\At the Churches
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Third and Hazel' Sts., Rev. A. E. Ly
man Wheaton, Rector.
Sunday next before Easter Palm
Sunday)—Holy Communion, 7:30 a.m.
Sunday school, 9:45 sharp.
Morning prayer and sermon, 11 a.
m.
At the eleven o’clock service there
will be special Palm Sunday music
rendered by the choir.
Services For Holy Week.
Monday, Tuesday and Thursday,
evening prayer and meditation.
. Wednesday—Litany and penitential
Jrffice, with meditation.
^"Friday (Good Friday)—Morning
prayer, 10. The three hour service
from 12 to 3, evening prayer and
meditation 4:30.
All members are expected to at
tend as many services as possible
during Holy week.
Palms will be distributed after the
service Sunday morning.
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BAPTIST CHURCH.
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Regular services Sunday. The hour
for the evening service has been
changed to 8 p.'m.
Prayer meeting Wednesday even
ing at 8 o’clock.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
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Sunday school, 9:45 a. m.
Preaching, “A Divine Confession,”
11 a. m.1
Junior Endeavor, 2:30 p. m.
Senior Endeavor, 6:30 p. m.
Preaching, “A Great Harvest,”
7:30 p. m.
t .rrayer meeting ami teacners tram
pling class, Wednesday, 7:30 p. m.
Look out for our children’s service
on Easter Sunday evening.
The Lord’s table is spread for all
who choose to gather with us every
Sunday morning.
Robert H. Flowers,
Pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH.
Sunday school 2.15.
Preaching 11a. m. and 8 p. m.
Subject, morning: “The Need of
the Times.” Lessons from nature;
Evening, “The Causes of Failures and
Successes.”
League 7 p. m.
Prayer meeting Wednesday 8 p. m.
WORK FOR THE JUNIOR RED
C CROSS
In the grammar and high shools
the work is progressing very nicely
in the various grades.
A sample of the first grade weav
ing was sent to St. Louis to head
quarters and Mrs. Box has received
notice for her pupils to weave rugs
for the hospitals.
The children in the grammar grades
are knitting afghans for the soldiers
and for the Belgian babies, also wash
cloths and scarfs. If you have any
scraps of yam, please send it over to
the school to Miss Harder, so that the
squares may be knitted for the sol
dier afghans. We can use any color
and even the smallest pieces.
“Every little bit helps.”
In the fifth grade they are making
the gun wipes, cut from any soft ma
terial. These are four inch squares
and more material is needed, so any
thing you can contribute will be
greatly appreciated by Mrs. Best.
Mrs. C, R. Pate has kindly loaned
us the use of her machine, so that,
under the able directions of Miss Ir
by, Miss Carmichael and Mrs. Ford,
twenty-five property bags have been
made. A call has been made for
other mochine-made articles, so if
any one has a machine not in use,
please notify us and we will be glad
to send for it.
Reporter.
UNCLE SAM CALLS YOU
Unle Sam is calling you. He has
helped' you many a time. Now you
must help him, by buying Thrift
Stamps. One stamp costs twenty-five
v cents. Everyone should have one in
stead of buying candy, cigars, cigar
ettes and other things you don’t
need. In five years the government
will nay you back.
Girls and boys can help too. The
government has made this way for
them to help. The boys and girls of
’76 loved their country and General
Washington too. They didn’t want
the cruel king of England to lay his
hands on them again. There were
drummer boys only eleven and twelve
years old. We don’t want Germany
to lay her hands on us. Don’t be
asleep. Wake up!
You will never win the war by sit
ting at home and eating ice cream
and cake, and taking it easy. Buy a
Thrift card and a stamp today.
Margaret Reed,
Aged 8 years—Third grade.
Don’t be a dead one. Advertise.
JUR.FHTS OF ♦
i LAFAYETTE MEN
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Walcott, Since Shot Down Over
German Lines, Tells of
I'. Comrades Daring.
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MAKES DIVE OF 10,000 FEET
Aviator Reaches Ground Safely Al
though All the Wires on His Ma
[7 chine Are Loosened — Spend
Holiday in Air.
