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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06
:. What's the Matter With Aviation?

planes he was ignorant OF what
the Wrights had done He pro-
duced his "Demoiselle," type of
monoplane which has done good
work in the hands OF Garros,
Morane, Saulnier and other pi-
lots of the atmosphere, but since
1910 he had made no important
changes in his machine He con-
tents himself now with regard
ing critically what others are
doing.
If | were going to make a sug-
gestion to constructors" he says,
Il would say that in my opinion
they are wrong in exaggerating
the power of their machines.
They complain that aviation does
not develop among civilians. but
it is because they are making it
too expensive. From motors of
30 horsepower they have passed
to those of 70. so. 100. 100 and
even 200 horsepower
Machines that cost from Sc. 900
to $4,000 are too expensive. not
only al their first price. but es-
pecially in the cost of operation.
They are inebriates in their con-
sumption of oil The merest lit
tie turn out with them is prodi-
sality. The cost per mile of flight
with these puissant motors be-
comes recklessly extravagant.
Military aeroplanes. of course,
must be powerful enough to go
out in all kinds of weather, but
think it is a grave error to seek
TO force such machines upon the
market for private. civilian own
ers. The needs of sport should
especially be consulted The
sportsman, the tourist. and even
the man who would use the aero
plane for commercial purposes.
can wait for proper weather. He
doesn't call for a machine which
can battle with all the obstacles
of the atmosphere.
A private aeroplane should be
like a yacht-made and calcu-
lated for use in decent weather
and not in tempests. So the con-
structors should turn their atten-
ton to the production of the
aeroplane of sport of simple pleas
ure intended for fine days and
good weather, and made light and
at a low price Machines like
that would develop a taste for
aerial sports
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06
When Electricity Will Be as Cheap
as Air
By EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIN

wants is electricity as cheap a :
air, water and sunlight. This
really is the dream Of electricians.
Since nothing exists but cleo
irons. and these are electricity,
it does seem that we ought to get
all we want for nothing by mere
lv taking or tapping the supply
But Edison Thomson. Ruther-
ford and Tesla, and Steinmitz
have not blazed the way into this
unknown problem of the ages.
have no doubt that man will
make this conquest. for have !
not declared constantly during sc
years that the mind PLEASING in
man is ilimitable?
-"TH is cdrbon2 What is
c0rbonic 0ctdP What is carbonic
0ride?"
Al do not know what carbon
is Carbonic acid is a compound
Of carbon and oxygen. one atom
of carbon being chemically united
with two of oxygen in each mole
Guile
CarboniC oxide is the name given
to the molecule made up of one
atom Of each element, carbon and
oxygen. | do not know what any
thing is. Tor everything is made
If electrons. these are electricity.
but | have no idea as to what
that is. I may get a rubber type
reading; II do not know" This
will save many quarters of sec
onds of golden time when writing.
What is the process of Icri-
tGtioH. the IttUg Of bcdry
pCighiS. WithoW the application
of force, or am mechanical polc-
err"
A-This has been done, from
periods before any history The
cause l. totally unknown to any
one of the great standard matnc-
mauc7l sciences can not an
svcr this uucs ion by reference to
any known law Of nature
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06

+ HAVE just been reading an in
1 terview in a Partisan maya
zine With Santos Dumont on
the latest phases of aerial navi-
cation History sprouts and
pushes so fast nowadays in the
field where he earned renown that
some who once hailed him as
the first of bird men" may now
have almost forgotten his name.
| remember Santos Dumont
when he first came to New York
haloed with the glory of his
earliest aerial exploits, | in
terviewed him for The New York
American 1t was away back,
well. back in the nineteenth cen
fury (For some of us who have
been long associated with New
York journalism if seems strange
that the nineteenth century
should have become a past age,
and counted as back num-
ber)
found him in his room near
the top Of one of our then already
sNyscraping hotels. an aerie
which he assured me he had
purposely chosen because il gave
him sense of being up in "A bal
loon In receiving me he led me
instantly TO a window and swept
his hand edmiringly, superbly,
over the bird's-eye view of lower
Central Park, which lay spread
beneath our eyes
1t was gesture that opened
his soul and Immediately, with
out waiting for questions, he eN-
planned like a panorama all the
story Of his achievements, hopes
and expectations
have never met a man who So
thoroughly looked what he was
as did Santos Dumout. He had
the swift, tripping step of spi-
der. What YOU saw was big
head. a little body, and legs so
slender that they seemed long
The whole figure. apparently not
more than five feet tall appeared
To be strung on wires. but every
wire was under control and they
all vibrated in unison at the sig.
nal of the commanding brain.
~ that time Santos Dumont
VAS Kind of scientific John the
Baptist He announced the COM
ING OF greater things than ne was
able to perform himself He was
The foremost symuast of the air.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06

