ONE·MAN SHOWBy W. E. Dill

Copyright, 1989. by Cbiugo Trlbun~·N. Y. Nt''''1 S)'ndlcate, )N:,

"They're simp y MAR EL-(OUS! Such POWER! SuchFEE LIN G! And sue hVIRILITY!" (Showing happyartist, trying to look humbleand grateful, while fri~ldsI hurl complirnents.) (f~\,"This artist has donewhat Giottoand Leonardo tried to do and-~->o..:::».";'couldn't! A year ago I thoughthe was perfect,but he's improveda hundred per cent. since then!"(Mr. Buttress, of the Buttress Gallery, favorsa prospective buyer with a neat sales talk.)

. ''What I tried to convey'in these\ canvases is to express a mood,~ through insignificant form." The,4artist is taking the art critic around

the gallery, just so he won't missany of the subtle points.

" hy doesn't --he paintPRETTY subjects?" Theold-fashioned girl wantsmodern art explained. Gal-lery attendants hide when

they see her coming.

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ival artist andwi~ ~, ' wondering how any'one has nerve

/enough to exhibitsuch trash. The~~~~_little woman iswhispering, "Why,Honey, you couldpaint better pictures with yourI toes!"

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" ,1\, .. / (~\ ~.i t'The celebrity who was dragged

to the gallery on opening day asan added attraction. She didn'twant to come, has a cold in herhead, and is in a terrible humor.

Stays about two minutes.Art student getting a

•.....•a.:.:;.;.=-close-upof how the artist -""'-_,--'paints.

Febl'uAl'y 19, 1939

War •In(Continued from page ene.)

To open a 'chute in the midst ofthis wild m~lee would be fatal.There will be collisions. Div-

ing fighters will ram some ofthe big battleships.It will be a formation battle,

just as fieet actions on the oceanstoday are fieet battles. Thecripples will be left behind to bedestroyed by the little fighters-torpedo boats of the air. 'And inevitably, if the invaders

are determined, they will reachtheir objective. Loads of 6,000to 8,000 pounds of bombs willfall into the target-a city, In-dustrial plant, or military con-centration point.The losses on both sides in

men and airplanes will be appal-ling. So will the damage on theground, for the bombers will beusing sights that enable themto direct their explosives withthe utmost accuracy, and theywill be dropping new types ofradio-controled aerial torpedoesfilled with explosive more de-structive than any yet known.Although prophecy is danger-

ous usually, it is probable thatthe battle of Jutland in 1916,with the great ocean fleets ofimperial Germany and of Britainpounding each other with tenand twelve inch guns in theNorth sea, may have been thelast great conflict between ocean-going vessels. The Jutlands ofthe future probably will befought above 20,000 feet.No one can tell quite what a

modern war between two greatcountries with evenly matchedmilitary forces may be like-def·initly it will be different fromthe trench fighting and stabilizedwar of 1914·'18.But aircraft will playa major

even if not alone the decidingrole, Airplanes will skip overdeadlocks on the ground andover barricades at sea to strikeat targets deep within the de-fended areas of both sides.Military commanders concede

that it will be impossible to haltthis raiding if the raiders arewilling to pay the cost in moneyand men. And the destructionof factories, forts, rail junctions,bridges, and water, power, andsanitation works will be enor-mous. Perfection of modernbomb sights has brought the artof aerial bombing to the pointwhere stationary targets can bedestroyed with the utmost pre-cision and certainty. The world,according to United States armyexperts, never has seen accurateaerial bombing because none ofthe nations where flrst- classbombing sights and techniquehave been developed has yetbeen involved in war.The planes of the future will

be enormous by present stand-ards. will be armored, will carryheavy guns and large crews.Instances that may be cited

here are the army air corps'B 0 e i n g B·17 flying fortressplanes and the Boeing B·15, thatis considered a super flying for-tress. It also is known that theDouglas company now is build-ing a super super air battleshiplarge enough to dwarf all pre-vious planes, with greater speed,greater range (said to be 6,000miles), and far greater bomb andarmament carrying capacity.

(Continued from page three.)Karl told me the Fuehrer was

always the same; intense, ener-getic, and inspiring.

