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Being Tales of Those Who Reached the Front Page
and Then Dropped Back To Obscurity
G. JANCSI RIGO.
In the little town of Kapoarar in
the mountains of Hungary there was
born some 50 years ago a gypsy. His
name was Jancsl Rigo, and it was
destined in the years to come to be
one of the best-known names that
ever appeared in the public print.
Rigo grew to be a violinist of con
siderable ability and went about the
townships making merry with the
villagers for, was not his father the
gypsy chief? Yes, apd little Rigo
would succeed him.
His fame grew. Budapest called
to him and to the capital he went.
He discovered in the Hungarian city
that not only was his ability as a mu
sician appreciated, bait that his per
sonality had a remarkable fascina
tion for the fair sex.
But the gypsy youth would have
none of them. Back on his father's
estate was a pretty little gypsy girl
named Mariska, Rigo went back to
Mariska and married her. He was
happy at first with his girl wife, but
the touch of the high life in Buda
pest had been too much for him. He
ran away from her and went to Par
is. He was soon a popular favorite in
the night life cafes of the Frencn
capital, even as he had been in Bud
apest. One night, while he was en
ticing weird melodies from nis prec
ious violin in the Cafe Palliard for
the entertainment of the late King
Edward VII. of England, Prince de
Sagan, the Due de Chaulnes, Count
Boni de Castellane, Prince " Dolgor
ouki and sundry other dashing
young aristocrats, he chanced to cast
his dreamy orbs over the Princess de
Chimay.
That night, still under the spell of
the gypsy's music, the romantic
young Princess met the violinist and
Who's Who Behind
the Scenes in the
War Army
By George Garvin,
Staff Correspondent International
News Service
MAJOR THOMAS lEV. MILLING,
Junior Military Aviator.
Born in Ioulsiana July 3 1 , 1 S 87,
and appointed to the Military Acad
emy from that state in 130".. I'pon
his graduation four years later he
was appointed a second lieutenant
and assigned to the Fifteenth Caval
ry and stationed at Fort Meyer. In
1 H 07 he was assigned to the aviation
section of the Signal Corps as a first
lieutenant and in which arm of the
service he has remained.
WASHINGTON. Aug. V Major
Milling is one of the leading "bird
men" of the I'nited States Army.
With Major Arnold and Major Fou-
lois he takes his place among tne
leading fliers of the world. Like his
above-mentioned associates he has
been in the "game" since it was first
i-ntroduced in America and his abili
ty has kept pace with the develop
ments of science.
He is a graduate of the Wright
Brothers School, at Dayton, O., and
shortly after being licensed as a flier
he entered the Tri-State races held
at Boston, winning the main event
which was an endurance race from
Boston to Nashu, N. H., to Worces
ter, Mass., to Providence and back to
Boston, covering a distance of 200
mtiles in 1 0 days, which was heralded
as a wonderful accomplishment six
years ago.
In this even ho competed against
Grahame-White and other leading
aviators of the day and carried off
numerous other prizes, totaling in
cash $7,700 besides having achieved
the distinction of being the most ac
complished sky pilot that the army
had then produced. Following his
successes at Boston Milling went to
Long Island where he again carried
off all honors winning the Wanna
maker trophy by carrying two pas
sengers in a flight a distance of 10
miles in two hours, setting a new
world's record.
In 1912 accompanied by Lieuten
ant Arnold he opened the military
school for aviators at College Park,
Md., and later putting that institu
tion in working order the two officers
were sent to Fort Riley, Kan., Tor
the purpose of working out a system
of target location and Are observa
tion with the Field Artillery forces.
In 1913 he was ordered to Paris to
study the French system of flying.
While there he flew in all types of
machines, French, Austrian, Ger
man and English, and astounded the
French authorities by his remarkable
skill who compared his work with
that of their then idolized Pegoud,
who has since met his death. He
studied the system of French instruc
tion in the Bleriot, Morane and De
ferduBsin schools.
Texas City, from where he estab
lished a record for a cross-country
flight with a passenger, March 28tn,
1913, when he flew to San Antonio,
a distance of 440 miles in four hours
and 22 minutde in a Burgess tractor
with a Renault motor. In this event
he actually covered the distance in
three hours and 20 minutes, circling
loj the air for one hour and two min
utes before making a landing. In re
turning he covered the distance in
three hours and 50 minutes.