Washington.—Word pictures of the
work of the members of the Lafayette
Squadron and other American aviators
In France are given in letters which
Dr. Charles D. Walcott, secretary of
the Smithsonian Institution, has re
ceived from his son, B. S. Walcott,
whose airplane fell “somewhere be
hind the German lines’’ along the west
ern front. ' The allusions to the work
of the American aviators contained in
these letters are all the more interest
ing at this time in view of the fact
that the men about whom Walcott
wrote have just been commissioned in
the American air service on the rec
ommendation of General Pershing.
Doctor Walcott has received a dis
patch from Paris informing him that
his son fell within the enemy lines
December 12 while fighting three sin
gle-seaters, after having demolished an
enemy two-seater, and that his fate is
uncertain. Inquiries are being made
to ascertain, if possible, from Germany
whether young Walcott was seriously
injured or not.
In a letter dated November 13, in re
sponse to an inquiry about Campbell,
an aviator from Chicago, who was re
pui icu 1UOI, JUUJJg HaiLUU WIUIC ao
follows:
“Campbell was In the Lafayette Es
eadrille, and they are a member of the
same group as Squadron 84, so I have
asked them about him. He was on a
patrol with another chap; they attack
ed some Boches, and when it was over
the other chap was alone. Campbell
was brought down in German territory
and so reported missing. I believe the
chap he was with has seen and talked
to Campbell’s father or some close rel
ative since.
“Another chap named Bulkely was
brought down in similar circumstances
about the 1st of September. Ten days
ago word was received from the Amer
ican embassy that he had communi
cated with them, a prisoner in Ger
many.
“There are many similar cases
where men brought down with crippled
machines, or wounded, escaped de
struction by a miracle. The only sure
thing is when a machine goes down in
flames or is seen to lose a wing or two.
“For Instance, there are two officers
in the group who are in the best orf
health and daily working. Several
months ago they were on patrol to
gether and collided in the air. One
machine cut the tail rigging complete
ly off the other plane, and then they
separated, one plane without a tail
and the other mnchine with various
parts of a tail mixed among the cables
and struts of one side of his machine.
They both landed in France, one on his
wheels, followed by a capotage, or
somersault turnover, the other quite
completely upside down. Then a term
in the hospital, and back they are
again.
“Kenneth Marr, an American and a
friend of Pete’s, had the commands of
both his controls cut in a combat, the
rudder and elevator, leaving him noth
ing but the aileron, the lateral balance
control, and the motor. He landed with
only a skinned nose for casualties, and
got a decoration for it.
Dives Vertically 10,0f0 Feet.
“Another chap, in an attack on cap
live LfUUUUllS, U1VCU 1U1 suiucuuug anc
10,000 feet vertically and with full mo
tor on, thereby gaining considerable
speed, as you can Imagine. He came
right on top of the balloon, shot and,
to keep from hitting it, yanked as
roughly as he could, flattening out his
dive in the merest fraction of a sec.
ond. Imagine the strain on the ma»
chine! When he got home all th‘»
wires^liad several inches sag in then};
the metal connections of the cables in
to the struts and wood of the wings
had bit into the wood enough to give
the sag.
“Machines are built to stand im
mense pressure on the under side of
their wings. In some acrobatic man
euvers I was trying the other day I
made mistakes and caused the machine
to stall and then fall in such a way
that the full weight was supported by
the upper surface—by the wires which
In most machines are supposed merely
to support the weight of the wings
when the machine is on the ground.
“Yes, the Spad is a well-built ma
chine, the nearest thing to perfection
in point of strength, speed, and climb
ing power I’ve seen yet. Of course, it’s
heavy, and that’s why they put 150-230
horse power in them. The other school,
that of a light machine with a light
motor, depending for its success on
lack of weight rather than excess of
power, may supplant the heavier ma
chine in time; I can’t tell.
"Yesterday there was a review here
In honor of Guynemer, and decorations
for the pilots of the group who had
won them. Three Jfmerlcans received
the Croix de Guerre—members of the
iAfayette Escadrille. Lufbery, the
American ace, carried the American
flag presented to the escadrille by Mrs.
