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FIVE u. S. AIRMEN
KILLED IN ACCIDENTS
TWo Perish by Fall of Hydro
plane in PensocoIu Boy.

FENEAcoLA. Fla. Oct 4.-Ensigns
Carl Oliver Peterson OF Carnegie. Pa,
h1d y. o. Mckinney OF st. Louis were
wed and Carl Reichell. whose address
t"a not known, was seriously hurt in the
,''i Of a hydroplane to-day In Pensacola
Tho bodies 81 r-'---"'' md Nc
NhncJ have not been recovered
HOUSTON. Tex. Oct. Second Lieut..
Mug R"l2er of Arkansas City. Ark. was
n.'d and Cadet r, J. Leader OF Elklns,
Va, was slightly hurt when their
'"piaae fell at Ellington Field to-day.
-. LoUrs. Oct. corporal Charles
~ 'ont'pas OF 81. Louis died to-day In
s'oi' Aviation Field Hospital OF injuries
,.''IVed in fall of 1000 feet. Second
Lieut. Burr $. Cameron OF Naples, Tex,
NdF seriously injured.
Inc accident occurred two miles from
IN" hyng field while the men were test
Is an engine. Their machine went into
tai spin
not Strings, Ark, Oct. 4.--Lieut. Al
"'t fusstll Ringer, 26, OF Natick, Mas.
assistant aviator instructor at Eberts
"a, Arkansas, whose machine fell here
vs. Saturday, died at the Army and
NaNy Hospital last night. Ringer was
"'ivs OF Canada.
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Extent OF the Plant.

The whole plant covered front of
half a mile along Rarltan Day and ran
back for a depth OF three miles. The
buildings were officially known as units
In a portion of them the Government
made shells, and In another the Giles
pie Company loaded them Shells OF the
largest calibre used by the troops In
France were manufactured and loaded
within tho narrow strip.
The surrounding territory, shaken and
alarmed. did its best to aid. Hospitals
at Perth Amboy. Newark. Elizabeth,
Railway. Freehold and New Brunswick
conveyed the injured to institutions in
these towns and thousands OF persons
came hoekng to offer aid as we'll as 10
see the weird spectacle that is afforded
by burning shell plant,
They learned that the flames had
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eral reproduction Of the journal the cor
respondent Of the Associated Press kept
from his arrival in Constantinople in Feb
ruary, 1915, until August of the same
year. During that interval he witnessed
the effort of the allied fleets to force the
passage Of the Dardanelles, went into Ar
menia and Anatolia, where he saw evil
dences Of the Armenian massacres, had an
interview with the Sultan and was at
Gallipoli. Thus it will be seen that Mr..
Schreiner had opportunities that fall to
few men to see great events of the war in
the making. But the form he has chosen
to present them to his readers is something
worse than Disappointing.
He set down his days d0ings in COLO
quail and rather vulgar English, intro
ducing a fellow correspondent with re-
iteration that becomes positive bore. His
description of the allied bombardment is
decidedly shallow, missing completely the
great tragic note inseparable from such a
military event. To our knowledge Of the
fact that the Turkish batteries were short
of ammunition he contributes the fact
that the British Government should have
known this, since a British commission
directed the purchase of all the munitions
of this kind Turkey had. His description
of Gallipol is in the same superficial man
ner of cheap humor, the note of which IS
struck in his chapter heading A Little
Trip to "HeH'ipoE.
On the other hand, Schreiner's descrip-
ton Of his interview with the Sultan, Sui
tan Mohammed Reehad Khan v, is an adj
mirable piece Of descriptive writing. from
which one gains the knowledge that the
Sultan Of Turkey is a man of humor and
one decidedly "sr.7 in his ways. Schrei-
ners journey down into Armenia ard An
atolia to interview some of the officers and
crew of the Emden, who, it will be remem-
bered, made their way to the Arabian
coast from the South Seas after their ship
was lost, brought him in touch with evi-
dences of the Armenian massacres that
he describes in q cold blooded, unsympa-
thetie manner. In touching on the mas
sacres at Adana he describes one horror
in language so revolving that one may
wonder how it ever got into print.
FROM BERLIN TO BAGDAD. By GEORGE
A. ScHEENER. Harper & Brothers. s..
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GO, Get Emu"

