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Nelson Fascinated hv Flight to Land Found bv Vikings Only One of Six Airmen Who (.onlil Speak Language of Danes and Icelanders. By LOWELL THOMAS. As niie would naturnlly expect, the visit to Iceland, and Labrador was ilium the most interesting part of the world flight for K r 1 k Nelson pilot of the New Orleans. In ad dition to being a direct descendant of the vikings who were the dis coverm of Greenland, Erik had been a sea rover before go ing Into the fly ing game. He was also the only one of the Amer ican airmen who could speak the language of the Danes and Icelanders. "The Eskimos who paddle about In their kyaks, guarding our planes from the Icebergs here at Fredericks dal. were extremely primitive people," said Erik. "They lived In huts made of stone and sod and dressed entire ly in furs. Fish, seal, polar bear, and birds are aliout all they live nn. But they appear to be good-natured, and, thanks to the Danish governament, they are still hardy people almost en tirely free from the diseases of the white man. Natives Still t’se Spears. "Although they have rifles, ammu nition Is so scarce that they depend almost entirely up their long spears, which the hurl with amazing accur acy. They both fish and hunt with them. The spears have wooden shafts, to which hone tips are tied on with throngs. Eskimo are just as clever at manipulating their tiny boats, made with carved bones stretched with skin, as they are with their •pears. But If a white man gets into a kyak It capsizes in the twinkling of an eve, while the Eskimo can handle it In a most miraculous fash ion. The native fastens himself In. tb s a skin around his waist to make tho kyak waterproof, and then I he boat s.u iiis to become a part of him. "1. .'bergs cruised by all day long on i he way from tlipii parent glm i i s to the sea. and while we were work ha i a the planes we saw a huge berg tumble over. It was hardly a hurt died yards away, and when this moun tain of ice commenced to wobble, and then iurn and roll we sat there spell b nirid. It tossed and splashed for fullv five minutes before it got on an even keel. There is said to be nine tlnijs as much ice under the water as above. That same day a huge berg passed within a few yards of the Danirli ship island Falk, and if we hadn't seen the other one suddenly ^ turn from end to end we would have clambered on top and taken some pic tures. But when we saw how quickly an iceberg can reverse ends, like the negro who was asked to go up in an airplane, we said, ’Uh uh, not me.’ A Bit of Olil History. "The officers of the Island Falk, some of whom had spent half their lives in Greenland waters, treated us royally. Several were scholarly men who had made a hobby of old Norse history about Iceland and Greenland. They told us that 2.000 years ago— seven centuries before Columbus was born—Irish hermits founded a colony In Iceland. After them came the vi kings, ‘sons of the fjord,’ as their name means. Invoking the blessing of W' d m. god of Ihe fog and of the storms, they sailed west from Scandi navia until their dragon prowed keels grounded on the shores of a new land in the . far north. They had sailed away from Norway to get away from King Harold F%)rhalr. All of them were picked men, and. together with their wives and children, they formed a colony of more than 60,000 hardy Norsemen, and were the anceetors of the modern Icelanders. Their sheep and cattle flourished, they raised hay, and their boats carried on a trade with Norway, Denmark and the British Isles. “They even developed a literature of singular beauty and richness, which antedated the literature of France, Germany and England. It Is through this literature, which includes a vast quantity of authentic history, that we learn how one of the Norse settlers was driven across Greenland In a storm. He and his men survived the winter and got bark borne the following spring when the ice broke up. That w-as about the year A. D. 876. But it was not until a hundred years later that Erik the Red really explored this unknown land where the settler Gunnbjorn had wintered. Erik, for whom I ant named, spent three years sailing in and out of the fjords along the Greenland coast, and even decided to establish a colony near the southern end of the Island. Norse Hardy Explorers. "It w-as the Norse explorer who called (he new country Greenland, and he did so merely in order to lure other Norsemen into settling there. So Erik the Red was the first man to introduce modern advertising 'ho kum' into the selling of real estate in the western hemisphere, a profes sion that has grown considerably since his day. But it took nerve to name this island of the arctic 'Green land,' and if Erik the Red were liv ing today I have no doubt bqt he would be a promoter at Miami or Los Angeles. "At any rate, when Erik the Red returned to Iceland he painted Green land in such vivid colors that two score and five shiploads of settlers set sail with him. Just what they said to the discoverer of Greeland when they saw his icy mountains the old