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Durham Review (1897), 27 Sep 1928, p. 7

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An An III Fate Pursued Captain Hinchliffe MLcial Order to Quit Cranwell Field:Haurried Hil T&eféfi â€"Long Series of Untoward Incidents Preceded~ _ His. Atlantic Flight 3 t Captain Walter C â€"R. mmfl \ the Hon,. Elste Mackay, of Lord Inchcape, disappearâ€" March after taking off from Airdrome in an‘ attempt to o fArst fiightfrom England North â€"American â€" Continent, i and American alrmen were ly mystified, "Why," they d, "did a pilot of Hinchliffe‘s m and experienceâ€"a man f A Wellâ€"Guarded Secret ver, in her desire to protect ily of Lord Inchcape from obâ€" cblo publicity, Mrs. Hinchliffe d from discussing the flight ewspaper men, and lhll, toâ€" ho day that Lindbergh arrived is, Hinchliffe and his wife hapâ€" to be visiting there. They were : back to their hotel through ; of cheering French men and . when Hinchliffe turned to his nd exclaimed:; . "How I enyy an; he his done somethings." . aftorward Lovine "and Chamâ€" who had flown from New York many and were making & Euroâ€" our, arrived in London, Chamâ€" had already served notlce on : that when they reached Paris uld sail for New York; and Leâ€" who wanted to fly back in the bia, was looking for another and experienceâ€"a man ying hours in the air, more, an any other® living ‘pilot he, a pilot noted for his id thoroughness, throw disâ€" ho winds and in the dead fly into the teeth of the : fo=: and sleet storms of ith the fact that Capuln| had taken only a few close to his confidence as to the in the case and served‘ to i the stories of a romance. nchliffe‘s friends knew that se popular theories wereâ€"erâ€" They knew, too, that he had stponing the fight until late May, but that a series of to incidents had compelled ike his choice of making it lid or not at all. They lmew‘ hliffe was opposed to women ransatlantic flights, that he voted family man, and that coason he agreed to take Miss vas bocause she was the only : England who would finance flisht. And they said that io responsibility for Hinchâ€" timely departure from Cranâ€" with the British Air Ministry; s the Air Ministry which orâ€" i to remove the plane from . said to be the only field in sh Isles from which Hinchâ€" I take off with an adequate chts of Alcock and Brown and iwhker awoke in Hinchliffe the : to do something really big in | of aviation. When the Imâ€" irways started their passenger between Croydon and Conttâ€" irports, â€" Hinchliffe entered iploy as pilot and came to be ed as their best. " as known to thousands of ns who used the air lines beâ€" Paris and London, and with ? them he discussed possibiltâ€" tha development of commerâ€" ition in America. He felt that i. with its growing commerce ge territory, was admirably to commercial aviation, and | interest a number of prom{â€" isiness mon in aviation proâ€" Hinchliffe‘s Ambition . in Paris, Levine made several London in the planes of the 1 Airways, during one of which with Hinchliffe as pilot, Le: as so impressed with Hinchâ€" andling of the plane that he ~l Hinchliffe fiy the Columbia America, â€"Hinchliffe was will 1y in anations were advanced. ! t he had been lntomed| tions of Captain Koehl i Huenofeld, and in his| eat the Germans acrou' 1 what they characterâ€" oolhardy â€" act. Others: Miss© Mackay‘s impaâ€" off before her father‘s ndia and her insistence pdiate start had caused ake off against his. betâ€" _ But to most péople of the Atlantic the deâ€" clâ€"known war hero. with beautiful daughter of a such â€" dartnog adventure : interpretationâ€"& <r0â€" n aviator Hinchliffe soon: ace among the foremost the British service, and, teensâ€"had uchnted for 1y planes, when one day, a (German flying circus, he on the bridge of the nose 1e gun bullet and lost the eye. Wounded as he was, anaged to bring his plane rth. But he never flew in he outbreak of the war s medicine in Liverpool . like many other young left collge to enlist in fter several months of the infantry, he transâ€" newly