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PAGE . THE INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE, INDEPENDENCE, OREGON. . EIGHT i n i l :. i ' SEEING -ROME"" FROM DIRIGIBLE Correspondent .Gives Interesting , .Description of Trip Ov.er Eternal City. WONDEfiFIlL SCENE UNFOLDS , Plan to Make Aerial Tours of City an Attractive Feature ' for Visitors When Normal Conditions Re. turn Trip Is, Marvelous . Exper-ence. . , By LLOYD ALLEN. ' Western Newspaper Union Staff Cor respondent. Copyright, 1019. by Western Newspaper mien Rome. When you make that long promised European., trip to see , the great battlefields of France and Italy , .... nuu got to iiome you will undoubtedly . . - have the opportunity of inspecting the internal City from the deck of a diri gible. , By the time Europe has set its house in order and lias recovered sufficiently . from war to make t jurists comfortable Iiome will be featuring an aerial tour , , of the city which no one will care" to miss, even though the cost of the trip may be something like $20. ' Instead of lumbering through the streets in the old-time rubberneck wag ons, or in a taxi, you will be nh1 tn , lounge comfortably in well . padded L t?ais or on airship and see at fairly .close rauge the layout of Rome with its glories of ancient and modern archi tecture and at the same time feel per fectly safe, because a" dirigible moves along with even less vibration than a TuHnum sleeper or American parlor icar.- t I have just landed from such an in , 'fpection of Rome. Except for a few moments' uneasiness while the ampU ble was leaving the ground the trip was a marvelous experience and al most absolutely free from any anxious moments, -even though the big ship sailed along 2,000 feet in the air at times. It was a war craft, built for scout duty, and capable of carrying 30 persons and was nothing like the com fortable passenger airships that are now being planned and which will soon ... be In actual operation 'not only In Rome but in other European capitals as wen. The big factories and the men who designed these ships are now turning their thoughts to the possibilities pt passenger traffic and they know that Americans are going to be some ot their best customers during the days of enormous tourist traffic that are to come. In Italy, aswell as France and England, it is taken for granted that . the day of air travel is here. , . , . No Chance for Civilians Now. - t Just noAV f course, civilians find it Impossible to fly over Itome, or even vlslt Rome for that matter, unless .they have special business there." All transportation facilities are being used .to demobilize sections of the armies .and there is general congestion of rail ways and hotels. But this reconstruc tion period is not expetced to last many months.. , , As guests of the Italian government anu armea with a special permit to fly, your party of American newspaper men! eight in number, were taken up at mid afternoon for a one-hour flight in which our ship did a figure-eight : course over Itome, flying directly above the magnificent structure of St. Peter's the Quirinal palace, the Coliseum and the newer monumental edifice in white marble and gold that has been erected to commemorate the creation of new . Italy, the vast edifice of simple and severe architecture of the monument to Victor Iinniaiuiel II. In automobiles we were rushed, out of Rome through the ancient ' city walls, some of which were built during the clays of the old Roman republic, across the gardenlike cniiipagua of green fields and flocks of sheep to an immense airdrome in the prairie land. The whole of the interior was one vast room in which three dirigibles were moored safe from rain and storm. By means of a portable staircase on wheels we climbed into the swinging basket of the dirigible and took places where we could find them around the three gasoline engines, 12-eylinder Flats, each attached to a separate propeller. Carries Crew of Seven. Leather coats lined with .sheepskin were distributed, although the weather on the ground was springlike. Seven Italian army men compose! the crew of the ship. The officers used mega phones at times to shout orders to the crew and to communicate with the small army of soldiers that held