GLENN WARNER TO BUILD GREAT FOOTBALL TEAM; CHICAGO LADS WIN A. A. U. EVENTS
Stock the Farm With Birds
and Game Says Tom Marshall
Uncle Sam's Domain—one great,
■giVind game preserve. The recently
ratified treaty between Great Britain
and the United States, conserving and
protecting migratory game birds, has
been welcomed by the true sports
men of America.
This enactment has supplanted the
Federal migratory game law of 1913.
the constitutionality of which has
been pending for a number of years
in the United States Supreme Cqurt.
A decision has been past due and
should have been rendered long since,
as it was a legal question of interest
to every sportsman who goes afield.
Continuous procrastination on the
rendering of this decision has been an
invitation to transgression; it has
been claimed by many that the law
was unconstitutional and would nut
"hold water." This was only an in
dividual opinion in the absence of a
delayed court decision. The recent
National Treaty with legislative con
firmation eliminates doubt, placing
the law upon a legal basis, which will
not be disputed from any angle. The
opposition to the original Federal law
which developed, was due to an at
tempted injection of politics and an
effort to play favorites on the open
seuson dates in southern zones. The
tirade this interpretation promoted
against men who were not in accord
with the law as originaly passed was
unjust. It was the stand taken by
those sportsmen, who were blessed
with the courage of their own con
victions, which brought about the
present beneficial changes in the Fed
eral law as revised, which now abso
lutely forbids the sale of wild game
except for scientific purposes or birds
reared upon licensed wild game farms.
This antisales clause will have the ef
fect of stopping the slapghter of wild
life for commercial gain and places
the killing of game on a basis of zone
equality, with all good sportsmen. The
open season for water-fowl (except
wood ducks, eider ducks and swan) in
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts, New York (except
Long Island), Pennsylvania. Ken
tucky, Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, j
Michigan. Wisconsin. Illinois, Minne- ]
sota. lowa, Missouri. North Dakota.
Nebraska. Kansas, Colorado. Wyom- i
ing, Montana. Idaho, Nevada, and that I
portion of Oregon and Washington ,
lying east of the summit of the Cas
cade Mountains, is from September 10
to December 31. In Rhode Island, Con
necticut. Utah, and that portion of
Oregon and Washington lying west
of the summit of the Cascade Moun
tains, the open season is from Oc
tober 1 to January 15. For Long Is
land, New Jersey, Delaware, Okla
homa, Texas, New Mexico and Cali
fornia. the open season is from Oc
tober 16 to January 21. In Maryland.
District of Columbia, Virginia. North
and South Carolina. Georgia. Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee.
Arkansas and Louisiana, the open
season is from November 1 to Janu
ary 31. In Alaska the open season is
from September 1 to December 15. In
Louisiana the open season is from
November 1 to January 31.
E. W. Nelson is chief of the Bureau !
of Biological Survey, under which de- |
partment the law is operative. It is
nriw logical for the Legislatures of
every state in the Union to pass state
laws conforming with the Federal '
laws on open dates and bag liimts. |
The market hunter, like the buffalo i
and wild pigeon, has become an ex
tinct species. There is now a gen
eral feeling amongst the sportsmen
endorsing game protection and con
servation. Swamps, lakes and ponds
have been drained, the land being
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Three Swartz Boys Lead
Batting in Junior League
Standing of the Teams
W. L. Pet.
Sumnjit 31 6 .839
Swatara 27 12 .691
Albions 9 24 .272
Crescents 9 29 .238
To-day's Schedule
Swatara vs. Albion (2 games).
Crescent vs. Summit.
V S
The Allison Hill Junior League is'
about to wind up its season, with no
possibility of any club but Summit
winning the pennant. Yesterday's
battle twixt Swatara and Summit
had to be postponed on account of
rain, but the former team has prac
tically no chance of heading off the
leaders. On Monday the Telegraph
will print a battling average of all
lads who appeared in the league and
it is a singular thing that three
Swartz brothers set the pace in clout
ing for the whole roster. Mose
Swartz, the Harrisburg prodigy of
the diamond, of course, leads by eight
points. In thirty-one games he reg
istered thirty-six hits.
BLIND SINGER AT FLORIN
Florin, Sept. 21.—John Applebach,
of Lancaster, the blind singer, will
be here to-morrow. He will sing at
the Old People's Day and Harvest
Home services in the United Breth
ren Church at 10.30 and 7.15.
The Rev. Harvey Geyer, of Ann
ville, spent several days here with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George
Geyer.
Mrs. O. G. Romig and daughter
Florence, are spending several days
with friends at Reading.
