FLYING WITH SHAFFER
A GREAT GAME
BETTERS FROM A DAUPHIN COUNTY BOY TO HIS MOTHER
Somewhere in France. I
Jan. 11. 1918. |
Dear Mother:
Someone beat you to it with the:
Christmas present, as my friends in
New York sent me a fountain pen)
and a diary, both wonderful and |
useful gifts and the latter the most
fully equipped book of its kind, j
From my short glimpse through it.)
I noticed it contained r.bout all the j
varied information one wished to ;
know—except how to talk French.:
That niay be in too, so I'll look
again. You see the package only?
arrived this evening and 1 am writ- j
ing this letter with the pen. Some
pen. I'll say! And what was more 1
thoughtful of them, the pen was
filled, ready for use. Naturally 1
went right to it.
It does seem that only packages!
from strangers reach me, and for
the irony of fate it can't be beat,
for none of your Christmas presents;
have showed up as yet. The package
I spoke of came from the fellows in
the office where I worked in New |
York. I have kept in touch with
them once in a while, "hey seem
to be proud of the fact I once work
ed with them and I assure you 1
im proud that I worked at one time
in the "Technical Press." The bad 1
weather still continues, it having i
rained to-day for a change. It)
snowed yesterday, yori know, andi
now we arc back where we began j
in the slush. The sad part of it is!
that no letters arrive—and surely:
YOU have written some. One gets'
tired of writing letters all the time ;
and never receiving any. I
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TUESDAY EVENING, HARRJSBURG TELEGRAPH MARCH 6, 1918.
I Yes, I still continue to hunt and
I chop wood, rain or shine, but got
i tired of trying to make the fire burn
to-day and went for a walk to "L
Epine" where I bought butter and
condensed milk and also this paper.
Their butter is something like their
! weather here —it gives me a pain;
for the butter sure is strong, tast
ing more like cheese than anything
1 know. Eating cheese is one habit
I have acquired 0% - er here, whether
; it's a bad one or not is a question.
In truth, it's bad smelling at times,
but since I neither go to dances or
\ to see girls, what does it matter?
| One of these days I'll go up after
j Boches after eating some of this par
ticularly evil-smelling stuff, get tip
close to one of them, blowing my
breath on him and just naturally
I ruin him. In fact. I doubt if these
French women would mind any
odors the way the male bird of this
species fumes himself up. You
! should see, or I should say smell,
one of them getting ready to go to
town. Instead of plastering his hair
flat with water he uses varied colors
of cologne. After that, one could
trail him anywhere without the aid
I of a dog, if the scent didn't get too
much for him. One fellow lost his
i handkerchief yesterday but had lit
( tie trouble in finding it. and he did
| n't use his eye either —the nose was
( sufficient.
Whew! Rain and Snow!
I have not made any good resn
: lutions for the new year, except to
resolve to always write 1018 instead
| of 1917, and up to date I have not
broken it.
j You can see lam all out of news,
j for nothing has befallen us but the
j rain and snow, and then along comes
a diary as a Christmas present. Tis
true I have oodles of time to write
but nothing of interest to write
i about, for I have not seen a Boche
| plane close enough to be sure? he
was German, so I can't very well
|.describe what a fearful sight it prob
j ably would be. I am not sure I
know where the "lines" are even, al
though I have gazed down many
times on them. About all I could
make out was a lot of wriggly ditches
which didn't seem to lead in any
direction, and worse yet. I don't
know which was French and which
1 was German. A nice state of af
< fairs indeed, for a warrior bold. eh'J
| But then we have so many things
i to watch and think about, what with
J watching what the leader is doing,
for this flying at the front seems to
|be a game of follow the leader
J "tojours," listening to one's motor.
