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Evidently the convicts share the opinion of Warden
Murphy and everybody else who ever took the trouble to
investigate that the Oregon state pentitentiary is not a
very desirable place to stay in; live prisoners thus far this
week have escaped and four others tried unsuccessfully
to do so.
Oregon needs a new penitentiary (in fact two of them)
worse than it needs lots of things it has been getting. The
present one, a relic of the dark ages, ceased to be inhabit
able about the time Andrew Jackson was elected presi
dent.
While it is the opinion of many that the pentitentiary
is no place for a decent man to live in, still there are a lot
of men who get in there that could be made decent if given
half a show and not compelled to live in such a place as
the Oregon institution and in close communion with con
firmed criminals; why its a dirty trick to keep even the
last mentioned class in the pentitentiary at Salem.
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An interesting development in connection with the hostile shelling of the
territo ry around Mont des Cats, in the Kemmel region, where the famous
T rapplst monastery is located, is the fact th a t the Germans have been bom
barding this Flemish elevation heavily and the monks' home has been badly
damaged.
T he German em peror recently w rote a le tte r to his com mander in th a t
area asking th a t Mont des Cats be spared because the aged prior of the
monastery was th e only living person who knew where the em peror’s relative.
Prince Max of Hnsse, had .been buried after his death In the monastery in
October, 1914. The prince was attached to the cavalry which occupied Mont
des Cats afte r the outbreak of the war.
In an engagem ent with British cavalry. Prince Max was m ortally
wounded and was taken to the monastery. While he was being nursed by
the monks his com rades were driven from the hill by the British, who occu
pied It. The prince died and was buried in a certain place, the location of
which was not disclosed to th e world.
(From the Philadelphia Record.)
self or his machine. F or Fonck never
has been wounded. Many of his vic
Uncle Sum may commandeer all tobacco over here, and
tories were won before the German
the needs of “ over there” may not leave us half a share!
adversary had a chance to fire a shot.
Incidentally he is said to know more
Uncle Sam, for mercy’s sake! We don’t care what else
about Germán aviation than any other
you take, wheat and beef and booze and cake, but beware
man among the allies.
this added ache; think of all the hearts you’ll break! All
Brocard taught him to fly anything
the old tobacco hearts in these cis-Atlantic parts will Lacks Even Usual Superstition and everything, Including the first a r
tillery observation machine w ith two
arise, O Uncle Sam, and exclaim in chorus “ Damn!” How
motors. Fonck himself says he liked
About Airplanes.
can we be up to snuff if we do not get enough of the need
every machine he ever tried except the
one he attem pted to m ake out of his
ful cheerful stuff! What the dickens shall we do if we
m other’s buffet when he was ten years
cannot get from you half a toothful for a chew? Tell us it GIVES HIS TO BEGIHNERS old.
H e spoiled the buffet, he says,
and th e results were painfully u nsatis
is but a joke! Surely you would not revoke poor man’s
factory.
privilege to smoke!
Unlike Guynemer, He Seldom Works,
he is m odest; he keeps say
Take our houses and our barns, cotton warps and wool and Then Only When He Feels F i t - ing Finally,
he is lazy, and very likely he really
en yarns, all the fancy clothes we use and our low and Score Now 60 Enemy P lsnes and All means it, because he keeps comparing
self to Guynemer. Guynemer was
lofty shoes; horses, mules and motor cars, dancing balls W ithout Scratch to Himself or Ma him
always
in the a ir; he w as untiring, at
Knows More About German
and drinking bars, movies, ball parks and bazaars, books chine—
work hour afte r hour. Fonck by com
Aviation Than Any Man of Allies.
parison flies seldom. He never goes up
and pictures, paints and chalks, sermons, after dinner
he feels Just like It. He cannot
talks, dogs and cabbages and kings—there’s no limit to Rene Fonck, the young ace of aces unless
conquer this reluctance to systematic
the things we’ll surrender on our part, if you’ll only have who recently won his forty-ninth offi daily work, he says. Which seems to
recorded victory, may best be de show that, afte r all, he is human and
a heart. Every blessed thing we grow, long and short and cially
scribed as th e man w ith perfect nerve, has a falling.
high and low—we will give you all you need; only let us but no trace of nerves. Those who
have had th e opportunity to study him
keep the weed!
closely believe th is superb poise Is the
DEAF MUTES MAKE
“ Rations of tobacco?” Scat! Nothing’s rational in secret of his success.
that! All accustomed smokers scoff at the thought of To show how free he Is from fo ib les:
IDEAL AIR FIGHTERS
Most fam ous aviators become a t
“ tapering off.” Uncle Sam, it can’t be done! We must tached
to a favorite machine. When
have too much or none! On our pipes, in peace, we drew they have won a few victories in it
till our very gills were blue; if these ills the war had bred, they regard it w ith affection, even Successful Experiments at Min*
su p erstitio n ; It is lucky.
war is all that Sherman said. Let the booming cannon w ith
eola May Result in Their Be
By contrast, Fonck has a habit of
cease! We would smoke the pipe of peace!
giving his machine to any youngster
ing Allowed to Enlist.
