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Show HELICOPTER, A NEW WAR WEAPON Constantly working on the appli ances of war, the mind of man continues con-tinues to devise new weapons for the destruction of human Life and, incl dentally, for the advancement of civilization. civili-zation. Not until the war did the airplane , serve any purpose other than as au exhibition of the possibility of flight. iBut. with the employing of the ma 'chine in the Zone of contllci rapid improvements were made so th:l at the close of the contest it was poaslbli for the postoftii :e department of the t nilfd States to put in service mail-carrying mail-carrying airplanes making trip? across the continent. Now a released convict, who way in prison In Paris during the war. is ! testing a weapon he invented durine ihifi incarceration whiob is known as a helicopter ami is expected to dis place the airplane. It is said Ihe new-machine new-machine rises or descends vertically, (can move up or down rapidly, is not j unbalanced by wind and Is capable o: ; remaining still in the air, and has great speed forward or backward. It j is described as the most formidable of all war weapons So once more we begin lo look ahead to another war and ask the question: Will the destructive forces employed be beyond the power of man to endure!" en-dure!" Any one who has read graphic accounts ac-counts of the conflicts fought in the front line trenches will marvel at the i fortitude of the soldiers who maintained main-tained their posts where poison gas, high explosive shells and flame throw ers were at work. Men went through (the inferno, and fought on and on. (holding up under a strain which now and then wrecked body and mind, and we presume thai, even after more terrible ter-rible agencies than have been eni ployed are invented, the soldier will find a way to resist aud refuse io yield. I |