Denna atc.
: Belletonte, Pa., October 12, 1917.
NOT WORK FOR WEAKLINGS
Successful Aviator Must Be in Per-
fect Condition, Both Physically
and Mentally.
From leakage of petrol spray the
pilot may become dizzy, and the ex-
haust gases from the engine—carbon
monoxide and dioxide—may cause
headache, drowsiness and malaise.
The rarified air at great elevations
may induce the symptoms well-known |
to balloonists, and Wells refers to a |
case of frost-bite in an airman who |
had been exposed to 34 degrees of
frost at an elevation of 15,000 feet.
Psychasthenic symptoms — namely, |
loss of self-confidence and the result-
ing mental worry (aerostenia)—are |
not uncommon, and prove that the
victim has mistaken his sphere of ac-
tivity, says the Lancet. Flying is un-
doubtedly the job of a young man un- |
der thirty years of age, and not every .
young man is temperamentally or
physically fitted to carry it through.
Perfect eyesight is necessary to insure |
safe landing, correction with glasses |
being not without its dangers; perfect ,
hearing is essential to detect the first |
indication of engine defect, and free |
movement of the joints of the lower
limbs to control the steering gear. Fits |
and tendency to faint absolutely deter |
the aspirant from the air service. In |
one remarkable instance at Haslar an
airman who fainted, with the result
that the airplane dived nose down-
ward 1,200 feet into a plowed field, es-
caped with such minor injuries that |
he was at first extremely loath to give
up this branch of the service. !
FIND HUMOR IN CENSORSHIP
French Succeed in Getting a Certain
Amount of Fun Out of Offi-
cial Proceedings.
France has a censorship. But it also
has a sense of humor. By means of
this humor it is able to bear so well
with the censorship that it would suf-
fer a sense of loss if the institution
were suddenly abolished.
The way the French censor works
is this: He reads the page proofs of
the newspapers and periodicals and
notifies the publishers what part of
their printed matter they cannot cir-
culate. The publishers then chisel the
stereotyped plates and the papers come
out blotched with white spaces. Read-
ers, seeing these gaps, invariably as-
sume that something of extreme im-
portance has been withheld from
them. They besiege their officehold-
ers and politicians for enlightenment.
The distressed public servants, know-
ing not a thing, must yet say some-
thing. So they invent news. The re- |
sults are comical. Government officers
get entangled in their own stories,
they are held to account for state-
ments they had forgotten they had
made, they are forced to dodge
friends and :voil constituents.
It speaks for the spirit of a coun-
try that what might be expected to
set it raving merely makes it slap its
thigh with enjoyment.
And the Jokesmith Dodged.
They were" discussing that joke
about getting down off an elephant.
“How do you get down?’ asked tlie
jokesmith for the fourth time,
“You climb down.”
“Wrong!”
“You grease his sides and slide
down.”
“Wrong!”
“You take a ladder and get down.”
“Wrong!”
“Well, you take the {trunk line
down.”
“No, not quite. You don’t get down
off an elephant; you get it off a goose.”
—Indianapolis News.
Portable Fire for Soldiers.
A compact portable material for
building & small cooking fire is a bless-
ing to the soldier in the field in winter.
The Italians have devised a home-made
“fire ration” which the people at home
prepared last winter for the men in the
cruel Alpine passes. The fire ration is
made from old newspapers, and can-
dle ends, or other paraffin material.
The newspapers are cut into little
cylinders, which are afterwards boiled
in the paraffin. This produces a high-
ly compact and combustible little cyl-
inder which can be used for heating
‘food in the field.
Hit Close to Home.
The following story was told by an
officer stationed at Seaford:
A rather simple-looking young re-
cruit was seemingly bewildered by the
maze of cross-questioning he was be-
ing subjected to. Then came the ques-
‘tion concerning the allotment of al-
‘lowances.
“Next of kin?”
sharply.
The recruit dropped his voice and
became confidential.
“Im only wearing a vest, sir,” he
‘replied. “My shirt’s at the wash.”—
London Answers.
asked the officer
Oh, Dear! .
Aunt Elvira rushed into the house,
hysterical.
“I've lost my hearing!” she shouted.
“You have?” her frightened sister
shouted back; “how do you kiow?”
