Evening star., 1938-01-14
Priest Pilots Charity Plane
In Bleak Canadian Wilds
Flies Mails, Food and
Supplies to Many in
Isolated Places.
BY BLAIR BOLLES.

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Paul Schultz was studying for the
priesthood at the Oblate Fathers
Seminary 1T Huenfeld in Hessen-N
sau In 1914 when the German gov
ernment ordered him into uniform
and sent him to war for four years
in IN airplane.
Don't ask me about the war. I
have forgotten about It," Father Paul
Schultz, o. M. l., urged yesterday.
He was spending the day at the
Oblate Fathers House at 1891 Michi-
gan avenue NE.
THE machine guns are all in the
past. want to talk about what we
are doing in Canada. There we fly
airplanes for peace, and we save lives.
All Is for charity, and 1t is a wonder
ful thrill what we are doing"
Big, blond Father Schultz, $50
pounds. one OF the two priests in the
exclusive Explorers Club, commands
a squadron Of three planes, which
cover 100000 square miles from
James Bay in Northern Ontario to
Grinnell Land, is degrees south of the
North Pole.
70 Below Is Nothing.
The temperature on nice days in
winter may go as high as 30 below
zero, and 70 below is nothing unusual
When We warm up the plane In
the morning It takes two hours"
Father Schultz reports. "You stand
with blow torch in one hand and
fire extinguisher in the other and
work on the engine, and after a while
she turns over"
Over this bleak area the priests
planes fly the mail in and out for
nothing, carry food and supplies to
isolated peoples, bring doctors to the
sick or the sick to the doctors-act
generally as swift messengers of help
for the white and the Esquimaux, the
Catholics and the Catholics, the
priests and the missionaries.
Father Schultz, the flying priest, is
the president and founder Of the
Missionary International Vehicular
Association.
We are motorizing the ends of the
world" ne says-the Arctic Circle,
Africa. the South Sea Islands, New
Guinea, India, Madagascar, Australia
sending them motor cars, motor
boats and airplanes. of which he now
has IL in various parts Of the world,
each plane named after one of the
apostles.
1T is all charity. Make that plain.
Nothing commercial about it. We
just try to help.
Makes the World Smaller.
This sort Of thing makes the
world so much smaller for the people
who live in out-of-the-way places.
Now, in Africa there is a trip which
takes three months by OK cart, seven
days by automobile and seven hours
by plane.
I know a missionary who spent
whole year getting from one place
to another in Canada by dog sled,
and I took him over the route by
plane in two hours.
See what great things We do.
like last September, I found an
Eskimo woman up around the north
Of Hudson Bay had a baby four days
old that was sick. The year before
she lost a baby. I few 800 miles,
got the doctor at Chesterfield, was
back in q few hours. and the doctor
saved the baby It's the sweetest
experience to save a child.
The baby's a boy, too. Maybe he
will fly for me when he grows up."
Father Schultz, who has flown him.
self for 4 years, likes Iaymen for
pilots. Outside Chicago, at Lockport,
the field of the Catholic Youth Or
ganization, he is training as his pilots
100 poor, healthy boys of good char
acter.
Il like pilots to make a career out
OF the kind of work they can do for
me. The ought to get a great thrill
out Of it when they think what they
are doing for people. I had one
priest flying for me in the North
Solomon Islands, but you know how
It is-you can be a good priest without
being a good pilot"
In Europe the Missionary 1nterna-
tional Vehicular Association has
100000 members, each Of whom pays
at Least 81 a year In dues. With this
money and with the proceeds from
lectures Father Schultz supports his
work. More than anything now he
wants more planes and to complete
his work Of ringing Hudsons Bay