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Football to Thrive at
Pitt Under Warner
Unlike many other big colleges
the football situation at Pitt is
very bright. Glenn Warner ar
rived at Pittsburgh to-day from
his home at Springville, N. Y. and
observed: "I do not believe the
government will interfere with
football, so long as it is reason
ably conducted. Our army heads
recognize the good that football
training does. It is the finest kind
of work for prospective soldiers,
and I believe the government will
be strong for it, instead of offer
ing any opposition."
It is probable that Warner will
next week be in charge of the
largest squad he has ever had
under him at Pitt. The Panther
football authorities originally fig
ured on a preliminary squad <jf
between 35 and 40 men. and cal
culated that this number might be
doubled after the school actually
opens its doors on September 30.
But since this estimate was
made, word has been received
from a number of students and
prospective students who have
signified their intention of report
ing next week, and the chances
are that when Warner gives his
first orders Monday afternoon they
will be listened to by no fewer
than half a hundred men.
Unless something unforeseen oc
curs, the coaches will have a fine
lot of talent to work with and
develop. There will not be a
dearth „of candidates for a single
position. From the known quality
of the men who are coming out,
it is believed that Warner will
soon whip into shape a first-string
eleven of decided class, and that
he will have it going in good form
when the date of the opening
game of the season with the Great
Lakes Naval Training station
, team rolls around on Saturday,
October 5.
SATURDAY EVENING, Saiuhsburg TELEGRAPH SEPTEMBER 21, 1918.
1 utilized for the raising of bumper
crops, a most salient feature in the
winning of the world's war. Haunts
and environments, so useful for rest
ing and reproduction of wild fowl,
have been eliminated to a very great
extent by the march of civilization.
It is now necessary to give absolute
protection to wild birds during their
mating and breeding period. Repro
duction is impossible if birds are kill
ed, so the cessation of spring shooting
must be observed. Both the nation
and states should establish game
parks, preserve natural and create
artificial lakes, where game and fish
may be protected and propogated as
a reserve food supply. Every farmer
in the United States should stock his
farm with game birls; they are great
destroyers of noxious insects, pre
serving crops, trees and gardens.
Game will prove an asset and every
farm should be a private preserve.
The government has taken an im
portant step in the consummation of
this treaty with Great Britain; let
the "case of good judgment" be pro
moted by the establishing of desig
nated areas set apart for game cul
ture, resting, nesting and breeding
grounds under national and state con
trol or owenrship. Provido havens of
rest for the feathered aces of the air,
that they may multiply and eventu
ally become a food product in Uncle
Sam's domain.
ANSWERS TO NIMRODS
Question Where is a conflict as
between the Federal and state laws on
migratory birds, which should be ob
served? Are there any Federal war
dens?
C. M. F.
Burlington, la.
Answer A treaty has been signed
between Great Britain and the United
States covering migratory birds. The
Federal law certainly takes precedent
over the state laws and should be
lived up to on all occasions. Our
Uncle Sam is a buzz-saw that it is
a mistake to monkey with, as has
been demonstrated to the Boches re
cently. Yes. there are Federal war
| dens, who are now empowered to
I prosecute transgressors, the' recent
enactment having put teeth in the
migratory law. States will now pass
laws conforming with the Federal
version of correct open dates for
shooting.
Question Have there been many
trapshooting contests held for the
benefit of the Red Cross or Y. M. C.
A.? What is the best plan for a club
to hold a shoot on for either of those
causes?
D. T. R.
Aurora, 111.
Answer A benefit event has been
staged at almost every tournament.
The G. A. 11. netted approximately
$2,000. The American Indians, $l3O. I
Ralph L. Spotts. 105 Hudson street,
New York City, has been appointed by
the Red Cross as their representative,
and has charge of all details. Write
him for instructions; being a practical
trapshot. ho is the right man in the
right place.
Question What has become of
those expert shots who traveled the
country for so many years, Mr. and
Mrs. Topperwein?
CHARL.ES MINOT.
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Answer They are teaching the
art of shooting at the School of Aero
nautics in Austin, Tex. They are in
structing an average of 200 men per
dav, who have never shot a gun.
Probabilities are they will not be on
the road for some time.
Yale and Bucknell Cut
Out Sport During War
Word came to-day from Yale that
she will, to all intents and purposes,
stop athletics during the war, and
from Bucknell that there will be no
intercollegiate football games in their
program. Professor Corwin, in
charge of athletics at Yale, says the
entire equipment, of the college, ath
letic as well as other sports will be
placed at the disposal of the govern
ment and that any participation in
athletics must be in accordance wif?t
the plans of the government.
The equipment will, of course, be
used by the men at the university but
it is believed that the old form of
intercollegiate contests will scarcely
be held.
At Bucknell, the only football
games will be interclass affairs. A
number of football men are back, but
there will be no team to represent
the Orange and Blue this Fall. Mili
tary drill, with its attendant drills
and exercises, will take the place of
many forms of college athletics here.
