j Letters From the Front TELLS OF FIRST PRACTICE AIR FLIGHTS IN FRANCE Two more letters from Walter J. Shaffer, a Dauphin boy being instructed in the art of flying at Tours, France, have been received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shaffer. He tells of the first thrilling practice flights. His descriptions of "daylight spooning,"' a common occurrence in I'ranee and the way they fish for sardines without bait arc amusing. His experiences in barter and trade with the natives are instructive as they are the same boys here will meet when they go across. The letters in part follow: Saturday, Sept. 1, 191", Tours. France. Dear Mother: As I have often re marked in the past, flying is a slow game and It sure is proving so here, for between the weather and the French authorities my patience is be ing tried to the utmost. "Six days shalt thou work and do all thy work," saieth the Good Book, but six days have I loafed and done no work and now it's the seventh day (since I arrived) and it's still raining. If I didn't hear the result of the "Tower of Babel" on all sides of me I would be tempted to think I was back in Washington state where I resided during the rainy season and nearly grew web fat. Fact is. if you saw these shoes they dole out to one you might even think I ad grown web feet, for they are very wide, the Pennsylvania Dutchman's cowhide boot having nothing on them for looks. Tops Wear Out First As a means for locomotion in water they would not be very suc cessful, being studded with steel hob nails on the soles and heels. This in sures wonderful wearing qualities and -prevents the formation of a shoemakers' union, since they never need half-soling, and one wears his ankle out before the tops go. With the fleas I have not been bothered by any manner of vermin since I came to France, unless one excepts several fleas who insisted on taking a promenade down my arm. Incidentally they, discovered what it was to meet an irresisible body and how quick the law of gravitation works. Indeed, men all around me have been bothered with all kinds of insects, which had wings, but flew not, but it seems the "something" about me that the bees loved so well in days of yore and stone bruises has kept has Immune from bedbugs, etc. Daylight Spooning The parks here appear to one made for spooning purposes only. I ought to know. I saw enough of It done. What mattered it to them that the sun was shining, people were looking and the log was damp? Such trifles never busted love's young dream in France. As for the beauti ful women I have read so much about, I have yet to see them. There doesn't seem to be no such animal. I don't know where I got big Ideas of France's beautiful daughter, un less it has been perusing the "La Parisienne," which certainly illus- I J.S.Belsin^er] j 212 Locust St. New Location ■ I Optometrists Opticians A Eyes Examined (No Drops) S Rclsingcr Glasses as low as $2. ™ dL M ■ I . CONSULT US TO-DAY, TO MORROW IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO SAVE THE TOOTH GOLD CROWNS AND BRIDGE WORK, SJ and Fillings from 50c BELL DENTAL PARLORS 10 N. Market Square " To the Editor of the Telegraph— * Enclose find to buy of tobacco, I through "Our- Boys In France Tobacco Ftmd" for American fight tng men In France. I | I understand that each dollar buys four packages, each with i a retail value of forty-Ove cents and that In each of my packages , i will be placed a postcard, addressed to me, on which my un ! I . known friend, the to'idier, will agree to send me a message of ' * thanks. | Name . ,r. . i • ' AdQTM* Street 1 , ' Cltj- '' ' , f To Fill That ! Coupon Is to Fill a Human Need Here's a chance for you men and women of Harrisburg to show your humanity. The men who are fighting your battles over there | in France need tobacco. In the grim black hours when men's spirits are lowest tobacco has always proved to be a very real I folace. ■ HARRISBTJRG qfljjiftt TELEGRAPH ' CAMPAIGN FOR 1 "Our Boys In France \ Tobacco Fund" I will see to it that every one of Uncle Sam's soldiers gets all the tobacco he wants. Every cent you give goes to tobacco —salaries, advertising, distribution costs have all been contributed. J • So fill that coupon new and send along your contribution for humanity's sake. i 5 Eh W'"* l VI" " VI/HH r TUESDAY EVENING, trates beautiful women to a fare-u --well—only In a somewhat naughty way. (I often wish I could read the doggone stuff.) 