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Luther Burbank
THE gentleman on wheels shown in the lower left-hand
picture, who is member of the National Emergency
Food Garden Commission which has undertaken to inspire
the planting in this country of one million food gardens, is
America's foremost plant breeder and creative gardener.
If there is anyone who ought to be able to tell America's 
new Army of the Green Cross how to make two potatoes grow where only one grew before, it is Luther Burbank.

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PHOTO BY JOHN ROSS, SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA

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in the air--yet.
Although I come from a sedate New England
family, I have never been content to stay at home
as most girls do. I had to have a profession, and 
aviation seemed to be the one thing that I could
do, and still be free to enjoy the open air as I
always had. There was never a doubt in my mind that I would be able to fly. I think that flying
came naturally to me, and I have never been
afraid of the air, though I have had some very 
narrow escapes from injury. I have been flying since July,
1912--nearly five years--and have appeared in nearly every
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Sinclair Lewis-Himself
By Himself
I AM a serious realistic novelist, and I come from
sota, and smoke too many cigarettes, and am of a ta
stooping, wonderingly youthful aspect, with hair of
tasteless shade of faded
went to Yale, where I wore
apectacles: then went to New
where I was a member of mos
groups of earnest thinkers,
special leaning toward ed
tion. I used to talk right ou
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YOU BUY A LIBERTY
BOND OR THE NEXT BOMB
DROPPED ON YOU MAY BE A
GERMAN BOMB... ... ... I'VE
BOUGHT MY LIBERTY BOND,
WILL YOU BUY YOURS TODAY?
RUTH LAW

THE NEW YORK TIMES
MID-WEEK PICTORAL

THURSDAY,
NOVEMBER 30, 1916

THE CHAMPION WOMAN LONG DISTANCE FLIER
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Miss Law's biplane alongside Carlstorm's New York Times machine, which flew from Chicago Nov. 3.
(Photos c American Press Association.)

Miss Ruth Law left Chicago in a 100 horse power old type Curtiss biplane at 8:25 A. M., Sunday,
Nov. 19, and flew without stop to Hornell, N. Y., arriving at 2:10 P. M., a distance of 590 miles. She
landed thereto obtain a fresh supply of fuel. She then flew to Binghamton, N. Y., 90 miles distaat,
and landed on account of darkness. She left Binghamton at 7:23 A. M., Monday, Nov. 20, and arrived
at Governors Island, N. Y., at 9:37 A. M. The total distance covered was 890 miles; actual flying time
was 8 hours 55 1/2 minutes. Miss Law broke the world's record for women flier, and made the cham-
pion American long distance flight without stop.

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Miss Law as she sat in her machine.

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Received by General Wood on arrival at Governors Island.
(Photo c Underwoon & Underwood.)