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THE YALE EXPOSITOR. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, i 91 4.
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FX years ago. among the
band dunes of North Car
olina, a slim, gaunt, in
tense Oh loan stretched
himself downward on a
narrow ledge surmount
ed by yards of out
stretched nnislln, a com
pact, powerful little en
gine purred at hU heels,
und a giant. Inanimate
ihing of spruce and cloth
swept like a falcon out
over that silent, tea coast desert. A lit
tle telegraph office at Kitty Hawk. N. ('.,
au hour later startles a world with the
laconisni: "The Wright brothers have
Mown." It was the word civilization hud
Awaited hundreds of years. Tor the
dream of flying is as old as civilization.
A decade has passed since man
"sprouted Ms wings." The world has
watched him from his first weak, fitful
bounds from mother earth for brief sec
onds aloft to his hours and even a day
in steady sustained flight. It has ceased
to marvel, and It expectantly has come
to look to the future to wonder "what
next." Ten years aso Wilbur Wright
fiew at Kitty Hawk for f.U seconds. To
day the record for sustained flight is H
hours and l,::nt miles.
In ten years th. aeroplane has made
more rapid strides tlnm did the automo
bile More than a thousand uumi. with
a fair percentage of women, today ara
driving aeroplane in all pari of the
world. The first successful flight of the
Wrights has almost been forgotten so
gnat has been the progress of the aero
plane arul the increase in the number of
aviators.
The English channel has been crosed
and recro.'sed by one. two and three ju r
pons in jui neroplane. aviators hae
swept '!) and over the fearsome peaks
and abysses of the Alps; whole conn
nents have been crossed in aviation
races; the Tinted States has been
t-panri'd by an American, who lost his
life in a comparatively trivial exhibition
feat. Hut the present asks: "Well, what
or the future? What will these birdmen
be doing ten years from now?"
From the stage of pure amusement, the
period when aviation was alone for the
daring, those who were counted foollwrdv
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here the other night he was feeling
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had sold a bunch of stock and was
feeling prosperous as well as strong.
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Lesson
(By E. O. SELLERS, Director of Evening
Department, The Moody Bible Institute,
Chicago.)
LESSON FOR FEBRUARY 22.
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people of the air, j Increase is being made in aeroplam e(juipment of the world'a armies every
men who cling to week. France leads in the number of aeroplanes. These tof.il more than -I-".
and the show
Hying is workine toward a commercial Ktabillzation. Tin
Kvlarion tmhw .-.re tii,, u i.i, i,n.,. r.t n i r., .,,. ! ..ri nxs. i f.f com-: 'd the French have one aeroplane for the navy.
Ii.erce. The era of aerial transportation is upon us. Hussia has lit; army aeroplanes and (Jermany has 4G. Japan has (Irat
rritam PaK about ::. italv naa and the i uiteii states anotu -a. r.ngianu
They will have crossed the Atlantic ocean, penetrated the dismal Jungles
cf Africa, scanned the tn pical fever-ridden areas of the Amazon, brought
back tho word from the remote regions of ice and snow? Perhaps. Hut.
greater still, aeroplanes will be a proven adjunct of commerce. Our mails
will be shot to almost inaccessible points through the air. The trackwalker
of the great railroad system will give way to the critical eyes of a man-bird
sweeping swiftly along the ribbons of tteel. Through tangled wood and over
swollen river the telegraph and telephone lineman will shim with his vision
focused on narrow strands of copper wire. Far into Alaska, reached today
only by toiling dog train and intense Buffering, will go the aviator with mail
tiupplies and even luxuries. These are but a few of the nuggeations of aero
nautical optimists.
The enormous death rate of aviation in proportion to the number of per
sons who have taken It up would Indicate to the layman that the conquest of
the air is far from complete. Hut such strides have been made in the last few
years that, despite the death toll, the reeults have been more than encourag
lng. There are aviators flyiug today who, seemingly, are almost as safe in
the air as If on land or on the water. After all. most of the deaths of avia
tors have been due to accidents which resulted from carelessness on the part
of some one, either the flyer himself or his mechanician.
