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
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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
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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’
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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
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Bedford «itila
New York
Drawer 10
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Addreaa
"ONE THING /
:
KNOW / AM
But within the hour I had weak­
ened. I filled my rumble seat tank,
GOING TO GUT
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which held fifty-five gallons of fuel,
AFTER THE WAR
j
and was off to see h-*r for the short
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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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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.
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