The Syracuse Journal, Volume 20, Number 19, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 8 September 1927 — Page 7

With the Clock Turned Back By Courtney Ryley Cooper

*• 6- WNV Sarrua STORY FROM THE START Thomas Brent, bachelor, end selfmade man of wraith, is ordered by hie physicians to take a long vacation In the open—" Get Back to Nature." Brent ■'disappears, leaving Philip Scrottles. his manager, power of attorney to conduct the business. He also advertises for a email, "red-haired, freckle-faced boy." With a young companion he has found, appropriately nicknamed "Freeh." Brent io living in an out-of-the-way place, 4n primitive fashion. He teams about "Crawdads." and rescues two old negro ladles from CHAPTER V Confidential Agent A deep, satisfied snore from within the cave seemed to answer Mr. Brent’s decision and sent into his brain a flare of anger that grew with every second. He turned and lobked into the/darknesa. His face was scowling. He shook a fist that palpitated with pent-up rage, and then like a turtle dropping from a log he let himself slide over the ledge and down the muddy foot path. ■ "1 can’t get any dirtier, I can’t get any muddler. I can’t get any wetter, so what s ti e difference where I land?” , he growled as he bnmj»ed about here and there in his downward descent. Now and then he would strike a tree or large rock which would hold him, and allow him to steady him.Mdf for a momeut. Then he would go slipping •or. again. At last he reached the bottom and begun a groping. tortuous Journey toward the railroad track* a mile away. "1 might as well be lost down here as sitting up there on that ledge like! a ninny,” he grumbled. “I’ll And that railroad track If it takes me all night. 19--" He hud bumped Into a barbed! wire fence and was hanging there! something like a quarter of beef on display in a butcher shop. l>azedly he got his bearings, and gradually there showed before him the •dark form of the railway “All." Slowly he crawled over the fence and then, a* methlng after the fashion of a halfcareening sidewheeler, he touched hl# feet to the rock ballast and started on the long tramp to Dodson, the nearest railway station. "The next time 1 listen to a doctor.'!’ he burst forth time and time again. •Til—Ouch !* He had humped bl* •or* toe against a railroad tie, and further comment upon physicians and medicine were lost. The storm had died down to a drizzle now—a cold drizzle. which made Mr. Brent uncomfortable and shivering. He rammed his bands deep Into his pockets and hunched his head ,deeper In hl* shoulders and limped along staring moodily ahead at the faint strip of gray which told of tie railroad’s course through the darkness. Suddenly be started. A shrieking whistle bad come from behind nnd a •circle of glaring light shone about hifo. ilusilly he retreated from the track to stand In the dripping weeds and un sierbrush and gaze enviously as a com iortabte, bright-lighted thing of steel and wheels whirled past him. Then with mincing steps over the rock ballast he took to the tracks again, shaking a trembling flat at the disappearing train. “F«h»1 •" he howled at himself. "Idiot! Maniac!” A mile dragged tn Two. three, four. the. and thfre showed before him the red and green lights of the station. He approached the door, reached for the handle, and then paused with an inarticulate howl on his li|MHL He bad stubbed that favorite toe again. “Doggone it.” he muttered ”I’ll-—” ' He stopped. From around the corner had come the sound of a voice that seemed fa“miliar. More than that lie had heard his own name. Thomas Breut sad sleuly began to take an Interest in life. ■Quickly he slunk out of the circle of tight made by the telegrapher’s lamp aud into the shadow of a loaded truck. He had not been seen. he knew that, jet someone had called bis name. Again he hehrd the voice. Did the station agetit know anything? It was a strange tone, yet one- that seemed to carry a vague memory. Mr. Brest listened closely as the answer came. "Yes. We’re on the right track. But I think we’d better go up to the hotel and stay for the night and start our active Investigations In th* morn Ing." Thomas Brent knew that voice. It was Philip Scrottles’. and as he came to the realisation the president of the Amalgamated Foundry company, wiggled his sore toe In pure excitement. Then he ceased the exertion that noth-' Ing might Interfere with bis hearing. The other man was talking now. "Just what did you find out. Mr. Bcr>»ttlea?" -Well. 1 described Mr. Brent to tbe agent and It seems that a man of his got oft the train here day before yesterday morning tugging three or four baskets. There was a boy with him. too. and that’s about the ouly way we can hope to trace him—through the boy." Then came the other voice: “They are liable to be In any one of a hundred places, and the only thing we can do is to stay around, here until we learn that boy’s haunts and then trace them out- We’ve got to get his signa ture to that thing, and w**vw got to have him in there to send It through. Now you are sure that you stand with him all right- JWL Scrottlesr Tie infared toe sprang Into activity again—and' then ceased at the sound of the confidential manager** voice. T-% bes trusted me in everything.

