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The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1911-12-01
From the ereensburg Signal

The Second Semi Annual meet
ing of the Interstate Editorial AS
ISOLATION was held in Liberal, Kan
sas an last Saturday, November
the IS. and while not so large as
the previous meeting it was an
enthusiastic and although several
of the members who had been as
signed places on the program were
unable to be present on account of
sickness and business interests
their places were taken care of by
some of the members present.
The morning hour was taken up
by an automobile ride over the
city and in viewing some of the
numerous improvements of Liber
al. At 2;30 p, m. president Mill
man Of the Liberal News called
the association to order for the
! first business session of the meet
ing after which the program was
carried out as nearly as possible,
and while none of the members
lay any claim to being orators or
public speakers some very good
points were brought out by some
of them. The following subjec's
being discussed: What Shall We
Printf" Editorial Matter, The Line
Between News and Advertising. A
very interesting paper written by
E. H. Anderson of the Hugoton
Hermes was read by T. W. Hub
bard.
As all the good things are saved
for the last there was no exception
to the rule and at 4:30 the princi.
pal speaker of the association, Ex-
Congressman Chas. F. Scott of the
lola Register was introduced and
for nearly two hours we listened
to one of the best speakers ever
sent by Kansas to the House o
Representatives. Mr.. Scott told of
his trip to Rome as Represen-
tative Of the United States in the
bi.yearly meeting Of the Interna-
tional Institute of Agriculture
telling about the great work the
Institute is doing for the farmers
of every nation on the globe. Mr.
Scott also gave his observations OF
the difference between the hotels
and police Of European countries
and our own country.
After Mr.. SCOTS address an ad
iournment was taken until 7:30,
when the members Of the associ-
alton were the guests Of the Lib
eral business men and Editors Mill
man and Eddy at an elaborate
eleven coarse banquet at the ho-
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1911-12-01
From The Plains Journal


A very interesting meeting of
the Interstate Editorial Association
was held at Liberal last Saturday.
Some of the members were sick or
we're kept away by other business.
but those present enjoyed an in
teresting, instructive session,
Chas. F. Scott, editor of the lola
Daily Register, made very inter-
esting address mostly concerning
his travels in Europe this summer
while delegate to worlds farm
ing congress. His address lasted
an hour and a half and was full of
information and interest Mr. Scott
has made record as a statesman
while in congress. and the associa-
ton was fortunate in securing his
attendance. The visitors we've
shown over the city in autos pi-
loted by the Liberal editors, Ray
Millman of The News and c. G,
Eddy of the Democrat. The $780,.
600 system of waterworks will be
soon complete, foundations being
made for a fifty foot brick build
ing on the main street to be used
as a furniture store. $4,000 worth
OF broomcorn in the ware rooms
awaiting shipment. Some fine res
licences recently completed and
Others starting. There have been
about twenty additions made to
the townsite since it started and a
good continuance growth is assur-
ed In the exhibit of printing
some of the publications were not
represented, but some fine work
was shown. A gold cup was given
to the Association by c. G. Eddy
to award at each meeting to the
publication winning the most point
in the exhibits of printing.
After the business session was
over, the editors were then escort
ed TO the dining room of the Hotel
Cimarron where there were covers
laid for twenty-five guests. A ban
ouet of nine courses, interspersed
with impromtu addresses and Soc
ial conversation rounded out the
days entertainment from the citi-
zens of Liberal.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1911-12-01
stFrom The Guymon Herald[

ltrOm IHe Iuymoh IAeia-ul.
Liberal was the meeting place
Saturday of the members of the
Interstate Editorial association.
While the number present was not
what it should have been, never
theless Tie meeting was one of
profit to every member Of the as
ISOLATION who made it a point to
be on hand and partake of the
hospitality of her two good news
paper fellows, Ray Millman and
Carl Eddy. The forenoon was de-
voted principally to shop talk
am ng the boys and the entering
of exhibits from the competing Of
fees. Then came an auto ride
about town which was one of the
pleasant things Of the day. Time
was when we "had it on Liberal, ="
but now we must confess things
have changed. The railroad divis
ion has made Liberal one of the
the great towns of the southwest.
The splendid hotel and depot
erected there by the Rock Island
at a cost of thousands of dollars,
is a thing Of beauty and a joy for
ever. The business section of the
town as well as the residenue sec.
ton, has made a wonderful growth
in the past years. Everywhere
you notice the unmistakable Signs
of alive town which is still coming
The Herald is pleased to note the
wonderful advancement made by
Liberal and trusts that misfortune
of no kind arises to hinder growth
of prosperity.
After dinner, wh.n the usual or
der of business has been transact
ed and the regular part of the pro
gram had been endured, the edi-
tors had the pleasure of listening
to an excellent address by former
congressman chas. F. Scott. from
the Second congressional district
in Kansas. Mr.. Scott is a pleas
ing and entertaining speaker. He
spoke entertainingly for a couple
of hours upon his recent trip tc
Italy, where he went as a repre-
sentative of this government to at
tend the international Agriculture
congress Experiences Of his triE
were pleasantly related and the in
teresting things of the old world
were forcibly brought to the at
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1911-12-01
For Sale

