The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-25
Human Side of News
Bv EdUin c. Hill

VFHOSE Russian scientists who report from Moscow that
they have trained pigeons for night flight and that their
will have Importance in the next somewhat late
with their discovery.
The United Signal Corps for the past years.
breeding pigeons for night flying at Fort Monmouth
" j. and shipping them to tar-away posts such as Panama
and Honolulu where the experiments have been continued
successfully.
1t was at this New Jersey signal school that Mocke died the
day He the last survivor of the feahery tribe
served with the American forces in France Mocker
lived the good old of 20 years though young
fellow he shot through the He got that wound at St.
Mhie while he carrying the location of German bat
terry field headquarters That battery siIenced and
Mocker received the Distinguished Service Cross and the
Crox de Guere Mocker has been stuffed and will take his
place alongside of Spike another honor bird and Cher Ami
the fellow who brought the from the Lost Battalion
in the Argonne.
When George B. Mcclellan mayor of New York, he
gave the ctv shock one dav bv admitting that he was
devoted follower of Nick Carter. There general lifting
of the eyebrows in literary circles because Mcclellan we'll
as being mayor and the son of the Civil War general was
scholar of high standing later professor of history at Prince
ton. Nick Carter happened to be detective Of fiction whose
lurd exploits set forth of those scent boodand
thunder weeklies of thirty years ago.
At least 1000 boys in New York city alone were being
ished each week by their parents for reading Nick Carter be-
fore the time arrived that they able to cite the mayor as
the guide for their literary taste.
Soon after Woodrow Wilson entered the lover OF
detective STORIES and other great nteects prompted to
confess to their secret liking for them as atordng an all
absorbing relaxation from their work. Now have the
Archbishop of York the Most Rev. William Temple telling
the thousands of writers the Conan Doyle Edgar Wallace
school what their millions of readers expect of them.
the detective story" he himself the clues which
primary interest point to his guilt he is cheat
played between and spOs pleasure in
the author and the reader. defeat this game
When the author leaves us author plays
by keeping out of fair is the condition OF the
the story either the criminal highest pleasure"
We are passing through what is called sesquicntenna
the hundred and eth anniversary of the framing of
the Constitution of the United States Along about this time
in the year 1887 George Washington presiding
gathering in Philadelphia which he had called together to
the country from depression and disunion Madison
Hamilton Franklin Randolph and the best brains of the
thirteen colonies there Their task mighty
and was accomplished without angry debate and
promise But in the end they through with charter
which has perhaps been best described in the words Of Glad
stone who wrote:
COnStitu- panSOn unexamped in point
ton is so far as 1 rapdy range; its
the most wonderful work ptiOn from formal
off att by entire,
brain and purpose of has certainly proved the
1t century of sagacty of the constructors,
the of and the stubborn strength OF
the fabric"
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