The Syracuse Journal, Volume 24, Number 16, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 13 August 1931 — Page 2

General Pershing’s Story of the A. E. F. JBy Gen. John J. Pershing

CHAPTER XLll—Continued. The Twenty-eighth infantry, under Col. Hanson E. Ely. designated for the assault, was reinforced by machine guns, engineers nnd other special units. Additional French artillery was sent to assist the artillery brigade of the division and particularly to suppress the hostile batteries attempting to interfere with the consolidation of the new position after it should be captured. Yanks Splendid Under Fire. On the morning of May 28. after a brief artillery preparation, the Infantry advanced on a front of a mile and a quarter. The village of Cantlgny and the adjacent heights were quickly token. relatively heavy casualties were Inflicted on the enemy and about 300 prisoner* were captured, Our troops .1 haved splendidly and suffered but S gilt loM In the actual attack Events developing farther east, however, were seriously to complicate the success. The. German assault In force against the French along the Cbemtn des between Solssons and Jthelms, began on the morning of the Twenty seventh and was making dangerous headway. By the morning of the twenty-eighth the gains of the enemy were such that the French high command was compelled to relieve much of the reinforcing artillery behind the First division and transfer It to. that front. The enemy's artillery within range of Cantigny thus became superior to ours and was able to concentrate a terrific fire on the nnslieltered troops In the captured position. Hl« rwieti-'n against our troops was extremely violent an<EApparently he was determined at all cost to counteract the excellent eff>-<'t the American success had produced uj»pn the allies. Fmler cover of heavy bombardment a series of counterattacks were made by the enemy, but our young Infantrymen stood their ground and broke up v y 11 ••: t r t■ • •■ - ‘ ! ‘ 11-. 1 o regiment! sustained severe ’ casualties from th| large, caliber shells poured down upon it and-had to be reinforced by a battalion each from the Eighteenth and Twenty-sixth n'glments. It -wasj.-i matter of pr.de to the Whole ‘ A. E. F. that the troops of this dlvlin their first, battle, and in the tmusuailly trying situation that followed. displayed the fortitude and courage!of veterans, held their gains and dented the enemy the .slightest advanfugo.i U. S Troops at Chateau Thierry. Th* titarming situation had caused General I’etafn to call on me on the "Pth ; f»;|. American troops to bo sent., to the n-g;o:i of Chateau Thierry. The Third division (Dickman), then in training near Chaumont, being th* only division within reach, be- des the Second, was ordered to move north Immediately. Hickman £tartcd his mo torired machine gun battalion over the road on the afternoon of May 3t*. The Ts .and engitseers entrained the Mtn* night, and the division's supply, trains marched overland. The tirat element to reach Chateau Thierry was the machine-gun battalion, which arrived the afternoon of May 31 and Immediately went into action against! the enemy, who then held the half of the town north of the Marne. By daylight on June 1 all available guns had been, phwldea with cover and were in their positions, one company with eight guns, and another with nine guns about 500 yards to the east, guarding the approaches to the railroad bridge. From these positions they repulsed all attempts by the Germans to croM the Marne. > ' Meainwhile. as the Infantry of the division came up on June 1 Its bat-tah-’ns were put into line to reinforce the French from Chateau Thierry east to Darmans. The conduct of the machineigun battalion In this operation was highly praised by General Petain In a Citation issued later, Stopped German Drive on Paris. The Second division I Bundy) May 30 was near Chautnont-en-Vixen and was preparing to move northward the next day for concentration nenr Benuvais to relieve the First division at Cantigny. But Its orders were changed late that night, and the division, moving by motor trucks, was rushed toward Maux. twenty miles northeast of Paris. Reaching there, the leading elements were hurried forward in rectlon of Chateau Thierry.* The mads were crowded with French troops and refugees. There was great confusion among the rapidly retreating French troop*, many of them saying to our men that all was lost. The initial deployment of the Second division was made by the Ninth Infantry and the Sixth regiment of marines June 1. across the Paris highway at I.ucy-le-Bocage. in front of Mont-reull-aux-Lions. supposedly in support of two French divisions; but the French had orders to fall’back through the American lines,- In the early morn-c Ing of June 2 the Twenty-third Infantry; then on’ the left, was replaced by the French One Hundred Sixty-seventh division, and when reinforced by one battalion of the Fifth marines, the Fifth machine-gun battalion and some engineers. It was deployed to the right between the Sixth marines and the Ninth infantry, to fill a gap in the French line, and by Jone 5 the entire division became engaged. Considering that this was its first experience in battle, this division made a splendid defense, repulsed all German attacks, and by Its timely arrival effectively stopped the German advance on Paris. Bring Relief to French Poilu. The sudden appearance and dramatic entrance of the Second and Third divisions into the shattered and broken fighting lines and their dash and courage in battle produced a favorable effect upon the French polio. It must have been with a decided feeling of