From Texas City he was ordered
back to "Washington and was later
sent to San Diego, Cal., to assist in
the Instruction of students. When
the Mexican situation became acute
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Bece of H tonic aM Uxattr effect. LJCA
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Qulalac and doc mat caeee rooiBtee mot
riaaiac la head. Rcaaeaaber the fall ma me mA
took tor sicmalare of X. W. CKOVB. 2Sc
took him to the ancestral castle of
her husband at Chimay.
In the depth of the ' underground
galleries where the ancestors of the
Prince were entombed, the Princess
hid her gypsy. Soon after tne
Prince in person, very much en
raged, arrived at the castle in pur
suit of his wife. The searcn for tne
gypsy began in earnest. All Europe
was carefully scrutinized, yet Rigo
was still In the castle making daily
vfsits to the Princess by the way of
a secret stairway and passage.
Then somebody died. The body
was to be brought down to the cata
combs where Rigo was hiding. Dis
covery seemed inevitable, but tne
quick-witted gypsy crawled in among
the coffins and hid. Soon after he
took his Princess and eloped to his
native land, where they lived in se
cret at the home of his mother until
a divorce decree freed her from her
husband and enabled her to get con
trol of her fortune.
Soon after their marriage Rigo be
came the center of attraction in Eu
rope. His "affairs" began to be so nu
merous that his Princess tired of
him and in the midst of his popular
ly she eloped with a railroad guard,
leaving a much disgruntled Rigo be
hind. Iater Rigo came to this country
and married Katherine Hadley Em
erson, wife of a noted artist. The
latter had named him as co-respondent
in a divorce suit.
About this time Rigo's popularity
in America began to wane ad he
and his new bride departed for their
beloved Paris. While there he again
sprang into tne limelight when ne
was presented with one of the larg
est rubies in the world by an Indian
rajah.
in l'Jir. he was sent to Brownsville,
Texas, and on one occasion when ac
companied on a flight by Captain R.
G. Jones when making an observa
tion flight, was fired on by Carranza
troops.
He was again recalled to Washing
ton by the Chief Signal Officer and
placed in charge of organization and
training and personnel of schools,
and has specialized in the require
ments for observers and pilots for
the army.
Major Milling looks his part. He
is rather small in statue, of compact
build, possesses a sharp penetrating
eye, and a few minutes conversation
with him will convince his interview
er that he not only possesses a great
amount of expert knowledge, but
that he has a head full of common
sense and executive ability and wnen
the I'nited States builds its powerful
air fleet It is such men as Milling who
will devise telling results.
Library Notes
.ROOKS 1X)R WAR CAMPS.
If you cannot fight at the front,
you can send a book to the man you
are sending to the front to do your
fighting for you. The government
has asked the American Library As
sociation to assume responsibility for
supplying the camps and canton
ments with reading material. Every
group of 'soldiers, small as well as
large, is to have books. The PublLc
Library in this city has been asked
to get donations of books and maga
zines in Gastonia. These will be sent
to the various camps and canton
ments throughout the country and
will be made available to the sold,
iers, either directly, or through such
agencies as have facilities for distri
bution of books.
If you will write in each book
your name and address, the soldier
who reads it will know that some
one in Gastonia is his friend and
stands ready to help him.
The following is suggested as to
the books and magazines desired:
Poorly printed, uninteresting, ob
viously out-of-date books, are not
worth shipping to the men. Tyue
should be good and clear and the
books in fair condition.
Books of good stories will be
wanted most, books of adventure,
sea stories, detective stories, histori
cal novels and collections of short
stories, especially humorous ones.
All the men must be helped by
these libraries. Some of them have
not established reading habits. Some
of the books must therefore be light
and easily read.
Foreign language study books, es
pecially French grammars and dic
tionaries, are much needed possi
bly more than any other non-fiction
books. In one camp nearly one-fifth
of the men are studying French.
They should have easy readers and
stories beside their text books.
Books of travel, biography and
history, especially lives of heroes and
travels in the countries at war.
Technical books on aviation, tele
graphy, wireless, submarines, auto
mobiles, signaling, first aid and hy
giene, drawing and lettering.
