Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 132, Decatur, Adams County, 4 June 1927 — Page 3

fife Story Os Captain ■ Charles A. Lindbergh ■eW YORK-TO-PARIS FLYER IS NO SUPERI MAN, BUT JUST A NORMAL, AMERICAN YOUTH WHO HAS THREE OUTSTANDING CHARACTERISTICS, NAMELY, COMPLETE MASTERY OE HIMSELF, DIRECTION IN LIFE AND GREAT COURAGE.

By M. D. Tracy R’niteil Press Staff Correspondent ■ (Copyright 1927 by United Pressi B Two cats have own honored places any story of Charles A. Lindbergh's ■ The first was a pedigreed Angora, Aristocrat of the feline family LindHergh dropped it from a second story ■window. ■ The second was a kitten of unknown He treated it with such Consideration that he has won comAnnidation of humane societies and Knirnal lovers the country over. [ In addition to these two cats, which K I)W have gained much great fame. horses and animals of every kind had their places in Lindbergh’s Hife. for he is one of those men who Kever is alone as long as there is an Knimal. preferably a dog, nearby. ■ One of the earliest anecdotes of Cindbergh was told originally as illustrative of his early development of ■the experimental urge. Someone had ■told him that a cat, no matter how ■far it dropped, would always land on ■its feet. He was then aged six and the ■family was living in the upper flat of a "two familiy house” in Minneapolis. The folks downstairs had a valuable Angora. Charlie appraised it and decided that it would be a good bit of material for an experiment to determine the truth of the stories of cats always landing on their feet. He captured the animal took it upstairs and dropped it from a window. "It did land on its feet,” he explained to his mother, when she scolded him for the experiment. The other cat was the one which adopted Lindbergh at Curtiss Field, Long Island, New York, while he was preparing to make his trans-Atlantic flight. He proved that his boyhood love of animals was still with him, for he never was too busy to stop a minute and play with the kitten. Offer he wa> seen around the hangars in those trying days with the kitten on his shoulder. . . . ____ , When in the excitement of the start for Paris, someone attempted tn yJt the kitten in the machine with him. Lindbergh was not too busy to object. "I may be cold and the kitten might die,” he said as he insisted that, for its own good, it be left behind. But dogs are Lindbergh's real comI panions. As a youth he wondered ! through the Minnesota woods around his horu>, often being gone all day w’th only his dog for company. lie built a boat one summer in Minnesota and on it he and his dog embarked day after day on long excursions over the nearby waters. It was in those days that he became known first as a youth who always travelled alone. He did not dislike the company of others, but it was not necessary to his happiness and when he was engaged in the thing in which he was most interested, he always wanted to be alone and have all the responsibility himself. It is difficult to say whether this trait was a development of those days of patrolling the woods and streams with his dog and gun, or whether a desire to be alone was the reason for such excursions. There was hardly a tree or a nook in the woods around Little Falls where the family lived, that Lindbergh did not know l|y the time he was 15 years of age. He became a crack pistol shot and was also good with a rifle. But a cap pistol was one of his first cherished toys and he always seemed to prefer the smaller weapon. Later, when a student at the University of Wisconsin, the only trophy he had won up Io that time in any important competition was a medal of the reserve officers’ training corps for pistol shooting. He prized it highly. Lindbergh’s father was always a great admirer of Theodore Roosevelt and he told his son stories of Roosevelt’s campaign in Cuba and of the Rough Riders. Soon Charlie decided that he was a Rough Rider. He added a horse to his list of animal friends and there followed a year or two of Extreme anxiety on the part of his mother as almost daily she saw her son riding wildly through the country, alternating between the characters of a rough rider and a cowboy. During all this time he continued his interest in machinery and was following closely the development of the airplane. He became a motorcycle en thusiast later but finally dismantled his motorcycle to apply the engine to a home made ice boat in which he rode ‘he ice of Lake Mendota. The ice boat came to grief in a collision, but after a couple of weeks was in commission