MOT being methodical person, this
l Y reviewer cannot tell how many
books of aviators' experiences he has read
thus far in the year 1918, although i!
seems that he must have read al that
have been published and few more. And
yet with all the memories crowding in
upon him of aviation books that have
gone before he can honestly say he en-
joyed none so thoroughly as Go, Get EN-,
by William A. Wellman, Marechal des
Logis of the Lafayette FLYING Corps.
Wellman is not literary person, and
his tale is set down in such English as
falls from the lips of a man who has
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Our Nays Work

7 AWRENCE PERRY'S Oar Macy
IL in the Var and Naral Heroes Of
To-day, by Francis A. Collins, have a
significance in relation to the matter Of
military censorship quite apart from their
importance as thrilling narratives. In
one sense these books typify the marked
change that has come TO the Governments
of the United States and Great Britain re-
garding the censorship of news concerning
their respective navies since the outbreak
of hostilities, and in another sense they
represent kind of injustice to the British
and American armies.
For some time after the European war
began a veil of secrecy was drawn over
the operations of the British navy which,
it eventually became known to the British
Government, had the effect of lowering
the morale of its people. Then several
distinguished British writers were engaged
to tell what the navy was doing, Kiplng's
Fringes Of the Fleet being one Of the re-
suits of this changed viewpoint. Our
Government has followed suit in this re-
spect and in addition to Ralph Paine's
The Fighting Fleets We now have these
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"From Berlin to Bagdad"

THAT Americans who ought to know
L better still "fall for" German
propaganda is shown by the title of
George A. Schreiner's From Berlin to
BGgdad. From the map on the folder
of this journalists account of Turkey in
war time one might imagine this German
railway ambition was an accomplished
fact and one might also imagine on pick
ing up the book that its letterpress de-
scribed such a journey.
The text of this volume is chiefly a lit
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two spirited accounts of what the United
States Navy and its officers and enlisted
men have been doing so calamity since
April, 1917. While discussing this sub
ject we may mention that the same atti-
tude has not been adopted by our Govern
ment toward the army. For with the ex-
ception Of The Fighting Engineers by
Mr.. Collins no book has appeared thus
far telling what our army has done in
France.
The scheme of Mr. Perry's book is to
give hasty summary Of the development
of the navy since the outbreak of the war.
He tells Of the work of the destroyers
abroad, the manning of the merchant ships
with guns and gun crews, the transport of
troops under convoy, our battleship fleet
in European waters, the huge task Of put
ting into commission the great feet Of
damaged German and Austrian vessels in
termed in American ports, what marine
camoufage is, the Marine Corps and the
work Of the Navy Flying Corps. 1t is a
good story for every American to read
and it loses none Of its thrills at the hand
Of Mr.. Lawrence.
The task attempted by Mr.. Collins is Of
a different nature. He retells the stories
Of individual acts Of heroism of officers
and men of the navy that most Of us
know and yet which are well worth while
putting into permanent form. He groups
his incidents into Guarding the Sea Lanes,
With the Merchant Fleet, On dir Scout
Duty, In Home Waters and With the
Marines, in each of which are tales. that
make one proud Of our navy and its Off
GERS and men.
OUR NAVY IN THE WAR. By LAWRENCE
PERRY. Charles Scribner s Sons. $50.
NAVAL HEROES OF TODAY. By FRAN
CTS A. COLLINS. The Century Company.
al S0
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There's AstCe the War Book and Readers Army

