0 DA UPHIN FLYER PASSES HIS FINAL TESTS PLA CE'SOM W WALTER J. SHAFFER In His New French Uniform As a Flyer of France Sergeant Ernest E. Shaffer, son of; Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Shaffer, of s Dauphin, and brother of Walter J.I Shatter, whose letters from the Frelfch flying: schools have been l'ol- i £ lowed by thousands in the Harris- j burg Telegraph, is rapidly recovering! from pneumonia at his home. He was given a furlough to recuperate. Ser jeant Shaffer is stationed at the Army service school, I "at Fort Leaven worth, Kan. He enlisted In May in the Signal Corps. Walter Shaffer has passed his ex- i animations ami now is accounted ai tull-flledged flyer in the French! army. His latest letter home follows: j Somewhere in France, Nov. 29, 1917. j Dear Mother:— i don't know whether that is the date or not, but 1 do know this is Thanksgiving Day. You can be quite sure my mouth is watering for the good things I know you have pre pared, meanwhile I can be thankful lor a candle to write by, lor am 1 bunked IN a II yloil now, WMK N is tome worse than Avord. There I slept in a manger. Here it's the hay- i loft. Didn't 1 always maintain Ij would go up in the world? I'm not crazy to go higher, although 1 did get some such notion the other night when I rose up in the night to hunt] another blanket and like to knock a I dozen shingles off the roof as my bead came in contact with the eaves.! Yes indeed, 'tis a great life, but I ! nidn't tell you about leaving i*au. They gave me a machine to playj around with for an hour or so thei clay before I left. Straight flying j was not any fun anymore, so I prac ticed the retoumement, the vertical' turn and only having had one vrllle,l tried another on my own hook. Like i to break my fool neck at that—be cause she wouldn't come out of it.) However. I had started it at l.Otlu. > meters, stood her up on her tail until! she lost all her speed and then over: j'.na down we came spinning like al top. Kept my eye on the altimeter itiul when she bad spun down to 600 meters I judged it was time to come out. But I must have done some thing wrong because instead of J traightening out like a good plane should she began spinning tin other! way, with the result—that when ll did come out I was 300 meters high. I Not All a Picnic Tlie next day we were on the! bulletin board to leave. They gave; i's a' complete outfit of clothing and : anions other things, two pairs of; shoes, neckties, bellyband and an j automatic revolver, with 50 car- ; I ridges. Even gave us two handker-I chiefs, which were so big 1 thought j they were towels. One would think ! 1 had outgrown bellybands, but 1 1 took it along nevertheless. As for j the automatic it served to impress : upon me lhe fact that this was not all a picnic and made war seem a little ) cioser than a vague something In the future. Indeed, noticing the effi cient way in which we were trained in this school, one could not help I but admire the officials in charge for I the student was led to the final diffi- : cult acrobatics by such easy stages I that he hardly realized it. Even at that, many were killed j during the leading up process. In- I deed I was glad when I was through, j for every once in a while a wing came off and one more pilot was i finished. Whether this was the pilot's j fault or weak construction of the ' plane was sometimes a question. The | plane was generally given the benefit ; of the doubt though, and the pilot blamed. | These accidental deaths never af- j feeted me until I heard of an Am- I erican being killed just lately. Then I I realized that even an Ajnerican j g could "get it." It was always a P Frenchman before, you know. 1 I knew this American very well, too, | and a finer fellow never lived. Am quite near the front as I told j you and many are the stories one I hears of pilots being sent up in a' plane to "tour de piste." getting lost, I and unknowingly flying into the 1 battle zone, coming back with holes I in their planes. You can bet I i learned the direction of the front I right quick, not that I am afraid of I getting near it, but I wish a gun or I my plane when that time comes, | thank you. A "Beauty" Here I had my first look at a! "Spad," that little fast fighting plane | of the French. Gee! But it's a! beauty! And tiny as a mosquito and ; as sturdy looking as a horse. This - is the type plane I am here to learn 1 lo flv. as we Americans are all sun- ' posed to fly these. I look back with i amusement on the days when I first 1 reached Avord, and sitting atop a I dirt pile, watched an 18 m. Nieuport' come hurtling down to earth, and j gracpfi'Uv settle on the irround with j wondering eyes. As for the man who piloted it, he seemed like a God, a superman, in my eyes, and yet I l have flown the same plane two sizes smaller and think nothing wonder fill about it. .Even the fact that T li:*va done acrobatics (with a 13 m. Nieuport) that people in America have i"'er oven *ieard of. let alone seen, does not seem out of the ordl- | nary. Probably this was due to the: way such things were regarded. Everyone else tried them, the moni teurs expected results, and a man' hates to be outdone or admit he isi scared. Many a Frenchman was! kl""' 1 nt Pnn because h woubl not.' admit his fear and when he got I and his fear mastered him then j ■H t was we had another "finished" pilot; for those were the boys that! "got It" as a rule. When I finished Candran, I was jußt beginning to get the hang of the thing, but was still groping around in the dark about numberless things that only an aviator runs up against and wants explained. "Well,'', he thinks, "I'll understand it when I fly Nieuport, and then comes the Nieu- ' FRIDAY EVENING, v "v m I WL m.. ggfpp ""S&v i - I w jm I mL fl iHI ? H .