12 Flying With Shaffer LIFE ON A QUIET DAY LETTERS FROM A DAUPHIN COUNTY BOY TO HIS MOTHER Escadrille Spud 3S. Secteur Postal 102, G. C. 22. Dear Mother: Since 1 wrote Dad a long letter vesterday. I must needs write you one also, else there might be jeal ousv and strife in the heretofore peaceful Shaffer household. Some people might call this a aood day to write letters, for it is ; rainy and, of course, flying is im possible. At least 1 hate the time, but you are probably aware that rainy days never did improve my disposition any. Not only that, but it's very chilly, even if I have a war bungalow to stay in. for there are onlv three panes in the window and the other three missing panes give nie a pain. Ventilation I have in plentv. but one can overdo any thing. as Dad is fond of saying. This is an excellent example and 1 am doing my best to cope with it. But a candle don't give much heat and also is pretty expensive fuel. Stove 1 have not. but. believe nie. just as soon as my punishment is up. I'll sure hie nie to town and get one. Yes. I have been punished. French Discipline No. not by going to prison, but in the usual original way of the * was given eight days arrite. ninv well look puzzled, and so did I when 1 read it. It certainly did not mean prison and 1 could not thin of anvthing else it might mean. Soon, however, it was explained to me that for eight days I was to be allowed no permission avvav from camp. Since aviators can alwa>s get an auto and permission to near by towns on bad days, you can see where the punishment came in. However, .not being a Frenchman, the punishment amused me. be cause there wits nothing I wanted i town, except a stove: so I can s. I have suffered so very much. . for the cause of all thts. I had for gotten to remove my altimeter, com pass and watch from my Plane when 1 went "en panne at Melette. Re suit: Someone took the watch and the fault was laid to me for not re moving it: but since the camp I had landed at was where m> old escadrille 1156> was stationed. I thought it was not necessary. The captain understood this when I ex plained it to him. but said he gave the punishment not so much for the loss as for the lesson it would teach me. It did. too. for a day later \ started out to hunt balloons and lost my propeller and part of. m. engine'in the air. Believe me. w'hen 1 got down I lost no time in prying every instrument off in sight, even using a cold chisel on the compass, and then requested a captain stand ing nearby to have three men guard the plane. ~ . Since the loss of niy propeller happened so soon after my punish ment for the loss of the watch, the Frenchmen had quite a lot of fun predicting how many days 1 vvouid get for losing the propeller. They still jokingly refer to it every time I go up in the air. Just the same, j losing one's propeller In the air is no joking matter, especially when there is nothing to land on but shell holes. But this incident just goes ; to show how aviators as a class re- i gard a "close shave. Flying With Madon The narrowest escape is always the most amusing—if one gets away | with if: if not. his folks get a no- I tiee and he gets a "croix de bois ; instead of a "croix de guerre. I am just beginning to realize | what an honor it was to fly with Madon and his lieutenants, the time I knocked down my Boche. Of course. Putnam often flew with him when he was in the escadrille. and he was only a "sergeant." but he was one of the few exceptions, for as a rule he flies with his officers as only one of them. Thus you can see that a pilot who is not an offi- j cer must have something to rec- j ommend him before the great Madon takes him along on his hunt- . In? trips. And the only thin? I had ( to recommend me was being an ■ American, which seems to be quite sufficient, as this particular "ace" has a very high opinion of an Amer ican's fighting ability. The fact that I knocked down a Boche during the tight raised his already high opin ion of Americans another notch. Reallv. I was more elated at up- , holding his ideal of an American than in getting the Boche. for if you will remember. I did not see "the Boche "crash." which would at least have been a fitting reward for my pains. Officers Great Help The officers, though, are all very nice to me. and now that both the , other Americans in the escadrille are on permission, one to America and the other in Paris, I am literal ly thrown on my own resources, as far as speaking French is con cerned. anyway. It is here that the officers are a ' creat help to nie. for I can under --•-.nd them where I cannot under stand others. Naturally, they are 1 rtter educated as a rule than the l—ual run of corporals and ser nts. As for the mechanics, after ♦hey get done chewing up several .