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Zurich Herald, 1927-07-07, Page 6. Dad 1 derided to love the Oliva* soon S ae the reeve taaak was exhausted, I ' r tried, to get the, mail pit open with the ADVENTURES . iana lotRenthjruontwping, obutut thyoasmulablaeoktoa ' open the front buckle. I knew that the risk of are with no gasoline in the tallies was very s'lg11t and began to climb for altitude, when I saw a light on the ground for several seconds. "This wee the first light I had seen for nearly two hours, and as almost Leaping from his "dead" plane at enough gasoline for fifteen minutes' the topmost eurve to which he bad flying remained in the reserve I glided • been able to fore it before exhaust- l down to 1,200 feet and pulled out the ing the last of its :fuel, the night air-; flare release cable as nearly, as.1 could mail pilot pulled the rip -cord of his judge over the spelt where the light parachute, and was wafted Swiftly had appeared. This time the flare toward the moonlit surface • of the functioned, but only to illuminate the, cense fog which had cut him off from top of a solid bank of fog, into which the light's 'of earth, somewhere over it so -on diwappeared without showing' Illinois. Eefere plunging into that arty trace of the groand, opaque blanl.et he crossed his legs "Se yen minutes' ;: asollne •remained in to .obviate the danger of straddling` the gravity tank. Seeing the glow of e,on:e wire, branch, or what not. He a town through the fog, I turned to- had pulled the flash -light from his hard the open country and nosed the belt find was playing it dovni toward, rano up. At 5,OEC0 feet the engine the top of the fog, when a startling spattered and died. I stepped tell on, roui,i came to h:s ears—that of the the cowling and out over -the right ergine. of his abandoeed plane "pick-' side of the cockpit, pulling the rip -cord ing up." He had not thought to cut after about a 100 -feet fall. The para - the switches, and "apparently when chute, an Irving seat service type. func- the' :chip neeed down, an additional, ticned perfectly; I was falling head s^apply of gasoline , drained to the downward whoa the risers jerked hie carburetor"; and "soon she cane intointo an upright position and the 'chute sight, absent a quarter of e mile awash opened. This time 1 saved the rip - headed in the general direction of my i cord." ;area:eta" The words quoted ate1 Here Pilot Lindbergh tells of the these of the pilot's own official report earlier part of his descent, to the dis to his Air Mail service superiors. And; covert' that the revived plane was ether than the, steering her lonely course in his direc- lanky young man—"all muscle and bones." as his Paris tailor declares— who has just electrified the world by Rerninisence of America's Hero Air Pilot MODEST ALWAYS that pilot was none tion. Whereupon: "I put the flash -light in a pocket of my flying suit preparatory to slipping flying from New York to. Paris, and the parachute cut of the way, if neces- ;;apt:.vetecl the nations with his youth- nary. The plane was making a deft ful charm, his surprising tact, his spiral of about a mile diameter, and nati•se modesty, goad sense, good -feel- passed. approximately 300 yards away ing, goal taste, utter sincerity, un from my 'chute, leaving me on the affected distinction, and sterling all- outside of the circle. I was undecided around ability. Nay, "had we search- as to wether the plane or I was de- F•i all America," exclaims Ambassa- scencling the more rapidly and glided d•nr 'Herrick to the Associated -Press, my 'chute away from the spiral path "we could not have found a better of the ship as rapidly as I could. The type than young Lindbergh to repre- ship passed completely out -of sight, sent the spirit and high purpose of but reappeared again in a few sec - our people. His head not only is not ends, its rate of descent being about in the least turned, but it never will the same as that of the parachute. I be, whatever his successes. He is of counted five spirals, each. one a little the 1 ircoln tyre. What can I say farther away than the last, before morn"" And bccasue this extraordi- nary young man, who sprang into un- rrecedented fame overnight, was mis- represented before his historic flight and reached for the flashlight, but an a meso daredevil -the "FIyin' found it to be missing. I could see Feel," as sense fool dubbed him—it neither earth nor stars and had no idea is doubly interesting now to bo re- what kind of territory was below. minr'••ed of his hard and grueling ex- periences xperiencea as an air -mail pilot and to watch him -as ho makes one of his fractal parachute descents, dodging as well as he can the giddy gyrations of his awn abandoned plane. Such was the singular duel that occurred dur- ground visibility was about 100 yards. ing the descent into that Illinois fog, In a few minutes I came to a stubble and any .one is at liberty to read be- field and some wagon tracks which I twcen the lines- of the •pilot's official followed to a farm yard a quarter report and farm a pretty sound judg- (:.miles away." • meat of the kind of young airman it "After reaching the farmyard I no - was who, eight months later, took ticed auto headlights playing aver the flight alone across tl Atlantic and roadside. Thinking that some one vonchew erl•d's homage. As given