good story to tell and tells it simply and
naturally. But what Wellman does, which
is better than mere literary emptiness, is
to tell just what befell him from the day
he had himself transferred from the vol
unteer American Ambulance Corps in
France to the Lafayette Flying Corps to
the hour when he was shot down at 5000
feet in the air to end his flying career, ap-
parently for good.
The distinctive difference between this
text and all other aviators' experiences
we have read is that the author felt Amer
lean readers would be interested in the de-
tails Of the training and the life of an
American in French flying corps. You
get them here in engaging quantity and
quality; the abominable liquid called cof-
fee with which they began the days work
at dawn, the war bread and ancient cheese
on which they breakfasted, the 5 cents
day that was their pay until Mrs. William
K. Vanderbilt gave to each man of the
Lafayette Squadron $40 q month extra,
benefce she still maintains. You read Of
how man feels when he is learning to fly,
doing "Russian mountain" patrollins
and shooting down Boches, and how avia-
tors live in their off duty hours. You
will also learn the orders Wellman re-
ceiyed from his French commander on the
day our own Rainbow Division first went
into action. His orders were mot to let a
German plane fly over the American line;
if your machine gun fails you, ram him.
So Wellman went up in the air that day
with the cheerful certainty that he would
have to do the Hun airmen or it would be
his last flight.
That event came later, when the tail of
his airplane was shot away by the fire
from n German airplane. leaving Well
man to manage his injured plane so skill
fully that he dropped down into great
tree and from there 10 the ground. An
injury to his back put him out Of the
possibility of flying for so long time
that lie was recommended to ask for his
discharge, n reproduction Of which honor
able document graces n page in the book.
That war has its cheerful aspects at
rare times We know, but we seldom have
the opportunity to read of them. 1t is
wars horrors that abound most in the
printed page. Here is a war tale, all
cheerfulness, that every American will be
the better for reading not only for the in
formation it contains as to the making of
an airman, but also for its high spirits
that are as rosy as the dawn and as pure
as the blue sky into which the airman rises
TO his gallant tasks.
GO, GET EMF BY WILLIAM A. WELLMaS.
The Page Company. $50.
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"The Yanks Are Coming"
BY w, B. MCCORMICK.

ME problem of turning civilians into
= soldiers has always been difficult
In these United States-how great prob
lem and how badly bungled no one really
knows unless he has read from beginning
to end Major-Gen. Emory Upton's His
tory Of the Military Policy Of the United
States. But through the fortunate cir
eumstance that from the beginning our
war with Germany and Austria has been
conducted solely by the professional SOL
diers and sailors of our country this bust
ness of making soldier-and such SOL
diers.-of civilians has been handled with
brilliant success. So that our army in
France is the wonder and amazement of
every trained military observer in the
world and none more astonished than the
members Of the German General Staff.
In The Ydnks Are Coming William Sla-
vens McNutt tells his readers how this
thing was done. He has had one large
audience in the readers of Golfers Weekly
In which these sketches already have ap-
peared. He should have another larger
audience for his sketches now that they
have appeared in book form. For in this
text is set down In words that thrill with
patriotism and warm, human phrases the
transformation of the civilian into the SOL
der, the spiritual change that turned a
Jewish lad from New York, Southerner
from the isolated hill country, lumber
man from the West into a modern cru
sader, crusader who has already set the
mark of his high purpose on the German
divisions that he is driving slowly but
steadily back to the Rhine.
Mr.. McNutt takes his readers through
the magic carpet of his pages to Camp
- Upton and Camp Devens of the North, to
Camp Lee and Camp Jackson in the
South, to the greatest of them all in size,
Camp Lewis in far off Washington. Here
Is the real melting pot, the greatest melt
ing pot ever manufactured by man. Mr..
McNutt makes you feel this and makes
you feel that we have achieved greater
homegeneity as nation through the crea-
ton of our great American Army than has
ever been achieved before by all the poll
ticians and soeiologists-and statesmen
that have worked toward this end.
Mr.. McNutt's text is valuable now since
it is the kind Of reading that improves the
morale of our people. But when the war
is done and historians set down to write
their tales of it his book will have another
kind Of Importance, since through It's
pages men Of the future may learn how
the United States made an army in
1917S.
THE YANKS ARE COMING. BY WILL
IAN SLAvENs MCNUTT. The Page Com
pany. $3.50.
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OUR NAVY IN THE WAR. By LAWRENCE
PERRY. Charles Scribner s Sons $1.50.
NAVAL HEROES OF TO-DAY. By FRAN
CTS A. COLLINS. The Century Company.
$50.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-11-28
Death of Mrs. Laurel sp.nn

The entire community was shocked
Tuesday morning to hear of the death
of Mrs. Laurel Spann.
She died at her home at Jacks
Cabin, Tuesday, Nov. 26th, at 500
a. m. The entire family had the flu
and were thought to be getting bet
ter. Friends here expected them to
be out of quarantine soon and the
news of the death came unexpected.
Mrs. Spann was the only daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Comstock. of
Gunnison, and was 80 years of age.
Besides the husband. father and
mother, she leaves to mourn her de-
mise, three children, Mildred, aged 13,
Douglas, 8 and Anthony, d. Also a
brother, Anthony Comstock who is
somewhere in France" The funeral
was held in Gunnison Wednesday,.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-11-28
W. S. s. PLEDGES
Normal School Bulletin.

