. The Lord gave ‘em @ big crop of corn and they took it in, Then had Thanksgtving. Nowa- days the programme's differemt. Meat trust gives us @ lot of com and \ them takes US in. And we're thankful we're alive to be taken in. But even that’s better than the landlords do, Landlord gives us tem days" a notice and turns us out, And we're thankful he didm't give us tem weeks’ notice so’s he can’t eject us in the middle of wister. ‘ Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving wagm't much like our own is golpg to be Pils hadn't suffered from a drought and they had plenty of barleycorn when Thanksgiving Day came. They gaye thanks for the stuff that was given them, But it's hard to be thankful when the stuffs just been taken away from you, We've still got Plymouth Rock to remem- ' ber the Pilgrims, but the rye has been scratched forever. rt ‘Twenty years after the Pilgrims landed they were making geod © rum in Medford, nearby. Goeés to show that Pilgrims’ progress was a” little bit better than Banyan wrote it Can't expect te make ress with a Bunyan, anyway. Ptls crossed the water for t got it—in quart bottles. Today we've got water, but no os And we've been double-crossed, Pilgrims’ progress was the Fighteenth Amendment and now it’s on the return trip. teen-nineteen Pilgrims are the guys that go to England for a Thanksgiving Day was 0, K, till one year it cost the Allies « coupla million to get a alice of Turkey, That sorta opened the eyes of the beef barons, They got the exact price list from Lloyd George ‘ and the cost of turkey is now standardized, Beef trast will next tackle Greece, It's got so Thanksgiving is now more expensive than Christmas. You can hurdle Xmas with a few gifts of junk, but Thanksgiving Day you've got to give dinner, And you can't do your Thankegtving shopping early—not while the turks are tied up in cold storage. Eleventh of November we cele- brate as the day the Huns gave up. And the last Thursday in November the day when WE give ‘up. s ‘Then there's the liquid part of it, Christmas cheer is something you get In the atmosphere, But Thanksgiving cheer was never in the atmosphere exeept when you tried to smell of MM, This year it looks Like we'll have to eat, think and try to be merry the way we did in the old days, Only cheer for this Thanksgiving wilt be im to-morrow’s football games, | However, the holiday shouldn’t be wasted. There are still a few things to cheer about. The guy that’s got something im bis coal bim has a right to be thankful, Kven if it’s only coal he’s still ahend of the game, Coal is the second best thing for warming a felley up. Actors cum be thankful they've got a matinee with extra pay te morrow, and the guys that get out the evening papers can be thankful they've got an extra day off without losing their pay. Seems to be a little good cheer left in the world so long as you keep away from | the meat markets. jut the Pilgrims should be thankful they landed in 1620 instead of 1919, If the Mayflower docked at Plymouth to-day they'd have te show 600 yards of official passports; they'd have te pay import taxes on all those heirlooms; they'd have to dicker with longshoremen to get their goods ashore; they'd have their boose-for-medicinal-purposes confiscated, and they’d run into a flock of waiting profiteers, The Pils would have to pay rent for their shanties these days, too, Settling has a different meaning now. And John Aldem would have to buy @ platinum ring before it was time to speak for himself. History may repeat itself, as some folks allege, bat not enough to notice it, The Pils had the right idea when they sailed Im 1680, That was the year there was something to be thankful for, If they sailed in 1919, Thanksgiving would be postponed till they got back ™ home again. PS (The Mystic Book _ sinetiona HIS is the Mystic Book, It Is cut in half, contains @ ques- tion, hieroglyphics and fanny figures, It is customary when seeking in formation to open a book, bul the WHO WAS THE Cut out the picture om the four AUTHOR OF THE. heavy lines, fold across and back on RAVEN? dotted line No, 1; then fold this over y Sr ted line No, 2. ‘This joins the book and reveals the Keep the picture dgr veference.