■ 2S(gs SERGEANT E. E. SHAFFER Who is Home From Fort Leaven worth to Recuperate From Pneumonia. port plane, so entirely different from a Candron that one must needs learn all over again. So we blunder along through the different types and sizes of Nieuports, and by the time we hit Fan we are just getting a dim idea of that neat flyer, and then the Pan officials get us, and its rush, rush, with a new stuWt every day, some times more. I'll never fprget com ing in on the train with the rain coming down in torrents and seeing a Nieuport racing along ahead of us 50 meters high. "Gee whiz!" We wondered, "what! kind of a school is this where we fly; in such weather." We were lucky I though, for the day before one of the fellows came to the school via auto-' mvbile and just as he passed the I acrobatic field down came a French- 1 man in a "vrille" and smashed all to I pieces with not enough left of the! pilot to put in a bag. I say I was! lucky and I think yon will agree with 1 me, for this sight sure shook that | young spectator's nerve for a minute, i We sure ate at some classy place j at Bordeaux. Imagine walking in at swell restaurant with Poilu coats onj and carrying our knupsacks with us. The place seemed to be filled with' nothing but generals with women ga-1 lore all dolled up in glad rags and! paint—mostly the latter. Didn't faze ' we two Americans though, but we re- ' fused the waiter's offer to put us on i exhibition at a center table and held a straight course for a corner. Never I have I eaten a better meal, and won der of wonders, saw my first white I bread in four months. 1 thoitgnt it was angel food when I first beheld it so white and spongy did it look. I elected myself an angel right away and partook heartily, but the wait-1 ress was careful not to let the bread i basket sit there too long, probably! realizing we had just come from the trenches. This last ink scrawl is being writ ten the day after Thanksgiving. This morning had two rides on a 15 m. 120 H. P. Nieuport. This is to get one accustomed to high powered Kel,neay ' s IX[XI\T\TH T\ V* O Kennedy's IV £ININE I) 1 J Specials DeVilbiss—No. 16 $1;29 A 1 A M * JM L • oil n nr n , DeViibiss—No. 28 890 lb. Box Wallaces The Atlas—No. II:::::: ill] CUT RATE MEDICINES AND RUBBER GOODS Assorted Chocolates I TTJ S " ,Y " - SATIIPDA V SPECIALS 98c Patent Medicines si. oo 75c RnliKar 3100 slo ° Toilet Department! 50c Usoline 340 Nuxated Jads MX. 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Colgate Talcum 150 I I 50c Horlick's Lunch Tablets .. 37f _ ___ ' tam S y nn S e ' Saturday .. $1.79 /5,c 67c Johnson's Baby Powder .... 130 1 • ■ L——l—— Kalpheno Tooth Powder .... 150 I KENNEDY'S 321 Market St motors and give one the feel of the! air. Yesterday a man was killed in I a Spad. This came about by the] pilot foolishly trying acrobatics near I the ground with the sad result. The j commander used it as the subject of i a litle lecture he gave us that after noon to the effect that any one caught doing acrobatics near the ground would, be given 8 days jail for the first offense and sent back to the trenches for the second. Con tinuing he grimly remarked that he didn't care about the fool pilot, but ho did care about the machine. Theyi are expensive. So no matter what happened to you, save the machine, was the way an American summed it up. Time for class. Hope to fly a Spad this afternoon. WALTER. Somewhere in France. Dear Mother:— You would laugh aplenty If you could see us—for we are two now— the way we # are decked out to write letters. One" would say ofEhand at the first look that we were prepared for a polar expedition, and not a worry chasing one, for I feel quite sure a letter from me does chase such little things. We are all dressed up In our fur-lined combination suits and foot-warmers which were not given to us to write letters with, but to warm us while flying at high alti tudes. Another thing that won't seem so strange is the fact that four different kinds of candy surround us —and they are going down fast. You see, my roommate received his back pay as a corporal to-day, which amounted to the enormous sum of $3.00 and having been out of funds for so long it went to his head. He went on a spree right away. Not a drinking one. you understand, but a| candy one. for he has as sweet a tooth as mine. The sad part of it was that only six little slabs of) chocolate were allowed each of us, and that only made us hungry, so live minutes later 1 was back with j a different hat, and minus my fur coat, for another crack at the choco lates. Six more small chunks was all I could buy, however, so filled up on gumdrops—sounds like we are real Eskimos now don't it. They were chewing than filling and I can well j understand why there was no limit j on their sale, and why the Eskimos | love them so well. They would keep i him so busy chewing, or digging a j stray chunk out of a