fOL. XL MO. 3C AMERICANS NATURALLY ARC ADEPT IN PLYING. Fact Tkat 17 IU KtlUd at Tom Aviatioa Station* Causa* Littla Alarm. Dalaa, Tax**, F*b. it. -Th* Am*r tean youth hsa • u*tur*l aptitud* far fly in*. It w*a rivnlxl and U b*ing d*v*lop*d in a*v*n aviation training ■tation* in Tula and, during tha win tar flyam have b**n turnad out froot than with a proficancy and in nun bars that hava fully aatiaftad tha American ofllcara and hava provad al moat startling to instructors from tha alliad armiaa who ara hara to giv* th* Amaru-ana th* advantage of th*ir ax pa rtanca and knowledge. Thara ara aix A mar if an and on* British aviation cam pa ar* at Forth Worth, San Antonio, Houston, Waco, Dal la* and Wichita Falls. At Forth Worth, th* royal flying rorpa, a camp of young Canadian* trained by Britiah ulDrtri, ar* in daily competition with th* Am*ricana in an adjoining camp. A goodly number of young Americana also are enlisted with the Canadian* and are receiving their training under the direction of British officer*. A regard for military secrecy pro hibit* relating the total number of student* who have taken to the air here this winter. It reaches a figure that gives great comfort to the mili tary men who know, and compared with the total advancement made by th* men, the number of accidents re ported has been surprisingly small, it is stated. rue death or vernon t astie wnue flying at the British camp at Fort Worth February 16 brought the total number of men killed in airplane ac cidents in all seven camp* up to 57 The British flyer* at Fort Worth hav« loat far more than any of the Ameri can camps. The high fatality record among the British, It is .-aid, is the di rect result of the more strenuous sys tem of practice and drill which they use. Forty-three deaths have oc curred at the two camps at Fort Worth, while Houston, next in the list, has been seven. "They kill more at Fort Worth be cause they fly more" is the way a young aviator officer explained the great difference in the morality lists. The British theory is that the men .should receive early instructions in all the difficult work they will have to do in actual service, while the American trainers spend a larger part of their time in drilling the fundamentals of flying. The young Canadians go into the air early for flights that are for bidden in the camps under United States control. They are taught the spirals, the dives and the loops that are a part of actual war flying and so it is that if their mortality list seems out of proportion to those in the other camps, the British officers are not displeased with the accomplish ments of the men under them. I he San Automo station has hail three fatalities, Dallas, Waco, one each anii Wichita Falls two. Waco and Wichita Kails had perfect records until the week ending February se cond when at Waco a pilot was killed in a collision with another machine in midair, and a cadet at Wichita Falls lost his life when his machine fell. Several of the killed have been civ ilians or mechanics. In the early days of the American camp at Fort Worth, a mechanic wa» struck by a propeller when the engine back fired. There was a similar accident only re cently when a college student examin ing an airplane which had landed on the campus of the Texas Christian un iversity, got too near the propelled, lie was struck on the head and killed almost instantly. At Denton, Tex., recently an aviator from Fort Worth stopped in a flight and was persuaded into taking a civilian as a passenger. The airplane had hardly rleaied the ground when trouble came. The plane crashed, killing the civilian and in juring the aviator. An aviator from Ellington fleld Houston, recently ran out of gasoline • ibert distance from Bey City aad telephoned for fuel. An automobile mechente who brough the (twltee persuaded the pilot to take him for a ride, and aa accident resulted, the plane falling when only a few hun dred feet In the air. The mechanic wae killed and the aviator injured. San Antonio Acid ia said to be the i largest in Teaaa. Balloon observa tion ia taught there ia addition to By inf. The atudenta are moatly men from the signal rorpa. Thia city will aoon have two fields. Love fleld, the ramp now established, and a larger one already under con struction at the State fair grounda which have been loaaed the govern ment for training purposes. Thia will be named Camp Dick In honor of the first and only aviator killed at Love field. It will be used chiefly as a preparatory school for ground train ing. There ia a rigid ban against visi tors at all camps. At Love field, vis itor caught with a camera was held until all the negatives were developed and showed nothing of a prohibited nature had been pictured. An unexpected effect of the fre quent presence in the air of the flying machines has been the almost total disappearance of birds from the neighborhoods of the ramps. Wild doves which have heretofore been common flying in flocks in northern Texas, are never seen within miles of a camp, and in their northward spring flights, the game birds, the ducks and geeoe are conspicuous by their ab sence from the skies about Fort Worth in particular. The boys in th<; British camp have made much progress during the warm winter, so different from the snows of the Canadian winter, and are in the air almost constantly. Scarcely a passenger train enters Fort Worth but it is welcomed by nn airplane or I so, and flights to the city from the; camp, 40 miles away, for social pur-' poses are made every (lay. W. S. S. Each Battle Plane Need* Extra Equipment. After three years of warfare the total number of airplanes able to take the air any one time on either sidu of the western front has not been over 2,500. Each plane in the air require* a force of 46 men. two replacement planes on the frround, and one train ing for every pilot who eventually reaches the front, with an extra en-: gine for each plane. The life of a plane is not more than two months, and the engine murt be overhauled after each 75 hours. Now that American battle plane are g». ing oversea*, the great problem is to secure the thousands of skilled me chanics, enginemei., motor repair men, wood and metal workers needed' to keep the planes in perfect con li-' tion. This engineering and mechani-l cal force at the airdromes, the flying fields, and repair depots, both hero and behind the lines in France, is a vital industrial link in the chain to air supremacy. W. S. 8. I Remove* Many Officers From the declaration of war to Feb ruary 23, the Surgeon General of the Army has removed 1.