GOD IS MY t ?, CO-PILOT * Col. Robert L.Scott ?wu.ruusi ?km iml uaMtloi Is t? ?;, ukn Mi m (tMsr at Mum G?.. polls o( Mo t not, sad eraskcs n (set to Iks SIISOS. A CksrokM loss kssk probskl; ssrsd Ms Ufs. Bs mi gsss to tor kslld toi seato modsl pluss sad alas a Bop Scorn arlattoa merit kadgs. At aa aac Sm sals ks ton Ms Irst plaae tor PS. Ms fees to R. McPksrsoa sad sallsts la Ms rsfular army as a prlvato. Wlaalas a Wsst Point competttlTS sua ks Is admUtod. aad la tke sammsr sI lis after kslac (Tsdaatod and csnunlsstoaed as a snal Hssteaaat sf tafsatrp ks roes u Bsrsps. wMck ks tours am a motsrcyels. ?s Small? arrives at Baadolpk Field, ?anas. This Is It. CHAPTER m Though I had flown before In the prehistoric crates of the past, this fact had nothing to do with wheth er or not I would get through the course. On the side against me was the fact that during my un supervised flying I had doubtless de veloped many faults that were not for the Army pilot to be proud of. In a case like mine, some pilots think they know it all; therefore there is nothing to learn. Others make such an effort to please their tastructors that this very eagerness works against them as their own worst enemy?the result of tense ness. My case was more of this last ?rder. I knew I could fly the ship but I tried to carry out my instruc tor's orders even before he gave them. I listened almost spellbound through our oral communications system in that primary trainer?that speaking-tube which we called a "gosport" and which at best was hard to understand over the rattle ?f that Wright Whirlwind engine. 1 used to try to read his mind, exe cute his every little whim. X even tried to outguess Lieutenant Lan don and have the stick and rudder moving in the right direction be fore he could get the orders out of his mouth. Now thereby hangs a tale. I was not only trying to look in his rear view mirror and actually read his lips when I couldn't hear through the gosport, but was diligently look ing about the sky for other hare brained student pilots. He must have realized my eagerness, for he gave me every break?and for the many boners I pulled I needed lots of breaks. One day, at a bare four-hundred feet altitude, I thought I heard the instructor say, "Okay, Scott, put it in a dive." I peered around first and then at the nearby ground, for it looked very low to be going into a dive. Then like a flash I thought I understood: Why, he's trying to see if I'm ground-shy?I'll show him I'm not. With my teeth clenched and prob ably with my eyes closed, I pushed that PT-3 into a vertical dive at point-blank altitude. Just as the cotton fields down below seemed about to come right into my lap I felt Ted Landon grab the controls and saw him hastily point to his head with the sign that he was "tak ing over." We came out just over the mesquite trees, and he roughly slipped the ship Into a bumpy land ing in a cotton field. Then, while I was trying to add things up and realizing already that I had tied it up again, I saw Ted very methodi cally raise his goggles and with great deliberation climb out of the front cockpit. He glared at me but said sweetly enough: "Scott, what in the g? d? hell ?re you trying to do?what was that maneuver? I said glide?G-L-I-D-E. Don't you at least know what a normal glide is in all this time? Weakly I said, "Sir, I thought you said a dive." I could see Ted fight for control; then he told me the next time I had him at an altitude so low, not to attempt to think but jost try to keep the ship straight and level. On another day, after about two weeks of instruction, we had been making only take-offs and landings, and I knew the time was approach ing when I would solo. As usual, that realization made me more and more tense as the end of the period neared. On the take-offs I'd tense up and forget all about holding the nose straight, and on the landings Td jerk back on the stick instead of sasing it slowly back into the ap proach to landing stall. All I could do was day-dream about: Here we are, Scott, just about to take over and prove to the world that we can do all of this by ourselves. Around the field in traffic I couldn't hold the correct altitude, and my in structor was cussing a blue streak. He'd yell about my having graduat ed from West Point and say that he knew I was supposed to have some brains but he hadn't been able to find them. After each bumpy land ing he'd look around at me and hold his nose?that was symbolic enough for me. I finally bounced into an other landing that nearly jarred his teeth out. Then, as usual, he showed what a prince of a fellow he was, and showed me that an instruc tor had to become accustomed to