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Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
By CAPTAIN EDWARD v. RICKENBACHER, D. C. S.
-. Legion of Honor-Croix dn Guerre

was time to try vrille or tail spin.
Il knew what l was supposed to do.
/ knew you put the stick over and
crossed the controls, but I'd never
seen anybody do it. / went up about
1900 feet, got off some distance
from the field and flew around there
for every bit of so minutes trying
to get up my nerve to try the trick,
but too scared to begin. At last l
said to myself, Whats the matter
with you? You've got to do this, "
and threw the stick. She went into
the spin all right but | had her back
to neutral after just one whirl, and
tell you | was glad when she
righted. Next day, / went out and
/ took 20 minutes to make up my
mind to try again. 1t was only on
the third day that | went at the job
with any confidence and let her do
a real spin.
That is still more or less the way
I feel about doing new stunt, after
all the flying have done at the
front since. When you try a new
thing, you are never quite certain
how the machine will behave, and
though you may have confidence in
your ability to get out of anything
as long as you have the altitude,
there is a sort of hesitation both<in
the machine and in you. The trouble
is, you do not know what the strains
will be on either.
The next thing was to get away
from Issoudun. The men who had
to stick over in this side as flying
instructors know how hard it is get
away from a field when they've
got you tied down to a job there.
Those fellows are the ones that have
my sympathy, because they have
done the work and missed the credit.
They have staid home-and not
really home either, but in some par
ticularly hot place down in Texas.
most likely-staid there and made
aces when they were themselves the
stuff Of which aces are made, and
but for the luck of it would be, lot
Of them, coming back here now with
as many ribbons and decorations
and Huns to their credit as any of
us.
Instead, they have stuck on the
job full Of dangers and responsible
tiles with little chance Of promotion
and none Of fighting or Of fame.
And, the better they were, the more
certainly they were stuck. Because
pilots had to be trained in a hurry,
very large number of pilots, and
the very best men were none too
good for the task of training them.
/ was not an instructor over there
at Issoudun. But even an engineer
officer in France could not afford to
be too good. / do not think l was.
Still, when. / asked to go TO the
front the c. o. said l could not be
spared.
So / conspired with the medical
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
By NABoTH HEDIN.
staff Correspondent Of Universal
Service.
Especial Gable Dispatoh.l

Especial Gable Dispatch.l
Paris, March 15.-The French
slogan today is "Peaes and Pay"
Germany must pay first,p resounds
or stares from every tribune, sign
board and newspaper. Mass meet
ings are held and resolutions are
sent to the Chamber Of Deputies de-
handing that before the French tax
payers are saddled with new bur-
dens Germany must pay for the
damages it has caused.
The French budget has been more
Ahan tripled and there is 3 $1,000
100000 deficiency which must be
raised forthwith. The Chamber last
week voted to have 3,000,000,000
francs additional paper money
printed. This makes q total OF 3d.
000,000,000 francs of paper money in
circulation as against less than g.
O00,000,000 before the war. Econ
omists argue the excessive circu-
lation Of paper useney Is responsible
for raising the ps.
The situation EScalls the green
backs" in America after the civil
war. French credit is good, ebut
there is no denying that the franc is
weak both abroad and at home.
The rising prices make the situa-
ton of many people desperate. es-
pecially that of salaried men and
women. Last Sunday employees of
the government who are underpaid
Joined labor unions as means to
raise their incomes. Applied to
America, this is as if the American
government employees joined the
federation of labor or the /. w. w.
for concerted action.
The French capitalist class is wor-
ried by talk Of confscation of one
fourth of everybody's property to
pay the war deficit.
France looks with anxiety toward
the discussion at the Quai D'Orsay
Saturday of the reparation problem.
For the amount which Germany is
W bI SNlltNlAN0 " pay - q NAAdA
question for France. Returning sol
diers do not like to pay for the war
which they have won.
The fresh activity of the peace
congress in fixing the preliminary
treaty Of peace pleases the French
who consider the congress has not
paid sufficient attention to Germany.
The Paris Midi says editorially:
"Mr. Lansing declares we have ar
rived at critical point in the worlds
affairs, and that we ought to have
peace without delay. The American
secretary of state is a thousand
times right and it is not French
opinion which contradiets him.
Nobody here understands why we
have been waiting ever since Novem-
Der 1l-or 123 days-to say: These
are the nav German frontiers, these
are the future German military eff
fectives, these are the debts Ger
many must pay.
sWa mnsk act auiskix and ths
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

