The daily Alaskan., 1917-05-10
RUTH LAW WANTS
 TOFIGHT GERMANS
nl Am at th8 Service of My
 Country" Sh8 Says,
INSISTS ON DUTY AT FRONT

Dimfnutlve Aviator, Back From Trip to
 England and France, Says Our Aero
 planes Are Too Heavy-Praise For
 Young Men Who Have Turned Out
 For Aviation Training.
 q am at the service of my country for flying duty at any moment may be called upon," said Miss Ruth Law, aviator, as she came into port after several months spent in England and France observing the latest methods of using aeroplanes in warfare.
 "I am willing to fly fast little scout machine alone, travelling 120 or l5O miles an hour, or I'll drive a heavier machine carrying a gun and gunner and go into actual battle with the en- emy," added the diminutive holder of the Chicago-New York flight record. That's what I'd like to do more than anything-get right into the fight.
 "The only request shall make of the government when l offer my serv- Ices formally is that be sent to the front, wherever It is. Above all things I'd like to go to the front in France if America sends Gny soldiers over there.
 If we have a woman congressman, why can't we have woman fighting aviatOrp she demanded.
 Record Shows Her Ability.
 Of Miss Laws ability there is no question. Her performances prove that. She holds the altitude mark for a wO- man-ncarly 12OOO fcet-aud the cross country American record for either sex.
 q am arranging to get a Morane- Saulnier mouUpane from France and am willing to enter it in the service of the United States" Miss Law COntinu- ed. That is the fastest plane in use in Europe. l had flight over Paris in two scatter with Robert MOrane, the inventor. l thought I had flown fast before. but my eyes were opened by the speed of that bus"
 The little queen of the mir was en- thuslastic in her praise of the way in which young men of England and France had turned out for aviation training She displayed picture of one of the French fields at Le Bourget, near Paris, where there are l5O han gars and 100 machines in each hangar q never dreamed there were so many aeroDIancs in the worid," she said. "Why, they buzz over the city of Paris almost like mosquitoes.
 "YOu'Il see a big triplane carrying a crew of three or four men and a three inch gun, surrounded by twenty or thirty fast little planes armed with machine guns to protect the big fel- lows"
 Met the Famous Guynemer,
 Miss Law tried 10 get tO the fighting front. but was permitted no farther than CUmpiegue, close to where the Germans were turned away from their march toward Paris early in the war.
 T met all the boys of the Lafayette escadrille. the American flying group,' she said "and 1 had the privilege of chatting with the greatest fighting fier of all, Lieutenant Guyncmcr who has shot down more than thirty fiiers. He gave me a ring fashioned from the but ton of q German airman's coat
 Comparing the foreign QerOpanes with those in use here. Miss Law said ours are entirely too heavy. The Eng liSh and French machines are very much lighter and therefore easier to handle and capable of far greater speed.
 Just think of those MOraue ma chimes getting up G.OO0 feet in seven minutes" she said. Many of them can climb almost a thousand feet a minute, and it took me an hour and a half to get up to 12,OOO with my little old bi- plane when 1 made the altitude record. Our materials and bodies should be re- fined and frightened"
 The little aviator said American men by the thousands ought to be turning out for air service right now, particu- larly for coast defense duty.
 q saw a wonderful new bit of trick flying at Le Bourgrt." she went on. Tt is a stunt called Ie vrille' lthe gim- let). While the machine is on a level the head stands still. and then the tail whirIs around and around. It is done by tanning the rudderS. But with all the fancy flying saw 1 still believe the best trick aviator ever behold was Lincoln Beachey, our own Yankee boy"
 Miss Law brought back with her French trench dog called pOiu, who saw much actual fighting and was wounded several times. He wears