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The New York herald., 1921-09-25
The Germans Admit the Superiority
of Plane Types Made by Other Nations
Air

perience with torpedo carrying air.
planes was very unsatisfactory. In
the last year of the war the torpedo
carrying machines were abandoned,
for the results achieved did not justify
the loss of men and material. After
the first two torpedo attacks in Flan-
ders and in the Gulf of Riga the
enemy's counter measures became SO
effective that very little chance OF sue
cess remained" Shortly before the
armistice was signed the German navy
was carrying out experiments with the
type of runner" for airplanes used
on American battleships, "and good
results were obtained" Their Fern
lenkboot," a kind Of torpedo which
travelled along the surface of the
water and was controlled by the firer
by means of an electric cable, sue
ceeded in putting a British monitor
out of action on the Flanders coast,
but it was not worth while TO dis
charge 1t at torpedo boats and smaller
craft, because their greater speed and
power of maneuvre rendered any
chance of success very small" The
statement is made here that ten air
SHIPS LOOK part III Ilit Dshelat " 'aN
land" although no account of that en-
gagement has ever mentioned this be-
fore.
In the final chapter, "A Glance into
the Future" the writer is of the opin-
ion that the world war was the last
to be fought ION a European ter
rain. 1t is absurd to think that any
military domination. to the extent
which existed five years ago, can De
reborn to any of the Central Powers,
including Russia since they all nave
been shattered" He says 1t is not
dove of peace but the bird OF war
which has laid its egg In the nest OF
the still allied and associated govern
ments. That which shall develop from
the egg will betray only too clearly
it's warlike origin" He thinks the air
forces will be so powerful in the fu-
ture that all nations which have to
reckon with the fear of further inevi-
table hostilities find themselves faced
with this question: rs 1t better 70
construct commercial and Industrial
establishments underground or so 10
develop air power that 1t becomes un-
necessary to do so?"
He thinks it will be fifty years at
least before airplanes will take the
place of "the express train or the
liner" and that the airship is merely
the precursor of the airplane, for 1T
is the airplane alone which can, must
| and will gain the victory which shall
be won over the problem OF time
He even sees time will come when
.sa1 Nrr al
planes controlled only by electric
waves and containing no men,"
w. B. MCCORMICK
The New York herald., 1921-09-25
Soundings in the Sea of Ink

examined the effect of new environ
ment on Americans going back to
explore old Europe, as Cooper had
studied the effect of the forest. and
prairie on the colonist. Van Doren
goes on to say:
Highly ironical as it may seem,
1t is still not highly fanciful to say
that The American begun in Paris
in 1875, at time when James, though
delighting in the art and companion
ship Of Turgenev, was yet feeling
somewhat excluded from French So
ciety, sprang from James's concep-
tion of romantic American gesture
quantity like that of Daniel Boone
renouncing the settlements, the ges-
ture on which Cooper founded the
character of Leather-Stocking."
So century Of pioneering in the
external world left the mark of the
pioneer even upon the literature
modified by the finest cultural infiu-
ences and returning to the old
world for it's setting.
The New York herald., 1921-09-25

countries. Even in this much con-
densed form the book has the quality
of Teuton thoroughness.
The astonishing thing about the
various articles written by Major Neu-
mann and his associates is the frank
ness with which they admit the SUI
periority Of so many English and
American types of aircraft and their
own failures in so many instances in
their aerial accomplishments, The
reader may well pardon the inevitable
sentimental German regrets over the
ruin wrought by the allied victory for
the solid and varied amount of in
formation contained in these pages. In
his introduction Major Neumann de-
clares: Our enemies. in their success
full endeavors to Illustrate German de-
signs for international aerial lines
have brought about the complete col
lapse" of that triumph of organiza-
tion," the German air force. "All that
was accomplished in time of peace" he
continues, through the most painstak-
ing endeavors, together with this vast
amount of machinery, undoubtedly the
most phenomenal of all that was con-
structed during the war, lie shattered
among the ruins of our flying services.
In this wise have they also compassed
the downfall of the German aircraft
industry" In view of the common be-
lief that Germany's aerial lines are
very prosperous, this will come as an
astonishing statement.
In the opening chapter on observa-
ton balloons it Is stated that the
greatest improvement made in this
type by the Germans was through the
capture of French and English
type on the Somme front, which was
copied, slightly altered and produced
by us under the name of the A. r.
balloon" The German Admiralty took
no steps in the matter of erecting re-
volying sheds for airships, which took
two years to build, because they did
not think the war would last so long
In the chapter on army airplanes one
reads that trench warfare was the
father of the modern flying machine,
and that they had TO improve their
early types ''in order to be a match
for the excellent French and British
machines" Between August, 1914. ant
December. 1918, the German air force
took over from their factories 47,63'
machines and Approximately $50 diff
ferent types Excluding experimental
machines), were designed during tha'
period" There were forty-nine flying
units when the Germans went to wal
and $50 were demobilized in the winter
OF 1918.
England and France had better
naval air equipment before the war
It is admitted. The Germans ex-
The New York herald., 1921-09-25
Book of buccaneers