once more, repaired through the resourcefulness of Its builder. He learned to drive an automobile i and his friends say that lie Is as skill- 1 i ful behind the wheel of a motorear 1 ar he Is with an airplane. With the family being forced to di- ' vide its time between Washington and ' Little Falls, Charles had his difficulties in the matter of hfk early shoo. ' ing. He attended school part of the 1 time in Washington, then, in the mid- 1 die of a term, would go back to Little Falls and become a student there. His mother, who was a school teacher bo- ' fore her marriage, and now. a widow, is again teaching, spent much time acting ..s h's tutor and it was through her efforts that he was able to keep up it. , his studies despite the many interruptions. There came a t’me during the world j war when Char les' father was foiled to devote practically his entire time toj' affairs in Washington and away from home. Conduct of the little farm, 1 , where the family lived, accordingly . fell upon Charles. He took hold ol it in his customary thorough manner, but , soon decided that there was not enough use made of mechanical power. A.bout that time he was graduated from the Little Falls high s -hool and entered the University of Wisconsin. He began the sn.iy of mechanical engineering, but codegc was not to Lindbergh's liking. He felt ho was not learning there the things he wanted ta know. He stood well in mathematics and be was an eager experimenter in the laboratories. Bn’ it developed that his interest in experiments was gone He set about to remedy the defect When he finished almost everything around the farm and farm house was mechanically operated and the farm became a center < f much interest in the community, when he completed the laboratorywork. He disliked writing up his notes and he was continually behind. His

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main ini nest In college was ia the pistol shooting competition. He t i ik only a s nail part in college life, perferrit.g to be by himself and to follow bls own dictates. Family he gave up college In 1921, without com ploting Ids course, and soon thereafter began his f na.’tng earner as an aviator, -o —— Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus To Show In Fort Wayne Hagenbeck - Wallace Circus, proclaimed as the foremost trained wild animal show of the universe, will shortly be in our midst. Billers have finished their work through this territory and bright and highly colored posters tell of the coming of Hagen-beck-Wallacc to Fort Wayne on .Tune 15. Many new innovations have been created by Hagenbeck-Wallace for the 1927 tour. “The Geisha” said to be the greatest musical spectacle ever produced will open the exhibition, while ‘‘Blazing G'.ory” a patriotic presentation will bring the program to a close. Several hundred characters appear in "The Geisha” and the wardrobe and costuming is said to be the most pretentious of any circus spectacle. The Hagenbeck standard in trained wild animal numbers has also been maintained and such noted subjugators as Clyde Beatty. C'apt. Beri nard and Bob MacPherson will send ! their jungle charges through sensational routines in the big steel arenas. In addition to the wild animal groups, there will bo displrps of domestic beasts. Several groups of Liberty Horses will appear in the rings, while the hippodrome track will be the scene of a Horse Show-, second to none. Forty singing girls and forty prancing steeds appear in one display. Other noted features, include the Orrin Davenport family of Equestrians, the Ward-Kimball troupe, of Flyers and Cheerful Gardner and the original Hagenbeck elephants. Plenty of (downs, to be exact fifty, will work all during the performances, which start promptly at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. The big double menagerie includes specimens from all portions of the globe, including highly valuable giraffes. ltx O — New Brunswick —Ed. Cook, living near here, suffered a fractured leg when he was kicked by one of his cows.

