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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
She Needed Some One
To Grow Tender Over

To have some one at the front, some
one for whom TO tremble, some one TO
grow tender over or TO take pride in
that is to-day a prime necessity for
the feminine heart. A woman of our
time suffers if she is not on an
equality in this respect with all the
others. To be like the others-that is
also a form of Sacred Union. Our
feelings are the same, whether death
is concerned or glory. Joy and grief
are shared equally. That is why the
sorrows of war, despite its horror, are
perhaps lighter 10 T pear IMAM inc to sTr
feels isolated, whatever may be her
misfortune or her happiness. There
is among women a new mental war
mood, which has all the authority OF
an established fashion;
Geo, alone in her class, suffered in
latitude. All those letters to which
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
Modest in Claiming
Glory for Deeds

Other -shattering things they
do, these soaring young demigods OF
| the air-feats so marvellous TO such
, earth bound ones as myself, feats, in
| deed, so wildly daring il would seem no
ordinary human could ever hope to at
tain unto But in and around Paris
| and at the front have talked with,
dined with and known many of these
| birdmen, both English, French and
/ American, and have generally found
! them very human indeed. often shy,
generally simple and unaffected, and
always modest of their achievements
and full of admiration for seamen and
soldiers, and heartily glad that their
lives are not jeopardiZed aboard ships
or submarines or in muddy trenches,
which sentiment have heard fervently
expressed not once but many times.
Surely the mentality Of the fier is be-
yond poor ordinary understanding!
IL was with some such thought in my
mind that with my friend ~, well
| known American correspondent. ] Wis
tied one Of our flying squadrons at the
| front The day was dull and cloudy,
and NJ, deep versed and experienced in
! flying and matters pertaining thereto,
shook a doubtful head.
1--WE shan't see much to-day" he
| opined. "Low visibility; plafond only
about thousand" Which cryptic SEN
tence. by dint of pertinacious question
ing, l found to mean that the clouds
were about a thousand feet from earth
and that il was misty. "Plafond," by
the way, is aeronautic for cloud strata,
/ Thus, | stood with my gaze lifted
heavenward until the intelligence Off
Ger joined us with youthful fight cap
tain. who, having shaken hands, looked
up also and stroked small and very
young mustache. And presently he
spoke as nearly as I remember in this
wise:
about twelve hundred! Rather rot
ten weather for our business. Expect
ing some new machines over, too"
"Has your squadron been out lately"
! inquired. Il have the gift of inquiry
largely devcloped)
Rather Lost four of our chaps
yesterday. Archie got EN-. Rotten
bad luck!"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
She Jumped to Her Feet,
Erect and Nervous

With trembling hands Geo almost
tears the page. SO eagerly does she turn
il in order TO see The signature. Among
the numerals and authorizations it is
there-this perfectly legible, electrify-
ing signature:
"Adjutant Charles Bowler"
Geo jumps 70 her feet. Erect, she
resumes her reading, while the cat.
awakened with n start, yawns and
stretches on the diyan.
Find me a correspondent friend
to whom can tell my troubles. can
not keep them to myself any longer
My parents died when was child.
have neither brother nor sister. 1t is
said: 1t is not good for man to be
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
4 FEW short years ago flying was

4 FEW short years ago flying was
~ in its experimental stage; to-
day, though mans conquest Of
inc air is yet dream unrealized, il
mas developed enormously and TO an
amazing degree; to-day flying is one
OF the chief factors of this world war
both on sea and land. Upon the
western front alone there are thou
SANDS upon thousands of airplanes--
monoplanes and biplanes Of hun
areas OF different makes and de-
signs, OF varying shapes and many
sizes. ! have seen giants armed with
batteries of swivel guns and others
mounting veritable cannon. Here are
huge bomb dropping machines with
vast wing spread: solid. steady flying
machines for Photographic work and
the light, swift climbing, double -gunned
battleplanes capable of mounting
2,OOO feet a minute and attaining
speed of 200 kilometres.
or these last they are building
scores week at ce~tain factory I
VISITED just outside Paris, and this
factory is but one of many. But the
men Cor rather youths) who fy these
aerial marvels-it is of these rather
than the machines that | would tell,
since of the machines | can describe
little even if | would; but | have
watched them lowering unconcernedly
land quite contemptuous of the bark
ing attention of "Archie") above white
shrapnel bursts-feecy, innocent-seem-
ing puffs of smoke that 60 by the name
of "woolly bears" | have seen them
turn and hover and swoop, swift and
al
watched master pilots of both armies,
English and French. perform soul
shaking gyrations, high in air. feats
quite impossible hitherto and never at
tempted until lately. There is now a
course of aerial gymnastics which every
fier must pass successfully before he
may call himself a Chasing" pilot;
and, from what / have observed, it
would seem that TO become a pilot one
must be either all nerve or possess no
nerve at all.
Conceive biplane, thousands Of
feet aloft, suddenly finging its nose
up and beginning TO climb vertically
as if intending to loop the loop; con-
ceive of its pausing suddenly and re-
naming for perhaps full minute
poised thus upon its tail absolutely
perpendicular. Then, the engines
switched off, conceive Of it falling help
lessly. tail first, reversing suddenly
and plunging earthward, spinning gid
Oily round and round very like the
helpless futter of falling leaf Then
suddenly the engine roars again, the
twisting, futterins dead thing becomes
instinct with life. rights itself ma
iestically on flashing pinions, swoops
down in swift and headlong course,
and, turning. mounts 'he wind and
scars up and up as light, as graceful
as any bird.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23