French do not understand why there
is such delay. We have persistently
shouted here-and the French press
generally has done so-that the FIRST
subject for the conference to tackle
was the question of Germany. Now
we are finally getting there. Indeed,
il is getting there to announce that
Germany is in peril through lack Of
activity for her factories and sup
plies for her markets. 1t is clear that
when the supply ships enter the
boche ports the question of the new
rfrontiers will be settled in a sensi-
bic fashion. It is clear that the debt
Germany owes US will be known
then and that she win recognize that
pledges are not to be promised but
given"
Though the French peace delega-
ton now openly shares the Ameri-
can view regarding the necessity Of
supplying Germany in order to avoid
anarchy in that country, Chauvinis-
tic sections of the French press
make ironical references to Secre-
tary Lansing's insistence on this
subject.
The government inspired press
has abandoned this attitude.
As regards the repeated implica'
tons that the society of nations pro-
ject delayed the conclusion of = pre-.
liminary' peace, I am able to state
on authority that this is entirely
false. The league project did not in
the slightest delay the formulation
of the military, territorial, naval and
fiscal terms to be imposed on Ger
many.
Separate commissions were ap.
pointed for these subjects and they
have been working independently
While it is true that the league Of
nations commission had It's report
ready first, thanks to long night SEES
sions under the propulsion of Presi-
dent Wilson, the other commissions
have been working unhampered by
the league plan and would not be
ready until now even if the league
of nations had never been planned
Briefly, those who fry to make the
league project the goat" for the
delay, know not whereof they speak
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
Beatrice Reports Big
Real Estate Deals
During the Past Week

Beatrice, Neb, March ls.-(Spe-
cial. )-George Eager, a farmer liv-
ing near Dewitt yesterday purchas-
ed the old Griggs farm Of 200 acres
south of that place of WAW. BARN.
by for $24O per acre. Mr.. Barmby
a year ago purchased the same
farm from Mr.. Griggs for $40. This
shows an advance of 500 an acre
during the last year. The farm is
well improved.
Glen Watson, young son Of Mr..
and Mrs. E. H. Watson of this city,
died last evening OF pneumonia
after a brief illness.
The Beatrice Poultry association
held its annual meeting and elected
these officers: President, julius
Neuman; vice president, T. B. Full
ton; secretary-treasurer, D. O.
Kassing; superintendent, S. A. Sey-
mour. The dates for the next show
and the selection Of the judge will
be made later.
Word was received here OF the
death by influenza Of Mrs. Clara
Heiliger, which occurred at her
home at Holyoke, Colo. The de-
ceased formerly lived at Plymouth,
to which place the remains will be
taken for burial. The deceased was
% years of age and leaves no FAM
lily except her husband.
Heavy showers, the FIRST Of the
season, fell in this section Of the
state. The ground is in excellent
condition for spring seeding and
winter wheat meyer looked better at
this season Of the year. A number
of farmers are at present engaged
In selecting their seed corn for this
year.
P. R. Andersen Of Filley has pur-
chased the quarter section farm Of
Carl Sorensen near that place for
$40, 400.
Judge Wray Of York, Neb., ad-
dressed q small crowd at the high
school last evening on the new well
fare ordinance, which was recently
passed by the city commissioners.
A petition signed by the required
number of voters was recently filed
with the commissioners requesting
them to call a special election for
the purpose of submitting the prop
osition to the voters, but the com
missioners decided not to call an
election, so the ordinance will not
become effective until 1920. Judge
Wray is president Of the welfare
board at York, which has success
fully looked after theaters, public
dances, etc.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