students' making mistakes?knowl edge which stood me in good stead years later when I became an in structor. Lieutenant Landon got out of the front seat, taking his parachute with him. and I knew the moment of mo menta had come. As he leaned over my cockpit and reached inside the ship for the Form One, the time book always carried in Army ships, I saw only his hand and thought he was offering to shake hands with me. So I grabbed the hand and shook it. He just grinned and growled: "With landings like those I can do you very little good, and I'll be damned if I'm going to let you kill me. Do you think you can take this thing around the field all by your self and get it back downT" "Yes, Sir," I yeUed. "Then take it around and make a landing as close to me as you can." I had never felt so good. Taxying out I could see the world only in a rosy light. My head was really whirling. Pointing the ship into the wind, I over-controlled into a nor mal student takeoff and was in the air. Honestly, the living of this life was wonderful?here I was an actual Army Pilot with my own ship, and up here free from the shackles of the earth. I envied no one. Cir cling in traffic I'd "get my head in the clouds" and gain or lose altitude but that didn't matter. I was solo ing. Then, at the fourth leg of my traffic pattern, I began my glide in towards Lieutenant Landon. By the gods he had said, "Land as close to me as you can," and I was surely going to make that ship stop right by him?I wouldn't have my in structor being ashamed of his stu dent. Even before I got to the mo ment to level off, I could see that I would land right on top of him. But Gen. C. L. Chennault, who was Colonel Scott's superior in Burma and China. the Lieutenant was running, throw ing his parachute away just to get clear of a student who had really taken him literally. Anyway, I missed him and plunked the ship into the ground aft er levelling off too high. Well, I held it straight and there was no ground - loop. As it stoppdd I breathed again, and I could feel the smile that cracked my face. A pilot! I had landed the ship and it was actually in one piece! Looking back over my shoulder I saw Lieutenant Landon. He was just standing there about half a mile away. Then I made another mistake. He raised his hands and I thought he waved me in?I didn't know until the next day that he had been shaking his fist at me for trying to land right on him. So I taxied in, never giving a thought to how my instructor was going to get in with his chute?you see, Randolph is a big field and I had left him more than a mile from our hangar. I had parked the plane and was in and beginning to dress when I began to realize what I had done. Looking out the win dow I could see him trudging across the hot soil of Texas, in the sun, with ships landing all around him. My Lord, I had tied it up again! I tried to get my feet back into my flying-suit, tripped and fell, got up and ran out of the hangar door. I guess I was going to take the ship and taxy out and pick him up. But I had lost again?the ship was being taken from the line by the next stu dent. I just stood there with sink ing heart as he came up. But he didn't even look my way, except to say, "It's kinda hot out there." Then he just glared and threw his chute in his locker. Well, I nearly worried myself to death that night. I knew he'd more than likely tell me after the next day's ride that I was the damnedest student he'd ever seen, and that I didn't have a prayer of making a pilot. But next day he didn't say a word. All day I started to go over and tell him how sorry I was. but I guess I didn't have the nerve. During my flying training, I had girl trouble, too. You would no doubt call it "trouble," but I knew it was the real thing. I had a Chevro let then, and every week-end I just had to see my girl, even if she did live over thirteen hundred miles away in Georgia. To get to see her, I would drive that thirteen-hundred odd miles to her college or her home in Fort Valley, spend any where from ten minutes to two hours with her, then jump back in the car and drive madly for Texas and the Monday morning flying period. I always had to delay my start until after Saturday morning inspec tion. That meant that I had to av erage just about fifty-four miles aa hour, even counting the time I saw the girl, in the forty-seven hours that I had from after inspection on Saturday to flying time at eight o'clock Monday mornings I Week-end after week-end I drove madly across the South from the middle of Texas to the middle of Georgia. On one of these cross-coun try dashes, I weakened and was fool enough to ask the Commandant of Student Officers