The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-12-08

BirsiSy the real estater as he laid down
he morning paper in Wasserbauer's
Restaurant.
"What was the old plan?" Barnet
.zapp the waist manufactures asked.
well" Birsky replied, Il suppose
ne took the young Teller to one side
and said: Listen, be a sport. You
got to die some time, and a long, ex-
gensive sickness amt so pleasant
aeither. Get 1t over quick. Learn to
1y.'"
~And naturally the young Teller
wasn't encouraged" Barnet zapp sug-
gested.
Naturally" Birsky sad. $50 now
he president of the Airy o Club says:
f.ooky here, why don't you learn it
lying in an airy-oplane and after you
graduate would get gou and two
thousand of your classmates to fly
rom here to San Francisco, and who
arrives first gets $20,000Yn
-Aber supposing the Teller don't ar
rive first?p Zapp inquired,
'sFhen that's his funeral Birsky
said.
"Well then where does the encour-
agement come inn" Zapp commented.
Furthermore, Birsky, this here pres
dent of the Airy-o Club OF America
ms got It wrong. The thing to do is
not to encourage young fellers to learn
flying in an airy-oplane but to DIS
courage EN-"
well, what he said in the first
esfs nj %
me-" Blrsky said.
"What he said was all right Zapp
admitted, shut he didn't lay no pipes
sor 1t. For instance, If would be the
president of the Airy-o Club of Amer
lca and wanted a young Teller he
should be an airy-onaut, understand,
"A would End out where the young fell
Ter Is working and get him fred. /
w0uid then fix things so that the girl
me is going to marry wouldn't got
nothing to do with him no more.
Hafterwards would use all this as
evidence why his father should throw
aim out of the house. and when / got
Sle young Teller absolutely In despair,
understand, l would lay for him at
fhe drug store and Just when he is
going to buy the poison he Is figuring
on taking, / would say to him: Lis
ten, since the war has stopped Ger.
many shipping drugs to America, you
couldn't rely on poisons no more
Save your money and try something
certain, Learn to fly"
'Aber not considering the funny
side OF this thing, zapp, why is 1t we
ain't got more as one airy-oplane flyer
10 Europe's twenty?" Birsky asked
"It's a question from etiquette
Zapp replied. "over in Europe il a
young Teller has got father with a
rating anywheres about ID to r credit
fair, for such young Teller to work
for living Is considered like eating
with his knife or wearing tan shoes
with q full dress suit. So what is a
Teller like that to do? Cards he soon
gets tired of, because you've got to
use your head to play cards, and In
Europe up to the present war using
your head wasn't considered becoming
neither. Gollef and tennis is all right
once in while Birsky, but if Teller
is hitting ball nit club day in day
ort, understand, he might just 50
well be hitting Il nail NIT a hammer
and become carpenter. The conse.
quences was that until airy-oplanes
was invented, all such young Teller
could do to get any excitement out OF
life was to climb mountains NIT snow
ON 'em or go to Africa and kill once in
while menagerie animal like a lion
or tiger. However, Birsky, after
airy-oplanes was invented, flying be-
came more fashionable than mountain
climbing and killing menagerie ami.
mails, as 1t was found out to be Just
as dangerous, but with less travelling
expenses and more convenient to q
hospital. So therefore, Zapp, for
every son of a millionaire in this coun.
try which is working hard to carry on
the old mans business and give en-
plogment to thousands of operators, v
understand, they got over In Europe
a son of a millionaire who is learning
to fly in an airy-oplane and has work
ing for him steady two mechanics, a
surgeon and trained nurse.
swell, you couldn't blame such a
young Teller in especially if he is
going out a good deal into society, 2
Birsky said. ''The fact that a Teller
Is learning to AZ in an airy-oplane
and so TO speak could never tell which
moment is going to be his next, Zapp,
makes him in a way very interesting
20 meet. especially for ladies', Zapp
which they couId say h'afterwards
Dnly yesterday he was talking to me
the same Ike you are now. Also an
airy-opiane flyer hag got troplc o:
conversation more attractive to ladies'
Zapp, which dent care how good
looking q young American millionaire
could BE-. understand, II he would
III down and tell lady how he wa