organized Royal N n f.;'vine mentioned terms veplied "I don‘t want any hay career as an ayiâ€" ben blighted by break of the war h ctnrcts. o ts ie o ies ies namegs * Annrafegit®. Ahrapnage. ‘dontract. Your: w’éfl"fi good ~enough for me." I The dismissal of Drouhin, Levina‘s fArst choige, had &roused the French, who particularly resented the seleo ~tlon of an English pilot, and even | though Levine had paid Drouhin more \ francs than he was likely to receive ias a pilot in the next ten years, this feeling took definite form. Pilots of | the Air Union, the French line operâ€" | ating between Lo Bourget and Croyâ€" | don, let it be known that if Hinchliffe | appeared again at Le Bourget he | might expect rough treatment. Hinch< ‘liffe had no fears for himself. He was \a& perfect physical . specimen and at |\one time had held the middleweight amateur boxing championship of Engâ€" | land, but fear that the sabotage inciâ€" | dent in Paris might be repeated at _ Croydon caused him to urge Levine to i‘ remove the plane to Cranwell. Through friends in the British Air, PMD! Ministry Hinchliffe .obtained permisâ€" that sion to use the field at Cranwell, and] nseath purely ~because of Hinchliffe omcers,a‘ner‘ at the field welcomed Levine‘s, staff| °°%° ‘ and assigned them rooms in the om-‘ h cers‘ quarters at the field., Buta series 'fiinal of _ unpleasant incidents .fullowed."?eel' which caused Hinchliffe untold em-t on barrassment, and after he and Levine1 follo atarted on thair flight‘ Indiaward the| 45t"> commanding officer at the field d&t;:om( cided never again to give his consent m to its being used for a civilian flight.| *9*"® The India flight turned out to be another flasco. Barely had they startâ€"| ed when an air lock developed in the feed line while they were flying over the North Sea, and next the engine| started missing. Before the prospect of | fAying over the rugged Carpathians at | night, Hinchliffe decided to come down | to Vienna and did so, despite objecâ€" tions from Levine. & { Motor Trouble in Sight . From Vienna Levine was for going to Venice for the Schnelder Cup Race.% and thence to Rome, to call upon Musâ€" solint and the Pope. All the while he was using the same motor with which Chamberlin and Acosta had es tablished their endurance record and Chamberlin and Levine: had flown across the Atlantic. Hinchliffe felt that trouble was threatening and when the writer met him in the Exâ€" celsior Hotel in Romea ho confided: "We are leaving here on a barnstormâ€" ing trip to Rumania, but we are likely to crash at any moment. I just sit at the stick listening to the moor and wondering how long it will be before it stops." * The very next day his fears were justified and the plane was slightly damaged in a forced landing in the outskirts of Rome. Eventually Hinchliffo returned to | London and found himself in a most unfortunate predicament. In order to make the proposed transatlantic flight with Levine he had obtained a six weeks‘ leave of absence from the Imâ€" perial Airways, but only after the| greatest difficulty, The company at | first refused the leave, and was proâ€"| vailed ypon to grant it only when Hinchliffe threatened to resign, Now, back at work for them again, Hinchliffo found that he would have to pay dearly for his leave, He had already expended large sums from his narsonal funds for expenses incidental| EREENeSemioe CCR eenesit 7 Now, back at work for them again,| _ Toronto Telegram (Ind. Con.) : The Hinchliffo found that he would havo| Ganadian Pacific Railway has agreed to pay dearly for his leave, He had| to bulld ons hundred cottages for already expended large sums from his| British families whose members can personal funds for expenses incidental |/seeure work nearby until they havs to the flight. But the greatest l0ss ho jlearned the rudiments of â€" farming, suffered indirectly. when they will bo settled on farms of Imperial Airways pilots are paid bY | their own. Now if arrangements can the hours spent in the air, and when | be made to cut enough red tape to let Hinchliffe returned he. was compelled | these families into tho country, a to stand around and see the best and | start will have been mado ar dâ€"well most remunerative runs handed over|great oaks from little acorns growâ€" b~ wannsar anid less experienced pflot,s.