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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-11-21

others present. Among those who re-
sponded were c. C. Cessna, advertis-
ting manager of Harmed & Won Maur,
Davenport. who spoke on the neces-
sity for cooperation between the ad
man and the window trimmer; w. S.
McCombs, who assured the local or
ganiZation of the interest of the mer-
chants; and several of the members.
Before the opening of the program the
company adjourned to the Smith stu
dio on Third avenue. where a photo
graph of the club members was taken.
This will be reproduced in current
number of the Drygoodsman & Cen
eral Merchant, ST. Louis, with which
Mr. Potter is connected.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-11-21
Sale and Chicken Pie suPPe

Annual Sale and Chicken Pie Supper.
The Central Presbyterian church
have done themselves proud this year
in the quantity and assortment OF ar
ticIes and varied attractions. The fol-
lowing is a list of the most attractive
lines OF articles. etc:
Bakery goods. plum pudding, mince
pies, doughnuts, etc, etc.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-11-21

For the Santa Claus Good Fellow
Cut Out and Mail to The Argus
hereby agree to buy Christmas gifts for (give
Hulnoer) ....... poor children. | desire that the
names OF the poor children together with their ages
ana addresses, be furnished me through The ARGUS
Santa Claus Fund Committee
SlSned Observation-Disclosures.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-11-21
CHARTER ROLL OF
TENT REACHES 40
Daughters of Veterans Pre-
scented With Four Flags
by Miss Harris.
IN MEMORY OF HER FATHER
J. c. Stanton CongratuIates Ladies on
Oreanization-E. NJ. Wilcox
Also Makes Address.

Barbara Frietchie tent No. 81 will
Veterans will be known hereafter, the
name having been chosen last evening
at the first regular meeting following
organization last Monday evening. The
session was held, as will all meetings
hereafter, in Memorial hall in the
court house and was largely attended
and very enthusiastic. Eight members
were obligated, increasing the charter
roll of 40. Meetings of the organiza-
ton will be held the first and third
Friday evenings of the month at Z
o'clock.
In memory of her father, Comrade
Henry Harris, Miss Lou Harris last
evening presented the tent with four
beautiful flags which will be placed in
their respective stations. ComE~de ].
c. Stanton congratulated the ladies on
the organization of the tent and Com
rade L. NJ. Wilcox also voiced his
pleasure and congratulations in these
words:
1.-The Daughters of Veterans of the
GranS Army of the Republic, and what
a grand name, and how proud you
ought to feel that you are one of them
and to know that you are the offspring
of the men who barred their breasts to
the storm and shot and shell to pre-
serve this union of states of the great
est nation under the canopy of heaven.
And what a foundation you have to
build on Ladies, you are representa-
tives of the men whose valor has pre-
served us as a nation. These are near
" all gone to the Grand Army above
with Lincoln, Grant. Logan, Sherman
and Sheridan and all other comrades
who have gone before, and could they
look down and see this meeting to-
night. they would feel proud to know
that their memories are being kept
green by their children that they have
left behind. This order is bound to be
what the Daughters of the American
Revolution is to the Revolutionary
fathers. To them belong the honor of
throwing off the yoke of Great Brit
ain and your fathers of preserving the
union after il had been freed. The
Woman's Relief corps will die with
the Grand Army; they will have fin
ished their work. The Ladies OF the
G. A r. will have finished their work
when the last Grand Army comrade is
laid to rest. Then to whom does this
great work belong? To the sons and
daughters of the Grand Army of the
Republic That is the reason i am
very proud to know that our children
will keep green the memories and
heroic deeds of their illustrious sires.
God speed YOU in your noble work, is
my humble prayer"
The next meeting of the tent will be
held Dec. and it is expected that
the roll of members will be further in
creased at that time.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-11-21
CUSTODY OF SONS
GIVEN TO FATHER
Court Rules for Third Time M
Levin Lindblade Should
Have Children.

