Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1913-07-11
MEN IN SECOND PLACE
FRENCH ARMY OFFICIALS RELY
ON WOMEN AVIAToRs'
Have Many Points of super'o''
Which Must Be Taken into
count When the Trumpets o.
War Are Sounded.

The French army department nas
determined to have as many "oiio
aviators in it's air battalions as II po0
sihlv can. SAYS an English paper to-
This nurpose a special law will nave u
be passed making women eligible io'
army service. ;,
The fact is that the leaders OF ava
ton in France have come TO the GU.
clusion that women make better aVf
ators than men, and they are ue'ei
r,ipod RI encourage women fliers IL
every possible way.
Their first step has been 10 MAX
Mile. Helene Dutrieu chevalier OF the
Legion of Honor, a decoration thaI has
been given to very few women
Among the experiments undertaken
nv the French authorities were mum
Der dealing with the effects or helghI
speed. quickness of thought anu az
tion and other essentials of tylng Ill
these experiments both men ana "o-
men took part, and, to the amazenleh'
of every one, it was found that the "o
men were far better air pilots tnan
their male competitors.
First of all, women are more prlHi
tive than men. They are far less Wen
developed mentally; and, though the
man in the street may not think IL
women are not so nervous as men.
A woman is less liable, say the
French scientists, to collapse IN the
higher attitudes of the air than man
Her greater capacity for bearing pain
or rather her insensibility to pain. en-
ables her to withstand the cold OF the
upper regions of the atmosphere-colo
so intense that more than one aviator
has lost control of his machine
through it and been dashed to death.
Another cause which makes a wo-
man better at high attitudes is the
fact that she needs less oxygen for
breathing than men. She is, In conse~
quence, less affected by the rarifleo
air, a further proof Of which fact ls
that quite large number of women
have earned the highest regulations
for mountain climbing.
The fifth statement in the report
says: "The arc of a woman's vision is
nearly twice that Of man" Put II
ordinary language, this means that
while a man only sees what is direct
ly in front of him, a woman sees
things at the side as well. A mans
vision is concentrated, while a wo
mans is spread.
This ability to see all round, as IL
were, is of the greatest possible i'm.
portance in aviation. The airman does
not want to see just ahead SO much as
each side and above him. The general
look of things tells him the state of the
atmosphere, and enables him to steer
clear of dangerous eddies, currents,
and so on
A woman, also, Is not so concen-
trated in her thought as a man. The
latter thinks Of only one thing at
time, while woman thinks of sew
eral things, and is able to deal with
them all successfully. This faculty is
called "diffused attention" by scien-
lists, and is valuable in the air.
Finally, the report to the French
war office states that the woman's spe~
cific gravity is less.
The ighly-developed modern wo-
man, however, is useless for driving
an aeroplane, according to the scien-
lists. 1t is her home-loving sister
who is not SO highly concentrated
who has the power of "diffused atten-
tion," who will make the air-womar
of the future