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My Life With Amelia Earhart
By GEORGE PALMER PUTNAM
Noted Aviatrix Had
Gift for Housekeep
ing as Well as for
Performing Me
chanical Wonders
With Planes.
The story of the world’s most
famous woman aviator, as renowned
personage and as wife, is told here
by the flyer’s husband, widely
known author and editor, in a series
of six articles, of which this is the
fifth.
HER aviation exploits launched
Amelia Earhart on a life full
of active interests. Perhaps
what she liked best was the
chance given her to know women
everywhere, who shared her own con
viction that there is much In the
modem world that women can and
may do, and which they should be
permitted to do, irrespective of sex.
I suppose A. E. was technically a
feminist. But not gracelessly so. Often
when she was asked whether she
should be called “Miss Earhart” or
“Mrs. Putnam,” if I were around she
would humorously jerk a thumb in my
direction with the remark. “You’d bet
ter ask him.” I cannot remember ever
introducing my wife except as "Miss
Earhart,” The things she did, she did
of her own capacities, and Amelia Ear
hart was her name.
However, she carried no Lucy Stone
ish Chip on her shoulder. She cared
little what she was called, and less
what was said about her. In a life
pretty well associated with celebrities.
A. E. was the only genuinely modest
one I encountered. Once she ruefully
remarked: “I’m hardly home enough
ever to get homesick.” At that, she
had a gift for practical housekeeping,
and loied it—as she did reading, ffer
dening, swimming, riding and most of
the simpler things.
Of our life togther she said, “Ours
has been a contented and reasonable
partnership, my husband with his solo
jobs, I with mine. But always with
work and play together, conducted un
der a satisfactory system of dual con
trol.” Which is a pretty good marital
formula.
Her Interest in Gadgets.
Amelia's interest in gadgets I’ve
mentioned. When she was designing
clothes for women who live actively
she fashioned fastenings and decora
tions in the manner of piston rings,
nuts, bolts and the like. She had her
own difficulties in the early days, get
ting a chance to work out her mechan
ical bent; she thought it wrong that
it was not easier; she thought, grad
ually, that there should be "gadget
and hickie shops” developed expressly
for girls. She thought so particularly
when she associated herself with Pur
due University at Lafayette, Ind.,
whose flexibility and breadth of vision
delighted her.
Her personal relationship at Purdue
was as a periodic and peripatetic fac
ulty member. Purdue is one of the
few universities in the world with its
own landing field.
Also it is co-educational. Of the
6,000 students, approximately 1,000 are
women. A. E. thought of the problems
and opportunities of these girls in the
large, rather than merely as they
related to aviation. She often ad
mitted she probably had something of
a chip on her shoujder with regard
to modern education for women. She
knew lots of girls who she felt should
be tinkering with mechanical things
instead of learning how to do pot
hooks and design dresses and bake
bread. She knew, too, boys who would
l make better chefs than they would
| engineers.
She plotted to help girls whose in
terests weren't routine, wanting to aid
them homehow' to get a fair break
of opportunity to be themselves. She
saw mechanically-minded boys getting
all the scope they wanted from the
time they were knee-high to a flivver.
Bufe if a girl wanted to monkey with
piston rings and carburetors, where
could she get at them?
She wanted to see catch-as-catch
; can machine shops set up where girls
wouldn't be considered visiting poison
“Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership
said Amelia Earhart of her marriage to George Palmer Putnam.
They are shown looking at maps of Miss Earhart’s last flight.
—Wide World Photo.
Where they could both make and
break things, and then make them
again.
A. E. had her share in the custom
of providing a noteworthy name freely
borrowed to fasten on new babies.
Nor did the habit stop with the diverse
infants who are named Amelia.
Just lately a letter came to her
from a little girl.
"Behind the brick plant near our
home," the youngster wrote,' "there is
a beautiful little lake, with blueish
water, so I named it 'Lake Amelia'
. . . also I have no middle name, so I
have adopted 'Amelia' for my middle
name. I would have named my pet
duck 'Amelia' too—only it is a he
duck."
Amelia liked that. She thought
probably the name it eventually did
receiye was Donald. (After the flight
was under way, I wrote this little girl
and asked her what really was the
name of her gentleman duck. "Oi
course I've named him George," she
wrote back. "And now I’ve got a ladj
duck too. And she is Amelia.”)
Sometimes she met her namesakes
There was one she particularly en
joyed. A Wyeth-Logan cross darl
i hen, introduced to her at the airpori
in Miami, just as she was about t<
set off on the world flight. In cast
you don’t know, a Wyeth-Logan crosi
is a homing pigeon. This particulai
Amelia holds the fastest flight rec
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I ord (pigeon) in Florida—as I recall,
something over 50 miles an hour.
Looking back over our 9 years of work
and play together, the amusing mem
ories often stand out clearest. As, for
Instance, one concerning a Chicago
parade.
Amelia on Tour.
After the first Atlantic flight, as
manager I accompanied A. E. on one
of those high-pressure tours to which
America subjects its celebrities. Pilot
Bill Stultz and Mechanic Lou Gordon
were unable to participate in the pa
rade in question. A. E. wouldn’t go
alone in the car of honor. So our
good friends, Reed Landis, World War
ace, and I pinch-hit for Stultz and
Gordon. Shortly we found ourselves
perched on the back of the tonneau.
During stops, countless enthusiasts,
barging around for autographs, mis
took us for Stultz and Gordon. So
Reed and I did our duty as we saw it.
In the names of the gallant flyers that
day we signed countless spurious auto
graphs. If that be forgery, some one
ought to make the most of it!
Seven years later Reed and I teamed
again, likewise on the Chicago sector.
While A. E. lectured before a room
crowded with club women we pur
chased a large bowl of goldfish. This
was placed in her automobile,, in
which she was due to drive 100 niiles
to another lecture that evening
while Reed returned to Chicago and
I flew westward to California.
The meeting over, she bade us good
bye and departed, with the goldfish
bowl on the seat beside her. Actually
she drove around the block, present
ed the goldfish to the Woman's Clut
(they named the larger fish Reed and
George), and went on her way untrou
bled by practical jokers.
For me, the pay-off came at 2 a.m.
the next morning, when I changes
planes at Salt Lake City. Somehov
A. E. had contrived the delivery to mi
at the airport there of two raw porl
1 ~
chops and a. watermelon. To cinch
her triumph, I had been airsick—very.
(Copyright. 1937. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
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