in might have located the wreck of the the New York Evening Telegram, Plane, I walked over to the car. The Captain Lindbergh's report begins occupants asked whether I had heard with a brief record of an uneventful an airplane crash, and it required some trip fiom St. Louis to -Springfield and time to explain to thein that I had Pen in, after which: been piloting the plans and yet was "Off the Peoria'Field at 6.10 p.m. searching for it .myself. I had to dis- play the parachute as evidenoe-before the sky was practically clear with they were thoroughly -convinced. The but scattered cumulus clouds. Dark -farmer was sure, as were most others nesse was encountered about twenty- in a three-mile radius, that the ship five miles northeast of Peoria, and I. had just missed his house and creash- 'tcak up a compass course, ;checking near by. In fact, he could locate On the lights of the towns below until within a few rods the spot where he s r « Marseilles a. d the an unsuccessful quarter-hour hunting tle no th•-et f n 1 reaching the top of the fog bank." When 1 settled into the fog I knew that the ground was within 1,000 feet "Presently I saw the outline of the ground and a element later was down in a corn field. The corn was over my head and the 'chane was dying on top of the cornstalks. I hurriedly, packet) it and started down a corn row. The e.low fog rolled in under me a fewheard it hit the ground,and we spent Iilirois Rfver, for the wreck in that vicinity before "'('its fog extended from the ground going to the farmhouse to arrange for tip to about 6i 0 feet, and, as I was' a s,earehing party and telephone St. Louis and Chicago." unable to fly under it, I turned back „ anti hent ted .to d:o n -- -.a I hod just put in the long distance a p o " P calls when the phone rang and wet... rand. The flare did not function and were notified that the plane had be -en I again herded for Maywood (Chi-� ' The New "Peace Bridge" Motor traffic is now speeding across the recently opened Peace Bridge across,the Niagara, connecting Port Erie, Ontario, with Buffalo, N.Y. Ril D BY PAST Only Break With Tradition Shown by Peking Question- nire Is Over ' Right of Families to Select Mar- riage ar riage Mates • Peking.—One hears much of the "modernization" of thought in China. About 200,000 foreign -educated and well -traveled Chinese have become modernized, but they count little when the 400,000,000 are considered. Even to -day in Peking when a Cab- inet official wants to resign `Tie gives as an excuse that he fears the Can- tonese, who hold his native prov- ince, may violate the.graves of his ancestors if he continues to hold office in a regime hostile to Canton. This will, be accepted as a valid excuse, even though every one concerned may know that the ancestral graves in questi-on are only a few mile's from Pelting. In an effort to determine just how great a hold the thoughts and customs of "the good old days" have upon the younger generation now receiving col- lege education in Peking, the Y. M. C. A. here has just held a "true or false" test by listing most of the fa- vored ' maxims on family life and moral conduct, and having the. !stu- dents mark "true" or "false" ;opposite. each one. Only one sharp break with old cus- tom has been found. Forty-two out of forty-eight of tho students marked "false" opposite the maxim that "chil- dren should marry the persons their families select for. them." On the other hand, forty-four out of forty-eight marked "true" opposite the maxim that "Filial piety is the su- preme virtue." This shows the tendency to clashes which modernization so far as it: s , 8"0e, must be bringing into the homes, for one of the main tests of filial piety in the past has been compliance 'with such matrimonial arrangements as parents might choose to make. A sign of the hold which old cus- toms have on the minds of university students is that thirty-two out of the forty-eight approved of the Chinese custom under which a man whose wife has borne him no son is entitled to take a concubine so that he may have ag yfound in a corn -field over two miles cago's air -n -ail port), hoping to find a break in the fog over the field. Ex-� reach the It took several minutes. to eminat on die -closed that the cause of neces tsite of the vcin due through the necessity of slow driving the the flare failure was the short length i fog, and a small crowd had already of the release lever and that the flare °rnir;ht still be use�dsb = pullingassembled when we arrived." out tint "The plane was wound up in a ball - shaped mass. It had narrowly missed I continued on a compass course of one farmhouse and had hooked its left fifty degrees until 7:15 p.m., when I, wing in a grain shock auarter-mile ewer a•. dull glow on the top of the fog,. beyond. The ship had landed onn the indicating a town below. There were heft wing and wheel, and skids along several of these light patches on the te ground for eighty yrds, fog, visible only when looking away: through one fence beforeaconiinging to from the moon, and I knew them to rept in the edge of a corn -field about be towns bordering Maywood. 