So confident are aviation experts that the aeroplane has been developed
to a stage where it can be used In every day business that many of them are
attempting to adapt It as a carrier of the mails. Many of the Alaakan wastes
and sparsely settled regions of the west could be traversed in hours where
now It requires days.
The French government was the first to apply the aeroplane to the prac
tical delivery of the malls. The aeroplane has given a fast mail service In
parts of desert Africa. Henry Woodhouse, an expert on things aeronautical
and editor of Flying, a magazine devoted entirely to the airmen, recently
predicted wonderful progress in the aero post.
"Eact month," he wrote, "something happens to emphasize more force
fully the value of the aeroplane for mall carrying, and whereas it is usually
demonstrated in places where there is an efficient mail-carrying service by
the ordinary method it is made more and more evident that aeroplane
mail service will be a boon to such places as Arizona, Colorado, Texas, New
Mexico, Nevada, Alaska, the Philippines, Canada and South and Central
America.
"The conquest of the desert by aeroplane is complete. Traveling a mile
a minute, it crosses from oasis to distant habitation in a few hours. The
French government in' the last six months has employed twoscore of aero
planes to carry mall, provisions and passengers from Casa Hlanca, the port,
to different points along and across the desert. With this aerial service It
has been found that intercommunication and transportation between points
on the desert is faster than in certain places In Europe and America. The
aeroplane has shown that it is to become a potential factor in solving the
problems of advancing civilization in Morocco, Algeria, Trlpolltanla, Congo,
the Soudan and in Zambesi.
"It already has naved thousands of lives in the French campaign in Moroc
in and Italian camnalen In Trlpolltanla for which it has never received
credit from the world at large by always watching the movements of the
enemy, thus avoiding those unpleasant surprises which have crimsoned the
pages of the history of the conquest of Africa.
"Other demonstrations have been given practically each day of the last
year. Every one of the flights of Garros, Hrindejonc de Moulinais. Ouillaux.
H'der and the threescore of other airmen, who make flights of from 500 to
j ,30(1 n.ilts a day. are forceful demonstrations of the increased swiftness in
malt carrying which the aeroplane affords."
Advocates of the aeropost for Alaska point out that lat September United
States army engineers traveled half way across Alaska to a point two degrees
from the arctic circle traversing altogether about S2G miles In 19 days. The
aeropost proponents say any of the well known cross-country aeroplane drivers
of today rould have accomplished the trip, with or without mail, in one da
and many others could do it in three days at most.
United States government officials have indicated their willingness to
help In developing the aeroplane for the mail service. Postmaster General A.
S. Burleson, In a recent letter to Woodhouse, showed his desire to encourage
the aeropost advocates as much as he can.
"I fully realize," he wrote, ' the necessity of keeping abreast of the needs
of the jstal service for the rapid transmission of mail and of using every
possible facility to this end. In line with this conviction the department is
ready at all times to give careful study and consideration to such new means
of transportation as mny be dlncovered and developed. We have repeatedly
given official aid to aviation meets throughout the country by establishing
Hpeclal postal stations and authorizing the transportation of mail temporarily
by aeroplane.
"These activities, of course, are recognized as experimental, but I am
persuaded that th time Is rapidly approaching when the department will be
called upon to give seilous consideration to the feasibility of aerial mail
transportation. The adoption of su h means, however, can only be brought
about aftr it Is demonstrated they can be furnished and maintained within
the proper limit of economy."
That no future war will b fought without the aid of the aero scout
Is a foregone conclusion. This is evidenced by the Invaluable aid the aerc
t.lane gave the French and Italians in their recent troubles In Morocco and
Tripoli and to the various armies engaged in the recent warfare iu the Hal
kans Vnitefi States army aviators every day now are scouting along the
Mexican border watching over the huge army camp in which meU are llviug
every day on the chance trCJble with Mexico may start at any time.
has six for the navy, and the United States. Japan and Italy have four each.
Kiissia lias one and (Jermany two.
Cross-country flights in 1912 and 1913 show conclusively aeroplanes can
be relied upon to cover great distances at high speed. The greatest flight In
VI was that or Andrcadi. who. in a Nieuport machine. Hew from Sebastopol
to St. Petersburg. 1,670 miles. He took IZ days for the trip.
