Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31
CONGRESSMAN MooRE'S
LETTER
How Photography Teaches the Bird
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Interested In the Lux
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Washington, May 81.

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ITO FALL $50 feet in the air. in a 100
L foot span airplane. when only 600 feet
above the earth. to escape fatal crash
| through knowledge gained only the day before
| by their pilot. and then to 20 and see, after
| their fight motion picture which showed
! the cause of the drop and the remedy for
! il was the unusual experience of Congress
| men Platt, Of New York; Timberlake. of
| Colorado. and Hawley. of Oregon. Colonel
| Hartz. in command Of Boiling Flying Field,
I Washington. u. c.. took the representatives
| up, in new Martin bomber Clear weather
| warm sun and soft winds. after a cool rain
| had made the air boiling" and ''bumpy.'
| Suddenly the ship" which had been flying
cleanly. made n fat drop of 100 feet. Both
motors were working. but not at top speed
| Pilot Harmon gave her the gun and the
| airplane came into control only within four
| times of her own span from the ground. Re
cent cinema photos. under method originated
| by Fairfax Nauty. formerly q Philadelphia
| newspaper man, by means of which the
| power waves which cause a plane to fly
can be actually seen. had proved to Colonel
Hartz that the lifting. rarefaction effects
| caused by the airhow from an airscrew
across an aerofoil were pusative, or inter
| mittent. instead of continuous, and had
| shown him what TO do in the emergency. SO
| Colonel Hartz took the representatives to
see the technical demonstration by cinema
| of what had happened. After he had seen
| the generation. development and collapse OF
! power wave on the screen Platt turned
TO Hartz and said: well. colonel for one
| ! am glad you are q movie fan, if only
| technical one Platt is from Poughkeepsie
and succeeds Carter Glass as chairp,an Of
| the banking and currency committee. Pusey
| Passmore. John H. Mason and other Phila
| delphia bankers will soon be making the
official acquaintance of this new financial
| high fier.''
MYTH the organization of the American
w Legion. which is intended for veterans Of
| the European war, comment is rife with
| regard to the status Of the veterans of prior
wars. The young fellows who come back
! from the European war. Of course will out
number those who have gone before. but we
still have the Grand Army of the Repub-
ic even though its ranks are fast thinning
out. George G. Meade Post. No. /, of Phil
adelphia. which may be taken as a model.
| has been filling its empty chairs for many
| years past with associate members and the
sons of veterans Frank Glading has come
| to be the commander Of Post No. and
| Henry Y. Yohn is still it's adjutant The
old fellows keep up the spirit of comrade-
ship. but occasionally complaints come up
from the soldiers homes that the boys Of
81 and 80 are being shifted from their
| old moorings through the War Department's
desire to provide for the newcomers. The
| real old "vets'' al HAMPTON, Va. were
| moved early in the war to DAYTON, O..
| some Phiadelphians among them. and now
| they want to get back The question Ia
| before the secretary of war and is occasion
| ing some concern.
| DRESlDENT BRADLEY c. ALGEO, Of
| the PHILADELPHIA Textile School has suc
Eordn.r o. tha a,p nI a,Hn iiin'l
to 70 to pbiladeIpbia TO talk 70 tho Alnnni
Association at nm early date II there l.
one thing 'tITncle Joe" Fordnev lkes r.
| do if is TO tolk IN tho hove who boyo vel, al
| their way IN in tho industrial wor,d Thar
say down here that Fordnev bas m,do ,noJ
as a business man and ont in Minhi.o,
where he lives the feu enem;ov ha has aaSaa
times charge him with be;n9 n r,iIl;ona;no
But Uncle Joseph has earned what be hos
He started out as a Iumberiack and worlod
his way up through tho forests r. fortruo A''
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oIso ;s ho 80 .h,t 4hu US h'oert
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LNX SENATOR BILLY MASON, who is
T. now conuressman- -loroo fno,, III:
uois, while cbaperoninr Editor slocl VI 49,.
of Pittsburgh at tho CanitoI tha otta ~