cracked tooth! that he would never notice a wet foot or his six months' long day. l Yes, if your little boy is not sick to-! morrow, it won't be his fault. I've j eaten enough gumdrops already fo j swamp an Eskimo. Danger on the Ground They have a smail tent propped up < in the middle of the Held where the pilots get some protection from the wintry blasts—but none from air-, planes. Every now and then, you, know, some chump misjudges his! landing place and comes down head- i ed straight for the tent. Then the loud yell. "Attention" goes up and the tent flap begins spitting forth oc-J cupants like a theater on lire. It's' exceedingly amusing to watch, but! not to be in. 1 was one of the occu pants one day and for a quick exit 1 have yet to set- it equaled., Arter] that I braved the elements—there j was more to interest one outside any-1 way. I thought a Nieuport landed I fast, but you should see one of these Spads come down, or rather, you | should be in one. Boy, you sure do; make time! I thought 1 was aboard j a bullet when 1 leveled out several feet above the ground and watched ' it speed apast. Thought I would never stop, but finally did. So far have had four rides in a Spad, and am beginning to like them. There are so many things to re member in driving them as one has 3 or 4 dials to watch, not forgetting as many more little levers. The man Was right who said that one had to HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH I THE INCOME TAX AND THE INDIVIDUAL BY I. A. FLEMING WASHINGTON, D. C. ARTICLE NO. 3 It is within the probabilities that Congress, soon after the holiday re cess, will repeal that section of the law which makes senators, represent atives. judges of the Federal courts and even the President now in office exempt from the income tax, in which event they would come under the law which imposes a plain 8 per cent, on all incomes in excess of $6,000 under the excess profits section of the law which places tills tax on incomes derived from professions, etc., where there is no invested cap ital. In fact, the House has repealed the section. A decision has also been made re cently that is vyy likely to be ap pealed in the immediate future by Commissioner Roper of the Internal Revenue Bureau, Under the law it is impossible for a trader in stocks or grain to take deduction for losses on incompleted transactions, and also the law plainly says that losses can not be deducted to a greater amount than the profits. A recent Treasury decision gives "dealers" the right to make deduc tions on uncompleted trades. This would be a great loss to the Govern ment if not revoked, and a great sav use a thermometer every time he look a nose dive, for so you do—but this letter won't get through if I go into details too much about the Spad. Suffice it to say that I have flown just enough in it to realize what I don't know, which is quite a lot. There are no altimeters on thess planes which we train on here, and j my roommate went up in one to-1 day Vith even the revolution indica- | I tor missing. Kirst thing we know j j they will send us up without an en- j ; giue! All this is no doubt done to; get us accustomed to judging dis- i | lances by eye and not instruments,! I and engine by ear. The theory is| S good, but a little hard on a guy who j ! don't guess right, or has a bad ear j j for engines. That, however, is all in j 1 the game, for its a game of chance; : all the way through which only; makes it more interesting and causes \ one to use all his wits to beat it. i i The mechanics add quite a few feat i ures, all their own, once in a while, | , for they think nothing of a busted I ! belt. The lirst ride I had In a Spad j was without a safety belt, but I was j so anxious to ride I had no kick ! coming. ; "Hang the belt," was the way one j ; looked at it. "We'll make a good j landing." And so we did, but I'll I ; admit I nearly had heart failure as the engine began missing when 1 was! j right over a clump of telegraph; i wires. Every time that engine missed j I a beat ray heart did also, for one j sure is "out of luck" if his engine® i dies and an aviator fears nothing j ! more than that. It's awfully nice j jand warm riding in these Spads | though, and the seat sure is cozy, in i | fact, more comfortable than any I chair you have at home, which you j will admit is going some. I'm not i knocking the furniture, although I j do knock wood when my head swells too much—you understand, but just trying to exnlain that you can't beat j it for comfort. It's bedtime now—B p. m. —so will j ohave to quit. WALTER. I ing to taxpayers, its recall is b lieved to be a matter of a few day Kntlllfd to $2,040 Kxemptlon A single person, the head of a fam ily, is entitles to $2,000 exemption. A Treasury dicision thus defines the term "head of a family" used in the sense indicated—"a person who ac tually supports one or more individ uals connected with him or her by blood relationship, relationship by marriage or adoption, or whose rela tion is based on some moral or legal obligation." It is sufficiently plain and the reader may understand his rights in the matter. That one is not a citizen does not relieve him from the obligation of til ing an income tax schedule—indeed, tlu> tax is more burdensome on aliens than on citizens. 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