• "vases I don't know whether they —e diking Chinese or Hawaiian. It really remarkable the difference *h which the different classes of : n speak this language. I sup •se the difference between a Bow- ! e y tough and a Boston professor would be a good comparison. Truly, t seems so to me at times, for in studying the books I have, natural ly I acquire the pure, unadulterat ed French, and then I go out and ; try a conversation, with the result that in less time than five minutes I'm in over my ears and lost as com- i pletely as the proverbial needle in j the haystack. So often has this oc cuxred that I finally gave up study-1 ing books, because in talking both conetructlon.of sentences and words are so entirely different. Quite I true, often very tingrammatical. but | spoken. Now. I simply carry a pocket dictionary around with me and when a word pops up that is unfamiliar I beein "chercher" right away. The Frenchmen are not abo* taking advantage of this hab it, and often chuck several sen tences of French slang at me. "fflßaerad!" is all I can answer to then sallies, for naturally I don't get a word, and the Frenchmen would Mke to die laughing at the ■ta&k expression on my face. T ad- Untt It's comical, but you should >eur them try to pronounce "thir teen." "the" and "thirty." One lieutenant in the escadrille spoke very good English, and another lieu tenant. becoming ambitious to learn the American language, he volun teered to teach him. Two days la ter I heard some of the results. He ,*■ had been specializing on the num bers and, not being able to get the pronunciation of "twelve" Just right, his French comrade, manlike, gave him the expression, "to hell," as an aid to the difficulty. He was Just as original about "eight," which also MONDAY EVEN TNG, i stuck on his tongue, telling him it j was pronounced like "egg." You | would have to be present to really know how funny it was. but you ! can imagine how I laughed when i he said "twenty eggs" for 26. Plenty or Carrots The Boche may be efficient. We hear enough about that character j isile of his anyway, but he cer tainly fogot a most important thing when lie came through here —not a ; doggone carrot has been disturbed. ! and as far as my observation in this j vicinity goes there is going to be a record crop. Thus 1 can see a hard winter ahead of me, for you ' know how much I love carrots. Only yesterday we had some of this dis ' appointing vegetable for dinner. The cook tried to make theni tasty ; by putting a milk dressing on them, which was about as successful, in my estimation, as mixing water with "pinard"—it don't help the "pinard" any and only spoils the water. I called it a disappointing vegetable * because it looks so much like a I sweet potato, but it certainly donT ] taste like one. Golly! what wouldn t I give for a sweet potato, and to think that not a one has passed by my mbuth since leaving America. Just received that magazine you promised me and which you re marked would please me so much. II was wondering at the time I read i your letter just what there would ;be in that magazine that would please me so much. Having read the article 1 know now. It could be no other than the one written so humorously by Irwin S. Cobb on "The Advantage of Being Homely." I get the point, mother, but you needn't rub it in. for Cobb is sure right when he says it's an advan tage—especically in war. Curtain it is that battle sears could spoil no beauty of mine. After the Huns Sorry 1 cannot give you any thrills in this letter. Former letters should give you enough to last awhile any way. Besides nothing has happened j of late except one tight. 6vhose ab sence of result made it of no im portance.—However, it may inter est you. There were seven of us. which is quite a bunch of fighting planes to maneuver in a body, and after some chasing a'round over the "piste" wc finally headed for Sois sons. grouped fairly close together. ' Arriving at that place we headed | east and soon were over Rheims 1 where we ran into some Huns, flying, as usual in one of their efficiency formations. I had heard of this ! particular type of formation before but had never actually seen it. The Boche were arranged in lay ers. five flying very high, four 1,000 i meters lower and six more very low. Even you can see the advantage of 1 this arrangement, for the only ab j solutely safe patrol to attack was i the high one. and that would not ! be doing any good, because all the i time the lower patrols would be carrying out their missions. So we i started down on the middle layer, ! but the usual gun jam occurred in | my case and I pulled up to fixed it. : As it required all my attention 