Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-03

CEVENTEEN-YEAR- OLD Robert Buck
has $4,000 miles of flying and eight
Junior records to his credit. This Hill
side, N. J., boy began flying little over
a year ago and he has been making his
tory ever since. He has made record
fight to California and return and SINH
lar fight to Cuba. He has addressed the
New Jersey State Legislature on flying
laws and he is the president of the newly
organized Air Scouts of America, an as
ISOLATION designed to foster aeronautics
for young people. He has mastered the
difficult art of flying blind" and he has
won a name for himself as very daring
and skillful aviator He is the author Of
a book, Burning Up the Skies which
is to appear soon.
Bob is a good horseman and likes polo.
Polo is his avocation and may be taken
lightly. But aviation is a very serious
matter. His flying career has been char
acterized by his excellent understand
ing of the finer points of aeronautical
science. His work during the past year
leads one to believe that this modern boy
isn't dead from the shoulders up.
Jackie Coogin has been more or less in
the public eye since his birth, which oc-
Cured in 1914. His career in motion
pictures actually began in earnest when
he was only years old and Charlie
Chaplin discovered him and starred him
in "The Kid" 1.-The Kid" was followed
by a series of pictures which won him
ever increasing popularity. When he had
reached the age of 10, he retired from
the screen to enter military academy.
His retirement was broken by brief re-
turn a few years later, but he soon left
it again in the further pursuit of knowlJ
edge.
Tom Sawyer" Mark Twan's inimitable
story of the life of an adventurous boy
hicle for Jackie Coogan's final return to
the movies.
With all his success, he has yet man
aged to retain a quaint, boyiSh charm
and considerable natural intelligence.
Some time ago, during an educational
broadcast from large MidweStern sta
ton, he was asked to give an account OF
trip to Europe which he had recently
taken. His talk was so interesting that
the supposedly imperturable station OPP
eratives, all unwittingly, allowed him to
run eight minutes over time.
One of the most outstanding boys in
the field of radio is Bert l. Capstaff Of
Ho-ho-kus, NJ j. Although he is only 18
years old, he has organized numerous
radio clubs, operated his own radio sta
tion with which he has accomplished
two-Way communication with all the
major countries of the world as well as
the Bryd expedition, and become one Of
the best known amateurs in radio.
Capstaff began when, at s years Of
age radio became my hobby" He or
ganized his first radio club when he was
II. 1t was called the Boys Radio Club"
and had a membership of 10, meetings
being held in the Capstaff cellar. He
received his first license to transmit
three years later. His family moved
from Grantwood to Ho-ho-kus two years
afterward and it is with his station at
the latter place that he has established
his remarkable record. Just how unusual
the record is may be judged from the
fact that only about per cent of all
those actively participating in amateur
radio can equal it.
He graduated from high school last
June and is now in Union College. He
inherited his engineering bent from his
father, James A. Capstaff, who is one of
the best known marine engineers in the
country.
Now, in this age, it is surprising to find
that there are actually some members of
that over publicized social class, "Flam-
ing Youth" who have amounted to some
thing. These five modern boys, more
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