Health and Aviation News

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 20, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 37.

Health and Aviation News

A note in "Good Health" for September states that in a prize offered in Germany to the winner of a forced march of thirty miles, fifty pounds of luggage being carried, the contest was won by Herr Emerich Rath, an abstainer from both flesh and alcohol. One hundred and sixty persons entered the contest, many of them soldiers, who had been trained in forced marches. Rath was a merchant, and not a pedestrian. This is the eighth international test he has won.

Rear Admiral R. D. Evans declares that "for naval purposes no type of flying machine has as yet shown its usefulness." He goes on to show that air-ship and aviator would be riddled with shot before they could get near enough to a battleship to do any damage. It may be useful for observation purposes.