‘ «: maetimes. Imperial Airways pilots are pald DYy the hours spent in the air, and when Hinchliffe returned he was compelled to stand around and see the best and most remunerative runs handed over to younger and less experienced pilots. Ho was in need of money at the time, for he had just built a house in Purley and there was much to be done toward completing It. He saw but one course â€"to find someone who would back him â€" financially for a transatlantic fiight,. Once such a flight was comâ€" pleted, he felt confident ho could inâ€" . D CColtest tw‘ atautime seeuNy REMEVE RCCHTOCC him â€" financially for a transatlantic fiight, Once such a flight was comâ€" pleted, he felt confident he could inâ€" terest American capital in smrtlngl passonger airways in this country, About this time & representative of Miss Mackay approached Hinchliffe with a plan for a transatlantic flight,. Hinchliffe had already been oflered‘ $25,000 by Mabel Boll for a flight with | her as passenger, but he had turned it down, for he was opposed to womenl participating in such flights, But,‘ when he saw that backing was not forthcoming from any other source he finally consented to take Miss Mackay, provided she would "insure him for $50,000 in the event of death â€"or total Incapacitation while actually upon the Atlantic fight or in ‘any fests ‘comnectâ€" ed therewith." It was also a;ranged that Miss Mackay should* pay‘ Hinchâ€" liffe a regular salary while test flights were being made, Planes from America Without telling any but this elosest friends, Hinchliffe salled for America, where he bought _A Stinson plane, s 3M â€" AtsccFasut + hk About this time & of Miss Mackay approi with a plan for a tral Hinchliffe had alread OO EEREECE C S CCE o 1t friends, Hinchliffe salled for America, where he bought _A Stinson plane, Then he returned to England,, The plane was shipped to him by The Aquitania and arrived in Southampton Feb, 3, Hinchliffe had it transported to the Vickers plant at Brooklands, where it was assembled and tried out, After A aup:bew . of , preliminary flights, in which Miss® Mackay had taken part and demonstrated that she was eapable of acting as relief pilot, Hinchliffe wanted to take the plane to Cranweil and wrote the Air Minisâ€" try asking them for germisaion, But, though he was the only British airman contemplating. & transatiantic fight and though the plane bore British numerais and had the Vanion Jack was cx;ééblg of acting Hinchliffe wanted to â€" to Cra.nwell_anq wrote from America ng any ‘but this elosest m.| _ On March 9 Hinchliffe received the:| ng | following telegram from the Air Minâ€"| he.t,lstry: «"Regret must request you ml l&t“’m‘we your machine and mechanic ut from‘Cranwell by 6 p.m. Saturday, | ht. 10th instant, definitely. You have | pe | overstayed the period agreed upon byl .._seven days." > | painted on‘the side, he was notifi¢d | that he could not use Cranwell nor! ]any other Royal Air Force fleld. Only | after Miss Mackay went personally !o] | see Sir Samuel ‘Hoare, the Air Minisâ€"| iter. was permission "to use the field~| | fiin@#lly obtained, and then only for one , vfieek}. c . 155 ‘ BYRD‘S PLANES: "THE FLOYD BENNETT", "THE STARS AND s'rimpes';\a:mi:‘ ‘" Ready for the Antarct‘y expedition where more aviation history will be made ir Antarctic. ~ It snowed hard all during the two ; succeeding days, and weather condl-{ tions made it impossible to move the | plane. _. Hinchliffe was desperate.! Meanwhile he obtained measurements from Baldonnel Field, near. Dublin, whence the Germanâ€" fllers started | later, but foundâ€"the. lifting power of his plane would not permit him . to | take off there. with a sufficient supâ€" ply of fuel for the transatlantic flight. He knew the Imperial Airways would never give him permission to use Croydon, and even if they