Temple Daily Telegram (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 305, Ed. 1 Friday, September 20, 1918 Page: 5 of 8
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Life Saver of World War
Air Men Do.
May I five you an example of throe
(hoot* undertaken by pilot* and ob-
London, Sept. II. — Brig. Gen.
Charles Frederick Lee, chief of the
British aviation mission now in th*
Vnlted States, has written the follow-
ing article. True to the tenets of the
Royal air force, he says everything
about the service but not one word
about himself. He Is already a fa-
miliar flguro to many American aud-
iences. He and his staff form part
of the so-called "flying circus," which
journeys through the air from city to
city in America, and not only enthrall*
hundred* of thousands of spectators
with its feats but makes an equally
strong appeal to the publio intelli-
gence when the British general him-
self ascends the platform and tells
his hearers in simple, soldierly speech,
the secrets and achievements of the
flying men. General Lee says that he
likes flying better than writing or
speech making, but that he is an adept
in all three can be testified to by a
great many people In all parts of
America. He is a young man to have
attained such eminence in his profes-
sion, for he wss born in Yorkshire on
July 2, 1887. His career la exclusively
that of the army. He was edncated
at Eton and the Royal military col-
lege at Sandhurst, served In a famous
old regiment, the 10th Rifles, passed
the inevitable four years In India, and
helped to strafe the boche in France
in 1914 and 1915. He earned his
army soubriquet, "Falling Leaf" Leo,
by reason of an extraordinary man-
oeuvre he evolved In air fighting. Be
it remembered that he has twenty-
nine German airplanes and the occu-
pants to his credit, and many of the
men he has sent crashing to earth
must have been experienced pilot1*, so,
in order to come unscathed through
so many combats, he 1s evidently an
a.rman of great daring and inexhaus-
tible resource. One of his tricks was
to fall like a fluttering leaf, in a
machine apparently out of control,
but really tempting an opponent to
close quarter* and consequent undo-
ing. Ha Is Immensely popular, aot
only w>th the general public, but with
his brother officers In both the Brit-
ish and American armies, and every
word he has to say may be regarded as j Three explosions in the target position
the outcome of a wide experience and a fire and explosion in a neig:i-
A. "4 O. -JC.'r, two gun pits de-
stroyed, la *ae of which a large ex-
plosion was earned." (No. I squad-
ron).
B. "Fight lasting 4 1-4 hours, }81
Howitzer rounds fired In a shoot on
wire, which was completely de-
stroyed." (No. t squadron).
C. "50 ( Inch Howitser rounds ob-
served in 40 minutes and 31 others in
11 minutes. Fire for effect good.
guided by proved theories.
The allies have been fighting the
hun for over four years, and the Br.t-
ish empire has sustained 1,500.000
boring position.'* »
These records, in a cold and unvar-
nished way, give the results of work
with artillery. It does not. howevw,
tell the vast amount of training which
7
tove Your Hair! Make It Thick,
Wavy, Glossy anil Beautiful
At Oncc.
Try as you will, after an application
of ltanderine, you can not find a single
trace of dandruff or falling hair and
your scalp will not itch, but what will
please you most will be after a few
weeks' use, when you see w hair, fine
and downy at first—yes—but really
r.ew hair—growing all over the scalp.
A little Danderine immediately
doubles the beauty of your hair. No
difference how dull, faded, brittle and
scraggy. Just moisten a cloth with
Panderine and carefully draw it
through your hair, taking one small
strand at a time. The effect Is Imme-
diate and amazing—your hair will be
light, fluffy and wavy, and have an
appearance of abundance; an Incom-
parable lustre, softness and luxuri-
ance, the beauty and shimmer of true
hair health.
Get a small bottle of Knowlton's
Danderine from any drug store or toi-
let counter, and prove that your hair
is as pretty and soft as any—that It
has been neglected or Injured by care-
less Veatment. A small trial bottle
will double the beauty of your hair.
casualties, yet, contrary to general has taken place before the pilot and
mime inn
la QaldniNcr and Acta Like
Dynamite on Yoar
Liver.
Calomel loaea you a day) You know
what calomel la It'a mercury; quick-
silver. Calomel Is dangerous . It
crashes Into aour bile Ilka dynamite,
cramping and sickening you. Calomel
attack* the bones and should never b«
put Into your system.