1 I had lost my patrol by the time it I was fixed, but the air seemed to be I as full of Spads that night as Boche: 1 and I soon ran plunk into an es cadrille whose noses were painted | blue—ours are red—and with them | attacked the lowest patrol of six. i Guns worked all right, but although | I made an awful allowance for that Boche's speed my bullets seemed to ' have no effect. On coming up from 1 this dive I found my red-nosed com rades again and we started home. When we arrived there we were giv en quite a lecture by the patrol leader, who is a very officious Frenchman and delights in laying 1 the law down to us. Anyway, we were balled out for losing the patrol j during the fight and to prevent it j happening again, hereafter each s pilot will have a position assigned i to him as to his place in the forma -1 tion. and no matter where they go !he must keep that position. Such ' being the case. I can see where I 1 either cut somebody's tail off trying , : to keep in position, or be so busy following the leader I won't have time to shoot. I brought down a biplane Boche the other day with a lieutenant's plane. Both guns work- . 'ed perfectly, never jamming onco. ] 1 In fact they made so much smoke I lost the Boche. He crashed though, which makes my second official vic tory. Truly Dad, you can stick your | chest out now and crow a little ! louder. Looks as if the prophecy i Edgar Forney wrote to his mother .at Dauphin is coming true, part of ; it anyway, as to my coming back 1 all decora .ed up. Already I have been decorated twice, having re ceived a "Croix de guerre" with two palms—at least I will be when the I citations come through. The Jamming Gun Speaking of guns jamming, here is a little incident about a pilot from an escadrille near us. This ; Frenchman had attacked a balloon, i and as you put It his gun jammed at the critical moment, but he had come ten miles into Germany to get this "target practice" and he i was going to make that balloon burn ; if it took both wheels and a wing. It nearly did, too, for, still diving steeply at the balloon and naturally goiog at a terrific speed he pro- j eeeded to fix that exasperating gun. j He gave all his attention to it, too. ' Therefore he did not notice the . | balloon was getting almighty close. ' The next thing he knew he ran into : it. That a man could do such a 1 ! thing and live to tell about it sounds ! incredible, but he brought the black | 1 cross, which is painted on the side ! of every Boche balloon, back on his j I plane. This tale came from the cap- ' tain of our group, a man whose I word I would never doubt. How's f 1 that for a cure for a jammed gun, ! eh Dad? Sure he got the balloon, 1 but would you advise me to follow | the same line of action the next ' time my guns go on strike? I'm i not so sure but I might do the same j fool thing, for having gone after balloons several time I know Just how a flyer feels when the balloon burn. After one has taken all . that trouble, to say nothing of j dodging innumerable "Archies," in J getting there and then to have some- , thing happen to prevent his reward , —a Boche bonfire. Truly, it's enough to make a saint lose his religion. j Tells Shaffer's Fortune One of the feminine readers of my letters writes me vert- regularly Just to show you how cheering she is I Insert part of one of her letters. She here endeavors to tell my for tune from facts gleaned from read ing my letters. Read it and tell me how close she came to reading n,y true character. I am curious to know. "Your health is excellent, only trouble Is a slight brain storm from the amount of French it con tains. Life line broken and patched seems to indicate "vrilles" and forgotten 'safety belts.' However 'you'll live until you die. j "Humor bump well developed. Ad : vice is, marry girl who wouldn't 1 know a joke If she bumped against j it. She'll ask you if that's funny [ when you tell your best. Disposition sweet. This, however, is cultivated by a close application to candy and —and—Us it possible I read this line aright ?—tulips. Liable to be grouchy when there are no letters, or the 'lieutenant balls him out. In the main is rather i\bove the aver age.' " If it wasn't for the fear of being considered egotistical I would say that was pretty good—all except, of course, the "tulips" part. What do you think? As the exact time of my death is given you should be re assured. WALTER. CY HECKKRT WINS SHOULDER BARS AT CAMP HANCOCK Sergeant Cy Heckert has been pro moted to lieutenant, and transferred from Camp Hancock, Go., to spe cial duty at Camp Forrest, near Chattanooga, Tenn. Lieutenant Heckert was assigned to Camp Han cock with the Pennsylvania National Guard fourteen months ago. but on account of the nature of the work to which he was assigned he did not sail overseas. E. F. RENN MADE CAPTAIN Earle E. Renn. 1605 Market street, was promoted from first lieu tenant to captain in the United States Tank Corps, a message to his wife states. Before the war Captain Renn was an attorney at the Dau phin county bar. 