Crocheted Sacque Ties; Is Seamless GOD IS M Y C o l. CO-PILOT R o b e rt The «lory thua far: Toast Robert Scott, whose great ambltloa Is to fly, snakes his owe slider at Macoa Ga., pulls off from a roof, and crashes »7 feet to the ground. A Cherokee rose hush probably saved bis Ilfs. He n o* goes la for build ing «rale model planes and vine a Boy Seoul aviation merit badge. At - a aue- Uoa tale he buys his Arst plane for 878. He goes to Ft. McPherson and enlists la the regular army as a private. Winning a West Point competitive exam he It admitted, and In the summer of 1932 after being graduated and commissioned as a second lieutenant of Infantry be goes to Enrope, which he lours on a motorcycle. He anally arrives at Randolph Field, Texas. This Is It. CHAPTER I I I Though I had flown before in the prehistoric crates of the past, this fact had nothing to do with wheth er or not I would get through the course. On the side against me was the fact that during my un- supervised flying I had doubtless de veloped many faults that were not for the Army pilot to be proud of. In a case like mine, some pilots think they know it all; therefore For That Pretty Baby there is nothing to learn. Others IT'S a darling of a little sacque— make such an effort to please their * crocheted of white baby wool Instructors that this very eagerness and edged in pink wool. The tiny works against them as their own rosebud sprays are embroidered worst enemy—the result of tense on the completed garment in pas ness. tel silk floss in colors. The circu My case was more of this last lar jacket, which ties with satin order. 1 knew I could fly the ship ribbon under the arms is excep but I tried to carry out my Instruc tionally easy to crochet as it is tor’s orders even before he gave done all in one piece. There are them. I listened almost spellbound no seams. through our oral communications • • • system in that primary trainer—that To obtain complete crocheting Instruc tions for the Circular Crocheted Sacque speaking-tube which we called a (Pattern No. 57591 color chart for em “ gosport” and which at best was broidering rosebuds send 16 cents In coin, bard to understand over the rattle your name, address and the pattern num of that Wright Whirlwind engine. ber. Due to an unusually large demand and I used to try to read his mind, exe current war conditions, slightly more time cute his every little whim. I even is required in filling orders for a few of tried to outguess Lieutenant Lan the most popular pattern numbers. don and have the stick and rudder Send your order to: moving in the right direction be fore he could get the orders out of SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEW O RK 149 New Montgomery St. his mouth. San Francisco, Calif. Now thereby hangs a tale. I was Enclose 15 cents (plus one cent to not only trying to look In his rear cover cost of mailing) for Pattern view m irror and actually read his No______________ lips when I couldn’t hear through Name____________ ________________ the gosport, but was diligently look Aririrs*«« ing about the sky for other hare brained-student pilots. He must have realized my eagerness, for he gave C h in e s e C o n f r o n t e d b y B ig me every break—and for the many boners I pulled I needed lots oT T a s k in L e a r n in g A l p h a b e t breaks. One day, at a bare four-hundred Chinese is generally accepted as feet altitude, 1 thought I heard the the most difficult language to master. When children begin instructor say, "Okay, Scott, put it ia a dive.” I peered around first and learning the alphabet, they are then at the nearby ground, for it confronted not with 26 but 1,100 characters. There are only 400 looked very low to be going into a Then like a flash I thought I different sounds which have to be dive. Why, he’s trying to see used in 550,000 different ways, understood: if I'm ground-shy—I'll show him I'm which give the language a sing not song effect, in which each intona With my teeth clenched and prob tion has a different meaning. In 1929 a Russian professor ably with my eyes closed, I pushed named Dragunov decided to sim that PT-3 Into a vertical dive at plify the language. This new point-blank altitude. Just as the Chinese had to undergo many cotton fields down below seemed modifications, but the professor about to come right into my lap I perfected a Chinese - Latin type felt Ted Landon grab the controls writer with two keyboards of 5,000 and saw him hastily point to his characters, on which an expert head with the sign that he was "tak typist can write 1,000 words an ing over.” We came out just over the mesquite trees, and he roughly hour. slipped the ship into a bumpy land ing in a cotton field. Then, while I was trying to add things up and realizing already that I had tied it up again, I saw Ted very methodi W hen excess stomach acid eaoaea painful, suffocat in g gas. sour stomach and heartburn, doctors usually cally raise