Arizona republican., 1921-06-06

An account of the remarkable suc- I cess of Bars Flying Circus. organ zed and headed by Bert Barr of Phoenix. is achieving in Japan, where It is pioneering in aerial exhibitions. Is given in a fufl-page illustrated article in the magazine section or the New York Sunday Tribune or May 2s. Not only does the article. which was written by Adachi Kim nosuke. American correspondent or the Tokio Jiji. tell of the triumph scored by the flying show from Ari- zona.. but it points out the reason for the organizations popularity in Nippon. a lard as backward in many things as 1t is progressive m others
 Included in the illustrations for the article is a photograph showing members of the Barr Flying Circus lined up on either side of old Baron Okuma- one of the greatest figures in Japanese official society circles Bert Barr has the post of honor next the aged nobleman and statesman This picture is especially mentioned by Kinnosuke to show the real success of the Americans visit.
 The Tribune article follows:
 Ealy in April. an American flying circus landed in Toixio and improved
 
 ar's. For it came. this ready for the clouds" fraternity. and it con- quered Nippon. unlike the ancient Roman. without even taking the trouble to see very much of It. More than that. it took Tokio by regular typhoon-
 That you might gauge the height and measure the breadth of its tri- umph. pause long enough to look at one of the accompanying photo graphs-the one which shows the members of the flying circus ranged on both sides of our old Marquis Okuma. This might not strike some of our American friends as anything that would call for a feature story Still. to some of us heather. 1t is quite as sensational as it would be if a lot of Japanese acrobats were entertained at dinner ct the Astor mansion on Fifth avenue. There should not be the slightest quarrel over this fact. old Marquis Okuma looms as high in the social firma ment of Tokio as Newport society in America The old marquis Is one of the still surviving Older States men who wrought that political mir- acle known as the New Nippon.
 Mind you. these American flyers were backed by no government. Some members of the circus had flown over the muddy gray of the battle front of Italy. and to one of them at least. the topography of No Man, in Tokio, in the cherry blossom montf of this year. they were simply on { commercial visit The flying circui
 charged from 50 yen to yen for en.
 trance fee to aerial entertainments
 And they gave their first show a
 Susaki Aviation Field in the mos
 business-like manner imaginable. Blu
 no aviation corps of any great powe
 could have received a more distin
 guished consideration. both from tn
 government and people of Japan.
 than this Bars Flying Circus iron
 Phoenix. Arizona The leading light
 of the foreign office were there: hig'
 officials of the army and navy O
 Japan were more than well repre-
 sented there. and of course. the Of
 ficers of the Aviation Bureau of tn
 two services. As for the commo
 people of TolSio. they mobbed an
 flooded the Susah Aviation Field
 which Is not a small place: and the
 crowded into 1t by 10 o'clock in th morning when every mothers so of them knew that the event was | begin at 1 in the afternoon.
 But why all this iionizing of Amer ican flyers by the high and loft social mogus of Tokio7 Why all thl } tremendous and tumuituous receptio } of the Nippon mob for them7 Ther is a reason for it: in fact. there ar . two-reasons-
 In the first place. the happy NIT
 ponese had never seen in all the born days just such a reckless flirts 1, ton with the clouds and with deaf 3 as the American flyers indulged
 so cheerfully. They had seen fe
 birds fly as high as the American
 went-never had seen them (tf
 birds) enjoy their fun as much (
 the flyers did s a matter of hi
 tory. the most Heckiess stunt the
 had ever seen before the coming n the flying circus was what Mr. Naki yama did on March 6. 1921. On thi
 day our proud z1-year-o aviat, ' stood on the right wing of his Gu
 tiss biplane and looked down up. : the capital city of Nippon with Il - air Of one who had just chopped O k the head of a dragon. And the pc u pie of Tokio nearly gasped at tl n sight of the daring young airma l. Under the circumstances it is n r very difficult to conceive just wh d the reople of Tokio thought and f, 1t when they saw Babe Barr-a st " WI h'A iitrT oA tltt SHOW. but a Sltn
 girl barely out of her teens-ex " cute a pretty little dance on the wi In of her plane They had seen som l. thing like that in imported movi, Tt Iuc the world of movies to them W
 a world of impossibilities and SC breath-taking barbarian of the O e. cident-that and nothing more. IT I'd astounding novelty of the perforr a- ance was unquestionably one of { D. reasons for the unprecedented i, In pressions the flying circus made ne the minds of the people of Tok Tn But by no means the onfy one. CT A deeper explanation lay in the h he lory of the development of aviatl 1t. In Japan. In 1911 two Japan, in army officers returned from Fran, as there they had been taught how a fly. And the two officers were re, first bird-men of Japan. That is a cy other way of saying that the art a e. science of flying in Nippon is you An American flyer. Art Smith IF. name. visited Japan in 1916. WI a he did in the air with his plane ma Ial the Japanese spectators III. CT, showed some of the av!ators of lss pan just how odious is this thing
 call comparison. Before his com d. some of the Japanese flyers spor UT about with their heads rather high the air-like so many bats in Of island of no birds. as an old say IT. goes. But with the advent of he American flyer nothing of the s 're was possible. More or less heroic si- ficers of yesterday turned into
 many unconscious walking Jokes