Judge — September 26, 1931 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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OM cn New York standing quite still and we on a hundred miles an hour move. . Passengers race from porthole to porthole in an effort to miss nothing birds are bored with. . . After a bit, one feels fed up with things below and, ttention is drawn to the eagle we are allowed in. . . So—up the ladder to the control room to watch the pilot- ing. .. You feel a trifle disturbed at the simplicity of controlling the eagle. The pilot sits at only two instru- ments... He bothers with altitude and direction only... The pilot senses your wonder and to appease your worry he allows you to look into the wings. Twelve motors lers opposite each other, atop the wings. .. They, the motors, appear to be left to themselves. . . You look inside the wings. . . wings are so thick that a re feet high is in them. Under each double motor crouches a member of the crew and all he can see are the motors above him. . . Seeing — six crouching men at motor watch is re- assuring, and as Mac said, a pet pigeon isn't better cared for. . . The gross weight of the DO-X is 106,000 Ibs. Of this weight 35,000 Ibs. is described as useful weight including crew, fucl, ind passengers, with the possible ex- ception of Mac, who struts about as though the DO-X were a trinket he was breaking in for a “Vanities” girl. . . The operating cost per passenger per mile for 500 miles is but $.04275 (a bit more than 41 cents if figures dizz you)..., The entire DO-X oper- ating cost per hour which is little more than axi rate not including the tip. . . The cruising speed of 103 miles per hour is just a s ayn JUDGE mite too fast for bombing motor- cycle Bobbies be- low... The com- plete cost of th» DO-X was $450,- 000, which sends me into convul- sive finger-snap- ping at the monthly pay- ments on my new Chevrolet... Th salary of the DO-X crew totals $78,000 per year including beer, quarters, and laundry done. . . (Beer is an old German custom, foamy but nice.) Near the end of our flight the crew instructed us to again seat ourselves while the ship sought the water. who had been straightening out Ger- many’s economic stagnancy in the bar, was slow coming down the cabin aisles and the DO-X strack the water before he reached his seat. His knees up- percut his chin and he bumped up through a chandelier bowl. Out of cighty-two passengers, the number ever carried in a plane country, it is foolishly fitting th alone crashed! And, the sap, stepped off the DO-X, wrung Mr. Dornier’s hand and said: “Thanks so much! It was all so pippo, wot-ho, and no end! And—you must look me up in town and I'll blow you to an hour on the Subw My DO-X flight is my swellest thrill to date, BUT—next Tuesday night Bern pel is taking me backstage at the “FOLLIES"! Eye Queues - SEEING its problem consists of SL a sentence in which ten PoReED wit! ach ccecding word must con- tain all the letters of the preceding word with one more letter added, The let- ters can be juggled around in any position—but none cn be omitted, and only one added—such as “on, VY) not, tone,” ete. The sen- tence makes good sense, but, of course, conveys no very profound truth. The form: “— do not like — the man with the black —. “The other — is more im- 15 words are omitted, said ——“OPSERVERS / pressive. Besides, to — a man is to — evidence and is — to result in a — against — which after all is a matter of —.” A merchant weighs his goods witl set of four weights and « . ing equal arms. With this device he can weigh all weights from one to forty pounds inclusive, to the nearest pound (no fractions). If one of the weights is a one pound weight what are the other three? Last week's: No. 1: 36 45 +17 100 2: You'd push the cork in, you clever fellah! Parlor Inane ny the following some afternoon when it is too’ wet to fish and too fishy to do anything clse. Take a weil-known phrase or old saw and, using the same letters, turn it around into another phrase, e.g.: Sweet are the uses of adversity. A defeat whose test is very sure. Many a true word is spoken in jest. Men joke and so win trusty praise. No prizes, coupons or free trips on the Ile de France. Merely a nice, clean way of passing the time. Gents of Leisure [ pmorren into Doyle's Billiard Academy over on B'way the other afternoon (Continued on page 23) comicbooks.com