can get him to do it, all rignc. won’t see through." “What does he place the plant at now?" the other man questioned. “He figures it about a hundred thousand -«hy of what it is. I believe if I talk hard enough 1 can get the place away from him for four hundred thousand dollars. That’s two hundred thousand less than it’s really worth. You would have to split the difference with me if I got It." u There was a pause for a moment, and In .that space of time all the ceiors in the rainbow flared through tbe angry mind of Thomas Brent. Scrottles. the man he had trusted for yesre. was false. This was the reason items which should have gone Into the profit column had gone into that of los*. The man whom he had trusted to work between him and the plant at large had been really working against him. He had been a traitor. The gyrations of a music master could not have equaled then the twitching of Mr. Brent’s Injured toe as he came to this realization. A wild desire was in him to leap out. grasp tbe offending employee by the throat and shake vengeance out of him, but something held him back. Tbe voice had begun again. “Wed better wait until morning before we do anything.” the stranger was repeating. “Then we’ll get hold of this kid’s mother, find out where, he’s liable to be, and go after him. 1 think that is best.” Together they moved away lufa the darkness, leaving the owner of the Amalgamated foundry company palpitating behind the truck. “You thieves!” ne cried as he shook his hands tn the air. “You holdup men! You pickpockets: You thugs!

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Suddenly He Started. A Shrieking Whistle and a Circle of Light Shone Upon Him. Tou blackmailers! You robbers! You purse snatchers! I’ll—l’ll—I’ll—Blame me If I’ll do anything of the kind.” he ended up shortly. For a moment he remained in thought, a trembling sort of thought, as It were, in which his whole body shook agoelike. At last he swung bls head with that doggedneM which bad characterised his business life. (TO BE CONTINUED.! Disraeli Past Master of Diplomatic “Bluff” There is* an entertaining story of Disraeli In Maj. Gen. Sir Leopold Swalnes .volume of reminiscences. There was a moment during the Berlin congress of 1878 when It seemed as If ’he British and Russian contentions could not be brought into harmony. On the morning of the fourth day Bismarck called on Dlr-aell. They spoke on every other subject except the congress. Finally Bismarck got up to go, and said: “I don’t know If you and Gortschakoff, the Russian delegate, have come to an amicable agreement. but I trust whatever may happen this . fternoon. that when you return to England you will take with you a pleasant recollection of your May tn Berlin.” "I shall certainly do that." said Oixxy. “for 1 have met with nothing but kindness and considers- J tion from everyone. Only this morning I had another proof of It. I sent to the station master to inquire how much notice 1 must give for a special train to be got ready to take ine buck to England The reply, most' civilly worded, was to the effect that two hours would suffice.’’ Bismarck went straight to Gortschakoff to tell him that Dixzy meant lighting if he did not give tn. "He gave iDy? adds Sir Leo- i poid Swaine. Picture’* Valuation j The picture by Whistler called “Old Battersea Bridge” Is alluded to as the "Nocturne in Blue and Gold.” It was the source of one of the artist’s most famous witticisms. The opposing counsel in the suit for libel which Whistler brought against Ruskin tn 1878 elicited the fact that the picture had been painted tn two days, and then asked: "The labor of two days; then is that for which you ask 200 > guineas?" To which Whistler retorted with dignity: “No; 1 ask It for the knowledge of a lifetime.” This picture sold tw<£ years later for 2.000 guineas. Mtnafreia oc Oateoat* It is said that the minstrels of the Middle ages were usually of question able virtue and honor, and laws wet* enacted to repress them. They were called “shadows” or “roving men. ’ and under the law they were not permitted to inherit property, to collect debts or to take part In Christian sacraments. •i Audrey's Opinion Little Audrey gased in rapt food nation at a contortionist tn a vaudeville show. “Mamma* she laughingly said to her mot her. That man has no more bones than a plate of tea cream.”