tho guide ropes on the ground. The final sand bags . were thrown from a pile on deck and the ship start ed ascending without a tremor. Un less one looked at the ground the sensation of moving was not notice able: ... ! ' , - I watched for a few moments the manner -In which a gas engine man tuned up one of the three motors aboard, and was startled a few seconds later to find that we had moved sky ward about SOO feet. : The hundred odd helpers on the ground bad already been dwarfed into mere pygmies. The Roman eampngna with the mountains in the distance, was unfolding into a vast panorama. We continued to ascend to more.rfhan 1,000 feet, moving nil the timeVith increased speed Jowfcrd the city of ' . ixume, ten nines away. - Panorama of Rome. At a speed of 40 to 50 miles an Lcur we sped over farmhouses and .ruins of the Applan way toward the cltv Within five minutes the miles of arched stone aqueducts that stretch from Rome to the - mountains had been passed and we were in the outskirts of the town with the River Tiber just ahead threading the solidly packed rows of houses like a dull blue ribbon, They tell you in Rome that the most satisfactory view of the wrecked Coli seum, where the Caesars used to mur der Christians by the hundred and where the gladitorial combats of the old days were held, may be had by moonlight." However, a much better idea of the Coliseum and its size can be obtained by -viewing It from the air. From 1,000 to 1,500 feet above earth you can get a better estimate of its size, and as you float by you have to scrutinize closely to notice the damage time has brought to walls and arena. Near the Coliseum the other ruins are less distinguishable, They are too small to stand out in the panorama. The palace of Augustus is a mere pile of bricks. The world-famous Palatine hill near by is to all appearances an irregular strip of brick-strewn mead- owland and loses all of the grandeur that the fanciful tourist, on foot among the ruins, is able to reconstruct from his imagination. : .... On the other hand, tho Quirinal pat nee, the Rome residence of tho king of Italy In pence times, is notably unin spiring when viewed from tho street. Rut seen from tho air, the ningnlllcence of the "Quirinal is Impressive, Wonderful Scene Unrolls. To all appearances wo were barely moving. Whole sections of landscape 4,presentod themselves smoothly and seemingly slowly. Wo hud ample time to inspect with considerable care the larger points of luterest from our van tage point In the steady .basket, mid it was only after landing that we learned our speed had averaged 40 miles an hour. The distance above the ground was responsible for the delusion of slow speed. ' The glories of St. rotor's, viewed from the air, are no small part of the. joy of flying over Rome, It is only from a high elevation that one is able to ap preciate the perfect symmetry of de sign that represonKJhe best genius of architectural thougiv In Rome through four .centuries under the patronage of over a score of popes. Naturally enough the finer embellish ments of St. Peter's are more or less invisible from the air. The famous Egyptian obelisk, brought to Rome by one of the old emperors, who utilized S0 men and 140 horses to perforin part of the work and spent a small for tune in gold or, the enterprise, is a dot in the landscape. The statues are mere blurs, the fountains are simply brighter spots in the landscape. Trip Quickly Made. One of the disappointing features of. a first flight over Rome is the quick- Hess with which the trip is accom plished.. You have no sooner gotten into the spirit of viewing things from aloft until your machine scoots out side the city over the green fields again and'j-ou have groups of country peo ple below gazing skyward for the ever interesting sight of an airship. Once headed toward the airdrome, you will probably worry a bit about how efficiently the crew is going" to manage tho descent and landing. You commence to realize what an unwieldy thing ari airship is, how sensitive it is to the air currents, how much it weighs, and, above all other things, how far away the ground appears.. You con sider, after a bit of thought, that after all it was an Idiotic-idea to fly while the airship business is in a state