had it was doubtful if he could have got off there. Nowhere in the British Isles was there another field that would answer.. A Daring Risk %, On the evening of March 12 the Atlantic weather report was better; in fact, almost favorable. Miss Macâ€" | kay had assured him that the insurâ€" ‘ ance matter was attended to, and had Ieven given him a receipt for a. payâ€" |\ ment she had made the insurance comâ€" | pany. Hinchliffe, his back to the wall, | weighed the risks. He knew it was a tloug chance, but it was the only one | ho had. "Ill have a try at it in the | morning," he said. * | _ Two hours after Hinchliffe and Miss ‘Mackay had taken off from Cranwell and while they were speeding toward \ Ireland a letter was delivered at the |airdrome for Miss Mackay. When | opened later it was found to contain :\not!co from the insurance company | that an additional $10,000 would have opened later it was found to contaln] notfce from the insurance company‘ that an additional $10,000 would have to be paid before it would accept the risk on Hinchliffe. Victoria Colonist (Cons.) : It is small wonder, because adequate proâ€" tection is not afforded to Canadian producers, that this country‘s favorâ€" able trade balance continues to deâ€" cline. ~Through Federal neglect the fruit and vegetable growers of this province are experiencing lean times. The Neglected Fruitâ€"Grower Hurled by a C saves hours in th Cottages for Settlers . catapuit it the delivery of transâ€"Atlanti» mails, | Last through the winter. Other people| | store ' I ‘Their apples in the cellar till they rot..‘ "But you and I have never bargained \ - for * ‘A barrelful of anythingâ€"Love ] Was a bright sweet windfall that we ‘ found, | \Picked up and polished, never doubtâ€" | ful of o 6 l’I‘he moment we must toss it to the | ground. ‘Only the moment hurts more than it { , should. A !We were forewarned, but that is not 5 enough, _ Our brave ironic laughter is no good, . No earthly good. Old Time has called * Forewarned I felt it in my bones that this would ;. por buff. . : Spring leaves us cold, incredulous, Poking in bins where there is nothing Baseball: I guess 1. skin sleep awhile yet, waking up soon! Toronto Star (Ind.): Canada has no desire to multiply the unemployâ€" ment problem, which, owing to our seasonal occupations, is in normal conâ€" ditions heavy enough.© There is room tere for a great population, but it must come as our present population has come, by sound processes, with an agricultural countryside preceding the industrial town. Before the factory we must have the customers to utilâ€" ize its products Toronto Mail and Empire (Cons.) : Canadians recognize that their British kinfolk are their best customers. Canâ€" ada has found in Great Britain a marâ€" ket for large quantities of its natural products. Canada, too, for many years has. accorded a tariff preference to British goods imported into the Doâ€" minion. In spite of that preference, Canada has been purchasing far more of the manufactured goods of the Un ited States than of Great Britain. From Ship Lost, strayed or stolen.â€"Two‘ylgs from my property at Shadyside. ; If you‘ve killed the pigs, I would . like to have one meal of fresh meat. The Immigration Problem _stored. Ruth Fitch Bartlett in Harper‘s Magazine Empire Trade YES HE WILL I guess I‘ll let M to Shore Service let Mr. Pigâ€" but he‘ll be I i "I believe I will live to be one hunâ€"| dred," writes Gentleman Jim Corbett., ltormer heavy weight champton of the | world, in the current issue of "Physiâ€"| !cal Culture Magazine." ‘ | ~He attributes his longevity to proper \nare of. his health. Since retlrlng‘ | from the ring he has‘constantly: exerâ€" ‘clsed his muscles and> watched his diet; in fact has taken the most metiâ€" culous care of his body. ‘ U am past sixty," says (ientleman Jim, "yet people tell me almost daily |I don‘t look a day over fortyâ€"five, I | believe I will live to be one hundred. A very essential thing that I have done | for a great many years is that I have |a thorough examination by a physiâ€" ‘\cian once a