his goggles and with prescribe tfc fastest-actin? medicines known fo r great deliberation climb out of the svmptomatic r e lie f— medicine® lik e those i n Bell-ana Tablets N o laxative . Beh-ans brings com fort in a front cockpit. He glared at me but j if f y o r doable your money back oa return o f bottle to os O e a t a ll droggisU . said sweetly enough: “Scott, what in the g— d— hell are you trying to do—what was that maneuver? I said glide—G-L-I-D-E. Don’t you at least know what a normal glide is in all this time? Do You Hate HOT FLASHES? Weakly I said, “Sir, I thought you If you suffer from hot flashes, feel weak, nervous, a bit blue at times— said a dive." I could see Ted fight all due to the functional "middle- for control; then he told me the age” period peculiar to women—try Lydia E Plnkham'a Vegetable Com next time I had him at an altitude pound to relieve such symptoms. so low, not to attempt to think but Taken regularly—Plnkham's Com pound helps build up resistance just try to keep the ship straight against such annoying symptoms and level. Plnkham's Compound la made especially for women—11 helps na On another day, after about two ture and that’s the kind of medi weeks of instruction, we had been cine to buy! Follow label directions J.YDIA E. PIHKHAMS •QMTOUW p J making only take-offs and landings, and I knew the time was approach ing when I would solo. As usual, that realization made me more and —Boy War Savings Bonds— more tense as the end of the period neared. On the take-offs I ’d tense up and forget all about holding the nose straight, and on the landings I'd jerk back on the stick instead of easing it slowly back Into the ap proach to landing stall. All 1 could do was day-dream about: Here we are, Scott, just about to take over and prove to the world that we can do all of this by ourselves. Around the field in traffic I couldn’t hold the correct altitude, and my In structor was cussing a blue streak. He'd yell about my having graduat ed from West Point and say that he knew I was supposed to have some brains but he hadn't been able to find them. After each bumpy land ing he’d look around at me and hold his nose—that was symbolic enough DEODORAÜT CREflm for me. I finally bounced into an- other landing that nearly jarred his — is n ’t s tiff or a tic k y l 8 o f t — It spreads like face cream. teeth out. Then, as usual, he showed what a prince of a fellow he — ia actually soothingl Use right after shaving —will not irritate. was, and showed me that an instruc — has light,pleasant seent.No sickly tor had to become accustomed to small to cling to fingers or clothing, students' making mistakes—knowl — w ill not spoil delicate fabrics. edge which stood me in good stead years later when I became an in Yet teats in the tropics—made-by nurses structor. —prove that Yodora protects under try ing conditions. Is tube« or fan, 10c, 25c, 60c Lieutenant Landon got out of the McKsitos t Robbie«, Inc, Bridgeport, Cam front seat, taking his parachute with him, and I knew the moment of mo HEARTBURN A Dab a Day keeps P. O.* away! L .S c o ff T h e U se o f Fabric and T h read in D ecorating H om es o f T om orrow By Ruth W yeth Spear» and fifty per cent fullness If French pleats urb to be used at the tops of curtains; und set the machine for a long stitch for speed. Clip sel vages every few inches to avoid puckered seams and hems. W N V R tL tA S t ments had come. As be leaned over my cockpit and reached inside the ship for the Form One, the time- book always carried in Army ships, I saw only his hand and thought he was offering to shake hands with me. So I grabbed the hand and shook it. He just grinned and growled: "With landings like those I can do you very little good, and I'll be damned If I'm going to let you kill me. Do you think you can take this thing around the field all by your self and get it back down?" "Yes. Sir." I yelled. "Then take it around and make a landing as close to me as you can." I had never felt sp good. Taxying out I could see the world only In a rosy light My head was really whirling. Pointing the ship into the wind, I over-controlled into a nor mal student takeoff and was in the air. Honestly, the living of this life was wonderful—here 1 was an actual Army Pilot with my own ship, and up here free from the shackles of the earth. I envied no one. C ir cling in traffic I ’d "get my head in the clouds" and gain or lose altitude but that didn't matter. I was solo ing. Then, at the fourth leg of my traffic pattern, I began my glide in towards Lieutenant Landon. By the gods he had said, "Land as close to me as you can," and I was surely going to make that ship stop right by him —1 wouldn't have my in structor being ashamed of his stu dent. Even before I got to the mo ment to level off. 1 could see that I would land right on top of him. But ths Monday morning flying period. I always had to delay my start until after Saturday morning Inspec tion. That