if I could go to Atlanta. I can still see and hear Capt. Aubrey Strickland saying, "At lanta what?" And me meekly re plying, "Atlanta, Georgia, Sir." Ha just said, "Hell, no." and I turned and walked from his office with the good intention of obeying the order. But within the hour I had weak ened. I filled my rumble-seat tank, which held fifty-five gallons of fuel, and was off to see her for the short time available. (Yes, she was, and still is some girl.) On the return trip I burned out two bearings near Patterson, Louisiana. Jimmy We dell, one of the well-known speed flyers, helped me to get it fixed after I explained the predicament I was in. But even with five of us work ing on the number one and number six bearings of the Chevy, I was twelve hours late getting back to Randolph Field. As I walked into the bachelor offi cers' quarters that I shared with Bob Terrill, 1 expected any minute to bear the sad news. But I was too afraid to ask for details, so I just waited for Bob to say, "You are to report to the General tomorrow for court martial for A.W.O.L. in violation of specific Instructions." Finally he put down his letter writ ing, looked at me almost in dis gust, and broke out: "Scott, you are the damned luck iest man that ever lived I You didn't get reported today. Nol This is the first time in the history of Randolph Field that it's been too cold to fly. And it wasn't only too cold to fly, I U a-- " * it km iuo coia to nave ground I school, because the heating system had failed. We haven't flown today, we haven't been to ground school. So they don't even know that you've been over there to see that girl." In all of these trips to see my girl over in Georgia, I drove 84,000 j miles. I wore out two cars?and you'll probably agree that her fa ther had full right to say to her: "Why don't you go on and marry him? It'll be far cheaper than his driving over here every week-end." When I had finished Primary and Basic training at Randolph, I al most let down my hair and wept, though, on the day that Comman dant of Student Officers called over and said that now I could have permission to go to Georgia, to see my girl. I thanked him and went. ? ? ? Well, when graduation came at Kelly and I had those wings pinned on my chest, I had the wonderful feeling that I had gone a little way towards the goal I wanted. I was at last an Army pilot. Never did the world seem so good. And then out of a clear sky came orders for me to go to duty in Hawaii. That was pretty bad because I wanted to get married before I went out of the country, and as yet the girl hadn't gotten her degree from college. Probably if I had gone to Hawaii, I would have figured out some way to have flown a P-12 back over ev ery week?but I didn't have to do it after all. The Chief of the Air Corps came down a few days later and I waited until he had had lunch in the Offi cers' Mess. Then I walked over and said, "General, can I ask you a question?" "Sure, sit down," he said, and I told him the whole story ?and I made it like this: "General, I know that I'm supposed to go where I'm sent because I'm in the Army, but I've got a girl over in Georgia, and I think I can do a lot better job wherever you send me if you can give me time to talk her into marrying me." He didn't ap pear to be very impressed at first, but he took my name and serial number, and two or three days lat er, when he got back to Washington, I was ordered to Mitchel Field, N. Y. As I drove my car towards my first tactical assignment I kept reaching up to feel my silver wings on my chest?I wanted to prove that it wasn't a dream. This was what I had been working for since 1920. Now I was actually riding towards the glory of tactical Army aviation. I recall that I had just about completed the trip to Long Island, when something happened that will keep me remembering the fall of 1933. Just |>efore I reached the Holland Tunnel, I wjs suddenly forced to the curb by three cars all bristling with sawed-off shotguns and Tommy guns. I Jumped out pretty mad, but saw that many guns were covering me and that it was the police. They looked at my papers, but said anyone could have mimeographed orders. They searched the car and me took down the Texas license number, and even copied the engine number: All the time I tried to talk with the flashlights in my eyes, fro BE COWllWUfcP) IMPROVED lJI UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL Sunday i chool Lesson By HAROLD L LUMZXIU1ST. D. D. Of Tbm Moody Bfbto Institute of Chicago. