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of Switzerland and Europe. AS is the case
with Eugene Debs in America, people who
radically disagree with Platten neverthe-
less do not doubt his sincerity, even if it
Is marked by colossal fanaticism.
flatten, beyond saying that he and Le-
nine were good friends and understood
each other very well, would not discuss
his taking Lenine into Russia through Ger
many. The Swiss government had recent
~ ordered out the Bolshevist embassy
from Switzerland because it was found that
the Russian Bolshevists were using the
embassy as a means of propaganda, not
only IN the interest Of Boshevism in Rus
sia, but in the interest of Bolshevism
everywhere. Several Bolshevists are now
on trial here, and the reticence of Platten
may in part at least be ascribed to this
situation. Hans Vogcl, the editor of the
"berner Tagwacht," gave me few inter
esting details about the now famous sealed
train
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School into the flying corps, tried to stretch
his glide, Ms It Is called, when his motor
quit just as he was getting out Of tho
field. Ho lost speed and pancaked into
somo trees, which. fortunately, caught his
propeller. The tail OF tho ship slid down
until 1t touched tho ground and the pilot
and his observer found themselves pcrched
twenty-five feet in the air on this i'm
provised ladder. They slid down the
fuselage and landed safely upon the ground.
A second attempt to stretch glide,
short while later, caused the plane to fall
off on a wing A hundred feet off tho
ground, controls availed nothing, for there
wasn't space enough for tho reversal Of
tho elevator to effect the headlong descent.
The observer broke leg, and his pilotwe
buried him next day.
Falling Off on n wing usually results
from losing forward flying speed, and this
is particularly dangerous in making forced
landings-for the natural tendency is to
try to glide far enough to make good
landing field. The forward speed being
insufficient, the plane tends to fall, and
the engine being forward, the concentra-
tion of weight makes her fall nose down.
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ones DEMONSTRATING the control w;,os
crash out of control and emerge from
pile of splinters and some twisted s,s.I
with sprained ankle
All OF which brings to mind the pilot who
in Salmson, "zoomed" the stone br;aca
spanning the same River Loire. His pro.
peller struck high tension wire. shatterin.
1t, and he made the field with a broken
prop and span of the municipalities
high tension wire hanging to his lower
plane And, delightful anti-climax-in lieu
OF the congratulations which he expected.
a Summary Court deducted the cost of tbo
propeller from his next months pay-.
leaving very little pay.
And such miraculous escapes are NOT cor.
tlned to any one class of 'plane-thougb tba
Caudron G3 used by the French for nr..
hminary training, and by our own govern
ment in training and cadets sent abroad
Tor complete training in France, seems TO
hold the record. The baby carriage. or sew
ing machine, as it often has been called
consists of a small fuselage surrounded bv
skein of wires. And SO profuse are th,
wires that a few more or less never did
matter.
In that connection they tell the story Of
the ground officer who asked a tester IN
give him joy ride in a Caudron. Seated
IN the ship, the engine just warming up.
the passenger was startled TO hear a sham
"twang." He felt some concern. but sa;d
nothing, feeling certain that the tester too
had heard it and not desiring to evidence
the natural trapidity that a first ride oc
casions For his part, the tester had uot
seemed to notice. Suddenly, another
"twang." With some alarm. the ground
officer yelled to the tester in front of him,
There's a wire broken"
How many7' called the pilot, without
turning. "Two," was the reply "ob, IL
that all?-that's nothing" came aoastno
back "a the pilot gave her the gun and Of
they went
The oft=repeated query "Wfy do accidents
oeeurY' cannot be answered dehhitely@nas
ebh accidents bs avoided. 80 long as On.
gihes Quit over bad landing country. 90 long
as hen give way to human falings and BE-.
come oyefeoniident and reckless, 10 long
AS human instruments and devices stsy
fallible, 80 long will aeropane crashes eoa,
tinue' But thoroughness Of training, care
ful medical inspections, carefully prepared
rules of guidance and strict adherence
to those rules, and mechanical improve
ments will ultimately reduce accidents tos
minimam.
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vNocccn