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SHREDDED OILED PAPER FAVORED (Prepared by the United State* Department of A<rlculture. t The method of controlling apple scald in boxed apples by wrapping the fruit in oiled paper, as developed by |!;he United States Department of Agriculture, has proved so satisfactory that a modification of the method is being tested for barreled apples. When tbe barrel pack is used it is impracticable to wrap each apple, but satisfactory results can be obtained by scattering throughout the pack ■ quantity of shredded oiled paper. The department has tested the efficacy ot the modified method in a commercial way for three Seasons and reports that when properly distributed In the barrel or other package, shredded oiled paper has proved highly efficient In the control of the disease. Nineteen different tests covering seven different varieties were made In the untreated barrels from 24 to 96 per cent of the apples, or an average i of 67 per cent, were scalded to such an extent as to be discriminated against on the market. On the other hand, the barrels containing shredded oiled paper showed anly an average ot 4 per cent of the fruit scalded. Eight of the treated barrels were entirely free of the disease. Tests have also been made with apples In hampers, baskets and boxes with equally good or somewhat better success. It is generally estimated that the shredded paper adds 20 to 25 cents a • barrel to the cost of packing the ap pies. If the fruit Is to pass into con sumption early in the season, there may be little chance of recovering thfr amount in the selling price, but when It has been held beyond the peak of , tbe season for the variety. profits several times greater than the cost have often been realized. ' Shredded paper is not a guaranty against all misfortune, says the department However, when properly applied so that each apple comes in contact with the oiled paper, it can usually be made a source of profit to the grower, and by adding to the keep ing quality of the apples it contributes a stabilizing effect to the apple industry.

To Advertise Apples Is Plan, of Fruit Growers Apple growers of the country havt formed an organization known as Apples for Health, inc., and are setting out to raise $4,000,000 with which to advertise apples as a food. The objective Is to put apples back intc the position out of which they have been crowded in recent years. The plan is to spend $1,000,000 a yeas In • four-year campaign, says Cap per** Farmer. I* this, apple grow er* are following the lead. also, of the orange, banana, pineapple, prune and raisin growers. Last year a large apple crop brought the growers less money than a short crop brought three years ago. Thia the growers believe, was due to the failure of demand tb keep pace with production, so they propose to tn crease demand, and cite the cases o1 oranges and raisins as evidence that It can be done. “In twenty years,” says John W Gorby. secretary of the growers’ or ganizatton. “California orange grow ere have increased their annual sale* from 112.0U0.0U0 to $!75.000.WU. In tet years the raisin growers have in creased their sales from TO.iIUO to 200. 000 tons a year. Pineapple growen of Hawaii have educated the pub He away from eating fresh piueap pies and taught them to use canned pineapples Instead. These are onl) three of more than fifty example* that might be cited where growers have build np their industry by well conducted advertising and men hnn dising metlmds. It is now the app!« growers’ turn at bat." Cultivation to Produce Vigorous Cherry Trees By planting, tending and bringing into bearing under different treat meut* a large number of cherry tree* of tbe standard commercial varieties, the Missouri College of Agriculture has found that cultivation produce* trees that are much more vigorous come into profitable bearing mor* quickly and produce much target crop* than trees grown in sod Again comparing trees grown in sou without fertilizer and tin-v grown it. mid but fertilized with nitrate of soda or sulphate of ammonia, the cuilegt has demonstrated that tbe fertilized tree* are healthier, larger, more vig orous and much mure produ-tive than those receiving no fertilizer. Control of Codling Moth To return to specific insects and diseases, the codling moth Immediately reassert* itself Although arsenate o! lead I* the standard material used i* its rtwitrol the fact remains that it ha* not given the control desired Summer oil spray, were resorted tc In sever d -arts of the country, but they ere n ing abandoned. Instead, arsenate of lead sprays are being sup piemen ted will* rhe almost forgotten practio** of taxiing scraping th* bark, dt stmyuig dehri*. etc. Zones of Production Although the strawberry I* grown from Florida to Maine, and from Cat ifornia to Delaware, tbe principal tones of production are along tbe Atlantic coast tn tbe state* of New Jer *ey. Delaware and Maryland. Other irras of concentration are to be found •n tbe eastern Carolinas and central Florida. More recently there has de reloped heavy producing areas 1* Louisiana, Missouri, Arkwnses, fen tea*** and wester* Kentucky.

