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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 9, 1915)
Omaha Sunday Bee Magazine Pag 1 Ic" h TO FALL FLYING Remarkably Vivid Story of Roland Garros, the French Var Aviator Whose Machine Turned Upside-Down 7,000 Feef in the Air But Finally Righted Itself The following was tent from the battlefront in Belgium to one of the London newspapers by a war correspondent. The aviator's name was cut out by the censor, but it is be lieved that Roland Garros, the famous French military air man (recently made prisoner by the Germans), is the aviator referred to: Looping-the-Loop by Accident Among the Clouds I HAVE listened to what I snail call "tie psychology of war flight" toy one of the famous military air men. It revealed the etorm of diverse sensations to which a man may be subjected while carrying out the work f:,"sco"uV""6tf raldeif.'i'From" tie 61nt of view of a medleal man It showed la what a remarkable way the nervous system Is- capable of adjusting itself to new and severe conditions and of preserving Its balance even when hope of salvation has been aban doned. The airman received orders to go to a particular place and there drop bombs. The route lay along the eacoast over a portion of the country occupied by the enemy and strongly fortified against, aeroplanes. Shortly after setting out the zone of fire was entered, and In order to avoid mishap it became necessary to take advantage of such cloud cover as could be ob tained. . "I saw." said the airman, "a heavy cloud In front of me hanging over, the sea. It was a gray cloud, or I could not have entered It; black clouds are wellltnown to be dangerous. I was flying at a height of about 7,600 feet For a few moments all went well and the cover was very welcome. The cloud was of the fleecy order, and I eould sea my compass and barometer quite clearly. 'After awhile, however, the mist became thicker, and I ielt that, I. was losing my bearing. L was flying quickly, but I did not know in what direc tion. My compass began to swing around In the -mot erratic way, and I eaw the barometer begin to fall. "These manifestations did not, however, occasion any alarm, but what followed was unpleasant. Owing to the effect of the strong and contrary currents which are met with in every cloud the machine began to sway about violently. I felt myself knocked from side to side, and had a very difficult task to manipulate the elevator and rudder. The wind shrilled about' me and the density of , the cloud increased from moment . to moment Nevertheless, it was still possible to dis tinguish the position of the machine in space. Then suddenly everything became quite dark, so that I could not as much as see my hands in front of me. "I was not frightened so far, at least I do not think so, but I began to think that to have been shot by the enemy would have been the lesser of the two evils. However, thinking was difficult; it required all my wits for the work tn hand. I was completely lost. I did not even know at what angle the machine was flying. Then the thought occurred to me that I might side-slip or that the machine might turn over, and I made up my mind to try to rise up out of the cloud. I pulled the elevator for this purpose, and the next moment everything became perfectly silent round about me. I knew then that I had overdone the pull, , M Mitt i M c J''mWMm ; ; . i . - . r- : ... . . ; - "I Was Falling I Suppose, at the Rate of About 200 Miles an Hour. At Intervals I Heard a Curious Snapping Sound in My Ears and Realized that I Was Deaf. I Could Not Hear My Own Engines. My Eardrums Had Burst!" and forced the machine up almost vertically, and In consequence had stopped her. I knew that now she would probably slip back or fall over sideways. "One or the other of these things happened. I did not know which. In any case, I felt my boldlngdn . strap tighten, and knew that 1 was upside down. "It was still as dark as night. I tried to right myself and failed. I tried frantically. I began to feel that it was all over with me, and I experienced the most acute agony of mind. But suddenly and quite unexpectedly that feeling passed away. "I had tried everything and failed. I was conscious of that; 1 '.Vow a wonderful sense of calm took the place of the' anguish. It was the most easy and delightful sensa tion I have ever felt Meanwhile I was falling, I sup pose, at the rate of about 200 miles an hour. "The next thing I remember 4s that my bolding-in (belt hurst, and that automatically I jammed my knees farther under the Indicator board and gripped the seat , with my elbows. I had taken my feet off the rudder bar. I was some inches out of the seat, and the ma chine was upside down. I only knew it was upside down in a vague way because I had left the seat ' "I was quite happy, and I had no anxiety of any kind. I did not feel anything. Then in a moment the aeroplane fell out of tho cloud, and I saw the sea rushing up toward me. My hands automatically moved the controls, and at 1,500 feet the machine righted itself. "Then at intervals I heard a curious snapping sound in ray ears, and realized that I was deaf. "I couldn't hear my own engine, My ear-drums had burst. ..... ) "The deafness was due to the very rapid descent and consequent suddenly increasing stmospherlo pressure. It had a psychological effect, for It helped to accen tuate the sense of depression which followed the return to safety. Having passed from violent agita tion of mind to the 'calm of despair,' I now suffered a severe sense of shock. But I continued on. my war, mastering myself until I was able to launch my bombs. The first of these achieved Kb purpose, and I saw that H had done so. "Immediately a reaction of feeling set in. I was sq happy that I' shouted. I simply could not contain my self. I felt In all my pockets for something else to thrown down. All I could