McAdoo and the employees of the
treasury department, besides the two
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aviation emblems of France. He was
called to receive his decoration for
having in the course of one day held
seven combats, descended (six) one
German plane in flames, and forced five
others to land behind their lines,
(which means that he is officially cred
ited with one—his thirteenth—and that
the other five, though probably brought
down, do not count for him because
there were not the necessary witnesses
required by the French regulation.)
“Aviators are not very military. The
chief of one of the escadrilles was com
missioned to command the mechanics,
who are plain soldiers with rifles and
steel helmets, for the occasion. He is
a bit of a clown and amused the entire
gathering, kidding with the officers.
The pilots of each of the f ve esca
drilles were in more or less formation,
most of them with hands in their pock
ets, for it was chilly, and presenting a
mixture of uniforms unparalleled in
its heterogeneity. Every branch of the
service represented endless personal
ideas in dress.
Spent Their Holiday In the Air.
“Because of the occasion, repose had
been granted to the entire group for
the afternoon, another group taking
over our patrols. So that after the
review every one had the afternoon to
waste—a sunny day, which is quite
unusual this month. Within a half
hour every machine that was in work
ing order was in the air, forming into
! groups and then off for the lines, just
looking for trouble—voluntary patrol,
they call it. Which opened my eyes a
bit as to the spirit in the French avia
tion service after three years of war.”
In another letter, written December
1, young Walcott says:
“I tried to give you some idea of the
strength of a Spad in a letter a while
ago. At home people speak of a factor
of safety, meaning the number of times
stronger the machine is than is neces
sary for plain flying. The Spad is made
so that a man can’t ‘bust’ It, no matter
what he does in the air—dive as far
and as fast as he can and stop as bru
tally as he can, it stands the racket.
Of course, motors do stop, and if it
nappens over a mountain range—wen,
that’s just hard luck.
“Have had a few patrols since last
I wrote. One at a big height—4,000 to
4,500 meters, considerably above the
clouds, which almost shut out the
ground below; a wonderfully beautiful
sight, but beastly cold—and a couple
when the clouds were low and solid.
The patrol stays at just the height of
the clouds, hiding in them, slipping out
again to look around. If it stays be
low the enemy antiaircraft guns pep
per it whenever near the lines, and at
a low altitude that is rather awkward,
so the patrol shows itself as little as
possible.
“It’s lots of sport to try to keep with
the patrol; be behind the chief of pa
trol, see him disappear, and then bump t
into a fog bank, a low-hanging cloud,
and not see a darn thing. Then dive
down out of the cloud, -wondering
whether the other guy is right under
neath or not; dart out of the cloud and
see him, maybe 500 yards away, going
at right angles. Then back up and
turn around fast and give her the gear
—full speed to catch up—and so on.
See a Boche .regulating artillery fire, f
start to maneuver into range, and,
zip; he’s out of sight in the clouds,
and the next you see he is beating it
far back of his lines. Not very dan
gerous this weather, but lots of fun.”
In a letter from the front, dated
November 30, the following passages
occur:
Yesterday was Thanksgiving day,
and, praises be! the Lafayette bunch
invited me and my partner to dinner,
or rather to the feast. They have the
most remarkable chef. Soup and fish
prepared the way for a most remark
ably big bird called the turkey, barri
caded by chestnuts. And then a plum
pudding—a regular American one—and
as good as I ever tasted. I sat at the
table with Captain Thenault, Lieuten
ants Thaw and Lufbery, and some
Frenchmen.
“An early patrol this morning, de
spite low clouds. Lots of fun it was,
ducking in and out of the clouds, keep
ing from hitting other machines in the
clouds and from losing the patrol. Saw
a few Boches, but all they had to do
was to slip up out of sight when the
patrol approached. Every now ana
•then their antiaircraft guns would
blaze away a bit, but there was lots of
room for them to miss and for us to
leave the place they were shooting
at.”
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TO STORE COAL.
. Special to Independent.
! Little Rock, March 23.—Realizing
that within a short'time all the coal
production of the country will be re
quired for government use, especial
ly in the movement of ships over
seas, it is officially announced that
the government is preparing to store
six months’ supply of coal at Camp
Pike. It is probable that the same
course will be pursued at other
camps. This is the policy that the
fuel administration has insisted upon
for all consumers of coal, so that
when the time comes, there will be
enough coal released for national
purposes.
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