California Church Built by Man Single Handed C onstance Binney Clouds were hiding on the mountain I and around it. Then along came Brisk Breeze, who A |X 'I »-» Ra n Clouds, big and | was passing on his way home, and small, were hiding on top of ! Mother Earth begged him to tell tht' a mountain and in the big hollow* | Bain Clouds to hurry or her children in its side. Down on the ground every flower | would perish. Rut th« I I Bain *C1 »rhei snd plant and growing thing was cry­ Brisk Breeze gave them Mothei ing for water, and old Mother Earth | Earth's message, just ran off high up was beside herself with grief over j in the sky saying they were not the suffering o f her children. ; going to work; they were going sail “They all will die," she moaned, “ and I cannot do a thing to help ing. Brisk Breeze was a friend to them. Even the tall trees are heavy Mother Earth, however, and he flew with dust. Oh. where are the Bain | straight to old Mr. Thunder und his sister, Miss Lightning, and told them what was going on. Oh, how Mr. Thunder did scold. Ilf could he heard for miles around. lie caught those runaway ruin clouds, every one. big and small, and carried them right to ids quick-tempered sis­ ter, and how she did spank them while all the time Mr. Thunder scold­ ed. Among the charming "movie” star« ltaln Clouds began to cry. tlie big le handsome Conitance Binney. She ones as well as the little ones, and has been seen in many picture* an#| down rolled their tears on the thirsty her splendid work is appreciated by Mother Earth and her parched chll- her countless admirers. This it on* ; j dren. of Mis* Binney** latest pictures. ! My, how those rain clouds did cry! --------O-------- j They cried so hard und so long that [ their fast falling tears made puddles and pools all over the ground, but at the The Fast-Falling Tear* Made Pud­ Mother Earth did not care; she Just made places to catch the fulling dles. drops, and when the little brooks and Clouds, and why do they not do their streams ran over she told them, flr M A R Y M A R S H A LL DUFFEE work Hnd save my children?" "Never mind, my dears, we can use It The little brooks und streams had all. I am so thirsty I can drink every done all they could to help, but even bit of It liefore morning." TH E TELE PH O N E they were almost dry. and in her de­ And she did, for the next morning spair Mother Earth caught a Warm everything wus bright and fresh and T3 EM EM BER the telephone! For what Is the use of our won­ Breeze floating by and asked It If It Mother Earth and all her children derful modern civilization if we don't knew w-here the Rain Clouds were were no longer thirsty. take advantage o f all Its conveni­ and why they did not come where The Bain Clouds were all afraid of ences? And that is Just what th« they were so much needed. Mr. Thunder and his sister, hot tem­ Warm Breeze said he did not know, pered Miss Lightning, after that, and telephone la— a convenience. Yet for the sake o f saving five or but that he would ask Tree Top If now when they hear him scolding ten or twenty cents, sometimes, some he could get high enough, but that he they are pretty sure to come running of us ignore the existence of the tele­ had little strength left himself, the and begin their work, for they know how angry he can he when they fall phone, and cause thereby untold wor­ earth was so warm. Somehow Warm Breeze did manage to give Mother Earth and her chil­ ry to our family and our friends. For Instanee, you have told your to get a message to Tree Tops and dren water when they are thirsty. <© by McClure N ew spaper S yn d icate.) family that you will he home at four they sent buck word that the Rain o'clock to take a little motor trip be­ fore dinner. You are delayed at the v . v . v . v . v . * . v . v . v . v . v . v . w office, and know you won't he able to get home until seven. Telephone them, and put their minds at rest about the change of your plans. t»r By MILDRED M A R S H A LL you are delayed by a block on the | . . Cornuelle, formerly a Cin­ cinnati man, lias built this elaborate church at Slerru Madre, CaL It took lilui a year und eicht months to complete the work. Airmen Fall in Casual Ventures eastern const of Newfoundland. A ( f l u of had !>• i a off« red to the aviator w|io made the first non­ stop Might across the Atlantic ocean, and a dozen or so Britishers l ad gath­ ered there to tuuke the attempt. Among them wus Cuptuin Alcock, Inter Sir John Alcock, u famous ace during the war, who piloted the first English plane that bombed Constanti­ United States army air service, his nople. Captain Alcock, with u navi­ Tragedy of Captain Hamilton muchlne crumpled 3,.h00 feet nbove gator, Arthur W. Brown, also kn'ghted the earth, and Carlstrom, together with luter, hopped off In June, 1016, und Adds to Appallingly Long a pupil pilot, Cary Ii. Epes. "got It.” astonished the universe by Hying from List of Victims. Another American who thus met his Newfoundland to Cllfden, Ireland. In fate after coming unscratcbed through 10 hours and 1- minutes. all sorts of dangers wus Hobart T. II. It was Just six months luter that Iluker, better known us “ llobey” fate overtook this intrepid uvlutor. Baker, the l ’rlnceton athlete. Baker While flying in France, merely taking had u splendid war record, with a a seaplane to nu exhibition at llouen, Is It Luck, Aviators Ask, or Are They number of enemy planes to his credit. he miscalculated his distance from the On one occasion he attacked a German earth. In u fog, and was instantly Heedless of Minor Dangers Sines lighting machine, 20.000 feet up. In the War — Distinguished killed when his plane struck the this buttle above the clouds Baker fol­ ground. Names in List. lowed his adversary down almost to One of Captuln Alcock’s rivals In the ground, before a well-directed shot the transatlantic Mights was an air­ facing death a Washington.