HOWARD PYLE'S BOOK OF PI.
RATES. illustrated by the author.
Compiled by Merle Johnson. Harper
& Brothers.
~ ToBoDY that has followed with
IN affection and delight the de-
velopment of American maga-
zines through the generation following
the civil war needs to be told anything
about Howard Pyie's work as writer
or illustrator This book of hitherto
uncollected magazine contributions will
make old friends happy and win new
ones. In addition to the matter that
had been seen by the public in some
form there are few sketches never
before printed.
Among the pieces included are
Buccaneers and Marooners Of the
Spanish Main; The Ghost OF Capt
Brand; Tom Chist; Jack Ballisters )
Fortunes: Blueskin the Pirate: Capt.
Scarfield: The Ruby of Kishmoor.
We are permitted to quote from a
special edition of the artists Bibliog-
raphy part Of N. c. wyeth's word pic
The New York herald., 1921-09-25
There is nothing finer in the book.

There is nothing finer in the book,
as divination, than Van Doren's
analysis of Hawthorne's view of sin.
He shows that although 1.-THE Scarlet
Letter" delineates the Puritan and
reveals the social spirit of the period.
Hawthorne saw far into the future,
realized certain truths that are only
beginning to be felt in our own
day. To the Puritans themselves the
agreement of Hester and Dimmes-
dale that what we did had a con-
secration of it's own" would have
seemed, Van Doren asserts, "a bias
phemy worse than adultery" And
the critic adds, referring to Hester:
Her story is an allegory of the
passion through which the race con-
tinues. She feels the ignominy
which attends her own irregular be-
havior and accepts her fate as the
reward of evil, but she does not
understand it so far as to wish un-
committed the act which her society
calls sin. A harder woman might
have become an active rebel; softer
woman might have sunk passively
down into unavailing penitence.
Hester stands erect and thinks"
The New York herald., 1921-09-25

w. B. MCCORMICK
The New York herald., 1921-09-25
Old Hostility to Railroads Gone

was instructive, and when II came to
an end the policy adopted combined
the features of regulation with en-
couragement OF enterprise. For more
than two years the Government had
stood In the shoes of the railroads and
thereby had grasped the railroads
point of view. The transportation act
of 1920 provided not only for negative
regulation but for constructive assist
ance.
THE legalization Of pooling" writes
Frof. Sharfman, "and of the control
of one carrier by another under the
supervision of the commission re-
moves the restrictions against cooper
ative arrangements. The provisions
concerning consolidation. though vol
untary in character, constitute a clear
departure from the traditional policy
of enforced competition. At least pre-
liminary steps are taken toward the
ultimate merger OF railway lines into
q limited number of transportation
systems. The need OF operating unity
is clearly recognized"
This volume on the problem of the
railroads is a serious detailed study
of American transportation before
during and after the war. The merits
of the pre-war and postwar systems
Of control are weighed against the ad-
visibility of Federal ownership. There
are many things needed, many faults
70 be corrected, but Government pos
Sc ssion in the easy, uninspiring times
of peace is not the path. A system of
sympathetic control is more in line
with Prof. Sharfman's notions.
THE question of solving the railroad
problem satisfactorily is assuming the
guise Of challenge 10 American de-
mocracy. There must be a
clear recognition by the people and
their political representatives that pri-
vate ownership cannot be maintained
unless railroad investment is ade-
uuately protected against confiscation.
\. The regulative method, as well
as corporate ownership and private
operation. is now undergoing a crucial
test"
Owen Johnson, whose new novel
labels this as "The Wasted Genera
tion," Is native of New York. His
father, Robert Underwood Johnson,
was a former editor Of the Century
Md0dstne and more recently the Amer
lean Ambassador to Italy The young
er Johnson is best known as the au-
thor Of "Stover at Yale" THE Sala-
mander" and his Lawrenceville stories
for boys. He is now writing new
series Of Lawrenceville stories.
The New York herald., 1921-09-25
THE AMERICAN RAILROAD PROB
LEM. BY !. Leon Sharfman. The
Century Company