100 yards short of a barn. The mail "At no time, however, was 1 able to �-pi.t ryas laid open and one sack of lncrte the exact position of the field, mail was on the ground. The mail, although I understand that the search- however, was uninjured. lights were directed upward and two I "The sheriff from Ottawa arrived, barrels of gasoline burned in an en-, and we took the mail to the Ottawa ea -aver to attract my attention. Sev-, Post -office to be entrained at 3.30 a.m. eral time I descended to the top of the fog. wh'ch was 800 to, - 900 feet high, according to my altimeter. The elzie ribose: was clear with the excep- t'•on of: rcatte,red clouds, and the moon nod stars were shining bright. After therm? rirelire around fir thirty-five mit- Answer—A therm is a microbe that `':i I i•.';ided roost to be sure of clear-. enters the gas Inetet and sets up ing Lake Michigan, and in an attempt .rapid consumption. ` Busy. Work in springtime? You must bo crazy! Work? It's nothing less than a crime. I em busy being lazy -iv ^'i a"'t at 3,28 pan., end I c,ut Arrd it's taking all my time. in the neer\-- t eves lett faint time •— ter,, 4 •1v ,.'rt liilIh. tr »,+ t rn_ Japan, Croat Britain and the United, pale elide 'int ;1::k uP seal ea 1 ex- States enter the Geneva Conference i t i 1 elasee.1 '`lee it a >h-lght in my , arined with the knowledge that sword -waving Will not avail to trim; arniaments, for Chicago." Bugs. • Examination question—What is a t., 1'ic]c ye .tree cf the lights on the 'i'' xsc"tiesrtai. •`.i Lte flying west for fifteenmin- r'= •- end ieehie no 1st eek I turned eon awe a hoping to strike the edge cf tlie +c ,.cui`h o.f the Illinois River. belt end was abrin to .release the parachute flare,' 'nil 'jtimp when the engine finally took hold again. A seaetd.•iliial showed the•main tank to lie dry; and accordingly a maximatn 'tt`i' twenty minutes' 'flying time left. "Tier* were no openings hi the fat itslifia- and sixty, t Tho woman who twe'<tty. years -ago as fair, fat and yforty Is .now sleek, !4 t. mar!: male issue and coo continue the family line. Fifteen voted that divorce is wrong, and only one-third still clung to the old Chinese custom that a widow roust never remarry. Forty out of the forty-eight declar- ed it perfectly right that the parents, as long as they live, have the right to take the entire earnings of all of their sons and put the money into the fam- ily fund. Thirty-four were positive that it would be sinful for a son not to worship the memory of his parents and not to offer homage at the shrines of his ancestors. Thirty-seven out of the fortyeight were unanimous in agreeing that if a f!anvily is too poor to educate all of the children, only the sons should be sent 1 to school. Thirty-three out' of the I forty-eight voted that the whole fain- , ily .must be held responsible for the debts or criminal misdeeds of any one member of the family. Sixteen voted. Y that infanticide is proper for a poor family which already • has all the chil- dren it can support, •but, strangely enough, only seven voted in favor of birth control. Eloquent S It may be remarked that a speaker who thinks o lower his composition- in order t. onimodate himself to the habits a + +•4te of his audience, when addre tir r e multi- tude, `•will find that h ++r;e „nuts a grievous mistake. All tie highest powers of eloquence consist in . pro- ducing passages which. may at once affect even the most promiscuous as- sembiy; but even the graces of com- position om position are not thrown away upon such auditors. Clear, strong, terse, yet natural and not' strained' expres- sions; happy antithesis; apt compari- sons; farms of speech which aro natural without being obvious; har- monious periods, yet various, spirited, and never monotonous or too regular ly balanced—these are what will be always sure to captivate every audi- ence, and yet in these mainly consists flpished, and `elaborate, .and felicitous diction.—Lord Brougham, in "Elo- quence of the Ancients." • Always Behind Time—The bade of a watch. Modern Girl -"I'r'e got to get some more clothes.' Her Father—"Who said so ---the police?" CALIFORNIA FINDS "STOP TRAFFIC" HELPS • Their Safety Experts Agree That System Helps Berkeley, Calif.—That a higher rate of speed with greater safety is made possible by the use of boulevard stops was one of the topics of discussion at the state-wide safety conference in Berkeley. It was further stated that in select- ing streets to be designated for these stops public officials should use great care. A very few streets should be selected for the introduction. They should not bo close, to one another and should be main arteries. In the smaller cities the rule should in all cases be immediately ap- plied to the streets or parts of streets whichcarry the main burden of through traffic. Section 23 of the uniform traffic or- dinance, which women of California !under the auspices of the California public safety conference sponsored by. the California Development Associa- tion, .are representing to all •city gov- ernments of the state, deals with boulevard stops and reads as follows: "The following streets and parts of streets are hereby declared to consti- tute boulevards for the purpose of this section: FE A �, !I m A 0 I"Every operator of a vehicle orMIA Una street car traversing any street in- ' tersecting any boulevard shall bring such vehicle or street car to a full stop at the place where such street meets the nearest property line of the boulevard before entering such boulevard, provided the property line is clearly marked or sign -posted