! watching the compass to get the
j general direction, and also the map
jto see where one is. Reading that
i map w-as a slow process for me, as
: r only picked out one landmark
| about every two trips. These Nieu
i ports cover ground so fast that fly
i ing by map in one of them is not as
; easy as in a Camtron—and then, just
! about the time I was getting a line
!on a town and comparing a road
! and railroad to the one on my map.
i chunk of shrapnel would go off
j under or beside me. Right away
little Walter would lose all interest
Jin the scenery below him. and ap
ply himself most assiduously to
| dodging those little black puffs
j which appeared so rapidly. Of
j course, they were not dangerous for
! the cloud or puff don't appear until
j after they burst, but they give one
I an idea where the next one might
burst, and one acts accordingly.
Guessing in the Cloud* *
It's a great game of guesswork,
and although the boy behind that
gun is some guesser, I'm pretty fair
| myself, and besides, I get the last
guess. Anyway, I have the lay of
I the land pretty well now, since our
patrol lies between two large for
ests. and anytime I wish to start
for home, all I have to do is head
| into the sun. or if there is no sun,
1 fly due south by compass, and I
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A laxative to-day saves a sick child
I to-morrow. Children simply will not
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Look at the tongue, mother! If
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has full directions for babies, chil
dren of all ages and for grown-ups
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should hit near home somewhere.
'Tts very hard to read a map <sn the
ground, for the roads and railroads
are nearly invisible. I Anally gave
up hunting for them arid used the
rivers. These are quite easy to see
from any height, since thQ thick
growth of trees along their course
clearly outlines them. It was one
of these clearly defined lines 1
thought for several days were the
trenches, but I know better now, so
won't go shooting up any trees.
WALTER.
Somewhere in France,
January 12, 1918
Dear Mother:
Like a kid with a new toy, here,
I am at it again, for this sure is
some pen and besides its so com
fortable to sit here in a big arm chair
with one foot on a chair and the
other in the tire—that is necessary
for you know, since this doggone
fire only makes enough heat to keep
the chimney warm—and one don't
need to bother dipping in the ink
bottle every five seconds. The only
trouble with this pen is the ink j
which is about as near invisible as j
any 1 have ever seen. Just as soon j
as its empty, I'll get some of thisi
French stuff in, which is dark enough j
to read through the envelope. You|
remember that diary I told you |
about? Well, 1 discovered one page:
used for identification and I'll say i
they certainly did not forget any- j
thing. Not only my name but the
size of my collar, shirt, shoes, hos- j
iery, gloves, hat and even cuffs was:
deemed necessary. I did not till in !
the last two, since the hat size, is,
liable to change at a moment's no-!
tice, and as for cuffs, I never bought j
them that way, they always hooked |
onto the shirt. It's a wonder they j
forget the size of my garter or the
color scarf pin 1 wore. There was
even a Wank space for my motor- I
cycle, bicycle, automobile, and air
plane number. Of course, not hav
ing all those luxuries I couldn't till
them out. but 1 put down'my air
plane number, which is something'
a lot of people can't do. In truth, |
a more complete diary could not be |
found. Not only did every page I
have a place for weather and ther-j
mometer, but in the back of the j
book were numerous pages for "Cash
account," ending with "cash on
hand." That part of the book hail j
no "interest" for me, for 1 know ,
how much I have on hand without I
referring to a book, and I never get I
enough to start a "cash account."
I thought the doggone book was a |
Bible when 1 first opened the pack-1
age, what with its gold edged leaves, j
and limp leather binding, and I'm j
quite sure I did not need unother I
one of them.
A Timid Pilot
Got a little more flying in to-day. |
and if I would not have had to wait |
for a photo plane, which never came, |
I might have gotten more, for the j
morning was clear and very good ;
for flying. 1 was down on the list I
to help protect the photo plane, but |
although I missed dinner waiting j
for it, she never showed up. Fin-!
ally got aloft in the afternoon with j
another pilote, which did not suit;
me a little bit, for no sooner had i
we got near the lines than he beat ■
it back for camp. By the way, the (
pilote was the timid gentleman. I I
followed him, since he was the I
authorized leader, until he dove!
through a cloud in tin? direction of j
camp, and then thoroughly disgust- j
ed, turned right around and beat it I
for the lines again. There were a J
number of "sausages" up and I was;
curious to get a close look at one,
so I headed for one nearby and soon
had a good look. In my interest,
forgetting to look around for Boche
planes. All of a sudden I looked up
and there were f#ur right over me.