Great things are ahead cf the aeroplane. A prize of $50,000 liai been of
fered for the. first flight across the Atlantic ocean. Next year or the year after
some venturesome aviator, using a hydroaeroplane, probably will have at
tempted to fly from England to America or troni America to Ei.glan 1, and
the success of the venture would not be surprising.
Two things are certain: The aeroplane has como to stay as a war agent,
and it will develop into the best agent for the cross-contiuent and cross
mountain transportation and delivery of the mails.
There also are possibilities In the transportation of passengers, the es
tablishment of aerial ferries and the Inspection of long sections of rallrouds.
Already It is being utilized by telegraph line Inspectors iu remote sections of
the far west.
It Is Editor Woodhouse who points out that railroad inspectors could
cover more ground and make better and .quicker reports by the use of the
aeroplane.
"Using an aeroplane," he declares. "Inspectors can Inspect the road at a
speed of between 40 and 70 miles an hour. Hy using movlug picture machines
an Inspector can photograph the line at the rate of 50 miles an hour, and
allowing six hours of traveling to each day he can In three days present to
the executive officers of a railroad a film showing the detailed conditions of
1,000 miles of road, which the officials can go over at their meeting and know
the exact state of the road and the land adjoining the road.
"As was shown by the experiences of C. P. Rodgers and Robert Fowler la
their trips across the continent, rails offer certain advantages over broken,
country for landing on and starting from. An aeroplane having wide roller
wheels finds the rail an every-rcady platform to land on and start from.
"A railroad considered the matter of using aeroplanes a year or so ago.
but they were deterred from employing them by the excessive cost of securing
competent aviators to operate them. At that time competent aviators were
still drawing large incomes from exhibition flying, and as that particular rail
road which was willing to consider the employment of aeroplanes found that
it required 12 aeroplanes for the purpose, the salary item became too exces
sive to be practical.
"Hut now that competent aviators can be had at from ZQ to $100 a week,
and almost any intelligent mechanic can be trained to operate the kind of
machine needed for railway surveying, the proposition assumes a practical
aspect and there Is no doubt that railroads will readily see the advantages of
usinK aeronlanes for this particular purpose.
Editor Woodhouse, like many other aviation experts, believes it will ba
only a question of time when the aeroplane will be developed ror use in- con
nection with the revenue cutter service, Irrigation service, life saving and light
house service and in the bureaus of fisheries, forestry and gologlcal survey
of the national Government. South and Central America are as yet practically
virgin territories for the development of aerial navigation.
Aviation experts are engaged in devising the bst way to make an aero
nautical map of the world. Tremendous increase in air navigation, combine
with th widening radius of dirigibles, crossing countries, continents awi
nt.n ea. ah thev have, has made the necessity for the aeronautical mi;
inmeratlve.
The need of well trained, capable young men to Take p aviation is pointed
out by Woodhouse, who believes, with President Richard C. Maclaurln of
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that it is a duty on tne part or eaitca
tional Institutions to provide Instruction in aeronautics.
"Aerial flight of today," Hr. Maclaurln says, "is either an engine of war
or an exciting amusement. Its greatest use at present is for pleasure, but
before it can be very greatly' developed it must be freed from its more serious
diinarers.
"Tho men who must see to making reasonably safe the sport of flying
must be trained engineers and men of science, and such men are produced In
the higher technical schools and colleges. It is for such reasons that the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology now makes official a line of work that
heretofore has been possible only as an adjunct to other courses."
And so aviation as a science stands. Men in every walk of scientific en
deavor are trying to improve it. The nations of the world are spending S9..
ooo ooo this year to forward the progress of aviation. With expenditures in
creasing every year wonderful thing can be expected in the next decada. In
the meantime constructive geniuses like urvine wrignt ana wienn i. i-unias
..nrtino tn tppn t to Imnrove the aeroplane, and flying geniuses are -oris
lng in public to show it to the world.
Tho Wrights. Wilbur and Orville, were the first to demonstrate t-'At
heavler-than air machine could be made to tly. Hefore them, for many gwuera
tlons men had tried to solve the problem of aerial navigation, but the si'her
ical balloon up to 1903 practically bad been the only air craft that coud b
rrlled unon to carry passengers
Some of those pioneers In the search for flying honors previous t the
success of the Wright brothers are: Prof. Samuel P. Langley, ono time seo
retary of the Smithsonian Institution In Washington; Sir Hiram Maxim; M.