major in the American Expeditionary Force
said, eve can get plenty Of aers, but where
do you think the planes are coming from ?"
Conservatism with the military pilot who
Is trying to do his Job conscientiously is a
matter of duty and discipline. He must, un-
til the need arises to do otherwise avoid
the impulse that prompts him to be rash.
For SO many good men have gone to their
deaths just so.
In the States during the elementary train
ing period, on a field where stunting was
expressly forbidden, the men would steal off
on 'cross-country trips and try their ia
vorite stunts. One chap. man who already
had shown the makings of splendid flier,
was off on one Of the regular 'cross-country
trips. Just before he left he had been
discussing loops with some of the fellows.
He had flown out to the landing field, some
thirty miles away, and had started for
home. 1t was his last trip, and it's COM
petlon would mean his wings and his com
mission. Elated and cocky, he tried loop.
He was seen to have completed it success
fully and to have tried another and then
another The ship, not being a stunt ship
and not braced to resist such strains. be-
came weakened and finally, on fifth or
sixth loop, an overstrained wing gave way
and a neighboring farmer pulled an inert
figure out Of the remains of ship which
had f1uttered down into his back yard
Here in France the twin spires of
world-old cathedrals are objects of mar
ticular envy, and great is the delight of a
fellow who can say he has flown between
them. One fellow did succeed, and. eleted
with himself, tried q side-slip down be-
tween the banks of the glorious Loire-a
most commonplace proceeding for that field
He failed, however, to reckon on the
protrudng branch of tree, which caught
his wing, and when his ship came down on
her back there was no one left to brag
about the spire stunt.
But crashes are not all so tragic II hard
" seems possible TO fall in a tailspin sems
seven hundred feet and emerge with moth.
ing worse than shaken nerves. hut one
FELLOW who did IT is still flying. Or to
turn over Oh ones back at thousand fest
and strike the ground without righting the
ship and suffer nothing more serious than
the wfenehed back falling downstairs will
result In, Or to crash with another plane
thousand metres in the air, pass out and
fnd yourself In the hospital with n cut
eye. Or to try to come out of side-slip
without using the prescribed method of
rudderlng into it--that is, simply by using
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tho lifting or sustaining power Of the
wings.
But this sort Of accident was by no means
confined to the smaller ships. One fellow,
flying bipane--that is, n two-scatcr
servation plnnewas just taking Off. lie
had passed. the limits Of the field when
his motor started missing. Apparently,
he felt that he had sufficient speed and
height to make the field again, instead Of
landing in n patch of ploughcd ground
straight ahead. He kicked her over, but in
stead Of tho smooth bank he anticipated her
nose dropped, and with his missing motor
pulling him down he headed vertically for
the ground. A matter Of seconds and
he was down out Of sight behind some in
tcrvening trees. The ambulance found
his ship vcritable sgnpost Of warning
for the engine had buried itself three
feet in the ground and the fuseagc was
almost an upright
An additional source of constant danger,
and for the same fundamental reasons,
is the neutrality-suspicious. in ship
that hasn't huge reserve of power. A burst
of speed, pull back on the stick and
little right aileron and rudder, and the
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With sufficient height, the natural equi-
librium of the plane reasserts itself and
she comes out in natural glide; but, un-
fortunately, in making a forced landing,
the tendency to stretch a glide comes only
when one Is close to the ground and wants
to avoid a very proximate bad landing
place.
Carelessness or inexperiencs will often
cause ship to fall Off on a wing on a
takeoff-as a result of trying to make a
turn before the ship has gathered suf-
ficient forward speed Turning by banking
the ship is effected because there is suf-
fcient speed and therefore sufficient cen
trifugal force to hold the plane in the
air. Where there IL an insufieieney Of such
forward speed, tho plane tends to slip
side slip-and the nose drops and tho ship
crashes IN nose dive.
In one Of tho largest fields In the
wofld-an American held~where The
planes used were sma!lrmehasse plane for
combat training-thia type Of accident ac-
counted for frequent fatalities. This was
n natural result of the very type Of plane
employed, for tho wing area being small,
the ships depended for their support in
the air more upon their speed than upon
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generations has not ended with the end of
the war. 1t has but changed habitations
1t has jumped from body into another.
The ruthlessness Of tho old order has fallen
as a heritage to the most--or least--advanced
advocates Of the new order, the Bolshevist-
cally minded wing Of the proletariat.
II don't give interviews," Platten told
me. II write articles from time to time
myself, and In these articles I say what /
have to say. The movement which is called
Bolshevsm is coming, because it must
come; there is no other way out for the
proletariat. If the world were really will
ing to solve the problems before it In ac-
cordance with reason and common sense
there would be no Bolshevism. But the
fact Is that from above there is no solution
for these problems, and the prolctarat
finds itself more and more compelled to
adopt the methods which are followed BY
the Bolsheviki. 1t is true, of course, that
statstically the working people are in the
majority Yet we have for years had to
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utes. But waited ten minutes until my
turn came to talk to him. He is young
man Of thirty-seven or thirty-eight, clean
shavcn, above medium height and athletic
looking.
His father is said to be Saxon who
emigrated to Switzerland, where Platten was
born. Platten, however, is every inch a
Prussian. The "wil to power" is in his
blood. 1t is his creed, only in his case this
will is directed not toward the attainment
Of miitarism, but Of proletarian power He
seemed to me nothing less than a Hinden-
burg Of Labor-cold, calculating ruthless.
He knows what he wants and goes the short
est way to get it. I don't think he would
have the slightest hesitation to order hum
dred or thousand men executed If in his
Judgment the of working class rev.
olution demanded it. l hesitate to reach
hasty conclusions, but all the time I gazed
upon Platten l had a feeling that tho
world is not yet done with ruthessness.
The ruthlessness nurtured by militarism for
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ship leaves the ground in a long, graceful,
winding rghthand spiral Then a push
forward, and, level hundred feet above
the ground, you are flying back the way
you came.
But let the spiral be mite too long or
let the pulse Of your engine fail you for a
moment, and down again--the way you
came.
One Of our ex-mail fiiers came to an
American field in France for q slight re-
freshening course on his way to the front,
serene in his knowledge and experience he
tried schandel with one Of the flexible
construction Sopwiths crater twenty
feet long and ten feet from where the re-
msins Of the plane lay testified to hard
crash nhd bounce that enufied out another
trick hief,
30 many crashes are due Ia Just plain
dnlnfooshness. So many American fiers
speak dispnraglngly of the French pilots,
their tIsm, ns the best disposed put
It, Others talk Of lack of nerve and getting
their wind up, But It's none of those
things it's merely n sensible lack Of fool
hardness. The foohardy 1ier gets his ulti-
mntoly; it's as certain as income taxes.
And besides wasting his own life as one
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The Bargain
With Germany