year. When a man is ‘ thoroughly examined, he finds out the s\ condition of his heart, blood pressure, kidneys, etc. If there is anything wrong, he can have it corrected before it is too late.. There are many young fellows who go around with Bright‘s disease or diabetis. Disease often gets such a hold of them that when they find it is already too late. Gentleman Jim Corbett Beâ€" lieves He Will Live To Be One Hundred Iv 500 miles out at sea, the above sea Corbett Ambitious "A boy who wants to build up & | good strong constitution must go about it just as a contractor or a builder would in putting up a skyscraper. The foundation comes firstâ€"solid, laid on bedâ€"rock. The foundation for his conâ€" stitution will not cost him a nickel. It takes only will power, ambition and common sense. A poor boy can have these just as well as a rich boy. But without those three essentials no boy, poor or rich, can build up the foundaâ€". tion, try hard as he may. "When a boy grows up to be a man he wan‘s naturally to preserve his wonderful â€" constitution, Yet eight [ times out of ten when he has come to man‘s estate, he does nothing to. keep himself fit. He allows himself to beâ€" come to wrapped up in business or pleasure or both and ceases to be acâ€" . tive, Ho allows himself to get in the habit of eating foods which are not {good for him, gets lazyâ€"so lazy that lha will not exercise, Whom the gods would destroy, I believe, they first l fatten." |to Lord Lovat is an opportunity lori the Dept. of Immigration to trace one| ‘item of hostile propaganda down to its | source. . It should ‘be investigated and | exposed. | Ottawa Citizen (Lib.): (The Cathâ€" olic Herald, published in England, has cabled to Lord Lovat asking for an investigation of reports reaching that paper that British harvesters have been used for strikebreaking, and that a Lancashire harvester has been' found hanged.) There is no doubt‘ about it, propaganda to discredit Canâ€", ada and discourage the immizratim'l of ritish settlers has beon dissemin-‘ ated year after year, part.icularly‘ since the end of the war. The cable} Autiâ€"Migration Propaganda ONTARIO ARCHI TORONTO D onE NOT YET NAMED in the little known, hard, cruel have! Ottawa Journal (Cons.) : Physically | that| and mentally, the British miner can been | more than hold his own with the repâ€" loubt\ resentatives of any other industry. Canâ€"| Hardy, active and alert, trained by ation'l the very nature of his occupation to ‘minâ€"| think for himself, he is as keenly inâ€" llarly]berested in public affairs as he is in cabloithe policies and propaganda of his y for union, or in sport. As a worker, his e one| heroism is a tradition that is by. no| to i»t:!meam lost; as a citizen, be has the| 1 and| qualities which have built up powerful labor organizations, developed strong â€"â€" |leaders, and contributed to British public life many men of high standâ€" ing. . . . If the harvesters from the mining areas of Britain can only diâ€" vest themselves of their class conâ€" sciousness, forget their pithead poliâ€" tics, their whippets and their football, and adapt themselves to the new conâ€" ditions and fresh opportunities of life in the Woest, there is no reason to _\ doubt their ability to make good. In that prospect lies hope not only of f benefit to themseives, but of a pracâ€" tical contribution to the solution of a great Imperial problem. . Sn y sllnbra § ht me WHe d s “mmotamn.:;.y;.lonm' sc k . ECx"C " A Maddox in an article, * WM\ § % lmfiWLM.m tory?" in the September w“z.' .'h'm‘ "?.':m Battersea Park rolling toryAmerts that oc oo oo ooo ;'1 Michael over and over in the redâ€" accomplishes no useful or practl 5T . Drewandoaves, 9n Te â€"particularly t redadundine proun choge to play "ln,m then at the conâ€" bridgos or the n o n en bullnu: clusion of the exercise period dragâ€" rom, Coevipite ap ie velhe es mena4 |° ging him with all four feet braced in oi w h i eaang ?n Eo n: protest across Battersea Bridge to mm nedives sitigine Rpriie m Cheyne Row. For Michael was at the ;l;he rt;adlng