1 have not lost my knack of close observation of the feminine sex, hut the pretty ladles must have all been at the seashore when I was In Paris, because I saw nary a one. Really, I was much surprised, and I am still wondering where the painters get their models. Furthermore, those high-priced French heels worn and desired In the States are not worn here. Not because they can't afford them. The stores do not sell them. Have been in several cathedrals. Notre Dame among the most noted. It struck me as a very gloomy place. Also visited Napoleon's tomb. I have been pretty near cured of sightseeing among the show places of France, as the itching palm is very prevalent here. One of the things I enjoy here is watching the great Parisian sport —catching sardines in the Seine without bait on the hook. Am glad to hear you are sending a box of eats. They will be very welcome, but I fear there will be little left of the box by the time it arrives. You know I have seen the. French baggage smashers at work. They can show the American some thing in roughness, especially In un loading a ship. Baggage is shot down a chute to the dock below. If a suit case or package sticks, they get it under way again by shooting a trunk at it. The way that baggage hits the cobblestone dock is a crime. Am now studying a French con versational grammar whenever my studies permit. Yes, I said studies, and so they are. the hardest kind, too, because we have two lectures a day now, whether we fly or not. These lectures were not so hard to understand for awhile when the lec turer dealt in square feet and miles per hour in his calculations, but to day he changed his figures to meters and kilograms and kilometers and I sure got mixed up. I can see it's little Walter for the French table of weights and measures right quick. These lectures are to prepare us for the United States exams, in case we are transferred. T received your first letter yester day and it was very welcome. I was beginning to think a submarine had got It. Have not received anv of the packages you sent, but am still hoping. WALTER. Tuesday, Sept. 4, 1917. Tours. France. Dear Mother: Here I am again but don't expect so much this time. You might be disappointed because this cold of mine is as bad as ever and | sure makes me feel fierce. I tried the sun, vaseline and saltwater cure, all j to no advantage. The vaseline stop ped up my head the more, the salt water opened it up the more, and the sun peeled the skin oft my nose. Wire Buttons On The fact of the matter is I should ibe sewing a button on my leather breeches instead of ruining good ; paper with this scrawl, but I'm really | too lazy. Anyway, I've sewed the ! darn thing on three times already and If it comes off again I'll wire it on. Meanwhile the nearest button is I doing double duty. Sure, I wear sus -1 penders now which is a pretty sure sign of advancing age. Still I am not I getting baldheaded, at least I think I'm not —wait until I look—which is j a sure sign my brain power is not ! increasing any either, j Walked out on the flying field to [ day and lounged down in the sun | and grass to read some letters and I endeavor to sleep. Got away with the first but sleep was Impossible. The sun was too hot and I soon discov- ered that there Were more cactus plants than flowers among; the clovei - . I didn't stop to Investigate any more of the vegetable kingdom as I sud denly remembered that I had not written home for three days. X am sure you will excuse me because a busier boy you never saw or heard of than I for the last three days. The rainy and windy weather finally dc- | cided to break on Sunday and we got ( right down to business. Lands With Motor Dead Last Saturday morning we looked for clear weather, but' despite the fact that the sun went down red in the west, the dawn broke foggy, so foggy, indeed, that an expert pilot who goes aloft' every day to test weather conditions, and Incidentally shows us that an airplane can be landed with a dead motor, nearly ran into a hangar, because he had to fly at at low altitude. Fog soon cleared off though, but authorities decided it was not safe for pupils, and laid off the rest of the day to pay us off. I ordered a uniform in Tours the other day. That trip was indeed very amusing since I had nothing to wear hut my Poilu uniform which makes me look more like a clown than a soldier. For company and to serve as interpreter, one of the kindhearted "Legion" boys offered to go along with me. As luck would have it he dressed in an American uniform which he had brought from the States. So there you were, the lowest and the highest rank of soldier