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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-08-02

Miss Hortense Fournier commenced
a two weeks vacation Thursday. She
is employed as clerk in the L. 0. Vessel
company's store.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-08-02

Jos. Moeglein and family began a sew
eral weeks outing at Fish Trap lake
Monday.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-08-02

Mrs. f. V. Wetzel was confined 40
her bed by illness the first of the week.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-08-02


Relatives have received a card stat
ing that Sampson Dewey Roberts has
! arrived safely overseas.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-08-02

Wednesday, August Z, the school
board will meet to reorganize and to
elect a president, secretary and treas
urGr,
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-08-02
BORN
BOYCE- TO, Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Boyce,
Monday, July 20, q son.

BOYCE-To, Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Boyce,
Monday, July 20, son.
VIRNIG-To Mr.. and Mrs. c. P. Vir-
mig, Sunday, July 2S, a daughter.
TANDECKI-To Mr.. and Mrs. John
Tandecki, Friday, July 26, a son.
BATTERS-To Mr.. and Mrs. John
Batters, Saturday, July 27, son.
KNOPIK-To Mr.. and Mrs. J. Kno-
pix, Tuesday, July 30, daughter.
TUZINSKI-To Mr.. and Mrs Mike
Tuzinski, Thursday, July IS, daugh-
ter.
DOUCETTE-To> Mr.. and Mrs. John
Doucette Of Topeka, Friday, July 26,
a son.
SWANSON-To Mr.. and Mrs. G. W.
Swanson Of Freedmen, at St. Gabriel's
hospital, Wednesday, July "a, dauga-
ter.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-08-02

BATTERS-To Mr.. and Mrs. John
Batters, Saturday. July 81, son.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-08-02

Miss Corrine LaFond has taken q
position in the local Western Union tel
egraph office.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-08-02

KNOPIK-To Mr.. and Mrs. J. Kno-
pix, Tuesday, July 30, a daughter.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-08-02

Mr.. and Mrs. Jos. F. Bastien received
word Wednesday that their son Albert
had arrived safely overseas,
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-08-02

TUZINSKI-To Mr.. and Mrs. Mike
Thursday, July IS, a daugh-
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-08-02

DOUCETTE-T Mr.. and Mrs. John
Doucette Of Topeka, Friday, July 26,
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-08-02

VIRNIG-To Mr.. and Mrs. C. P. Vir-
mig, Sunday, July %, a daughter.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-08-02

TANDECKI-To Mr.. and Mrs. John
Tandecki, Friday, July 26, a son.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

FINALLY, at a height of thousand feet
or less, are combat planes of different
order. These attack the enemy ON the
ground: They carry bombs in great num-
Der, which they scatter among thesr foes
as they swoop low for the purpose They
rake the enemy trenches with their ma
chine guns. attack advancing reinforce
ments, lines of transportations, munitions
bases. They are new force in actual
hghting-a force that is only just coming
to be appreciated
When finally graduated from the
schools in France, the aviator is made
first lieutenant and classified as junior
military aviator. The base pay of first
lieutenant is $4,000 a year. To this is
added bonus of so per cent while on
flying duty and an additional 10 per cent
for foreign service, making a possible
total of $4,000 year.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
decorations from Je Suis Tout.

woven with magnificent phrases, which
balanced harmoniously like the palms
carried by the priests and virgins at
the feast of Ammon.
The lake of blood, which with it's purple
pillows beat against the foot of the
Pyramids, threatened to submerge
The orators thought that their words
would put an end to this frightful
deluge.
And they talked and talked and
talked.
The women had almost all become
sterile, and the people Of Osiris saw how
on the shores of the Nile there were null
tiplying abandoned fields that formerly
had been covered with rich harvests.
The orators declared:
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Qy and By the Magic
- of Eloquence Waned