Normal School Bulletin.
Our bows at the front have "made
good" and are the wonder and admi
ration of the civilized world. Even
now they are occupying German
strongholds to guarantee the righting
of the crimes of the blood crazed,
world ambitious militarists of Ger
manv. To help them. we of Colorado,
pledged to save and buy War Savings
Stamps to the amount of $4,000
apiece for each of our million inhabi
tants. Many of us have likewise
"made good" on our pledges and have
gone beyond the per capita amount
by ten, twenty, or fifty fold, but the
sales of Stamps in Colorado as re-
ported bv the Federal Reserve Bank
of Kansas City, shows woeful short
age Are we to fail in this matter?
We have measured up in every other
war activity; shall we not finish
strong in this one? We have the
month of December in which to full
fill the pledges we made to Uncle
Sam. Let us deny ourselves farther,
If necessary; let US make our Christ
mas pres nts of War Savings Stamps;
lot us focus our attention upon the
falfi'lment of our pledges.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-11-28
UNITED WAR WORK

Normal School Bulletin.
The drive in Gunnison County for
funds for the seven recreational or
carnations of the army, under the di-
rection of DIR. Kelley, netted a neat
surplus of about $3,OOO.O0 over the
increased quota of $4,000. Coming,
as it did at time when, because Of
the flu quarantine, no public meet
ings could be held and following
closely the Fourth Liberty Loan, this
splendid contribution is fine tribute
to the generosity and patriotism of
the citizens of Gunnison County Es-
pecially noteworthy are the pledges
of the Victory Boys and the Victory
Girls. The drive for these groups
was in charge of Mr.. rutland and Miss
Florence j. Uglow, respectively. The
quota for each was ninety pledges of
$500 each but the amounts secured
were for the Boys S492.O0 and for the
Girls SS73.00. Outside of these
pledges, the drive was put largely
upon a cash basis. The various indus
trial plants, almost without excep-
tion, responded to man with con-
tribution of a days wages. In this
regard special mention should be
made of the miners of Crested Butte,
Somerset, Baldwin, and Pitkin and
the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
Company.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-11-28
Death of a Grand Old Pioneer

The Gunnison Empire.
On Friday evening, November %.
1918, death again entered the home
Of Mrs. Annie Downey and took from
them the aged father who has been
slowly failing in health for several
months.
Uncle Johnnie Marshall was one
of Gunnison's pioneers and was held
in the highest esteem throughout the
entire county. He was born in Clark
County, Ohio, December 25. 1881. In
1897 he moved to Louisa County,
Iowa where he was united in mar
riage to Miss Ruth J. Smith in 1857
To this union was born five children,
three sons and two daughters; Jesse
f. Marshall. of Des Moines, Iowa,
Frank Marshall, of Delta, Mrs. Minnie
Davis and Mrs. Anna Downey, of this
place. Howard, the eldest son passed
away four years ago, and the loving
wife and mother only preceded him
into the great beyond this last sum-
mer
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-11-28
Faculty and Former Faculty Members
In Service


News from Dean Samuel Quigley is
rather scarce. A young lady canteen
worker from Colorado Springs, in a
long letter published in Colorado
Springs paper says, "a Mr. Quigley
from Gunnison is in charge of this
division, although we have no Y. M.
Secretary in our village" She de-
scribes the place as a nights ride
from Paris, and not far from the
front. We hope to receive more in
formation now that the war is over.
DIR. Herschel Manuel has been Psyche
logical Examiner in training camps in
the United States; he will be with us
again in June. George Damson has
been in some hard front line work,
and will have much to tell us on his
return. He will come back to Gun
nison. Gilbert Davis Brilliant ar
rived safe in England last month; no
news has come from him since.
Miles l. Lee has for number of
months been engaged in secretarial
work in France. Elinor Dixon is in
New York waiting for her passports,
and Alberta Rogers has already been
inducted into canteen service and has
announced her safe arrival in Eng
land. Alan p Berkstresser is In
structor in Military in Greeley. John
Johnson was at the point of entering
research work in the Medical School
at Yale, and reached New Haven just
as the armistice had been signed; he
returned to California C. A. Hol-
lingshead is in charge of Y. hut in
20
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-11-28
Lieutenant Ross, Brother Of Blanche
Ross, Meets Heroic Death