known, because a Poilu is the low est in rank in the military world, while an American, no matter how low his rank, is a God In the French people's eyes. What the Frenchmen we passed could not understand was the white collar and passionate tie I was wearing and why my shoes, which were pinching my feet at every toe, fit so snugly. This did not seem to fit in with their idea of a Poilu, which did not worry me a whole lot. I'll admit, that I saw several pretty i girls in Tours, and many were the glances turned our way, wnia bo'd and othen? inviting. I amused my comrade by saying that I drew the interest with my "getup" and he held i it with his uniform because I am far from an Apollo, and he looks worse, even dressed up. Being dressed in a Poilu uniform I knew that certain things were expected of me. especial ly in the way of saluting, so I asked my companion who knew something of military etiquette, to put me wise as to who to salute and who not to, because If not I would be quite liable ito salute every soldier that came along to make sure 1 made no mis take. He sure did his duty well, I'll say that much, not only did he tell me whom to salute, but he would Insist on walkin" across the street so we could pass another officer he had spied and give me some more practice coming to attention. I as sure you, he had my arm working like a wooden soldier on a string. Surely the information received was as beneficial as the exercise. It's a good thing I had an interpreter along, because the way that tailor spouted French was. a sin. Had a gos sipy woman beat all hollow! Just the same, it cost me about twenty extra francs for being an American. Kven my Poilu suit could not hide that. It is remarkable though, how the children run up to an American soldier, want to shake his hand, ex claiming meanwhile, "Oh! America! Bon jour! So it happened with my companion the whole way home. Kids flocked from all directions and insisted on shaking hands with him, i while as for me, that same puzzled, | questioning look shone in their eyes, which amused more than embar rassed me because I have no doubt they were wondering where I got that tie, why I was walking with a seemingly American soldier and probably wishing to yell, "Where did you get that hat." Got to camp foot sore and weary, also some hungry. Several Flights You remember that big fellow you saw In the steamship office that I told you did not pass? Well, he finally got in the American Aviation Corps and arrived here yesterday. Have been up in the air several times in the last few days and the monl teur says I am improving. I did not believe him until last night when we were riding along with wheatflelds, chateaus and cattle flying past be neath us, and I looked around from my position in the front seat to see him lounging in the back seat with his head leaning on his hand, and then when I smiled at his nonchalant pose, and still held the machine to her course, he clapped his hands in admiration of my skill, which was not much, as this type of machine (Candron) will fly itself. So long, WALTER. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH! THE TRUTH ABOUT GERMANY By MARIE BONINI BROWN Pole in Conquered City Angered at Ger man Rule Young Men of Warsaw Sent Into German Army Austrians Resent the Kaiser's Methods (CONCLUSION) l I The only city X visited while in Europe, that had belonged to an- j other country and had been occupied) i by the Germans, was Warsaw, Po-. land. I found there a greatly disillusion ed people. "Where is the \ r-, Polish king the tieruians p romlseil "Where is our freedom?" ■v?, i 7 "Where are .h© WQhPII Y better conditions "i&'.'X we were to have And they still SKM"} *' jfcS were asking that; when 1 left. I wasj MMmmmrf' ln Warsaw two \'/ y'SP w eeks, visiting a! Polish girl friend of mine. Everybody there was thoroughly disgusted with German rule, und i they had had it only a short time, i i "Bad as the Russian rule was," ' they said, "at least we did not ex-! pect anything better from the Tsar. | But we relied on German promises. The Russiqgis at least let us speak our own language, read our own books." When the Germans occupied War saw, they forbade any person to speak the Polish language. Every body had to speak German and those who did not know It had to learn it. Children and aged people were not excepted. Every Polish book was confiscat ed. Even the Bible had to be in Ger man. The people had to pray in German, "It almost seems like praying to a strange God," the woman said at whose house I stayed, ami she