as required in this ordinance, except at intersections where :.and' when traffic is .subject td stop and go signals or directions. A FIRE! A TRAGEDY. Nothing Can Repay the Farm- er for :Fire Loss, :DANGERS TO AVOID. , Ontario farmers have •a reputation far neighborliness dating back to pioneer days when "bees" were held.' to do such heavy work as lagging and harvesting. They are still ready to lend a ; helping hand and ,when a farmer .faces that most terrible of all emergencies, a fire, the telephone • brings people from eniles around to aid in fighting the blaze. Too often their efforts are wasted and a home or barn with its store of .crops and live stock goes up in smoke. Such a loss is a real tragedy for a farmer, for even his insurance will not com- pensate him for the loss of his year's labor in raising his crop, and if he rebuilds he must pay increasingl:r higher prices for his material. Tragedies of this sort have become all too common in Ontario. For the past five years lasses from barn fires alone have averaged around $2,000,- 000 annually. Outside of 1926—an exceptionally wet year—rural fire losses have been mounting at an alarming rate. The farmer faces fire hazards that were unknown a gen- eration ago, One of the . most corn- mon omloon is gasoline. Automobiles are as numerous on the farms as in the city but the concrete and metal garage in which city cars, are housed and in which gasoline can be safely stored are not common in the country. Ga=so- line engines and tractors --.:are also kept in barns and wooden drive sheds on many Ontario farms. It is not likely that farmers would be will- ing to take such risks if they realized that gasoline vapor when mixed with air makes an explosive of tremendous power. One gallon of gasoline has the same explosive power as 83 1 pounds of dynamite. No one would think of leaving dynamite lying around; it is even more important that all gas on the farm and gas equipment should be stored apart from stacks and barns, and that gaso- line be kept in closed cans preferably 'painted red. Sales of cars to Ontario • fanners set .a new record in 1926 aged it is quite likely, that this will happen again this year. This sign of better times should not mean an added loss from fires if common sense precau- tions—separate storage and a 'chem- ical fire extinguisher kept in the gar- age adherred to. e s,. IIT AN ICEBERG First Vessel Through Straits of Belle Isle Saw Wreckage Sailors aboard the S.S. Swiftwater, the first ship to navigate the Straits of Belle, Isle this .season, say that' they have reason to believe that the French airmen, Nungesser and Coll, "The board of police commissioners came down on the ice floes in this (chief of 'police) (city manager) is vicinity. hereby authorized and required to The Swiftwater left Swansea, South place and maintain or - cause- to be Wales, on May 16. and arrived in placed and maintained upon eaoh and Montreal a little after tan a.m. on every street intersection a boulevard : Thursday. and at or near the propertyline of { She came by way of the Str:=fiis of the boulevard appropriate signs uponBelle Isle, and was driven off her the street or devices of marks in the r course, according to Alfred Curime roadway, such signs, devices or' one of the sailors aboard the ship, marks to bear the word 'Stop' or the , They were driven round the coast of words `Boulevard Stop' in such post- Newfoundland. and while picking their tion and with letters of a size to be , way through the iceberg,1, a party of clearly legible from a distance of .fifty ' iit,enetous ecic saw -what appeared to . (50) feet along the streetintersecting be narks of something haviug hit the the boulevard." . !side of a large beitg. Footsteps were . also seen in the snow which covered it, and a closer survey with the glasses revealed what appeared to be wreckage. "One side of the berg was scored as though something had dropped on tit froth -a height, and had'slipped down the whole sirle," said Seaman Culhal. "1 was on deck with three mare melt arid pointed It out to them. We called up • the third engineer, and showed him, and he later saw what appeared. to bo wreckage of some sort at the other side, 'and also a lot of footsteps in the snow on the berg." . "We could not get ashore as the snip was in a dangerous position her- self, having been at sea 31 clays, and being lost in the Straits of Belle Isle for days. Most pf us 441'6 positive that the bergs will solve the • nystery of the airmen's deaths, 'as they lie directly across the course they would have taken," he said. "They had ns landing gear and were depending oil landing on water, but it le possible that in a fog,, dr from a height, they thought that the lee was water, awl made a landing on the berg." ' Mr. Snrlial's story is corroborated by other members of the crow, who also saw the same .signs of .landing, One of them, bowover, - declared it was hard to make out whether the wreckage was that of an aeroplaeur or a ship. ADAMSON'S ADVENTURES—By 0.Jac©bssan. OH MR AD.AMSoN! HIDE ME; QUICK! His Pope a 1Viidget. • Weenie' Link. Teacher—"Is there any tonne:+ting link between the animal and vego. table ktttgdom?" F iii1e—'les, ina'ain. Bash," The Difference. Sympathetic Old Lady ---"lure you lost yourself, little boy?" Little boy — "No---boo--hoe—but I've found a street. I don't know." `