—A fter from his uiuclflne gun gave the haul man who was equally well known thousand Unies with the marines at coup de grace. umong aviators. This was Harry O. Chateau Thierry, St. AI Iblei, Belleau After the armistice, In December, Hawker. Hawker was the first to hop Wood and In the two Meuse-Argonne Baker left the Second army und start­ off ut Newfoundland, starting on May offensives, ('apt. (jeorge I>. Hamilton ed home tiy way of Baris. Ills light­ IS with Lieutenant Commander Mao retnrned to this country and |w*ace ing duys were over, und he looked for­ j kenzle Grieve as navigator. In vain, times to die a few days ago while pi­ ward to peace and to college reunions ' the next day, they waited for news of loting an ulrplane in a sham battle In und u promising career In business. | him In England. Hawker and his com­ Gettysburg. Ills machine crushed to While waiting for transportation, he rade and their plane hud disappeared. earth from a height of -400 feet ubove motored out to Toul one day to look Beople suld that they hud been the historic hattlelleld. over Ills old Spud. He decided to go | drowned In the of-ean. But those who in France Captain Hamilton's rec­ ortf for during und for hairbreadth es­ aloft Just once more. What happened? knew the uvlutor suld: “ N o ; Harry No one understands exactly. It Is suld j Hawker bus got more lives than a cat. capes wus not surpassed by that of an/ one In the A. K. He received that Maker undertook to tiy another j If he hadn't, he would have been the Distinguished Service Cross front officer's machine, one that had recent­ i killed long liefore this. He's the lie got only 150 luckiest airman that ever lived." his own government, mid wus dec­ ly been repaired. feet ubove the ground when the ulr- Sure enough, six days luter a Danish orated twice by the French for gul- IsntrjA A thrilling war painting com­ plane collapsed and the body of the steamer, the Mary, came rolling Into young officer was removed from the : port with Hawker and Grieve on memorates one of Ills deeds. It de­ debris. j hoard. ¡She had picked them up 8T>0 pict* him, at that time u major, lead­ Among other flyers o f this country miles off the coast of Ireland, floating ing a battalion o f murines across a who went through the war unharmed along hanging to their frull cruft. pontoon bridge over the Meuse un­ and succumbed In peace-time flights | Hawker's luck still held. der the heuvy urtlllery und machine arc Hugh Gordon Campbell, Syracuse A year later, July 21, Hawker went gun fire In an effort to establish u .university athlete und American ace, aloft near the Hendon alrdome, In Eng­ bridgehead. who died when his airplane fell Into land, to test u plane for the aerial Uninjured by enemy bullet, gas, or the (Mean at Atlantic City; ("apt. derby. lie was tlylng probably 4,000 high explosive shell. Captain Hamil­ Field E. Klndlcy, who was killed dur­ feet up In the air when those who were ton was mustered out o f the service ing maneuvers at Kelly Held, Texas; wutching saw the plane suddenly ca­ after the armistice, lie rejoined, how­ Kenneth F.arle and Maxwell Blanch­ reen and come plunging to the eurth. ever, a few months later, and en­ ard, killed nt Balm Beach ¡«I.leut. But Hawker died in the arms of the doctor tered the aviation corps. In the air l.ogan, who fell at Butt I more; I.leut. who had been hastily summoned. A the former "soldier of the sea*’ dis­ James Murray Grier, formerly of the played the same courage and audacity coroner's Jury found the accident had famous Lafayette eacadrllle, and for which he had been known at the \ been due to n sudden stroke o f paral­ Nergt. Joseph Peter Saxe, expert uerlul ysis which the airman had suffered. front. These qualities, combined with photographer with the A. K. F., both IBs physician testified that Hawker •kill and a natural aptitude for Hy­ ! of whom were killed when their mu- had long been a victim of tuberculosis ing. soon put him in the forerunk of | | chine fvll near Forest IIIIIs during u of the spine, and hud been warned our airmen. I championship tennis match In 1020. Then came the end. With n nutn- I against tlylng. Then there was also George W. Bur- ber of others o f III* corps Captain j Sir Rocs Smith’s Death. year, who fought the Germans, was Hamilton wurf sent to take part In | captured by them, escaped, and fought During the year that Captain Alcock the maneuvers at