^50 officer* of the Medical Reserve Corps. In the following table the reason asigned for discharge does not isolate under "in aptitude for the service" all tho*e whose dismissal was in considerable degree due to inefficiency or incompe-! tency, since these reasons had weight in many cases otherwise classified. I Discharges for physical disability.! 411; inaptitude for the service, 164; to! join other branches, 3r« and government allow ancea to .heir dependenta at honia, want iato .ha maila today. Mora than tiOOfiUv 'hack* Kara boon written and an ea raordinary affort haa baan made to lava tha dapandanta cat lhair allow - tncai aarly in tha month. Tha averare amount of aach check a about I2B and tha total monthly din >ur>rraant runa above fl'J.OOO.OMJ. LUually tha allotment from tha aol liar'» pay ia about fl6, and tha gov • rnment family allowance about $10, :ha exact amount being fixed by the lumber of dependenta. rhree ahifta of clerka have been at ■fork. Acres of typiata—23(H) of them !4 hour* of every day t ■ «.■ clattered iway on batteriea of tj pewrittera in ■everal of the largest floor spaces in Washington—a commandeered dance lall above the municipal market, an iliandoned hoapital, and a factory >uilding recently remodeled. Regardless of the wholesale quanti :y of document*, each letter and each •heck U regarded an a distinct hu nan document, or instruction of the Jirector of the bureau, William C. Delancy. Every woman typist and nan sorting clerk has been impressed «ith the idea that the welfare of a ■oldier's family may depend on the ipeed, accuracy and personal interest ihown by the bureau's workers. So this is the task and the spirit >f one of the governaowt's greatest >ureaus, the treasury department'! mreau of war risk insurance. Con gressional criticism of delays in the iistribution of allotment and allow ince have been met with assurance hut superlative promptness, impos little in the past because of the dis >rder following the sudden creation >f a new system to supplant the old [tension plan, will lie displayed in the ruture. The bureau expects to have check * 'or Marh remittances ready for mail ng on the morning of April 1 and by :hat time much of the vast human ma •hine which has been built for pre paring the pay checks will be scrap x-iK Machines will do the work bet ter, it is expected, than men and wom sn. In the meanwhile, this is the way .he human machine works: Experts in office management have levised special schemes of office •outine. More than two thousand ,'oung men and girls cannot lie man iged efflcietly by haphazard methods.' Regular recreation periods in the mid-1 lie of the morning and afternoon are| jrovided. There is a piano and a gra nhaphone, and the girls may dance' luring the short recess. The man-1 igers say that they do 30 per cent. ■ letter work as a result. There is a unch room, operated at cost. Then •ureau has a supervising matron, vho advises the girl employes, most if whom have come to Washington re cently for war time employment on latriotic grounds. She helps them ob ain lodging, rooms and in other ways. Speedy typists are carefully chosen rom the throng, and arranged at the ong work desks in the center of a Croup of slower workers. This ar angement promotes group speed, and >etter office morale, the efficiency men n charge declare, Fionde girls are as ligned to places l«tween brunettes, for the bureau management helieve«' ilonds are of more nervous tempera-1 nent, and the brunettes provide a toadying influence J Each check is typed individually,' ind a government law provides that hecks also must he >igned individual y, rather than stamped mechanically l"he signing is a big task. Signature luplicating machnles are used, 10 heck* being signed by each original •IfMtw* of • pay tWrh. f.wm the choir* of pay clerka U a Womb in eOciaacy. Not pecaoaiaHty. not training but lawgth of patronymic auio la the determining factor. Man with abort namaa work at the at gulag machines, for mora abort namca cm ba »igne a year. It was agreed that this would result in the elimina tion of all but very greatly admired pets, and would lead perhaps to thin ning out the dog population which is a menace to the people and In a meas ure to property. But the other com misioners did not agree with the $15 fee plan and no step was taken to in crease the levy on the dog. , GERMANS AMERT THEY DO NOT FEAR AMERICA AmHcmm is Germany ara Gra«tly Restricted. N.w York. March 10.—"Tha Gar man praaa ka nnfully m4 adroitly continuing to foatar tha idaa uw»( tha Garman paopia that Afflarira ta not raalljr in aarnaat about tha war," daclarad Dr. A. N. Davta. today in dia cuaalng tha aituation ka Barlin a« ka laft it juat ovar • month ago. Dr., Davia formerly of Ptqua, O, la tha Amarican daotiat who llrad In tha Garman capital for IB yaara and num harad Emparor William among hia patianta. r.vmry mnr, is rwing man« to M little America—rven the highest offi cials are attempting to convey the im pression that Germany has little to fear from the United State*. Prac tically nothing is printed concerning America except the President'! ad dresses on war aim* and the possible ba*is of a permanent peace. Even these are treated hy the paper* as if the President were * peaking as a sort of detached parson whose interest was the welfare of the world; not with the idea that they represented the earnest