“See that man out there playing that
hand organ? Well, ¥ can’t hear a
‘single note!” and Aunt Elvira wept
afresh. :
“That’s a moving picture photogra-
pher at work!” snapped her sister.
, (asks a correspondent).
: hero is honored still in Gaza, though
. dence of their tenure remains in the
' great mosque, which is none other
' than the Cathedral of St. John the
| to which Samson carried the gates of
i the Temple of Dragon.
PLACE OF SAMSON'S BURIAL
Memory of Samson Has Been Pre-
served for Many Ages in Historic
City of Gaza.
nee
A correspondent with the army be-
fore Gaza mentions Samson Ridge. Is
the name native or newly coined?
The Hebrew
not by his name. A mosque in the
eastern quarter of the town known as
Ali Merwan—the imprisoned—is re-
vered as his tomb. It is a modern
cenotaph, and the tradition is record-
ed in the middle ages.
Saladin plundered the city, but fail-
ed to take the cathedral, garrisoned
by Templars. But eventually Gaza
fell to the Saracens, and by the treaty
between Saladin and Richard of Eng-
land in 1192 it was adjudged to remain
in their hands. The Templars held
the place barely 38 years, but e€vi- |
Baptist built by the Templars.
Conspicuous on a hill just outside
Gaza, on the southeast, are the three
white cupolas of Ali el Muntar, and
here a yearly festival is held by the
Moslems. It is held to be the place
The word
Muntar simply means a lookout, but in
certain other spots the name of
Shemsun el Jaffer—Samson the Hero
—may be traced.
It was in 1170—the year of the
great earthquake—that Saladin launch-
ed the forces against Gaza, the first
operation in a campaign which lasted
22 years.
ALL WANTED FRONT SEATS
Many and Ingenious Excuses Given
by Attendants at Billy Sunday's
New York Meeting.
“Judging from the thousands of ex-
cuses that were handed to me by per-
sons who wanted to get seats at the '
front of the Tabernacle, Uncle Sam
will have a hard time in obtaining men
and women in fit condition to do the |
arduous work connected with the
war,” said a man who put in ten
strenuous weeks as an usher at the
Billy Sunday meetings at New York.
“Deafness appeared to be the prin-
cipal complaint. I never thought so
many persons in this city were af-
flicted with bad hearing. Lame men
and women became so common at the
meetings that we ushers never paid
any attention to them unless it was
obvious that they were really the vic-
| tims of infirmities.
“Some persons physically perfect
even went so far as to be wheeled to
the Tabernacle in invalids’ chairs just
to get a good place near the evangelist.
And the number of persons who suf-
fered from internal disorders that
might result fatally if they got into a
jam! I'm certainly glad it is all over,
as I was near to nervous prostration.”
The ex-usher admitted that he was
on the point of quitting his place many
times, but he feared to weaken and
have to stand the jeers of his wife and |
his relatives.
Tommy Atkins as Linguist.
Even here his ingenuity comes to his
aid. Who but he could have translated
“Your cow has broken loose” by the
short but quite easily comprehended
phrase, “Madame, lait promenade?”
Two men were billeted on a farmhouse
where there was a good deal of poul-
try. Naturally, they wanted to have
a chicken for their dinner, but their
vocabulary was limited, and the
French word for “chicken” wasn’t in |
it. After deep consideration one of !
them had an inspiration. Taking an |
egg he said to the good woman of the |
house: “Oofs mamma.” It was thor- |
oughly understood, and they dined |
well. One could go on forever on this
subject, but I cannot miss this. A‘!
soldier had successfully wooed a
French girl, and asked the chaplain to
perform the marriage ceremony.
“What's her religion?” “Oh, that’s all
right, sir,” said the man, whose French
ran only to “Bon-jour” and “Napoo;”’
“I’ve converted her.,”—London Morning
Post.
Altogether Too Late.
Dr. George H. Ferris, the beloved
pastor of the First Baptist church,
whose resignation because of illness is
widely deplored, told me a good one
of a “panhandler” who came to him
one day in quest of the wherewithal.
“As he fumbled his hat af the thresh-
old,” said the doctor, “I asked him—
rather brusquely, I fear—what he
wanted. 4
“Doctor,” he anwered, ‘to be perfect-
ly frank with you, I'm looking for a
little financial succor.’
“ ‘Then you should have come to me
when I first entered the ministry,’ I
answered.”
