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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 3, 1909)
4 FLY-TIME. Sr '_, & **&& —Cartoon tiy Triggs, in the New York Press. THIS SIGHT OF SEVEN AIRSHIPS AT RHEIMS. One swallow does not make a summer, but when seven big man-bats have been sighted at once circling over a single field —as at Rheims —it means that men have really begun to fly. It means unimaginable changes in the economies of life. It means the opening of a new era in mechanics, comparable to the era that began with the locomotive. People who take an extravagant pride in their understatements are busy telling us that nothing much has happened lately in the air. But in the face of the swift changes in the world of machinery during the last twenty years, such conservatism amounts to fatuous cre dulity. THE ASR HAS BEEN CONQUERED. Thai the Aeroplane Has Passed the Experimental Stage Was Impressed Upon the Spectators During Aviation Week at Rheims as They Saw the Human Birds Preening Their Great Wings and Scaring Like Eagles. Rheims, France. —The worldwide interest in the doings of the aviators at Rheims increased as each day saw some record broken, some new feat accomplished. No one can read the story of the performances and retain any linger ing doubt that the conquest of the air has been achieved and that it now only remains to further develop and perfect the aeroplane. The popular impression that as cents were practicable only in very calm weather will be dispelled by the performances in a wind blowing twen ty odd miles an hour and with strong eddies. M. Paulhan’s flight of nearly nineteen miles, part of it at the great height of nearly 500 feet, and in the course of which he overtook and passed a railway train, gave the as semblage a magnificent spectacle, and it is not surprising to read of the boundless enthusiasm he excited. In view of the high wind there might have been no racing but for a visit from the President of the Re public, accompanied by members of the Cabinet and distinguished officers of the French and British armies. I'hat flights were successfully and safely made in the circumstances not only demonstrates the practicable stage that aviation has reached, but seems to prove also the superiority of the biplane in the matter of stabil ity over the monoplane. At any rate the latter type of machine did not figure in the records. The speed record made by Mr. Cur tiss, the American aviator, was bro ken by M. Latham, who covered the six and one-fifth miles in eight min utes, four and two-fifths seconds, heating by twenty-seven seconds the time made by Mr. Curtiss. There are two visitors at Rheims of whom little is heard, but who are among the most interested of specta tors. They are the naval and mili tary attaches from Paris,-and it is safe to assume that thfev will obtain many “wrinkles” that will prove val uable in adapting the aeroplane to military use on sea and land. The “aviation week” at Rheims is a won derful event, and will give a tremen dous impetus to invention and experi ment in the new-born but already practicable art of aerial navigation. Experts are astonished to find how widely diffused is the interest in the art and sport of aviation and at the number of persons already proficient in it. Mr. Curtiss says: “I never realized that there are so many good aviators. This meeting will help the aeronautic movement enormously by bringing to the atten tion of the public the progress that has been made in flying. Our object in coming here was to win the Coupe Internationale. We had no idea of doing anv business, yet every day we have inquiries from persons anxious to buy our machines or to take up agencies in Europe. This can be taken as an indication of the business activity likely to follow these races.” The example of M. Sommer, who is one of the substitute pilots in the contest for the International Cup, is suggestive. Six or seven weeks ago he first saw a flying machine. He bought it, and within a few days had made a world record for flight. It is net so many years ago that the auto mobile was no further developed than is the aeroplane to-day. M. Lambert, who pilots a Wright machine, expressed his conviction that automobile speed tests will be re placed by those with the aeroplane. “Even at this stage,” he 3aid, “it is real racing, not merely demonstra tions, that is taking place. The fin ishes are close and at times the aero planes can be seen struggling for supremacy in speed. I believe this meeting will do a large amount of good from a sporting standpoint.” That the aeroplane has passed the initial experimental stage is certainly impressed upon the tens of thousands of spectators who see the assemblage of human birds at Betheny preening their great wings and soaring like eagles. That the endurance contest of five laps around the great course— a total distance of more than thirty one miles —is not difficult may be in ferred from the flight of M. Paulhan, and Mr. Curtiss’ fine performance in qualifying for one of the contests in dicates that the struggle for the In ternational Cup will set a new' stand ard for speed. “Aviation week” at Rheims must give a tremendous stimulus to the development of aeronautics all over the world. TRIUMPH FOR AMERICANS. Mr. David Eloyd-George Greatly Im pressed by Wright Machine. London.