II He loves Germany aboveeverything else," my husbandcontinued. II His personal life isnothing to him. He and he aloneis responsible for what my coun-try has become. You rememberwhat he said in his book, 'MeinKampf '-that the world is notfor craven-hearted races. Heknew that our defeat in 1918wasthe result of moral poisoning, aweakening of the will to self·preservation. He knew that todo away with that he would haveto wipe out all discordant ele-ments. His whole life has beendevoted to our country. Ger-many is as he remade her."Later we heard Hitler speak

from the balcony of the Rathaus,still to the roar of the crowd,which remained under his hyp-notic influence. He began hisaddress with calm, deliberatewords. But when he reached thepoint where he told of II Oester-reich" and the swift conquest,his voice rose. He went on todiscuss the glory of Germany,strong again and battling thehatred of the world, and histones went higher and higher.He seemed almost to shriek .

the Air'

We might also consider thenavy's two flying battleships-the Sikorsky rour-motored pa-trol bomber of 60,000pounds andthe Consolidated patrol bomberwith four motors. Both theseships now are in service teststhat will determine whether air-planes of this size and largercan take over the duties of lightcruisers and destroyers for theAtlantic and Pacific fleets.It all sounds like a bit of Jules

Verne, but the army now definit·ly is considering the building ofbig airplanes that wil combinetwo duties. They will be heavybombers and also will be combatmachines. Their speed will beless than that of the 4oo-500-mile·an-hour single- seat fighters ofthe near future, but they will beso heavily armed that this handi-cap will be overcome.

• • •The air corps of the United

States already has adopted the37·millimeter quick- firing cannon-its shells explode on contactand weigh approximately onepound e a c h - a s a standardweapon for both big bombersand its latest fighters. Thebombers seem to offer better gunplatforms than the flghters, anddefinitly a big machine like theB-17 can carry more guns, flrlngthrough more angles, than cana small, wasplike speedster car-rying one man who must fly aswell as fire the cannon.The bombers, moreover, out-

range the smaller planes by aratio of four to one. Theirarmament is sufficient to defendthem from all except the mostoverwhelming defensive force.There is only one drawback to

the large planes. They cannotbe as maneuverable as smallermachines. Of necessity they willfly straight and level even whenattacked. Their defense will be-pend on outshooting attackers.In order to combine great fire

power with maneuverability andeven more speed than the bomb-ers can generate, the air corpsengineers have developed themultl-engined, multi-crew fight-er. First of this type is the BellAiracuda. It carries a crew offive-two pilots, a gunner- radiooperator who fires a .50·calibermachine gun to protect its tail,and two cannon loaders whoserve a pair of 37·millimeter can-non in the wings.These two types of planes, ac-

cording to army engineers, un-doubtedly will comprise the bulkof future air fleets-fleets thatwill present a direct analogywith today's ocean fleets.

The big bombers and combatmachines will be the dread-naughts of the skies. They willbe comparatively slow - withspeeds of between 280 and 330miles an hour - but they willcarry guns of one and two inchcalibers. These guns will be sodisposed that the big planes canflre broadsides much like theoceangoing battleships of today.In battle they undoubtedly will

maneuver against each other inmuch the same ponderous fash-ion that fleets of sea battleshipshave maneuvered in the past.The larger planes in each fleet

will be accompanied by thesmaller Airacuda types of multi-engined s hip s with smallercrews and moderately heavycannon. These smaller planeswill be dived, rolled, and turnedas violently as today's single-seaters.And the Airacudas will form

a screen around the bigger bat-tleships much as do fleet scout-ing forces of light and heavycruisers, destroyers, and subma-rines around ocean fleets inbattle array.Suppose that s u c h a fleet

should assault an enemy citadel-in the form of a huge industrialtown, a railhead, or a knownammunition dump.Assuming that there would be

no general fleet action-that theattacking force was not inter-cepted by the enemy's main fleet-the attackers would be met bya screen of the short-range high-speed flghters that are strictlydefensive ships. These planeswith their 450 to 500 miles anhour speeds would climb up tomeet the invaders in enormousnumbers.Outranged and with definitly

less fire power than the attack-ers, they would be forced to de-pend on speed to get closeenough to strike and then diveaway. Furthermore, they wouldnot be able to press horne anyadvantages because at theirSpeeds they would have sufficientfuel for less than two hours'flying.But in an action between two

matched fleets, even though thisaction would be three -dlmen-sional instead of two-dlmenston-al, the victory would go to theside with the best marksmenand the largest cannon. Speedswould balance out.Even the battles of World war

days-particularly from 1916 on-told this story. The greataces were the extraordinarymarksmen-often they would bevery ordinary or even in someinstances poor pilots.Some air experts hold that