Gettysburg, where them again. He came hack safe und and Hawker were busy with their ef­ bis old comrades, the marines, were playing ut war. While scouting abend I sound to America and died when his forts to fly across the Atlantic, another airplane crashed down In a cotton Held British aviator sprung into promi­ Of the Fifth regiment of murines i nence liy piloting a plane from Eng­ "something went wrong," and death I In California. land to Australia. It was Boss Smith, Alcock and Hawker Victim*. claimed a life that had seemed charmed against nil mishap. Several tears ngo the eyes of the later Sir Boss Smith, who hud n gal­ The passing of Captain Hamilton whol# wor|j wert, directed nt tne bleak lant record for daring during the war. A few months ago. Sir Boss and hla adds another name to the already ! hrother, Sir Keith Sn Ith, were get­ dreadfully long list of airmen who | dared every |ierll In war or In epoch- GAVE BLOOD TO COMRADE ting ready to tiy around the world. They had completed their plane« and making flights across land and seu, the feat seemed nlmost accomplished. and lived —only to iierlsh In some cas­ Early one morning Sir Ross arrived at ual enterprise that hardly seemed Brooklands where bis machine was. n venture. To compile the appalling Ills brother was not nt the lldd. and record. It Is necessary to go hack to he went up with Lieutenant Rennet, the «lays of pioneer aviation, when a friend of Ids. At n ’ .eight of 3,000 men like Arch lloxey, Italph John­ feel nbove the ground the airman be­ stone, John It. Molsnnt and others met gan n series of evolutions that he had death In their rudimentary machines. gone through a hundred times In order The history of the air alnce the war to test thoroughly every strut and guy brought aircraft to n high degree of In Ids plane Those watching were In­ perfection, has caused It to become terested, but not alarmed, and when almost an omen among aviators that they saw the huge plane diving their best may win a hundred odds on s tr a ig h t for the earth they only con­ gambles with the grim reaper and then sidered It a special sort o f trial. Sir lose when everything seemed In their Hog* was killed instantly and Lieuten­ favor. ant Bennett lived but a few moments No country ha* been exempt. Eng­ after being put Into an ambulance. land, France, America, Italy. In fact, And so the list continues. There every nntlon where Hying Is com­ was Capt. A. GL Kesnntl, the Italian mon ha* furnished Its quota of vic­ aviator, who w h s killed when n Cap- tim*. ronl plane rotlapscd at Mineola. There Carlstrom’* Car* of No Avail. were the Frenchmen. Ve.irinea, who Seven years ago Victor Carlstrom accomplished the feat of lnndiqg on a j was regarded as one of the great air­ roof In his plane, who won a number men In America. He was already a of aerial trophies for speed and altl-1 bolder of three ' mcrlcan records when IVtectlve William J. \eale o f the tude, and who finally fell while living In 1916 lie attempted a mm stop flight * New Tork police force was sick In from Oilcngo to New York, for the the hospital and In desperate need of sin. the famous ace, who was killed New York Time*. He was unsuccess­ • Mood transfusion. Capt. John while trying to fly bis plane low to ful In thia, being forced to land at l>tlane. In charge of the detective* at enable him to shout to tils brother-in- Erie. I‘a . and Hanmiondsport. N. T. the Fast Sixty-seventh street station law that he would he home for dinner. When he Anally got out of hi* plane waa naked by the doctor* If he c uld Aviator* are asking each other what on Governor* Island. Cartstroin aald: And nnyone willing to supply the Ilf** Is the answer to It all. 1* a man who " I »hall never tie killed by taking giving fluid. thin ten nilnutea four ha* come unharmed through exception­ chance*, hecnuse I do n ot tad levs In ■ hrother officer» of Veale were on the al peril art to pay too little heed to taking chance*. H it aotoe day my ma­ way to the hospital. The pho ograph |r*,i-r danger»? Is It, after all. Just a chine will collapse, and 1 will get It. show* Patrolman Martin F. Itofhaiuel, unittA- » f luck? e }u »t as *•' many other aviators have who consider* It a mens matter of In the early days of English rail­ gotten It." duty and a privilege to have been the Ills prophecy came true, on May 1», one picked out to give hla blood. He way tra iel the car seats bore numbers 1917, while flying at Newport News, la thirty nine years old and th* fa- corresponding with the number on th« ticket«. Va., as sn Instructor lieutenant In the | ther of right children. CAREFUL OR DARING, TREY GO P 900,000 It AIN CLOUDS THE RIGHT THING RIGHT TIME “What’s in a Name?” The Friendly T a th WHY I (C n iyrleh t h j is * sno-eler^SraJicite lac ) T ’ at lie beyond the line O f talents that are mine. ( i by M rC la re X tw sp a p vr S yn d icate.! e J t * K i l 0 t Z r f l i V . ^ m an erltlt \ 5 ( * *hort pock,t »,* J - I, "■*>* ha* a leng --------n-------- To Maintain Soldiers. At the present rate of exchange c< st» Î2.*hk> to maintain an Amene •olffier for one year. $12k*> for an El li«h soldier and $370 for a French » 41« r.