1t so happened that the Egyptians got
tired of the music of high sounding
phrases. All, without doubt, it
took quite while before the worshippers
of the goddess of Eloquence began to
suspect that this idol, in reality, pos
sessed no personal power. 1t takes re-
hgions long time to die. :.
But the Egyptians, in ever greater
numbers, made remarks of this sort:
"When there is hole in sandal it
is useless to try to repair it with
words"
Or:
"When you are hungry you prefer one
single fig to three speeches.
Or, again:
"The bees make less noise than the
grasshoppers."
The upright people, the Egyptians of
good sense, agreed in declaring that
everything went worse than ever in
Egypt since the orators occupied the first
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Invasion of the Barbarians

places In the councils, in the ceremonials
and in the professions.
"Did our fathers" they said, "raise
the Pyramids by talking? And
how beautiful is this Sphinx that never
speaks"
From then on the prestige of the
orators fell as rapidly as the waters OF
the Nile when the Father of Rivers
ceases to give the fields his precious, his
divine slime
pontiff of Eloquence, habituated to
ovations, had to see himself hooted by
the crowd. which shouted:
"Tha bousch. Fern Sab.
Hasseh dhe Bohn niman."
Egyptian words, which signify: eve
no longer believe in the efficacy of your
litanies."
At the same time they were forming
in all Egypt kind of sect, composed of
fighters, merchants, navigators, farmers,
even of simple fellahs, whose whole pro-
gramme consisted of these words en-
graved on the pedestal of the great
Sphinx:
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
The In1pIacabIe Judge

was soon followed by depression and in
vincible loathing. They transformed
truth into falsehood and falsehood into
truth; they gave to reason the aspect of
folly, and made the most absurd ideas
appear reasonable. They confused the
most balanced minds, disconnected the
strongest convictions, enervated the most
vibrant energies
This malady soon turned Egypt into
an immense assemblage of people, all
trying themselves out in the baleful
priesthood of orators; all along the Nile
there were only noisy spellbinders, and
soon the Father of Rivers turned into a
kind of immense torrent of saliva rolling
interminably between temples that had
become Chautauqua forums, toward the
Indifferent, blue sea.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
ACTION IS THE DAUGHTER
OF SILENCE

These men had sworn to destroy the
statues OF Eloquence and to drive out the
orators from the councils of the state.
After stopping up their ears with wax
so the better to resist the pernicious
charm of beautiful phrases, they closed
the temples where the fatal goddess had
so long been worshipped.
The "Silent," as the enemies of Elo-
quence called themselves, broke the
tribunes, the spittoons and the crystal
vases whereof the orators used to drink
the sacred and sugared water.
And now that silence had succeeded
the noise of vain discourses it did not
take long before the strange evil that
had unsettled Egypt's brains showed
signs of abatement.
The intelligence of the people became
again as it had been in the time of
Seostris-clear, precise, practical, real
istic.
The men of letters, the scholars, the
artisans, the merchants, the travellers,
the diplomats, the warriors, the Judges,
took up more ardently their traditional
tasks. The. grain shot forth again; the
roads recovered their animation; the
ports saw again fleets of heavily laden
vessels; the wor.bs of the women became
fruitful again.
The verbal intoxication that had rem.
dered the Egyptians incapable of any
organized and sustained effort vanished
with the echo of the last speeches.
Egypt was then seen driving the in
cendiary and murderous barbarians into
the desert, where they almost all per-
lshed, and, this plague being cured, all
others gave way in their turn.
Once more the Egyptians had given
proof of wisdom after having suffered
from the most hideous of follies.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
ss:2. 49,.

maps of landscapes as they appear from
above. One of these may occupy the floor of
a classroom. Twenty feet above is bal
Stimulating the situation of a man in the
air. These relief maps are wonderfully in
genious. They represent battlefelds with
trenches pill boxes, gun positions. They
are electrically wired that she'll bursts may
be simulated.
"The instructor is considered to be in
command of battery. He is firing at a
given target in the enemy's lines. He sends
over q she'll, the burst of which is indicated
by fash on the miniature battlefield. The
cadet in the balcony above is the spotter
who is correcting the range for that bat
terry. He observes the flash of the she'll
with relation to the target. He telegraphs
back the necessary correction.
"Another shot is fred; he notes the point
at which it bursts, and raps out in his
Morse the new adjustments required. Thus
he is actually doing just what he will have
to do when he is alone in the vault Of the
skies as an outrider Of Uncle Sam 'over
there
1.-THE cadet must make himself as IA,
miliar with machine gun as he was with
the bean shooter Of his youth. He must
learn to take 1t apart and put 1t together,
to feed belts of cartridges into 1t with his
left hand while his right works at other
tasks. This, because the aviator must be
abls to do several varieties Of work in his
seat In tho skies. He must manmuvre his
machine. operate his gun, take pictures, use
his wiselsss. II the ground school he be.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
They Kept Their Good
l Humor and LAUGHED