I Married a Nazi!Abruptly he ceased. He had

run the gamut of a Nazi speech.He had appealed first to reason;then he had, like a backwoodsevangelist. s t i r red primitiveemotions to capture the crowdwholly.He bowed and left the bal-

cony. His purpose had been ac-complished. • • •The night before I boarded the

ship for America Karl and I satdown for a final talk about ourproblems and our plans. I shallalways remember him as he wasthen. His dignity, his charm,his kindliness had never seemedmore marked. He had neverlooked more handsome. Thelight from the old-fashioned ceil-ing lamp shone on his fair hairand keen, intelligent face, stilltanned from the mountain sun.I was thinking how much I

loved him and how hard it wouldbe to leave him for a wholemonth. His voice, sharp andcommanding, broke my revery.

II We shall speak plainly," hesaid. II Youwill,l know, grant me

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full liberty of speech, and I willgive you the same right."I replied that, of course, this

was proper. Although I had anuneasy feeling that somethingunpleasant was coming, I stillhoped that this final eveningwould be a lovely one.

II Do you know why you aregoing to America ahead of me? "he demanded.Flustered by his manner as

much as by the words, I said Ithought I did. Each of us wasto visit his own relatives, and Iwas to look for business oppor-tunities for him.

II There is something muchmore important than that," heasserted. II You must go overand get what belongs to youfrom your family. They shallnot cheat you out of the moneyand the other things due youwhen you marry. I brought acertain sum to this marriage,and I expect your family tomatch that. Isn't that fair?"What followed is only vaguely

remembered. But no amount ofpleading on my part, nor myoveroptimistic promises to find

Pa,e Seven

(Acme photo.)

American pursuit plane. ill forma-. tion flight.

one side or the other of theantagonists must establish def·inite air superiority Immediate-ly. Instead of making bombingraids on what might be calledmilitary objectives, or insteadof attempting to terrify civilianpopulations by indiscriminatebombing of cities, the battleswill be between the air fleets todetermine which side has com-mand of the sky.Then, with command estab-

lished one way or the other, itwill be easy and safe to sendover bombing raids at any de-sired objective. Until commandof the air is established, thesestudents of war hold, cost willbecome a prohibitive factor.This argument seems to be

well grounded. The British,with a force of 70,000, including3,500 pilots, in the Roya I airforce today, believe that in caseof war they will lose their entireforce once a month.The only way that this stupen-

dous loss of men and money canbe stopped, they believe, is forthem to seize and hold commandof the air immediately afterthey become involved in a war.German tactics consider a

similar immediate seizure of airsuperiority. The Germans believethat even though they are able tomaintain a war production of1,000 airplanes a month, theymay flnd their air forces almostentirely depleted if war shouldlast for six intensive months.Because they expect these

losses, their plans are builtaround the •.lightning war."This, of course, was the Germanplan in 1914. Somehow it failedto work out. That lesson wasnot lost on the Germans.

•••These remarks should be con-

sidered as not applying entirelyto the United States. Surround-ed by oceans-one of them 2,500miles wide and the other nearly8,000 miles wide-the war prob-lems of the American nationsare entirely different from thoseof European countries.In general the fleet actions

and raids predicted here willtake place in Europe or Asia.There will be no raids on theUnited States-unless they orlg-inate in some South Americancountry or on some base close tothe American shore - for thenext ten years.After that time the develop-

ment of air power may well besuch as to make possible raidson any point in the world fromany other point. The warfare, of which we speak will corne-. if it comes at all-before 1950.

him a job that would support usin independence and comfort,would sway him from his mainpoint. He was determined thereshould be a dowry. As a Ger-man, he said, he would not dareto confess to his relatives andfriends that he had married agirl with none.We must, I think, have talked

of other things-of Haiti, and ofthe dear Reinke family, and thegood times we had had in themountains. We spoke, I know,of our mutual trust and affec-tion. But I was too flustered byhis monetary demands to paymuch attention."Let me get to America and

think this out" kept coursingthrough my puzzled brain. II InAmerica - surely there will besome way out:'But what way? Karl was ada-

mant on the dowry. That wassomething we had never dls-cussed. I had never suspectedthat he looked to my family fora money payment. And certain-ly my father would never under-stand that he was supposed tofurnish a dot. At last Germanand American ideas were toclash, sharply and unmistakably.

Next Sunday-The Path Divide••