Evening star., 1923-06-11
CAPITAL KEYNOTES
BY PAUL y. COLLINS.

Hitch your wagon to star
especially if you can find q fixed"
star convenient-and you will dem
onstrate the relativity of motion. ac-
cording to Herr Einstein. With
your airplane thus fixed, the earth
will revolve under you.
Lieut. Russell L. Vaughan. U. S. A..
Of McCook Field. Dayton, Ohio, few
from Washington to Dayton last
week in the officially recorded time of
flinety-seven minutes, a distance of
nearly 500 miles. AS Old Sol, him
self, took about an hour to make the
same trip. when Maugham landed ne
was only thirty-seven minutes behind
the sun.
No longer will the world gasp at
Darius Green's challenge:
THE birds can fly,
So why can't II"
Not far ahead. the, prophet sees
some bold Vaughan saying:
THE sun may pace.
I'll win the race"
When the future flyer. looking
westward. bitches his car to a fixed
star" he will see the earth turning
eastward, speeding beneath him at
the pace of hundreds Of miles an
hour. Relatively, he will be station
He may rise with the reddening
sunrise. and. like the Goddess Aurora
and her chariot, hour after hour, stay
with the dawn.
The speed of the revolving earth.
at the equator. is about LOAF miles
an hour, but at the latitude or
As degrees the speed is reduced to
one-haIf, and at the poles it is moth
ing-as stationary as is the sun.
Somewhere near the boundary OF
the United States and Canada the
speed is approximately $50 miles an
hour At some latitude farther
north the earth might race with the
present day aviators, so that one rls-
ing with the sun. could keep up with
its pace, and live an interminaole
fight in a never-ending sunrise. Or
he might chase the sunset, and for
bid the oncoming night.
Like a modern Joshua. 1t is IN the
mower of the aviator to say; sun
stand thou still upon Gibeon. and thou
moon in the valley of Ajalon.
Is it not written in the 1o4h or ne oa
flasher: So the sun stood stun IN tne
midst Of heaven and hasted not to go
down about a whole DAY
Lieut.. Vaughan is planning a trip
from the Atlantic to the Paclnc' 10 De
made between sunrise and sunset.
VIII he take northern latitude ana
travel like Aurora and repeat the
miracle Of Joshua?
The Department of Agriculture
boasts that it's crop estimates, as
checked up with the final crop har-
vest reports. have come to within
. or 3 per cent of accuracy for
period of eleven years.
Why not have a progressive card
party in the government depart
ments?
Let the accurate prophets. of crops
move up to the weather bureau
while. The results might be surpris-
ing. At the stock market they could
give out reliable tips. By that time
there would be frantic call Tor the
prophets in connection with the 1924
elections. What's trumps? The ace
of spades.
why hide such talents under a
farmers corn basket? Liberty en-
lightens the world. Why shouldn't
Secretary Wallace do the same?
X x X X
Our wheat exports are reported as
showing decline This is attributed
TO revival Of foreign wheat growing.
The reported decline comes together
with representations Of bumper
crops, not only in the United States.
but in some European countries;
hence. American authorities are con-
cerned to see that home consumption
is maintained at top notch. 1t is a
demonstrated fact that when every
body is employed at good wages they