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The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-02
RECIPROCITY IN CANADA.

While the Canadian reciprocity bill
was before the Senate Of the United
States those who fought it proclaimed
as a main ground of their opposition
their belief that 1t would give Canadian
q griculture an advantage over the Am
erican farmer In the markets of the
United States. They harped upon the
cheapness of the lands on which the
Canadians raise their crops and the
high and constantly mounting price
per acre of the farms in the Western
United states. There were officers OF
Granger societies who took up the cry
and made as much noise as they could
against the ratification of the treaty.
the reciprocity bill went
through. Now the scene OF the con-
test over reciprocity has been trans
ferred to Canada, and what is happen
ing there? Why. curiously enough,
Canadian politicians who are arrayed
against the measure call upon Canad-
ian farmers to vote IL down for the
reason that agriculture In the United
States is so much better developed
than IL is I'm Canada that the Canadian
farmer will be swamped by the mum
dation of food products from the Unit
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boos to be fixed up i'm the meantime.
Talk has been rife of a willingness on
the part of ultra anti-reciprocity in
terests in the United States to spend
money in the effort to make the Ca
madam election go their way. Between
now and the election there viii be
time for other anti-reciprocity stunts
to be arranged. What is there to pre-
vent the contrivance of horrible exam
pies of American competition? Moth
ing could be easier than to bargain for
a series of shipments of American farm
products to Canada at prices that
would stock Canadian farmers. 1t may
be undertaken between now and the
end of the campaign, and if it is the
Americans who arrange it possibly will
be some of those who while the reci-
procity bill was pending in the Con-
gress of the United States were loud
est in denouncing reciprocity as a me-
mace to the American farmer.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-02

had been instructed 10 do to come
down. and few moments thereafter I
landed as lightly rs bird, feeling
that my first flight had indeed been a
triumph unmarried In any way and
entirely disproving the discouragng
things l had heard about the dlfi-
culties of learning to fly.
l landed with the wind and going at
a speed well up between fifty and SIX
ty miles an hour. and not twenty feet
from where i touched the ground was
high fence. Into this 1 crashed at
full speed. l felt sudden Jar and
heard the loud noises of splinterlne
wood all about me-so loud indeed
that felt that the heavens were tum-
bling about my ears. Then l felt an
other jar as fell to the earth, and
when had recovered my senses suf-
ficiently to examine the wreck found
that there was not much left except
the seat and me. For the seat l had
no very high regard, but was mighty
glad and grateful to find that | was
able to get up and walk about with
only score or SO Of sore spots dis
tributed over my body.
I must have been an awful sight to
behold. From the very beginning Of
my flight, unaccustomcd as l was to
hurtling at such n rate through the
air, the wind had dashed my eyes as
though with whipcords, and my eye
balls had become sore and in1amed.
The oil from the engine had been
dashed back on to my face. and there
It had mingled in grlmy brotherhood
with the water that streamed from
my eyes under the lashing of the
wind.
1t took me a long while to get used
to this pain caused in the eyes by the
rushing air, and during the next few
weeks when l began flying with the
Gnome engine l got double dose of
lubricating oil in my hair, all over my
face and down my neck.
few with the first Gnome engine
ever put upon the market 1t was
short time after l had taken my ini-
tial lessons from Grahame-White and
when l was in the school run by Bile
riot himself at Pau.
1t was a vastly different matter to
start fight with this new motor.
Instead of having an easy run along
the ground and lifting at speed OF
about thirty miles an hour. as l had
done with Grahame-White's Anzani.
now found myself rushing along at
nearly fifty miles an hour almost as
soon as the mechanics let so of the
machine. Here my poor eyes got a
lashing which l shall never forget and
which daily nearly blinded me until I
became accustomed to flying at this
tremendous speed.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-02