Registrar Walter S. Wilcox is unable
to say whether basketball will be
resumed this winter or not. The
large athletic field will be used as
a drill ground for the Bucknell unit
of the Student Army Training Corps.
Black Cats Quarantined; v
Cannot Play Kiwanis
The final conflict between the
Camp Colt Black Cats and the
Kiwanis team of Harrisburg to de
termine the championship of the
diamond has been canceled for mili
tary reasons, it was announced yes
terday. The team has been placed
under quarantine at Camp Colt.
The game was arranged for Nixon
Field, Gettysburg, this afternoon as
the closing of a series of three
games. The Kiwanians won the first i
two and were confident, they said, of
winning the. third, although the
Black Cats declared they had pep
enough to win twenty games from
the Harrisburg players.
The game, if it had been played,
would-have been an important one in
baseball history since the Kiwanis
Club team topped the Industrial
League list for the past year. The
Black Cats carried away virtually
every game they played and the
winning of the canceled game would
have meant that the conquerers
would virtually be entitled to the
Central Pennsylvania pennant.
Modern Woodmen Will
Have Quoit Tournament
Harrisburg Camp No. 52 50, Mod
ern Woodman of America, will hold
another quoit tournament this fall.
| The entry list will be opened at the
meeting of the camp at the camp
hall, 1365 Howard street, next Tues
day evening. A number of members
have already signified their intention
to participate. The tournament will
close shortly before the Christmas I
holidays and another will probably
be put on following the holidays.
ACCIDENTS AT STEEL WORKS
LcwistAwn, Pa., Sept. 21.-—David
Bay has been admitted to the'Lewis
town Hospital suffering with a scalp
wound received at the Standard
Steel Works.
George Dlvcn, of Reedsvllle, suf
fered a lacerated nose and forehead
at the Standard Steel Words.
D. H. Nightsinger, of Lewistown,
had a foot badly injured at the same
plant and Warren Bachman. of Mif
flintown, had his right ear badly
burned.
S noodles Addison Was Getting Along O. K. Is Why the Excitement *By Hunge
I HOP RI&HT /M-\ ~n v.-necds SRUDDER Aw;i3.M. II '„ . M 'r - ■■ ■ — —i ~~~\ | ,
CHICAGO WINS
AT A. A. U. MEET
Windy City Athletes Score in
11 of the 19 Events With
a Total of 34
Joe Schwartz, of the Meadow i
Brook Club, Philadelphia, out-dis- ;
tanced the huge field yesterday in 1
the National A. A. U. meet held on <
the new athletic field of the Great
Lakes Naval Training Station in the '
one-mile run. He covered the dis- ,
tance in 4 minutes and 37 seconds. ,
McCabe. of Felham Bay Naval Sta- i
tion, finished second, with Mayo, of .
Fort Slocum, and Cummings, anoth
er Meadowbrook athlete, fourth. '
In the 4 40-yard dash, Rogers, of '■
Meadowbrook, came in third, ;
Shaughnessy, of the Federal Ren- j
dezvous of Brooklyn, winning the
race in the fust time of 49 seconds.
This is a new junior straightway
record. .
Way won e. fourth for Meadow
brook in the running high jump,
clearing 21 feet 1% inches. This
event was captured by Politzer, of
Mohawk A. C-, New York, with a
height of 22 feet 3% inches.
Barron, another Meadowbrook
star, came in fourth in the 220-yard
wash. This event was won by House,
of Camp Fremont, who covered tiiej
distance in 25 9-10 seconds.
Johnnv Bartels, representing Hog
Island, landed third in the discus
throw with a distance of 106 feet
% inch. Windraw, of the Great
Lakes, won the throw with a distance
of 116 feet 4% inches.
Labowitz, of the Pastime A. C.. set
up a new record in the three-mile
walk by covering the distance in 23 *
minutes and 57 seconds.
Nevertheless, high honors of the
first day's events went to the repre
sentatives of the Chicago Athletic
Association who gathered in 34
points with the Pelham Bay Naval
Training Station team of Pelham
Bay, N. Y„ drawing up in second
place with thirty. The Great Lakes
team bagged twenty-eight points for
third place and the Illinois Athletic
Club twenty-two for fourth. The
Meadowbrook Athletic Club of Phil
adelphia, scored ten points for fifth
place. The summaries were:
Shot put. won by Allman, Great
Lakes, 40 feet, 1% inches.
One-mile run, won by Schwartz,
Meadowbrook Club, Philadelphia.
100-yard dash, won by Henlce,
Great Lakes. Time, .10.
100-yard hurdles, won by Smith,
Chicago A. A. Time, .15 2-5.
16-pound hammer* throw, Vranz,
Illinois A. C., first. Distance, 130
feet, 5 inches.