relief that the worn and tired French army, retreating before vastly superior .numbers, caught sight of Americans arriving in trucks at Meaux and marching thence on foot, hats off, hurrying eagerly forward to battle. And the Germans, who had been filled with propaganda deprecating the American effort and the quality of their training. must have been surprised and doubtless rather disconcerted by meeting strong resistance by Americans on different portions of this active battle front, especially when our troops advanced at once to meet the attack in open combat. . This defeat of the French furnished the second striking confirmation of the wisdom of training troops for open warfare. Replies to French Criticism. After the success of our troops we were in no mood to. listen to self-ap-pointed critics. M. Andre Tardieu called on me upon my return to Paris and' undertook to point out that our staff was Inefficient and offered criticisms of our organization. As this was something he could not possibly know about, I replied that he had got nn entirely erroneous Impression and that our staff wks second to none in either gblllty or.i/flciency. I advised him that we had quite enough of this sort of thing from the French, either military or civilian, and suggested that if his people would evase troubling themselves so much •bout our affairs and, attend more strictly to their own we Should all get along much better. I did not fail to appreciate M, Tardieu’s ability and fits helpfulness on many occasions, but this constant inclination on the part of a certain element among the French to assume a superiority that did not exist then or at any later period, added to the attempts of some of them to dictate, had L CHAPTER XLIII The sixth session of the supreme war council was convened June 1. 1918. The Ifnportant matter of further ship nieut of American troops was taken up. - As already Indicated. It was my oplnfori that neither* the character of the tr<‘"p- to l>e sent over nor.their disposition was within the province of the council to decide, but that these ques : tions .should be. determined according to circumstances and after discussion u j tlj.e .dl • So I objected to their consideration by the council, as such, and suggested a t. <-<•’, : c ..nt -de the Ci'imc;!, w iiieh) was approved. Accordingly, In the late afternoon. G< neral Foeh, Lord Miltier. British war minister. General Weygand and I. with Colonels Conner nnd Boyd, met in the premier's room. General Foeh began by stating the serious condition of the

Doughboy* Bringing In German Prisoner*.

allies and proposed the continued shipfrom America’’bf nothing but infantry and machlne-gtin units In June and July, lh effect 250,600 in each month. Every one realized the gravity of the allied situation as strongly as he did, but, as previously and persistently contended by me, there were two sides to the question. 5 Foeh Becomes Excited. « I was prepared to make some concessions and stated my views, but neither facts nor arguments seemed to make any impression. General Fj>ch especially was very tH>sktv,e_>and earnest, and. In fact, became quite excited, waving his hands and repeating: “The battle, the battle; nothing else counts." With equal emphasis I urged that we must build up our organization as fast as possible to carry on the battle

Napoleon Made Careful Study of Art of War

Napoleon’s coup d’oeil and the lightning flash of his genius is well known, but there was far more In his campaigns than coup d’oeil or the most brilliant of improvisation. It was the result —the result of genius in systematizing data—of long and painful study not merely of the technicalities of his profession, but of it* "divine parts," of which he found details in the theoretical work of his predecessors and in the campaigns of those who alone are his rivals. There was, as Professor Wilkinson shows, nothing miraculous about that first campaign. Napoleon's own special gifts amounted to genius, especially bis comprehension of men and his swiftness of decision, but his peculiar grasp of the art of war was the result of long study and meditation. Before be was in command in Italy he had written the memorandum that forms th* basis of hl* campaign, a memorandum which laid down the conditions of succes* and was derived from