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Lesson (or November 26 . Lm aib|MU and Scripture teste se lected end coprrlsbted by International Council | to Reupioue Education; ueod to THE CHRISTIAN VIEW OF INDUSTRY LESSON TEXT?Luke ? Thoesa lonlans 3; 10-IX GOLDEN TEXT?Lot him that Mala steal no more: but rather let him labor, wortdns with his hands lbs thins that Is (nod. that ha may hare to ftv* to him that atedeth.? Epbeslana ' ;to. Work Is a blessing, and the proper attitude toward it is an important part of thn life of a Christian. Indus try has found its best and most de pendable workers among those who believe in Christ It has also coma to realize that the atrengthening of the faith of its workers makes them better workmen; hence we see all over the land the interesting devel opment of chaplains in industrial plants. That activity rightly planned and properly conducted can be of great value to both the individual and to industry. Our lesson rightly deals with the individual. Christianity is a person al matter, a life rather than a the ory. It deals with the man rather than the mass. I. We Are Accountable for Oppor tunity (Luke 19:19). The king in this parable is Christ, who has how gone away, to return when God is ready for Him to set up His kingdom on earth. In the mean time His servants have been given that which they should be using for Him. Two thfaiga stand out in this story. First, the fact that Jesus is coming ?gain. There are many scoffers who deny that blessed truth (II Pet. 3:3, 4). There are many believers to whom the promise has become but a formal truth in a confession of faith or ? creed. But the failure of men to recognize truth and their un willingness to hold it precious, do not alter the fact. Jesus is coming again! nrv._ u. a. ?m ??c? ?. ???-. "? jrr "VZ many things to accomplish, but SmM. U our second fact-one of the most important Isjhat there shall be an accounting with His to lowers (who are supposed to be His servants), regarding the lUe they have lived. What will your answer "."ad mine be in that day?'It.depend, on what we are and what we a pears in the following verses, where we learn that: W. Are toBeRewsrded for Faithfulness (Luke l9-18"28*; When believers stand m the pres ence of Christ to ^swer for the deeds done in the flesh (our sins were judged at Calvary!), it will not be a question of what church you belong to, or what family name vou bear, or how much money you have amassed. No, the only tion asked will be, "Have you been faithful in trading with the _gifts. th abilities and the opportunities which God has given you?" Note that there are three d'fferent judgments here, but aU <in the one ground of faithfulness. represents those who with all diu eence and seal seek to grow spiritu ally and to serve the Lord with glad abandon. All that they have and are they give to Him for His glory and for the winning of others to Him. They will be the Lord and great will be their The second man, with equal op portunity. did accomplish something, but not too much. He reP""?| those who do want to serve the Lord STwlS no special rea^ great measure of sacrificial "average" (what an unfortu nate standard!) Christians. The Lord is fair. He does not de prive them of their iwertL Ini the measure that they have been falto Z, they too shall find Joyous sendee for Him. But observe that there is no special word of c?7>,ne"d*^ in thiTcase, and there Is a limited reward. The third man represents those who profess to be in fear of God He seems to demand to mud.of them and they are not ready to give it After all, they say, we want to Ai-itnv life Why should the lx>rd ex pert ao much of us? Not only do ; 5ney lose all reward but the Lord ( must take away even that which He , Commanded to Work ! ^mt^'that God put Adam , in the garden of Eden to'care for It. j work has been the lot of all , mankind?yes, and his honor. J*?? 1 is no pla.-e in the economy of God , for the rr an or woman who la able to work l?it is not willing to do so^ , "If any 'vill not work, neither let , him eat" (v. I?) Anoarently there were some in : ,. -i Thessalonica who per- i vert^ u" teaching of the Lord's I rttu?. Who said that if Jesus were ^S^tely around. The point is that since Jesus may come at any rr". should aU be doing our ut that we may ?Und I with Joy. and not with shame. ??? ??" " ~~~ " "" Password ? ? ? By STUART M. LONG McClur* Newspaper Syndicate Released by WNu "ITALTI Who'i there?" n The sentry'* cry, ringing out in the still cold night, broke into Laurs'* thoughts as she was hurry ing home. How silly it was to have planned a surprise visit to the ma rine base without a telegram in ad vance! And here was a silly guard who would make her stop to giva a password she did not know. "I'm Laura Archer, Colonel Arch er's daughter," she told the grim faced