For the third time since the divorce
was granted Judge r. w. Olmsted in
circuit court this morning ordered
the two eldest sons of NJ. Levin Lin
blade, Moline, to the custody of the
father This time, however, the judge
gave the male parent the absolute Gus
tody of the two eldest boys, modifying
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-11-21
CASE COMES UP
AND is AGAIN CONTINUED

Dominick Vicioni. who is being held
on a charge OF assault with a deadly
weapon, appeared before Magistrate
Smith again this morning at 10 o'clock
and his case was continued until Mon
day morning at 10 o'clock. Vicioni
slashed three men in a saloon orawl
on Nov. 8, one of them being seriously
wounded.
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weeks because 1t is the law. Certainly
It is possible to make a special agree
ment in writing. but no one thinks Of It
Another amusement Is paying taxes
Whoever stays more than week In
Carlsbad-and this means everybody
must pay for the privileges Of the town.
According to your seeming wealth you
are set down as first class, second class
or third class. OF the first class are
princes, crowned heads and all Ameri-
cans. The second class consists OF
wealthy Germans and citizens Of Eu-
rope, while the third class In composed
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nothing to be done. Fourteen forms
$50.
And 1t is nothing new
Five hundred years ago the Floren-
tine Poggio, witty learned and pious in
ventor OF the short story, took part In
the Council of Constance as secretary
of briefs to Pope John XIII. The
Council lasted three years; and the
great dinners that Poggio was forced
to eat so increased his weight that he
could scarce get into his chausses"
Whence his season at Carlsbad in the
year 1913, OF which he left a curious
account.
Same cure tax. For privacy In bathing
they rented suites of rocsEs in houses
which possessed their own baths OF hot
Sprudel water. Two public baths were
entered from surrounding balconies,
from which spectators called down
good natured advice. And even the rich.
when they required mud baths, were
forced to soak themselves in tho Big
Mud or the Little Mud along with any
one to whom the Carlsbad doctors Of
1913 prescribed mud.
There was not mud enough to be pri-
vate-
It Is better now. And Carlsbad mud
is muddier than other mud. so the GUS
tom was perfectly modest in the old
times Nowadays they put the million
aire in bathtub and throw mud at
him When IT is up to his neck they
let him lie soft and think of what he
will eat when he gets TO Paris.
The Carlsbad hot baths proper are
taken directly from ten principal
springs-Sprudel. Hygeia, Neubrunner.
&c.-in the true Carlsbad cure houses
Other establishments supply Russian,
Swedish, Turkish, Greek. Siberian and
all other known baths and treatments
for obesity. govt and rheumatism. Yet
In these modern times nobody really
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when the forty minutes have expired
No matter where you stop. there is a
restaurant. There you have coffee and
two soft boiled eggs, a buttered roll and
dash of Sprudel to wash 1t down.
For lunch there is one meat and one
vegetable. In the afternoon you rest
bit, then walk lot, then fall down In
a faint upon the mountainside. to be
revived by fair young maidens who sit
around with bottles of smelling salts
all ready and expect a handsome tip
There is more walking. more sweating
done in and around Carlsbad than in all
the rest Of Europe
Toward or o'clock every one
takes a light supper. II consists OF a
little cold meat in extremely thin sliv-
ers with toast and tea. Everybody goes
to bed at p. NJ.
People who have gone for years tc
Carlsbad and saved their lives a dozen
times declare there is no special virtu,
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AKING AEROPLANING AS SAFE AS MOTORING
What Stabilzer Is. How it Helps the Altman Navigate
His Machne--N1r Sperrys Success in France