splitting. There was nothing for II
but to dive with full power, which In
the case of q Spad means going
down at the rate Of about 800 miles
an hour, and fortunately we were
pretty high up. With half 4 dozen
Huns after me, went down 5000
feet that way, and though i had
some trouble getting her out of the
dive, I managed it and got away in
spite of the fine target / made.
Dropping OUT
This narrow escape may be used
to bring out a point illustrated by
the case Of the doughboy who got
tired of marching and dropped by
the roadside. An officer ordered
him to get back to his place and
added that he had better be glad he
was in the infantry, because if he
had been in the air and dropped out
he couldn't get back. Flying is one
of the safest jobs in the army as
long as you do not drop out. If you
do drop out, you are = dead man and
dropping out means, usually, that
you have made a mistake or let go
of your grip.
There have been stories about the
recklessness of the American flyers,
and no doubt they went for the Hun
wherever they could get at him and
some took very long chances, but on
the front as / saw it, the American
aviators In this regard came between
the French and the British. The
French were inclined to be cautious
as a settled military policy of get
ting the best results with the least
expenditure of valuable lives and
costly planes. The British were
foolhardy as a matter of principle
and morale, because they found that
they got the best results with their
people in that way. Compared
with the French, playing their own
game in the way they had settled
down to it toward the end of the
war, our men seemed reckless. Com.
pared with the British they seemed
cautious. But, of course, the three
systems had nothing to do with the
courage of the three nations or Of
individual Frenchmen, Englishmen
or Americans. The French and
English had each worked out a
method of scientific murder that did
/ the job. We were working out our,
with the experience of both to help
us and the methods of both to
choose from. The result was, gem
orally, a sort of compromise.
The Flyers Age.
Right here / may mention as 4
matter of interest, that in point o.
maturity for this work, the English,
man of IS is about even with the
American of %. Our men are gen.
orally at their best as flyers be-
tween the ages of "a and 20; the
English are best between 10 and q
| have been asked why, and I think
it is due to differences in early edu-
cation in the two countries rather
than to anything directly connected
\ with the British and American
practice of training flyers.
Returning for a moment to the
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

a manoeuver which IS dead against
all the sane rules and that is some
thing against which the master of
the game has not provided and is
not forearmed. Sheer foolhardiness
or plain clumsiness has done what
skill and experience could not do.
Or else accident does it, engine trout
Bile, a jammed machine gun, or an
oversight. remember an incident
which might easily have made an
end of me. .....
His First Hun.
An approved method of attack was
to dive out Of the sun at the rear
most boche of Hun formation,
shoot him down if you had the luck,
chandelle or spiral upward and dive
again at the next tailender. / tried
the trick once and got as far as the
first act on the program, but had
shut off my pressure and forgot
about it, and when, after crashing
my first Hun, l tried to regain my
altitude, the Spad refused to climb.
l had to go into a roll which got
my gravity feed into action, but by
that time the boche were all COM
ing at me in bunch with their guns
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

An officer who had the job Of Civ
Ing preliminary examinations to the
young men who wanted to fly once
complained to me that two ans
wers TO his well-meant questions
got TO be exasperatingly common.
The first was to the effect that the
candidate didn't know anything
about aviation but had always
dreamed Of doing ii. The second
came when he was asked If he
knew the names Of any of the men
who were plotting fighting air
planes over in France. Usually, ac-
cording to this officer, he said
Eddie Rickenbacher" and stopped
there. The examiner was sure it
owed that the average American
til read the sporting page Of the
wspaper more carefully than the
ont page. A racing automobile
drivers name caught his attention
even in the war news, and stuck
and | got the benefit. If it had been
a base ball player, it would have
been the same way, ] mention the
matter here because, as it happens,
when l started in was like those
boys. l knew nothing about avi-
ALTON and had only dreamed about
il. I went over to France as a
chauffeur, after trying to get up a
flying unit which the government
refused to be interested in for rea-
sons that / now see were entirely
good, though I did not see it clearly
then. Once over there, would Aot
let them rest until they gave me a
lieutenant's commission and sent
me to Tours to see if could learn
to fly.
Learned Pretty Fast.
learned pretty fast: Long prac-
tice in driving a racing car at hun
dred miles an hour or so gives first
class training in control and in
Judging distances at high speed, and
helps tremendously in getting mo-
tor sense, which is rather the feel
of your engine than the sound Of i,
a thing you get through your
bones and nerves rather than
simply your ears. All this is a part
OF the physical equipment of
handling an aitplane, and it makes
Ia lot of difference if the fellow with
the stick knows how to make a
turn at 100 miles an hour or to
allow for passing another fellow at
twice that.
The proof Of this is that after five
and half hours dual with an in-
structor they let me solo. But be-
cause was a good mechanic and
knew about motors they sent me to
Issoudun to be engineer officer. Be-
ing engineer officer, | never had any
regular advanced flying training ac-
fcording to rule. But l took up a
ship whenever could and learned
+ that way.
| remember when thought it
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
L'AIIianCe Franchise Will
Meet at Mrs, Martins Today