she need to disguise her handwriting.
Did she recognize at once her former
husbands handwriting?
Monsieur PAdjutsnt, I wish to be
your godmother. For | also am lonely
and broken in spirit. But must make
one condition. Ii is that you shall not
know my real name. For you I shall
be Geo and nothing else. And you can
tell me all the wrongs that have been
done to you. | shall understand them,
believe me, better than anybody else"
Pen in air, the young wife smiles
sadly, tenderly. Then she bends over
and continues her letter. And her An.
gers tremble constantly as she writsA
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
Translated by William l.. Mcpherson

ne kuo, It'll. in this country the godmote to soldiers
an marran as the French call her, reported h0t our
military authorities her ch extreme daUOr ana are aee
B she has become institution
and all French testify to the great popularity ana COCA Vec
a the front of the relationship established beTen the po"s ho are
,bo mar relatives uho the duty OF cheering
such Ioru soldiers yth correspondence sympathetic nature
The relationship in itself generous and humGn'9"g one 'I0
o NM Delorue story oh foo 1t has also
romontc nobl;s Nine DelarueMadus reH knon French
po,t and dramns another her stories THE Rv0 appeared
in this series The Sunday Tribune Of august last
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
Proves Value
OF Authority

Hercupon its leather clad pilot
climbed stifTly out. vituperated the
weather and lit a cigarette.
How is she?" inquired the captain.
"a lamb! A witch! Absolutely top
hole when you get used to her" The
top hole, lamb and witch was a small
ish biplane, with no great wing spread,
but powerfully engired, whose points
N. explained to me as her speed, her
climbing angle, her wonderful stability,
etc, while the captain and lieutenant
FASTENED of to find the major, who, ap-
pearing in due course, proved to be
slender. merry-eyed and more youth
full looking than the lieutenant. In
deed, so young seeming was he that
upon better acquaintance | ventured to
inquire his age, and he somewhat un-
willingly owned to twenty-three.
But" said he, T'm afraid We can't
show you very much, the weather's so
perfectly rotten for flying"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
AT Twenty-three She
Vas Divorced

The little wife, like so many others
constructed her life according to her
own ideas, as if one could fabricate 1t
out of hand. Her only thought was TO
break. 70 slash and to turn things up
side down. At twenty-three she was
divorced. Her husband, wearied and
broken. had disappeared completely
from her life.
She was free She dropped her mar
ried name and even her family name.
She became Geo. AS Geo, simply, she
aspired 70 fame and glory.
Naturally there was no question OF
love in the case. Does one yield 10
sentiment, or even TO sensuallty, when
one is determined 10 live ones own
life, Geo. quite alone, facing her own
future. her dowry recovered, welded
her art.
War.
Resides Transforming the i've parts
Of the world, it is going, according TO
circumstances, to disarrange and rear
range everything, even in the smallest
csIis Of the socisl beehive. Like an
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23