fail through any cause or II his motoe
should stop.
Tho guardian OF this mechanism Is
a thin plate of metal or wind disk akin
to the palette employed by Doutre. The
wind disk IL so pivoted at It's back ths1
| II will always present It's face squarory
against the oncomlng air current as the
aeroplane advances. The pressure on
this plate is measured by the resistance
| Of spring and that pressure. converted
into its equivalent of miles per hoNr, u
shown by an Indicator in front of tho
pilot.
This gives him n knowledge OF how
fast he Is going and also warns him
when the speed drops near to that be-
| low which the air pressure Will not keep
| the plane soaring or afloat. To guard
| him against the consequences of this
incorporating speed tho wind plate
has another service to perform In tho
direction OF automatic safety.
When climbing too quickly. the
angie of ascent reducing too much the
supporting speed OF advance. tho little
disk feels the slackencd Roadway and
before tho danger point is reached turns
the tail plane downward 80 rs TO lift that
end and to start the machine voplaning
at a goody angle, BY this dive the
aeroplane acquires added velocity and IL
soon travelling at n speed admitting OF
safe control.
Tho aviator cannot check this In
voluntary movement until a certain
prescribed speed has been attained in
this fashion. by this mannuvre the
peril OF slipping earthward tail first IL
eliminated. The automatic volplaning
| apparatus would be similarly called into
play should the engine 20 wrong and
, stop, as happened here recently 70
| Frank II. Burnside and his wife when
5000 feet up in the air over the Hudson.
BY great good luck Burnside was able
to exercise some measure OF control
over his craft. and after IA darling de-
scent the machine hit tho river, tho
boat body of the hydroaeroplane remain
ing intact after the plunge and thus
saving the machine and It's passengers.
As Elmer a. Spcrry the inventor. has
said. Nothing short OF the collapse OF
his machine need cause the aviator now
any worry-the stabili2er will take caro-
of him automatically under all condi-
tions of the air. His function now will,
indeed, be properly and well nigh only
that of pilot as commonly understood :"
Lieut.. Porte IL especially DESTROYS Of
obtaining n Sperry stabillzer for tho
America. He knows that his success
depends upon hs finding n wee spot, the
Azores, in the broad Atlantic. He wants
his mind free TO he centred upon that
naVigational problem, and the stabilIzer
Will help him Immensely In this par
| ticular
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BY using for each group two oppo-
sitely spinning gyros and gearing to-
gether one Of the supporting rings OF
each, they mutually antagonized each
other, in that way being insensitive to
motions in those two planes. This
leaves them free to act in concert only
In one direction, that direction being
the one Of Mr.. Sperry's choosing. Thus
each pair Of gyros tends TO limit its
corrective function to the longitudinal
or the lateral plane, as the case may be,
and to be utterly Indifferent to the forces
that arouse to service the other set.
As originally installed each pair was
located separately. and 1t was found that
under some conditions the gyros ac-
quired a swinging motion something
like a pendulum, and this impaired their
righting efficiency. BY grouping them
in the one set of supporting rings this
tendency has been overcome through
the mutual interaction which Is thus OBJ
tanned.
But how do they actually stabilize the
aeroplane? OF course, you can realize
that little spinning wheels Of but a few
pounds in weight cannot generate en-
ergy equivalent to the pull and push of
an aviator's arm or tho rocking of his
body, which is utilized to work the wing
tips ordinarily. They are really little
sentinels which, by maintaining their
own planes of rotation. steadfastly make
and break electrical contacts as the
whole flying machine tends to oscillate
about them as centres. The making
and breaking of these contacts open and
close the motive electric current which
feeds a servo motor.
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He told me what ne was going to DO,
stopped the motor and lifted his hands
in the air. For Ave or six seconds Moth
ing happened. The aeroplane seemed to
be motionless. Then suddenly the speed
diminished and the machine dived like a
dolphin.
"Mr. Sperry showed me another trick.
For nearly half "A mile the machine few
and climbed at an angle Of forty FIVE
degrees. and yet the pilot never touched
the wheel. Tho machine guided itself,
and 1t rs worthy of remark that in this
abnormal position furious gusts of
wind had not the slightest effect on its
position. 1t defended itself automati-
cally against the wind.
zone OF the great advantages Of the
stabilizer Ia shown when banking on a
turn. In machines manipulated by the
ordinary hand controls 1t Is necessary
when turning 10 use three controls
which govern che rudder. the lateral dip
of the machine and the fore ana aft
rise or fall. It Is the completely OF this
combined functioning which makes Il
dangerous in tho hands of any but the
most expert. With tho stablizer in SER
vice, however, II Is only necessary to
think of the rudder; the little gyro-
scopes look out for everything else.
leaving the pilots mind at ease. All he
has to do Is to steer to right or leftp'
How does Mr.. Sperry make his gyro-
scopes do this astonishing work? Each
little gyro is spun up by Its own tiny
electric motor to a speed of about 10000
revolutions a minute. This velocity of
rotation imparts to tho fiywheel a GER
tain obstinacy; 1t reslsts any external
effort tending TO disturb It's plane OF
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In the baths, but that the routine Is the
thing. There is nothing that one could
not do at home. Any ono with an iron
will can follow out the simple dietary
regulations I have mentioned. Only.
they say. no one will do this thing at
home without the stimulus OF example.
Otherwise the poorest fat clerk (or the
latest poor clerk) could make Carls-
bad Of his home and come out brisk and
ut after three weeks of treatment.
The proof that the regime rs the thing
is found in Marienbad, only forty miles
away.
The Marienbad regime Is stricter-
that is all. Tho Carlsbad regime does
not preclude an occasional square meal
and 1t is possible to break the monotony
of the cure process by rare dejeuners
and dinner parties, but in Marienbad.
according to the authority OF one hotel
keeper. I'VE have nothing OF the kind,
because no one eats anything"
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NEW YORK LIFE.

