New Britain herald., 1927-08-27

Lack of thought and preparation often is the cause of killing an oth erwise good movement. Lack of { thorough knowledge of the element. involved sometimes results in 1t, death.
 What the circumstances were which caused the upsetting of the preliminary organization of the pro- posed Civic Music Association Mon. day are not known. but that . mis- take was made which will seriously hamper the organization is self-evi- dent.
 Two of the men who have been mainly responsible for the develop ment of the organization, and who strove hardest for the success of the affair. were left out in the cold, un- appreciated, at the critical time when their services were needed as never before-Ralph H. Benson and George Hahn.
 Mir. Benson is secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. He came here while the proposition was fin the works" He has distinguished himself as a worker of sound judg- ment but with little smoke and no noise. He pitched into the thing with all his ability and the organiza- ton work was carried mostly on his shoulders. Back of him was the whole organization of the Chamber of Commerce. He has the facilities, the proper setting. organization and everything needed for a secretary's headquarters. His work was volun- tary and he received no pay.
 George Hahn Is a newspaperman. He also is a musician. He plays 50 many instruments that he hardly knows how many himself. He writes music and has had 1t published He has written entire orchestra scores and trained the orchestra which played them. He had led choruses and choirs. He has been an editor of music publishing house. He handled practically all of the pub licity in the preliminary organiza- ton. He knows the technique and ethics of news writing. He "gets his stuff across"
 Incidentally. Mir. Hahn, who is on his vacation, is not aware that the foregoing was written.
 With the present day trend of popularity from roller skating to the airplane, 1t is appropriate that every one of us should know at least the rudiments of flying.
 By the word flying we mean the ability to keep an airplane above the land for a given length of time and not, as it would seem at first glance, the art of Tapping ones wings and skimming up to the telephone wires. In the first place we have no wings to flap and in the second place the practice would in all probability prove injurious to the phone serv- ice, so we are just taking up the airplane side of flying.
 An airplane can easily be recog- nized by it's capability in doing one of three things: That is (a) going up and making a great deal of noise over it, (b) flying along above the earth and causing everybody down below to run into everybody else while watching it, and Co coming down very rapidly with pale faced man inside getting ready to jump. Other phases which distinguish an airplane from, say, a bald headed eagle, are looping the loop, deliver ing the mail and popping over to Europe, for who ever heard of a bald headed eagle being presented to the King and Queen ot Belgium?
 Many great names are linked with aviation, none being greater then those of Lindbergh. Chamherlin. Byrd. Wright and Gombblestoesser. The last named individual may not be easily recognized at first but he will soon be remembered as being the first man to tell the joke about the girl not being able to walk home from an airplane ride. He was born in Cecil County, Maryland, and until this one burst of rare humor gave him national recognition, con- ducted a small feed store outside of Cambridge. He died cOmparativly young and very. very suddenly.
 But. to continue along the lines of aviation for the beginner. The first move of the amateur aeronaut should be to purchase. borrow or in some way acquire an airplane. This can be done in single pay ment or on the budget plan, accord ing to individual taste but it should be done quickly and with a smooth upward movement of the left wrist not forgetting to keep ones eye on the ball and firm heart in his work.
 There are several types of planes in use at the present time, few of which include the biplane. the monoplane. the triplane (used gen. orally in thickly populated regions or in wet weather) the dolphin" i" the Fokker, the Handley-Paige, the Burleep- Wurple and the old Chinese wood burning Hoki-M
 (The last named plane got its name shortly after the Ming dynas- ty by its inventor Tsi-Eeo-Quong. The connection will easily be seen in the similarity of the name of the inventor and the "knickname"
 Of the flying machine. Or maybe it was Lai-Huaung who invented the Hoki-Moki. who knows?)
 The Great War, disturbance which lasted from 1914 to 1918 and which involved several countries besides the United States, developed the airplane to the prominent posi- ton it now holds. True, previous to the outbreak of the war in about 1908, man named Elmer Swemble