Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-12


adventure for the sake of the thrill, re-
| CARELESS Of The Justification of genuine
! heroism There Is reason for ventur-
/ ing TO cross the oceans by airplane, for
| that will eventually test out the weak
! nesses of the new means of travel and
/ give To humanity the magic boots of
| Jack the Giant Killer 1t incites to
| travel. to intercommurication between
| peoples. which will tend to make races
acquainted, bringing peace and COM
merce
| Not all the aviators who risk their
lives in the great adventure do SO with
! the incentive of a Col Lindbergh,
| whom the world delights to honor" but
| even he cannot aScribe all his honors
| 10 his daring flight This was freely
| University of Wisconsin a few days ago,
when Col Lindbergh was honored with
| an LII ID. by the institution which but
| six years before had dismissed him as
| lacking In scholarship" President
| Frank stated that the honor was not
| due so much TO the successful flight AS
| to his fine conduct since the success,
showing nobility of bearing and spirit.
In contrast with the Lindbereh con-
J
! the opposite attitude in senseless stunt
! flying by very capable aviators, who. for
/ mere showing Off, have risked their
own lives and the lives OF others, until
! the authorities have been Obliged to
| levy fines and suspend licenses TO fly
/ at all
| There is poem which was more
| familiar when the writer hereof was a
| schoolboy than IT Is today, yet the
moral Of the poem Is perfectly appli-
| cable now. and rather more conspicu-
ously 50 than when 1t served as read
| ing lesson"
| The scene WIS at a tournament
where wild and hungry beasts fought
one another for the thrill of the courtly
spectators The King sat there in royal
| splendor; there were bright-eycd ladies
Of the court and their knightly lovers.
! The beasts were struggling and roar
| ing, when one coquettish lady tossed her
| gloves into the arena and turned a
smiling challenge upon her brave knight
sitting devotedly at her side Would he
| not show his fearless devotion before
all the court?
He did! Iie leapcd into the ring, at
the very feet Of the raging beasts, re-
covered the gloves. and leaped desper-
ately out OF danger. Then he tossed
, King applauded not the venture among
the dangerous beasts but the act OF
rebuXe and remuneration in the final
tossing Of the recovered gloves
Not love but vanity" he said.
Sets love task like that"
=
A young man and l7-ycar- old
maiden were standing upon the deck OF
a steamer. which, last week, was crop
Ing It's way through a Newfoundland
fog. They had not known each other
until they met on shipboard, but APP
parently there was q not unprecedented
ship hirtation-and how such things do
develop in the six or seven days on the
Atlantic!
The evening was coming on. the
water sWrled about the sides of the
ship. There was no horizon The young
lady spoke bantcringly according TO her
own talel Il dare you to Jump over
board"
She didn't know the dare was load
ed" but instantly there was swish and
whiFr and the young man was diving
into old oceans gray and melancholy
waste"
Man overheard" she screamed. The
great ship swung around circle half a
mile In diameter, In the meanwhile q
boat was lowered and sailors set out
10 hunt the sea~~.a hopeless search In
most cases, But the young man was
found and saved. A herol
Yes but not because OF his foolish
leap, but because Of his chivalrous con,
duct after he was again safe He tried
to avert the disgrace from the thought.
less young girl resulting from her vanity
In issuing her test challenge, by allea,
ing that she had had nothing to do with
his plunge, but that the challenge ha6
come from a group Of men Offering &c
bet he would not dare Unfortunately
for his "Alibi" the young lady fright.
r1ed and remorselui, had already dis,
tnaed the whole story, and The noble
generous attempt 10 shield her from
criticism was the great. big, genllemRnls