But the Egyptians seemed to accommo-
date themselves to these plaques; they
preserved their good humor, amused
themselves as usual at the performances
Of their buffoons and jugglers, followed
with the same attentive and fascinated
regards the priestesses of Helios and of
Isis, who, clad in short skirts, their faces
rouged and their eyes enlarged by PEN
cilling, clicked their high heels of leather
and wood on the flagstones of the city
promenades.
"They are still obstinate,' said God
in anger. "To bring this hard-hearted
people to reason there is only one means
left-to create an eleventh plague. But
what sort of plague?"
The senior angels and archangels, the
ancient Thrones and Dominations were
consulted.
The senior angels said:
Make that velvety and intoxicating
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

ism, infltrated itself into all that con-
stituted Egypt-letters, arts, administra-
ton, commerce., agriculture and politics.
1t became malady with which all were
stricken and of which Egypt seemed
about to die. The air, agitated by the
sound of the human voice, served to
propagate it from neighborhood to neigh
borhood, and even the papyruses, which
reproduced its echo, contributed to spread
the contagion through all the Valley of
the Nile, from the temple of Phila to
the Mediterranean Delta.
Certain savage races believe that, in
order to get rid of enemies, to turn away
storms, to stop the progress of fires, to
exercise pests, it suffices to lift toward
heaven piercing supplications which will
appease the gods. In the same
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

occurs in the ground schools, maintained
in cooperation with American universe
ties. The second is at the great flying
schools of the government. The third
is in France, just behind the fighting
line.
The man who enters the ground
school is called an aviation cadet:
"He ranks as private Of the first class
and gets 500 month, with go cents day
as food allowance, living quarters, uni
forms and travelling expenses. He, lives
at the university in the atmosphere of
study, with military drill as an added feat
ure. The course lasts eight weeks, and is
a stiff mental tcst. No lad without good
head gets through it.
"The cadet first learns about engines, and
tho theory Of those harnessed explosions
which make his propeller 60 round. He
studies every function Of every part Of his
machine, right side up, upside down, its
every symptom Of disorder, and the repair
Of its disabilities while coasting down the
wind over enemy country. Then he takes
up the body Of the machine, tho delicate
adjustment Of the wires Of the fuselage that
1t may hold trua under the racking throb
Of 200-horsepower engine He studies
the stress on wings and the arrangement
Of wires and braces Some day he may
have to dive perpendicular mile at an
enemy observation balloon, and suddenly
check his wild flight with q SGT Of his
planes that would snap inch cables like
binding gitwine. He mpst know tho strength
Of those steel wires.
"Then come tho principles Of flight and
the mathematics Of II, and study OF tho
various types Of machines and tho adapta-
bilfty Of each to given purposes. This Is
the mechanics OF his profession, but his
knowledge Of It IL in the light OF science.
"As this work goes forward hs IL taking
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
\ n Order Hitting the
a Local Lighting Plant