leatherneck who was barring her path with rifle at the ready. "Advance and be recognized," he ordered and, as Laura approached, she saw that he was lean, tanned and tall. She fumbled in her purse for her Identification card, then real ized that it was in her traveling bag at the station. "I'm sorry I haven't my I.D. card, but I am Colonel Archer's daugh ter . . ." "Any other proof? Otherwise, you don't move on," the guard broke in. Laura knew she was wrong, but she'wouldn't let a boot get away with turning her from the post where her father was commanding officer. "You just call the colonel," she ordered curtly. "Look, lady, don't you know any one less than the Skipper?" the guard asked. "I can't be waking him up at O-one-hundred to ask him to come out here." "If you don't, you'll be up for office hours tomorrow," Laura threatened. "Corporal of the Guard, Number Seven," the marina sang out and, when the shouts for him had echoed down the Una from sentry to sentry, out of the shadows on the double cam* the husky noncom. "This lady says she's Colonel Archer's daughter, Corporal, but she has no identification," the sentry re ported. "She threatened me with of fice hours if I don't call the Skip per." "I wouldn't call him out in this storm for another stripe," the cor poral vowed. Turning to Laura he asked, "Are you really Colonel Arch er's daughter? I've been here seven months and I've never seen you around." "I've been off to echool. Please let me In," Laura pleaded. An hour later, having been grilled by the men on duty, a tired yet fuming Laura was sent to her fa ther's quarters, where she was ad mitted on assurance from the sleepy colonel that she really was his daughter. Next morning, when Laura came tripping down to her father s car, she found that square-Jawed, lean and hated face behind the wheel. "Where to. Miss Archer?" Private Gillespie queried. "My father will be out in a min ute," she answered. "The colonel will tell you where to drive." Private Gillespie's neck reddened. He offered weakly, "I'm sorry about last night. Miss Archer, but you know the General Orders." She turned her upturned nose to ward the parade ground and began a close inspection of a platoon which was drilling there. Private Gilles pie watched in the mirror. ' Nice looking platoon," he ventured. "That D.I. was my bunkie in boot camp. He sure does put them through, doesn't he?" He continued his mono logue, his warm drawl melting the icicles from his listener. He told her his name and about his ranch back in Texas. Then he brought up the sore subject again. "I said I was sorry about last night. Miss Archer," he began, but Just then he had to spring out to open the door for Colonel Archer. He was ordered to drive to the parade ground where the colonel was to in spect the recruits completing basic training that morning. Laura decided to see the review from the car. Private Gillespie returned to the front seat and resumed his watch. "Today's pay day. Miss Archer, and I have liberty tonight, will you have dinner and go to a show with me?" he suggested. "It would kind of make up. . . Just then the rear of a tank bang ing along the drive halted the one way conversation. From the pa rade ground, a thousand frozen faced recruits, waiting at attention, saw the man in the turret swept to the ground by a low-hanging nmb. His left foot, straining unconscious ly for a toehold, nudged the left shoulder of the driver, who was operating the massive iron monster by signals. The tank swung to the left, the guide lying unconscious in the road. The colonel's car leaped ahead, its motor screaming, as Private Gil lespie turned the key, touched the ?tarter and let out the clutch. It pulled to one side and stopped as the clanging tank roared past. Colonel Archer and his aides ran toward the car. "Are you all right, Laura?" her father panted. "Of course," she smiled, "because your driver knows how to use a rear-view mirror. Father, please ask him to dine with us tonight." Check Cleaner Bag If your vacuum cleaner refuses to pick up the dirt, check the cleaner bag. It may need emptying When you empty the bag, turn it wrong tide out and brush it clean. Per haps the nozzle or cleaner brush i? Improperly adjusted, or It may be a broken belt or the belt not re volving. '1 SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLECRAFT Sailor Doll Everyone's Favorite HERE'S fun! Get busy sewing this sailor doll. He's the fa vorite of young and old?everyone who sees him wants to own him. ? ? ? Needlework you'll hate to put down. Pat tern 033 contains a transfer pattern for doll and clothes; complete directions. 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