PAGEANT PLANNED TO CELEBRATE THE TENTH YEAR OF SOVIET RULE i

By Victor W. Knauth (U. P. Staff Correspondent) Moscow (United Press) —Ten years of Soviet rule will be celebrated next November 7th and preparations for pageantry decoration and anniversary are already under way. Several thousand foreigners, Including many from the United States, are expected to come to witness the »pectaele. Travel bureaus have already made inquiries from the Soviet Government. preparatory organizing tours for the occasion. The jubilee celebration will take a number of Interesting forms and the] best talent of the Russian people is al work. Maxim Gorky, the celebrated Russian writer, now in Italy, is report-] ed to be occupied with a new book to ’ mark the tenth anniversary of the t Soviet Socialist Government. Meyerholt, foremost Russian theatrical pro-’ . ducer with a world-wide reputation is also engager) in developing new productions with the help cf some of the' ' country’s most famous authors, The llndTeetT ’ Vital Necessity For Maintenance Os Health I (By Joseph S. Wasney, United Press Staff Correspondent) Washington, June 4—(United Press • Sound teeth and a healthy mouth are 1 vital necessities for the maintenance 1 of health in both adults and children, ' according to Dr. Hugh S. Cumming, : Surgeon General of the U. S. Public ■ Health Service. 1 “Dental caries, or decay ,of the I 1 teeth, is a serious condition and is perhaps the most common of all human diseases,” Dr. Cumming said. ' "In some schools 90 percent of the children have been found suffering ! from decayed teeth, in fact dental ’ caries usually begins in childhood. 1 "Careful observers tell us that if . one can manage to reach the age of I 20 or 25 years -without having (level-' ' oped dental caries, be is apt to live . I through the greater part of his life ■ with sound teeth, thereby avoiding J : many inconveniences and also the sickness which follows in the wake II of decayed .teeth.” I J. Dr. Cumming said that proper care of the teeth of a child is a duty that 1

moving picture studios, from which came the aelebrated "Battle Cruiser ' Potemkin" film, ure busy in prepare- 1 tlon for the tenth anniversary celebration. The famous Russian ballet corps, the 1 grand operas, the symphony orchestra 1 and the theatrical companies all are being included in the elaborate preparations. All the resources of the Slav people, rich in romance and drama. are being culled on to make the occasion 1 brilliant. The festivals will take place all over the Soviet Union but will be focused ’ on Moscow, the sent of the government J The anniversary jubilee, according lo present plans, will continue for several, I weeks, culminating on November 7th - ( in exercises on Red Square in Moscow, | I facing the ancient and beautiful Kremlin wall with its splendid towers, and in front of the stern tomb of Lenin A military parade and a demonstration of civllans. in which it is expected l hat t dose to one million jieraons will take part, will be the climax. the iparent can not overlook and be ltd'll blameless. The objects to be obtained as prevention of decay, and the development of symmetrical, evenly balanced, properly occuluding set of sound teeth. "Children should be taught that they are responsible for (he care of their own teeth.” he continued. “They must be taught how and when lo brush and it should be remembered that the best time to brush the teeth is after meals.” Children and adults should visit a 9 W hen one invests money 9 &j in tile draining, he will I. 9 not lose the principal H 9 and is certain of a large 9 n interest return, with the 9 9 assurance that it will be 9 repeated every yea r, I 9 whether the season is 9 9 wet or dry. Farming fe’ 9 will pay if we will under 9 drain land and give it a 9 9 fair chance. 9 —The—- || Krick-Tyndall Co. I

dentist once every three to six months for inspection of the teeth, the Surgeon General urged. “The first permanent molar is the most important tooth In the mouth. No mouth Is ever perfectly normal when this tooth is lost, and it Is Immediately posterior to the deciduous teeth. Il also Is one of the most effective masticating teeth in the mouth. "Every one who has anything lo do with the roaring of children should watch for this tooth, which conies in at about six < r seven years of ago and if the slightest cavity appears it should be filled at onto and the r

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tooth preserved ut no matter what — , sacruflce of time and energy.” Air Ambulance Equipped : With An Operating Room : Kharwoff (United Press) —A fly- . lug ambulance. with u completely eq- , nipped operating loom mor emergency’** surgical treatment In flight, has been put into commission by the local * i beaneb of the Soviet Red Cross The *• airplane has accomodations for four Btrctchere in front of the operating room. The machine and motor are entirely of Russian design and construei tlon.