n us the prophecy that
weHt the rounds about
S ficeRty years ago. that
some icGg Of tapping nature and
thus securing unlimited supplies
Of electricity from air or from
space. coming trHcg
A-The nearest approach 10
the great work Of tapping ma
lures unlimited store OF electric
jtv is the act of allowing irrigat-
ING streams from high mountains
TO turn turbine generators over
and over again in different power
plants along down the sides OF
the mountains, and then, after
securing all mechanical work Of
gravitauon. secure growing work
in the growth of food plants. This
IS the height at present of human
skill in the work of tapping ma
ture"
Windmilis turning armatures is
another way of tapping And the
capture of water IN tides, using
the force of outflow. is sun an
other We still have the dyna
mos with as, We must turn arma
lures with their polar fields Of
magnetic lines
We must use running water or
flowing winds TO tap Nature; or
burn carbon under boilers, which
is too expensive ana prosaic To be
called the high art of tapping, as
one would turn a faucet.
suppose my CORES pondenj
means 3ust tapping free supply.
This suspicious event has not ar
rived unless using solar engines
is tapping Heat reelected by
mirrors directly from the noon
day sun upon boilers has been
made TO generate steam and turn
armatureS
Another way OF tapping is TO
allow the sun to shine on thermo-
electric piles unions of ENDS OF
bars OF unlike metals.
What my friend evidently
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06

clothes and very tolerant of all his old acquaintance
Guiding Bill telling them how foolish they to be
ing their time in this hck ownas he put t-when they
could really LIVE i'll place like New York and how easy
to get along there.
That night Bill lay awake for long long time figuring
all out i'll his comfortable little room, with not a
sound outside but the cckets chpmg and occasional
whippoorwi But what did Bill for peaceful noises
like those He had heard them all his life and to
them What he onged for the cang of bells and the
hustle and hustle of great city. SO the morning at
breakfast Bill told his mother that he had decided 60 to
New York and get a job. ITO Be conti,u.dA
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06

but the Wright brothers had not
yet invented the aeroplane, and
his feats were performed with
dirigible balloons, the most fairy
creations of aeronautics that the
world had seen He brought to
us in America the first positive
assurance, on which one felt that
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06

Editor The Georgian
"The idea of punishment
should take precedence orer the
ideG Of reformation" ~. Il. Pat
terS0n. Prison Commissioner for
the state Of Georgia.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06

Bill lived Just outside Of the small in Georgia
His father owned airszed farm and while wealthy
count wealth in the cities of average Bill had
been raised the farm andhated it. Bills father realized
the possibilities of the farming methods aud wanted Bill
to go to the agricultural school in their locality and learn
them, he could take hold of the farm and make pay
they had really good market close by But for Bill he
had pictures of the cities and had heard
about them who had been The that decided him
finally the return from New York of boy that formerly
went to school with Bill This young talked looked
brcahed New York in his thought very nifty swagger
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06
Making Good Citizens.