cried. I don't want to tell their name, as they still are there and 1 am afraid trouble might be made for them. I know the German way of finding people and, even here, in free United States, I can feel the fear of the Get - i inan militarism. High Cost of Living The cost of living was terribly hish in Warsaw, although they had far, more to eat there than ln Germany. It was In Warsaw that I paid sll for a pair of satin shoes. The only food cards issued in War saw when I was there were for po tatoes and bread. Other things you could h"; as you wished. But no person was permitted to send anything into Germany—that is, no person but German soldiers. The German officers bought up great quantities of food, articles of dress and other things and sent them to their wives and families in Ger many. But the woman with whom I stayed had another daughter in Germany, and she was not permitted to send her anything at all. In Warsaw, the Germans did not live in the houses of the conquered Poles, but in hotels. The worst evidence of German oc cupancy I saw there was the sending of young Poles to tho German army. oil would be talking to a man one day, and tlial evening he would dis appear. You never would hear of him again. One family I knew had two sons, the elder a violinist, the younger a student. One day the student dis appeared. A long time afterward, i the father received a letter, written j on rough wrapping paper. "I am, safe," the letter said, "but don't try 1 to answer this or find out where 11 am. And don't tell any person you | got this." Poles Bitterly Disappointed Before the Germans to War saw, the Poles had high hopes that, ; at last, things would be better for! them under German rule. They had j suffered so greatly through Russian l misrule that they looked to the Ger-! mans for relief. But they found out their mistake. One of the hardest things for them | to endure was having their Polish j books taken away. The Poles are a highly educated people, especially! the women. And the women ire! beautiful and well formed, with thu 1 daintiest, tiniest hands and feet. I To realize what the Poles endured.! let an American imagine what 't would be like for a conquering eno- I my to walk into his home to-morrow, take away every English book, and : command that hereafter no English | word must be spoken or read or even i prayed. The Germans made the Poles ac cept the German money and stamps, j as well. The Poles want a ruler of their 1 own, and the privilege of speaking their own language, of receiving an ! education openly and of cultivating their country. They would be will- 1 ing to have another country rnie them if that must be, but they want/ that country to remain at a distance. They are almost despairing now of things ever being any better for them. The Poles now must report to the police just as any alien must in Ger many. They are under the? same re strictions as an enemy resident. A Trip to I'otsdam Another interesting trip I took (this of course all was before the Unite' l states entered the war), was i near Potsdam. One of the palaces of the Emperor is at Potsdam. Of course, even then I was not allowed in Potsdam itself, but X went past there. X could see the famous old mill there, about which so much has been written. This mill belongs to a farmer who owns his own 'arm. Its sorKpfh*n', r annoyed the Kaiser who ruled be fore the present Emperor and he or dered the man to take the mill down, or remove it. Strangely, the man had some independence about hlin and he said the mill was his means of livelihood and he would not re move it. The Kaiser took the cas* to law, and lost. The mill still stands. Potsdam is the "breeding-place" of the Zeppelins. I caught a glimpse of the great buildings which house these enormous dlrißibles. They seemed to be miles long. You don't liear much talk in Oor mnny of Zeppelins now. They have been rather a failure. They often fly over Berlin and I tlilnk they are try ing to perfect tliera *to make tlicm more effective, hut no person talks much about them. All the German faitli Is pinned to the submarine. The common people In Germany seem to tlilnk that the submarine Is some sort of an actually Invincible Invention which has supernatural qualities. They credit It with the most mar velous fpflts. \nd the rjo-mnn rulers encournite this way of thinking, for they want 'he people to think that C 7 - r .ri'mp 1 " i*~/^nt ed. That is why I think and say., that it th® rel news of what is j going on could be given to the Ger man people, it would make a dif ference in this war. If they could get American newspapers for one week, I am sure that they would waken up. deep-rooted as their be lief Is in the supreme might of the Kaiser. DUlu't Hoar of Outrages Tt was not until I got back in America that I heard that marvelous story of how the French and British airplanes flew over the German lines and dropped the exact text of Presi dent Wilson's speech by the million to the German soldiers In the trenches. That was a wonderful thing to do. But, you see, the officers would get HKI.I, 1001—2358 UMTKI) HARRISBURG, TUESDAY, OCTOBKR 2, 1017. 