meant that I had to av erage Just about ftfty-four miles an hour, even counting the time I saw the girl, in the forty-seven hours that I had from after inspection on Saturday to flying time at eight o'clock Monday mornings I Week-end after week-end I drove madly across the South from the middle of Texas to the middle of Georgia. On one of these cross-coun try dashes, I weakened and was fool enough to ask the Commandant of Student Officers if I could go to Atlanta. I can still see and hear Capt. Aubrey Strickland saying, "At lanta what?" And me meekly re plying. "Atlanta, Georgia, Sir." He just said. "Hell, no,” and I turned and walked from his office with th ^ good intention of obeying the order’ • • • NOTE - You do not have to wall (or your home oi tomorrow to havo the attractive coffee table ahown In thia ekeleh. It la euay io make from straight cute of lumbar. A map, a favorite print or a piece ol hand work may tie placed under the alnsa lop Io give a decorative effect. Ask for pat tern No. 254 and enclose 18 centa. Addreaa: J F YOU are dreaming about re- * decorating after the war — and who is not—put this in your note book. There will be u more lavish use of fabric in home decorntion than ever before. There will be many new types of textiles and many new weaves. Fabrics will be designed to wear longer and to stay clean longer. A feeling of spaciousness will be obtained by blotting out some walls with cur tains. The homemaker who can sew a straight seam will save many a dollar for she may have curtains of any length, width or fullness merely by stitching straight widths together. And here is a decora tors’ tip for her—allow a hundred MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEAKS Bedford «itila New York Drawer 10 Encloaa 18 centa lor Pattern No. 184. Numa . « • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Addreaa "ONE THING / : KNOW / AM But within the hour I had weak ened. I filled my rumble seat tank, GOING TO GUT r ✓ S which held fifty-five gallons of fuel, AFTER THE WAR j and was off to see h-*r for the short IS A time available, fife», she was, and CLARION RADIO? still is some <)’I.) On the return trip I burn»-,-» cut two bearings near Patterson, Louisiana. Jimmy We- And it's a wise decision she's made, dell, one of the well-known speed flyers, helped me to get it fixed after because all the engineering and I explained the predicament I was manufacturing sk ill that have in. But even with five of us work helped us do a good war job will ing on the number one and number be applied to the production of six bearings of the Chevy, I was fine radios for civilian use. twelve hours late getting back to Randolph Field. A great line of tabic and portable As I walked into the bachelor effl- models, farm acts and combina cers' quarters that 1 shared with tions will be available right after Bob Terrill. I expected any minute If you have an old windshield the war. It'll be worth while to hear the sad news. But I was wiper, it may be used when wash wei/htg Jor Clarion! too afraid to ask for details, so I ing the windows of your home. Just waited for Bob to say, "You are to report to the General tomorrow Sprinkle talcum powder on a for court m artial for A W.O.L. in ribbon knot that you wish to violation of specific instructions." loosen. Finally he put down his letter writ ing, looked at me almost In dis Slip an oiled-silk bowl cover gust and broke out: over the hand wheel of a sewing "Scott, you are the damned luck machine. Keeps small children iest man that ever lived! You didn’t from getting their fingers and get reported today. No! This is the hands caught when it's turning. first time in the history of Randolph I —•— Field that It's been too cold to fly. j If new tin pans are greased and And It wasn’t only too cold to fly, put into the warm oven before WARWICK MANUFACTURING CORP. it was too cold to have ground using, they will not rust. 4 6 4 0 W . Han Ison Street, Chicago 4 4 , Mínele school, because the heating system —•— had failed. We haven't flqwn today, You can boil a cracked egg we haven't been to ground school. in the following way: Put a table-1 So they don’t even know that you've spoonful of salt into the water for j been over there to see that g irl.” boiling. Rub common salt thickly In all of these trips to see my j on the crack and put at once into TO HUP GAIN girl over In Georgia, I drove 84,000 the water, which should be boiling miles. I wore out two cars—and fast. You will find that the white you'll probably agree that her fa will not bubble out and be wasted. —• — ther had full right to say to her: Old METAL, RAGS. To clean berry stains from the "Why don't you go on and marry RUBBER and PAPER him? It ’ll be far cheaper than his teeth, bite into a cut lemon, j driving over here every week-end " (Hope your face straightens out.) 1 When I had finished Prim ary and Basic training at Randolph, I al most let down my hair and