Discus throw, won by Windraw,
Great Lakes, 116 feet, 4% Inches.
Three-mile walk, won by Labowitz,
Pastime A. C. ,New York. Timo,
23.57 (New junior record).
Pole vault, won by Caldwell. Pel
ham Bay, 11 feet 6 inches.
Running high jump, won by Rict,
Camp Zachary Taylor, 6 feet % inch.
Fifty-six pound weight for dis
tance. won by Mclntyre, Illinois A.
C., 25 feet, 11% inches.
440-yard run, won by Shaughnes- ]
sey, Federad Rendezvous, Brooklyn, j
Time. .49. (New junior straightway
record).
440-yard hurdles, won by Hauot,
Great Lakes. Time, .58 2-5.
Running broad jump, won by Po
litzer, Mohawk A. C., N ejr York, 22
feet, 3 % inches.
Javelin throw, won by Thompson,
I. A. C. Distance 167 feet 8% inches.
(This event set a new junior record!.
Five-mile run, won by Johnson,
Camp Upton. Time, 27 minutes, 22
seconds.
220-yard dash, won by Smith, Pel
ham Bay. Time, 22 seconds and .02.
220-yard low hurdles, won by
House, Camp Fremont. Time, 25
seconds and .09.
Running hop. step and jump, won
by Overbee, Chicago A. A., 45 feet
3 % inches.
880-yard run, won by McCabe, Pel
ham Bay. Time, 2.02 1-5.
Convention of York County
Sabbath School Association
Lewtsberry, Sept. 21.—The Twelfth
District of the York County Sab
bath School Association will hold its !
seventh annual rally to-morrow In ■
the Church of God at Newberrytown.
The program follows:
10 A. M.—Opening of Sunday
school; address of welcome, by Ray
mond Bair, superintendent of the
school; response by William Hart- ;
man, district president; address, by
the Rev. L. L. Owens, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, of
Lewis berry.
i 1.30 P. M.—Devotional services by
the Rev. R. S. Stair,-of Lewisberry,
\ pastor of the York Haven and Golds
boro Lutheran churches; address,
"How Shall We Arouse in the Organ
ized Class a Large Interest in the
! Study of the Bible?" by the Rev. Mr.
Coffelt, of Rossvllle; vocal duct, by
the Rev. and Mrs. E.- A. Mell, of
Yocumtown; address, "Winning the
War Through the Sunday School,"
by Dr. William N. Yates, of Harris
burg; question box conducted by
Robert Whisler, of Goldsboro.
7.30 P. M.—Song gervice; devo
tional services, Jacob Beshore, of
Cly; vocal solo. Master Clifford
Bair, of Goldsboro; address, "The
Sunday School and National Prob
lems" by the Rev. Dr. Ernest V.
Claypool, of Harrisburg, district su
perintendent of the Anti-Saloon
League; vocal solo, Mrs. E. A. Mell,
of Yocumtown. This program will be
Interspersed with congregational
singing.
THE WORLD HAS
FILLED SO SLOWLY
Although the Human Kace May
lie a Hundred Thousand Years
Old, the Earth Is Not Yet Pull
to Capacity, Because Obstacles
Arise on All Sides
By GARRETT P. SERVISS
From what I have read from time
to time it seems to he the opinion of
scientists that the human race has in
habited this plane,t for hundreds of
thousands of years. If that is a fact,
why is it that they have in the last
few thousand years only spread over
the earth in such great numbers,
and what will be the result if they
continue to increase in the same ratio
for three or four thousand years?—
A. B. CALDWELL.
It is well to have a twelve-inch ter
restrial globe before you when con
sidering such questions. By enabling
you to visualize the situation it will
simplify the problem.
It will make clear to you how very
different, in many ways, are the con- ,
ditions of life on the surface of a ro
tating sphere, revolving around the
sun, from what they would be on an
immovable plane. Conspicuous among
these differences are the effects of
widely divergent- climates and of
changing seasons often running into
extremes of contrast.
Then, the globe will show you at a|
glance the formidable nature of the
obstacles to communication between
the various lands of the earth which
are interposed by the oceans. If your
globe has raised topographic features,
it will be worth hundreds of pages
of print in impressing upon your mind
the seriousness of mountain masses
and ranges as impediments to the free
spread of population.
You will see that only about three
eighths of the entire surface of the
earth is land, and that this land,
which alone can sustain human in
habitants, instead of being collected
in one connected mass, is scattered
over the globe in several large and
many small portions and that the
larger ones are divided into many
parts by mountains and deserts.
With these facts in your mind's
eye, take next into account the place
and mode of origin of mankind, ac
cording to the general opinion of men
of science.