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The fabrics are beautiful woolens, diat have been made to beautify windows, door V ~- soft and luxurious, and the tailoring is doorways, cozy corners and decorative to their lines, which means added scrv- 'h e designs are woven into these wonderful win ice mid appropriateness at any duty of a j'lj^ JciVkn 1 !wjj 1 t jr^ t - v ( a '" 11 " c and M/VpS Da p"aTn eJU^ott.™^.™' 1 narrow Tee X* QU f" Cu \ Uina -, fancy wlth mill IVJL looCo yd , 50c and 85c small roses, lace trimmed edge, pair ... 81.00 _ ... . 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VA/ "I Y"> 4~ A~y TTqFC; 1 C? 1 "IT O* An /\yvi IAD was t ' ie wor ' c Harrisburg women which crowded those store rooms last week V V 111 LCI I.ldLks X I UlIllollli with clothes for Belgium and France and it was the tireless work of women which classified • the thousands of pieces and sent them on their way overseas. That Are Unusual A S° Harrisburg's Towel and Linen Allotment Will >, Soon Be Raised Through a Timely Sale A prominent hat maker's entire plant has just f —\ Which OpCRS TOHIOrrOW been taken over bv the Government for the mak- S r- j . . , , „ • Good towels arc very scarce in the market because the Government has commandeered ing ot soldiers garments, and in order to give adc- Y t ' ie nia i or hy of the linens for war purposes. equate room for storage purposes the manufactur- ¥ ■' ur s * oc ' because no linens are being C\l -s\ TT 1 A • blue- each so.- ..n.l 19e Fancy all-linen Irish. 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There is an unusual demand tor these " e Sl '* { S ives them the sheer and delicacy that makes , rich fabrics of deep tone and lustrous texture them dress cottons of rare charm. Four destinct weaves guages. That means that Black Messaiine. 36 inches; yard $1.65 and $1.75 of this character are briefly described. 4.U-,.. n BSJSaagSK-UISKgs: Sit •-"=->' -"M. n German de " nS'ch''SHn T >?!££? "IS* 1 "": .-.v.v.v.v.v.v.v SS „££ SS*- " '" cl "' ha " -=• £s36® Black Satm Superior 40 inches; yard 4 .. . $3.90 Siik'Plaids. 36 inches Wide! in'good color's' yard 75c . Don't Wait tO find OUt Black Crepe ChaTmeise "vard ,3 °° and o SUk Fiber ,n white founds witUneat or /■!!'- jmmmmk ho ?r nyBond ' ,he : ,h -' W™ lobes'(or* bath' rob4s 'and "baby 'blankets.' ex'tra'he—vy "wooJ J" y° UrSlf . a " d btripe \ oile, 40 inches, >ard $3.50 finish, in Indian design and figures; yard 59c yOU 11 have a TCCOrd tO be Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Street Floor I Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Street Floor. | proud of. ' Marrisburg telegraph UNITED BRETHREN CONFERENCE ENDS Meeting at Myerstown Is Brought to an Abrupt End Myerstown, Pa.. Oct. 7. —Obeying I the State Health Department's order, although no direct request to do so had been received, the 119 th annual conference of the East Pennsylvania Conference. United Brethren in Christ, came to an abrupt close Sat j urday. It was the opinion of Bishop ! W. M. Bell, who presided, that the j strictest observance of the rule with I respect to the campaign against the spread of intiuenza be followed. | Ordination of candidates for el j ders' orders was held, all Sunday ap ! pointments canceled and the follow ing appointments announced: Allentown, Linden Street, G. A- Richie: Sixth Street, C. Mease; Ann \ille, S. F. Daugherty, D. D.: Balti more. Otterbein. P. B. Gibble; Avon. ' H. E. Schaeffer: Bellegrove, E. E- Bender; Berne. R. S. Arndt; Birds horo. A. Williams; BrunerviUe, R. S. I Heberlig; Cntawissa, S. A. Ranch; Chamber Hill. C. L. Early; Coates ! ville. I. W. Funk: Columbia, I. H. Balsbaugh; Cressona, L. R. Kramer: Denver. O. G. Romig; Elizabethtown, I. N. Seldomridge: Ephrata, C. A. I | Mutch: Florin. M. H. Miller: Grant-1 ville. G. W. Hess: Halifax, I. D. Isyw-' ery; Harrisburg. First, W. E. Daugh-J erty, D. D.; Otterbein, S. E. Hupp, D. D.; Derry Stret. J. A. Lyter, D. D.; State Street, H. F. Rhoad; Sixth Street. J. L. Jones: Hcrshey, R. It. Butter-wick. D. D.; Highsplre. M. H. Wert; Hillsdale, E. F. Cas tettcr: Hopeland, N. 1. Fake; Hum melstown, A. S. Lehman; Inter course. M. V. Freidinger; lona, W. E. Shoop; Jacksonville. H. 11. Fertig; Jonestown, H. A. Crlm. Lncaster, Covenant. G. D. Battorff, D. D.; North Queen, C. H. Holzingcr: Laurel