to the end. and that our program had been jseriously Interrupted by concessions already made. I called attention to the fact that the railways ail over France were on the point of breaking down for lack of efficient operators and of skilled workmen to repair rolling stock; that our ports would be hopelessly blocked unless we could Improve the railways; that his plan would leave us 200.000 men short to complete combat units and fill up special organizations that were absolutely necessary in the S. O. S., and. finally, that the restriction of our shipments to infantry and ma-chine-gun units would be a very*’dangerous and short-sighted policy. To much of this he paid little or no attention and replied that all these things could be-postponed. Wanted Wilson Informed. Graeme Thompson. British expert on transportation and supply, came Into the room at this point with Mr. Lloyd George and General Sir Henry Wilson, and took part In the discussion. Mr. Lloya George said he thought President Wilson would be deeply interested to get General Foch’s view of the situation, and added that as America had no prime minister present he thought it would be inconvenient for us to make a decision, but that this subject should be brought before the whole council. I then called attention to a cable from Secretary of War IJaker. already qftoted, showing that the President had been much embarrassed by representations made to him personally by the French and British ambassadors, and had suggested that the matter might be settled by a conference between General Foeh and myself. I pointed out that the cable did not mention the supreme war council, and I again stated ,my opposition to making ..the subject one of general discussion by all allied representatives and their staff-. I did not fail to point out further that the President was trusting my judgment in this matter. As nothing was being accomplished and hoping the number of participants in the discussion might be limited, I proposed we adjourn until the following day. Pershing Again Answers Foeh. The next afternoon when we assembled M. Clemenceau was waiting for the rest of us, and instead of there being fewer conferees the number had increased. Not unlike the situation at Abbeville a .month before, everybody was keyed up. and, as we had expected. the question had to be fought all over again. General Foeh supported by M. Clemenceau and Lloyd George, wanted nothing but Infantry nnd machine gunners ill June and July, to which 1 was strongly opposed, again insisting that sufficient importance had not been attached to my reasons for the necessity

of the auxiliary troops omitted in June. Foeh resorted to his often-repeated question whether I was willing to take the risk, to which I replied very positively that I was ready to assume any responsibility my proposal might entail. but that I must have a greater proportion of other troor-s to keep the American organization from going to smash. Men Called in May Untrained. Other objections, which the allies apparently overlooked, were that the untrained men called out in May could not possibly be ready for service until a considerable time after arrival, and that neither the French nor the British could provide all the equipment and land transportation they would need. In accordance with my program, I was willing to agree to the shipment of

a study of earlier campaigns, of political history, of the map and of manuals like Bourcet’s. His own special scheme of a frontal attack combined with a turning movement was deduced completely before It was applied. His campaigns were applied doctrine, and nearly all the doctrine he had worked out in his head before he attained supreme command tn the field. —Manchester (Eng.) Guardian. Fleawort The common name for the seeds of the Piantago Psyllium I* fleawort, and they belong to the herb family. The name originated in England. This specier of piantago grows in the south of Europe and in northern Africa; The seeds are about 3 mm In length, 1 to 15 mm in width, convex on one side and concave on the other. They are dark reddish brown in color and closely resemble flaxseed in medicinal properties.

