alike? How different?

2. How long before the delivery of this speech did
the United States declare war against Germany? What
references to this war are in the speech?

3. The cemetery at Arlington is a national burying
ground of the fallen heroes of the Civil War. Read
the line or lines that refer to them.

_ADVENTURE_

_Life is a series of experiences. A few of these we
call adventures because they are out of the
ordinary. If, however, one is keen and alert, every
experience is a fresh adventure. And excitement
galore can be had by reading about the doings of
other people. It is no longer necessary to hunt
lions or to be adrift on an ice sheet to get the
thrill of those who have experienced these things.
Books, pictures, and theaters afford us ample means
of enjoying in comfort the hour of high adventure
of the other person._

[Illustration: A GRANDSTAND SEAT IN THE SKY

(_See following page_)]

A GRANDSTAND SEAT IN THE SKY

BY HOWARD MINGOS

"I don't know whether we can make it or not," said
the pilot. "There's a forty-mile-an-hour wind up
aloft, and we're going straight in the teeth of it. Maybe
we'll have to turn back."

But we did not turn back, and at times before we had 5
covered the twenty-two miles separating New York from
the army's Hazlehurst Field at Mineola, Long Island, I
wished that we might turn round, if only for an instant, that
I might adjust the fur-lined chin strap, the buckle of which
snapped against my left ear with maddening persistency. 10

A half dozen times, perhaps, I had raised my left hand
carefully, only to have it flapped back at me as if I were
slapping myself in the face. For we were in the pilot's seat
of America's largest bombing plane, grandstand seats
with nothing between us and the show but air, of which 15
there was a plenty.

Captain Roy N. Francis, one of the best-known American
pilots, had cautioned me against sticking out my arm
or hand, because of the nine-foot propeller whirling alongside
of me, and its tips fanned my elbow just two thousand 20
times a minute as I huddled in the seat with Francis to
afford him more room.

You understand I wanted to make myself as