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have little or no interest fa those hazardous occupations which are supposed to be reserved for the hardier male sex. Aviation, where unshakable nerves and coolness in an emergency are prime necessities, theoretically has no place for the women, at least In performing some of the daredevil feats which the aviators perform. But tike so many other popular ideas this one tn regard to women’s nonparticipation In aviation Is an erroneous one and there have been in the past and are now enough fearless bird women to prove that fact. Fraulein Rasche Is only the latest one to command public attention. During her first flight from American soil at Roosevelt field when she took up her little Flamingo for ten minutes of exhibition flying, army pilots from Mitchell field pronounced her “■ skillful and graceful tV'er.” She is preparing to show that she is also a fearless flyer by exhibitions of stunt flying which she will give in various parts of the country and she Intends to pit her skill as a racing pilot in the New York to Spokane. Wash., air derby this month. Fraulein Rascbe, however, is only one of several women pilots who have attained more than passing notice in aviation. There is Mrs. Charlotte Alexander, who organized the only women’s aviation corps in this country some years ago; there la Maxine Dicks, who is probably the only woman aviation "camera man” now pursuing that occupation: there is Trehawke Davies, the first woman to loop the loop in a plane: and there is Mlle. Adrienne 801 l and. the French avlatrix. who was the first woman to fly across tbe English channel back in the days when that was regarded as a feat of considerable magnitude, and who added to her laurels by being the first woman to fly across the Andes mountains tn South America. Other bird women who have been Id the news lately are Miss Ruby Thompson of Dallas. Texas, who was the first woman pilot te enter the proposed air race from Dallas to Hongkong. China, fbr the prize of $25,000 that has been offered for that feat, who will be accompanied on the flight by a navigator as well as a co-pilot; Miss Mildred Doran, a scaool teacher of Flint. Mich., who flew from her home in the Middle West to the Farific coast within the last few week* with the announced intention of attempting a flight to Honolulu with Augy Pedlar as pilot; and Miss Gladys Roy. who together with Lieut. Delmar L. Snyder, a former army aviator, is planning to attempt a New Yort-to-Rome flight Mis* Roy is a < well-known stunt flyer who. not satisfied with Hiking her neck on tbe wing of a plane, added a sensational touch by doing her work with her bead encased to a black bag. Among the other well-known women stunt flyers are Miss Gladys Engie, the California avlatrix whose favorite stunt was to jump from one plane to another, flying just overhead, and then, after making her flying leap, to hang by her heels from the upper wing of the plane on which she had just landed, and Miss Lillian Boyer, a girl of nineteen who, several year* ago. gave the crowd* a thrill by swinging from a cable beneath her aeroplane with only the grip of four slender Augers between her and the risk of a dash to the earth a thousand* feet below.

