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Show AEROPLANE IN BATTLE SOME DIFFICULTIES APPARENTLY IMPOSSIBLE TO OVERCOME. Enthusiasts Do Not Differentiate Between Be-tween the Wonder of the Invention Inven-tion and the Limitations of Its Applications. Those who regard tho aeroplanes as Invaluablo in warfare, far beyond Its possibilities aro led to their conclusions conclu-sions by two errors: first, they do not differentiate between tho wonder ol the Invention, per soK and the limitation limita-tion of Its application. Second, that this conquest of the heavens has nothing noth-ing to do wL j the subjugation of man. It has not Inventod Into him now faculties; fac-ulties; and yet It Is man nnd not mnchlnes wo have to deal with. While It has given now means of military observation. ob-servation. It docs not follow that these observations will bo moro Intelligible nor his deductions moro rtllablo nor his judgment and genius, his valor and endurance, superior to what It had bcon before. Tho unrellablo and diverse opinions of scouts on things that they bare been In actual contact with Is a well-known well-known military phenomenon, and ono that Is perfectly natural, since there aro no two men whoso por-cepttvo por-cepttvo faculties aro Identical. A good scout Is ono of the rarest elements In an army, for ho Is good only bo-cause bo-cause he has lived In an environment and followed a vocation that develops tho faculties of observation and renders ren-ders them accurate. An rorlal scout, on tho other hand, rarely shoots forward for-ward out of n vocation thai has nothing noth-ing to do with those elements that would give reliability to his reports even though ho were Inspecting, on the ground Itself, all things from an onttrely different point of vlow, and there Is but one single thing that ho could make a report on that would be worthy of consideration, and that Ib the actual movement of a body of troops on an open terrene, nut his report as to the strength. Its destination destina-tion or rate of movement, could be accepted ac-cepted by no commander, and practically practic-ally all tho rest of his Information would be erroneous. Peering down from a groat height It would bo Impossible for him to determine de-termine the dopih of ttream, tholr bottom bot-tom or their cirrenU or the thickness of Ice. Ho could not csoertaln the angle or height of deollvltUs. Looking down from the prpondlmlnr upon these he could have no moans of determining whether or not they belonged be-longed to a deep gorge or n shallow ravine. Ho could not ascertain tho location of fords and whether In nd-Joining nd-Joining thickets they were defended by bodlos of troops or by wired entanglements en-tanglements In the ford Itself. It would bo Impossible for him. looking down upon woods, villages and forestB to ascertain whether or not they contained con-tained troops, and" If troops what l.lnd of troops or the number. What would appear to him to bo a gap In the enemy's lines might In all probability bo their strongest position. Ocn. Homer Lea. In Harper's Weekly |