"As soon as the revolution had been
achieved in Russia" Herr Vogel said, "Le-
nine and the hundreds of other Russian ex
lies living in Zurich and Switzerland gen.
orally realized that their place was at
home. We of the Socialist movement in
Switzerland agreed with them, and it fell
to the lot of Platten and myself to arrange
for their going through Germany to Rus
sia. We went to the German Embassy and
asked If we would not be permitted to take
a special train from Switzerland to Rms
sia. The thing was arranged without much
difficulty. The Germans, Of course, knew
perfectly we'll what they were doing. and
so did we. The German government want
ed to further revolution in Russia because
with revolutionary Russia it could make
peace. And we, the Socialists. both Rus
sian and Swiss. were anxious that the rev
olutlon in Russia take proletarian rather
than bourgeois turn. We each had our
specific and quite different aims. II Is
ridiculous to speak Of German money In
the matter There was no need for Ger
many to pay money to the Russian revolu-
tionists In Switzerland to 30 back 10 RUS
aih. They were only too anxious 10 get
home.
"A few dhya after platten took 1,enine
and his party out Of the country plietea
second train with sbeut $50 revolution.
Ista. On this seeond train | WAS tho only
ono who got Off at any station In Germany,
Later va we're seinsd by urimm, who went
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ExCusing the
BIOOdShed