Clement Ader, who was killed during his experiments; Otto Lillienthal. a
German; Octave Chanute. civil engineer; Percy Pilcher of England, killed
when experimenting; Prof. John J. Montgomery of California, and many
others.
Threw Him to the Floor.
an electric car on West Main street,
in Helleville, and went Into George
Keek's" saloon.
Eight or ten citiaens were spending
a peaceful evening there. Mueth evi-
lently did not like their looks. He
told them to get out. They demurred
ind he undertook to evict them.
While he was about it Keck tele
phoned a riot call to the police station
and suggested that the entire police
force would be needed to quell the
uprising.
All the policemen were busy ex
cept "hief Sam Stookey. The chief.
as they say in Helleville. "is little.
but oh, my!" He is 5 feet 4 and
weighs 146. He used to be a wrestler
and boxer. He hasn't forgotten how.
Ask Andrew Mueth of Paderhorn if
he has. Andrew knows.
When Stookey reached the saloon
he found the eight or ten citizens
huddled In the, corner nursing their
bruises. Mueth, after piling the citi
zens in a heap, and smashing a glass
panel with his fist, had gone to the
table to hitch up his horse, which
he had left there in the morning.
Stookey went out and stood before
Mueth. He could not much more than
chin the lowest button of Mueth's
vest. Mueth thought he was a mes-
senser boy. "What do you want.
sonny?" be asked.
Stookey said he had come to arrest
Mueth, and exhibited his star. "Ho.
ho!" rumbled' the giant. "So you have
come to arrest me. Well, I can't al
low it. I
He hated to hurt such a little fel
low, but he struck at the chief
Stookey brushed Mueth's hand aside
and hit him on the head with his billy.
breaking the billy. Then he damaged
his fist on Mueth and rushed In,
grabbed him around the knees and
threw him to the floor, with , both
shoulders touching, as the wrestling
rules require and sat on him.
When Mueth came to he said he had
had enough for one evening and went
alone with the little chief to the
lock-up.
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HORSE GET? NEW SHOES
Goes Alone to Blacksmith Shop and
Stands in Line With Other
Horses.
Quogue, L. I. Gilbert A. Penney
turned a horse, Big Hen, out to pas
ture and went cruising on hii power
boat. He forgot that he had pulled
the horse's shoes off before turning
him out to graze. Nor did he remem
ber it after his return as business kept
him occupied.
The following day Timothy Skid
more, a blacksmith at Good Ground,
several miles away, called Penpey on
the telephone.
"Your horte Is shod and is all ready
for you," said Skldmore.
"What are you talking about?" de
manded Penney.
"Why, Hlg Hen walked In here today
and got In line with the other horses
waiting to get shod. I thought It was
funny nobody was with him, but when
his turn came 1 did the Job.''
Then it developed that Hlg Hen had
escaped from his jwisture. and, decid
ing that It was time for his new win
ter hoes. trudged to Good Ground and
walked into the blacksmith shop,
where he had been fitted for years.
"Turn him loose and see If he'll come
home," Penney telephoned on hearing
the story.
An hour'afterward Hlg Hen walked
proudly up tho Penny driveway and
went to his stable.
Watches Doctors Operate.
New York. Vlncenzo Lauro, who
watched doctors sew up his heart af
ter a stabbing affray, died 24 hour
later.
FAITH DESTROYING FEAR.
LESSON TEXT Luke 12:1-12.
GOLDEN TEXT "Every one who shall
confess me before men, htm shall the
Son of Man also confess before the angeU
of God." Luke 12:8.
The first verse of this lesson indi
cates the character of this period In
the life of our Lord which we are now
studying. It was a time of thrilling
Interest and of intense excitement. A
time when the crowds were so great
that they "trode one upon another."
This may have resulted from the
preaching of the seventy; but we of
today can see what Jesus then saw,
that this interest was only superficial
and transitory. So It was that the
Master turned "first of all" to his dis
ciples lest they be deceived by this
seeming popularity.