—Mr. David Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, re turned from Rheims, where he went to witness the exhibition flight of aeroplanes. He declares that he was greatly impressed with the marvellous feats he had witnessed, and especial ly wdth the Wright aeroplanes. “It was a great triumph for the Americans,” said he. “The Wright machine was the most sure and de pendable of all. M. Lefebvre seemed able to do anything with it. With the others there w r as always the half ner vous apprehension that they might descend at any moment. I saw no reason w r hy the Wright machine should not go sailing on forever. I felt rather ashamed that the English are so hopelessly behind. “As to the use of the aeroplane in warfare, it appears too frail and flimsy to be taken seriously and I apprehend no danger of any airship invasion.” Often The Kidneys Are Weakened by Over-Work. Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood. Weak and unhealthy kidneys are re sponsible for much sickness misuffering, f therefore, if kidney trouble is permitted to continue, serious re sults arc most likely to follow. 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GOMPERS DENOUNCED Head of American Federation of Labor Severely Criticised. WORLD LABOR LEADERS MEET Samuel Gompars Told That His Advice Was Not Wanted and That American Policies Didn’t Suit Europe. Paris, France. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, was the dramatic center of the session of the sixth International Trade Union Congress, when several European deh gates bitterly denounc ed what they claimed to be the equiv ocal attitude of the American Feder ation with reference to joining the in ternational movement. Mr. Gompers needed all his old-time energy to repel the attack. He insist ed that the problems and policies of American trade-unionism were so in termingled with American traditions and ideas that Americans could ill spare the time to encounter the in fluence of European leaders where the trade-unionism tendencies were tem peramentally different. Nevertheless, as an evidence that the United States was anxious for in ternational co-operation, Mr. Gompers introduced a proposal favoring world wide organization, which would "de fend the rights and interests of all and create International fraternity and solidarity.” The clash came over the question of the exact status of Mr. Gompers’ and the American Federation of Labor in the conference. “Personally,” he continued, ”1 have no authority to pledge the affiliation of the American Federation of Labor, but 1 believe it will come in time.” Mr. Gompers’ statement was receiv ed coldly. Several delegates Jumped to their feet to protest. Hueber, an Austrian delegate, vehemently char acterized Mr. Gompers’ explanation as mockery. He, like the otners, had been under the impression that the American meant business in that Mr. Gompers was the official delegate from that country. Otherwise he could not understand how the American res olutions happened to be printed in the official program. Hueber arose and said that it was now seven years since the Amer icans began talking about joining the international confederation and it was about lime a decision was reached. "It now appears,” he conduced, "that Mr. Gompers is merely a voyage of dis covery.” Paris, France. —The newspapers de vote much space to the international congress and the significance of the presence of Mr. Gompers. The Journal Des Debates points out that the Amer ican Federation of Labor and the French General Federation of Labor, which did not join in the last two conferences, represent opposing con ceptions of trade-unionism. Mr. Gom pers, representing the American senti ment, is utterly opposed to the build ing up of unionism on a foundation of socialism, politics or open revolu tion; instead, his work lies in the direction of developing the real in terests of the workmen and solving the problems of labor and capital. TO MUZZLE BOOSTERS. Noiseless Chanticleer is Advocated by Washington Man. Washingtoft, D. C.—The recent mu nicipal edict, which may spell-the ban ishment of the insomnia-producing rooster within Washington’s city lim its, has aroused the inventive genius of a man who has devised a rooster muzzle. His idea is to kill th<? crow, but save the rooster. This advocate of a noiseless chan ticleer believes that if the authorities will sanction the use of the device, which consists of a simple collar of leather, with a small cotton pad, fast ened around the rooster's neck, suf ficiently tight to throtlle the vocal organ, both the community and the rooster can live in peace and quiet. The corporation counsel has been asked to determine the unique point whether to muzzle roosters is legal. WORLD TO BE A PARADISE. Religious Society Believe That in 1914 Change Will Come. Saratoga, N. Y.—Believers in tun early dawn of the millennium, mem bers of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, gathered here from several states for their annual con ference. The followers of the sect believe that in 1914, “after times of great trouble,” the world Is to be transformed into a paradise. They profess to find their foundation for this belief in the study of Scripture prophets, which form the principal theme of study at the meetings here. MEN’S BISHTSJUPHELD. Wife Should Be Able to Prepare Hus band’s Favorite Viand. Chicago, 111. —Mrs. Frances Kuby ack has thirty days in which she must learn how to prepare a savory pickle sandwich, the favorite midnight luncheon of her husband, John Kuby ack, and thus restore the domestic equilibrium of their home. Municipal Judge Watkins, before whom Kubyack w r as arraigned on the charge of refusing to support his wife, listened to the husband's story, and, when he learned that Mrs. Kubyack could not furnish her husband’s fa vorite viand, continued the case thir ty days and told her to learn the se cret of making this sandwich. SHIP’S I,IOW KtSUUtU. Five Men Taken From Isolated Island in the Pacific Ocean. Victoria, if. c.