A good National Cash Register,
good as new, with electric attach
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Farmer Brothers.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1911-12-01
From the Hooker Advance

Association and be glad you are a
member OF that organization.
We took in the association of
editors held at Liberal last Satur-
day and are glad we did so. Be-
fore going we thought it might not
be a fitting place for a kid of our
age to go and show our superior
ignorance among older men but
we went and we're very much sur
prised and grati6ed to know that
the majority Of the members were
young men, scarcely more than
boys and we felt very much at
home right from the start.
AS soon as No. 2 arrived that
morning the editors were hustled
into waiting automobiles and CIV
en- a whirl about the city and
shown the sights, especially the
residence portion and broomcorn
warehouses. Liberal sure has
some swell homes and they don't
show signs Of having been built
very long either.
A good many dwellings are un-
der course of construction and
judging from the start made they
will be a credit to the town when
completed. The new water works
system is also being installed and
will be a great convenience. Alto
gether, the town shows what a
bunch of live business men can do
when they put their heads together
and their shoulders to the wheel,
when knockers are not tolerated
and new enterprises given encour.
agement.
Editors were there from various
towns between Greengburg and
Guymon but owing TO lack OF
space we cannot print all their
names and the different papers
represented.
The business meeting was held
in the city hall at 2 O'Clock p. m
After the business had beer
transacted several talks were
made by the members present
that should result in a benefit tC
those who heard them.
After the editors had exhausted
their vocabularies Elk Congressman
Scott made a speech which, alone
was we'll worth going to hear. HI
represented the United States this
year at the International Agricul
tural Congress held in Italy ant
merely talked on what he hac
heard on the trip. While we have
heard more eloquent orators in oul
time than Mr. Scott. yet he has {
way of impressing facts on hi
hearers that they don't forget rea
soon. We enjoyed his speech
very much and believe if he land
the Job of Secretary Of Agriculture
for which he is slated. that depart
ment will have good man at it
head.
The funny part of the whole
affair was the prize offered by thu
Liberal Democrat for the bes
the best sample of job work. TIL,
Democrat won its own prize b!
a vote of the members present
but Eddy turned it over to tn
Bucklin Banner, he next hIghes
contestant, who promptly gave /
to the Association with the an
nouncement that it would becom,
the property Of the paper winning
it three successive times. Thi
was a very commendable act OF
the part of Eddy and Miller anc
they deserve credit for the spiri
of fairness they showed.
The next meeting place was no
decided upon but Greensburl
and Meade both made bid for i
and we suppose that it will 60 tc
one Of these places.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1911-12-01

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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-09
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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-09
MELVIN VANIMAN, AERIAL ADVENTURER

misadventures for Vaniman knew
nothing about ballooning), he got his
picture. It was a great success-so
great that he began to specialize on
captive-balloon photography. After in
credible difficulties he managed to get
a superb view of Sydney Harbor He
did Paris from an equally elevated
vantage point, and even essayed the
Eternal City.
Now, it is not easy to make mega
tives from a whirling and pitching air
bag, and moreover, there must be a
convenient gas house near by to sup
ply the ascending principle. After
many troublous adventures, Vaniman
conceived the idea of a dirigible bal
loon as the solution of his problem,
and at once set about building one.
He had but little money, and one does
need money in such ventures. How
ever, Mrs Vaniman was game, so the
courageous twain abandoned house
keeping and went to live in a little
shed outside Paris, which was at once
a workship, a living room, and house
of-my-dreams, where a giant dirigible
soon began to take form. Here there
came to visit him an American tempo
rarily residing in Paris, who, both on
his own account and through his son,
the first flyer of the American army,
has contributed very largely to the
progress of aeronautics. Frank S.
Lahm became Vaniman's friend, for he
loved to shop-talk about balloons. One
day Lahm told Yaniman about an ad-
'vertisement inserted in some French
papers by Walter Wellman, asking for
designs for a dirigible balloon to be
used in an attempt to reach the North
Pole from Spitzbergen. Vaniman had
an idea for dirigible. He submitted
it to Wellman; and thus it came
about that his first two efforts to
launch a dirigible balloon and cruise
in it were made in the Arctic regions,
with the North Pole as an objective
point.
There have been many DOUBTS eX-
pressed as to the seriousness of these
Polar adventures. I had heard of
them and laughed at them myself, but
I got over it. The first thing that
caught my eye at Atlantic City as
approached the balloon shed was a
large canvas door built on the sea-
ward side of the shed. 1t was no frail
door or mere canvas covering. Great
hawsers, such as the largest ocean
steamers use in docking, stretched
more than a score of them-from
various points in the canavs to heavy
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-09