sagas do not tell. But 11 of the ships struck icebergs and went down before reaching the new land. “For four hundred years the Norse men had their colonies on Greenland, and it is estimated that more than 5,000 of them lived there. The remains of their towns may still be seen. It was during this time that a viking named Bjarnl got lost at sea in foggy weather and sailed for many days without knowing his bearings. At last he came to a land where there were no mountains nr glaciers. But it was not the Greenland he was look ing for, so he turned north and at last found the colonies of ills country men. "The story of Biurni's adventures excited the euriousity of Lief, son of Erik the Red. Leif Erikson was one of the most picturesque vikings of his day and one of the few whom Roman missionary priests in Nor way- had converted from the hoister ous wassail of Valhalla to Christiani ty. 'Leifr war miklll niadhr ok sterkr, manna akorultgastr at sja, vitr madhr ok godhr hofsmadhr um all biuti,” said the old Norse saga, whichc means that 'Leif was a large man and strong, of noble mein, wise and temperate in all things.' After taking a few priests to Greenland, he sailed south to' see if Bjarni’a yarns were true. It was on this voy age and on two subsequent ones un dertaken by his brothers that the country which Leif called Vinland w-as partially explored. Some think he got as far south as Boston. Sev eral other expeditions followed and many points along the coast of La brador, Newfoundland, and Nova Scotia were visited. In fact, my an cestors sailed up and down the en tire coastline that we were to follow on our flight from Greenland to Boston. “In the thousand years that have gone by since the days of Erik the Red and his son. I.elf the Lucky. Ice Children Cry FOR / MOTHER:- Fletcher's Castoria is especially pre pared to relieve Infants in arms and Children all ages of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhea; allaying Feverishness arising there from, and, by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimilation of Food ; giving healthy and natural sleep. To avoid imitations, always look for the signature of Absolutely Harmless - No Opiates. Physicians everywhere recommend it We Recommend H ❖ ,M Arkansas Semi-Anthracite. The Smokeless, Sootless Coal El Gives More Heat, Requires Less Attention and Holds Fire 36 Hours LUMP, $13.50 ■ Nebraska Fuel Co. I Omaha's Oldest Coal Co. I The Daily Cross Word Puzzle L——--* By RICHARD H. TINGLE!. I Horizontal. 1. Reposing. 5. Property. 9. A grain. ; 10. A lubricant. 11. A vegetable. 12. A bunch of yarn. 13. Makes free of access. - 14. Term used In driving oxen. 16. A deceitful plan. 19. The border. 21. Kingdom. 22. Two of a kind. 24. Potato. 27. Morning moisture. 29. To pacify. 31. The pick of society. 33. To recline. 34. Female sheep. 33. Encountered. 36. What the gas man, the water man and the electric light-man read. 37. The back parts of our necks. Vertical. 1. The one who was defeated. 2. An Asiatic bovine. 3. Newspaper paragraphs. 4. A signal bell. 5. The American century plant. 6. Swiftness. 7. Even (poetic). S. Flavor. 13. To excite. 17. A fruit. 19. To do wrong. 19. Printers' measures. JO. An antelope. 22. Sacred song. 23. Small island. 25. To fuss about Ihe attire. 26. Songs by two persons. 27. One who changes a color. 28. To fancy. .30. A fib. 32. Golf term. The solution will appear tomorrow. Solution of yesterday's puzzle. (Cop:, riffht 1925 > land. Greenland and Labrador have changed but liUle. However, the Yin land they discovered, and from whoso Inhospitable shores the few xvho fol lowed them were driven olY by the Indians, was now the homeland to ward which I and my companions were flying. But think of the changes that have taken place In America since Leif the Lucky visited it and called it Vinland! But think also of the changes that will take place In the next 1,000 years, changes beyond our wildest dreams, now that men can fly around the world at the rate of 100 miles an hour! "On Sunday, August 21, to our dismay we discovered that our Kskl nio guards had let a few cakes of ice drift against the Chicago* pnn toons during the night with the re sult that they were punctured in two places. While the rest of us set to work pumping them out Smith took off his clothes, plunged Into the ley water and hurriedly put on emer gency patches. "Although we had landed at Fred ericksdal, our regular supply base was a short flight farther up the west coast at Ivigtut. There the cruiser Milwaukee awaited us with supplies for the long hop to Labrador. The weather had been reported fine at Ivigtut that morning, so, in spite of rain and fog at Fredericksd.il, we took off at 11 o'clock." "It was quite a tricky takeoff, too," Interposed Jack Harding. "We had to dodge in and out between little cakes and big bergs. But we made It. and for two hours we flew along the Weak Greenland coast until we sight ed the Milwaukee. "The flight was by no means with nut Its thrills. In addition to dndg ing icebergs when we took off. we had more than a dozen encounters with winds