l wonder if these three Prison
Commissioners know that Ward
en- McKenty is interested in the
making of good CITIZENS" and
rot in the making of good
PRISONERS"
Probably they do not: for if
Patterson Dawson Rainey knew
these things they could not in
the spirit of honesty / believe
they possess, have said that the
idea of punishment should take
precedence over the idea of refor-
nation
Mr.. Patterson. Mr.. Dawson, Mr.
PGiney. let me earnestly 2 SIX that
you read LES Miserables." Look
into the heart Of Jean Vatican,
the man who went to the galleys
for tfrirteen years because lie
stole loaf Of bread to feed his
starving mother.
Read therein the story of the
lowly bishop who took Jean Val
lean in after his release when no
one else would shelter him. read
how Vatican. dragged back in the
morning after taking all the silver
he could find in the house of the
good man who succored him, was.
in the presence of the gendarmes.
presented by the bishop with two
silver candlesticks Cthe only re-
manning silver in the house, with
the remark:
L forgot to give YOU these"
Read how that simple action
stirred the dying spark of man
hood in the mire of Naieans
mind and led him through the
years Of struggle to a post of
love and honor and respect among
his fellowmen.
Don't fail to read how minions
of the prison bounded him in ev-
cry effort that he made TO make
himself a MAN.
Don't fail to read therein this
word picture from the pen of
Hugo;
There was during the first quar-
ter of the present century at
Montfermiel, near Paris. a sort
of chophouse -" The Sergeant
of Waterloo.
Nothing is C0mmoner than n
cart or wagon before the door
Of an inn; nevertheless, the We
hicle. or. more Or, perly speak
ing the fragments OF a vehicle
which DISTRACTED the street in
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06
% Letters From the People o

continue through endless ages.
Tell me how / can get this ex-
atj article so that | can have il
framed sud hung in our school
lr can not do better ] shah
frame rne page of the paper, but
the paper would not last very
long This article alone is worth
the price over and over again of
Your good paper
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06
Became Normal Self.

In prison Joe Roach was built
Up physically until he was his
normal self. Then he began to
study Jaw. After some years he
was paroled. He went back TO
Terre Haute to become a respect
ed citizen where he had been
guttersnipe 1t was the act of
coura geous man. Roach has won
the fight.
Mr. Patterson, MIR. Dawson, Mr..
Rainev, do you think the IDEA OF
punishment took precedence over
the idea OF reformation in the
case of Joe Roach?
Do you think Joe Roach would
be the man he is to-day if he had
been sent to the Georgia chain
gang 10 be hogged, and badly
housed, and poorly fed anu
clothed
No, you do not think so.
Georgia owes it to her self-re-
spect and her standing among
nations to;
Abolish the haying of prison
ers.
Take them off the public high
ways.
Put them in sanitary buildings
Educate and teach them trades.
conserve their health, feed ana
clothe them properly
Abolish the wearing of stripes
except as a mears of humiliation
for the violation Of privileges.
Put her prisoners under me
care of men and women who nave
the prisoners interests at heart
And put at the disposal Of sucH
men and women the means
make MEN instead of deprsVel
BRUTES of prisoners
B. 6. NJ
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-06-17
Liberal Education.

That man, think, has had a liberal
education who has been so trained in
youth that his body is the ready serv-
ant OF his will and does with ease and
pleasure all the work that as a mech
Rnism it is capable of; whose intellect
is a clear. cold. logic engine. with all
it's parts of equal strength, and in
smooth working order; ready, like a
steam engine, to be turned to any kind
Of work and spin the gossamers as
well as forge the anchors of the mind;
whose mind is stored with a knowl-
edge Of the great and fundamental
truths of nature and Of the laws of
her operations; one who, no stunted
ascetic, is full of life and fire. but
whose passions are trained to come to
heel by a vigorous will, the servant of
a tender conscience; who has learned
to love all beauty, whether Of nature
or of art; to hate all vileness and to
respect others as himself.
Such a man and no other, l con-
ceive, has had a liberal education
Thomas Henry Huxley in Lay Ser
mons"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-06-17
GROTON

DR.. G. G. Cowan with a party from
South Ryegate is enjoying a fishing
trip in Maine.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. N. Morrison are
visiting relatives at Manchester, N. H.
Roy Hood and Miss Doris Dan
forth were married at the Baptist
parsonage by Rev. S. H. Myers, We'd
nesday afternoon, June 10.
Mrs. J. r. Darling is recovering
from her recent lines.
Mrs. Jack Finger of Idaho Falls,
Idaho, and little son came last week
to spend several months with her
parents, Rev. and Mrs. f. W. Lewis
/. N. Hall with Mr.. and Mrs. r. T.
Heath and Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. G. Heath
went to Piermont, n. H., Monday to
attend the funeral Of a relative
Levi Wilson attended the funeral
of his nephew at Piermont, N. H.,
Monday
L. S. Blanchard stepped on a rusty
nail last week which resulted in a
painful wound. He is now better
and able to attend to the duties at
his store.
Children's Day will be observed at
both the Baptist and Methodist
churches next Sunday morning with
exercises by the children.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-06-17