find was my matchbox, and so I threw that. "There was no permanent upset to my nerves, be cause the next day I was able to carry out my work more or less as if nothing bad happened. In proof that the aeroplane bad really turned upside down, I discov ered that my revolver had .fallen from my pocket on the machine." Why Poor People, Farmers and Savages Are Really Better Off Than the Rich ' s r f- s- 6 1 , s 5 lf X I X -1 ' ). ? i r t , ' i By LEONARD KEENE HIRSHBERG, A. B., M. A., M. D. (Johns Hopkins). IT has long been mystery whj farmers, the poor, and siivase tribes are physically better off than those who live in bote1.!, res taurants, or have the moat expensive food and live seemingly on the fat of the land. Yet "some hae meat and cannot eat.", while others with royal cooks and a treasury of good things fall ill with 'scurvy, wanting diseases, anaemia, emaciation and Iohh of flesh. The explanation of this strange itate of affairs is to be fouud in the experience of the German sea raider, :he cruiser Kronprlnz Wllhelm, whicu was compelled to make for a neutral port In order to save the lives of It crew of J00. Way were these men in danger? Not from any microbe or contajflous malady. Not for want of sunlight. Not for want of plenty of food, fresh tlr and water. None of these neces sities of health were absent from ihlpboard. Yet 110 of the men were incapaci tated to the point of being bedrid den and the other :hh) odd were able to do little more than bit up and take notice. The true Inwardness of it all Is to be traced to food defects, to wit, the absence of certain mineral constitu ents and vltamlnes. the same things which tire demanded 'by babies I p. their food, to mako their bones strong, their tteth proper, tholr blood red. and to keep their hair from sweating and showing other tissue defects. Retlned and polished Vheat. rice, and other cereals, canned fruits, canned vegetables, and even meats served in the usual way the so-callej "embalmed beef" of the Spanish American war was such meut lack certain elements such as calcium and certain ferments called "vltamlnes, ' which are absolutely necessary for vitality, health and utrength. These lime salts and vltamlnes are always present in fresh country vegetable and fresh fruits. In the human tissues other than the bones there Is an average of ten teapoonsful of chloride of lime, bak ing soda, table salt, phosphate of potash, and Iron for each loo pounds of weight. These minerals keep the blood, lymph, chyle and fabric Juices balanced, and properly distributed. They are Intimately connected with e h Intricate nher In the llvtny tex tlle. Yet without the clean, new, un- rusted minerals Just named, bcrl berl, hemorrhages, scurvy, rickets and all Horts of chronic maladies often in cluded under that false, useless and meaningless term, "rheumatism,-' follow. How, then, are such serious afflic tions to be avoided? Can the min eral bo administered with food, like table salt, or like Iron as a medicine? No. While, doctors usually go ad vise and believe that the patients re ceive benefits, it is untrue. In doc tors, like other average people, hope springs eternal In their human breasts, and their wishes are parents to their beliefs. They always "get reaults," because they do not recog nize that better results are possible In this way. In fresh orange Juice, fresh fruits In general, fresh green vegetables, rough milled, unpolished wheat, bar ley, oats and other cereals all ontatn in a serviceable form the minerals which can be taken into the human structures. "Vltamlnes" are also present in these, neither the latter nor the minerals are to be found in refined cereals. In canned good. In stale vegetables Even to keep lima beans a day after they are picked without canning them destroys a great many of these nacessary In gredients, v Copy irht. !15. bv Z , X X " ' ,-VsUv ' x - - . xx;m v II . . S"... .' - -,r - i ". General Joffre Giving Orders to an Airman Scout. How the War Threatens English Free Trade ' X i .Q v" . . , wtM-? ' xAz Roland Garros in His Machine. the Star C'omnanv. Great Britain Hlrlitn If.vrv(d "Trf HE3 sad plight of a single Eng- ( llsh Industry threatens to A end England's career as a free-trade country. The users of dyes In England employ nearly 2,000,000 persons. As all dyea have been imported from Germany, and the supply cut off by the war, this army of workers is in serious dan ger of becoming pauperized. England, of course, might make her own dyes, bat capital with which to set up the necessary plants is lacking for the reason that as soon as the war euds it would have no protection against experienced Ger man competition without legislation imposing a duty on the foreign product. , What will the Government do now to save itself from discredit and to save the dye-using industries of Great Britain from little short of disaster? That la the question which Is being aked in all parts of the country? At present something like con sternation exists among dye users. ho employ about 1.500,000 persons in various trades, for without dyes many branches of manufacture will be crippled, and at present only about 'four months' supply of dyes remains u the country. The present home output Is far too small to meet the needs of trade. Uulcbs a tariff were imposed at the end of the war, German dye manulacttirera would flood England with dyes ut prices with which no British company could compete, and it Is held by business men to be a foregone conclusion that iu that event British Dyes. Limited, would rapidly become bankrupt, and their whole capital would be lost. By promlslujt a protective tariff the Government could secure the reS quired capital for British dyes with out difficulty or dlay. Will t'.ie British Government over throw its whole foreign trade policy to meet this emergency? That may prove to be one of the extraordinary changes wrought by thr