For reasons that wo have not space
to discuss it Is generally held that
the first men made their appearance
somewhere in the Eastern world,
probably on the continent of Asia,
and that they gradually spread from
one great center over the contiguous
regions. Even thope who believe that
mankind originated independently in
more than one quarter of the globe, or
that there were several primitive
stocks of man, instead of one only,
are compelled to suppose that there
was a very limited number of human
"procreant cradles," not more than
three or four, perhaps, for the whole
earth, so that the problem of distribu
tion over the plunet remains much the
same under either view.
When you remember that the very
first creatures to whom the term
"man-like" could be applied had no
way to advance toward the status of
man as we know him to-day, except
the way of evolution, you see at once
what long ages must have been re
quired to bring about the necessary
alteration.
Even if the progress was hastened
by sudden "leaps." yet we know that
these leaps, or "mutations," are sepa
ated by long spaces of time, so that,
in any event, tens of thousands of
years must have been consumed in
lifting a creature that, at the start,
was hardly less brutal than an ape
up -to an incomparably higher level,
a level at which human intelligence
became the distinctive characteristic
of the new being. It probably took
thousands of years for man to learn
to be a farmer. And, even If we were
to assume that man was created sud
denly, as an independent creation,
with his powers latent within him, to
be developed in response to his en
vironment (and history certainly
shows that is the way in which his!
development has really come about),
hundreds of centuries would still be
required to bring him to the point
represented by the earnest historic I
civilizations. The simple fact that in
ancient Crete,, several thousand years
before the Christian era, the palace
of King Minos possessed a system of
drainage that included all the essen
tial principles of modern scientific
plumbing, while the ladies of the
court wore dresses and ornaments
which made them look like Parisian
models, combined with the facts of
later history, showing that Greece and
Rome made only advances upon
these Cretan achievements, and that,
after six, or perhaps eight, thousand
years we, in our day, have only just
begun to develop a material civiliza
tion essentially and distinctivedy dif
ferent from, and superior to that
whose beginnings were familiar to
King Minos—these facts, I say, are in
themselves the strongest proofs of
the exceeding slowness of human ad
vancements, taken in the mass.
Now, the march of progress being
so slow, the advance of the distribu
tion of human beings over the globe
from their original center or centers,
could not but be correspondingly
Slow. Consider that population could
not grow in limited areas beyond the
capacity of the soil in and immedi
ately around such areas to support it.
But in order to spread beyond those
limits population must possess means
of transportation across and over the
natural obstacles which everywhere
intersect and divide the lands where
the earliest known races dwelt.
Dip a little into history and see
how many thousand years it took to
carry commerce and with commerce
colonization entirely around the Medi
terranean Sea. Observe how many
centuries were required for the might
of Rome to open up simply the Medi
terranean world to" intercommunica
tion. Commerce increases the capac
ity of rfl the lands that enjoy its ad
vantages to support population, but
commerce could not develop until
roads, bridges, tunnels had " opened
the lands, and rapid navigation had
turned the oceans into hlghwßvs.
As commerce grew, agriculture in
all its forms, mining, manufacture, in
vention, every sort of industry was
forced to grow with It, and all these
things made more population neces
sary and at the same time increased
the capacity of the earth as a whole
to support a greater population.
As to the future, I have not space
here to speculate. These are a few
hints of the delightful realm of study
and thought that lies behind your
question.
Flying With Shaffer
HOT WORK IN THE CLOUDS
LETERS FROM A DAUPHIN BOY TO HIS MOTHER
Escadrille Spad 38,
Secteur Postal 240,
G. C. 2 2,
Aug. 1, 1918.
Dear Mother:
It's been so almighty hot the la-"
few days that I had not the am
bition to writer Besides, I was pretty
busy flying, for after that attack on
the "sausage" I told you about and
its failure to burn I was wild to
try again—and see one burn. As the
weather still continued bad and the
sky filled with clouds I finally got
permission to go after balloons
again. There sure were a bunch of
clouds in the air, all sizes and
shapes and I was hard put to keep
from getting lost, for no sooner had
I gone in one and came out than
I bumped into another.
Arriving over the lines, I dove into
a big cloud and headed for Berlin.
It seems though, my choice of clouds
was "tres mauvois" because it was
a black one and began "weeping"
as soon as I entered. Clouds are bad
enough as it is to keep one's direc
tion and balance while in them, but
when they begin pouring rain when
you hit them—good night! I prompt
ly pushed on the "stick" and came
out—lost.
For several anxious moments I
flew around in circles wondering
which side of, the line I was on.
Since no shrapnel was breaking
around me I knew I was still on the
French side and began looking for
landmarks. There did not seem to
be any familiar ones around and
while I continued looking I thought
of my comrade, Byers, and won
dered if the same thing would hap
pen to me —lost and landed in Ger
many. But these thoughts were
soon squelched when I discovered
the Argonne forest. I had a general
idea where I was then, and getting
my direction by the aid of the com
pass and the trenches I soon knew
whither I was bound.