in Fairbanks Office is home for va
cation
w. III. Bennett who lives about
three miles from this village died
Sunday morning after a long illness.
Mr. Bennett is survived by a wife
and four sons and one daughter. The
funeral viii be at his home Wednes-
day at 10 o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. I. Copp start for
Oberlin, Ohio. Thursday. to attend
the commencement exercises OF the
college from which their son, Charles
Copp, graduates.
Ralph Chase made two trips to
Concord Saturday night carrying up
ten ladies from this village TO attend
an entertainment.
Mrs Emily Chase has painted her
buildings. Rev. e. E. Grant did the
work
DIR. Howard Lee Of Cleveland, Ohio
is in town for the summer.
Mrs. Ella Potter is spending a few
days with friends in LyndOnville.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-06-17
LIQUOR ALWAYS A WoLAToR.

/ have given reasonably careful
study to the problems of liquor in all
the states for many years, and my OBJ
servation convinces me that the
liquor business always violates the
law that governs it, no matter how
liberal the law may be; and always
goes beyond the limit that the law
permits; and that whenever a strict
or law is passed to check its crimes
the law does good.
The real philosophy and reason for
the prohibition movement lies in the
fact that the liquor dealer is nearly
always a law-breaker, his calling the
sure aid always of public privilege
and wrong, the sure dependence al
ways Of the tyrant, and that it makes
always for anarchy and crime. In all
the records of history the wine shop
and the tavern have been the rem
devious of criminals and the recruit
ing ground where tyranny and public
privilege have found the henchmen
they would employ to fasten their
evil power on the masses of the peo-
pie, or do the criminal and brutal
things that always serve to repress
the noble aspirations of the toiling
masses.-Hon. Hooper Alexander of
Georgia.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-06-17
Lesser Auto Accidents

A misunderstanding of the proper
side of the Keep to the Right" sign
for vehicles entering Railroad street
from Portland street was the cause of
a slight accident Sunday. G. E..
Kirk was coming up the slight grade
from the railroad crossing in his
Ford; NJ B. CANNED was coming
down Railroad street on his MOTOR
cycle, and between them they man
aged to have the motorcycle punch
the side of the Ford. Neither par
ty was injured and the machines suf-
fered but little.
Failure of the brakes of his auto
to hold, when coming down a grade
in the Mountains Sunday compelled
Nelson Richards to ditch his machine
to prevent an accident. The car was
slightly injured.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-06-17

The Ninth Grade had their annual
class party last Wednesday, in the
form of a picnic at George Morrili's
farm, where field sports were enjoy
ed, followed by a supper. Friends
OF the school generously contributed
automobiles for transportation.
Charles Ross discussed the new
tax laws with the ninth grade this
week, explaining their operations.
Mrs. Walter p. Smith, OF the State
Library Commission gave to this
grade an interesting talk on the use
of books, giving a list of books re-
commended for their reading.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-06-17
Trees and Fools.

Any fool can destroy trees. They
cannot run away, and If they could
they would still be destroyed-chased
and hunted down as long as fun or a
dollar could be got out of their bark
hides, branching horns or magnificent
bole backbones. Few that fell trees
plant them. Nor would planting avail
much toward getting back anything
like the noble primeval forests. Dur
ing a mans life only saplings can be
grown in the place Of the old trees,
tens of centuries old, that have been
destroyed It took more than 5000
years to make some of the trees IN
these western woods-trees that are
still standing in perfect strength and
beauty, waving and singing in the
mighty forests of the Sierras. God has
cared for these trees, saved them from
drought, disease, avalanches and a
thousand training. leveling tempests
and foods. but he cannot save them
from fools. Only Uncle Sam can do
that-John Muir.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-06-17
RAsr - InHNsRITRY

Mrs. Warren Carr of st. JOhnsbury
was the guest of Mrs. ]. A. WinslOw
last week.
Miss Edith Rudd of Nashua, N. H.,
spent Sunday at the~home of her pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. stephen Rudd.
J. w. Webster has sold his house
in this village to Irving Locke who
has occupied it several years.
The church was we'll filled Sunday
morning and a very interesting ser
vice was rendered by the children
who at the close of the service re-
ceived from the school potted plant.
Miss Nellie Stiles who is employed
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-06-17
The Luekless Procrastinator.


