| Show National National Men and Affairs What an Aviator Avator Thinks Ab About Abut ut When His Plane Goes to Pieces On Flight Churchill Says He Has Right to Criticize Women Smoke More Than Men D ny fly T SL LL s Spot Special Correspondent of or Dio 1110 I Iner Copyright 1926 19 Consolidated Press Association tm HAD faced death so BO often HE H and cheated It It teems seems alt dit to believe that at last the decision has hoe gone against him It I seems only yesterday he was ser seriously explaining to the tho write how a 1 recent fall all from Crom an nn airplane I had taken at least ten stroke oU his golf golt game mite HII HI ankle had been buste busted busted t as he lie a II gentleman from expressed It It and In ir favoring this thle ankle he was swing swinging ing easier caster at the tho ball end and as lon long and a as straight ad a ana II a professional And he had made mado so to lI light ht oC ol the tho dangers ot of of flying Ho lie had been compelled to leap half halt a a dozen times from failing falling and tall fail failing ing machines but always had managed to get ret tho the old parachute to work In time On last at Dayton however his mo- mo motor mo motor tor br failed tailed there thero was a n tailspin a 0 jump n a n tangle and Lieutenant Eugene H II Barksdale war ace aCOl and chief test pilot at McCook field plunged to his death before the eyes of ot F I p Trubee Davison a secretary ot of war and himself an nn aviator Lieutenant last Jut crash prior to the ho fatal one came when tho the wings were lost from a machine ho was testing It Is In- In In Interesting to recall what he said salol as we wo trudged across the link links of oC the Dayton Country club how he laughed when he ho was asked about the last thoughts of or a man tac- tac fac facing ing lug actual death and escaping by byan byan byan an eyelash Ho grinned like a II boy when It was suggested that his whole life mut have passed before his eyes ees as It always alwa's does In a n story book and that tor for seeming ages he ho must have o dwelt upon the tho things lIe ought to have done and tho the things which should have been left leCt un- un undone undone un undone done My thoughts thought were purely me- me me mechanical chanted most moot of ot the time said ald the lieutenant I I wondered It I Iwas Iwas Iwas was high enough for tho the parachute to o work woric proper properly Perhaps I gave a a moments moment's reflection to tho the tact that the last mast time I went down my companion In the ship was kIlled I I dont don't think that I actually did didIn In En any event I had had ample amplo time timeto to Lo know the old ship chip I 1 was test test- testIng testing ing lug was going to pieces The wings began to wobble I shut oU oft the throttle and then It seemed as asIt Ir Lf some fome giant dog had caught the plane In his teeth and was shak h shaking ing It like a terrier would a rat Then the wing wings flew ore oft and I started to plunge downward I got ot a bit tangled with one of ot the wing gings but In a moment or two VO was tree free Then I began reaching for the tha ring to release the old chute I couldn't find it I reached twice Then I got mild mad madat ot tt myself tor for forgetting one ona 01 o the bc first lessons lesson In the flyIng right way to reach for lor and pull tho ho parachute ring I got It irs In lime ime however and hero here I am with witha 0 t busted ankle ankie but a II vastly Im- Im Im Improved proved pro roved golf golt game I You j think of ot flying liS as liSso asso so 0 dangerous he ht explained and you Pu think all airplanes lose their wings a thousand foot teet up 10 I just happened to get this old hI C fellow he lie decided to give up ip the ghost It should be comforting to those hose who knew him best bost to real real- realIze rea-lz rea Ize ze that this must nave have been the pInt which met Isle lIs and death at last Once more fore he Iwas was a thousand feet teet up once one flee more mora ho was testing ono one of oC the he many machines machine and devices go to make maka up the tho army equipment once more there thero came he failure once more he lie ret got tangled angled with the ha old chip but buthis lt tills his time It would not let him go goHo 10 to crashed to Instant deaths death lie probablY wae wa fighting to tho the last lut foot oot and had hl no iso lime tinia to thet than of the ho job before him In commenting upon the tho parks sl dale dalo philosophy ophY of ot flying this I Idale writer said I When the old parachute works the falls dont don't amount to much much When It the fails falls the work worl of test teat testIng testing ing and flying goes on thc the Ilia next neat nc da day just lust the same The conquest of the air all must never lag And Ant so BO at Daton tomorrow antI and at many other field fields they will be flying by day clay and by night flight and more oung Dung Vikings of ot the air wll wil 1 go 0 to their death that a nce may become secure Winston Winslon Churchill British chancellor of or the tho exchequer has found It necessary once more to explain to his Isis friends friend and enemies alike that he feels ha ho has a II per per- perI perfect I focI feet right to criticise the this Yan Yari kees being one half Yankee him him- himself himself self In spite of or all ho says saya about I America and Americans American and the tho O of the war debt lerms i Imposed by Uncle Sam Chancel Chancel- Chancellor Chancellor lor br Churchill is mighty proud or of his American blood I And during the world war when things were ere at their darkest for tor England and the Allies ho never d to tell his hia own people as aswell aswell aswell well as the French and the Del Del- Del glana glan glans that they could never ex- ex expect ex expect to win the war unless Am Am- America erica erka came In That was how lie he felt about America In those days and he probably thinks the same way today But Dut a as one brother always feels the tho right to speak more freely treely about another broth broth- brother brother brother er than ho would permit anyone anyon to do Churchill feels he can say pretty much what he darn pleases about the United States and g go away with it It He lie can always claim that blood relationship on his mothers mother's side even It he doc does remain an Englishman for or political cal and other purposes Americans who know Churchill will find It difficult to get angry at his hili criticisms The wag who remarked some sometime sometime sometime time ago that men were giving someI up I smoking because It was becoming too effeminate said more than ho he lied hOod any Idea Ideo of ot The Tho modern city restaurant comes very near provIng provins proving ing ins the contention At the tl smart hotels and at the tho more exclusive restaurants scarcely a 0 woman en- en enters enters en enters without smoking And she begins begin to smoke the moment she sits down Men generally walt wall until the meal has been served Furthermore an observer has noticed scores cores of or women at tables table where the man Is la ab- ab abstaining abstaining ab abstaining staining from rom the wicked weed It ItIs Itis Itis Is easy ealY for tor or any person to check these statements statements- They are un- un undeniably un undeniably deniably true I |
