Show I e By Morris DeHaven Tracy 7 f Ii 1927 7 X y by y the United Tress CHAPTER ONE Char Charles es A. A Lindbergh Lindbergh's s greatest avers is s his lis own curly blond hair He likes French pastry wel enough to tb ask ask askari an ambassador for a second helping helpin but he likes pie better i 1 As Asa a boy he played with with theother theother the other other- kids and nd in n college lle he be liked liked I to make experiments in the laboratories laboratories labora labora- tories put but ut disliked to write up his notes so he Je didn't write them Which are arc just j some of the things that Charles CharlesA which 1 go to o o show A A. A Lindbergh is no superman dif dif different ferent from other people but is just justa I Ia a normal Am American rIcan yoh who had 1 three outstanding characteristics namely complete mastery of hIms himself him hIm- s self lt dire direction h In great life and great courage cour cour- age Before going going- goinga going doing goinga a bit bIt behind the scenes sCene he he- may seem only an amazing amazing ing adventurer You believe he heI must b be a 3 genius and that Charlie Lindbergh just happened t to b be born I blessed with luck and is is' is i a a darling of cf circumstance But Jf f when one Is amazed athis at athis athis his splendid tact shown in a speech of r 00 words which sends a gathering gathering gathering gath gath- ering of statesmen and nd citizens citizens citi citi- z zens ns into wild enthusiasm it It is re recalled recalled recalled re- re called that his father was vas a power poter to be met in politics for twe twenty ty years vears and arid his grandfather sat in th the parliament of ot Sweden It is realIzed realized real real- that his heredity Is one which p points ints to such skill When Wuen one reads of his exquisite courage it can can be recalled that his graI grandfather r lost his right light arm rm hewing hewing hew hew- ing log at t the trees to 10 o Clear his clear his homestead homestead homestead home home- stead In in lile h he Minnesota forests and anda a few months later later- was was wad back wielding wielding wielding wield wield- ing his iri-his in h his s left hand hi his his' great ax once more mor 7 F FATHERS FATHER'S TH Ris RisON NERVE NERVE O-N O V Fi And And nd I vas hl his his own father father- who he busy sy summoned a be aus was friend to an operating apera r room icom where surgeons were were- operating upon hh him and for an hour horn while t tie the e surgeons wo worked led without an an ana anaesthetic he talked politics and and- then feared fear d his friend not himself had suffered When one reads of ot his liking for mechanics and and desire for tor attempting attempt attempt- ing that which i ig ij new it Is recalled recall d that hrs his maternal grandfather Dr Di C. C H H. Lard was wa's was an an Inventor and was a pioneer pi neer of modern dentistry Thus courage the steadfast st pur pur- rose pose ose and the Simplicity of Charles Lindbergh's great feat of flying fIrIng ing the Atlantic can bo ho traced back through YEars years and years s One finds that the blood of the Norsemen in him is mixed with the blood of the crusaders crusaders crusaders cru cru- of England In the days of Richard the Lion Hearted And thos those are the bloods of ot courage of simple thought and living and of or high adventure It was February 4 1902 that this lad was w as Jorn born In ina a comfortable home in Detroit Mich His mother was Lodge Lindbergh and andIns his Ins father Charles A A. Lindbergh lawyer awyer and later a member of congress con con- I gress gres I His father w was s born in Sweden But flut in 1860 he had come with his own father to Sauk Center Minn There Ther the elder Lindbergh had set himself to the task of of building a i pioneer home He had felled the I trees and built a log cabin 12 feet teet b by 16 feet and In ft it the father o of Charlie Lindbergh played th through ough his early childhood I There There came an incident t typical of the history of ot this family One day the elder Lindbergh fell across a s saw saw w. w His us right arm w was s all ll but severed It It was sixty miles to the 11 home me of the nearest doctor Neigh Neigh- bois notably the Rev C C. C S S. Harrison Harri Harrl son of York Neb who told tom of the of-the the incident gave gaYe him what ca car 1 they could It was three days before the thed d doctor ai arrived rived The arm Was Was amp ampUtated ampUtated am- am p and a a. few months l later ter the Rev v Mr ison f records cords that the theelder elder Jd dei t Lindbergh vas was back hewing away at af f forests rests swinging anax an anax ax with his left not arm to be de defeat defeated defeated de- de feat d in his purpose FATHER INSURGENT As to Lindbergh's father much h Is Continuo Continued on page 8 8 r 1 i f A Lindbergh's Life Story V t Continued from paSo page 1 written in contemporary history He spent his boyhood attending the common and gave much time to hunting fishing and life In the open v I In In 1881 he entered Grove academy I Minn and In 1887 he was graduated j from from the University of Michigan and began begau the practice o of law He rode into congress in 1906 on the the crest of the wave of trust bustI bust- bust I Ing He threw threw himself into the fight to unseat Undo Uncle Joe Cannon from the and for the I next ten years ears was known as an and a progressive in con con- gress y yI I In 1916 he was defeated for re reelection reelection reelection re- re election and two years later he joined the Nonpartisan lt league ague movement in Minnesota becoming its It's candidate for governor lie He lost by a narrow margin In 19 1923 3 he sought the governorship governorship governor governor- ship again This time Charles had hadle le learned to to fly and he carried his father from town to town by airplane airplane airplane air air- plane as the campaign j became spirited Again aln Lindbergh was defeated In 1924 Congressman Lindbergh died from a long standing m malady lady and Charlie scattered his fathers father's ashes I from an an airplane over the farm I where his boyhood had been spent |