determination of the American people to see the war through to a successful conclusion. "Not until Germany begins to feel the military pressure of the United States will the people realize the new condition* that confront them. Then I predict, the fostered enmity toward England will he a* nothing to the ha tred that will be poured out by the in * pi red pre** against America. "The American business men who took advantage of the nine months' treaty between the United State* and Germany to wind up business affairs as far as possible, were kept under the closest surveillance by the police at all times and were not permitted to lenve the city without special permits. To go to a race meeting 10 miles out of Berlin, it i* necessary to apply for a permit at leant a month in advance. "The thing that has impressed me most since my return to America is the freedom we accord to German sub jects over hefe. It seems to me as if no restrictions were placed upon them . whatever. In Germany, every time | some new regulation was adopted re garding the Americans, the excuse was given that the United States was treating Germans harshly and there must be some retaliation. The Ger man people themselves are restricted in their movements, and no person ia allowed to travel without a special identification pass which may be de manded as many as five times during a short journey. "The slightest little things will re sult in a curtailment >f an American's privileges. The most privileged Amer icans must report to (he Berlin police! twice weekly and ha\e their papers' stamped. These papers show just' what the bearer of them is permitted I to do, what hours he must keep, and where he is permitted to go. "There are not half a dozen Ameri cans in Berlin who are not anxious to Vet home. Many of them are having' trouble to get permission. I first ap-' plied to leave last August, but was refused. Some time later I managed to obtain a permit for my wife and), child and they came to America long j before I was permitted to Wave. The story that I traveled on a special pass signed by the kaiser is wrong. I had the same police authority grant ed to every other American who has left within the past few months. And like those other Americans, I did not { feel happy until I landed here in New York, where I inte.id to rem'ain." Mr. Davis said a German offensive in the west had been freely talked about in Berlin sine* last November. "Many people have suggested to me that if Germany really intended an offensive, she would not be talking about it much," he explained. "That is a wrong theory. We heard about (on tt began. The Kariw gi.t trauai the Italian ie difl rulties ara in many caees those of transportation and reetrirtion again •t transporting food from ona pro vince, or >tatf, into another, "The raal Americans who ware com pelled to remain in Germany for I time aftar the war was declared did not loee one ounce of their American ism. They submitted without a mur mur or complaint to every reatrk tion that was placed upon them, and only hided the time that they could safely and legitimately get away. Many of them bad to make big per sonal sacrifices, of course, bat they did it cheerfully and loyally, and have rome back to America with an even keener appreciation of patriotism then most of those who have never been gfcwd." .. . ■ . V W. 8. S Will RerlMiify all Men inThe inwiJ Draft. Washington March 7.— Reclaasifica tion according to physical condition of the men railed in the next army ilraft is provided in revised instructions for medical advisory hoards which are he me sent to the local board* th igh out the country. The new regulation* made public tonight, require that every man summoned before the board shall be placed in one of the fol lowing fou classes: (A> Acceptable for general mili tary service; (B) acceptable for gen eral military service after being cured of remedical defects; (C) acceptable for special or limited military ser vice in a specified capacity or occupa tion; (D) rejected and exempted from any military service. It is the intention of the provost marshal general to provide later for the further investigation ai.d classi fication of the men acceptable for limited or special service so that rec ord may he made of the sort of work each of these men may be assigned to do without endangering hii health. Under the new regulations, mdny ailments and defects which gained ex emption of drafted men in the past now will result only in their being listed in group B. Such men if they choose will tie given the privilege of securing the services of their family physicians in the effort to remove the defect, but if they have not availed themselves of this privilege within a specified time, they will be called into military service and ordered to a can tonment base hospital, a reconstruc tion hospital or to a civic hospital, as may be designated by the sugeon gen eral. W. S.S. • To Prepare for the Third Loan. Washington, March 1.—To prepare in advance for the third Liberty loan, «en parties of three or more speaker* ■ach will start tours early this month, risiting severel towns a day and issisting local committee* to organize jublicity and other campaign work for the big drive which probably will >e in April. One speaker in each >arty, the Liberty Loan publicity iureau announced today, will be a Jnited States soldier who has seen lervice in France and one will be a roaaan. Definite plana have been made (or hrec partier, which will start March it on tours reapecelively of the R>{fc nond, Va., Atlanta and Dalas federal ■©serve Districts. A Hillious Attack. When you have a hillious attack rour liver fails to perform iU faoc ions. You become constipated. Tfce nod you eat ferments in your stoaaaeti nstead of digesting. This tnfWase* he stomach and causa* nausea, vqwJt ng and a terrible hMdafbe. Take >tamber Iain's Tab! eta. Tbey vB one up your liver, clean oat year tomsrti and yea will eeoa be a* wwB ta ever. Tbey or.ly eeat a qparter.