Arizona republican., 1918-03-31
CENTURY MAGAZINE NOTES

The air-hghters risk! Against what extravagant odds do they daily venture forth to offer combat. Deadly efficient enemies above; countless missiles of death below the delicate balance their machines in flight overlooked defect construction in ma terla Tn engine power or fuel nature, with it's fogs and snows, gales of wind and holes in the air-alI unite against the life of the dauntess air fighter History never recorded similar heroism against such desperate odds Furthermore this amazing science ot war-flying is in the hands of boys and youths. Rarely do we find successful arman forty years of age Lieutenant Colonel Pccio of Italy, with a score of seventeen aeroplanes brought down to dae IS the only ace in the world who has reached this age On the other hand, fully of celebrated fighting are under the age of twenty "Plane Tales from the Skies is the title of article, announced for the April Century by Laurence La Tourette Driggs which will narrate some of the most thrilling of the recent exploits of these young airmen. Aviation is young mans game, Mr. Driggs points out and solely by the experience and inventions of these young men will this important arm of warfare evolve and be- perfected.
 Certain of American pubicists are rendering
 distinct service by their investigation and discussion of the consideration that the problems of war reconstruction receiving the hands of the several European governments With constructive foresight expressed in organized action these gov ernments at the time when the is loudly hammering at their doors with it's demands, have elaborate corps of experts and executives work the job of charting the future and drawing up blue print of policy and action that will be national sty on the day after is declared In all this carefully planned preparation for the future which is going on above the battle" throughout Europe there lies direct challenge to the political busi- leadership of the United States. In article entitled "A General Staff for Peace" for the April Century, Glenn Frank is said to discuss the importance of national commission for reconstruc- tion after the We Americans have qured the habit of group thinking and collective search public, problems and of Mir. Franks concrete proposals is for the working out of American peace book" which would create sound fact basis from which political, business labor and educational leadership operate in the future.
 When, after crossing the unimpressive Urals, the American finds himself in European Russia he looks out upon agriculture totally unfamiliar to him. The fields full of long, strips like the carpet of oden time in which this inch of blue repre- sented discarded shirt and that hand breadth of two yards wide, and the contrast between adjacent strips indicates that they have been titled by different persons One section will be new, the next tumbling down. One section will be of poles, while the beyond will be of rails. There are farm houses about the fields but every few miles gray huddle of matched unpainted huts and from it in all directions wind paths to the cultivated land. The influence of this and other upon Russian agricultural life said to form the subject of article Soil Hunger In Russia by Edward Ellsworth Ross to appear in the April Century Professor Ross has just returned from extensive tour observation in Russia, the Gen. tury's special correspondent. The world may see in this new republic in the course of few years, he says extensive readjustment of property rights than society has undertaken.