that reminded us of the ‘williewaws* of Alaska. Nearly ever> time we rounded a mountain and passed the mouth of a fjord a terrific gust of wind would eonie rushing out and knock ns all over the sky. "When we landed alongside the Mil waukee the first person to giert us was Lieut. Clayton Bisscll. who had acted as advance officer for us alon the Alaskan const. Bissell was the first friend from home whom we h.W met previously on the flight, ami you can't Itnnglne what a pleasure It w.u to encounter him away up there ut the end of a fjord in this lonely, out of the wav corner of the world. "Hlssell had constructed a runwai on the beach, so we pulled the planes right tip out of the way of the floating Ice nnd tied them down. Then we jumped Into a launch and went out to the cruiBer. The entire crew was on deck and they made lite fjord ling with their cheers as we came on board. “Realizing that we had only one more long water jump ahead of us, we decided that we had hotter • Urn* innte as mut h risk :ih possible hy < hanging engines again. During the days we spent here ;»t Ivigti.it it rain ed most of the time, but we worked out In the open and paid no attention to the weather, even though we wen soaked through. “Whenever th*» wind died down the air would he filled with billions of little flics and gnats. They were the most troublesome gnats you ever saw —even worse than the insects we had encountered in the tropice. They flew into our eyes, up our noses, buzzed in and out of our ears, and we had to talk with our lips tight shut to keep them from swarming into our mouths. In fart, they were so bad that we finally couldn't work until we got some netting, drapod it over our heads and tied it tight around our necks. It seemed very odd to find ill these insects away up here In the Antic. The Danes told us they were always troubled with them during the short Greenland summer. “But even dodging icebergs, work ing in the rain, and being half de voured hy Greenland gnats bothered us very little now. The one thought that crowded out all others was that it would now require only on« more long hop across the sea to land us hack on the mainland of North America. So we were eagerly looking forward to our flight across to ILab rador.*’ (fopj rl sht. 1 *» - .1 ) I aTTy K HTIMvM 1S T. I Break a Cold Right Up with "Pape's Cold Compound" Take two tablets every three hours until throe doses i r <• t a k c n. The first dose always gives relief. The •ict-ond and thud (Umcs completely break up the cold I* I e a « a n t and safe to take. Con • tinn no quinine or opiates. Millions use "Pape a Cold Compound." Price, thirty-five cents. I >t ugg sts k u a r* ante** it. m,' T n I I Could Not Sleep at light. Cuticura Healed. 1 '1 liad great trouble with pini-l |.|e. ami blackhrada on my l.ce lor about thief month* The pimple* were nol very large but they were red and Itchy. The irritation cauaed me to Rcratch and I could not alcrp at night. “1 lead an advertisement for Cuticura Soap and Ointment and nent lor a free .ample. It gave to much relief that I purchased more, ami In a ahort time I wa* complete ly healed " iS.cnedi -a Helen jMitchell. 015 wicker 'r Ate. Chicago, 111., Sept. 29. '9»* Uae Cuticura Snap, Ointment and Talcum regularly (or tvery-day toliat purpoaea. 01at»«it» awl •*». T.InnaM. i ■.“y&fej?i j For n picture of civilization in 1925 study events in Herrin, 111., when S. Glenn Young, engaged in “cleaning up bootleggers” for the Ku Klux Klnn, and Ora Thomas, ,sheriff, once jailed for bootlegging, decided to “shoot it out.” They shot it out in a cigar store, both were killed, and two others in (he store were killed. The widow of Young, who had locked up more than 126 bootleg gers, and who now lies in an un dertaker’s shop, dressed in the pur ple robe of a “kleagle,” says: “My husband played the game straight." He certainly played it to the end, and “shot it out” to a bitter finish. Mrs. Young, the widow, repre sents in her way our peculiar civ ilization of klan. anti-klan, bootleg, and prohibition. She is totally blind. Somebody, trying to kill her husband, shot out her eyes. This interesting incident of our civiliza tion, will seem queer to people that lead about it 10,000 years hence. One venerable citizen yesterday uttered this complaint: “Once in awhile, in my business, I have to ask a favor from a politi cal boss. In old days the boss was somebody that had grown up with the community, somebody that un derstood the people, often an Irish man. “Now w-hen I want to see the boss it's a young bootlegger, often scarcely able to speak English. Bootlegging brings in so much ready money that the bootleggers have crowded out the old-time ! bosses.” Tn Washington, an aged negro barber, E. C. Washington, seeing : ho sun going out. during the elip*e, decided it meant the end if the world, ran amtlck, razor in . nd and slashed one man before 'm was overpowered. He acted quite naturally. Fear takes men back to the ani mal condition and makes animals of them. You see it in war, when horrible brutalities often disgrace both sides. Fear has more to