of comparative-' infancy. About that time the airdrome, with its immense roof and sides of corru gated iron, is in sight. The pilots cir cle the airdrome and do a' sort of figure six in the air. On the ground nearly a battalion of men are rushing along to the spot the pilot lias picked for the landing. Sure enough, just as you feared they are dropping the huge machine just like an elevator. The ground suddenly looks very close. About that time you get your first slight jar; it is the crew dumping sev eral barrels of water ballast to lighten the machine and stop the car. The jerk Is less than the usual elevator makes when stopping for a floor. Had you not been watching closely you would not have noticed It. H. M. S. VINDICTIVE IN OSTE.ND HARBOR ENTRANCE f "ft 1 ' t v 4 ' 1 i b tt 4 4 -J r5 ' 1 t ' i i - nu -4 1 4 j - ',4,- ft iW...J f 4- S si t "5 This ship with its Kailunl civw astoiiiulotl tlic wurld by its nMimrkubkt frat of boftiinu U!, th funo r t' Im;4 t , at OsU'hil. The Vhulkiivt' was run iato tin- ontrmnv io th ami tstmk, , MACHINES TO DO -WORK IN CENSUS Wonderful Devices to Tabulate and Record Figures on Pop ulation and industry. QUIZ BEGINS IN AFRii, 1920 Government Already Has Begun the Job of Assembling Its Plans and Forces One Machine Handles 150,000 Cards in Eight Hours. WAR STAMP BRITISH IS IDEA Washington. An Interesting com parison between the systems of War havings stamps in Great Britain and America is made by the savings divi sion of the United States treasury. . England had been selling War Sav ings, certificates for more than a year before this attractive form of invest ment was offered to the people of the United States. This country has' bad the advantage of the Britons' experi ence in this field, and while the two Savings stamps are alike iii most re spects, there are a few interesting dif ferences. . I Tho British War Savings stamp Is dated when purchased and is due ex actly five years from that date. This enables them to sell the certificates al ways for the same I os. 6d. ($8.83). The American War Savings stamps are issued in annual series, and each series has a uniform date of issuance ana of maturity. The present rate Is kept uniform by increasing the pur'- tnase price one cent each month. This means that all of tho 1910 War Savimrs hiamps win mature in January, 1924, while in three or four years "British War Savings stamps will begin coming up for redemption in varying amounts each day. The British System. The British have devolved the sys tem of purchasing the regular sixpence postage stamps, which are pasted on a card until 31 are obtained. Then the cam is exchanged for a War Savin certificate. Americans, on the other band, can purchase' a 25-cent Thrift Mamp, ana thus gradually accumulate the required 16 stamps necessary to purchase a War Savings stamp, add ing, of course, the necessary amount according to tfie month, namely V cents for January or 23 cents for 'December. Washington. With hostilities at an end, the government Is now laying the basis for one of the greatest of its peace-time tasks the decennial inven tory of the United States, its people, lands, industry ami live stock that Is called the census. Secret a rv of Com merce Redlield the other day signed the order that transferred one of the mrgesc or the temporary war build ings put up in Washington, that for merly housing the army's department Ot aeronautics, to Director of the Con sus Rogers and his staff. Actually, the government began the joo some time ago, assembling Rg iuuns anu rorces. p,y law. the hetrin nlng of the census period of 1920 is Juiy i, -J19, though it wiu not be un til a year from April that the enumer ators will he set at work. rr ...in , ...iciu Mm ue twenty-nine questions m uie ju-u census, according to the piesent design of Director Rogers' viuujuijr curus, WHICH HOW (IW hflnn. j given tho exhaustive study of statist I cans. ijie more complex question naires mat, go to Industrial establish 4ni, u-5, m-iiuuis, nirms and every of her immanent institution of the country are likewise in the development stage undergoing critical examination in tin' light of experience the government has Bimeu in conducting thirteen inven tories of the kind. Will Be Machine Operation. Chiefly the