w eope if thirty forty plots exposed
- so likely This country be pushed just far
TRUETALK
,v,, British Fullerton Gud in the
Another author who has gone dwndng is Mr. Galsworhy
Of him and of permanent joy in him had
b,n THE Property appeared And of knows
~ who stick him for his Style One does not quite know
bv touch either Mr. Wess Mr. Benefits
e fancy there will always be perceptible num-
| Of peope before long descriptions of nature
Noture when book somehow sacred Perhaps 1t Is
Wodsvorths Literary petes die hard Anyhow there
ways are long descriptions of nature Mr. Gaswohys novels
and if they are deatey confused with mating animals and human
cav ;nues and connoaon of stirring and swelling
lar Yet the Galsworthy has from book
hook steadily becoming sentimental and more faboy HIS
cannot rich situations he has never so ar
failed 10 Il think not mistaken the same sltuaton
man in love he has legal right TO be IN love
With Often that very interesting suation but 1t is not the
nv source Of life and does get tired of It, And DO
M think that Mr. Galsworhy makes interesting or
sympathetic by constantly involving the vegetable world or by
every declaration unlawful love with the calls OF
mating birds
The popuar before descriptions OF nature IS snow"
tho nuc attitude toward Phpotts. Phpotts goes in for
~ descriptions of landscapes and they to us at least ike
elaborate bakdrops When Hardy describes nature he makes IL
an integral part story. Phpos and Hardy are talent and
genius
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
Swallowed Up
By Clouds

"Can you beat that" exclaimed the
captain enthusiastically. Lifted her
clean away"
81 rather fancy he's about as good as
they're made" observed the captain.
Meanwhile the witch-lamb scared up
and up, straight as an arrow. Up she
climbed, growing rapidly less, until she
was gnat against a background of
feecy cloud and the roar Of the engine
had diminished to a whine; up and up
until she was speck-until the
clouds had swallowed her altogether
"Pity Il isn't clear" said the captain.
81 rather fancy you'd have seen some
real flying. BY the way, they're going
to practice at the might inter-
est you. Care to see?"
The targets were about yard square,
and as | watched an aeroplane rose,
wheeling high above them. All at once
the hum of the engine was lost in the
sharp, fierce rattle Of a machine gun,
and ever az the biplane banked and
wheeled the machine gun cracked.
From every angle and from every point
of the compass these bullets were
aimed, and examining the targets af-
terward, was amazed 10 see how many
hits had been registered.
After this they brought me to the
workshops, where many mechanics
were busted; they showed me, among
other grim relics, C.'s broken machine
gun and perforated cartridge tray.
They told me many stories Of daring
deeds performed by other members Of
the squadron, but when | asked them
10 describe their own experiences |
found them dif1ident and monosyllabic.
"Hallo!" exclaimed c. as we stepped
out into the air. "Here comes the
major. He's in that cloud-know the
sound Of his engine" Sure enough,
cut from low-lying cloud bank he
came. wheeling in short spirals, plung-
ing earthward.
Down sark the airplane: the roaring
engine fell silent, roared again, and she
sped toward US, her wheels within a
foot or so of earth. Finally they
touched. the engine stopped and the
witch Lamb pulled up within few feet
of US. Hereupon the major waved
gauntleted hand to US.
"Must stop TO lunch!" he cried. 1--WE
ordered soup. you know"
But, this being impossible, we per-
force said goodby to those warm
hearted, simple-souled fighting men-s
truly regrettable farewell, so far as |
was concerned. They escorted US TO
the car and there parted from US with
many frank expressions OF regard, and
stood side by side to watch US out OF
sight.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
Fire Three
Foe Machines

yesterday there was much aerial &C
tivity on our 'front.'
"Depots were successfully bombed
and five enemy machines were forced
TO descend, three of them in flames.
Four of ours did not return
shall never read these oft-recurring
lines in the communicates without
thinking of those three youthful hg-
ures, so full of life and the JOY, OF life,
who watched us depart that dull and
cloudy morning.
Here is just one other story dealing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
Gotham GleaningS

&&*Work is progressing slowly on the new subway u
salt is hard pick up many items OF news these days
~s&Tm Collins is still in Washington helping Bert
Hoover.
*%eBrock Pemberton is Of town bus for his new
boss Art Hopkins
.%Harry the proof boy Sunday is not Sunday 10
him without Gotham Gleanings
*Ioe Wise Ianes father away in the west on bust
ness trip selling blue and red hdkfs.
@a*Glenn Tisdales is out in the training camp al
Rockford Ill., he having commission.
za4Raeburn Van Buren, the k artist is in the 9TH regt
now and is in camp training with same.
aAIrs Max Grab OF Yonkers is contemplating spending
the winter with home folks in Grand Rapids, Mich
a%-ack Mitchell won in the primaries, but ne didn
have much This proves how necessary it to defeat
Hylan
@&&Nir and Mrs. F. c. Schang attended the premiere
opening OF Hamilton and seemed to ENJOY same MIS- D.
is extremely beautiful. mn
***Bnl Moore Walt Newdick Eddie Ssson' BIZ
Churchill and Jim McConaughy are all WORKING IN 0eo'
Creers Bureau OF Pub Info. at the natl capital
@**Fred Leson the genial plateglass salesman IS the
pest dresser on University Heights Fred takes the ap
pare hints in the theatre programmes seriously
sa*I ucius Hitchcock OF New Rochelle happened TO an
automobile accident last Sunday, on ac OF garing mead
lights on car going in the opposite direction to his
As 10 the alleged treason Mr. Jeremiah OLeary we are not
sufficiently grounded in editon matters to comment ou' lie w
loyal to Shakespeare, whom he misquotes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23