o{,h:::r"::: :': r::::-: unhappy stage in his development ve ‘of more las o ol Snly Will tion to effort by noble example, broadâ€" l'h:’n 02 ‘bl:; I:'::xl':l:mll: :“ng obs’;lnate ening man‘s outlook on life, and elee In8!y fi_ M vating the intelligence than many an brtl):&r( r“:‘)ih“ micumen aise Hngy woud ns dnverarded 'fllunt's ane o# down! curl up from the Thames embankment P oeee S arddons gor .' in dunâ€"colored clouds of smoke, and on on Pevent a daw of aontlig the little house, cold, and alas, 1 conâ€" of history will reveal a law of continuâ€" te;| uie : yb <-l;oorle;s in dW B Witht o blge o4 ias pel;ml:nen(;e tz;:‘:)z: the 'thi('k vapor. . . . Porha@e # was 09E h6 imclth nttert;‘pehumn this, perhaps simply the spirit of wanâ€" ::;(;nzn;lhea nll:‘:::1 bg;s n;)oral eprogren.f deri'ng which ded us to leave Michael Through history the permanent eleâ€" to the care «')f- our h‘:‘a'{l‘a, ol(: l\l.m\l:: ments of contemporary life may belkeeper and visit the Forest of Save mnwnlnintâ€"Funm thhes which are nanl!.‘ nuke, plane "An assiduous perusal of the pages of history will reveal a law of continuâ€" * ity, a law of permanence »through | change, a law of interdependence . among the members of the human . race and a law of motdl ‘progress.|| Through history the permanent el&; ments of contemporary life may be separated from those which are acclâ€" dental and transient. Through hisâ€"| tory we. can judge the progress of thol present over the past. We shall imâ€", mediately see from such a comparalâ€" !son that the present is superior in‘ material, mental and moral respects. lSlavery and serfdom have disappearâ€"| ed; soldiers, sailors and school childâ€" Iren are. no longer flogged; men'l“ | physical and legal power over women , is decreasing; the prineiples of ’uflu‘ and mercy are extending beyond the| confines of the family and tribe to lnational and even international rell-' tions. | "Uninformed politicians are conunu-l ally making mistakes because they dow| not know how their proposed policies: have worked in the past. If, for lu-} stance, the farmers of the Constitution of the United States had known u\e! lessons which history has to teach, they might have forfended the Civil War, since history teaches that slavery as an economic expedient is a fallure. Nations and rulers may well learn the same lesson. Neglect of this brought on the bloody French Revolution. If Czar Nicholas and his advisers had learned the lessons of history, the fortunes of Russia would have been quite different. The same ) applies to the former Kaiser. |\ "Many persons are actually conâ€" \vinced that it is useless to try to \ combat the forces that are making for the destruction of mankind. When Ia person is in such a frame of mind | he will do well to read history, When, | before the battle of Trafaigar, Nelson | was encouraging his men, Wordsworth ; was expressing the gloomiest of sentiâ€" ments about his country. At that \time England was standing on the | threshold of one of the most glorious ] periods in history. "A knowledge of history will also provide the means of foresecing and | providing for the future. During lhe‘ World War a soldier asked his officer: l ‘What will be done, with the Germn‘ Emperor after the war? Will he be hung?" The officer, drawing his reply ‘from the knowledge of history, reâ€" plied: ‘No; he will be isolated, and thus kept from doing future harms, as was Napoleon Bonaparte.‘ Thus an accurate forecast was made of what lactually happened. "History is an antidote to credulity, an adjunct to travel, an inspiration for performing our appointed tasks, a charting of political shoals, and, above all, a background which enables us to secure a necessary perspective for the understanding of our time." Winnipeg Tribune (Ind. Con.):; A majority of the people of the Dominâ€" lon aro still loyal to the Empire, That is a fact in which loyalists here and throughout the Empire can take comâ€" fort. But due weight, in any considâ€" eration of the subject, must be given | EPCE CC PC vBLys _ SRe EE" to the fact that there is g?o;xrtdni;wm have to be built in fi,”{tl effort to undermine that ty and| dn to keep these provihces ar easure of eep pro oo ie Frearsm on We vidin hn !in line with the states to th wuocess, That efl@flm‘lsfl:%:‘::‘wm cost a great amount of io varlous ways g an | »int is, howevrsz, that w twot %1[‘1, a‘t mgm Htl ho mx?n’:oy ;:fl'ord’ (() do \A‘ithou( BOIM4 Imperial nation with many commitâ€") T6 mbt pme »Lithe ments in all parts of the world, is .