Hide-and-Seek in the Clouds
You can see how very safe I was
with so many clouds in the sky, for
no matter how many Huns jumped
me they sure would have a lovely
time getting a shot in with me play
ing hide-and-seek among aforesaid
clouds.
But if It was safe for me the
Boches decided wisely it was some
what unsafe for balloons, for not a
one could I find up. I had been
flying on my own side of the fence
up to this time, waiting to see some
thing to go after before letting
"Archie" display my presence. Rath
er low, too, because the clouds were
at 800 meters, and I kept at a 1,000,
dodging around clouds, sometimes
going through a small one. Finally,
thinking I saw the big bulging belly
of a "sausage" I jumped in a cloud
and headed his way. Archie soon
found me, but since I was in clouds
three-fourths of the time I had little
fear of his marksmanship.
The balloon, however, turned out
to be nothing but a hole in the for
est, so I was out of "luck." How
ever, being several miles in their
lines then, and knowing there was a
Boche balloon stationed just ahead
of me, I kept going parallel to the
lines —only on the Hun side of the
fence, "Archie" yopping at my heels
ever ytime I stuck my nose out of a
cloud.
A Big Blaze
But I was looking for something
to try my gun on—balloon preferred.
It would make such a big blaze, you
know —and kept going. The Huns
must have slept late that morning,
however, or forgot to open" the sta
tion because no sausage tugged at
its rope. This station happens to be
near Rheims, so I flew on around
Rheims, runnnig into several patrols
of Spads as I came out, who were
coming a running to see what
"Archie" was talking about. Two of
these French machines even chased
me, a fact of which 1 was ignorant
until I of a cloud and saw
them following. I ended the pursuit
by promptly standing on one wing,
thus showing my red, white and
blue "cocarde" (insignia) on my
wings. As a patrol that was rather
disappointing, but the next day I
saw a most interesting spectacle and
something I have often wanted to
watch —a fight in the air. and one
plane tumbling to the ground. Of
course, I have been in a number
of fights, and been in both the chas
ing and tumbling end of the argu
ment at that, but one is two busily
engaged to get any pleasure out of
the spectacle, and I wanted to be a
spectator —just once anyway. '
We had just arrived at the lines
when I had my wish, for an enor
mous biplane (two-man plane) was
tumbling down head over heels with
two planes in hot pursuit. At first
I thought he wag doing a "vrille,"
and from the ntWnner in which he
did it surely thought it was
his last one. But on looking more
carefully I saw he was really doing
a tight spiral, one of the tighest I
have ever seen, the like of which I
did not think such a big, clumsy
plane was capable of . Either the
pilot was hit or he was a mighty
good flyer—and then, as he spun
around in a tight circle, the sun
shone full on his wings and showed
the red. white and blue insignia of
the French.
That put a different face on the
matter. It was one thing to watch a
Boche go tumbling down to a
"crash," but a French plane was en
tirely another matter. It wasn't
spectacle anymore. It was a doggone
shame and some Hun was going to
pay for the show, too. And to think
that those two planes making that
poor Frenchman do all that acro-
bacy were Boches! The doggone
Surne! "La vache!" "la cochons!"
"allez allez!" and he gave the old
motor full gas and started after
the head performers. Not that we
hadn't been coming before! We had
but we were several miles away
when we saw the tight, and being
very high had quite a grandstand
seat. But the Boches saw us coming
apd by the time we arrived at the
scene they were away back in their
lines. We are not free to do as we
please in these patrols, you know;
but must follow our leader "tou
jours." And he decided they were
too far in their own lines to chase,
so we circled around Rheims look
ing for some unwary Boche to
pounce on; but there did not seem
to be any so we came home without
shooting the gun off.
The Escape
I watched the attacked French
plane, however, after the Boches left
it and am glad tb say he leveled out
and flew serenely away. Incidentally,
I'm willing to bet those Boaches
never shot at a more erratic taget.
I'll sure hand it to that French
man. He certainly was some pilot.
When 1 begin to add up events I
have to admit that it's been some
Ave days since I wrote last. Cheer
up though, because 1 will be loallng
a day or so, and will have timo to
write. You see this morning I was
in a light and received six bullets in
my upper wing. They were in such
important places that a new wing
will be necessary. Meanwhile I must
wait. It happened this way:
Chasscs Libre
There were no orders this morn
ling, so three of u,| asked for
"chasse libre" (permission to fly
and attack or not attack what you
please). In these kind of patrols,
although one has a leader, he is
somewhat of a free lance and is not
held to account so strictly as to
what he does, how he does it, or
where he goes. The three of us had
no more than arrived at the lines
than the leader's motor went bad and
he turned around and went home.