bureau Is engaged In pre paring, for the classification and tabu lation of the vast quantity of material which will be assembled. The 1020 census tabulation will he for tho first time almost completely 4 ningqlno op eration, conducted by nicaiiVof devices useful only to the renins bureau of tli United States which have lnvn Invent ed and are now being bull 1 by men in lis employ. I'lectrle tiinclilnct. will first trillisl'ol' Die ui'iih'ii liifnrnmtlim coiiiini: in on the cm nioiV ulu-i-tj ! "'"' several months iil to curds, not by writing, but by pnm-li- ''" "' "''. hcre rect utly (.ha Ins holes al proper point. Then the ""llTl,,'l to 11 man by the t,.im.,nv ;: lit. .11.., iS Pi bod cards will be hunde, In their j """"K't. ftjienrer wrote lili f, BAD WRITING TRAGEDY CAE Letter of Tex Judge to FormwI It Delivered to Another i f Person. ronlurTcx,--vt Mt.-r wmljI, llvere.1 led to the tragic iWliof j.' H, I. Hppiicef of Peniti r, .me 0? leiidinj? Inwyeru of tbU- "i,!(rt o( , slut.. He was Mint down whllo-,, ln aloriK' tho street bore Jiolger. n well known i.nd lilgtiijj spectra retired merchant of Waoi. Judge Spfncer was ohorvwi f- BRITISH RAILROAD CHIEF MADE RECORD ALTITUDE FLIGHTS & ftrC4V 4 J 1 J a I w 4 I -mm?. Newnpivpi-r Union v i if, , - Captain Lang, R. A. F ., and Lieutenant Blowes, observer ui.n m , i world's record altitude flight in a British biplane pqulnoe u-Hh ' . V , " They reached tho unprecedented height of 30 500 Xf Z S Si"g'e ens'ne Itleshnm, Knud. ' - fcet' or sx mie "P. at Mat- War Savings societies, or nssocla- oos us tne Jiritish term them, are very numerous in the British Isles Mch person affiliated, with the associ ation contributes either a fixed sum or any amount he can at regular intei vals, say, each week. Whenever the vuua lus. uu, or more in the treasury hn iin,n,i;..i.i.. .tuluuc,i, jjurcnases om or more M Savings certificates; for his society, so that the certificates be Kin to draw interest. As soon as a number of persons have completed their payments it is custom ., ,fn . , , J UlUH lots for the advantage of the earliest dated certificates in the association wn ury. Thus, the lucky person may obtain a certificate which has been accumulating interest for weeks nos s bly, while the last stamp drawn wil of course, be only few days old EXemCt Frnm T ... Loth Brifsl, Savings certificates and -nierican War Saving ai-n,,. empt from taxation, and for this and other reasons there i um,J. the amount that mav h i.i,, .... 10 individual. In tho early &,9 England persons with in... . ing Sisnn ..-o.. . " ceeu- V1C ui -permitted to bnv Savings stnmns fri,i " uuy i4 , ", wiuition was later changed so that anyone may S Savings certificates up to about $2,503 maturity value. I the Unte3 Sta.tes one individual may not hS 6 than $1,000 of any rn -series In both countries there is no limitation preventing each , ' 'tat l2a 1 from holding ti, u iumu - o "lc ftcaerwea if ' ' 1,7 a & f) fix S ' 1 A ' 1 - -il..vv;, I niillloiis to nnoiher battery of mil chines, the tabulators, an iinutzlng product of human Ingenuity. K. M. Boiteaux, who devised lliem, him been with the census biirenu for eighteen years and is now supeilnteiiibn tb-j construction of twent live miielilnes. the operation of wkUh he will direct. These tabulators, worklnji with siiiiioth nnd silent perreetlon. take In fiKi cards a minute, count them, reject all that are Imperfect or Improperly punched in liny fashion ami tnlo; olT the totals of punch murks, n.seiiihllng ,1... 41 , .. ..... . . uie mini resuu in printed figure u hiindy sheets. One of them the oilier j ony in eight hours luuidleil. ir.o,oiK) curds. Look Like Office Furniture. The machines resemble in outward aspect a piece of olllce furniture. Cards go into a metallic mugm-lnc at their top, travel a few indies on nietal guides, come out neatly slacked with uie misi'iues 01 lie nunc 1 ni' iel,i....a "ue n iay or two before be ,i la fegnrd to rertnln liisunmcij pn .-.. which fibe had in her po esslon, l! letter showed timt then, hml m chiNe lujjmacy between the two. I Thin letter was delivered by tl, pt, I mini ! Ilolger Insteiul of M:.'l' -gcr. fie rend It ami then bud It U IiIm wife. Mrs. Rolger d.rlurwl t hml never heord of Speneei befiffM.; did rnt know wlmt the nvwr m uljiitit. Bolger beeiitne Ini'urlrttii! 