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fully trained infantry not needed for the instruction of new drafts, but felt that this point should be left to the judgment of the secretary of war. Mr. Lloyd George then concluded that as a consequence July would be a blank, and in a rather dejected tone he said the allies were in a sense in the hands of the United States. He spoke of the generous and chivalrous attitude of President Wilson, and said all they could do was to acquaint him with their needs and call upon him to come to their aid; more particularly to the aid of France at the period of the most terrible extremity that she had yet encountered. CHAPTER XLIV Further conversation e-t the session of the supreme war council showed the uncertainty in the minds of the allies. Prime Minister Lloyd George, reverting to losses, said that before the great German attack in May he had been informed positively the Germaps had only 400,000 replacements' left, and that now. aftey the most violent fighting,' in which it was reported the Germans had suffered very heavy losses, they still had more tha» 300,000 replacements. The allies also had 300,000, but it was now contended, he said, that the British army was on the decline while that of the enemy was hot. Mr; Lloyd George asked if that could be cleared up, to which General Foeh replied that It was because the enemy managed better, and he went on to say that Germany, with a population of 6SJ>M),dOO could maintain 204 divisions, while Great Britain, with 40,000,000 inhabitants, equid keep up only 43. It had been stated that the British counted on keeping up 53 divisions, but that ten of them would be practically American. Then, in response to a further question by Mr. Lloyd George. General Foeh said he could not pretend to say where Germany procured her replacements; possibly it might be from prisoners returned from Russia. Three Map Program. After further argument on discrepancies of various figures, and insistence by General Foeh that the number of divisions be maintained, the consideration of the transportation of American troops in June and July was resumed. The discussion Having reached an impasse, it was suggested that Lord Milner. British war minister. General Foeh and I should undertake to draw up a program. ■ ■ — In the consideration of the question by us tl.e i'oiiit of my contention was won when General Weygand, who was Fochs prliicipal adviser, remarked that It would be as well to leave the new drafts to be trained at home a month or so longer. Although my arguments had failed to make any impression on General Foeh, he at once approved Weygand's suggestion. Agreement on U. S. Troops. With this out of the way we soon drew up the agreement embodied in the following cablegram sent to Washington June 2: “(a) For June: First, absolute prb ority shall be given the transportation of 170.000 combatant troops (viz., six divisions without artillery, ammunl-, tion trains or supply trains, amounting to 126,000 men and 44,000 replacements for combat troops); second, 25.400 men for the service of railway, of which 13,400 have been asked by the French minister of transportation; third, the balance to be troops of categories to be determined by the commander in chief, American expeditionary forces. • -(b) For July: First, absolute priority for the shipment of 140,000 combatant troops of the nature defined above, four divisions minus artillery, etc., amounting to 54.000 men plus 56,000 replacements; second, the balance of the 250.000 to consist of troops to be designated by the commander In chief. expeditionary.. forces. “(c) It is agreed that if available tonnage in either month allows the transportation of a larger number of men than 250,000 the excess tonnage will be employed in the transportation of combat troops as defined above. “(d) We recognize that the combatant troops to be dispatched in July may have to include troops with insufficient training, but we consider the present emergency to justify a temporary and exceptional departure by t’se United - States from sound principles of training, especially as a similar course is being followed by France and Great Britain. (Signed) •TOCH. MILNER. rERSHING.---Th« prime ministers cabled President Wilson expressing their thanks for the promptness of American aid in the present emergency. Yanks at Chateau Thierry. The Second and Third divisions, facing the Germans near Chateau Thierry, had made their places in Mne secure, giving heart to the French, who were trying to stabilize their own positions around the newly formed salient. We shall hear more of these two divisions later. Although fully taken for granted by all of us. it was none the less gratifying to see these divisions. for the first time in the line, acquit themselves so well. En route to Chaumont we motored eastward through Montmiraii, passing long columns of French refugees fleeing from their homes, many on foot, men and women with bundles on their backs, leading the smaller children, driving their stock before them and hauling in various types of conveyance the few remaining worldly goods they were able to take with them. Almost indescribable were many similar scenes as reported by our troops as they came up to reinforce the retiring French. (TO BB CONTINUED.)

