Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 266, 19 September 1918 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, SEPT. 19, 1918.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

AND SUN-TELEGRAM

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The Fighting Edge For months the American troops in France prayed for a chance to "go to it" on their hook. They wanted a tough job that would force them to go the limit. General Pershing shared their feeling. He had unbounded confidence in his men,

whether on the defensive or offensive, whether opposed by German shock troops or Landstrum

regiments.

St. Mihiel was to their liking. They had been in that neighborhood since they came to France. If they pinched off that salient, they would overlook German territory. Here's how Charles II.

Grasty describes the events of the last week:

When General Pershing gave the word they "went to

It" like a fire department to a fire.

Then the button was pressed and the great machine

started without a hitch. The world has never seen finer ' troops than those in the first line of this great battle. They were the corps d'elite. They had all learned the war game, "smelt It, felt It, and seen it," at the Marne and elsewhere. There was not a single trick of the enemy but they knew It. But he had no terrors for them. One could exhaust superlatives without doing -stice to Paris'B enthusiasm over this latest proof thp.t fighting 'Americanism Is a specific for German tforism. The French people are masters of expression, but for the 'moment word and gesture fail them. They arc too full for utterance. They simply, laok at you, suffused as to their shining eyes wlthiears. France has reaily acquired a sort of paternal proprietorship ever these hundreds of thousands of young fellows Vno have dropped in here from a far country and settltd down so adaptably and modestly among the natives. To see Americans actually going after Lorraine to bring It back, not by concession but by conquest, makes the French weep silently. "Rien les arreste. (Nothing that can stop them)" they say.

The newspaper critics know more than they are allowed to tell and the general public are satisfied to rest in the conviction that the Americans have done something worthy of their previous -records in, the Marne region and in Picardy. The Matin has this, caption across the front page: "II N'y a Plus de Salient de St MihleV which, being rendered into doughboy means: "There ain't no more St. Mihiel salient." Back home the parents and brothers of the fighters are preparing to oversubscribe a fourth Liberty Loan to supply the funds for further advances of the allied arms.

The Great Betrayal From the Kansas City Star.

NE of the great tragedies of the war has been the

betrayal of Russia by the leaders in whom the

people trusted. The shameful peace of Brest-

Litovsk was the outward measure of the betrrayal.' With

out a struggle the Bolshevist dictators turned over to he German conquerors more than a third of the population of the country. But there were still left apologists in the United States for the men responsible for this great betrayal. Lenine and Trotzky, they said, felt the necessity of getting peace at any price in order to have the chance to establish the principles of the revolution in what was left of Russia. So they , sacrificed territory with the idea of regaining it again after Bolshevism had been established in the country under their jurisdiction. The secret documents, that are given out from day to day by' the committee on public information in Washington expose the real workings of the Lenine-Trotzky regime. They show the leaders actually on the German pay roll. They show the war lords of Berlin secretly financing the Russian revolution. They show the Bolshevists pledging themselves not to circulate disturbing literature among German troops. They show them cooperating with Germany in subduing the Ukraine. They show the prearrangement of the dramatic coup by which Trotzky was to let Germany have its way in the peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk. They show the Bolshevist acquiescence in a secret agreement to hand Russia over industrially to the monopolistic control of Germany. And all by Russians who had 50 million rubles put to their credit in Stockholm by the Imperial German Bank! There may still be persons naive enough to imagine that the men who were taking German money to make a German peace were honest but misguided fanatics. But the world know sbetter. ' ' There never has been such a shameful incident in history the selling out of a nation to its enemy by its trusted leaders.

RETURNED SOLDIER PREDICTS END OF . WAR NEXT YEAR Sergeant A. L. Campbell, of the Pershing guards, who has just firrived back from five months In France, four of which were spent at or near the front, was in the city several hours Monday at the home of his sister, Mrs. Charles Moss, of 26 Richmond Avenue. He is enroute to Camp Louis, Wash., where he will act as an instructor for the men of the last draft Campbell had been spending a few days with his parents in Camden, O., before coming to Richmond. "The war will be over by next summer," Campbell- said. Campbell has been In the service thirteen years, and went to France

last April

June 18 drive, and says he is ready to

go back wnenever ne is needed again in France.

Labor Meetings

The Federal Labor union will meet Friday night In Luken's hall. The Plumbers union will meet " tonight in T. M. A. hall. The meeting of machinists will be held tonight in Eagle's hall. The electricians will meet Friday night In Painter's hall. The railroad carpenters meeting will be held tonight In Carpenter's hall.

FINED FOR EMBEZZLEMENT

WINCHSETER, Ind., Sept. 19. Nicholas Latz pleaded guilty to a charge of embezzlement before Judge Shockney yesterday and was sentenced to from two to fourteen years, the sentence being suspended provided that he pay the Traction company a shortage of $400 at the rate of $12 per month. Latz was agent for the TracMnn nmnnnv nt TTnlnn fMtv nrA wis

He was In the famous found short in' bis accounts.