Doctor Ferris’ congregation, by the
way, has given 23 of its members to
war service. Can any other Philadel-
phia church show a larger “honor
roll?” I should be glad to hear.—
Philadelphia Ledger.
Whale Ship Earns $342,000.
The whaling brig Viola of New Bed-
ford arrived at an Atlantic port re-
cently after a ten months’ voyage with
a cargo valued at $72,000. The most
valuable part of this cargo was a lump
of ambergris which weighed 121
pounds and said to be worth $37,000.
Old Down East whalemen say that
the Viola, which is a small vessel of
only 139 tons, is one of the luckiest
whale hunters that ever sailed the
seas. She is only seven yéars old but
in that time has made four voyages in
which she has taken oil and ambergris
{ how fast he wants it to go.
worth about $342,000.
When They March Into Battle.
The actual organization of a march
is perhaps one of the most interesting
things of all, writes Gerald Mygatt in
Leslie’s. A commander may have
many thousand troops, say a division,
or even more, encamped over miles of
country, possibly 15 or 20 miles.
There’ll be infantry and cavalry and
artillery and engineers and signal
troops, all with their wagon trains for
combat and supply. The commander
decides to advance on the morrow to a
certain place. Perhaps there are two
roads that lead there. Now the com-
mander becomes a glorified train dis- |
patcher. He has to prepare a com-
plete schedule (called the march or-
der) covering every unit of the
troops in his jurisdiction. He has to
tell each body exactly when and
where to take the road, sending each
to the most convenient point. He has
to see that every unit dovetails per-
fectly_ into every other unit. He has
to start them to the minute, in order,
let us say, that the Ninety-eighth In-
fantry may get to Jones’ Crossroads
just in time to fall in behind the For-
-ty-third Infantry, and to have his
last company out of the way and on
the road before the head of the Sev-
enty-sixth Artillery comes up. It is!
a task that requires precision, quick
thinking and far-sightedness. There
must be no jamming, no hurrying up
(because that tires the men), no de-
lays (because that “irritates them)
and no confusion. |
And not only that, but he must tell
every organization just how far it is
going, just when it is expected to ar-
rive, and just what it is expected to
do when it does arrive, as far as he
can foresee. The head of the column
regulates the march; every unit,
every man in the rear takes the gait
from the leaders; and the command-
er must tell the leading unit exactly
In cool
weather and over good roads the rate
i of march may be increased; in hot
weather and with poor roads in pros-
| pect the commander may order a
| very slow march, with halts, perhaps,
' every half hour instead of every hour.
At 7 o'clock in the morning, we’ll
! man.’
say, the whole column will be on the
road (or on two parallel roads if they
exist) and moving. Each commander
all the way down the line is told that
at 7:45 sharp, he will halt for fifteen
minutes. All watches have been syn-
chronized. At 7:45, therefore, on the
dot, the whole column stops and rests.
There is no jamming up, no confu- |
sion. No matter if the column is 20
miles long, it stops as if it were a
train of cars, all at once. At 7:59 all
the men and animals are back in
in their places, ready. At exactly 8
o'clock the command “Forward,
march!” is given by every captain in |
the whole line. At 8:50 the column |
halts again. And so it goes. i
It all comes down te the individu- |
al. One man can disorganize a!
squad; one squad can disorganize a;
company. It may be a case of elon- |
gation. It may be a case of not hold- |
ing the pace, of marching too fast or |
too slowly, of crowding up or drag- |
ging back. One company will disor- |
ganize a battalion, a battalion will |
disorganize a whole regiment—and
before long a whole brigade is tying |
itself in knots all along the road. i
So, perhaps, the importance of |
proper marching will begin to make |
itself clear. The army gives most of !
its attention to it. Every man is
taught that unless he is actually sick :
he must stay in place, keep his dis- |
tance, watch his feet for blisters— |
and, if the spirit moves him, to sing.
sing, sing!
Pennsylvania Guardsmen May Lead
in Battle.
The first National Guard division to
fight in France will be the Pennsylva-
nia division, now designated the
Twenty-eighth Army Division, accord-
ing to opinions expressed by officers
on the staff of Major General Charles
M. Clement in division headquarters
when it was learned that the New
York National Guard division was se-
riously handicapped by the deep mud
which has remained for weeks at that
division camp in Spartanburg, S. C.
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