“""d '“d'.pem 8. ~Fouds," if 6 dangerous ally for Canads: ADd £99"\ Wisely, will oarn dividends, ind S en yc m "%|roads ‘that will permit free the former w‘ .“:: Tint should traffc in all kinds of weathe i”‘“y d se measu u“di,m ‘essential to the business of the take all possible mapes community as telephones, tel herself as guch in the eyes of the COMMUN!Y A Read History?: Stonelienge and The British Miner Canada‘s Attitude Our destination proved to be a railâ€" road> statidon lying between two hills. About a quarter of a mile away in the half light we could see a heavy brown English house with a hedge around it. Of inhabitants, beyond the station master, there was no sign, and on enâ€" quiring for the nearest inn, we were directed to this lonesome building in the English plain. ... The next morning..... . @about a amile beyond â€"a hedgeâ€"bound bend in the narrow highâ€" way, we came upon a low thatched cottage with a small sigm#» the winâ€" dowâ€""Car to Hire." We knocked at the door. A pleasant, redfaced man 'l.ppeared and we questioned him about prices and the general lay of the counâ€" itry. He told us that the great Druidie ruin of Stonehenge was about forty or more miles away and that he would gladly take us for the sum of a shilâ€" ling a mile. Margaretta and I were charmed. ‘The man went indoors to get his cap and soon we were in the garage, a thatched barn of pink stucco in the rear of the house, where there slept in the easy peace of old age a Ford which must have been built prevâ€" fous to 1910. It was a noble car; the brass radiator was burnished and sghining, the top was down, frayed but resolute. A sense of lordly ease and a realization that future economy Iwould be mecessary, clevazd and chastened our spirits to a sw@e## humilâ€" ity as we ensconced ourselve@ in the |back and threw a tattered robe over | our knees. With a spluttering roar | the journey commenced. the journey commenced. For a long time we drove through small villages in a country well woodâ€" ed and broken up into fields by hedges and stone walls. The road was narâ€" row but good, and Margaretta and 1 were particularly charmed by the old stone churches with their . . . dark yew trees, the thatched farm houses, the neat barns and byres. At times we came upon the lush, slowly moving stream of the Avon River which reâ€" minded me with an intense pleasure of paintings that I had seen by Conâ€" stable. About eleven o‘clock we came upon Salisbury Plain and soon after reached the fenced4in ruin of Stone \hengo itself. After visiting Stonehenge, we turn ed and made Sarum. Our was a large 1 the hill on situated. _ It in coming uy se After lunch we returned through the Wiltshire lowlands; . across â€"green downs rutted by an old Roman road, within sight of the White Horse of Westbury; through Savernake Forest to home and supper. I had never before seen an English forest, and the squat beeches, russet gold in the afternoon light, and the long aisles through the forest, lined with ferns through which rabbits scurâ€" ried, reminded me of the stories of Robin Hood, and I half expected to see green forms filtting through the twiâ€" light.â€"William Whitman 34, in "Dog Corner Papers." ';o:;;flutwul fiermlt free flow of traffic in all kinds of weather are as ‘essential to the business of the modern community as telephonea, telegraphs jand To w#) 55e . The World on Wheels Old Sarum Junch w dtself, w ng the wned th t1 M mparts and re we sat s and baskâ€" f the chilly we climbed vhere men old castle e summit. nce by a Table Basâ€" what his p< town turnâ€" Old mi

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