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.THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1918.
STUDENT FLYERS g
WELL CURED FOR
UNCLE SAM PROVIDES SPECIAL
medical attention for them
AT EACH OF THE CAMPS
—FLIGHT SURGEONS NAMED.
ATLANTIC CITY, May 16.—Chance
of accident to American flying “aces’’
in the making has been reduced nearly
50 per cent by a new system of train
ing and Treatment put into effect by
the medical corps of the army, after
months of careful study of the na- ,
tion’s young manhood enlisted in the ;
aerial service. It was revived here to- ,
day by medical officers speaking before
the closing sessions of the forty-fourth
annual convention of the American
Neurological Association at the Hotel
Traymore.
The medical corps, in its effort to
make the Amercan aviator the best
tn the world, has come to the conclu
sion that the aviator must be con
sidered as "something different and
apart’’ tiom all others in the fighting
forces, a< cording to Col Theodore C
Work of the Aviation Section Signal
Corps, U. S. A."
The officers and medical men had
found that "looking after him in the
same way as any other soldier re
duces his efficency,” and the only
way to produce a real aviator is to
treat him on an entirely different
plane. This is now being done.
The first step has been to appoint
a “flight surgeon,” whose sole duty is
to obtain the confidence of the men
in his unit, study them individually
and learn ther ‘types,’ so that he
knows just how to handle them. In
addition, coaches from the colleges
and athletic trainers are being made
assistants to the flight surgeons, and
between them they give the cadet
flyer a nerve and athletic training
somewhat similar to that adopted for
sport in the colleges.
The flight surgeon is relieved of all
details ordinarily part of the duties
of a post surgeon. His sole job is to
supervise the mental and physical
well being of the cadets from the
time they enter until they leave the
school as they finish aviators.
The men are carefully examined
to the air and undergo another ex
amination when they alight, so the
surgeon has charts which tell him
the exact conditions and symptoms
stress. This record gives the com
manding officers of a unit inside in
formation of each of his aviators, so
he know s just which men are pecu
liarly fitted for any particular kind
of work."
By this system the efficiency of the
corps is not only greatly increased
but it makes it a rare thing when a
boy not fit to fly will be permitted to
go up, Col. Lyster said. These charts
are among the most comprehensive in
the army.
The popular belief that the aviator
is subjected to practically the some
conditions in soring to high alti
tudes as the person climbing a moun
tain is erroneous, according to Lieut.
Col. George S. Dryer, consultant to
the Flying Corps, British expedi
tionary forces, speaking a "Medical
Aviation Problems in Active Service.”
The birdman i s subject to more
rapid changes of altitude, his plane
is moving swiftly up and down with
the air currents and his pulse is ac
celerated as the mounts at high speed
into the rarified atmosphere, where
his heart must pump faster to supply
the difference in oxygen he can ob
tain from the lighter air.
Lieut. Col. Dryer also brought out
the point that in the chair whirl, used
to test the equilibrium of the cadet,
the student is almost always more
sensitive to the change when the
chair swings to the right than when
he is whiffled to the left but science
cannot explain it. The man who is
most sensitive to the changes makes
the best aviator, because his senses
are more highly attuned to the con
ditions that he will meet in the air,
he declared.
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Southern Pacific railroad since 1912.
as been named by William G. McAdoo,
director general of railroads, as chair
man of a committee to manage coast
wise steamships. He and his commit
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“HEXT OF KIH” ORGANIZE
mmisiimiisTs
NEW YORK May 14.—T0 help keep
up the spirits of the men at the front,
to prevent discouragement among
those who remain at home and to
shut out the gorces of disloyalty and
sedition from any effective part in
American Gocernment, the League for
National Unlay yesterday began the
organisation of a “Next of Kin Di
vision.” It will be composed of moth
ers, fathers and other relatives of
men in service.