wept, though, on the day that Comman dant of Student Officers called over and said that now I could have permission to go to Georgia, to see my girl. I thanked him and went, • • • RADIO SAVE YOUR SCRAP IC T O R Y Gen. C. L. Chennanlt, who was Colonel Scott's superior in Burma and China. the Lieutenant was running, throw ing his parachute away just to get clear of a student who had really taken him literally. Anyway, I missed him and plunked the ship into the ground aft er levelling off too high. Well, I held it straight and there was no ground • loop. As it stopped I breathed again, and I could feel the smile that cracked my face. A pilot! I had landed the ship and it was actually in one piece! Looking back over my shoulder I saw Lieutenant Landon. He was just standing there about half a mile away. Then I made another mistake. He raised his hands and I thought he waved me In—I didn't know until the next day that he had been shaking his fist at me for trying to land right on him. So I taxied in, never giving a thought to how my instructor was going to get in with his chute—you see, Randolph is a big field and I had left him more than a mile from our hangar. I had parked the plane and was In and beginning to dress when I began to realize what I had done. Looking out the win dow I could see him trudging across the hot soil of Texas, in the sun, with ships landing all around him. My Lord, I had tied it up again! I tried to get my feet back into my flying-suit, tripped and fell, got up and ran out of the hangar door. I guess I was going to take the ship and taxy out and pick him up. But I had lost again—the ship was being taken from the line by the next stu dent. I just stood there with sink ing heart rs he came up. But he didn't even look my way, except to say, 'T t’s kinda hot out there." Then he just glared and threw his chute in his locker. Well, I nearly worried jnyself to death that night. I knew he'd more than likely tell me after the next day’s ride that 1 was the damnedest student he'd ever seen, and that I didn't have a prayer of making a pilot. But next day he didn't say a word. All day I started to go over and, tell him how sorry I was, but I guess I didn't have the nerve. During my flying training, I had girl trouble, too. You would no doubt call it "trouble," but I knew it was the real thing. I had a Chevro let then, and every week-end I Just had to see my girl, even If she did live over thirteen hundred miles away In Georgia. To get to see her, I would drive that thirteen-hundred- odd miles to her college or her home In Fort Valley, spend any where from ten minutes to two hours with her, then jump back in the car and drive madly for Texas and Well, when graduation came at Kelly and I had those wings pinned on my chest, I had the wonderful feeling that I had gone a little way towards the goal I wan'ed. I was at last an Army pilot. Never did the world seem so good. And then out of a clear sky came orders for me to go to duty in Hawaii. That was pretty bad because I wanted to get married before I went oui of the country, and as yet the girl hadn't gotten her degree from college. Probably If I had gone to Hawaii, I would have figured out some way to have flown a P-12 back over ev ery week—but I didn't have to do it after all. The Chief of the Air Corps came down a few days later and I waited until he had had lunch in the OffV , cers’ Mess. Then I walked over and said, "General, can I ask you a question?" "Sure, sit down," he said, and I told him theswhole story —and I made it like this: "General, I know that I ’m supposed to 'go where I'm sent because I ’m in the Army, but I ’ve got a girl over in Georgia, and I think I can do a lot better Job wherever you send me if you can give me time to talk her Into marrying me.” He didn't ap pear to be very Impressed at first, but he took my name and serial number, and two or three days lat er, when he got back to Washington, I was ordered to Mitchel Field, N. Y. As I drove my car towards my first tactical assignment I kept reaching up to feel my silver wings on my chest—I wanted to prove that it wasn’t a dream. This was what I had been working for since 1920. Now I was actually -¡ding towards the glory of tactical Army aviation. 1 recall that I had just about completed the trip to Long Island, when something happened that will keep me remembering the fall of 1933. Just before I reached the Holland Tunnel, I was suddenly forced to the curb by three cars all bristling with ;awed-3ff shotguns and Tommy- guns. I Jumped out pretty mad, but saw that many guns were covering me and that it was the police. They looked at my papers, but said anyone could have mimeographed orders. They searched the car and me, took down the Texas license number, and even copied the engine number. AU the time I tried to talk with the flashlights in my eyes. (TO BE CO NTINUED ) ASK MOTHER, SHE KNOWS . 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