cause the capital of Egypt, the city
of innumerable lights, to be plunged
from twilight on into the depths of
gloom. Eternal, from whom the stars
receive their light, extinguish those ar
tifcial glares which in their pride the
Egyptians have multiplied in order to
triumph over the night"
1t was. SO ordained. The capital of
Egypt was delivered over to darkness.
The city of light became the city of
shadow and the city of shadows. But the
people Of Egypt lost neither their optL
mism nor their gayety.
Finally the ancient Dominions said:
Cause it that this obstinate people no
longer eat, each day, pastes sugared and
perfumed; that the halls in which they
gather to applaud the buffoons and the
dancers be no longer open every night;
that journeys be made slow and difficult;
that fellahs, ill-smelling and vernin rid
den, cucumber the streets, on the pretext
of cleaning them; that fights to finish
be conducted in all the subways of the
city by the citizens and citizenesses who
make mass attacks on the electric cars;
cause the Egyptians, Eternal, to be
deprived not only of all necessaries, sut
of all luxuries."
1t was also so ordained-and the
Egyptians appeared to be unaffected by
this persecution.
God was about to give up, when sud-
denly He exclaimed in voice of thunder:
"Lucifer alone can deliver me from nv
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

iurnlshed him, but he must pay his share
IN the mess, and must buy his own uni
forms, so that financially his position ia
not greatly improved. But if he is on flying
duty he gets an additional per cent and
further additional 10 per cent if serving
abroad. So the reserve military aviator
may draw s2,125 if serving in the United
States or $2,295 if he goes abroad"
10 France, and the aviator is all but
ready to pot the Boche. He may do it
from one of four different levels or ter
races, for which he is systematically
trained:
"The first terrace is four miles high. It
is made up of the single-seated fighting
machines, with a speed of 15O miles an
hour, and Of two-seaters that travel ITO
miles an hour These outsiders challenge
all corners. From their point of vantage
they are ready to swoop down on any dis
putant OF their right to possession of the
SKIES, and TO grapple with him to the
death. They are the protectors of the
machines at other levels.
1.-Two miles up there is another terrace
of machines, also fighters. Their province
is to float nearer to the observers, and to
come to grips with any assailant who may
thrust himself among them without having
disputed the way with the expedition as
whole. These also are fast machines given
Ito much circling about that they may not
outrun their sturdier fellows below
"At the height Of mile are the observ-
ers, in machines that drag along at per-
haps eighty miles IN hour. Their province
Is to find out what is happening below
and to radio it back to headquarters II a
big drive is on. they must hold their posi-
tions and spot the shots Of their batteries.
Tho high-hiers above must remain in posi-
tion TO protsct them. must keep the skiss
swept clsar.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

drink which the Egyptians obtain by
pressing out the juice of grape accessible
only to the rich, and you will see these in
CRATES, O Eternal, submit to your will"
1t was SO ordained. Wine sold at un-
heard-of prices. But the Egpytians
drank as much, and even a little more.
The senior archangels said:
Order it so that the Egyptians, who
are sensitive to cold, can no longer, be-
cause of the lack of combustibes, light
those hearth fires around which they
love to assemble"
1t was ordained. Coal and wood be-
came luxuries. Only the opulent could
buy meagre supplies by dint of en-
treaties and at fabulous cost, from the
priests of the god of fire, who were called
"Bouh-gna," and who, in order to make
themselves more redoubtable, blackened
their faces. But the people remained
stiff-necked, warming themselves by
blowing on their fingers.
The ancient Thrones said
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

"We shall speak, and when the women
have heard us they will give birth to
children. Our words will cause the grain,
the corn and the millet to grow"
And they talked and talked and
The Egyptians had become addicted
to the frewater that consumes the body
and degrades the soul.
The orators cried:
We'll discuss, We'll organize lectures;
our sacred words shall resound in the
very places where gather those who drink
this perfdious and consuming philter,
and after hearing US these unfortunates
will vow never to drink anything else
but clear spring water"
And they talked and talked and talked
And so it was with the rest. Elo-
quence did instead of everything. Did
port need improvement? An orator dedi.
Gated to it a beautiful speech. Did en-
ployers or workingmen ask aid in order
to realize projects of public interest? An
orator lavished on them artistically
cadenced phrases.
The deputies of the people, the old men
of the Senate and the Ministers of the
Cabinet were only orators, clever in the
art Of drawing from their indefatigablc
throats words, words and nothing but
words. And when they had spoken we'll
they imagined they had acted we'll.
Everything in Egypt went from worse
to worse. Ammon's people perceived
that the eleventh plague was mortal, and
the Spirit of Evil, appearing again be-
fore God, said to him, with a triumphant
air:
"Thou seest, Eternal, that my scourgc
alone is more eficacious than all of yours
together. Already in Paradise
brought about Ewes fall with my elo-
quence. have continued. Elo-
quence corrupts every one it touches
Egypt will die of it,"
But the Spirit of Evil was mistaken.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
A DeIuge of Words