"The bloodshed in Russia" the editor
SAID, rs not the pleasantest aspect Of
bolshevism. But it must be remembered
'hac IN Russia it is q case of either kill
or be Killed. | know Lenine and | know
that he is not bloodthirsty. But there is
n counter revolutionary element in Russia
that is anxious TO get into the saddle again.
ana IL this counter revolutionary element
gets into the saddle the era of Stoypin
necktles (hangings of revolutionists) will
look like picnic beside the reign of ter.
ror it would inaugurate."
In reply to a further question Herr
Vogel admitted quite frankly that If the
world could find its way TO basic economic
democracy without resorting to proletarisn
dictatorship, even for the shortest period
possible, he would not at all regret the
absence of Bolshevism. But as things were
going now it did look as il Switzerland
and all OF Central Europe were fast drift
ing toward a sort of Boshevist interreg-
mum which would precede the Inauguration
of social and economic democracy in the
world.
question, said: "Bolshevism is not PHI
losophy, but method, and it is essentially
method of despair. Those who belisvs
in using Bolshevism RS a means of acceer
ating the social revolution are mer sra
women who have lost all faith in the sin.
cerity of the bourgeoise and in The goca
faith of capitalist society. They have tfiea
parliamentary palliatives and have founa
them wanting. Bolshevism is inherent IN
present day conditions of society as thess
conditions have been aggravated by the war
II Is not leaders that can make or unnske
Che Bolsheviat movement. but the sltituds q
the bourgeosie and of capitalism. Genuine
libefnlihin on the part Of these classes VIZ
enuse lsolshevlsm TO reeede. On thu cihss
hand, pefaistentiy teaeiipnafg st''laae
toward tho f,nsaes Will IeAve The workers
no cheiee but 30 take tha gevefnmens '"
their own hands and 10 held II as Leh'nS
" holding II IN Russia" =
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By Elias Tobenkin

zURICH, March 10.-True to its ira
dition as the fountain of revolution,
~ Il Zurich Is to-day the switchboard of
Bolshevism in Europe. The man at
the switchboard, connecting the various Boil
shevist wires, ia Fritz Platten, the foremost
labor leader in Switzerland, and outside OF
OF the salvation of the world through the
dictatorship of the proletarat
In these days Of mass rule idols come and
idols go, but If I were an enterprising pho
tographer would take a good picture of
Fritz Platten. would take several Of them.
in fact History will want to have look
at such photograph, for Fritz Platten, willy
niiiy, has become historical character He
IL the man who unclaimed Bolshevism in
Europe. 1t was Platten who arranged with
uermany Tor the passing Of the "sealed
train" which took Lenine from Switzerland
to Russia. Platten went in that sealed train.
or rather coach, with Lenine and his thirtv-
odd followers to Petrograd. A few days
after tho Lenine train passed through Ger
many, Platten's associate, Hans vogeI. the
present editor Of the "Berner Ta9wacht" !"
the leading Socialist paper in Switzerland.
photed a second train with the remainder
OF the Bolsheyik followers Of Lenine through
Germany into Russia.
FOR was his taking of Lennc to Russia
the only service Of the Swiss labor leader
70 the cause OF Bolshevism platten has per-
formed another and perhaps greater service
70 LSnine and Leninites after they reached
Hussia. Platten and Lonine were In a cay-
ase sogstner one day when an assassin
attempted to shoct Lenine, and 1t was a
quick mannuvre by plstten that detected
the fatal bullet, saving Lcnines life. platten
eame out Of tho experience with a slightly
damaged arm. Thus has the swiss labor
leader twics served the cause Of r,oIsbev,sm
we'll MN
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- perpetuate the memory Of Dan
ie Decatur Emmett, the man who wrote
"Dixie." James Lewis Smith WAS his name.
He was wealthy bachelor whose fad was
building monuments. After his death blue
prints Of memorial to American sailors
and soldiers who fought in the late war
were found on his desk. The monument
however, that will give him lasting fame
Ia the one he erected in honor of Emmett
at Mount Vernon, Ohio, where Emmett was
born, and where he now lies buried.
Smiths interest In Emmett has brought
TO light many interesting things about the
origin OF "Dixie" and about Emmett him
self. II In interesting from The viewpoint
Of how man may spring into fame AL
NEST over night Without knowing lust why.
and also from the viewpeint Of what con.
stituteB popular soHg. In after years ttn,.
matt said to mn old Mount Vernon friendi ~
] had known that 'bIyis' war destined to
become 40 popular would have wr.ttsn
" bsttsrT Hut tAsns mavbss As mishs
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The Second
Lenine

shortiy before November Z the sv,s.
boeislisss issued proclamation calling upon
the workers. to celebrate November T. tho
first anniversary Of Belsheyst rule In Rus.
sia. platsen, then the secretary of The swIss
Boeihlist party. was the leading spirit In tho
movement for saeb demonstration. Hu,noy
aDiskly spread that the eeiebfation wan only
= screen for proposed coup by The noIsbs.
visits " take possession of the government
sHd initiate Drolstartsn dletatorshlp. IL
- set ka9wH how much foundation, IL any,
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The Methods
Of the Man