Uncle Sam himself IL going into the
moving picture show business. With
the authority OF President Taft, a corr
tract has been entered by the govern
ment officials and n Chicago firm for
the purpose Of reproducing in moving
pictures all the various activities OF
the nation. The pictures will be shown
in hundreds OF moving picture houses
Marines at work, on battleships. gun
ners firing at the hulk OF an old bat
tieship, cavalry drills mine and rescue
work, plant and animal industry, road
building and every single activity OF
the government will be shown on the
films. This will be an advance along
lines that will be especial
Iy beneficial to the non-readlng pub
lie. ti-l.af..i1 Jiklil A.i,sA
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-02

Longer Enlistment For Sol
diers Will Benefit Nation

By Major General JULIUS sTAHEL York. Civil
War Veteran

AM heartily in accord with General Wood in the belief that
should have longer enlistment for soldiers in the rgu
- lar army of the United States.
TERM OF ACTUAL SERVICE MIGHT
INCREASED BENEFIT TO
COUNTRY LARGE AFTER THAT
THE COULD FORM A RESERVE ONLY TO CALLED UPON
OF ACTUAL
and always have been greatly interested in the army of
the United States That need well drilled thoroughly trained
army there doubt but of the opinion that present
army of 100000 is LARGE ENOUGH
This body of well drilled should in EMERGENCY fur
nh well hood officers and should be the skeleton which
to build emergency army of million and half And it is
hard conceive of any emergency in which this country would need
could find for million and half of soldiers That
number could HANDLE ANY ARMY that foreign power could
land this continent.
America is situated differently from of the other world
powers 1t is PECULIARLY ISOLATED and there great
foreign power that could send EFFECTIVE army against
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ed States, says the Evening wiscon,

ed States, says the Evening wiscon.
sin.
In Canada, as was the case on this
side of the line, the existing admins
tration is supporting the treaty. The
existing administration is composed of
members of the Liberal party. Con-
sentative papers have been printing
offers from alleged American fruit.
dairy and provisions firms to sell
cheese, fruit, vegetables and other pro-
visions to Canadian dealers at less than
the prevailing Canadian rates as soon
as the reciprocity agreement is con-
firmed. The Liberals have denounced
these offers as not genuine, but ar
ranged for the purpose of stampeding
the Canadian farmer against reciproc-
ity
Nor do the Conservatives confine
themselves to prophecies of what would
happen after the ratification of the
treaty. They cite a specific instance
OF carload of sheep recently shipped
from Ohio and sold on the Toronto
market below the Canadian prices.
The Liberals. on the other hand, claim
that these sheep were purchased with
money from the Conservative cam
paign fund and that the transaction
resulted in n loss of STA.
The Canadian election will not occur
until the latter part OF next month.
There will he a chance for other buga-
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-02

that taught me to fly much as one
teaches n boy to swim by throwing
him I'm the water and letting him
strike out for himself.
/ Find Myself In the Air.
At the end Of the mile straight away
on the course was a road crossing the
field at right angles and ut an eleva-
ton of several feet above the rest of
the ground. Without thinking much
about this road and feeling perhaps
that so slight and so gradual an en-
bankment was not n serious obstacle,
I went dashing merrily on and up the
slope toward the highway.
A few minutes later my utter as.
constituent may be imagined when I
suddenly realized that was not upon
the ground at all, but was sailing
gracefully through the mir Mt height
of about eighty feet above the earth.
The explanation Is simple enough to
me now. When the front of my ma
chino took the slope of the embank-
ment 1t rose until the slant of my
planes was exactly what was neces-
sary for the impact of the air to get
under them and give the required
lifting power for the machine to fly.
In other words, the embankment did
for me what might have done for
myself had my wheel not been tied.
and 1t sent my machine upward into
the air as gracefully and as easily
as though 1t had been purposely operat-
ed for that result by the most skilled
aviator.
For the first few minutes my aston
ishment was so great that I did abso-
lutely nothing but sit motionless and
let the Bleriot take its course. Then
l pulled myself together and tried to
remember everything that Gmhame-
White had told me about how to man.
age the machine.
My one thought was to get back to
my starting point, for by this time I
had gone beyond the smooth fields and
WINS flying over rough and dangerous
ground that would have meant instant
disaster had I landed upon II. So, In
order to turn. thrust my left foot
gently forward, and l shall never for
get my thrill of triumph as I found
the Bleriot gradually sweeping about
In wide and easy circle to the left
that soon brought me again back to
the smooth fields and facing townrd
the direction from which had come.
An Unexpected Disaster.
As approached my starting place I
showed my wheel gently forward, 40
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-02