We followed a little way, and then
pulled up and went back to the
lines, the Frenchman leading. Soon
we were floating around over the
lines hunting the Hun again. We
saw some, too —four of them, and
they were not only higher than us
but in the sun as well, so we
promptly turned towards our lines
and began climbing in a wide circle
first, to get out of danger, and sec
ond, to attack, for you understand
that a man who flies high and has
the sun av his back has every ad
vantage in an air combat, because
one cannot look in the sun a/id see
him coming, and with his height
he can use gravity as well as his
motor to bring him down on his un
suspecting quarry with terrific
speed.
Since these four planes (appar
ently Boches) did not attack, I be
gan to wonder if they were not
Spads. (French chasse plane) With
this idea I looked at them more
closely and felt sure of it. Five
minutes later they had swung over
on our side of the fence —and way
over at that —and "Archie" was not
even barking at them. I was sure
they were French then. Besides, a
patrol of seven Spads were just pass
ing—they were close enough for me
to see the French insignia—and they
could surely take care of those four
Huns, if such they were, had they
bothered us. I had more important
business on hand. For the last five
minutes I had been watching a big
Boche biplane flying back and forth
over Rheims. (We were north of
Epernay then).
Close Work
Three times I had seen this In
quisitive Hun come over Rheims into
our lines and three times go back
in his own lines. No black Archies
(German shrapnel is all black)
broke around him so 1 felt sure it
was a Hun. For the fourth time I
saw him coming across, and getting
impatient because the Frenchman
did nothing I decided to take mat
ters into my own hands, pulled on
full motor, dove down beside him
and shook my wings; for it was
quite possible he had not seen the
biplane,, as most of the time it was
merely a speck.
As far as I could see he never
even answered the signal, but since
he has two Boches to his credit I
knew he would stick if it came to a
fight. So I took the lead and started
after that Boches He was coming to
wards us, so I swung around in a
wide circle to get behind him, and
at the same time see whether it
really was a Boche, for we had been
told to look closely at any machine
we attacked before shooting, as the
English insignia is very dark and
could easily be mistaken for the
Boche at a distance.
Just a little higher than the doubt
ful plane, I flew closer and closer,
looking at it steadily to distinguish
any markings. There did not seem
to be any except that the rudder
seemed to be all white. Since I
could see no black cross on this
white background I held my Are
and overhauled him some more, giv
ing mv attention entirely to the
wings this time. The truth broke on
me very suddenly, for I was within
fifty meters when the small, black
cross painted on the dark wings
showed up. It's just another proof
of Hun efficiency that they copy the
lines of French planes and crown it
all by painting the insignia so small
that one has to come very close to
be sure It Is really a Boche.
Quick Going
But being within fifty meters of
this big bird—and he was a whopper
—was no time to think of the studied
deceit of the enemy. It was a time
for action, and I acted "tout de
suite" by diving on him and open
ing fire with both guns, shooting
them alternately to prevent jams.
And right there I discovered again
the importance of little things. You
see our sight is a telescopic affair
about a foot long, and to prevent
dirt, oil and grease from accumulat
ing on the glass as we go tearing
through the atmosphere, a small
shutter is made to fit over the front
of the telescope, which can be open
ed and closed at will by means of
different devices. As these shutters
are made by the different mechanics,
some of them are more or less in
genious affairs, depending on the
ability of the mechanic. Mine was
a pretty punk affair, but as long as it
performed its function I had no kick
coming, and it had always worked
before. Probably because I never
went so fast before, for so soon as
I knew it was really a Hun in front
of me I never bothered to reduce
my motor, but dove full speed.
When you consider my speed is
somewhat over 130 miles an hour on
the level, you can imagine I was
making some time with gravity and
my heavy plane to help. It was
this tremendous speed which blew
the shutter shut. Being interested
to the exclusion of everything else
in sighting my gun, this sudden clos
ing of the shutter was sure ex
asperating, for I was coming up on
that Boche like he was standing still,
and having been pretty close to start
with the distance was sure diminish
ing at a rapid rate. Three times
that shutter closed on me. and three
times I yanked it open.
The Boche must have wondered
what was the matter with me as I
juggled up to him, for you know,
every time I fixed the shutter I had
to reaim the plane, because while
fixing the shutter contraption the
sensitive controls would jump the
plane out of line. Well, the third
time I fixed that doggone shutter I
was within two meters of that flee
ing Boche and still shooting when
one gun stopped working.
By that time I was so close as to
be in danger of collision. Would
that the lieutenant who had told me
to get close before shooting had seen
me then, for I nearly cut off the tail
of that Boche with my propeller.
Honestly, there was not more than
a foot of space between us when I
banked up on one wing, dove down
100 meters, making a complete turn
on the way, thus being in position
to shoot again. The Boche must
have thought I was somo crazy fool
with more ambition than flying skill.
