The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1914-09-25
CHAPTER v.
a Sunday Morning Cali.

~ 0UHoay WsOSUtuv N&ils
AZ n boy, Arthur Lanstron had per
Riseed In being an exception to the In
1tneuess Of both heredity and environ.
xaent Though his father and both
Er&ndEztheEs were officers who be-
l;GVed theirs to be the true gentle
12aMS profession, he had preferred
any Hind of mechanical toy to arrang-
ing the most gsyly painted tin SOL
GinEx In formation on the nursery
GqGHs znd he would rather read about
taH wonders OF natural history and
csectrsc5ty than the campaigns Of Ma
TDcaeon and Frederick the Great and
my Lord Nelson. Left to his own
Csso1ce, he would miss the parade of
Gha garrison for inspection by an ex-
ceAlency in order to ask questions Of
u r2an wiping the oil of his hands with
Grttonlwaste. who was far more enter
thinning TO him than the most spick-and-
SpzA raInrod of sergeant.
Upon being told one day that he was
10 go to the military school the follow
Ing autumn. he broke out in open re-
beIliun.
IT don't want to go to the army!" he
tIG
~Why?" asked his father, thinking
Fat when the boy had to give his rea-
'5ns he would soon be argued out Of
the heresy,
IT'S drilling q few hours q day, then
Eothing to do" Arthur replied. "All
yTizr work waits on war and you don't
know that there will ever be any war.
IL waits on something nobody wants
to happen. Now, II you manufacture
E1sngthing. why, you see wool come
&Ss cloth, steel come out an automo-
lGA II you build q bridge you see it
Tising little by little. You're getting
.yvGr results every day; you see your
mistakes and your successes. You're
making something, creating some
Sl1ag: there's something going ON all
sba while that isn't guesswork. /
aEl-tk ShAt's what I want to say. You
wriDT WEEler me to be a soldier, will
SCu?~
Ehs father, loath to do this, called IN
tla assistance OF an able pleader then,
TTGgHne PaTtuw, lately become chief Of
xt.-E Of the Browns, who was an old
Sri.snd 0f the Lanstron family. Partow
Gw-1sd thu balance on the side of fllial
Ef1 actiDn- He kept watch Of the hoy,
6Bs without favoring him with influ-
@nca. Young Lanstron, who wanted to
sTs,' results, had to earn them. He real
iza&e In practice the truth Of Partow's s
eay!ng thai there was nothing he had
Gv6T learned but what could be of serv'
ite IN him as an officer.
Finding enough work to do?" Par
to9 wOuld ask with chuckle when
akxE met in these days; for he had
1,Algys Ianstron both chief Of intelli
gxcay@ and chief aerostatic officer
EERzg G11lonel Lanstron's was the duty
US gaining the secrets Of the Gray
g:aE and keeping those of the Brown
at3 organizing up-to-the-moment efa
CME7cy in the new forces Of the air.
We had remarked truly enough tha
Sba injury to his left hand served al
u &otter reminder against the folly o
vonl-gathering than q string, even ;
Eayye red string, tied around his fin
Exc. Thanks to skillful surgery, tn,
iIngprs. incapable Of spreading much
Vcrs yet serviceable and had firm
Zip of the wheel as he rose from tn,
,.,.1plane station on the Sunday morn
tlr aftHr Marta's return home for
igAt to La Tir.
La knew the pattern weaving unde
hls Feet as one knows that Of his owl
gar5sn from an overlooking window
EseIy detail Of the star map rayines
rcasss. buildings, battery positions, wal
stitched together In the flowing realit!
Oh actual vision. No white posts wer,
EnteGsary to tell him where th'
hnxndary between the two nations lay
IT. line was drawn IL his brain.
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