According to the new game law you
cannot take a dog into the woods dur
ing the open deer season. He may
legally be shot by anyone discovering
him. The partridge season opens ST.
multaneously with the open season
for deer hunting. You will probably
see that If you take your partridge
birds he may be shot by anyone who
so desires, and with the law to back
his action. 1t Is clear that deer hunt
ers who are watching runways will
not want dogs roaming about, bark
ing and frightening the animals, and
it is also apparent that II will be
something of an injustice not TO per-
NIT the partridge hunter the privilege
of using his dog in the hunt.
From our view of II the new law
will be conductive to the increase of
the birds, comments the Iron ore of
Ishpeming. But with one crowd hunt
ing partridge and the other deer
thers's apt to be some confusion and
the shooting Of innocent men may
continue as before. To hunt partridge
one has to go through the woods pref
ty generally. To hunt deer one has
TO go slowly and quietly Look out
for the fellow who shoots at shadows
and sounds!
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-02

The future Of American prosperity
depends upon the wisdom of legislators
and the general public in dealing with
business A crisis has been reached In
which If this country does not go for
ward It will go backward. The preju-
dice against Industries organized on a
large scale will hurt the nation II 1t
Is not restrained. This is an age when
business everywhere is undergoing re-
adiustment-of economies made posi-
BILE only by magnitude of production.
Competing countries are not obstruct-
ing this tendency Germany practical
" observes its inevitability and gives
it encouragement We must compete
with Germany and to do this we must
not refrain from using the most EN-
cient methods of production at our
command.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-02

After learning that the mines OF the
copper country were well along In the
last stages OF tuberculosis we sup
pose the president OF the United States
concluded II was hardly worth while
spending any time cultivating ac-
quaintances i'm that region, remarks
the Ishpeming Iron ore, so he decid-
ed to go To a real live future holding
district and made his plans for Mar
quette county. II is one of the un-
fortunate happenings that accompany
"A funeral.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-02

The town of Grasse, i'm France, is
one of the largest cepters for the man
ufacture of perfumes and essences.
Here the great distilling plants are OPP
Grated, surrounded by flower gardens
that cover 10000 acres of ground. The
place was settled by Jews from Sar-
DINA in the sixth century and has ever
been n point of interest to tourists. be-
cPuse of it's flower gardens and pic
turesque situation
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-02
NO PAPER MONDAY.

:. Monday is Labor Day, and n
:. holiday in this state, and To
= permit the employees Of this
:. paper TO enjoy II along with
:. other "sons of toll" there will
:. be no issue Of The News that
:. day. The only Labor Day cele-
:. bration I'm the copper country
:. will take place at Hancock, un-
:. der the auspices of the Trades
:. and Labor council, and that
:. event will be on a big scale,
:. practically the total member
:. ship OF each organization anil
:. lated with the council having
:. arranged to join I'm the festivi-
:. ties. Labor will make a par
:. ticularly fine showing I'm the
:. big annual parade. and other
:. citizens will unite in helping
:. to make the day an enjoyable
:. and successful one.
:. In this connection the Labor
:. Day proclamation OF Governor
:. Chase $. Osborn is appropriate.
:. 1t Is as follows:
:. THE American people have
:. from time immemorial honored
:. labor as the basis of social
:: worth and cause of human
:. progress. Therefore, |, Chase
:. $. Osborn, governor Of the
:. state of Michigan. I'm accord :
= with established rules and GUS
:. toms; do request the citizens OF
:. the commonwealth TO unite on :
:. Monday, Sept 4, i'm appropriate
:. observances indicative OF re-
:. spect and esteem for the toilers
:. whose handiwork has wrought
:. the manifold things which con-
:. stitute the wealth OF our coun-
:. try"
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-02

