Evening star., 1923-08-22

| as well as good will and intelligent
planning, to shift farm from wheat
to diversified and live stock
X
! The airplane is in the spotlight TO-
day. not only for its long distance flight
across the continent, but because of the
plans for its use in scientific observa-
! ton of the solar eclipse September 10.
On that occasion Lieut.. John A Mac.
| ready and Lieut.. A. w. Stevens will
ascend as END at San Diego TO height OF
10000 feet, for the purpose of photo
| graphing the eclipse
Lieut.. Macready already holds tho
world record for altitude he having
ascended to a height of 4O,s0O feet at
Dayton, Ohio. in 1921. Just why the
feet is not explained. but may be with
| the view to keeping within working
conditions for the photographer.
At 10000 feet the temperature will
probably range little below zero.
Fahrenheit. while at the height to which
Lieut.. Macready ascended when he made
his record mercury is frozen. In ad-
dition to that, the rarity of oxygen
makes breathing at such height ex-
, tremely difficult. Nevertheless, there il
posslplllty Of cirrus clouds at 20. 000
10 5O,OOO feet altitude, and il may b.
! necessary for the plane to ascend above
| them, in which case Macready will be-.
! true to his name.
! Lieut.. Stevens Is an expert photog
rapher, and will manipulate the cam
! era In phOtOgraphing the suns corona
from higher altitude than would be
possible except for the airplane. Greater
altitude might be attained in other ns1ts
| OF the world by climbing mountains,
| but in this instance the eclipse is total
! Keeping farm hours in the Whit.
| House is not a joke for President
Coolidge. An enterprising photogra-
pher shot" him and a street clock
| one morning this week. as the Presi-
dent and two secret service men were
sauntering along F. street The clock
| Indicated that IL was 6:45 o'clock 1t
might even have been "daylight-ssy-
| ing time" but for the fact that Wash
lngtonians saved last year all ths
! daylight they ever want TO save, and
| they are not doing it any more
Washingtonians share with farmers
their desire TO let the dew get of the
grass before they sally forth, and not
all Washingtonians do the milking
before breakfast
! X X x
Lafayette, we are still here" That
should be the slogan September s. for
| that day is to be observed throughout
the United States in honor of La
| fayette's birthday. and the first battle
of the Marine in the world war
| The preparations to celebrate the
! day Of two-fold memory are under
the direction of Secretary Of Com
merce Hoover and President Emeritus
| of Harvard Charles w. Eliot. and
/ large committee is busy circulari5ing
| governors of states and mayors OF
, cities throughout the nation The
main celebration will be held at Gov
! ernors Island, where speeches will be
made by Ambassador Jusserand Gen.
| Pershing and others.
| International courtesies and memo
| ries of past entente have lasting ef-
| feet upon ~the diplomacy and good
feeling of the peoples. No two coun-
tries stand closer. historically and in
their ideals. than do France and the
| United States. Fourth of July and
the 14th (Bastille day) mean practi-
/ cally the same ideals for France and
the United States-liberty, equality
and fraternity.
Copyright. 1923. by Paul V. Collinsl