~ heard funny one yesterday" said
a member OF the Society OF Automobile
Engineers OF America. IL was standing
at Broadway and F'lfty-sixth street when
one of the cyclecar family came spin
ming along as large as life and twice as
sassy.
1T wasn't much bigger than a baby
wagon. but II was going all right, ard
man crossing Broadway Jumped out OF
It's way as though It filed the whole
street and landed on the curb near me-
There was a roughneck sort OF n chap
there watching him, and as he came up
on the sidewalk tho big fellow looked at
him scornfully.
Say he said. what did youso run
fer7 Why didn't youse kick the fnseck
In the faco?'
IL thought about the Same way, but
guess I would have run Just as tho
other man did. You see It has got 70 DO
the habit with all of US"
This is chronicle Of Riverside
Drive on the river side The lady was
rather daphanously drared. as Is the
present mode. and pretty of face and
figure. She was also cute enough to
be contagious
For the life Of me" che was saying,
II cannot understand why " is that so
many gentlemen occupy the benches
along the promenade here IN the after
noon and why all the benches are
turned to face the setting sun. II
seems to me that the light would hurt
their eyes and they would prefer to
sit with their backs TO II. I'm sure
I would, or any other woman wishing
to be comfortable"
Then she shook out her skirts so tho
sun wouldn't shine through and tripped
timidly along.
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HARLSBAD is full of rich Ameri-
cans.
The fat mans Mecca, the
renovator Of acid charged blood,
eorector OF the hayward liver-Carls-
oad Is the most advertised watering
Place OF the European continent.
everybody stays three weeks.
Even in the boarding villas. which can
accommodate 10000 guests and charge
ABOUT the same as first class hotels in
rars' II you attempt to leave during
your first or second week you m,
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The stabilized Curtlss biplane just
before rising from the water during the
demonstrations in France.

rotation. In this fashion Mr.. Sperry
establishes a level from which to build
up or to guide the automatic functions
that work the several stabilizing planes.
Now let us see how Mr. Sperry safe
guards the actions of his horoscopes so
that they may not overdo their part or
be thrown out OF step with the stabiliz-
ing needs of the aircraft.
Puddn'head Wilson said somewhere
in his notable almanac that II was best
to put all OF ones eggs in a single basket.
contrary to long standing belief, but to
watch that basket well. Now expert
ence has satisfied Mr.. Sperry that he
could get the best results by grouping
his four stabilizlng horoscopes and sus-
pending them in one set of rings. after
the manner in which a ships compass
Is hung.
Those four bronze encased gyros are
each about the size OF a toothsome pip
pin, and that mechanical apple basket
holds the brains of the stabilzer. Two
of the horoscopes control the wing tips
or ailerons and the other two call into
action the planes Of the elevator at the
tail. But why two horoscopes for each
service? Here is where Mr.. Sperry's
cunning is so much In evidence.
A single gyroscope would resist any
upsetting effort, no matter whence II
came. sidewise or lengthwiss, &C. This
would not do, because the gyro that is
to be effective In correcting lateral tip
ping must be dead to lengthwise shift
! ing OF the horizontal
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The Sperry stabilizer as installed In
the boat OF the Curtss hydroaeroplane.
Total weight Of installation about
thirty pounds. 6, one OF the four little
gyros. w, the wind disc or palette"
controlling the automatic volplaning ap-
paratus. When required, by pressing a
button on the steering wheel the pilot
can throw the stabilizer out OF control
for the moment.
plane resting tho while, so to speak.
upon a sloping bank of sweeping air.
II through faulty control this angle be
overgreat there is the danger OF the
craft dropping sidewise in a sheer plunge
earthward.
This peril is increased by the changed
duties imposed upon the rudder and the
, elevating tail planes. Because Of the
sharp heel the vertical rudder is swung
over so that it virtually becomes an ele-
vator, while the elevator has usurped
the functions OF the rudder. The re-
suit is the angle at which the rudder Is
set may cause the machine TO dive I'M
expectedly, and the alrman in making
his turn must divide his attention be-
tween his wing planes and the confus-
ing actions of the rudder and the tail
planes. Uncertainty or nervousness at
just such a moment has probably caused
the sacrifice of number OF lives and
! injured many pilots who were other
| wise fortunate enough TO escape.
During one of the demonstrations
| young MIR. Sperry took aloft with him
noted French aviation authority, Rene
Quinton, president OF the National
Aerial League. The day chosen for the
flight was rather tempestuous and the
wind was 50 strong that the smoke was
swept horizontally away from the chin
ney tops OF nearby factories. Quinton
has described his experience, and part
OF his story Is we'll worth quoting:
Just after starting the pilot began
to ascend, and in few minutes he took
his hands from the wheel. AS he passed
In front Of the stand holding the mem
bers of the committee Mr.. Sperry raised
| both Of his hands in the air, showing
that he was exercising no control over
the craft. / saw this with my own
eyes.
"The aeroplane continued to rise
When we reached a height OF about
eight hundred feet we volplaned with
out the aid OF the hand control Or
dinariy when aviators want to vol
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relies on lying in bath to "falI out OF
fat"
Really to fall out of fat" you must
labor and suffer-even in Carlsbad. And
here is the merit of Poggio- The Flor
entine of 14ls observes that any one can
do a Carlsbad cure at home-and says
that he did 1t two years later.
The plan is to rise very early in the
morning. start for the springs. drink a
cup Of Sprudel water. walk fifteen min
utes and repeat. Four cups OF Sprudel
are thus taken before breakfast and az
ter the last cup you are glad to walk
for forty minutes. as the law directs.
Consulting your watch as you toll
along the billy ways, you stop at once
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The Routine Declared Be the Great Thing the Famous Mecca
OF the Stout Where You Are Compelled to Stay
Three Weeks and Pay Taxes