Rep. Carter, of oklahoma, who Is
seven sixteenths Indian. thrashed a
fresh clerk in Washington yesterday
for insulting his daughter and then
soundly caned four others who came
TO the clerks assistance. Good thing
for the young men that cane wasn't "A
tomahawk
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-02

Acting against his better judgment
Aviator John S. Frisbie went up I'm
a defective aeroplane at Norton. Kan,
yesterday just because the spectators
jeered his original decision not to
make a flight At a height Of 100 feet
the machine went wrong and he fell
TO his death. The crowd was satisfied.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-02

The Prince OF Wales has gone into
the navy as an ordinary midshipman,
wears a uniform and draws SO a week
pay. However. his chances Of promo
ton are considered good.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-02

President Taft is no longer accused
Gratis and the Insurgents recognize that
they have a large sized man mental
~ as well as physically-tO fight and
one that will rather enjoy the battle.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-02
I Go In For High Flying.

From the very first the one phase OF
aviation that held really powerful
fascination for me was altitude climb
ing. No sooner had tried my fledge-
ling wings than l looked longingly
into the upper air and wanted to climb
as far as my engine would carry me.
On the third day Of my practice at
the Bleriot school with the Gnome mo-
tor l decided to take affairs into my
own hands, and. disregarding all the
advice that had been given me. head
ed the machine upward and climbed
close TO q thousand feet, when sud-
denly, one after the other. three of my
cylinders went bad. and l was forced
to coast down to the ground again. lt
was the result of some minor defect in
the new engine. and when 1t was re-
paired l took my equipment with me
to my place ut Beaulieu, In England.
there to practice a bit and then try
for my certificate. or aviator's license.
l became proficient in a remarkably
short time. When felt that I could
pass inspection had the officials OF
the English Aero club appoint a day
when I should try for my certificate.
An official came up to wish me good
luck just before my mechanics started
the propeller. and l asked:
"What is the English height record?"
"Paulhan has It," he replied at Is
OFT feet"
WELL" I said rs turned away, IL
am going to try to beat that"
/ started of In wide circles. and the
first two times l passed over the heads
of the officials saw one of them wave
a red flag. the signal for naval OH
Ger with a sextant to take my height.
Higher and higher went. but was
surprised not to see the flag wave after
that. and l came to earth again.
"How much did doT I asked the
navy officer.
"Ten hundred and forty feet" he re.
piled you have broken the English
altitude record. and believe you went
twice as high as that, but unfortu-
nately the man who was to signal me
with the flag got mixed up somehow.
and I only took our height on your
first and second circles"
This love of altitude work has been
my constant passion ever since. Merely
to get into an aeroplnne and fly no
longer has any fascination for me.
I want to climb. want to keep
going up until am sure that / am
higher than any man has ever been
before in a heavier than afr machine,
and. though not long ago almost de-
termined to give up aeroplane work.
now feel the desire growing stronger
upon me, and It would not surprise me
II tried for another record soon
Eternal practice and unfailing pa
thence are necessary when the average
man takes to flying. Day after day he
must go out "grass cutting" as they
say ut Mineola when the novices roll
along the ground or take only short.
low Jumps into tho afr. This IL not
exciting and 1t will seem to the would
be pilot that he is making slow prog
ress, but, as q matter of fact. he Is
training his mind and bis muscles to
work in unison and by instinct, and
this faculty alone Is worth all the
trouble 1t takes to acquire It once 1t
Is called into play In bad spot high
above the earth. 1t may not be need
ed very often. but. like gun In Te &
as, when It Is needed It Is needed
badly.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-02

Judging from the slim attendance
al that hobo" convention in Wash
ington there are not many unemployed
in the country or else they are not
sufficiently impressed with Brother
How's schemes TO take enough int r-
est 10 attend.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-02

Walter Hopper OF Holland, who
threw his sweetheart overheard from
the steamer Puritan in Lake Michi-
gan, the young woman drowning be-
fore aid could reach her, has been
sentenced to Marquette prison for life
Marquette is too good for him.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-02
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER ?, 1911.
Miss Burton means it. too.