American Flying Camp in France is Greatest of Kind in World

(By Associated Press) ' AMERICAN AVIATION CENTER, ISSODOUN, France, Sept. 18 This American flying camp is the largest in France and is said to be greater than any other in the world. A flying field of 36 square miles, the area of an American county, with nine separate flying flalds on which American aviators advance to the stage of flight combatants, and airplanes Liberties, Nieuports, Capronis, and all the others with officers, instructors and newly equipped aviators ewelling our squadrons each month these were some of the main features of this vast aviation ground. As The Associated Press correspondent entered one of the fields a big grpy machine rose from a nearby field with a loud droning noise. "There goes a Liberty airplane," said one of the officers. It was one of the fast increasing number now coming, and every flight wa3 watched with keenest interest and growing enthusiasm by those who will put it to the supreme test on the fighting front. Only one opinion was heard among these men, that it was the Liggest and fastest machine of them all. It was

doing wonders in quick accent, and besides straight-away flight it had been put through all the intricacies of acrobatic flight and had been pronounced equal to the whole range. Groups of aviators were lined up as we arrived, preparatory to taking the air. They were lithe, stocky, young men, like two football elevens about to take the field. The flying grounds stretched off for miles nine fields of four square miles each all clean-cut stubble fields on which the machines could light without shock. Above them circled countless planes, singly and in squadrons drawn out like wild geese, looping and diving and in all the evolutions of flight, with groups of

acrobatic planes over to the right making headlong spirals, wing-slips and reversements. City of Barracks. In the foreground rose a city of barracks, one-story pine shacks 100 feet long, not very highly ornamental but very practical. Fully a thousand of these barracks had risen on this level plain to house the army of flying men on the way to the fighting line. "We went from field to fle'd to note each stage in the development of combat aviators. Generally speaking, it was explained, there are three dlsJ tinct branches of this aviation for warfare: Chase and combat work in which most of the fighting occurs, bombardment of enemy forces, camp and towns, and scouting or reconnaissance work for purposes of observation of enemy activities. It is for combat and bombardment that the training is done here, and of those going forward monthly about four-flfths are combatants and one-fifth bombardment pilots. "These are the 'grasshoppers,' " said the captain as we came to field No. 1, where the initial ground work ond

theory of flight begins. The grasshoppers were diminutive machines with just enough hprse-power to jump over the ground, and occasionally rise ten feet. The men call them taxis and roulers. They were skipping about singly and in squads. Two were having a race across the plain?, and one taking a dive buried its nose in the ground. This was the circus part of flying, at the start, but there was plen

ty of very practical work beside, with

motor instruction, gunnery, trap shoot ing, rifle range and machine-gun firing.

Small dummy enemy airplanes dotted

the field as targets, and the bounding

grasshoppers took their shots and were

rated by the watching instructors. On the second field the aviators had

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DEMONSTRATION FOR PEACE IS EXPECTED BEFORE REICHSTAG

LONDON, Sept. 19. It Is rumored In Berlin that when the reichstag meets there will be another - peace demonstration similar to that of July, 1917, according to an Amsterdam dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company. It Is said that the terms of a peace resolution are being drafted by the majority leaders in consultation with the Imperial chancellor.- The reichstag will convene November 5.

COLONEL INSPECTS BARRACKS

OXFORD, O., Sept. 19. Col. Roberts, commandant of Miami Univer sity's military training corps, yesterday inspected the nine fraternity houses which it is proposed to take over for barracks. Seven of the houses were accepted, the other two being rejected on account of their remote location from the college.'

September 25, 26, 27 !

Alkali Makes Soap Bad for Washing Hair

Most soaps and prepared shampoos -contain too much alkali, which is very injurious, as It dries the scalp and makes the hair brittle. The best thing to use Is just plain mulsified cocoanut oil, for this Is pure and entirely greaseless. It's very cheap, and beats the most expensive soaps or any thing else all to pieces. You can get this at any drus store, and a few ounces will last tb whole family for months. Simply moisten the hair with water and rub it in, about a teaspoonf ul- is all that Is required. It makes an abundance of rich, creamy lather, cleanses thoroughly, and rinses out easily. The hair dries quickly and evenly, and is soft, fresh-looking, bright, fluffy, wavy, and easy to handle. Besides, it loosens and ' takes out every particle of dust, dirt and dandruff. Adv.

left their grasshoppers and were in a double-control machine accompanied by an Instructor. They were getting the "feel" of the machine in actual flight, and if the rudder was not manipulated deftly the instructor was there to make the correction. And it was necessary here to learn how to come down as well as to go up and to come down at a definite point. Small numbered flags marked the landing point of each machine, and the descent must be made close up to this flag.