The young wife had genius, so she
thought. A year after her marriage
she rented a studio. And because she
was entering her twentieth year, Ike
all other young girls Of that age her
conception of the future was precise
and unalterable. That age has no soul;
lust as a new house has none. 1t still
ep,cIIs If tho MASTER
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
The Coming 7over
GODS MORNING

Ny mistress, in her boudoirs close,
Turns low the lights because says she,
Thus with her age they best agree
The color always is old rose;
About such things my mistress knowsD
cannot tell how this may be;
My mistress is but thrty-three,
And as a perfect poppy glows.
At early dawn, do you suppose,
God really cannot bear 70 see
. The wrinkled earth, with all its woes
OF sin and hate and misery
Save through a light whose pink veil shows
But half-rcvesled the facts we fee?
Y K
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
UNIVERSAL CITY

From Impressions" By Beatrice B. bernneimI
town of film and actor folk,
Who have their tasks we'll planned A.
They laugh and sport and seem most gay,
But must obey commands
The villain and the dancing girls
Are best Of frends-they firt and eat,
The COWBOYS cheer their horses tear
With spirit down the street :
Little Zoe Beech in her queer pink trocK .:
Is eagerly waiting her turn;
Miss Peacock's here with raven locks
And eyes where passions burn.
Little we think when the plays
The labor that's required for many days
rNryT crop. "DEL MONTE TO SAN FRANCISCO
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
Bullets Garry
Away Gear

T., struggling with HIS baking en-
CINE. had his hands pretty full. More
over, his opponent, owing TO greater
speed, could attack him from precisely
whatever angle he chose. SO they
wheeled and few, z. endeavoring to
bring his gun to bear the German
keeping skilfully out OF range, now
above him, now below, but ever and al
ways behind. Thus the Boche' nying
in rs tail, had him at his mercy;
bullet ripped his sleeve, another
smashed his speedometcr, yet anotner
broke his gauge; slowly and by de-
grees nearly all rs gear was eitner
smashed or carried away by bullets
All this time II is to be supposed that
e.. thus defenceless. is wheeling ana
turning as we'll as his crippled condl-
ton will allow, endeavoring to get
shot at his elusive foe; but, as he told
me. he felt it was his finish, so ne de-
termined, IL possible, to ram his OPP
moment and crash down with MN
through the clouds. Therefore, wait
ing until the Boche was aiming at MIN
from directly below, he threw his ma
chine into sudden dive. Thus for one
moment z. had him in range, Tor
moment only, but the range was close
and deadly and 2. fred of half MS
trav "a he swooped headlong down
mon his astonished foe. All at once
the German waved an arm and sagged
over sidewise. his great battlepian'
wavering uncertainty, and as 1t be-
Gan 70 fall 2. avoided the intended coll
Iision by inches. Down went the Ger
man machine, down and down, and
watching. z. saw it plunge through the
clouds wrapped in fame.
Then 2. turned and made for nome
&c fast as his baking engine would
allow.
These are but two stories among doz-
ens I have heard, yet these, l THINK
will suffice TO show something OF the
snirit animating these young paladins'
The Shirt Of Youth is surely godliKe
shirt. uncomfortable, care-free' undyI
ing. It is a spirit TO whom rear anu
feat are things to smile and WONDER al,
10 whom risks and dangers are joyous
onisodes and Death himself, whose
face their Youthful eyes have so often
looked into, a friend familiar by close
mountaineering.
TTnon a time | mentioned some such
thought to an American aviator VINO
nodJsd Youthful head and answered IN
this manner: ers,
THE best fellows generally go hrst,
and such lot ere gone now ,ha
tbere1l be a whole bunch or tnem
waiting to say Hello, old SPORT 80
what's it matter. anyway! -
t,,ao,,i,b, 1917. by Tic Tribune Association
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23

