Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1919 — No Job for Nervous Man. [ARTICLE]

No Job for Nervous Man.

For sheer cold nerve, it seems as if the fellow in the observation balloon, who has to jump Into space, hoping nothing will happen to his parachute, has got It over the rest of the fighters. To fight with others amidst shot and shell takes all sorts of bravery, but a soldier is bolstered up by his comrades, by the excitement of it all, by his own fierce desire to get the better of the enemy. An airman has to take awful chances, but he guides his to a certain extent; he has a chance to do the best he can for himself. But the obseiyatlon man who must jump into space when the enemy his set fire to his sausage balloon —well It seems as If any other welfare would be easier. Of courae his parachute generally opens, but sometimes it doesn’t —and in any event he must fall just so many fee't before the parachute begins to work. Those sausage balloonmen make light of their bravery but some of their fellows on the ground are certain they’d sit in the balloon and burn up before they’d chance that leap into nothingness.

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