When you feel bilious, sluggish, con-
vm
the blade* of the propeller
without hitting the blades and with-
out any Im of efficiency. It had
qotte a nececs fci a time until th*
French girt out the 9pad gear and the
British the Viok*i* gear. The latter
was ased by us quits extensively over
th* linea, but owlrg to the difficulty
of training mechanics in its use, and
the small amount that was known of
it in those day*. It left quite a lot to
be desired. This was followed by the
Constantinesco gear, which proved
very satisfactory. Here, then, was a
definite progress In aerial gunnery,
and today we have on every machine
stipated and all knocked out and be
llev* you need a dose of dangerous tw0 or three or four machine guns,
calomel just remember that your drug- J two firing through the propeller, and
gist sells for a few cents a large bottle two being nsed by the observer be-
oplnlon, the greatest life-saver In the (observer are efficient, nor the evjlu*
present war is the airplane. Without [ tion of wireless as used in an
the airplane casualties increase by ' plane.
leaps and bounds. With the airplane ! Co-operation by the artillery and
and with supremacy in the air the | the airplane in 1914 was not efflccnt.
casualties on our side of the line de-j Wireless was considered a sort of
crease and the morale Increases, j blach art In those da>s. It was not
whereas the casualties of the hun side I until 1915 that the matter was really
of the line Increase and the morale I devolved and evolved. Its strld •* t«-
decreaies with marked rapidity. !
There Is no doubt whatever that on
th* western front w* have a definite,
of Dodson'a Liver Tone, which is en-
tirely vegetable and pleasant to take
and Is a perfect substitute for calomel.
It is guaranteed to start your liver
without stirring you up Inside, and
air- loan not salivate.
] Don't take calomel! It
sick the nest day; It loses you a day's
work. Dodson'a Liver Ton* straight-
ens you right up and you feel great.
Glva It to th* children because it la
perfectly harmless snd doesn't gripe.
—Adv.
almost overwhelming, superiority in
the air. It Is this superiority in the
air which enables us to bomb Ger-
many and bring the war home to her,
and makes it possible for an offensive
to succeed. No offensive can hope
for success without co-operation be-
tween all arms and the most implicit
trust in the aviation service by lead-
ers and men alike.
Air Service Is Specialised.
Machines have developed along def- ;
Inlte lines for definite purposes. In ;
the olden days any machine was used |
for any duty. In those days it was j
came rapid. Machines and instruments
were improved, and wireless co-opera-
tion was thoroughly organized. Wire-
less Is such a science in Itself that
it is useless to go into its technical de-
tails. But today ther* are hundreds
chine may b*. unless be can kill hla
opponent In the air h* is, to all In-
tents and purposes useless. To do
that h* must hav* a gun, use a pre-
ponderance of flro out-manoeuvr*
of machines equipped with wireless !hi, enemy, and lring him down,
and co-operating daily with the artll- 1 There are severai -aeana and ways of
ler,^ infantry, and cavalry. Our work !>chlevImg lhto «c*llent result. Some
with infantry, ravalrv, and tanks isi^. « . » » * i a
, . . ' \ ; Germans have beer forced to land
also of the grcatept importance. A ... . . . . „ .
system of signals is devised as be- ha^« ^ ° m
tween the infantry and the airplane, !hRve heen br0UBhf <,0Wn by machln,e
and the airplane flies extremely low i«un firc ,n the alr' ftnd a few b> antl"
'alrcraft fire from the ground. Again,
a very small number has been shot
down by infantry gunfire from the
tienches. .The more Germans brought
hind. In the caae of a two-senter, if
you consider the amount of rounds
nhlch can be find on the enemy
from a machine, y..u will understand
|what a menace It Is. You can fire
makes you.^gg rounds per minute from each
gun, henc* the pi'ot can fir* l.?00
rtunds per minute and the observer
can reach the sane figure with his
tv.o gun*.
Many Different Machine*.
Machines, of e urse, are special-
ised. Ther* are single seater ma-
chines, which depend entirely on their
power of manoeuvre and gunfire.
