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The Cleveland No. 12794 WEATHER: Partly cloudy and cooler tonight. Saturday fair and continued cold. Moderate to fresh northerly winds. Cleveland, Friday, June 27,1919 Fight Arena as Seen From an Airplane [[Image}]] tice of the peace at Mineral Ridge, declined the proffered ready-made cigaret with thanks. He took a sack of tobacco and papers on the desk beside him and rolled a fag. "I prefer to roil them myself," he said. From a quiet citizen of a peaceful town, Justice Pierro has sprung to a position of awesome prominence. For Justice Pierro, by the death of his brother in England, has become a member of the house of Lords. He has inherited a fortune estimated at $3,450,000. "But Mineral Ridge is good enough for me." he says. Justice Pierro's office an [[folded]] A few more puffs and more deep thinking. "You know, I would like to see Mineral Ridge become a city," he city. "I don't mean a dirty manufacturing city. I mean just a residential city." Justice Pierro, who has two cablegrams from his London lawyers announcing that his estate is in the course of settlement, expects further word from them in a short time. "Can I estimate the extent of the estate?" he asked. "I think I can. "Picture a row of office buildings six and eight stories tall and covering about a sixth of a mile and I be-[[paper folded]] will have a fair idea of my estate." the tax on incomes of corporation [[folded]] The present rate is 12 per cent the net incomes of corporation while next year it will be 10 p [[folded]] cent. The war profit tax will [[folded]] eliminated entirely. The excess prof [[folded]] tax will be cut from 30 to 65 pe [[folded]] cent to 20 and 40 per cent. U. S. Taxes Compared McCoy denies the claim recently made that taxes in this country have increased 2000 per cent. In 1914 the annual revenue was about $1,000,000. This year it will be about $6,000,000, or an increase in taxes of about 600 per cent. The increase in taxes in England is estimated to be about 1100 per cent. Here is a comparison [[ripped]] come tax in various [[ripped]] A married man [[ripped] [[New Article]] ment, the very crest of hu-man daredevil performance and height of ambition. Ordinary airplaning hasn't anything for thrills on ordinary auto-mobiling-airplaning with stunts has auto racing beat a thousand ways for Sunday for excitment, breathless anxiety and the very essence and climax of real animal fear. Combine participating in the fastest automobile race in the world, falling from the top of the highest skyscraper in existence and being nearly asphyxiated and you will but faintly approximate the sensation of falling out of a bank of clouds apparently straight to certain death on the ground below which, by the way, is apparently rising at a tremendous rate of speed to meet you. As the home of the dirigible bal-loon and next door neighbor to an army and navy flying field, Akron has been treated to a large number of exhibitions of plain and fancy flying. But it's safe to say that no two aviators who have ever soared over the city have given the populace below so many thrills as the daring, yet splendidly executed stunts of Pilots Meyers and Weaver. They have looped the loop, not When I saw their achievments, of course, I wanted to go up. I think most everybody has cherish-ed the ambition of flying. Inci-dentally, I believe most everybody will have this prediction realizied for if the present development con-tinues, the airplane is destined to become one of the commonest vehicles for passenger transporta-tion. "What does it seem like to fly?" you ask. Well, its's hard to describe. It seemed totally different from any-thing that I have ever experienced before. The outstanding feature to me was that it seemed more a question of feeling than seeing or hearing. No Nervousness. I had always thot that it would give one a feeling of the most in-tense exhileration, not to say nerv-ousness and perhaps misgivings, to go soaring away from the earth off into space. But it doesn't. I don't think that I would have known when the plane left the ground and became a thing of the air had I not heard the shouts of spectators and looked down at the fast receding ground. And then I didn't feel particularly exhilerated. Ensign R. E. Waller had handed the warnings of at-tendants to keep my feet under the seat and to kindly refrain, in my excitement, from grasping the shafts which govern the movement of the planes. Then the roar of the engine drowned out further exclamations and the plane circled over the improvised flying field, leaving the ground at a point near the starting place. It was disappointing at first. I had expected something un-believably fascinating and awe-in-spiring. I found something de-cidely ordinary and commonplace. I found an airplane much more comfortable and far less jerky riding than an automobile. But I didn't find any particular thrill, I must confess, in having the ground removed a few hundred feet from my body. (Yes, that's the way it seemed-the ground moved always away from me, rather than my body moving above the ground.) One thing that struck my attention was that the earth below was far more verdant and beautiful than i had ever dreamed. As we ascended, blights on the landscape were reduced or obscured and the ground appeared uniformaly green and beautiful. Roads looked prim and white, separating what looked [[text covered]] cropped grass. [[text covered]] re dots on the [[text covered]] sappeared, and [[text covered]] erable size be- [[text covered]] sheds. [[text covered]] , I realized for [[text covered]] we were pass- [[text covered]] such a height [[text covered]] looked relatively compact and small. And I never realized either that this city was so beautiful. 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