.Ethical books on patriotism, cour
age, good citizenship, with simple
non-sectarian devotional books.
Fresh, attractive, magazines are
also desired. None over two yean
old should be Included.
The material Is needed now. Why
not select today the books which you
are willing to give? Do not give
worthless, unattractive books, but
some of your good, fresh. Interesting
and valuable ones.
Send the books and magazines to
the Public ' Library between the
hours of 9:3f and 11:29 a. m. or 4
to 7 p. m. upon any week day. If
you cannot send tie books and mag
azines, notify the librarian either by
telephone or mall, and they will be
called for. Phono No. 408.
Elimination of Classics
Would Imperil Eng
lish Language
By EDWARD P. MITCHELL, Editor
of New York Sun
THE headline ia more influential
JL than a hundred chairs of rhet
oric in the shaping of future
English 6peech.
There ia no livelier perception
than in the newspaper oflices of the
incalculable havoo being wreaked
upon the language by the absurd cir
cumstance that onlv so many milli
meters of type can go into bo many
millimeters width of column. Try
it yourself and you will understand
why the fraudulent use of so many
compact but misused verba, nouns
and adjectives is being imposed on
the coming generation. In its worst
aspect headline English ia the yel
low peril of the language.
THE MOST SERIOU8 PRACTICAL
EVIL THAT WILL RESULT FROM
THE ELIMINATION OF THE CLAS
SICS WILL FALL UPON THE ENG
LISH LANGUAGE IT8ELF.
The racial memory begins to de
cay, the racial imagination, the be
getter of memory, begins to weaken,
the sense of precise meanings be
gins to lose ita edge, and the Eng
lish language ceases to be a vital
thing and becomes a mere code of
arbitrary signals wigwagged from
mouth to ear.
Italy'Will Have Read
justment of Wealth
After War
By Dr. FRANCESCO SAVERIO NITO,
Italian Statesman
Fan economic way the general sit
uation of Italy is not going to be
affected adversely by the war.
On the contrary, it is going to be
improved. There has been no de
struction of wealth, and after the
war we will merely have to have
some readjustment of wealth and a
TRANSFER OF MORE TO THE
PEASANTS THAN THEY FOR
MERLY HAVE HAD.
The transforming of industries of
peace into those of war has been by
no means an entire economic loss,
for the retransformation will bo
easily and quickly managed, and the
net gain to Italy will be great.
For example, we are making enor
mous supplies of explosives and have
the largest single plant in that in
dustry in the world, with 30,000 em
ployees. That plant is in charge of
an Italian who was the manager of
a big aniline dye concern in Germa
ny before the war.
AFTER THE WAR THAT BIG EX
PLOSIVE PLANT, WITH IT8 EX
PERT ITALIAN MANAGER TRAIN
ED IN GERMANY, WILL BE CON
VERTED INTO A DYE WORKS.
Furthermore, the war is greatly
improving the quality of Italian la
bor because it has brought.it under
discipline, which was very much
needed.
War Is to Determine
Whether Fair or Foul
Play Shall Prevail
Among Nations
By HENRY A. VISE WOOD,
Author and Inventor
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WE must realize that this is a
war not with our own kind,
but with a wolf tribe, the
robber nation of Europe, the nation
that speaks with a crooked tongue
and plays the game of war with
nlthv hands. Are
we to 6end an
army to save
France, or a buri
al squad to fire
a salute over her
grave? This war
is to determine
whether, in the
futufe life among
nations, fair play
or foul shall pre
vail. For two and
a half years we
stood by, a neu
tral, while the
Photo by Amen can
Preaa Association.
H. A. W. WOOD
other half of the Anglo-Saxon race
and France lay bleeding. If in the
old Biblical tale there had been
three brothers instead of two and
the third had stood by, a neutral,
while Cain slew Abel, what a stigma
would he not have carried away on
his brow I
IF WE 8HALL HAVE COME TOO
LATE TO' THE RESCUE OF DE
MOCRACY, TO SAVE FRANCE, OUR
BENEFACTOR. WHAT WILL BE
THE MEA8URE OF OUR ACCOUNT
ABILITY TO HISTORYT
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1 , DEALERS IN
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COFFINS AND CASKETS
MOUNT HOLLY, N. C, 8-8-1917
W. H. Wray.
Gastonia, N. C.
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