There aro two sister fighters where
th* pilot and observer have to work
together th* whol* time. There are
machines designed for co-operation
with artillery which terry an observ-
er and wireless. There are large ma-
chines for day bombing and still
larger machine* dtsigned for night
bombing. Owing to the pace at which
machines manoeuvre the sighting of
machin* guns beco nts a very Import-
ant factor. To hit nn.object in a vi-
tal spot, goinrf 110 miles an hour,
when your own machine is traveling
at the same pace, requires a vast
amount of training" lor pilots and ob-
servers, who praitlee gunnery con-
i, . ... _ ,i jttnually from the time they go on tha
easiest part of the training. The dlf- fo™rd in good time. For cavalry photographs of our artillery position; ( ound ,rhool unti, they K0 overseas,
ficult part comes with specialization, ;a™ ,anhs ,he airplane is both an eye ,say he has photog^phed trenches ■ matter of sights perhaps the
most noteworthy development was a
as the Tracer
a bullet neitner explosive nor
filming, bat which leaves a phosphor-
•scent trail. You can thus *ee If your
bcll*ta are going th* way you want
and are entering the mac hint aimed
at.
(load Formation Flying.
An extremely Interesting form of
flying has been perfected recently—
cloud formation flying.
In the olden day;, and until moat
recently, pilots have been chary about
going Into clouds except a* a means
of defense. Actus I cloud flying has
been regarded wit*, a certain amount
of skepticism. But cloud flying today
Is a necessity. With the fighting still
In progress over French and Belgian
lt.nd it is obvious that we must make
the Boche realise what it will mean
when we get on HIS land.
Ths old maxim of cutting the en-
emy's communications is only pos-slble
at the present moment by the air.
and we can reach l.im In the air now
with our large n schinea We can
give him a foretaste of what war will
he when we are in Germ a
W* can mate It exceedingly
him to feed hi* troops In the !
the best method In the world w
make It still harder for him to
tain th* output of his factories—by
destroying them.
Every day Is nut a fin* day, and
cloud flying has become the fashion.
I: la now possible f..r machine* to go
In formation through the clouds and
meet above them and continue that
formation on a course, bearing to
their objective, cere down through
the clouds, bomb their objective, go
up again and come home. That
sounds simple, but It is simple only
it pilots are properly trained for it,
and have the -igl t Instruments.
Raiding Germany Now.
Long distance air raids Into Ger-
many are now quite common. An In-
dependent force of the H. A. F. has
been formed for this purpose alone.
It Is Independent < t the army, snd
carries out bomb i.iids only from Its
headquarters in France. Th» follow-
ing figures may be of interest:
to get these messages, fly back, and
give the commander accurate infor-
mation not only as to where the in-
fantry is, but also as to what thoy
only necessary for a pilot to fly a ma- !nin>' be in nped «'■ I'erhaps they may idown. the less sacrifice of life we
chine and have an elementary knowl-jbe phprt of ammunition or grenades, have on our side of the lines. Say a
edge of other matters. Nowadays any-'A" ttl!s has t0 **e communicated {German airplane has come over our
one can be taught to fly—that is the | quickly'If the materia! is to be brought j side of the lines; ray he has taken
A pilot has to be taught to fly and
fight in small slnglescater scouts. He
has to be taught, on highly specialized
lines, the art of bombing, and last,
he has to be taught co-operation with
other arms. This last duty is one of i
the most difficult to teach and per-
haps the most important of all.
The commanders of tha Infantry
and artillery, either in an attack or a
retreat, are often unaware of the
movements In their own command,
owing to the cutting of the telephone
wires and the ever-changing situation.
Runners may be killed, telephones
may be pvt out of action, and the
much needed ne»\s does not get back
Infantry commanders may not kn>w
i.-xact'y where the men are, and ar'.;'-
lery commanders may not know . x-
actly where to pif.ee the shells, '.n h
word the true position can be told
only from the air.
Let us take co-operation with ar-
tillery.- A machine equipped with
wireless goes out with a pilot and ob-
server. Before going up, these offi-
cers are aware of all known hostile
batteries. They have a definite pro-
gramme to carry out. They have
shoots on definite targets to under-
take. The results of the shooting by
'where we are assembling to attack-
automatically for the speed of your
own machine, but, the most valuable
and an ear.