normal ocnOOl BulleLm. s..
All connected with the Normal
School extend sincerest sympathy to
Miss Blanche Ross in the death of
her brother; they share, too, in the
pride she must feel at the heroic
manner in which he gave his life for
his country. A mere boy, his ability
and courage had placed him in a most
responsible position. With a COM
panion, he was coolly directing from
his balloon the artillery fire below.
Though attacked by air planes, the
two observers did not abandon their
position, but left their defense to
the air planes of the Allied troops.
Suddenly, out of thick gray cloud
that had been towering near, rushed
a Bosche plane, circled about the bal
loon, and poured stream of bullets
through it. The balloon burst into
flame. The companion of Lieutenant
Ross became entangled in the ropes,
and Ross waited to aid him. Finally
both swung free. but piece of fall
ing debris struck the latter's para
chute. and he fell thousand feet. A
field for the study and development
of ballooning has been established in
California and named Ross Field,
after the brave Lieutenant who lost
his life to save that of his companion.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-11-28
Miss Ethel Tripp is New Teacher of
Violin
Normal School Bulletin.


Miss Ethel M. Trip of Flint,
Michigan, has been secured as in
structor in Violin and orchestral in
struments to succeed Mr.. Gracey, who
was compelled to give up his work
because of sickness. Miss Tripp is
graduate of the Musical Literary
course of Albion College with the
degree of Bachelor of Music, Q916).
She studied the violin three years in
Albion College Conservatory and one
year in Ypsilanti Conservatory. She
has had four years experience in or
chestral and choir work as instructor,
teacher. and accompanist.
The director of the Conservatory
of Music of Albion College, H. j.
Cozine, writes as follows: Miss
Tripp is one of the most brilliant
and versatile young women have ever
known-violinist, soloist, vocalist,
fine pianist and accompanist, splen-
did organizer and director; attractive
personality. making friends wherever
she goes. The institution securing
her services will be indeed fortunate" !"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-11-28
Death Of c. W. Shores. IT.. At ors.d
junction, Colorsae

The Gunnison Empire.
A telegram received by the MEM
bers of the Masonic Lodge here FRI
day evening, contained the sad news
of the death Of C. w. Shores, Jr.,
from the dreaded disease Spanish in
fuenza, after an illness Of but two
days.
Cyrus Wells Shores was only 81
years of age at the time Of his death.
He was born at Gunnison January IL,
1884, and spent part Of his childhood
days here. He has been employed by
the d. & R. G. railroad At Grand
Junction for short time, having re-
Gently moved from Denver where he
was employed at the Shirley Hotel.
He was member Of the Masonic Or
der of South Denver.
- Mr.. Shores was man of splendid
character, and highly esteemed by all
who knew him. He is survived by his
father and brother Frank.
The remains were sent to Gunnison
for interment in the Masons and Odd
Fellows cemetery, Rev. Bisseu hav-
ing charge of the services, delivering
a beautiful and comforting sermon.
The pail bearers were T. w. Gray,
DIR. Sullivan, H. P. Ferguson, H. M.
Webster, c. B. Anderson, and E. J.
Sampliner.
The Empire joins the many friends
of this estimable family in deepest
sympathy for the sorrowing relatives
of this fine young man taken In thA'
prime Of life.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-11-28

On October 10. 1918, Senator Hoke
Smith of Georgia, introduced bill
to create an executive department in
the Government to be called the De-
partment of Education with Secre-
tary of Education who is to be the
head thereof.
If this bill should be enacted into
law it will place education on par
with agriculture, the navy, commerce.
and other executive departments of
the government, and will give the
head of the new department cabinet
rank. The bill provides for three as
sistant secretaries, chiefs OF bureaus
clerical assistants, auditors, inspect
ors. and special agents or representa-
tives.
Another important provision of
Senator Smiths bill is to appropriate
money for Federal cooperation with
the States in the encouragement and
support of education by the encour-
agement of the study and investiga-
tion of educational problems such as
illiteracy. migrant education, public
school education, especially rural ed
ucation. public health education and
recreation, and the preparation and
supply of competent teachers for the
public schools.
The bill carries an appropriation of
$500 900 annually to carry on the
work of the new department.; and
$1OO 100000 annually to cooperate
with the States in the promotion of
education.
Five-tenths of the latter amount is
to be used for the improvement of
schools of less than college grade
two-tenths for physical education,
medical and dental examination, de-
termination of mental and physical
defects in children, and the employ
ment of school nurses, and three
schools.
Eich state must provide S1.00 for
each dollar of Federal money in order
to secure its allotment