Street, J. R. Bowerntaster. Lebanon, Salem, H. E. Miller, D. D.; Trinity, B. F. Daugherty, D. D.; Memorial. M. H. Jones, D. D.; Beth any, G. W. Hallntan; West, R. C. Spangler; Hebron. O. T. Ehihait: Pleasant Hill. I. H. Albright, Ph. Lebanon Circuit, H. K. Geiger; Ling lest own, L. D. Godschall; Lititz, C. S. Miller; Lykens, S. L. Rhonds; Manada Hill, E. M. Rhoads; Lykens Circuit, G. W. Rotherniel; Manheim, A. L. Haesseler; Manor. M. Groft": Middletown. E. A. G. Bossier; Mil let sburg, O. Mease; Montclair, J. E. Keene; Mt. Carmel, J. C. Deitzler; Mt. Joy, C. A Snavely; Mountville, It. E. Long: Myerstown, I. M. Hcr shey; Neffsville, S. G. Kauffntan; New Holland, C. E. Rettew. Northampton. I. B. Koons; Ober tin, H. S. Kieffer; Palmyra, First, E. O. Burtner, I>. D.; Second. O. B. Longenecker; Paradise, A. G. Nye; Penn Brook, H. M. Miller; Peqiies. M. K. Groff: Philadelphia, First, C. Y. Utrich; Second. X. I- Linebaugh; Third, A. K. Wier; Pine Grove, R. F. Morgan; Pottstown, J. A. Keiper; Reading Zion. C. E. Boughter; Trin ity. H. F. Boeshore; Salem, D. D. Buddinger: Rocherty, W. Kriek:j Royalton,' C. R. Beittel; Sloverdaie, . E. Oliver; Schuylkill Haven, G. M. COMPARE your pay envelope with that or , ; our soldier in France. He nets only 933 a month. He sacrifices . I his home, position and good wages. that you shall never know the ,j despotism of Hun rule. i What sacrifices will you nvtke to help him win the war? What will you subscribe from J your pay envelope for the Fourth | Liberty Loan? Buying Liberty Bonds is only a loan to your gov | eminent: you'll get your money | back, with interest paid twice a year. The time to save is NOW when you have the money and wnen your government most needs your support. V J \ Richter; Shnmokln, First, H. J. | Behney;; Second, J. F. Brown; Sha mokin Circuit. H. P. Light; Stcelton, I J. F. Daugherty; Sunburv. J. M. Wal ters; Tower City, S. G. llans; Tre j mont, B. F. Goodman: Union, 1. It. I Mac Donald: Valley View, H. M ; Mentzer: West Willow, B. M. Bren- I naman: Wiiliamstown, C. A. Sollen [ bcrgei ; . j Reading was selected for the 1919 | conference. ONE WOMAN REGISTERED One German alien woman was j registered at police headquarters Saturday under the law requiring every enemy alien female over four -1 teen years of age who resides within , a half mile of a .munitions plant or government plant, to register. OCTOBER 7, 1918. U. S. Not to Distinguish Between Nonunion and Union Telephone Men I The Cumberland Valley Telcphono | Company has received notice frbm ; Postmaster Burleson that represen j tations which are being made , throughout the country that it is the desire of the government that | employes of the telegraph and tele | phone companies should join various i unions are fnlse, and that in its ! operation of tho telegraph and tele | phone systems the Post Office De- I partment will not distinguish be- I twt;en nonunion and union employes, but will employ men solely because of the fitness for the positions which they seek. At the same time, announcement was made that a committee, com posed of William S. Bryan, assistant (superintendent. Division of Post Of- I lice Service; John B. Colpoys, spe cial iiKent, Department of L,abor; I Union N. Bethell, first vice-presi j dent, American Telephone and Tele i graph Company. F. B. MacKinnon, I United States Independent Tele- I phone Association, and Miss Julia S. I O'Connor, representing the organ ized telephone workers of the coun- I try. has been appointed to investl | gate the working conditions and j wages paid to the employes of tele- I graph and telephone companies, and report as to what improvement I should be made in their working j conditions, what wagps should be paid to various classes of employes and the feasibility of standardizing ' their wages. VETERANS OF THE ALPS ATTRACT LARGE CROWD Liberty Loan Rally in Reser voir Park Is One of Suc cesses of Campaign A great crowd of Italians wi*h hundreds of Americans assembled in Reservoir Park yesterday after noon to see the squad of thlrty-tlvei Alpine veterans and fourteen buglers from the Italian Army, under tho command of Captain Lampugnani and a junior officer. With them were two American soldier interpreters, and the whole squad was under the command of Captain Moriarity, of the American Army. Tho following speakers addressed the crowd at Reservoir Park: Cap tain CJ. Andrew Moriarity, Captain Ernest tluy Lampugnani, l.ieuten ant Barbotti Rettino, Captain A. W. Ingram, of the British Army, and F. Fiscar, vice consul of the Ital ians in Pennsylvania. The speakers were introduced by Peter Magaro. The Rev. Ben Samn, of Steelton, opened the meeting with prayer. After the meeting tho foreign sol diers paraded to Steelton. and at 8.55 le f t the city.