Airplanes Save Life. j,t lg perfectly easv tor him if not in- eompeasated ^esight which allowed
As I began by scying, Flying is de- terfered with, t;> take these back,
Signed to save life. Take, for instance,'have them developed, and issued to
a machine which flies at a height'the artillery. He can also call up bat-
langing between 5C feet and 400 feet, tcries by wireless and have them train
and searches for irlormation which is [their guns on the infantry so asseni-
lkValuabl* to th£ commander of the (bled. Hence, it Is clmolutely neces-
sector in which an attack Is going to;sary that every hostile machine on
take place. It is up to the pilot of jour side of the ilres, every enemy j
an airplane to dteover if the bat- machine In Ihe a'r at all, shall be
terles are active or if they are only i brought down whenever and wherever!
camouflaged make-believe. If he can j possible. Only by this means can we |
transmit the facts to the artillery' cave our own men on the ground,!
commander, in the one case he can and eventually make the German gov-
have the battery destroyed and pre- ;frnment realize that they cannot ride
tented from shell'np our troops, and j rough shod over every nation in the
In the case of a camouflaged log he' World.
Max. miles behind Hi. " Load lbs.,
which could be reached (bombs)
About It) About 50
About 70 About 100
night only) 200 About 1,««0
1911... (Day, De llavlHnd, 9.)
In the autumn of this year we shall
cairy roughly 100 pounds 100 miles
Date.
1914
1911
1917... (Handley-Tage,
200
farther, and next jear eight times
that amount twkv as far.
I would like to writ* something
about aerial phot igraphy, that most
useful adjunct of the work of the
general staff, but considerations of
space forbid. 1 have endeavored to
About 400
show to the people of America the
vital importance of the air force, both
offensive and defensive. My message
can be summarized in very few words.
Send over your Liberty engines In
thousands. Send over your bright
young American fliers in tens of
thousands, snd the end of both th*
war and the hun will be In sight.
USED FIFTY YEARS
CLEARS SKIN
AT ALL DRUGGISTS
Have flsli and oysters for dinner to-
day. Call 1537, the ALAMO MAIl-
KKT HOI KE. Prompt delivery.
Buy now nt the surplus stock Kilo
and save money.
JARHKLL'R.
Use Cuticura Soap
ToCIearYourSkin
Alt drnggliit*'. BoapIS, Omtmrav a*50.'Tuinra
cwk frM ot "Oabrara, Da»i 1,1
Is Germany "Efficient?"
People have talked a lot of German
efficiency and intelligence Tet what
can save the battely commander the
trouble of firing at it. On the same
lines it is the duty of the pilot to see
where the trench mortars are, in or-ir:tn we think of «.n efficiency which i
der that they may be knocked out p,as been training for thirty years to j
before an attack begins, as well as j destroy two nations when least pre- j
the machine gun emplacements which (pared? And Germany could not even j
cpuso such havoc to an attack if they j j0 that! The huiis chose a time when
have not been previously dealt with, j they were ready nnd Belgium and)
Last, but not 'east, it is essential to | Fiance unready. They chose a time j
l.now if the w ire in front of the Ger-1 when, as they thought, Great Britain |
man trenches has been cut efficently. would be too much occupied With her j
If it has been, all is well. If It hssjown affairs to bother about the sf- \
the battery are communicated to the jnot |t js pppessary for the artillery j fairs of other peopic. They thought j
battery commander by wireless, [to again strafe it, In order that an in-'their system of systematic terrorism
the battery commander makes the
necessary corrections ,to the laying of
his guns until they are ranged on the
target. Those duties are performed
at any height from 3,000 to #,000 feet.
Needless to say, the machine is of
quite a different type from machines
for other duties. It la neither so fast
nor so handy as a fighter or a scout.
Farmers'
Grocery
Bills
We make special bid for furnishing
to Farmers.
ps
Closest possible figures and standard merit of
goods.
We want CHICKENS, EGGS, BUTTER and
anything else from the farm that is good to eat.
Bring us what you have and get CASH for it or
let It go in on the grocery bill.
Our store is easy to find—opposite the wagon
yard, on Central Avenue.
Grubbs & Spencer
Farmers' Grocers.
their system of systematic
fantry regiment may not start an at-'would frighten peepie out of the war. (
tack only to find itself held up on;They thought their atrocities in Bel- i
German barbed wire The saving oflg.um, now proven to be systematic,
life by an efficient air force is ab-j would so frighten ether nations that j
solutely colossal. jthey would ke-^p out of the war and j
The airplane must descend from let the "German bull; in the shape of ,
the realm of mystoiy it has occupied Autocracy go where he wanted to. |
in the public mind, and assume its j They have had one to two rude (
practical form. It. should be looked {shocks since 'hen. The latest and ,
(•n as a machine designed to carry a^greatest was wben America came into j
nan through the a'r for a definite j this war. (I would like to harp on :
purpose, and that purpose is to help | this theme, but riust keep to my j
those on the ground to go forward, j story).