Century Company.
A STEEL rail laid on the Fourth
| ~ OF July, 1928, by Charles Car
roll, last surviving signer Of
the Declaration of Independence,
linked the political revolution with the
onsweeping Industrial revolution and
started this country's great railroad
building era.
The events of the early days of rail-
road building, particularly the attitude
OF the Government and the people
toward the daring pioneers in this
field, are interesting because the pol
icy set forth in the transportation act
of 1920, which turned the railroads
over to their private owners. indicates
resumption OF something resembling
the viewpoint that prevailed in the
years that followed 1928.
The railroads were popular In the
days that preceded the civil war.
State and Federal governments went
out OF their way to help the builders
Great tracts of land were given away
and lavish loans were made, which
subsequently In many cases were per-
mitted to remain as gifts. Between the
years 1862 and 1871. II is estimated
the Federal Government alone gave
the railroads 10000 square miles Of
territory, and the aggregate amount
OF all land grants between 1850 and
1871 was 242,000 square miles. The
total OF loans and gifts OF public funds
made by Federal, State and local gov
ernments Is estimated at approximate
ly. $500, ,000.0 900.
From 1871 dates the beginning OF
efforts to regulate the railroads. Ger
tain abuses had developed. The rail-
roads discriminating among shippers
and, after they had realized the folly
Of rate wars. Joined together and
raised the rates at will. It was natu-
raj that these abuses should elicit
remedies by Congress and the State
legislatures
Then followed the period of rigor-
GUS control, in which the target for
the lawmakers was the curbing of the
power of the railroads. That suppress
sion might curtail railroad progress by
injuring the high calibre of American
railroad enterprise was not consid-
cred. The result was a general weak
ening of the vast steel transporta net.
loss Of credit, loss of esteem.
The period of Federal ownership
The New York herald., 1921-09-25
What the Hun Did in the Air

THE GERMAN AIR FORCE IN THE
GREAT WAR. From the German of
Major Georg Paul Neumann. Trans
lated by ]. E. Gurdon. George II.
Doran Company.
',ss.s. ,ss idea Of ssss"s'r.ss
thing that appertains to the
German air force, not only with re-
gard to it's history. but also with re-
gard to it's development in technical
design and organization" Major Neu-
mann, formerly OF the German air
force, edited work covering this sub
ject in which he was assisted by
twenty-nine specialists in some branch
of the aircraft industry or flying serv-
ice. 1t was approximately three times
the size of the English version trans
lated and edited by Mr.. Gurdon, and
as this volume runs to 297 pages the
original German work must be monu-
mental. Certain 1t is that in it's Eng
lish form 1t Is extraordinarily COM
plete and presents a survey of the
subject that has no parallel in any
British, French or American work
written about aviation in the allied
The New York herald., 1921-09-25
Van Doren ON Our Fiction.

~ Aim yourself, poor troubled
IN psychoanalyst of the twen-
tieth century. with remi-
niscent glance over the pleasant
literary pastures of the nineteenth.
And you could scarcely have a
better guide than Carl Van Doren.
He has what the American soldier
lacked-a sense of proportion. The
ten chapters of his book THE Amer
lean Novel" (Macmillan) cover about
hundred and thirty years Of
imaginative writing on this conti-
Dent and cover il with an admirable
evenness Of Judgment, largely free
from stupid professionalism or fan
attic perversions.
IL there were no Interpretation in
the book the interest OF its facts and
the clearness of its narrative would
almost justify It, The first and the
last chapters are crowded with book
history. How many. readers Of this
page could name "the first regular
American novel;? couldn't. Well,
since you must know. it was "The
Power of Sympathy" by Sarah Went
worth Morton, Boston, 1889. or course
its Importance is purely historic. The
, first piece Of durable fiction produced
like our Government, of the people,
by the people and for the people OF
America Is Parson weems's Life of
Washington.
Van Doren treats Mark Twain,
Howells and Melville we'll enough,
but his triumphs are the chapters on
Cooper, Hawthorne and James. There
is curious analogy between Cooper,
the pioneer Of the art of fiction here,
and Henry James, its most highly de-
veloped American product. Both
took the frontier as a theme. James
The New York herald., 1921-09-25
The Doughboy Appears in New Novel
A Serious Critic Studies Our Fiction