Platten does not lay claim to erudition.
but he is a remarkable speaker. He is a
metal worker by trade and his speech Is
never detached from reality. He supple
mcnts his theories with facts and illus
trates them with actual happenings. Ho
drives his arguments home by simple ref
erences to the things of every day in the
iife OF the workman. 1t is this that gives
MN such command and makes him such a
formidable figure in the labor movement
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30

Yr~ HE ambulance driver Is jammcd
back In his scat. His service hat
IL Is drawn low over his eyes. his
chin upon his chest In tho rear
a doctor with the bars of first lieutenant
idly swnps stories with nm unshaven audi
cnce of motorcycle drivers and flying ca-
dets in oily leather coats.
simmering sunshine makes the field
somnolent. Above half dozen planes arc
making lazy circuits OF the field, taking
of, banking around tho appointed turns
and completing. with moro or less bumpy
landings, their tours do piste-as tho
French term circuits of tho field
Upon the stagc--a rough board platform
perchcd upon 2o-foot stilts-sits the officer
in charge Of tho solo field, alternately
praising, though rarely, alternately bawl-
ing out, the steady stream of cadets just
finishing their half hours Of landings
men and flying officers, record the landings
in response to the droned intonations Of
watchers, field glasses glued to eyes-"2s90,
porpoise landing; "17s4, fast landing";
"2425, flat glide; "1459 off course" and so
on interminably.
Below. herding together for shade, read
ing, writing, sleeping and squabbling, a
crowd Of cadets are awaiting their turns
to be posted on the chalk-scrawled black
board in front of the stage.
"Ship DOWN." a watcher suddenly yells.
A hive of activity follows. The am
bulance driver, heretofore apparently
sleeping, has already cranked his car. The
motorcycle, In response to a heavy foot,
snorts ready" as an engineering officer
leaps for the sidecar.
The group of onlookers scatters for the
blackboard, "What ship is it7 Who saw
him 60 down? Now who's out of luck 2"
And then, with eager eyes, they scan the
numbers Of the landing ships.
''Tt's not Buck, he's in $780," some one
deduces, as ship bearing the painted mum.
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A Hindenburg
OF Labor

went TO Zurich 10 take look at Plat.
ten. ! was told that hs given no interviews
TO correspondent from "bouryeosie" news.
papers wanted to ssb him, nevertheless.
peesuse nesS TO Lenins hs Ia to-day tho
greatest BolshsvIst fanatic IN EuYopa aud
with mems nerves on edgs M they ara IN
CshtfAl Europe to-day such u thorough.
going fanatic may be Lord al Hosts 90.
mATfew. talked ~ RlatsSn abeat Ave tnins
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continue our struggle against the worst
sort of opposition. The education Of the
masses proceeds but slowly. Against our
small press there is opposed the vast num-
Der of the bourgeois newspapers They
dominate the opinions and sentiment of the
people. With parliamentary methods alone
we cannot be helped The struggles of the
proletarat must take on more and more
the character Of mass action"
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to Russia with us. We left Russia long
before Lenine came into power"
asked Herr Vogel ss had previously
asked Herr Grimm and platten with regard
to the Bolshevik executions in Russia.
Grimm had explained these atrocities, Plat.
ten would not discuss them. But Herr
Vogel deplored them.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
By Albert Sidney Gregg

q MAN died in Ashtabula, Ohio, re-
Gently, who has done much to
perpetuate the memory Of Dan
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
By Percival E. Jackson.

"< HE ambulance driver Is jammcd
back In his scat. His service hat
IL Is drawn low over his eyes. his
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81 de nu mai 9m lipsa de oa-
.meni cumva, dack gangu s'a um
plut din data az foaia asia 1t
zile 81 dupa 10ssag ne scrieti car.
tie pentru informatiuni.
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