The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-06-25
Comments On His Death
Tender and Sincere
HIS NAME WILL LIVE
seldom Has An American or u Ger
man Received so Much Praise for
His Accomplishments-Goesip of the
German Capital.

IoCi Ill, y III - liz ~ va
bur Wright evoked from the German
press the most sincere and ungrudSing
praise accorded to an American for a
long time. On his personality as we'll
as his great service to aviation the
most appreciative comment was made,
and many German papers pointed
with pride to the fact that, from his
mothers side he inherited some Ger
, man blood.
Only rarely does the German press
give as much space to biographies.
whether Of Germans or Americans. as
was devoted to Wright's life, his ex-
periments in flying and his final sue
cess. Unqualified acknowledgment is
made Of the fact that aviation owes
more to him than to any other man.
His name will live in history for all
time says a typical comment. H
was the pathmaker."
Herr Won JagOW, chief Of police of
Berlin, whose efforts to regulate So
cialism, women's hats and hatpins, the
color of automobiles and the morals
OF the stage have made him the most
discussed man in Berlin mex to the
emperor, has issued a new regulation,
aimed at the swift taXicabs beloved Of
the Berliner heart. No automobile of
more than ten horsepower will here
after be licensed for cab purposes in
Berlin. Herr Won Jagow's experts hav-
ing reported that this is all hat is
necessary for developing the speed Of
sixteen miles per hour which is the
legal limit in the city streets.
Emperor William has established at
his own expense a fresh-air home fol
the children Of Berlin workmen on the
H. 49, - -I--- ho
tween TAO and 500 city youngsters
may be taken each year, in monthly
numbers Of $50 from the crowded
tenements and asphalt streets Of the
, Berlin industrial quarter. Although
the emperor is interested in many
charities. this is the first enterprise
for children in which he has takeI
the entire initiative and provided al
the funds from his own private purse
Just before the adjournment of tn
Reichstag over the summer the SO
~cialists and Radicals made
: motion in the Budget Com
mittee that Germany take tn
initiative in trying to secur
an international agreement to prohibit
throwing bombs from aircraft of al
kinds. The other parties gave n
n support to this proposal, and no actor
was taken. lit will be remembers
that such a prohibition was adopte'
e by the peace congress for a period o
tive years, but that this was not re
Is newed at the second congress-. Tn
d prohibition was enforced during tn
PuSso-JapaneSe war, but bombs froT
# aircraft without coming into conflic
# with international obligations. [
e fact, Italy has been experimental
with mountaineering in Tripoli, an
o according to the Italian military dis
patches the effect upon the Turks an
ar Arabs was exceedingly terrifying
re These reports, however. have been tt
e oeived in Germany with great sceptie
i'll ism. So far as flying machines ar
IN concerned, the German military a,
thorltieS are not attaching any cnI
siderable Importance to them fc
purposes of throwing bombs: the
10 have officially declared that they al
ne encouraging the development of thel
4" solely as means for accommodating q
enemy's positions. It has also bee
lie noted in Germany that the enthu
IL iaSm of the French military author
ed ties for flying machines as boml
e throwers has been notably cooled
or consequence Of recent unsatsfacto
EST experiments there. German milita1
so and aerial authoeities> lay great en-
If phasis upon the practical difficult
lis Of using aeroplanes successfully L
k attacking an enemy forts or Otn
-es d~efences. They say that it is we
nlSn 1u1pOSSlDIo. TOO, IoI q iHd l IL
'or ]aeropIane to aim a bomb to stril
even an extensive target on Il
ground, since the bomb must
thrown during the flight Of the era
a whereas the bomb-thrower can kno
neither his height nor his speed wi
go any accuracy, nor couid accurate
e's IN in the orlef time at his a
his posal. the exact angle at which
cast off his bomb. even il he kne
his speed and his height. This diff
ed Guilty is immensely too
Did reason or the fact that the aeroplan
nd must fly high enough to be on,
range Of the eremy's guns