ACROSS THE ATLANTIC NOW that the China Clipper repeatedly has demonstrated its ability to fly across great stretches of ocean, plans are under way to follow up the flight across the Pacific with experimental tests over the Atlantic, and the prediction is made that next summer the postoffice department will begin in a preliminary way to establish an airmail route from our shores to Europe. No one now doubts that the thing can be done and the beginning of the service is only a matter of working out the details, including the arriving at international agreements regarding landing places. CLIPPER BACK AT HOME PORT ALAMEDA, Calif. Dec. 6 The trans Pacific China Clipper seaplane swept down out of clouds to end its inaugural mail flight to Manila and return at 1036 (Pacific standard time) today. Flying through the night, the big sky liner covered the 2,400 miles from Honolulu in 17 hours, one minute. This made its totally flying time for the 8,000 mile return trip from Manila 63 hours, 28 minutes. Flying time for the 16,000 mile round trip as 123 hours, 15 minutes. The China Clipper, first of the fleet of Pan American Airways sea planes to enter the trans Pacific service, left here November 22. Stops both ways were made at Honolulu, Midway and Wake islands and Guam. All aboard for the Philippines: The big China Clipper at Alameda, California, ready for maiden trip. On Friday, November 22, the first of their three giant air greyhounds, the twenty five ton China Clipper, was scheduled to inaugurate Pan Americans California Orient Line. Carrying mail only, it was due to take off from Alameda (San Francisco Bay) for Manila, via Hawaii, Midway, Wake, and Guam Islands. Later on, passengers will be carried and the line extended to China probably Canton. Blazing Trail Blazing the trail of this, new commerce, the four motored China Clipper will wing out over the Pacific with an expected capacity load of mail. For this, Pan American will receive 2 a mile for the first 800 pounds, and l.a mile for each additional 1,000 pounds. Postage air mail direct from New York to Manila, and, thence, by steamship to Shanghai will be at the rate of seventy five cents for half an ounce. It will be eight days and eighteen hours in transit. By the old route, a letter air mailed to Seattle, and taken to Shanghai by ship, cost eight cents an ounce, and took seventeen days and twenty hours to reach its destination. For the present, the new service will be fortnightly. Of all places en route none is more elated over the new line than Hawaii. The clipper ship obliterates Hawaiis age long isolation, declared the Honolulu Advertiser. Tomorrow, the superplane; with its hundred passengers, will wing by, bound for distant reaches of the world.l The realization of this vast line is due to the youthful Mr. Trippe, more than to any one else. Aviation to Juan Trippe is more than a profession, writes Harrison Forman in Today under the title, Trippe Around the AND while the Government is paying the farmers for all the pigs they dont raise and all the corn and wheat and cotton they dont plant why dont they pay the radio song crooners for every radio song they dont croon? And why not pay the gals who lecture and do parts in radio drama for keeping off the air? Chicago Tribune. A healthy body is the guest chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison. BACON