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SATURDAY NOVEMBER
"SHENANDOAH” CAPTITALISM AND
THE
INDICTMENT.
COLONEL MITCHELL'S
TESTIMONY. .
BOY SCOUTS.
MIXED DISCUSSION ON EDUCATION.
Cries of * Wrong,
wrong,
The recent cable message about the court-martial of Colonel Wm. wrong!" grooted Mr. O. R. Mitchell, late of the U. S. air Coppock, general secretary of the |forco, for his indictment of the National Federation of Building service, renders the following of Trade Operativos, when, in a dis- greater interest. It appears in oussion on the education of the New York papers, just to hand, adolescent at the British Institute and is dated Washington, Sopt. of Adult Education Conference at} 30th;
Balliol College, Oxford, he spoke The Shenandoah's fatal trip to of Boy Scouts and Girl Guides' the Mid-West was "in direct organisations as being militar- violation of the law."
ised," continually saluting the The airplane PN. 9 No. 1 was Union Jack, and being taught, noarly lost on its Hawaiian hop that there was nothing but "war- because the offer of army officers fare, warfare," for our nation. at Honolulu to send army planes and efficent sampan boats to hunt for her was refused by the navy,
Naval airplano participation in Commander MacMillan's Arctic expedition was handled by "bung ling amateurs.”
If there were to be peace in the world, he declared, they had to: be taught universalism. It was the innate Conservatism of the employer, ho alleged, that stood in the way of adult education. He wanted to see efficient work- Those woro the first three men because the day was fast "hombs" dropped into the Fresir coming when the workers wore dont's aircraft hearing by Colonel going to "take over." William Mitchell when he wont
back to the stund to-day to let Sir Percy R. Jackson, Chair- laose what he termed his "fire-man of the Education Com-. works."
mittee of the County Councils
to
Colonel Mitchell's charge that Association, rebutted Mr. Cop- of tho the Shenandoah's death cruise "pock's condemnation was illegal was founded on the capitalist in regard to the latter's Articles of War providing that attitude education. For all air operations over the land twenty-three years he bad given shall be under the control of the the whole of his time to oduc-
ational work, and had received: army.
"Why, there were no parLC-
the support of both capitalists and hutes on the Shenandoah,' ex-workers, but there were no better time and ploded Colonel Mitchell. "It supporters, both in was like sending ships to san money, then his fellow manu- without life-boats."
facturers in the West Riding of
Such tragic episodes prove Yorkshire in helping forward that the judgment of air questions educational ideals. Our adus- should not be intrusted to non-ational system was much better flyers. As regards the PN-9 No. than many people thought.
"We don't want any ravolution,” we have engineering data to show it was impossible for the ho said "We have already got the plane to got to Hawaii on one bost country in the world, the charge of gas.
bost people in the world, the "Why didn't they send another most comforts of any people in ship along, that could make the the world, and though wo have trip without landing? There was not the wealth of America. we an army plane near San Francisco have much that they have not that can go sixty hours on one got." chargo of gas, or about 4000 miles without landing that plane was practically amphibian.
"We airmon aren't going to stand for that sort of thing; such haphazard direction of air man- euvers," barked out the militant Mitchell.
CUCKOO'S SECRET.
How She Lays Her Eggs.
Describing the lack of co-ordi-The Cuckoo's Secret," has again, Mr. Edgar Chance, author of nation between the array and)
navy regarding aviation, Colonel in response to some comments in Mitchell declared, “We've just, the correspondence columns of been throwing the ball around the Times drawn attention to his and we're no further along than challenge to anyone to come for ward and prove to an indepen-
we were when we started,"
"
seen
Colonel Mitchell quoted the dent body of ornithologists that Secretary of the Navy as saying any cuckoo has ever laid her egg he could agree to ne arrangement in any other manner than directly under which the War Depart-in or into the nests of her victims.
Soine persons, having ment would dictate the expendi-;
cuckoos carrying eggs, have ex- turo of aircraft funds.
"COUNTRY DECEIVED.
pressed the belief that the birds Taking up the old controversy have inserted their eggs in tho over the bombing of the battleship nests in which they were found by the medium of their beak or Washington, sunk under the pro- visions of the Treaty of Washclaws. But these. Mr. Chance ington, he insisted the flying force with a Press representative are pointed in an interview was not permitted to bomb it under wartime conditions and not their own eggs, but the egge thatthe country had been deceived they have stolen. regarding a battleship's ability to after laying, will often fly away
B
out
A cuckoo,
from the most with the stolen withstand aircraft attack.
"The impression was put out 3g in her beak and perch that we couldn't sink the Wash and eat it, sometimes utter-
ing " he said. "That is: ington,
joyous bubbling note, absolutely not the case. Aircraft which is doubtless an indication can sink any ship and destroy it." to her mate that her important
Admiral Fletcher, the repre-
task is completed. sentative of the old school of the that the cuckoo deposits her ogge Five years ago he discovered navy and chief dofonder of the battleships on the board, listened in the nests of meadow-pipits and
other birds intently, but did not interrupt the hours, and in the following year overy forty-eight Colonel.
The crowd was again so large the first time in history photograp
this interesting discovery was for it over-flowed into the corridorshed and filmed under his instruc and anterooms of the hearing tions. "One of the photographers," chamber. It was larger than yesterday. Colonel Mitchell had
"Sold" himself to the public.
1
ho recalled," said to me, as he camo on to the ground selected,' Mr. It was the old "Colonel Billy
Chance, I have never seen a on the stand to-day.
cuckoo in my life.' Yet within twenty-four hours, from inside Yesterday he sat bowed over his paper, reading without much cuckoo laying her egg."
& 'hide,' ho had filmed a Since
show of aggressiveness,
יי
that time Mr. Chance bas
to
To-day he threw aside his pre- pared statement and sat with enabled a large number of visitors
and ornithological friends shoulders back, head high, chin' out, as he drove home his points. Watch with him the actual do- Ho swung about in his chair, position of cuckoos eggs on more
than a hundred occasions. talked first at one mombor of the
board and then another. He was getting personal to-day, too. Talking of bombs, he said, "One Unwelcome visitors to the member of your hoard, can tell Wembley Exhibition have been you what happened to him with a party of counterfeiters. A num- bombe." The crowd tittered, but ber of forged £1 Treasury `notos neither Admiral Fletcher nor put into circulation there were General Harbord showed a sign|detected as spurious on being paid of being the target.
into banks within the Exhibition Colonel Mitchell struck hard at grounds or outside. The spurious what he termed the "coercive notes were excellent forgeries as
over younger officers of the airwore concerned. One was por
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