The captain of field No. 3was about

to step into the "Flying Dragon," one of the most curious machines of the

fleet, for besides being a very fleet 15-meter car, it was famous for its

dragon body, with flaming scales and

tentacles and great red eyes. Here on this field the aviators entered singlecontrol machines, without an instruc

tor and for the first time took their

own risks. On. Field 4 it began to develop whether the aviator could qualify as a combat airman, or for bombardment or scout observation. He was now in

a fast machine with a wing-surface of j

18 meters and was beginning to make dips and high air. maneuvering. He was being accustomed to all types of machines. There was a fleet of one of these strange types drawn across the plain. Their chief novelty was in having ball-bearings on all their mechanism giving a hair-trigger response to the slightest touch. "If you sneeze, you loop the loop," was the way the officer explained the delicacy of this mechanism. Roosevelt in Charge. Progress is rapid now that it is evident what a flyer can do. He enters a very fast machine at No. 5, with 15meter wings capable of making 120 miles an hour, ome of the men drop out of the training at this point as it has become evident that they lack the deftness or get faint at the height or the heat of the motor. The rest go on to Field No. 6 where they begin pursuit work and some of the early stages of acrobatic nose dives and slips. "There is nothing freakish about these acrobatics," said the officer "for they are one of the most essential parts of combat aviation. To be a chase and pursuit pilot one must be able to out-maneuver the enemy aviator; to make quick turns under fire and get above your adversary or on his tail. One or the other will be outmanoeuvered, and the fastest man wins the game. The enemy is very skillful at acrobatic, and he must be beaten at his own game." Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt was in command of Field No. 7 while he was here and the car of the late officer stood in the hangar with a group of flyers about it paying tribute to the splendid qualities and daring of their late leader. His good humor was recalled by the name he had given his car "Doc Yak," and the doctor with his flowing whiskers was painted in flaming colors on the side of the car. This is the field on which formation flying is begun, in squadrons up to eighteen machines, but usually with five. The squadron flys in V-shape, with the commander at the apex of the V, carrying a streamer which signals the commands. A fleet of fifteen machines' was starting as we passed, and another had just come after two hours in the air, ending with a figure eight, a difficult evolution executed by "crossing the controls" so that the rudder serves as elevator and the elevator serves as rudder. At night this field is lighted by. powerful searchlights, and night flying goes on from 10 o'clock until daylight. Men Anxious to Fight. On the combat and acrobatic fields Nos. 8 and 9, scores of machine guns were in the air going through t.heir fighting evolutions or dipping and looping. The combat airplanes carried camera guns, a novel deyice combining a dummy machine gun, and a photographic camera. It looks like a gun, but as the trigger is pulled, the camera takes a picture of the target, showing just what would have been hit if a shot instead of a lens had blazed ahead. It was over the acrobatic field that

the real wonders were going on, in the vertical virage, spirals and wing slips. Spectacular as these seemed to be, each had its use in the fighting game. The "vrille" is that dizzy head-first tumble, and the chief thing i3 not to do it but to undo it and come out of it. It has its uses too in deceiving the enemy into the belief that the aviator has been hit and is tumbling, then as the enemy is off guard, attacking him suddenly as the aviator comes out of his headlong dive. One of the flyers made four vrilles as we watched. "It is dangerous only when near

the ground," said the escort. "High in the air there Is comparatively no danger for there is plenty of time to

set your levers so that you are sure'

to come out or tne vriue.

Others were doing the spiral, anothf

er form of read-first dive except that the car is always under control, whereas in the vrille the control is lost until the aviator succeeds in emerging from his fall. Often the machines

seemed to stop suddenly, turn over,

and then glide away in the opposite di

rection right side up. One of the best manoeuvers for escape from a dangerous fight is the vertical win-slip, as it is the fastest means of losing altitude and getting

below an unequal combat. When an

acrobatic maneuver misses or is badly done it is a "pancake" or a "barrel." There is as much lingo to the aviation field as there is to the baseball diamond. Leaving the field we passed a crippled aviator limping on crutches. "He has had 21 crashes," said the officer, "which is about the record. But he goes back every time and he is eager now to get in his machine again. And that is the spirit of every man here, to be ready for combat and to beat the Boche."

Masonic Calendar

Thursday, Sept. 19 Richmond Commandery No. 8 K. T. Special conclave work in Knight Templar degree. Friday, Sept. 20 King Solomon's chapter No. 4 R. A. M. Mark Master degree. Saturday, Sept. 21 Loyal Chapter No. 49 O. E. S. Stated meeting and initiation of candidates.

The number of words found in old English literature does not exceed 30;000; recent dictionaries have listed more than 400,000.

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