Artist Felt Need of Getting Back to Earth

I fortified myself with a great many excellent sounding reasons for going Into the pigeon-fanning business. To begin with, every man should save an anchor to windward, and the trnwback to a profession lay in the feet that when you ceased laboring rou most likely ceased eating simultaneously. Then a man in my confinng profession—l draw pictures for a

iHE recent arrival in this country of K Fraulein. Thea Rasche, the foreL \ most German avlatrix and .stunt Y flyer, and her announcement that ) early next year, after doing some j flying here, she will attempt to ' make a nonstop flight from New York to Gernfany. are a reminder that women are following closely In the footsteps of men even in aviation. It has long been a popular idea that tbe so-called weaker sex

Mention of Trehawke Davies’ distinction of being the first to loop the loop recalls the feat of Laura Bromwell, a twenty-three-year-old girl who on May 15. 1921. made a loop the lo<p record when she executed 199 successive loops in one hour and twenty minutes. It also recalls her tragic death when her plane fell a thousand feet at Mitchell field near Mineola. Long Island, the next month (June 5. 1921) and she was dashed to the earth. Miss Bramwell was not the first bird woman to meet her fate in the air. Probably the first fatality among women aviators occurred in the early days of aeronautics when on June 5. 1912. Auguste Bernard and Mme. Rose Amicet two French aviators. lost control of their machine near Buc, France, and came crashing to the earth where both were killed. But stunt flying has not been the principal contribution of bird women to tbe progress of aviation. Mile. Bolland’s flight across the Andes, made in the infancy of aviation, was a practical demonstration of the possibilities of the aeroplane as a means of transi>ortation to which high mountains could offer po barrier. She left Mendoza on the Argentine side at 6:32 on the morning of April 1, 1921, and soared high abovethe lofty peaks of the Andes with their treacherous air pockets where an accident meant Instant death on their rocky slopes, or possibly starvation In the wilderness even in case of a safe landing. However, the trip was made without mishap. and she landed at Santiago. Chile, at 10 o’clock, less than three and a half hours after she had set out from the Argentine city. To Miss Phoebe J. Fairgrave, an eighteen-year-old girl, goes the credit for making a parachute jump which was a record for women at that time and probably still stands. On July 11. 1921. at the Curtis flying field, near St. Paul. Minn.. Miss Fairgrave stepped out into space at an altitude of 15.200 feet, shot down with terrific velocity, and then as the silken umbrella opened, she floated gracefuly to the earth. But of them all there is one who was acclaimed “Queen of the Air” some ten years ago and she still retains the major part of her claim to that titte. For the altitude record for women aviators made on September 27. 1917. at Peoria. 111., by Miss Rutb Law. still stands and that record is 14.701 feet. Establishing this record, however, was not Miss Law’s first triumph. That had occurred the previous year when on November 19-20. 1916. she made what was then the longest nonstop flight record, from Chicago to Hornell. N. Y.. a distance of 590 miles, thereby breaking the record of 452 miles, made by * man flyer earlier In the month. Her feat at that time was heralded as one of the greatest to the history of aviation, and It Is Interesting to read the following account of it which appeared in the columns of the Outlook Magazine for November 29. 1916: THE HIGHEST MARK IN AMERICAN AVIATION No lew Interestins than tbe scientific gestures of the record-breaking flight of Miss Ruth Law, frorn Chicago to New York, te the human significance of the accomplishment. Miss Law says the fact that she tea woman makes no difference, but It does The fact that tbe new American nonstop record was made by a l!«-pound woman of twenty-eight, in a rebuilt aeroplane of almost obsolete type, doubles tbe prominence of this achievement tn the publie mind General Wood reflected the popular admiration for Miss Law. when as he helped her from her seat at the end of her flight, at Governor s Island, he said. "Little girl, you beat them all In a nutshell, this is what Miss Law did. In a IGS-borsepower. two-year-old biplane she flew without a stop from Chicago to Hornell. K. T., a distance of ISO miles, thereby breaking the record of 451 miles mad* by Victor Carlstrom in the New York Times flight on November 8. Flying on to Governors Island with a stop at Binghamton Miss