The members of the French Al
lance will be entertained at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles w.
Martin, 632 South Thirty-seventh
street this afternoon at 4 o'clock.
DIFF. ]. Despecher will give an
illustrated lsssurs on Versailles
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
C. of c. Committee to Urge
Changes in Blue Sky Law

Changes in the Nebraska Blue
Sky law will be proposed by COM
mittee Of the Chamber Of Com
merce, named by Francis Brogan.
This committee comprises Messrs.
w. E. Rhoades, chairman; Yale c.
Holland, Chas A. Goss, w. S.
Weston and Thomas A. Fry.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

John P. Tarbox, executive engi.
neer Of Curtiss Engineering corpor-
alton, says alrplane stabilizers are
needed and will be produced soon IN
such form as to make airplanes Of
great commercial value.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16

Just on your right at the head Of
the stairs as you enter the bank is
the desk of Mr.. Droste, Assistant
Cashier.
If you wish to locate a certain de-
partment, if you wish to get in
touch with an officer, or an en-
ploye, or if you wish any informa-
ton about the bank, ask Mr..
Droste.
We want to make your banking
with us pleasant, and we want to
save your time. Consequently
Mr.. Droste is always glad to have
you call on him for information
pertaining to the bank.
THE SERVICE OF THE FIRST
is available to everyone requiring
the service of bank. We invite
you to come in and learn more Of
the meaning of this service, and
remember, there is always a well
come for you here,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
Omaha Boys at Camp
Mills Waiting to Be
Returned to Homes

Eighteen Omaha boys were
among the total of 2,163 officers and
men who sailed on the Steamship
America February 10 from Mar
settles and arrived in New York
March z. The men now are at
Camp Mills awaiting to be mustered
out of the service.
TT. n.-..L- -. a-as
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-16
French People Indignant
Over Delay of Indemnities

France, With Deficiency of $1O,OOOOOO0OO, Finds
Herself in Situation Which Recalls the Green
backs" in America After the Civil War; Her Credit
Is Good But the Franc Is Weak Abroad and at
Home
New-York tribune., 1919-10-27

will insist that they are loyal Ameri-
cans and legitimately seeking to better
terms of labor. Yet these same groups,
when restrained in their purpose and
yielding to lawless methods, will lapse
INTO common cause with the radicals.
We must resist this attempt to take
the country by the throat and by a
klghwayman's method to force political
and unreasonable economic conces-
sions. Of course we all hope that
those sinister tendencies may be
curbed before they may become united
into one explosion, but these are the
dangers that we face.
"Now, what is the remedy? What
can overcome their seditious hopes and
plans? Only the high spirit of Ameri-
canism. This is the understanding Of
the peculiar merit and value of our
institutions, the instructive allegiance
to our country and our country's gov
ernment, the determination to have
law and order under the Constitution
the willingness to sacrifice all in the
maintenance of this home of our
fathers, this home we love, and in the
retention Of all those elements tina,
New-York tribune., 1919-10-27

