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FEBRUARY   25 CENTS 

Air Travel 

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JUSTICE JOHN FORD  RUTH LAW  MURRARY HULBERT  56 PHOTOGRAPHS

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This aviatrice is dressed in a serviceable uniform similar to that worn by Ruth Law. 
THIS drawing gives one a good idea of a modern, up-to-date, naval airplace in flight, speeding over the Atlantic in search of a treacherous submarine. It shows a five-pointed star resembling the star painted on naval planes to conform to the new orders regarding the insignia for United States aircraft. 
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ENLIST!
Young man! Uncle Sam wants you today for the Aviation Corps!
Ruth Law is a recruiting officer of the United States Government. She has given war-help in assisting in the selling of the Liberty Loan Bonds. She has flown across the devastated fields of France and seen the wreck and havoc that the German troops have made. If she were a man she would be at the front today for Uncle Sam. 

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DO not look upon this call as a chance for heroic sacrifice but as an opportunity that must be grasped at once. What boy is there with youth and red blood in his veins who has not at some idle moment or in the midst of his daily work stopped to think and said to himself: "Oh, if I could only do something different; get out of this and be free!"
  Every young man has the longing that the young birds have, if he only knew what it was, to fly. You have it too. And your nation needs you.
  Once you have mastered the art of handling your airplane and find yourself in the air, along with a powerful throbbing motor singing its song of confidence and the delicate mechanism of an airplane responsive to your lightest touch, sailing swiftly away through the clouds-then for the first time your know the feeling of the wonderful freedom of the air. 
  In the past it has been necessary to spend several thousand dollars to become an aviator. Now the United States Government offers you this great opportunity without cost to you. All that it requires of you is perfect health, perfect eyes, ears and heart and that you prepare yourself for the part that you should take in the great struggle for liberty and world peace that is going on "over there," on the battlefields of France.
  Liberty-the word that means so much to us Americans who have known its blessings all our lives! We must come forward now and "do our bit" to preserve liberty for our own land and to fight for the liberty of the whole world.
  The war will be decided, and liberty preserved, in the air. Our aircraft must be more numerous than the flies that hover over the German trenches. We must drive the enemy aircraft from the sky, destroy their defenses and munition 

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Is Ruth Law really beautiful? No one knows how many times this question has been asked. The answer is right here. 

centers and sweep everything bare as a swarm of locusts destroys a field of grain. 
  Aviators in small numbers can do little good; thousands are needed. It requires six months for training and there is no branch of the service that affords such an opportunity for indvidual advancement. Today you are a beginnger, and tommorrow, if you have the right stuff in you, you can be the foremost man in your escadrille. Flying breeds daring and self-reliance. After you become a trained aviator dangers that seemed appalling to you when you were in your office or playing your game of golf will become commonplace. 
  You will chafe at the delay before you can get to the front and polish up the machine-gun on the front of the fast little scout in which you will hunt for the enemy, win glory for your country and yourself. 
  And once you are there you will not want to leave until you and the men you are with have made things safe for the mothers at home who will be waiting for you, for the sisters you are keeping from danger and for the sweethearts who will be prouder of you than anything else ever will make them. 
  Don't hesitate now, or let some one else do it. It's your chance for your own country and your own manhood. Go now!
  Give them a shot for me, boys! I can't go because I ain't a man. 

Ruth Law