1 declared he was jt'dng to kill ;t -Ho met Spencer nnd fired four to cnusljiK hid death. t . DOG IS WITNESS IN COUB Convineea Jury In Phlladelphii Tin: He U Not Vicious and Geti Verdict. ...I.!.... 1 nine merely human operators pointed out. The printed records of the eighteen or twenty totals that the ranch minks Indicate come out from another slot, and the Instrument stands ready to repent. Willi these machines, there Ix 1, nrne. tint! assin-iuice that the t.nl.llc!.ti,...a of the census, usual I v ,.,-!,.,, .,4 ""B tl"1' alter the ( liillilcmti,,,, ,.,,. be more quickly al hum! to l-m!,-',. .,,,,'1 demons!, (,, ,,, j,,,,,.,,. (f Iilit(m;) civilization. Thev nr.. helm, 1 1 , f "'oe 111 "y "orl of youlbful tip. "entices from Wnshlnt; sel f- which huve vocntlonnl eoniweu SOAP BRIBE FREES AMERICAN Private Released From German Prison arnp After Gift to One of the Guard3. Col.lenz.-llnlf n'enke r,r .. ..,.,, as a bribe, opened e road to llhortv u.i iiijieiiciin son or who ... 1.. Joined bis regiment ofi,,, ......... ,' 4, Piisoned in Gernianv. William Lltcb, a privale In the Twen fxth infantry, ,vns,.np,,.e1OetZ 1 during the flghti,,,, in A J r UlU !,.i1"'1-' near - 4, 4Uln .niouier Amer cim who leid 'halved a prisoner's package J; procured a piece of soap not inuch 1 i v w than his (humb. " A few nights before the slgm,,, of ho 1 armistice Lite, gave the s J 1'??" camp guard 'a,! oe ninn, J'hllatlelpbln, Vn, Trljle, a pi',' dojf, wns a witness for her iiiifm'''. Common I'leas Court No. ." in the tri.t of the Hull of Mrs. Helen V.uiUw, ttb claimed to have been bitten tiy fe dog, against Mrs. Mary A. .'lnitab, the dog's owner. According to Mrs. Huikus, she allitcked by Trlxle'on Jul v 31, mi when slio entereif the vestibule of Mp '..immiiers' homo to purcbuse some Household effects, she tetllll ft lo bit her In the left thigh, ctu tears and abrasions of thu skin mi flesh. Trlxie's owner denied the dog W '"en guilty of such a vbdi nt tt'inp mid questioned the truth of the plain I ill's story, Mrs. Chambers admitted Trlxle wns n lively jmppy, but g temiiered and n idayfellow for .tlif oblldroh of the nelgbborhood. To demonstrate the truth of (I. Trlxlo wns brought Into court an ficnmpcred about iimong dm Jurors; wbo later returned a verdict for th log's owner. ' Lord Claud Ilninllion. M. V wl chairman of ... .... . ... "'"'" road of Ena;X "l LMU Mej.ped out of the stcv.i. J . "obogan traveling by nig t V , ht before he" reacbe ' fiont he was overtaken by other Z. ed American prisoners v t. h Mm of tho armistice. LONDON GREETSGRENADIERS" 0n,Pa1rttUrHVoed Great W- Take f'art in Homecoming Welcome. U,: ... totmon of (hnsbi '"jee, ;, ..rf;,:,:,vo11 . rondon fron. Ge ,, Z aT to ."srwrs rIIie only Indicaflon that mnn 1 "nsuolwn. i:appeninS s Z nce.0 m bands .which ' heo. Hie Con(p,,.ring ll(.,0 ' f"',; Zrr, "'n ,1,,,,,r li'ai" o. .;.", ,:i,'"'l,"t of ho London .,, ,, '.'.'" ,he l-attalion in be- , on ,.:;.-,:'!,;..;mi,h?" ;;;-f-r;';'....i uuit timt ieft Ens. coiuin.' ' fe'1"! home- DRY WAVE BOOSTS COFFEE Unusual Demand and Shortage 0' Crop Cause Prices In Porto ' Rico to Go Up. Sun Jtinn, P. R.Porto Rico Is rrnf sinning CO per eent more coi'lee today (ban she did before (lie Island "wcnl liiT," according to a San Juan coffe dealer. This fact, together wltii on Islani ooffee crop of only half of.wl at It wo last year and a honvy deimind from Spain and Culm, has sent up price ibroughout the Island. The coffee market here ben jnmP Ing a week or two ngo and It has .f-r"lng up ever since. Retailers fouls'! 1! Price almost doubled over ulfint and the reslaur -'is last week raised fliolr prices to t. H cents a cup. .tM1 4 1 M t i J Photograph Heroes' J uraves for Relatives Washington. Every idoiuJfif'f! wave of an American soldier in France will be photographed by flic American Rod Cross and the Picture sent to the soldier's next of -kin. Several hundred pho tographs have been taken and forwarded to relatives, and it was announced that at the re quest of the wur department f uie itert Cross has taken over the task of photographing a" graves. Each photograph "ill bo mounted on a cardboard folding frame, on one side of which will be Inscribed the rec ord of the soldier.