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begin to take shape, however, and notices the cotton dryness of his le to his feet and run around the Paratroopers must be constantly
size, the jumper realizes he is ap- matter how cold it may be) and of the wind and dumping the air. predicted stimuli present them-
proaching the ground. It appears The paratrooper then rolls up selves. Not knowing what to do
l J1L 0 0 0to rush up to him. the urgent desire to urinate, his chute, shoves it into a kit bag, instinctively, taking time to think
Preparing to land, the trooper swings it over his shoulder and it out, can easily be fatal. And
lets his legs go limp so that when 0NCE ON THE GROUND, the trudges off the drop zone. this incisive i n d o c t r i n a t i o n
(Coninued from Page 3) he hits, he will crumple up and trooper has one last action to From the time he stood in the breathes a measure of self-con-
ease into the ground rather than perform. "spilling" his chute. Only door of the aircraft until he spill- fidence into the paratrooper, en-
orients himself in relation to the stiffly slamming into it. He also an perfectly windless days, a rare ed his chute, less than two min- abling him to continue jumping.
other troopers in the air, gguiding reaches high up onto the four phenomenon for which the para- sites have elapsed.
or "slipping" his chute away from risers and pulls himself up on them trooper fervently prays, will the WITHIN HIMSELF, the pride
them by mampulating one or more to get maximum lift from the parachute deflate of its own ac- WHY DOES a man jump out of which comes of conquering
of hefoss scay erb"uers c- hut a th mmen o 1.ndn~cord. Usually, it faits to the ground airplanes? Paratroopers ask
of the four heavy web "risers" ex-I chute at, the moment of landing. : d i tae 1kh i hsr n lvP tot t innate fear, and successfully :
tsislio~ fom is bdy ~srcss510 aniiii. tom apaielisle,~ bsit stays inflated like -atruce tlits of themsclves evesy timae they inae taad seesu!
ending from his body harness upILanding from a parachute jump round sail. This can cause trouble strap on a chute. But no one has meeting the challenge of self-con-
from the shoulders and connect- has been compared with the ef- if the ground wind is strong yet been able to satisfactorily trol, of mking his body do some-
ing with the 28 nylon lines in feet of jumpiig from a second enough and the paratrooper not !lanswer the question. thig ag'mst which his shole be-
tusrni astened sts the silk aan- story windos, mosins ro hly sufficiently alert. A stiff breeze Men usually volunteer for air- isg rebels, gives the paratrooper
opy. 22 miles on hou. This may racy swill catch the silk, drag the sol- borne duty out of a sense of ad-
XTOT UNTIL he is about 200 feet depending upon the temperature, die across the grosind, sad rn venture, the attraction of the a sense ol self-sotssfaction and
above earth does the jumper moisture and wid conditios but e the source of either slight or glamour of an airborne unit, the accomplishment.
have any sensation of fallin isne i a well-conditioned and well- major injury. chance to be in an elite, volunteer Despite the fear, most troopers
trained man can handle it without Death has been known to re- unit instead of a company of will not deny the actual thrill of
floating. As objects on the round ut hurling himself. sult from dragging. In a light draftees, and possibly to earn some jumping.
The relief the paratrooper gets ind, the chute can be spilled by extra money. Paratroopers receive One thing is certain-having
when he hits the ground is mixed the trooper laying where he has Iadditional pay, labelled "incen- jumped once, money ceases to be
with pure exultation that he made landed and hauling in on one of tive" pay by the Army, but refer- an inducement for jumping again.
*e : it. All his nervous energy seems the risers and a set of shrould red to as "hazard" or "jump" pay No amount of money could make
1 . i drained out and the extreme lines until he can grab some silk. by the troops. a man go out of an airplane if
i iiiiiiSiiatics tenseness disappears. Here he first In a faster wind, he must scramb- This might explain why the he didn't want to. His motivation
- - - - -- prospective trooper joins. But it must come from elsewhere.
(Coniiued irom Pa g. i) I 1O L 1oo0TH: .doesn't explain why he stays, once In the last analysis, the oppor-
_-_.____having made a few jumps. One tunity to display a defiance of na-
reason is his training. Intensive sture, however brief, makes the
in very limited quantities. The T7 and highly disciplinary, parachute paratrooper willing to take his
unique position held by commem- T w o ' 0 i tt - training indoctrinates the soldier chances again when the jump-
oratives in United States coinage not to think but to react when master commands "shuffle down
is due mainly to the fact these jumpig sod stand in the door."
coins are the only type of Ameri-
can money with real historical
significance.
This historical feature often
creates interest among people who
would have little interest in num-
ismatics. Gold pieces are extremely
difficult to acquire because deal-
ers do not purchase gold cois on
a bullion basis and this has creat-
ed a market for only the very
finest gold coins.
ONCE A PERSON learns the
basic characteristics of a coin
he can easily judge its worth as
a collector's item. Some coins.
while worth little in themselves,
can be valuable as parts of a
complete collection. For example;
there are 89 Lincoln cents from
1909 to 1940, and while only 14
of these coins are worth consid-
erably more than face value, even
the common varieties are in de-
mand to complete the collection.
When less than one million
1931-S cents were struck, specu-
lators bought up this coin and
good specimens are now rarely
found in circulation. The 1931-S
is the last "rare' cent struck in
the Lincoln variety. Towards the
close of World War II the Phila-
delphia mint alone was turning
out over one billion cents a year.
Lately great interest has built
up in the collection of "proof
sets," a proof specimen from
penny to half-dollar, which can
be purchased fr;Om the Philael-
phia mint for two and one h- 11
times the face .lute. Proof ets
of 1936 sell for more than sine
hundred dollars, and som" 1950
sets have already 1'in sold for
fifty to fifty-five dlari
"tnrvoetry
ows," there are still grosbeaks and careful, long look at the worst and
hen pheasants and a "rebel drum, tells Thoreau,
imer" still calls. Prices have
changed by two hundred, "Vege- With rabits, too, we share un-
tables are high," certai lives;sperate, w meas-
Lexington is houses sprawled ure man
on desert-dusty streets with fer- by how he lives and what he
tile names. most believes . .
The arrogant inherit lust, the good, the brave, are no!
more a majority
but Thoreau's Walden is still than when you walked this far
there, if only halfway his: "a sum- spring shore.
the eastern bank..."
Even today, the poet tells his This sounds Mr. Booth's calmer,
correspondent, who traveled far firmer resolve; he is no closet
in Concord, poet, no giddy dreamer, but a man
.. . All poets climb back Eden's thinking and feeling deeply. He
hill expresses carefully m e a s u re d
within their own backyard. praise for the life he finds it pos-
Woods and pond sible to labor into existence and
were your recovery of the crop love for its meaning:
that's possible, At home beneath both
a .harvest of good words grown oak and jet, praising what I
from the land afadujetan I
that brings the whole world halfway understand
home. I cultivate I walk this good March mom-
a different orchard, pruning ing out r
under the sound to say my strange love in a
of probable war. distant land.
The culvitation of an orchard has
both a natural and a human way ...., .. ........
of needing to go on; the poem is
praise for the recognition of this
need and for the human worth,
even promise, that this recog-
nition holds.
R. BOOTH'S poetry points a
iay out of the whimper ing
wold of quisvierin voices iitoi
land that if not flowing with milka
and Honey and, if punctuated by
screaming jets, is at least a place
of recogniti on. He has taken a
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