The final plans were adopted at a
meeting of the executive committee
at the Bankers’ Club. It was voted
to send a special committee to Wash
ington to confer Monday with Scott
Ferris, Chairman of the National
Democratic Congressional Commit
tee, and Frank P. Woods, the Repub
lican Chairman, on palng for a coali
tion between the two parties at the
fall elections in Congressional dis
tricts, where it is necessary to defeat
dislojal candidates.
The “Next of the Kin Division” was
voted upon unanimously. Among
those indorsing it are Cardinal Gib
bons, Honory Chairman of the
leafue; Theorore N. Vail, President
of the American Telephone and Tele
graph Company, Chairman of the
league; Samuel ompers, Otto H.
Kahn, John G. Agar, James M. Beck,
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, John
Hays Hammond; V Everit Macy,
President of the National Civic Fed
eration; Alfred E. Marling, Presirent
of the New York Chamber of Com
merce; Mrs. James Wadsworth, Will
iam English Walling and Rabbi-
Stephens S. Wise.
One of the first steps will be to
take up with the Government plans for
a better system of communication
with the men at the front. A state
ment issued by the league said:
"The ‘Next of Kin’ will not permit
their sons, brothers and husbands to
be stabbed in tl back under any pre
text, no matter how fair-sounding it
may be. Especially, cannot tol
erate the organisation of disloyalty
under the guise of partisan politics or
party platforms, the boldest and mo
dangerous of all disloyal advices.”
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EQUAL RIGHTS FOR
WOMENJS VETOED
ATLANTA, Ga, Maq 16.—The spirit
prevailing in the Methodist church
with iega r d to lai'y rights for women
was strikingly cemonstrated yesterday
when tlie general conference by an
overwhelming majority over-rode a
veto by the college bishops of the ac
tion taken the day before, granting
the same rights to women that men
now enjoy in church affairs.
The announcement that the bishops
had vetoed the granting of laity rights
to women struck the general confer
ence like a bomb shell and brought
on an immediate and determined par
liamentary fight in which the progress
sive forces won a sweeping victo;
The veto was over-ridden by a vo
of 265 to 57, which was far more tha:
the two-thirds majortity requires
Under Methodist law the bishops
have the right to veto acts of the
general conference. The conference
can then over-ride a veto by a two
thirds majority, in which event the
legislation is then submitted to a refer
endum vote by the annual conferences.
To sustain the general conference it is
necessary for a majority of the annual
conferences to ratify the proposed
legislation, each one by a three-fourths
majority.
This makes the power of the
bishops very great, and will have the
eqect of postponing laity rights for
women until the action of the annual
conferences is reported back to the
general conference four years hence
Should a majority of the annual con
ferences, by a three-fourths vote, rati
fy the action of the general conference,
then laity rights will be granted.
Sms
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MANY GEORGIAN ATTENDING
MEETING LN PHILADELPHIA
ATLANTA, Ga., May 16.—Ex-Gov
ernor John M. Slation and other prom
inent Georgians have gone to Phila
delphia to attend a meeting of the
League to Enforce Peace, which at
this time is vigorously supporting the
war in the belief that there will never
be permanent peace untl Germany's
military power is crushed and the
world is made a safe place for the
self governing nations.
William Howard Taft, the former
president, Is the president of the
league , and Alton B. Parker, who was
the Democratic presidential nominee
in 1908 is vjee president. The eague
has a branch n Georgia with many
prominent citizens on the roster of
officers and members.
High Flights Most Fatiguing.
The higher a man flies the more
gatigued he becomes, Lieut. Dreyer
said, because of the loss of oxygen
for him to breathe. He said the ar
tillery aviator, who does not have to
soar to extreme altitudes to make his
observations and direct the fire, can
remain in the air almost twice as
long as the scout, who must move
faster and go higher. The latter, he
said, can only keep up daily w’ork
about oRe-third the time the artillery
flyer can continue in service before
getting into condition that makes it
necessary to send him back of the
lines for a rest.
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Owing to the fact that coal has been
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