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Show WHEN THE WRIGHTS WERE CRANKS Among thorse who witnessed the recent aviation meet at Belmont Park was a ruau who used to be one of the editors of an Ohio newspaper. According Ac-cording to bib own confession his conscience con-science has been giving him some painful twinges ever since h saw the first aeroplane go up tho other day. "When the Wright brothers were making their first experiments with flying out at Dayton everybody got the notion that thy were a couple of cranks." ho Bald. "Afier the lirnt story or two which described what they were dolns thl3 newspapers outside C)f Dayton declined to pay any attention to them. '"The Dayton correspondents used to bo very active In semllng out stuff, but our office, like many others, got tired of receiving it. It pot so that standing orders were issued in our office against printing anything about the Wrights. When a story came In about what they were, doing it went to the waste basket. "The city editor when he received a Wright story would shout. .'Another Wright yarn,' and then the office would give a whoop and crowd ubont as with an Impressive gesture the story was flung away. An. mind you this was not as much as ten years ago, either," New York Sun. |