The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-16
Experiences
In the South
MACON. Ga, Jan. 8.

hh1ON, od, Jan. y.
Speed. That s one thing the South is
strong against. It's against the law,
customs and temperament. Tomorrow
is Just as good as today, and most al
ways a little better to do anything
that had been promised for today. They
don t count an hour here as anything.
As for keeping dates-there ism I any
such thing, at least among the male
population. Some day | am going to
try out the other sex and see if they
are as particular about not being
prompt.
Our ianitor is a case in point. To be
sure he is black, but no black er In the Il
matter of keeping engagements than L
others whose skins are more fair. When 4
he started with us coming "early to
make fires. he showed up at 80 a. m.
Gentle advice, followed by caustic
comments the days wore on, brought |
only a new excuse each morning, but |
after a week we managed TO advance |
| the time to o clock One morning |
he appeared at 645 and explained that !
after this he would be around at $50, |
| cause Sc gwine to have the rooms
| all warm for you gcmmen.
| ttt IOiioN8iiB lHbf mug WITH lit
| opened our door il was raining outside
and he hobbled into the room hanging
on to one hip. 1t was 7l5. But he had
de mizry'' and had been since )
o clock gettirc, out Of bed and hobbling
10 the barracks, he said This morn
ing, after we had expressly told him
that we must be up at Gao as we were
planning TO A.. he appeared at 6.35.
ha1 al
clock. of which we had heard nothing
before. had failed him for the first
time in nine years and three months.
and sides" il was raining and q
knew you-alls wouldn I be gwine up in
one OBJ dem tings in no such missile
wedder as this we're
What l want 10 know Is what in
h is q fellow going TO do'
Second spasm, dated Jan. H.
Been busy since starting the above.
Sent up small balloon Tuesday. Went
lup myself with a new cadet Wednes-
day. Yesterday we laid out and flew
the America III, 10000 cubic feet. with
Capt. Goodale in charge and four
cadets Then. not thinking, | said ]
would lay out and fly small one with
another cadet. We bust speed records
in getting away. The balloon was
dumped on the ground at Loo p. IN. and
at 3.25 | ordered "let 60.
Our course closely resembled a =
and an 5 and Q well monogrammed.
All three previous flights had gone di-
rectly over Camp Wheeler and we
threatened 70 yesterday but missed it
: on all sides. At the end OF an hour
and 10 minutes | started down and
landed in a cotton field SIX miles from
starting point without pulling the rip
5 panel. Then began our experiences
When it gets dark here il apparently
4, does so without any ceremony Now
, YOU see and next minute YOU don I.
Nalving out the gas l. slow work and
Cadet Morgan and | were engaged in
that when the first squad from the re.
!. mount station near Camp Wheeler came
70 MS. They were all Germans and anx-
iouS TO help and did So
While we were rolling NJ the balloon
and picking cotton stalks ont Of the
5 netting, the man working next to me
remarked that he saw a balloon fall in
Q Berlin, Germany, in 1908. He couldn I
:. remember the name Of the aerouaut
p ! suggested the name Forbes and he
exclaimed that he was the man who
4 fell. He went on 70 say that another
r American fell in the North Sea.
h guessed he meant a man named
Arnold. and that was right. too.
\ 81 m Arnold. said.
!. He said 1.-The hell you are. - Their
a he said other equally strong things t,
: register complete surprise. He fnall,
added that now he had helped with ;
balloon, he had ''mon KEYED Will
/. about everything. He told of installin,
!, some machinery in submarine, work
ing as an assistant mechanic at al
aviation school, Of railroading. of 60
ing around the world as a sailor and
yard or two more of things that Is
u capped me during my later experience.
y Mr.. Thompson, Judge FELTON,, pres
- dent of the gas, electric. street railwa
and few other things and corpora
Il tions, had followed us when thew 81,
s. from the highway that we were nlal
III ing landing they requisitioned a co
~ ored man with his horse and light Q,
press wagon to go to our rescue an
to haul US to the main road.
nj just as dusk was settling he appeare
d. with note in which Mr. T. hottie
lis me that he had negotiated successful
ON for the retrieving of the appa ratus ,
the highway for $3.50.
le Mr.. Green White was the black man
ok eognomen. He had a sense of hum,
". but none of justice, or of reveren,
- for khaki
rs He studied the bundle and then i
speeted the basket and gave it re
tatlve push to 'theft' it.
81 Said he: My name s White but r.
% colored. My first names Green but
- ain green as to tote dat ting out
n de Milledgeville road for no $50.
boss has got TO pay me - cents n
befoe III bulge. I'se got TO ma
fiv two trips and most likely II bus n
ct, wagon.
TN argued. but it was no 90. so
Is bundled the envelope on to the wac
I'LL and he drove off to come "rignt ba,
pm we're 1t was his farm we had Ian
III ed on. BY this time it was good n,