ious reason that no one has yet fully
fathomed-the thing that drove the
pioneers relentlessly over the next
range of hills in front of them and
started Peary to the Pole. OF course
he comes of pioneer stock, and, almost
equally of course-like the Wrights,
like his prototype, Laughton o. Zigler,
the inventor-hero of Kipling's South
African story, THE Captive" and one
may add, like most of our Presidents
he comes from Ohio There he was
born some forty odd years ago, in a
little town JUS out of Springfield. His
first ambition, curiously enough, was
to be a singer His first venture car
ried him into a Chicago opera com
pany. The opera company went on a
Western tour, crossed the Pacific, be-
came plague-bound, and stranded in
Honolulu, and the bent which has
been the dominating one in Vani-
mans career got its direction. For
Vaniman had no ticket home, nor
money to buy one, and, on account of
the plague, could not have come even
if he had. AS he walked down one of
Honolulu's main streets he saw pho
tograph gallery, went inside, got ac.
quainted, and persuaded the photo
grapher to lend him a camera. One
day the photographer put some Of
Vaniman's pictures, out on view, and
they make the populace stop and look
| AS Vaniman worked ia Honolulu he
constantly studied his camera, and
finally built a camera of his own de-
sign. With this he took pictures that
attracted the attention of representa-
tives of the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company, operating to various ORR
entail ports out of San Francisco, and
led to a proposition that he go over
all their routes and make views at
every port. Vaniman insisted, as part
of the terms, on a pass for a certain
young lady all the way from Middle
Western town out to Honolulu, and a
financial consideration sufficient to
enable a young married couple to en-
joy a circuitous honeymoon. The pass
was furnished; the young woman
came on from the Middle West; A
Honolulu clergyman was called in, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Vaniman sailed
for New Zealand and Australia.
1t was in New Zealand that Vani-
man began his ballooning career. A
beautiful harbor had to be photograph.
ed and no commanding site was avail
able from which TO take it. The oblig,
ing steamship company commander.
ed an airship, and, after some painful
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-09

records for time in the air and dis
lance covered, everyone knows Not
everyone knows that to Vaniman be-
longs the credit for pushing the adj
venture of 1910 to It's conclusion, and
while the others who came back on
the Trent were explaining the defeat,
Vaniman was counting up the sue
cesses of the adventure while they
were condemning the famous equili-
orator, he was declaring that without
it they would never have gone any
where, whereas with it they had
broken all worlds ballooning records.
He had not faltered a whit in his
faith in the dirigible. l knew then,
as | talked to him coming up the bay,
that he would be at it again, and that
somehow a hacker would be found.
During all last winter kept hear
ing of new backers-indifferen back
ers who were in the game for adver-
Using purposes; a committee from one
town, a boomer and booster from an
other, showmen of Coney Island, and
boards of trade of various inland
cities.
Then ! heard of one who was after
Vaniman's own heart. He was rich
he could afford to lose his money he
wanted no advertising for himself or
his business, and he wished the eX-
petition to be named The Vaniman
Expedition" and the balloon Akron,
after his home town.
When it was proposed that his trade
mark be used as figurehead for the
airship, Mr.. Weiberling replied:
Il wouldn't cheaper myself and Mr..
Vaniman by doing that. | backed the
enterprise for myself personally be-
the money. When Mr.. Vaniman came
to me to ask how much | could build 4
balloon bag for, he had some back
ers. ! saw they were putting OBJ
stacles in his way because they didn't
understand him or his problem. re-
membered the days when | was a boy
with an idea about detachable rims.
recalled how | had had to fight and
struggle and face opposition in a thou
sand forms. | had made vow with
myself in those days that if ever il
became my privilege to help some one
else who was fighting for an idea, so
that his conflict with stupid people
who could not understand would be
lessened, | would step into the
breach"
A Prediction.
So the Akron took shape just as
Vaniman had dreamed of her in. his
heart while the America was chug-
ging along above the Atlantic And
that is why Vaniman ended his sec
ond Atlantic City campaign with a
good heart, i'm fine spirit, and with
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-09