FONCK, FRENCH
ACE, NERVELESS
FULL SPEED AHEAD
(By Gordon Selfridge.)
Do I believe there is any reason for American adver
tisers to draw in their horns, in the light of English ex
perience? 1 do not! Always remembering that in war
time waste and foolish buying must be eliminated, there
is no reason why a business should not go ahead full
speed. In Great Britain the firms which never faltered
have had results to justify their faith, and those who were
frightened by the prospect have suffered. The longer the
war lasts, the greater the gross volume of business seems
to be due, perhaps, to the more equitable distribution of
wealth among the classes, which the war brings about. If
1 were an American merchant, l should go ahead under
full pressure.
THEN “ YOU KIN USE YOU’ OWN JUDGMENT”
(From Everybody’s Magazine.)
“ ‘Tain’t gwine do ’em any good to pick on me,” said
Lemuel sulkily. “ Ah certainly ain’t gwine do any fightin’.
Ah ain’t lost nothin’ oveh in France. Ah ain’t got any
quarrel with a-n-ybody, an’ Uncle Sam kain’t make me
fight.”
“ You’re right,” replied Jim. “ Uncle Sam kain’t make
you tight. But he can take you where de fightin’ is, an ’
after that you kin use you’ own judgment.”
JELLY, JUICES AND JAM
LATE TO CHURCH BUT EARLY TO THE CIRCUS
(Sport’s Cousin.)
I went to a circus recently and got into the big tent
early, but the family noted for arriving at church when
the sermon is half over was there ahead of me.
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OLD MAN NOAH’S MISTAKE
(Awgwan.)
We mortals have to swat and shoo the flies from dawn
till dark, ’cause Noah didn’t swat the two that roosted in
the ark.
You’ll find sugar in the dictionary.
who has Just won his pilot’s commis
sion and who has caught the g reat
ace’s fancy.
"T ry th is one, lad,” he will say. “It
seems to be all right,” and thus passes
title to a plane In which he has downed
two or th ree Germans.
Then he takes the next machine sent
to the camp from the factory.
Built Like a Boxer.
Fonck Is of medium height and
weight and has the walk and carriage
of a skillful boxer. Men of scientific
bent say his reflexes are perfect—
Incredibly sw ift and accurate. Besides
this he hns extraordinary vision. It
has hnppened more than once when he
has led a squadron th a t he has sig
naled to th e other pilots the approach
of a Germnn plane, its exact location,
the angle from which it should be a t
tacked and its speed, all this before
any of th e others had seen It a t all.
It need hardly be added th at he Is a
rem arkably accu rate shot, another
proof of his superb vision and perfect
nerve control.
Like all the g reat fliers, he is a fa
natic on th e subject. When he talk s j
it is of nothing but motors, new mod
els of planes, aeriat tnctics and ma
chine guns. But more often he sits
through dinner with his friends w ith
out u tterin g a syllable.
Speaking of tactics, he has none, o r
a t least no set method. H e improvises
ns he goes along. Like the oth er pu
pils of th a t great Instructor of fliers.
Com mandant Brocard. he Is full of in
genious surprises. Incidentally, Bro
card believed In him from the first. A
y ear ago Georges Prade. a Journalist
o f note, w as talking to the m aster, ex
pressing his fears for the fu tu re of
th e combat sqnadrons with Dorme, N a
varre, Rochefort, Lenoir gone, and
Guynemer and Nnngesser fighting on
by sheer will power and determ ination
despite wounds which would have
crippled th e ordinary man. Brocard
replied sim ply:
H ad a Card Up H it Sleeve.
“B ut w e have Fonck. Do you know
FonckT H e 1» unique.”
Fonck w as all b ut unknown.
B nt he could not rem ain long in ob
scurity—not a young man who kept
putting down plane afte r plane (his
•core now la over sixty, eleven having
fallen out of eight of official observers)
end alw ays w ithout a scratch to U »
Army officers of the Mlneoia avia
tion field believe th a t the ideal air
fighter hns been found—the deaf mute.
As a resu lt of tests made with recent
graduates from the New York Insti
tution for the Deaf and Dumb it is be
lieved th a t the w ar departm ent will
soon authorize their enrollm ent in the
flying service and th at a new field of
w ar endeavor will be opened to thou
sands of young men all over the coun
try.
Curiously enough It has been dis
covered th a t deafness elim inates one
of the most dangerous factors in the
training of m ilitary aviators. The man
who w as born normal but who has
lost his hearing has no sense of mo
tion, so it is explained by MaJ. William
H. Van Tassell, assistan t principal of
the institution. As a result he loses
the fear and the feeling of dizziness
which a great altitude often cuuses in
the normal mau.