Hiding the Truth.
I. The fear of losing a reputation,
vv. 2, 3. The Pharisees made great,
pompous claims at their being re
ligious. A hypocrite is one who hides
behind a mask, one who la a play
actor. It is pretence Instead of reali
ty. Therefore, If one la not real his
fear of losing his refutation Is increas
ed in direct ratio to the extent of his
deceit. The principal error of these
Pharisees was that they hid the truth
and at tho same time refused to be
ruled bv it themselves. Jesus de
mands a new publicity (v. 2) of serv
ice and in the presence of this vast
crowd denounces this hypocrisy as be
ing sin. He alio says plainly that wnat
thev had been saving in darkness will
be proclaimed from the housetops.
Our Ix)rd comnares hypocrisy with
leaven In that it 13 the product of cor
ruption, it works secretly, it Infects
tho whole mass. (So hypocrisy will
effect our whole life and conduct.)
This leaven Is a sour spreading cor
ruption that changes the whole charac
ter of a man. It cannot be hid. No
amount of care can effectually cover
our deceit. We may, for a time, hide
our sin from men, but God knows and
In due time will publish It abroad (v.
3); 1. Tim. 5:24.
Warned by Jesus.
II. The fear of death, vv. 4, 7. Such
publicity will and always has led to
persecution, and so Jesus calls his
disciples to courage, charging them
that they fear not those who have
power over the body, but rather to
fear him whose power is over the
soul. Notice the manner of address,
"my friends, fear not." Intimacy and
courage are suggested. Look up the
many times the Scriptures admonish
us not to fear, I. John 4:18. Satan and
man (v. 5) have power over the body,
but they cannot touch the soul. The
Christian, however, needs not to fear
man or Satan. Isa. 51:12, Rom. 8:31,
for the angel of Jehovah (the Lord
Jesus) encamps about them that fear
Jehovah (Ps. 34:7). Paul tells us that
to depart from this life is again, Phil.
1:21; II. Cor. 5:8. We have, therefore,
no cause to fear the death of the body.
One only, God, has the poer Iter
death, to cast the soul Into hell (v. 5).
He It Is who gives us a suggestion of
awful consciousness of the soul, and of
the body as well, when they are In
hell, Matt. 10:28. Jesus has warned
us and we are to warn others that they
avoid that which was prepared, not for
man, but ofr the devil and his angels.
Matt. 25:41. Is there a hell? Yes!
Else Jesus was deceived or has de
liberately deceived us. Thank God,
however, that as a man is of more
value than a sparrow, so God has pre
pared better things for those wno
place their faith in his son.
III. The fear of making an open con
fession. vv. 8-12. With such a tender,
beautiful assurance of God's care over
us it would seem unnecessary for
Jesus to admonish his followers about
onnfpusinr htm before the world. Yet
such, is the persistent hardness and
the natural timidity of the human
heart that the Master, in mercy, warns
his followers. Rom. 10:9, 10. Our
Lord looks beyond his disciples to the
Hinnensation of the Spirit and de
clared that men, speaking against him
would be forgiven, but that those who
slander, detract and heap vituperation
upon the Spirit would commit a sin. a
blasphemy, which could not be for
given. Moreover, in that dispensa
tion of the Spirit, no matter how much
men might suffer, or be in danger,
they would be taught by that Spirit
what they ought to say, vv. 11, 12.
The one who commits this sin, de
liberately attributes to the Devil what
) he knows to be the work of the Spirit,
Matt. 12:22-"U. It is a deliberate
choice of darkness and the heart Is so
hardened as to preclude repentance.
There is no desire for repentance.
Those whom Jesus calls to proclaim
the truth concerning the Kingdom of
God may depend upon a co-operation
of tho Holy Spirit which will make
them fearless of all opposition. The
death of the body U but an incident.
As we receive the Comforter and
come to know the God of all comfort
we beRln to sense our value to him In
carrying out his enterprises and the
mystery of hie condescending grace.
There Is no warrant for undertaking
work for Christ without adequate
preparation, but there is sufficient war
rant far fully trusting him In every
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an eye on the guest whom he had
Just served with a portion of stewed
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.He had sampled that stewed tcak
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