Fortunately they were Nieuports, but ]
it showed me how foolish I was.
roaming around by my lonesome
only 1500 meters high. Any Boche
could have made easy prey of me.
Besides. I was disobeying orders, for I
new pilots are never allowed out |
alone, so having been away half an I
hour, I beat it for camp.
When I landed my leader said hisl
machine gun would not work, so he
came down. I don't know how he
discovered it, unless he uses the
same means I do. For whenever I
come to the "lines," I point my old !
bus in the general direction of Ber- I
lin, and pull the trigger and soon'
discover whether she's working or j
not.
Got a hold of an American paper]
the other day. and now I know |
what it is to read everything, even |
the ads. So send me some old mag-1
azines. I have an awful lot of time
to kill here. WALTER.
Letter of Walter J. Shaffer.
Escadrille, No. 156,
Secteur Postal 12
par B. C. M. Jan. 19, 1918.
A Wonderful Meal
Dear Mother:
I don't know whose birthday it is,
but we sure did have some banquet
to-night—the finest meal I think, 11
ever had in France. Had about 8
courses, and now I wonder if it |
wasn't a belated Christmas dinner, i
First we had rabbit and white beans i
with parsley, next came the old
"horse" with baked potatoes. "Well," |
thinks I. "this must surely be all," I
so I filled up on potatoes, for I had !
flown two hours to-day and was hun- j
gry. What was my surprise to see i
an omelet come next. Yes, an ome-!
let —an onion one at that, too! You I
needn't turn your nose up at men
tion of the onions, for believe me, if
you hadn't seen an egg for two
months, you would welcome it in any
form whatever, as I did. That made
five courses, as vegetables are served
as one course in France and not
with the meat as in America. And
then the champagne began to ar
rive and the inevitable cheese also,
and the end was in sight for me at |
least. I couldn't get the cheese I
past my nose and champagne is I
against the doctor's orders. I wish
I knew what it was all about, for
not only champagne, but several
other drinks were opened also, and
they are still going to it, albeit get
ting in a singing humor now. Oh,
yes—l forgot, we had apples for
dessert, and then not being enough
to go around only half of one was
allowed. Golly, how I did want the
other half! for fruit is one thing that
we don't get often, set it's no wonder
we regard it .is a luxury. It was
only yesterday that I wanted some
thing to eat the worst kind of a way
and I did not know what it was. All j
requests to my stomach came back
unanswered, for there seemed no |
name for the want.
First I thought it was ice cream,
but that being an impossibility, I put
}t out of my mind as soon as my
mouth began to water. Then I
thought it might be an ice cream
soda, but since that was along the
same line, we stopped thinking of
that also. And now I know it was
an apple I wanted. Strange, isn't it,
that the things I deem luxuries now
used to be so commonplace and
plentiful that they hardly ever at
tracted me.
It's the same way with magazines
and papers. When I was home, I
hardly glanced at the headlines—
now, gee whiz! I even read the
advertisements. You cannot imag
ine how hungry one gets for liter
ature in his own language.
More Bail Weather
After a 10-day rest during bad
weather, I was sfent out in a pat
ronelle with the captain and three
others, but it sure was my off day,
my flying being simply rotten. Once
while making a quick turn I went
into a vrille. When I came out, my
comrades were nowhere to be seen.
And it was some flftefen minutes be--
fore I found them again, as I circled
around and around.* Finally, I saw
them away off in the distance, aWay
over in Germany with shrapnel
bursting all around them. Of course,
the thought entered my head that
they might be Boche planes, but I
hadn't seen a Boche yet and this
was too good a chance to miss, so
I headed for them and then they
began taking pot shots at me, and
that made progress a little slower,
since I had -to dodge the shrapnel,
but I finally caught them and then
the captain led us down to 800
meters to shoot at the trenches. For
once I had a good look at the
trenches, as we swooped down
through the shrapnel at the wriggly
lines below. You see, we had been
flying at 3000 irfeters and they cer
tainly were chucking shrapnel at us
for fair. It got so hot and thick,
finally that the captain jumped on
a big white cloud, the three of us
behind him.