It wastes the development Of their
powers, atrophies their Wills, makes
their individual good evil and their
evil good.
The only escape is desertion. An
drews escapes.
There you have one Of the clearest
indications written in any book Of
our day Of the worlds changing
mind toward war. Try to conceive
a popular novel of any other period
with a deserter for hero.
II the United States Government
were a strictly logical affair-which,
thank God, 1t isn't!-"Three Soldiers"
would never be sent through the
mails. But the same could have
been said of Henry Barbusse's
Under Fire." Both these books
have too much truth in them to be
perma nently suppressed. And even
as to the element of error, since mil
lions of men feel that way, it Is
better to get the matter out in the
open, where 1t can be faced frankly.
We are not at war, there is no ques-
tion of treachery in the face Of an
enemy. Nov 1t can be told" Let
1t be told without fear The rulers
of the world, presidents, prime min
listers. diplomats, will have to take
Under Fire" and Three Soldiers
and the facts they represent inte
account in any future international
steps they take.
The New York herald., 1921-09-25
Translated Americans.


O HERwOOD ANDERSON was in
~ town the other day on his
journey from Europe to Chi
cago, where his publisher tells us he
had a Chicago welcome. To his
friends here he spoke of the new in
terest Europe shows in American
books. His own are being translated
into French and--I came near saying
English. But that was no reflection
on Anderson's style. l once had to
help arrange very scholarly manu-
script for English publication. The
number of words that are spelled
differently in London and New York
would astonish those who think there
is no American language.
There is one turn Of phrase COM
monty used on the other side that
seems to be more frequently used
here than 1t used to be-"different
to-" When you differ you turn away
FROM" It is perfectly true that
language is not logical. But when
cultivated Americans have been u.s.
ing for so long phrase like "dif-
ferent FROM" 1t is hard to see why
they should turn to the opposite form,
which has no reason to support its
use
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1921-08-25
SPECIAL PRIZE LIST FOR FAIR

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LOCAL NEWS ITEMS

For Sale-A 9x9 wool fiber rug in
excellent condition.-Mrs. r. G. Bling
ham.
Mrs. F. NJ. Winters, of White Hull,
H., is visiting in WaKeeney at the
home of Mrs. Jas. Rhoades, this week.
The guarantors of the Chautauqua
ist and Locust Clubs for their very
fine work in helping to make this
years Chautauqua a success These
ladies did the major part of the sell
ing of tickets and but for their eff
fort should have been forced to
sing to old song We like the new
song much better and thank the Ia
dies for teaching us how to sing it.
Chas HI. Thomas, who had charge
of the electrical work on the telephone
exchange at Ransam for the last five
or six years, has been employed to
take charge of the work on the Farm
ers' Co. Operative Telephone Co.,
which is being constructed in this
county with headquarters at WaKee-
ney. Mr.. Thomas says the switch
board and equipment which has been
purchased and is being installed by
the new company is first class in ev-
cry respect and has all the modern
conveniences.
A pleasant wedding event took
place last Thursday evening, August
18th, at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
J. W. Wilson seven miles northwest
of WaKeeney, when their daughter,
Susie, was united in marriage with
Cecil Anterior, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. J. Anterior northwest of this city.
The ceremony was by Rev. F. A.
Heller, pastor of the Presbyterian
church of this city and took place at
700 o'clock. Only the member of
the families of the bride and groom
+ were present. A most excellent wed
ding dinner was served following the
ceremony. Mr.. and Mrs. Anterior
are excellent young people and we
understand viii make their home with
Mr.and Mrs. A. j. Anterior this win
ter and next spring expect to locate
on a farm in this vicinity.
Miss Nellie Elizabeth Hendrick.
and Chester A. Riggs were united il
marriage Monday, August %, 1921
at Hays, Kansas. The bride is tn
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Hen
bricks of this city and the groom i
the son of Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Riggs
until recently residents of the Banne
neighborhood- Both young people ar
former Trego County High Schoo
students and are energetic and thrift
ty young people. The wedding even
was celebrated Tuesday by the tw
families uniting in family Dime
and by charivari party in the even
ing 1t is the intention of Mr.. an
Mrs Riggs to join the excursio
to Louisiana next week with a vie,
to seeing the country and looking u
a location provided they like tina
country. The best wishes of man
friends accompany them.