The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-09-02

that half deafens Nl
you. The wind Of
the open spaces sings in your ears
The wide wings are lifting you stead
lily higher and higher in great s"eep
ing circles as you climb the ar iau,
ler toward he zenith. The world Hes
spread out beneath you like a coioreo
nap. You feel as free as the ohu'
If the air: you long to measure youi
speed with the eagles.
Suddenly there is a crashing explo-
sion behind and beneath you. and the
wide and steady planes seem W
crumple up like a sick crows "lns'.
The earth seems to leap up 10 nnee'
COL and the rushing gale OF air seems
RI tear the breath from your lungs
Your senses reel as the TREMENDOUS
null of gravity hurls you n our Dro-
ken machine and coughing engine W
the earth. Earth and SKY seem "
together in an awful burst OIL IAN
and blackness and blessed oph'lon
blot out the clouds and the gooo green
earth for you forever
It must be in some sucn niahno
that the aviator dies. There Is ou.
little evidence of the feelings tnat rio'
through the human brain wien
dropped from the clouds 10 the ca y.
beneath. Few men survive a laA VI
anv height. in spite of the numDei
who are meeting with accidents ~
their efforts to master the air. III
.,ito of the danger. which Is admit
tedlv great, the craze for the aeio
nlane and the sport of avlatloh Ii
steadily growing. Yet ten years aee
the heavier-than-air flyers were nN'
chimeras of a scientific brain.
On the seventeenth day OF Decem
bar 1909 a thin-faced man hurled MIN
self ont into the air from a sandy hill
side down in North Carolina. Inv
first of the wind rider IN the "oliu
history made a long, gliding hight IL
q binlane on the hill slope near hi''!
Hawk. Wilbur Wright was the MS
OF the bird men to rise superior 10 LII
air. Five years later the Drother y
tho first man to fly was trying u
new and powerful aeroplane under III
direction of the officers OF the Ohlle'
States army. On a September ai'ei
noon the strange new machine rose II
full flight, carrying Lieutenant sen
ridge as a passenger. OrVllle Wrlsh
was at the steering wheel. A gu,
wire was snapped by a whirling pre-
heller. the great wings crumpled u[
the mass of debris shot to the eartI
and Selfridge, the first of a long lin
of martyrs to aviation, was dead a
Fort Meyer.
Since that September afternoon, les
than two years ago., % men nave 81
en- ND their lives to conquer the ella!
tic and vet stable element-the al
Within one week this summer elgI
ayiators and dirigible b~alloOnists haV
been killed. Some notable things nav
been accomplished by the earnest ST.
dents and the more foolhardy OF tn
new school of exhibition flyers, but tn
price of success and mastery has bee
over a score of lives. Some or II
men still in the game Of flight hay
been dangerously injured time art
time. Several of the nations OF tt
world are beginning to wake up 10 u
danger OF inexperienced and irrespo
sible persons making flights. Austr
has passed laws regulating attemp
OF her citizens to conquer h a.
Russia has put the ban on h owniI
of machines by irresponsible person
hut it is generally understood tn
this is because of her fear Of the ne
distance annihilatOrs in the hands
nihilists and the radical d
In the United States a few folk a
beginning to wonder how long 1t W
be until something has to be done
stop the growing death roll amo
pioneers of the air. AviatOrs and a
alton were openly condemned a Il
days ago by an influential journal
Cleveland, Ohio.
ITO Those Who Exalt Themselve
the article was headed, and the I
lowing reactionary ideas were
messed: 1.-The craze for dirigible b
looms and airships should be lega
restricted. It is un%thinkable that
Creator intended that man should
habit the air or fly like the birds.
would have furnished him with win
The numerous deaths that have
Cured from attempts to fly sho
warn man that his habitation
home is the earth"
But in spite of warnings, publish
and spoken, the craze for aviation
mains unchecked. A thousand inv
tors are working in their shops,
in the belief that they are in sight
the final secret that will wrest
mastery Of the upper air spaces fl
the birds and place. it in the hands