“A number of oar graduates have
been tried out in airplanes at Mlneoia
for several Sundays past,” said Major
Van Tassell, “and the tests have been
so successful th at it is quite likely they
will be allowed to enlist. It will de
pend upon how fu rth er experim enta
tion, which is now In progress, turns
out
"The deaf have no sense of motion.
If they lose the sense of hearing, after
once having possessed it, they cannot
tell, for Instance, w hether they are
swinging in a hammock or w hether it
is stationary. They never become sea
sick or dizzy in high altitudes and lose
all sense of dread, such as is expe
rienced by normal persons. The ex
plosions of airplane engines are entire
ly unheard by the motes, although in
ail other respects they a re exactly aa
keen as anyone.”
Boy Finds Box of Money.
Finding an iron box full of money
while playing with companions In the
ruins of the Chinatown fire a t P asa
dena. Cal.. Manna! Garcia, a twelve-
year-old Mexican boy, mounted guard
over the money until it w as claimed by
its owner, Ah Sing. Yonng G a rd a e »
dsavored to lift the box. bnt it was too
heavy. When the excited Chinese un
locked It, it was found to contain near
ly $100 In email coins, moat of which
w are pennies and nickels.
THE DOG FENNEL
a
(By T en n y so n J. D aft.)
S om e b a rd s m ay b lu rb of lilies fair,
of asp h o d els an d roses,
B ut I sin g of th e dog fen n el th a t
titilla te s o u r noses
W ith o d o rs old th a t call to m in d a
flood of recollection
A nd b rin g o u r ch ild h o o d hack a g a in
in d re a m y retro sp e ctio n ,
W ith a c i d sm ell th a t h u m b le w eed
a m ira c le d o th w o rk us,
A nd ta k e s u s back to y o u th 's g lad
tim e, th e d a y w h en cam e the
circus.
j
W e live a g a in th o se joyous h o u rs
w h en w e escap ed o u r m a m m a s
And c a rrie d w a te r for th e y ak , th e
zeb ra a n d th e lla m a s,
A nd h a v in g w on o u r w ay in sid e w e
m a rv e l at th e w onders,
A nd alm o st lau g h ed o u r fool h e a d s
off to see th e old clo w n ’s b lu n
ders.
T hose d ay s a re gone, a n d n e ’e r
a g a in , m y se re a n d a n c ie n t
b ro th er,
W e’ll see a show as g ra n d a s th a t—
th e y 'll n ev e r m a k e a n o th e r.
“ THEY CAN’T HOLD US GUYS”
(By Richard Henry Little.)
American soldiers are grand fighters, but poor matinee
idols. When women spring from their seats in the side
walk cafes and thrust flowers in their hands they look as
ashamed as a dog caught stealing eggs. The most awful
suffering I saw in Paris was the case of a bjg husky from
an infantry outfit. A woman of great distinction had
stopped her machine in the middle of the street while the
soldier was crossing, and, leaning out, enthusiastically
had tied a bright pink ribbon around his neck. Amidst
much rejoicing from the assembled French spectators the
woman went her way and the big soldier looked as if he
was just about to choke to death, although it was a very
thin ribbon and loosely tied.
1 saw him an hour later and he still wore the ribbon and
had turned deathly pale and was evidently in great pain.
“ Listen said he in a hoarse whisper, “ the captain said
we was to receive any compliments given us by the
French with a smile and show ’em we appreciated it and
not hurt their felings by ditching it, but if I have to wear
this pink ribbon around my neck for another hour I ’ll
go nuts and bite myself in the leg. For the love of Mike
do something.”
1 removed the ribbon from the suffering soldier’s neck
and after a while he grew calm and quite rational, and he
told me some stories of the front regarding the first as
sault of the Americans against Chauteau Thierry a week
before.
“ They can’t hold us guys,” he said. “ When we git
started we jest keep goin’. There at Chatty Teery the
officers were making an awful holler about the boys run
ning too fast and ducking right thru the barrage and not
paying attention to nothing except spearin’ bodies. Our
colonel came over before we started and he was most
particular like in pointing out a hunch of rock where he
wanted our battalion to halt. The major said all right
that he would stop his four companies right on the line of
’em rocks, and then we started. We got it right in the
nose from every Hun gun in front of us, but the boys just
yelled and laughed and away they went. Say they didn’t
pay no more attention to the major when we came to ’em
rocks than if he hadn’t been there at all. I went back to
give him a message from my captain and lie was standing
by the rocks, and up came the colonel, and the colonel gave
the major blinking hell for not stopping the battalion
where he said and the major was madder’n a hornet, and
double damned the colonel right back again and he said,
‘How the crucified damnation could I stop them crazy,
wild eyed sons of perdition? If that hog faced crown
prince and his whole damn Hun army couldn’t stop ’em,
what the hell could I do?’ ”
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