The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1916-09-22

hawks eyes. This work. SO audacious.
ly and skIllfully done, has given us an
undoubted mastery Of observation.
which the enemy M longer holds. The
Pr.ss.an guRners now have to shoot,
mostly, by The map, and although they
are very wise In science, u Is not the
same thing az being able to direct their
DIRE by direct observation Of resuita
Our alrmen have beep 81 vast service
In the daily hattie Of guns. and Il u
largely due TO their fights that cur
artillery has been able to destroy many
Of the enemy's batteries.
''ODe day seven batteries reported
active BY Que machine were all stlenced
In ten minutes and direct hits were
made on Ave or more batteries.
ION July ~ one OF eur air squa,ipns
controlled nine direct hits Oh the eae-
my's batteries.
These thIngs tell. The knocking
out Of an opposing battery means less
loss OF life to our infantry and great
er certainty Of progress. II is the hard
est blow that can he given. for this is
battle Of Euas. and every battery de
stroyed is better than the taking Of
trench, or at least tho easiest way &c
take IL.
"A machine OF ours ranged howit1crS
on battery If two 80 howitzers,
which were destroyed and another ma
chine directed guns on another battery,
destroying one emplaccment and caus-
ing explosions which lasted an hour.
$50 the record runs from day 10 day.
and the enemy Is getting frightened
for his guns and withdrawing some Of
them AT least to safer places
'"fhe fearleSsneSs Of our men ~ not n
virtue with them. II Is a natural In
stinct. They attack unequal odds with
the guSto Of schoolboys who fling them
selves into football scrlmmage.
Literally. the enemy is put TO hight
by these modern men ~ ours, as when
the other day one Of our pilots dlyed
at five hostile machines attacking one
Of our scouts and drove them of and
as when day ar two ago, two others
attacked four Fokkcrs-- the deadly
fokkcr Ms IL used 10 be called-and
drove them down into their own lines.
They are "A new type OF men, these
pilots and observers Of the Royal Fly
Ing corps II is difficult 10 place them
or io account for them. They seem To
have been born 10 ny. For the most
part they ARE very young men-~boys of
nineteen or twenty though older men.
twice their age and more, are found
here and there, having come out Of
professions Ike the law and the civil
service and saksn .to the air hike ducks
to water. but surprised With them
selves. The younger men are clean
cut, fine and dellcately made fellows.
as far AZ know them. rather highly
strung and nervous In temperament.
Flight the Music OF LIE"
1T Is quite curious that many OF
them are men of great musical talent.
in one squadron know there are near.
~ ~ men who are all very full Of
musical talent. One OF them. a strip
ting. cam. out Of the trenches to yolun.
teer ms an aIrman, with long screedS Of
music which he had written down out
Of his head, ~ children say. without
hearing note OF Il played until he
came back. At night, when dusk creets
through the sky and one by one the
homing birds fly down (thcre IL al.
ways mn anxious question nbout the
squadron commander, who Is the best
helovedl, the flying men settle round
the piano In the aerodrome and one
Of them brings out his violin and plays
IL with master touch. and another
sings In a bass voice that may be heard
one day az Covent Garden. and through
the evening the men take turns at the
piano, to play what comes Into their
heads and out OF their hearts.
This link between music and flight
may be coincidence In the case o.
one squadron Though have heard
OF IL elsewhere). but II mar be- that
flight IL the new music Of life. and
that the lima gination OF the younger
generation is soaring upon real wings,
inspired by flight TO the deep chords
of emotion that In earlier days went
Into sound and color. The pity In that
Just now they are instruments OF
death.
They have amazing adventures np
there In the sky and learn strange
things. They learn the hook Of the
great country below, 40 that everT
landmark is familiar 10 them, and Rny
stranre fnxs or shape Is detected nj
once. and those things they must learn
in three different scales Of ligat- morn.
ing. afternoon and evening. because nj
each Of those lines the lanascaae and