The Life of a Flyer. i Aerial Gunnery the Key.
We have to rid ourselves of mis- ] With the airmen came the air gun- [
taken notions. Tie life of a pilot is
f;;r more comfortable than is possible
for his comrades in the infantry, cav-
alry, or artillery. The Infantry when
in the trenches are shelled continu-
ally and often hea\!<y. They have to
sieep in dugouts, some wet, and some
dry. They are at war the whole time,
except, of course, when they are back
et rest. But the pilot, though his
period of fighting may continue for
weeks and months at a time, has a
definite job to do each day. He
knows, when that Jcb is over, he will
leturn to a clean house, a clean meal,
and a clean bed. Ills morale is ex-
cellent. He is flying the best machine
the government can supply. lie does
ner. In 1914 and the early part of
1915 pilots and observers carried rl-1
lies, and the pilot? at that time, sat j
behind. There we*t no machine guns |
on airplanes. Men undoubtedly fought |
in the air, but ther,e scraps generally j
resulted in two machines manoeuver-
ing around each atuer and occasion-
ally getting in a shct. Sometimes one
machine or the other was forced to
land for lack of gasoline. It was ex-
tremely lucky if you could put in a
shot that would el her disable the pi-
lot or knock oui the machine. Not
until the advent o! the Lewis gun did
aerial gunnery rejl!> begin to make
itself felt. These huuly little weap-
ons were mounted on swivel-pins on
not see the dirty sble of the war. He j each side of the machine, and cut
dees not find n the air the gas and (down to decrease weight. This, how-
the filth of th« grjund. It is not to
be wondered at thr.l he is proud to be
in the air division A certain type of
person writes on the dangers of fly-
ing and the way he prevented him-
self from being killed, yet one-tenth
of the untold stories in the trenches j trouble to the al.'ts.
would make the air pilot's story sound | lowed by the French
ever, though the beginning, was never
satisfactory, and the stoppages in the
machine gun were frequent. In the
middle of 191 .>, tl.e German Aviatik
had a single movable gun in the rear
cockpit which caused quite a lot of
This was fol-
Nieuport ma-
very small. Yet the airman Is all - lm •! chine, which had a Lewis gun mount- j
portant. It would not matter if Amer-jcl over the top plane and at the same ^
lea sent ten miillo*. men to France if | time we developed a ring mounting |
there was not an efficient air service j In the observer's cockpit. It thus be- j
back of them. jome a race rt»t on'y in machines, but j
Fortunately, things are going well, jalso in gunnery as 'o who could bring i
The l'nit»d States hns pilots of the the most effective fire to bear on the ;
right kind, and the. material is now adversary. In the autumn of 1916, (
going overseas in the right way. I have experiments were made with the
been fortunate enough to see a good j Vickers gun firing through the pro- ]
deal of the American flying man, ofipeller. The blads were protectd by!
the training which Is going on In thisjsteel plates cal:ed deflectors, which
country, and of a certain number of]Were so placed that when a bullet
American cadets in Kngland. Person-
ally, I have nothing but praise for
American fliers, and those at home
have nothing but praise for the cadets
there. And how Important a thor-
ough training I*1 However well a
struck the blade It glanced off. No
form of synchronizer gear had then
been evolved, but it was the beginning
of a system which is now universal.
Late in 1915, the Fokker mad* Its
appearance. Tnit machine had not a
pilot may fly, how over good hla ma- great speed, but It did have a ayn-
COTTON
CLASSING
SCHOOL
A Man Who Has Dealt With Cotton Problems ior
Thirty-Eight Years Will Conduct School at the
Bell
County Fair
October 3, 4 and 5
Farmers of this section of Central Texas inter-
ested in the production of more and better cot-
ton will be interested in the Cotton Classing
School to be conducted the last three days of the
Bell County Fair by F. S. Harrill who has been
a student of cotton problems since the year 1880.
This school will teach cotton classification and
grading FREE to all who desire to avail them-
selves of the information obtained by long
thought and-study. In addition
A Strong Faculty of Lecturers
will be heard Friday Oct. 4, on the important
subject of growing longer staple cotton in Bell
and ad joining counties. If you are a cotton pro-
ducer you should by all means make arrange-
ments to avail yourself of the expert informa-
tion to be given at the Cotton Classing School.
San.
asm
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