do with fighting than courage. You see whal fear does in shipwreck, causing men to trample down women anil children lighting for the lifeboats. It is perfectly natural that the ! ancient negro, frightened by the world coming to an end, should in ! stinctively feel that he wanted to , cut somebody with his razor. That’s j what fear drtes. I The strange thing is that any body should he worried about the world’s end. The same thing would happen to everybody and nobody, except, perhaps, the real estate owner would have cause for es pecial protest. French fliers on their way to Lake Tchad in the Sudan, landed at Colomb Bechar in the Sahara desert, promptly on time, reaching their first stopping place at 3:30j Sunday afternoon. While this country, where flying' machines were invented, wishes it had flying machines and does noth ing, European countries manufac ture them and use them. British companies muke throe round trips a day between Paris and London, carrying passengers. The round trip costs $60, and the journey takes three hours. It used to moan a train from London to the English channel, then the steam boat across the channel, then a train from the channel to Paris. N'ow it means one short straight flight. The French and British govern ments subsidize commercial flying as they should do, and as this coun try should do. They encourage air craft manufacturers, that they may have plants ready, and able to turn out machines in case of emer gency. v This country will fly eventually, after having watched and waited for Europe and Japan to teach us. The day is coming when winter resorts, summer resorts and moun tain resorts will look up into the sky every Friday afternoon to see the week-enders come flying from the big cities. The father in New York, Boston, Detroit, Chicago, will send his family to a warm place in winter, a cool place in summer, and distance doesn’t matter. To fly a thousand miles to spend a week end and fly back again for business on Monday will be no more than going now from New York to Atlantic City or from Milwaukee to Ocono mowoc. A great change is coming in transportation. Henry Ford starts it with his steamships that leave the heart of this continent, starting from the River Rouge in the Great Lakes region, stopping to unload at seaports all along the coast and around on the Gulf of Mexico. Coming back these ships will soon organize return freight of local products, which will be the beginning of economical distribu tion. The watchword of the futurp will be freight by water, passenger travel through the air . (Copyright. lt2S ) WINDOW SALES This week winds up our year, this week’s business decides whether we inventory the goods or count the cash, so—the week is given over to the best values of the whole year. Watch our windows. F. W. Thorne Co. 1812 Farnam St. A Sure Way to Prosperity Buy one of our guaranteed Typewriters or Adding Machines. Save one-half. Easy terms. LOWER RENTAL RATES All Makes Typewriter Co., Inc. — 205 S. 18th St. Phone AT 2413-2414 _ Ex-Service Men Flock to Legion Convention PI an* for Omaha j Credited With Increase of 5,000. Twenty-five thousand member* will he the goal of a membership drive of the Nebraska American Legion to begin late in February. Lloyd Kaln, chairman of the membership commit tec. announced Tuesday. Sam Reynolds of Omaha will lie in charge of one division of workers in tile drive, and \V. 1 Stehblns of Gothenburg will lie in charge of the second division. Leaders under Rey nolds will ho Russell Gentzler, Omaha, Frank Perkins. Fremont, and Charles Hohaus. Nebraska city. Steb bins' assistants will be C. C. Frazier, Aurora; John Lawler. Hastings, and another to he chosen later. Membership in the Nebraska legion is now 5,000 greater than ever before, Mr. Kaln announced Tuesday. He attributes this increase to interest in the national legion convention to be held in Omaha next fall. ROAD PAYS $8,800 FOR DEATH OF MAN The Burlington railroad has agreed to pay Mrs. Elisabeth H. Houk, 1415 South Tenth street. $8, $00 for the death of Martin H. Houk. Burlington switch foreman at Hibson, who was killed when crushed between two cars January 19. Mrs. Houk is administratrix of the switch foreman's estate. County Judge Crawford signed an order Thursday permitting her to settle for this amount. Besides her. six sisters and two hrothers survive the switchman. Officers Nah Man Vi lio Said They Had Nothing ‘on Him' Pawnee City, Jan. 27.—When Emil Sedlak of east of Table Ttock told a friend here last week that the law couldn't touch him because the offi cers had nothing ‘'on" him, he was wrong. He is in the Pawnee eonnty jail here now charged with Hire" counts of unlawful trans/iortation of liquor, and a fourth count involves operating an automobile without a license. Sedlak was arrested Thursday. He was unable to furnish bond of $700 and is awaiting trial. When arraigned before the cojmty court Saturday he pleaded not guilty, and the case was set for Thursday morning. nr —are marred by Pyorrhonu Do . you want to escape? 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