Diving For Homo
Considering how close I had come
to him the first time I would prob
ably run into him the next time, so
must have been his thoughts, for
when I got in position to tire after
that 100 meters drop and turn he
was diving for home and mother
with all the engine the kaiser had
given him. I had a good motor my
self and promptly followed, opening
lire with my remaining gun until all
the cartridges were gone. The Boche
was diving very stteply then, but
since I had no more bullets I turned
back, hoping the Frenchman would
surely finish him. It was well I
turned back when I did, because
when I finished my "target practice"
1 noticed as I turned, right ahead
and a little over me .half a dozen
planes all mixed up. Naturally, I
thought it was several Spads mixing
it with the Boches and gave it no
further thought, except to keep a
close watch behind to see that no
little "Willie Hindenburg" followed
me as I dove for home.
This was not the case, however,
as I learned from the Frenchman
when he Anally landed. You have
probably been wondering where that
Frenchman was all this time, eh?
Well, like the dependable pilot he
is, he was right behind me all the
time, and whenever I got out of the
way he got a few shots in himself.
But he noticed other things that I
did not, or rather he had them im
pressed on him, for no sooner had
he begun the attack on the biplane
than the Frenchman noticed a lot
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Hot Work
Making a quick turn, and climb
ing as he did so, he looked around
to see the cause of all the smoke
streamers. It was no other than
those four planes which I had
thought were Spads. According to
the Frenchman, as soon as I jumped
the biplane, one of these four Boches
chasse planes come down on me. I
was blissfully ignorant of all this,
however, having plenty to occupy
me directly ahead. The Frenchman,
being right behind me got the bene- t
fit of this attack, and kept them so
busy trying to hit him—that I was
unmolested while I emptied my gun
at their bigger brother. Even at
that, he got off with nary a bullet
in his plane, while I had seven. Oh,
yes, I knew when they hit—l heard
them. It was when I stood up on
one wing and dove to keep from
cutting off the Boche's tail. In mak
ing this maneuver, one wing was
thrown right in front of the gunner
and that was the one that got punc
tured. Even above the noise of the
motor I could hear the ripping
sound as the bullets tore through
the fabric, and I wondered anxiously
as I whirled out of range whether
my tank was hit.
Tlic Damaged Plane
Not taking any chances of my
motor stopping, I switched the lever
into the gravity feed tank, but as
the air pressure continued to hold
on the other tank I soon switched
it back. When I arrived at camp
I discovered the reason my one gun
had stuck. The connection between
I the gun and the motor had been shot
[ off. The other damage consisted of
five holes in the upper wing—none
very close to me, but making it nec
essary to put on a new wing, and
one in a lower wing. A little later
it was discovered that half my
"Becky" had been shot away by an
explosive bullet.
Fortunately, I made a good land
ing, and not having much strain on
her she did not break. Yea, boy!
Dad, that guardian angel might have
had another cold sweat, but he sure
did his duty well, for nary a bullet
touched me. Just the same, a lieu
tenant who sometimes commands the
escadrille led me aside and im
pressed on e the fact of being more
careful, and not dive into a light in
such a headlong fashion. To hear
him talk, one would think I was
real valuable, which is rather an
amusing thought when one consid
ers my Hun score stands at zero.
Perhaps we got that Boche, how
ever, because he certainly was div
ing steeply when I let up, and the
Frenchman started in. I know a
bunch of my bullets went home, for
I saw them enter the body of the
machine where the pilot and ob
server were. Here's hoping, anyway.
Sometimes, though, it takes quite a
while to get confirmation, so I don't
expect to hear anything for several
days.
WALTER.
Men Prominent in Affairs
of Union County Register
Lewisburg, Pa., Sept. 21.—Among
the prominent registrants in Union
county between the ages of 18 and
46, who appeared before draft
boards in the county were: Judge
Albert W. Johnson, president judge
of the Union-Snyder district; Sheriff
C. M. Renner, of Lewisburg; Regis
trar W. S. Wilcox, of Bucknell Uni
versity; Guy F. Roush, Union County
Food Administrator; W. L. Done
hower, Federal Fuel Administrator
for Union county; Prof. W.W. Spigel
meyer, superintendent of the public
schools of Union county; District At
torney C. C. Lesher, Attorney Cloyd
N. Steinlnger, legal representative of
state draft headquarters for Central
Pennsylvania..
WELL KNOWN WOMAN DIES
Lowistown, Pa., Sept. 21.—Mrs.
M. M. Lindsay, who for fifteen years
conducted a restaurant at Burnham,
died at the Shamokin State Hospital
where she was taken a short time
ago for an operation. Her husband
survives. Burial will take place at
HolUdaysburg.
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