{Machines That Are | Almost Human b By E. C.TA YL O I The Invisible Policeman RECENTLY in New York city a SSO bill was offered to any person who could pick it up without causing an Invisible policeman to sound an alarm. No one got the SSO. The invisible policeman on guard was an unseen ray. It was set up at a meeting of the New York Illuminating Engineering society in the Westinghouse Lamp company. The bill was put in a five-foot safe with the door closed but unlocked. Somewhere athwart the safe, probably across the door, an ultra-violet ray of light was placed. The ray could not be seen. It was harmless; It could not be felt by the human touch. The ray “shone” upon a photo-elec-tric eye some distance away. Anyone attempting to take the SSO bill from the safe would interrupt the ray, thereby casting on unseen “shadow” upon the electrical eye. Thereupon the eye would loudly ring a burglar alarm. “With these rays," said Mr. McCoy, “It is-possible for jewelers, bankers and other custodians to add greatly to the security of their valuables. It can be made impossible for an intruder to move about without detection, as the rays can be placed at various angles In a room. They may operate a tear gas barrage, or set off a silent alarm. Then can be projected far enough to” protect the entire mouth of a harbor in war time with a warning signal belt.” One of these invisible policemen now stands at a gate in Springfield, Mass., and counts automobiles as they pass on the adjoining road. The robot has no physical contact with the passing automobiles. No wires stretch across the road to flash a signal when a car passes. The unseen ray of light is used. When an automobile passes, it breaks the ray. and the mechanism within the robot adds another to the total of the cars that have passed. This new “black light” is being used more and more extensively to expose fraud. It can disclose forgeries and counterfeit money. It has been used even to trap bootleggers. The makers of industrial alcohol can put a very small dose of some flourescent dye in their alcohol, and the dye will “shine” when the unseen ray is directed on it. no matter how m*ch the bootlegger had “cooked” or otherwise tried to disguise his product A new “fever tube” giving off rays similar to this, developed in the radio research laboratory of the General Electric company at Schenectady, N. Y„ has aroused in the mind of its inventor, Dr. W. R. Whitney, director of the laboratory, the thought that radio may eventually be used to heat the roomers instead of the room. It may be possible, he holds, by using an adaptation of the fever tube to supply heat to the occupapts of homes and office buildings instead of heating the homes or buildings themselves. We heat thousands of cubic feet 1 of space, he asks, merely to keep a body warm. Maintain sufficient heat in the person instead of an excess of steam in radiators. Doctor Whitney’s fever tube sends off unseen rays of heat that are absorbed by the body upon which they are directed, but which are not felt In the sense of being hot to the touch. His suggestion is that his device might be placed in the walls of a room, the rays directed across the path of greatest activity, and then, with windows open, no furnace in the cellar and no radiatori to look after, the inhabitants would be comfortably warm. Scientists are making wide use of these unseen rays and variations of it. A weird light has been produced that causes moving objects to slow down or appear still. This light, resembling a huge flash light turned on a whirling electric fan. caused It to look as though the blades were at rest. Engineers have used this to find out what caused erosion on the tips of airplane propellers during a rain. The “light” made it possible to see the cracks forming in the blades when artificial rain was turned on while they were in motion, and this showed how to protect propellers against this. (©. X»3l. Western Newspaper Union.) Curious Colloquialisms Queer flames are given to the local holidays in northern villages in England. The district round Huddersfield alone supplies a rich variety. At Slaithwaite the strange title of “Sanjemis” was used to the end of last century, and it still lingers, maybe. At Honley they have a “feast,” at Almondbury a “rush,” at Longwood a “thump,” and at Kirkheaton a “rant." Meltham has one almost as curious as Slaithwaite: it is, or was, called a “bartleby.” There must be dozens of others, although the “wakes” and the “feasts” are probably in a huge majority. On the Dot “In some parts of China,” says a New York writer, “they tell us, people are able to tell the time more or less accurately by looking at the eyes of a cat.” Skill in this art is not confined to the Flowery kingdom. Hereabouts, too, when a man sees a pair of cat's eyes gleaming on a fence at night, and. gets hold of a missile, it is time for the animal to leap down. This is th* last word in accuracy. But Be Sure "To love the sound? of your own voice,” said Hi Ho, the sag* of Chinatown. "is perinlssible if you are sure of the wisdom of what i you hav* trained it to speak.”—-Washington Star. Penalty of Unreadineaa Nothing is so great an enemy to tranquility and a contented spirit as th* amazement and confusions of unreadiness and inconsideration.—Taylor.

POETS HAVE SUNG GLORY OF SUNDIAL “What a dead thing is a clock,” says Charles Lamb, “with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication, compared with the simple altar-like structure and silent heart-language _of the old dial 1” He thought that, if the business uses of the dial had to be superseded by more elaborate inventions, its moral uses and its beauty might have pleaded for its continuance. To him the dial spoke of “moderate labors, of pleasures not protracted after sunset, of temperance and good hours; it was the primitive clock, the horologue of the first world. Adam could scarce have missed it in Paradise.” The sundial as a thing of beauty and a joy forever has more than fulfilled his desire for continuance in the century that has passed since the death of Elia. Nearly all formal gardens, and many lesser ones, add the sundial as a “measure for sxVeet. plants and flowers to spring by. for birds to apportion their silver warblings by.” but not “for flocks to pasture and be led to fold by.” Many books have been written about the mottoes attached to the sundials; about the different forms they take and where they may be placed and by what surroundings. Every one knows of the classical thought found by Hazlitt on a sundial near Venice: “I count onlyWhe hours that are serene.” Queen Alexandra may have read his dissertation on it. or she. may have had a twinthought expressing itself at the same time, for on her dial at Sandringham there is a motto chosen by the queen herself: “Let others tell of storms and showers. I only count the sunny hours." But, as Hazlitt says, if hours were all serene we would take as little notice of them as the dial does of> those that are clouded. It is the shadow thrown across that gives us warning of their flight. The cave man's great rock upon which was cast the shadow of a long pole driven into the ground, may have been "the foreshadowing of the appearance of the sundial which is of ancient origin and of many and diverse forms. The dial of Ahaz, mentioned in the Old Testament, supposedly about 700 B. C., is about the first we hear of it. Two centuries later, Pliny the honor of having invented the sundial, for the Greek scientist Anaximander. Another two centuries go by and we hear that the high priest Berossus, not being satisfied wjth a shaft, like Cleopatra’s Needle, because the shadows varied from day to day, according to the position of the sun. invented a clever way of marking time correctly by making the dial hi low like the inside of a bowl. The shadow was cast by a little round ball or bead at the end of a pointer that stood horizontally out over the bowl; Many centuries later, similar devices were found in the ruins of Pompeii, and in the gardens of Ciceros villa near Tusculum. Sundials were often surrounded by masses of roses, or sunflowers (which were Hazlitt’s preference), or by tall hollyhocks, larkspur, coreopsis. and all the old-fashioned flowers so much in use today. The .sundial seems to have a very particular fascination for the poets. I found three different sundials to which Flenry Van Dyke gave tribute. For the class of 1904 at Wells college, he wrote of the sundial: The shadow by my finger cast Divides the future from t.he past. Before it, sleeps the unborn hour, In darkness and beyond thy power. Behind its unreturning line. The vanished hour, no longer thine. One hour alone is In thy hands— The Now on which the shadow stands. —lndianapolis News. Odd Drinking Vessels Steins for drinking Tibetian beer are equipped with permanent straws, or have mouthpieces in their handles, a collection of drinking vessels put on display at the Field Museum of Natural History, in Chicago, revealed, Other cups are made from the Horns of wild yaks. Tibetians use them for drinking arak, a liquor similar to beer. Clever Boy Scouts A mechanical man that walks, sits down, lifts objects, winks his eyes and smokes cigarettes has been built by Newton (Mass.) Boy Scouts. The robot was constructed in the cellar of the home of Robert Kangotr, sixteen. Asb Receivers “Saw soifle neat ash receivers for. the card tablb. They represented the queen of Hearts." “I should think they'd use the trey.” Exception “Does jrour wife ever say you're right?” «, “Oh. yes, she always says I am right in admitting I’m wrong.” The Ruse “Jimmy, Aunt Louise will never kiss you with that dirty face.” “That’s what I figured."