Of Europeans who are poor and look It.
I did not feel justified in remaining
first class. as they put me down. so
/ went to the burgermeister TO protest.
He looked at my necktie. had a pin
in 1t worth So. a present from a million
afro friend to whom l had rendered
great and vital services in Paris. and
looking at that pin he said there was
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The servo motor. drawing It's energy
from the electric generator, provided in
military machines for wireless service,
is powerful enough to pull the wires
leading to the several stabilizing planes
at the wing tips and at tho tail. The
harmonizing action of the control func-
tons thus set in motion depends upon
the speed with which they are applied
and the length OF time they are in
service. When these movements are
SO attuned to the need OF the moment
there Is no violence OF correction, and
the aeroplane remains stabilized within
a zone OF angular motion of less than
one degree! Lawrence Sperry says:
I'VE had visible evidence of how
correcting Is necessary aad the speed
at which II must be applied during the
demonstrations In France. The ailerons,
ar controls. as we term them, were kept
vibrating continually in the gusty wind,
each vibration being a disturbance
met and neutralized. 1t would have
been utterly impossible for me to have
thrown my body from side to side
against the yoke to have produced the
same results. Even so. had It been pos
sible should have been exhausted in
a short while. The automatic stabiizer
did for my machine what a soaring bird
would have effected instinctively by the
fiexing OF its wing tips"
The automatic volplaning apparatus
Is an associate feature in the gyro sta
bilizer Its purpose is to take care OF
the pilot should supporting pressure
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Development of the Gyroscope an I'm
portant Step in Solving Problem
Of Stahlizing Flying Machine

IF the promise Of recent experiments
IS fulfilled, aeroplaning is in n fair
way to become pretty nearly as
safe AZ motoring. This may secm
10 Re a daring prophecy when one looks
A. the long list of aviation accidents.
Here is the record Of the last seven
lears:
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Showing manner IN which gyroseope
is hung in swinging rings The little
hywheel will maintain lis plane OF rota-
ton even though supporting rings are
moved. Gyros in stabilizer are hung in
same way and thus maintain their level
constantly.
plane they have to shoot the machine
almost straight down for a while in or
der to get the necessary sustaining
speed with the motor shut of. Could
the Sperry machine do this without the
aid Of human guidance? Mr.. Sperry
proved that Il could.
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Lawrence Sperry in the pilot seat.
The bar against his left shoulder is part
OF the yoke OF the lateral control.