The procrastinator is always liable
to be luckless. To postpone a duty
that should be discharged at once is to
invite trouble for all concerned. Many
a man who is well disposed toward
life insurance is still deferring the
purchase of a policy which would be
a boon to his family in the event of
his death The would be insurant is
in good health today. but tomorrow
he may be stricken with a disease
that may bar him from the ranks of
the insurab BILE. His reason for putting
off securing a policy may be that it is
incOnvenient at present to pay the pre-
MUM. But he should consider care
fully the fact that life insurance will
never be cheaper for him than it is to-
day. His yearly premium on policy
taken out now would be appreciably
less than would be the premium on a
policy of the same amount taken out
when he is a year older. Delay, there
fore. will add somewhat to the yearly
burden he would have to carry. The
best thing for any uninsured man to
do is to insure at once.-Leslie's
Weekly.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-06-17
THE END IN SIGHT.

The END IN SIGHT.
Because the saloonkeeper lives and
thrives by the sale of liquor" might
well be the prelude to each paragraph
of the report of the investigation Of
dance halls in our large cities, show
ing them to be places of fragrant i'm
morality. With saloonkeepers as
chaperons, with long intermissions be-
tween dances for the sale Of drinks
and not drop of water available,
with liquor so accessible that it is al
most impossible for the victims to
resist, the so-caIled Blaces of recrea-
ton are veritable hot-beds Of vice.
Because the saloonkeeper lives and
thrives by the sale Of liquor boys and
girls are being lured into these halls,
demoralized In mind and body and
rendered useless to themselves and to
society. Because the saloonkeeper
lives and thrives by the sale Of liquor
society sustains each year a vast loss
in efficiency of it's members, in large
measure reduces the class from which
1t may expect to secure fits future citi-
zens, and nullifes the work that is
being carried on by it's schools and
churches in the education Of its
youth.
Because the saloonkeeper lives and
thrives by the sale Of liquor the tax
payer each year is compelled to pay
exorbitant taxes to meet the expenses
of police courts, criminal courts, poor
houses, asylums, jails and penitsn-
tiaries, rendered necessary by the le-
galized liquor traffic.
And because the American voter on
election day says, Let the traffic be
regulated and protected" the saloon
keeper lives and thrives by the sale
Of liquor. AS long as enough voters
are willing that men should live and
thrive by drink-selling these condi-
tons will continue, and no longer
The number of voters who are not
willing are increasing every year!
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-06-17
ALcoHoL NOT AN AID.

The mother of a young child should
not touch alcoholic liquor in any form.
Alcohol is not food. 1t does not sup
ply to women the nourishment Of
which at certain periods of their lives
they are In particular need On the
contrary, the mother Of young child
who drinks alcoholic beverages, even
In their mildest forms-beer, ale, and
stout, for lnstance-runs the risk of
absolutely cutting of the supply OF
food that nature intended an infant
to have. If the supply is not entirely
cut off the quality is SO impoverished
that the health of the infant is ruined.
DIR. ]. Wallace Beverage, Cornell
University.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-06-17
WATERFORD

School closes Friday, June 10Th.
Mrs. Myrtle MOrancey was a week
end guest of her sister, Mrs. E. M.
Carpenter.
Fred LeClair has closed his bobbin
mill for the summer
Mr.. and Mrs. Ollie Gay of Little
ton were Sunday guests of his sister,
Mrs. Annie Carleton.
Charles HeminWay has newly
painted his buildings. Freeman
Priest did the work
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-06-17
SALOONS MAKE WOMEN LABOR

EhS.
Rather a grim bit of evidence con-
corning liquor selling is furnished by a
manufacturer. Seeking in a certain
Reighborhood for new situation for
his plant, he announced at the start
that he would consider only those
towns that license the sale Of liquor,
and would pledge themselves to con-
tinue to do so. The reason he gave
is that in no-license communities he
has found it impossible to get the nee
essary women and girl laborers. In
such communities women do not have
to go out to work.-Exchange