to every young man at eighteen or
nineteen for continuous period of at
least six months, under the intensive
system of modern training.
"a suitable percentage of the young
men should receive training in the
navy and in the Marine Corps.
IN order that the citizen army may
be truly representative of the nation
as q whole and of all its parts, ele-
ments and interests. adequate civilian
participation must be provided for in
those branches of the general staff and
other agencies concerned with the citi-
zen army system and industrial pre-
paredness.
"In order to hand down to the
younger generation the traditions and
experiences of the great war, the vet
erans should be asked TO assist IN or
ganizing, at least temporarily, the citi-
zen army. To this end all honorably
discharged officers and men should be
invited to become charter members in
the grades held by them during the
war, or in any higher grades for which
they may be qualified"
New-York tribune., 1919-10-27

Cross Christmas Seal campaign to
raise funds to combat the plague. Most
of the victims range from fifteen to
fifty. The average age at death is
twenty odd years before his time in
the ordinary course Of events, and in
many cases breaking up or destroying
families through the loss of the bread
winner.
The fight against tuberculosis has,
however, borne results. Health De-
partment statistics show that deaths
from pulmonary tuberculosis have been
reduced from 236 to $50 per 100000
since 1898.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-27

country under duress of threatened
starvation, freezing and complete par
alysis of business industry to secure
a complete readjustment of social
conditions, redivision or annihila-
tion of property, taking over by the
state Of all industries and subsection
OF the large majority Of the people to
the labor soviet.
"The trade unions to-day and the
American Federation of Labor have two
parties in them, one the regular trades
union men, supporting the present So
cial order, uniting for economic pur-
poses to sell their labor on the best
terms they can properly secure, max
ing contracts where they may and full
filing them to the best of their ability.
The other element is the raolcal, Red
element, an element that looks with
favor on Bolshevism and extreme So
ciaism, and that would make the trade
union movement in this country a
means of compelling change in our
form of government.
Common Cause With Reds
"Many engaged in strikes to-day will
Indignantly deny any such purpose, and
New-York tribune., 1919-10-27
Security LeagueAdvances
New Citizen Army Plan
Would Provide National Guard
and Civilian Membership
on General Staff

The Security League. which was one
Of the first organizations to advocate
universal training several years ago,
issued a statement yesterday suggest
ing a citizen army scheme, which
would recognize the National Guard
and provide for civilian membership
on the general staff. The league saws
"a large professional army is incom-
patible with true Amercanism. The
protection Of our country can be guar
anteel only by national citizen army
founded on the American principle OF
equality of obligation and opportunity
for all.
military training should be given
New-York tribune., 1919-10-27
Tuberculosis Cost CITY
1000, 600 Last Year
State Commissioner Says ZOO
Cases We're Listed, With
lO.l07 Deaths

tuberculosis cost New York City
more than $8l 100000 in economic
losses last year, according to a state
ment issued last night by Dr. Hermann
NJ. Biggs, State Commissioner of
Health. There were 1O,l97 deaths, and
on June 80 nearly 10000 cases were
tuberculosis is far more costly in
every way than any other disease, de-
clared DR.. Biggs, who has just been
made chairman Of the executive com
mittee Of the Greater New York Red
New-York tribune., 1919-10-27
Queer Names of Pupils

Queer names among the Indian pu-
pills of the Pine Ridge Reservation
School are Victoria Holy Rock, Julia
Afraid of Hawk, Mary Brown Ears,
ulia Crazy Ghost, Mercy Yellow Shirt.
,mma No Fat, Ella Red Eyes, Martin
Chase Alone, Noah Horse, John Left
Hand and Julia Stands Up.-Baltimore
American
New-York tribune., 1919-10-27
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The mind of a man at
the age of thirty-three is
lust beginning to unfold.
Hundreds of years ago
Lord Bacon said:

"YOung men are filter to
invent than to judge; litter
for execution than for
counsel, and filter for new
projects than for settled
business; for the experience
of age, in things that fall
within the compass of it,
direcfefh them; but in new
things abuSefh fhen7."