way the Egyptians, although mature in
civilization, imagined that in order to
change the course of destiny it would
suffice for certain citizens, chosen for
that purpose, to eject from their throats
sounds more or less pathetic Eloquence
was the art of producing these sounds,
which the wind carried away, and the
orators-at first rare and carefully Sc
lected-became innumerable.
Eloquence produced strange effects
upon the Egyptian people.
Gradually the orators plunged their
victims into strange sleep or inspired
them with an ephemeral energy, the Sis
ter of intoxication, which, like the latter.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

gins to acquire facility along all these
lines"
Then the second stage of training be-
gins-work at the flying schools. These
are scattered all over the country, but
principally between the Great Lakes and
the Gulf. Assisted by an instructor, the
pupil is shown the fine points of his
machine in actual flight, and then the
cadet comes to his tests:
"He must fly thirty miles to another sta
ton, make a landing, register and fly back
On another day he must go aloft to an
altitude of 10000 feet, must become a part
Of the solitudes of the sky, must feel the
difference in the resistance of rarefied air
where it is as hard to climb hundred feet
to mount a thousand lower down. He
may feel the drowsness induced by the
hum of his motor, and will imagine him
self floating in space devoid of the presence
of any other thing. living or inanimate but
himself and his machine.
Perhaps he will fly for the first time
ever great white cloud, gliding between it
and the sun. If so, he is likely to be
treated to a new and rare vision never seen
by other men than those Of his kind Where
the shadow of his machine falls on that
cloud there is likely to be halo, a COM
plete ring of rainbow, running all about it
and setting forth its sombre form in a
frame of brilliant prismatic colors
"The cadet who passes these tests, who
in four months of training has shown the
characteristics that are nesded in the air
now enters into the third stage of his de-
velopmsns He Is commissioned a second
lieutenant and becomes reserve military
aviator. His cadet days arc past. and he
ia an officer in the United States army.
He draws the pay Of second lieutenant,
which 10 S1,70o = year. Fla auaytsss are
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

The Egyptians had made of Eloquence
their supreme goddess. Toward her as
cended, like prayers, allocutions, i'm
provisations, speeches, toasts, harangues,
addresses and perorations.
The murderous barbarians had dug
themselves into the sacred soil Of the
country of the Pharaohs in order to make
their stay there more assured.
The orators imagined that, if these
hordes offered resistance to armed force,
they would avow themselves vanquishea
by Eloquence.
And they talked and talked and
All! beautiful harangues they were,
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
80; The Eleventh :xa
=% Plague: q =
ELOQUENCE

embarrassment. Lucifer has an
imagination for disagreeable things. He
shall invent an eleventh plague; he shall
create and breathe poisone into this
eleventh plague and launch it against
the TANKS of these recalcitrant Egyptians.
And that will assure me victory"
Summoned, Lucifer appeared in his
red cloak.
"The eleventh plague" grinned the
denoted archangel. 80 Eternal, if YOU
will take my word for it, that ought to
be Eloquence."
And it was so ordained.
Eloquence, like subtle poison which
dissolves, ruins and ravages the organ
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Defeating Alien Sentiment

THE extinction of the German spirit
= in America will not be the work Of
day. The Germans in Germany and
the Americans in America have CO.
operated too malefcently to make of the
German-Americans a sect apart. But
we intend to shape our social policy
more intelligently in the future than we
shaped it in the past, and it is not too
late for intelligence to dissolve the mass
OF alien sentiment that now interferes
with our political efficiency and threat.
Nsw Republic.