A FULL-FLEDGED FLIER

The abandonment of plans for a polar flight by the Shenandoah has considerably dampened immediate popular interest in aviation. On the other hand the significance of the whole problem of aircraft development becomes increasingly important in view of the threatened competition in air armaments between France and Great Britain. With the future progress of aircraft, it seems, will be linked the most significant of military and commercial relations. Certainly no man in the United States is better fitted to judge of the nature of that development than Major-General Patrick, Chief of the Army Air Service, who lectures at the Union tonight.

Besides being thoroughly versed in the technical development of flying craft, General Patrick has the advantage of being a flyer himself. He will be welcomed, therefore, not only as an expert, but as a devotee, a practitioner, in a field peculiarly modern and almost uniquely fascinating.