Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1915 — SNAPSHOTS AT NOTABLE PERSONS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SNAPSHOTS AT NOTABLE PERSONS

Sir David Henderson, Britain’s Chief Aviator.

The efficiency of the aviation corps w r hich accompanied the British expeditionary army to France has given England another national hero wliqse work has thrice Won him mention in Sir John French's dispatches, to say nothing of the praise officially given him by the French commander in chief. General Joffre.

The commander of the aviation corps and the man who is responsible for its organization and its proved efficiency is Colonel Sir David Henderson of the Royal Flying corps. Sir David is a soldier of twenty years’ experience and served conspicuously in the South African war. Of course, that was before any one ever thought of an army flying corps. But a few years later the possibilities of the aeroplane were demonstrated, and Sir David Henderson was one of the first men in the British army to look ahead a few years and see the wonderful uses to which the flying machine would be put In warfare. Prior to the advent of the flying machine he had been a student of the art of reconnoissance, and to him the British war office turned when the possibilities of the flying machine were first beginning to be realized. The first thing he did was to qualify himself as an air pilot, which did not take him long. He had not. been studying the possibilities of the flying machine In warfare long until he decided that it was revolutionizing the art of.scouting. Then he set to work to organize the Royal Flying corps, which has been giving such a good account of itself In the fighting in France.

Quartermaster of German Army. When an army takes the field it heed? much more than bullets, bayonets and cannon to perform its work. To provide for the wants of , the troops every army has one or more administrative departments charged with the procurement, custody and distribu tion of essential supplies. The work

of the administrative departments is divided into three spheres of action, as follows: First.—The service performed in the rear of the enemy, or in the national territory of the governments. Second.—The service of the line of communications. Provision must be made for the replacement of the stores consumed by the army and th'e transportation, subsistence and quarteripg of all the troops, prisoners and the sick and wounded. Third.—The supply of troops in the field during active operations. General von Stein, quartermaster general of the German army, has the immense task not only of supplying equipment, but he also directs the workings of the commissary department. That General von Stein is in charge of both departments is sufficient evidence of his fitness for the task. He is a veteran soldier and has had many years' experience in the line of duty in which he Is now engaged.

GENERAL VON STEIN.