France is about to call the Kaisers
blum in that Moroccan AFFAIR. and soon
il will be known whether he is the
war lord" OF Europe or the Peace
Kaiser"
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-02

It cost Harry Atwood 5000 a day to
fly from st Louis to New York. A
good many old fashioned persons pre-
fer to save money and nerves by rid
ing on rails.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-02
My First Lesson In Flying.

My first lesson was taken from Ora
hame- White at Pau. His Blerlot was
equipped with m Anzani motor. for II
was before the Gnome had been placed
upon the market, and It was probably
fortunate for me that my machine did
not have the greater horsepower de-
velopcd by the later type of engine.
learned as did most of the men who
have made a success of the work. The
controls were explained to me, and
made thorough study of the theory
on which the machine operates. l
knew what to do to make the mono
plane go up or down or steer to right
or left, and l knew how to warp the
wings to preserve my balance-that Is,
I knew them In theory, though had,
Of course, never tried them In practice.
snow" said Grahame- White, you
are to take run along the ground
and see II you can steer the machine.
The wheel is tied so that you cannot
go up into the air, and all you are to
do is TO keep going straight and shut
Off your engine when you come to the
end of the field"
SO my engine was started, and when
the propeller got going at fair speed
gave the signal to the mechanics
who were holding the machine to let
60. and I felt myself dash forward
smoothly over the ground. I believed
that all had to do was to leave the
machine pretty well alone and IL
would go In n straight line until I
stopped the engine. but In this ! was
destined to meet with a great sur.
prise, for instead of going straight
ahead found myself going around I'm
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-02

x N VHEN man takes to flying
wv Ne ~a,: s1's IS the sp most ,lsssis'
some and yet the most
fascinating that has ever been opened
up for human beings He invades a
realm for which nature never intend
ed him. All of his instincts teach him
that TO ascend high above the earth
Is to court death and that to trust
himself to so fimsy and so breakable
a thing as IN aeroplane is to go to the
utter extreme of recklessness and dar-
ing.
My admiration Is unbounded for
those first men who actually rose Off
of the ground in their crude heavier
than air machines and defied nature
with their new found toy. Each of US
who has followed has had to prove his
nerve and his skill. but we know when
we start to learn that the machines we
trust ourselves to are right. that they
will fly If properly handled and that
there Is no very great secret about 1t
at all because it has been done before
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-02

copyright. leli. by Henry M. Nicely.
Copyright In Great Britain and Canada.
All rights reseryedl
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-02

and we need merely do as our prede-
cessors did. But those first men DASH
ed absolutely into the unknown.
Not long ago Captain Thomas s.
Baldwin, the veteran balloonlst and
aviator, investigated the subject and
as a result he declared that every be-
ginner in aviation smashes up $1,000
worth of property before he can get a
certificate of competence. and one can
easily imagine the risk to life and limb
that is constantly run while these fledg-
ling flights are being made. In my own
case, when the mechanics let go of my
machine for my first fight, 1t looked
as though 1 were going to disprove
this statement, but 1t was not many
seconds thereafter before showed
that. if anything, Captain Baldwin's
estimate of cost was altogether too
low.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-02

len n man takes to flying
he enters upon a career
which is the most trouble
some and vet tho most
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-02
An Unexpected Disaster

As approached my starting place I
showed my wheel gently forward, 40 I