railroad rails anchored in the sand.
On the inside the big canvas door was
a network of heavy ropes, merely COW
cred with canvas. Here was door
which practically could not blow in
built so that no wind that blew should
bulge it. There was something sin
cere about that particular piece of
work. 1t kindled my interest. Until
then had not dreamed that any really
serious transatlantic plans were form
ing.
Inside there were some rolls on the
shed floor, and rather short and
stubby man was cutting them open
with a pocketknife. He cut the last
piece of Irvine that held one of the
rolls and it opened, displaying folds OF
cloth-balloon cloth, as l afterward
learned to know it.
/ Isn't that fine?" the little man
spoke up; dry and as perfect as the
day l wrapped it up, and that was
over a year ago up in the Arctic. Not
a speck of mold or a worn spot in it,
( Overhead and about us in the big
shed the lines of the America were
then taking shape. The long steel car
below the deck was to give it a low
center of gravity, because the bal
loon used in the Arctic swung about
too much; there were five different gas
bags inside the main envelope be-
cause the balloon in the Arctic had
stood on her nose one day when the
gas suddenly ran to one end and the
heavier air to the other; there was an
equilibratOr of steel cables and gaso.
line casks, because an equilibrator
built of leather had torn itself free in
the Arctic, and had wrecked the eX-
petition only eleven hours out from
the starting point
! While the storm of newspaper criti-
cism was breaking over the Wellman.
Vaniman expedition last year, and the
America was not yet finished, was
daily at the balloon shed, week in and
week out. And | had not the heart
to say a word in criticism of one who
was so hard at work; ! never came TO
the shed so early that he was not
there before me--and l often came
down the ocean front for a sunrise
walk-and I never fingered so long
after dark as to outstay him. In those
days l would see him one day worry
| ing because a crank shaft trembled
under the pull of the propeller, and
the next day taking the whole shaft.
ing apart to see whether new fash,
ion of mounting it would overcome
the difficulty.
The Success of the America.
How Vaniman and his associates
worked away on the America until
she was at last airworthy, and how
they sailed away to break all worlds
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-09
BY ISAAC RUSSELL.

The story of the dirigible balloon in
America is not yet a great story, but
it cannot be told without telling Of
Vaniman. Melvin Vaniman, balloon
list, is a veritable embodiment of the
American spirit.
illogical, eate,
He greets tn embarrassed gods, nor
fears
To shake the iron hand of Fate,
Or match with Destiny for beers.
When the end came of the ill-star-
red Wellman transatlantic air voyage
and the America was lost, Vaniman
was not only not daunted; he was not
even abashed.
mo, l won't miss her, was his an
swer to sentimental inquiries con-
corning the lost airship. when / was
looking back at her from the deck OF
the Trent, l had another airship /
ready in my mind-quite a different
airship-and now that's what I'm 60
ing to build
Characteristic of him, too, was the
confident announcement of his plan
for another airship; yet as he stood on
the deck of the Trent and spoke those
bold words it must have seemed like
a baseless boast for he was practically
penniless and all but friendless.
AlyrC, hoe c,r,a nc tho f,,1
fillment of Vaniman's prediction. Smil-
ing as he stood beside her last week,
Vaniman told me how she was all that
his dream had been; how the new way
he had figured out to solve the equili-
orator problem was fully installed;
how the trebling Of the horsepower
had been accomplished; how the lift
Ing power of the gas bag had been
strengthened; and how the rudders
had been arranged for up-and-down as
we'll as sidewise control, which the
had alone last year,
The real reason there is another
balloon this year, and, in fact, the
reason why there was a balloon last
year, is that Vaniman is an extraordin-
airy man, a dreamer and a practical
mechanic, who has the faculty for put
ting his dreams into terms of steel,
and a logged loyalty to his vision
that makes it easy to sacrifice all
things else.
The Reason for His Dream.
The story of his years in America, in
the Arctic, and in Europe makes it
very plain why he is sticking to the
dream of going oversee by airship. 1t
is not for advertising that he is doing
it, nor for glory; it is for that myster-
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-09

none of that worried, overweight ex-
haustion in mind and body with which
he stepped aboard the America in
1910, to pilot her out to sea. That is
why he is as confident as ever of the
vast future for it-full of faith in the
coming dreadnoughts of the air, secure
in the belief that the dirigible has far
greater possibilities than the areo-
plane. His prediction is that we shall
ship whole batteries of artillery
guns, men, and ammunition-aboa
dirigibles, and drop them overnight
where they are most needed.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-09

The Lady Guardian (canvassing)-
What little darling! What are you
going to call him?
The Voter-we thought ter call i'm
Halbert, num-
The Lady Guardian-Are you real
ly? My 'usband's awfully keen on
names beginning with an H. That's
why we named ours 'Erbert.-Sketch.
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