living—felt the need of getting beck to the earth, you know. This sitting on a stool all day painting pretty girls is a bit cloying after a time. It is like dining exclusively , on chocolate eclairs. I have seen the time when I would stpp dead in the middle of the street to gaze in admiration at some passer-by because she was so ugly. I craved corn beef and cdbbage and honest sweat and

men—horny handed, vulgar, profane, tobacco-chewing brown earth and growing things. All these were to be had on a fahn, I felt.— Coles Phillips, in the Saturday Evening Post. Not So Easy Gen. Luts Wahl said at a Washington dinner party: "Nothing but the universal will of mankind will abolish war. A League erf Nations alone win never abolish it The believers in the League of Nations

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Law completed the entire trip of 884 miles, from Chicago to Governor’s Island In 8 hours 55 minutes and 35 seconds. Carlstrom’s total time in the air from Chicago to New York was 8 hours 17 minutes. With true sportsmanship, Carlstrom was one of the first to congratulate Miss Law, pronouncing her flight "the best performance to date in American aviation.’’ ■ ‘ Few* persons took Miss Uw seriously when she announced her intentions of attempting the Chi-cago-New York flight. Although she holds the woman's record for altitude, she had never before flown more than 35 miles across country. Moreover, her machine is less than half as large as the one In which Carlstrom made his record, and carried only 53 gallons of gasoline as against 200 gallons carried by Carlstrom. Miss Law’s record has been stamped as official by the Aero Club of America. The following contemporary account from th® New York Sun Is also worthy of. reproduction because of the parallel in many res;>ects between Miss Law’s feit and the recent record-breaking one of Col. Charles Lindbergh. In it Is reflected the.same cool daring of the lone adventurer who set out almost casually on a great undertaking and the same modest wonder at all the popular acclaim which followed. The Sun article says: Miss Law tried to buy a bigger machine such as Carlstrom had used, but Mr. Curtiss was afraid to sell her one for fear she would be killed. He thought it would be too powerful for her. But when he heard Sunday night of the record flight from Chicago to Hornell he called the Aero Club of America on the long-distance telephone and said she could have a new machine any time she wanted it. and she will likely want it for now she is going to try a nonstop flight from Chicago to Governor’s Island. Carlstrom. whose nonstop record was bettered by Miss Law. had the best equipment that money and science eould produce and back of him was the entire Curtiss organisation. His plane would carry 147 g-lions more fuel than the machine Miss Law flew He trained for weeks 3rd waited day after day for favorable winds before making his start Miss Law. who never had flown more than 35 miles in a single flight before, just had some new gas tanks.put on her aeroplane, notified the Aero club to make the flight official, and started. Miss Law was thoroughly chilled when shei arrived, but seemed to be in the pink of condition, resourceful and not disposed to take herself seriously. She is slight, fair-haired. and weighs only about a hundred twenty pounds. She was openly pleased at the reception the army officers and Aero club officials gave her, but she was a little bashful at first and looked as though she was wondering Just why they were all there. Although this woman has been flying since 1913. she is only twenty-eight. She has had an uphill fight without financial backing, risking her life in machines that were none too good and she seemed hardly to realize that she had at last attained a goal of popularity, publicity and official recognition of the Aero club and that she is the peer of any male flyer in America. Miss Law has always' been in competition with men. flying tn machines that were inferior to their*s and this time she won out.

as a war abolisher remind me of the old woman. “Ts that there gun loaded, mister F the old woman asked a hunter who had got on the train. " ‘Yes. madam, it is.’ said the banter, ‘but we have here, you perceive, a small cork. We place same tn the muzzle of the weapon—thus. And now, madam, we are quite safe, are we not?' “‘Yes, sir, thank you, str,’ said old woman, with a sigh of re"'' - Pittsburgh Chronicle-Te)pr-j* 1

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