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Friendship Marred by Distance in New York In New York city it is possible to know an infinite variety of gflod citizens. You may scrape up an acquaintance with showgirls, professors of applied therapeutics, novelists. pugilists, Hindu swamis, tabloid reporters, toe dancers and captains i of South American banana boats. You may e.ven become warm friends of a bibliomaniac or a Hoboken bartender. But what good will they , do you? If you live in the Bronx, your best friends invariably live in Flatbush, and if you live on City island, the boon companions you are just dying to see always reside in Jamaica or ’ Jersey City. So that if you are projecting an ! hour’s friendly call, you have to j travel on tiie subways tw.o hours; you are mauled the theater i crowd, and manhandled by the downtown warehouse watchmen go ! ipg uptown to sleep and the uptown ■ swells going downtown to play. And when you arrive at your friend's house at 10:00 p. m., limp ! and shopworn, you find, of course, ! that he lias quit waiting for you.and i has gone to a Rumanian fish house j three blocks from your home which you left two hours ago. Friendship in New. York becomes too often a terrific chore. It is far easier to be content with the casual folk you rub against where your business or your thirst takes you. As a rule, therefore, the “people to your taste" are not to your taste in any deeper, spiritual sense, but they simply frequent the same resort or restaurant y<su do and are tolerable only because they can speak your jargon of art or business and do not attempt to assault you witji beer mugs.—Ernest L. Meyer in the Forum and Century. Air Mileage Record The greatest daily airplane mileage between any two cities in the United States is flown between Atlanta and New York, with three scheduled round trips, mail and passenger, each day, according to Collier's Weekly. The WashingtonNew York airway ranks second, with 11 round trip.B dStly. The total daily mileage in this country, is 120,000. Science Trouble Two Tech girls were talking about their school work. Said one: “What science are you going to ta'ke up next semester?" Before the other could answer, small sister piped up: “Oh. do they teach that, tov? That's the kind of trouble Daddy had in his head last winter." —Indianapolis Nexts. Human Interchange “Hiram," said Mrs. Corntossel, “what is the new hired man complaining about?” * “He isn't really complainin’,” replied Farmer Corntossel “Talkin’ about his troubles is Just a hired man's way of bein’ sociable and friendly.” Movable Set “My dear said the doctor, “your physical troubles- are due entirely to your defective teeth. Now let me examine them.” “All right, doctor,” muttered th* patient, “hold out your hand.” Finish “Your husband doesn’t yawp about his first sweetheart any more.” “Nope, he saw her the other day, after twenty years.” Some men so much hate fighting that they drop out of the business world. Holes are so closely associated with good swiss cheese that the mere sight of the holes is appetizing. A stingy man may not care for friends. He doesn’t seek them.