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We need the room, hence these special prices— Size 3x6 ft., at ....... $5.00 Size 2.3x9 ft., at $5.00 Size 3x9 ft., at $5.00 Size 6x9 ft., at $12.50 Size 8.3x10.0 ft., at ... SIB.OO Size 9x12 ft., at $21.00 BOWMAN'S—Fourth Floor , hold of them, and the number of men who would be permitted to read them or get an opportunity to do so, would be few. And any soldier who would try to spread sedition would be promptly shot. We never can hope for help from the Herman people, to end tho war, In my own opinion. So far as I can see. the only thing to be done Is to crush the Kaiser's power and then show the German common people what liberty and freedom means. And that should be done soon. When I realize how poorly the ordi nary German citizens live, I get weak when I think of the thousands of war prisoners and of the people in the territory occupied by tho Ger man fighting- forces. We should hur ry, or there won't be many of them to save. This much I must say, during the time I was in Germany, of course, 1 never heard of the terrible outrages committed by the German soldiers. Neither did I hear of anything of this sort in Warsaw. I don't think f.lie German people have any inkling -of what their sol diers have been compelled to do by their rulers. Austrians Resentful The Austrians are becoming very resentful at Germany's attitude re garding their part in the war. When the war bqgan, all German reports of battles included mention of the' Austrian armies. "Germany and Austria" was said as often as "Germany" atone. 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One of 1 the men was a baron, a man who j has traveled all over the world and i is conversant with world conditions, i The other man was an Austrian con nected with the Austrian embassy in ; Berlin. Treated as Aliens ! The* Austrians living in Berlin ' have to report to the police when \ going from city to city, almost as ; aliens do. It seemed strange to me ! that any restrictions would be put j on them, but they are. (- The Austrians were not ln favor of | Germany permitting dlnlomatlc rcla- I tions to be broken off with Amer j ica. I heard many officers say that Germany was "crazy" to allow this. The Austrians are not conducting so i ruthless a war as are the Germans, j I heard many Germans, both men I and women, say how "weak" the I Austrian soldiers are. i The Germans say the Austrian sol ] diers baik at the things the German soldiers do. The Germans say that Austria would have been beaten long I ago had it not been for the Kaiser'* 1 iron will. (THE END) (Copyright, 1917, by Pittsburgh Press) Gypsy Band to 'Leave town Forthwith and Never Return' Mount Joy, Pa.. Oct. 2.—A band of gypsies vlsltod Quarryvllle on Sat urday and are said to have picked the nockets of Hayes and William Edwards. This so enraged tho citi zens that Constable Franklin Rlneer arrested the whole bunch and took them before Justice of the Peace Collins. They were left go with the promise to "leave the town forth with and to never return." ADKI.E t'ANKHURST A BRIDE London, Oct. 2. Tho marriage Sunday of Adele Pankhurst, daughter of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst. the Eng lish suffrage leader, to a seaman nam ed Walsh, Is reported ln a Reuter dis patch front Melbourne. TO RELIEVE CATARRHAL DEAFNESS AND HEAD NOISES ■lf you have Catarrhal Deafness or head noises go to your druggist and get 1 ounce of Parmint (double strength), and add to it Vi pint of hot water and 4 ounces of granulated sugar. Take one tablespoonful four times a day. This will often bring quick relief from the distressing head noises. Clogged nostrils should open, breath ing become easy and the mucus stop dropping into the throat. It is easy to prepare, costs little and is pleasant to take. Any one who has Catarrhal Deafness or head noises Bhould give this prescription a trial.—Adv. 3
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