"Oh, 7 donx know" said the captain,
glancing toward the witch lamb, az
rather thought I'd like TO try this
new machine you don't mind, SIR
"Samc here" murmurcd the lieuten-
ant.
"But you've never flown Newport
before, have you, Ell? inquired the
major.
"No, sir, but
"Nor you, neither, CO"
"No, sir; still''--
"Then I'll try her myself" said the
major, regarding the witchlamb, joy
ous-eyed.
But" demurred the captain, 81 was
rather under the impression you'd
never flown one, either"
81 haven't-yet," laughed the major,
and FASTENED away for his coat and
helmet.
"Can you beat that" exclaimed the
lieutenant.
The captain sighed and went to aid
the major into his leathern armor.
Lightly and joyously the major
climbed into the machine and sat
awhile to examine and remark upon
its unfamiliar features, while a sturdy
mechanic stood at the propeller ready
to start the engine.
"By the way" said he, turning to
address me, "you're staying to lunch
con, of course"
w'm afraid we can't answered our
intelligence officer.
ooh, but you must. I've ordered
soup! Right, OH" he called to his
mechanician. The engine hummed
Numbered and roared, casting back
upon us very gale OF wind The
witch-lamb moved, slid forward over
the grass and, gathering speed, lifted
six inches, yard, ten yards-and was
ia Niubt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23

Nearly every child has been able 10 earn con
siderable money this year the parents are hndng the ep
most useful in buying school outfs-Harford oour"h
when Teller Needs a Friend.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
Flying Men BY Jeffrey Farnol

with thrc. seasoned air fighters, VET
Grams of many deadly combats hign
above the clouds, each OF whom ha'
more than one victory to his creni.,
and whose combined ages total up 10
sixty or thereabout3. We Will cali t"em
X, Y. and z. Now. X. is an American
Y. is an Englishman, whose peaeh-
like countenance yet bears the ne"iy
healed scar of bullet wound. and II. IS
an Afrikander. Here begins the story:
Upon n certain day Of wind, ram
and cloud news came that the Boche8
were massihg behind their lines toc
an attack, whereupon X, Y. and II. were
ordered to 90 up and verify this. Gayly
enough they started, despite unfaVor-
able weather conditions. Inc ciouas
were low, very low, but they must ny
lower. so, at an altitude varying from
fifteen hundred to a bare thousand
feet, they crossed the German lines, 7.
ard z. flying wing and wing behind Ms
tail. All at once archie" spoke, q
whole battery of anti-aircraft guns
filled the air with smoke and whistlinP
hullets-away went KS propeller, ana
his machine was hurled upside down;
Immediately Y. and q. rose. BY mar.
vellous pilotage X. managed to right
his crippled machine and began, o,
course, to fall; promptly Y. and q. de-
scended.
II is, | believe, an unwritten law IN
the Air Service never to desert COM
rade until he is seen to be completely
dome for"-hence Y. and Us hawklike
swoop from the clouds to draw the hre
of the battery from their stricken com
panion; down they plunged through
the battery smoke, firing their machine
guns point blank as they came, and 50,
wheeling in long spirals, their guns
cracking vciously, they mounted agar
and scared cloudward together, but
there, among the clouds and in COM
parative safety, z. developed engine
trouble. Their ruse had served, how
ever. and X. had contrived to bring his
shattered biplane to earth safely be-
hind the British lines.
Meanwhile Y. and z. continued on
toward their objective, but Us engine
trouble becoming elusive, he fell be-
hind more and more, and finally, leay-
ing Y. to carry on alone, was forced to
turn back. And now II was that in the
mists ahead he beheld another machine,
which. coming swiftly down upon HIM,
proved to be a German. who, mounting
above him, promptly opened fire.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
THE ADVENTURES OF A JOURNALIST

Sir: Speaking of the feeling of futly as some Oh Us "e
s there is the case Cub Reporter who scored peat
and had an his first week AND wnen ne g
back to the office Old Jackson came over and saio
good thing you smoke tell you from the copy poy
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23

". have been said officially quarrel with the Ger
neope: thirty forty plots exposed
co likely to have one This country be pushed just far
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
Are Women People?
By ALICE DUER MILLER
: WhinSey

excellent persons he sufragists) going up and
country preaching their whmseNew York Times ed-
torial September II, 1917