—Because no wreck had occurred in the vicinity for >ears the British government ceased some time ago to leave suppl'es for shipwrecked mariners at desolate Miudletcu Island, in the South seas. . Because such supplies were nol found mere as they had been led by the sailing directions to expect, the ciew of the Norwegian oark Errol, formerly the Carisbroke Castle, expe rienced all the agonies of siarvai.un during two weeks in which they had no morsel of toed or drop of water. Stverul went insane; otners, including Captain Anderson, perished in their enueavors to make aud noat a small raft. Mrs. Anderson, the master’s wife, sacrihced her tour children and com mitted suicide, when, auer the death of the husband and father, she heard the seamen discussing recourse to cannibalism. The story of the ma rooning of the Errol's crew and their subsequent experiences was brought in by the Australian liner Makura. The survivors of the hapless crew had reached Sydney shortly before the sailing of the Cauadian-Austra lian steamer. They had been rescued by the steamer Tofu, after two weeks of torment on the reef following June 18. The rescued, if they live, will remain unbalanced. Patrick Palmer, able seaman, who joined tile vessel before she started from Copuimboon on her ill-fated voy age to Newcastle, had the best recol lection of the fourteen days on the reef. "We are the last of the twenty-two,” he said. “That’s including the cap tain’s wife and their four children. Five of us got away from the wreck in a raft. We went all over the reef in search of water, but found none, and one died on the reef. We had difficulty in building the raft, and the captain and second mate both got drowned assisting us. "The captain’s wife stood within a few feet of him twitching him drown. As she stood there wringing her hands she had her four kids, from the ba by, a year old, to the eight-year-old girl, standing beside her.” Another survivor took up the story. He said that when the sufferers were sitting in the sand thb captain's wife thought they were considering a resort to canibalism. Her mind was gone. Suddenly she ran into the sea and drowned her four children, fol lowing them into*the waves. The ema ciated survivors watched her, one of the laughing; his mind was gone, too. When relief finally came there were but five alive, four men and a boy, and these were so exhausted that they had to be carried by rescuers to the beats. / HAKKIMAN AIL KlliHT. Magnate Breaks Long Silence in Re gard to Physical Condition. Arden. N. Y. —Edward H. Hardman, urged oy weary representatives of the press who have been camping about his mountain hccne for a week, came out with u statement that he was all right. Though brief, the statement is straightfordward and explicit, with perhaps a touch of patient resentment at the surveillance to which he has been subjected and a request that re porters withdraw, not so much for his sake, but for his friends, who have been intercepted daily coming to and from his residence by zealous inter viewers eager for the latest bit of information. It concludes thus frankly: “If there should be anything se rious, I will let the press know, and, as I have never deceived them, I ask that the press now withdraw its rep resentatives and rely on me.” The letter was so characteristic of Mr. Harriman’s affable attitude to ward newspaper representatives, an attitude which was marked when he underfent the strain of a lengthy in terview on the day of bis return, that most of the men who have been here during the scare over his illness, re turned to New York, relying on his word Cloud Burst Hit Mining Camp. Nev.—The mining camp of Rawhide, 100 miles from here, was swept by a cloudburst, a wall of wa ter said to have been twelve feet in height rushing through the streets. Six women and children are reported missing, 500 homeless and 165 build ings destroyed. Newsy Paragraphs. “It doesn't take as much sense to be a president as it does to be a sen ator or congressman these days,” said Congressman Champ Clark as he pass ed through Omaha, Neb., on a chat tauqua tour. “There are ten thousand men in the United States who would make good presidents—if they could be elected. What we need most is senators and congressmen who will look out for the poor common people.” A few days ago a bent and headless pin was taken from the arm of Miss Adelina Wyckoff, eighteen years old of Patterson, N. J., and since then six teen similar pins have been extracted from the arm. Miss Wyckoff has no idea how the pins came to be In her body, and her parents believe that when she was a little child she prob ably swallowed them, unknown to oth er members of the family, and that they are just now working themselves out. Colonel Duncan B. Cooper, who, with his son, Robin, was found guilty of killing former Senator Carmack in Tennessee, inherits $11,655 from the estate of his brother, William F. Coop er. the late former associate justice of the supreme court of Tennessee, who died in New York city recently.