As far as getting away from
shrapnel, it didn't help much, for j
the way they peppered that cloud
was a caution. Simply tore it apart,
for they guessed at our height and
up came the black dots through the
fleecy cloud and bursted with a hol
low boom. And then down we came
back of the cloud and at the
trenches. Such a lot of wriggly
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lines I never saw. Reminded me of
a mole on the rampage, or a worm
with St. Vitus' dance. They went
every direction. Even from 800
meters I couldn't" find "No Man's
Land."
"Not that it mattered a whole lot,
for I had no desire to land there.
I am not quite sure about the loca
tion but I think we were either over
Tahare or Ville, both pretty hot sec
tors at one time. Judging from the
looks of the landscape, a lot of dirt
is still flying. It's strangely colored
ground, though, being a sort of
white, champagne color. And, by
the way, that's the reas9n its called
the Champagne country, the ground
being that color. Rather pebbly
ground, too, the stones being a
whitish color also, which sUll fur
ther carries out the drinking impres
sion, for they are compared to the
bubbles. You never saw' such a
sloppy place to walk in though. One
lifts about an acre of "Champagne"
every time he lifts his foot when the
weather is mild.
Some Kxcitcment
For this escadrille I'll say there
was some excitement to-day. One
American was jumped on by 5
Boches, but they didn't get him, and
another American who came to his
aid almost got one of them, chasing
him clear down to the ground. lie
thought he had him sure, but ob
servers on the ground say the Hun
leveled out very close to the ground
and beat it for home for all he was
worth.
- This afternoon I got up again
with three others, and for a change
flew very high, staying around 5,000
meters all the time. I'm not crazy
about flying that high however safe
it may be for it sure is cold there.
But one must needs follow the
leader, so there we stayed, ducking
I shrapnel as usual. The old boy
j must have guessesd pretty well to-
I day for a shell burst right under me,
and gave me a terrific bump,
[ bouijclng me 20 meters straight up—
j immediately thereafter the "target"
] changed the range.
We also did some peeking at the
I trenches, but from a considerable
! height—2,ooo meters. 1 wondered
! why we didn't go down any lower
| and when I came home the leader
! said there was a Boche near us.
Which sure surprised me, for I had
| seen none, and I wanted to know
11 how he knew, and then 1 learned
■ | something else, for the French
; shrapnel makes white smoke wlien
11 it bursts, while the German is black.
; And that was the way he knew.
; I Come to think of it, I did notice a
! number of white puffs among the
black, and I wondered if they were
trying a new gun on us, for 1 am
used to the black puffs by this time.
Am afraid we lost one of ur men
though, tis a Nieuport was seen
to tall in names about dark and one
man of our patrol has not showed
up as yet. Of course, he may have
gone on "panne." We hope so, any
way.
Yesterday I received the sweater
Ruth knitted me and it sure was
appreciated, being just what I need
ed. Incidentally, it got its baptism
to-day dodging sharpnel for two
hours. The fact that It came from
Avord gives me fresh hopes in re
gard to the boxes you sent. There
was a type-written slip on the tin
box it was packed in, which said that
the package reached the cen
sor it was too damaged to send fur
ther, so he repacked it in a tin box.
And do you know that the only
packages I have received to date
have been packed that way—ln tin
boxes. However, wooden ones
should serve as well, and 1 am look
ing forward to receiving the ones
you sent with pleasurable anticipa
tion.
Fearing you may wonder why I
referred to "doctor's" orders when
speaking of champaign. I better ex
pluln thut it wus only a figure of
speech.
And now the big dinner is having
its effect and I'm getting drowsy,
so good-night.
WALTER.
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