Better have twenty-five dollars than starve; the initiation fee was only twelve dollars, and no dues required from the unemployed.
Also, the widows of deceased members in good standing could draw twenty-five dollars per month, and a certain sum for each of their children.

Also, the said deceased would be buried at the association's expense.

These things resurrected all the superannuated and forgotten pilots in the Mississippi Valley.

They came from farms, they came from interior villages, they came from everywhere.

They came on crutches, on drays, in ambulances,--any way, so they got there.