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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (May 12, 1922)
Transporting the 100-Inch Mirror From Pasadena to Mt. Wilson. (Prepared by the National Geographic So clety, Washington, D. C.) Man takes many trips on the face of the globe; It might be well for him to soar beyond the clouds to observe the time table and routes of the spheres and note the relation of his earth to the celestial scheme of things. When a mighty storm sweeps over the ocean, when a great war devas tates a continent when a Katmaf blows off her head, when an earth quake destroys a populous city, men stand overwhelmed and awed at the spectacle. But how little and insignificant are such forces, measured by the majestic might of the earth as It sweeps on Its course around the sun ! An eminent phsyolst has estimated that the power developed by a million Niagaras In a million years would not equal the energy expended by the earth in a single second as it circles round the sun. And yet so perfect Is the mechanism that, flying around its axis at an equatorial speed of more than 1,000 miles an hour, and around Its orbit at more than 1,100 miles a^mln / ute, all tiie mundane influences of which astronomers know’ could not change the length of its day as much as a second in 100.000 years. But as soon as one looks out into space with the eye of the astronomer, there comes the discovery that in ail Its seeming greatness the earth is so small that even a telescope 10,000 times as powerful as the strongest In strument now in existence would not reveal It to an astronomer on any fixed star. Compared with tne sun, our planet s Insignificance becomes evident. More than 1,300,000 spheres like ours would be needed to make a bulk equal to that of a single sun. Herschel’s Picture of Solar System. Perhaps our most graphic picture of the solar system is given by Herschel. Imagine a circular held two and a half miles in diameter; place a library globe two feet in diameter in the very center, 82 feet away put a mustard seed. The globe will represent the sun and the mustard seed Mercury. At a distance of 142 feet place a pea, and another at 215 feet. These will represent Venus and the earth, both as to size and distance. A rather large pinhead at a distance of 427 feet will speak for Mars, and a fair-sized tangerine a quarter of a mile distant will stand for Jupiter. A small lemon at two-fifths of a mile will play the role of Saturn, a large cherry tree three-fourths of a mile will answer for Uranus, and a fair-sized plum at the very edge of the field will proclaim Neptune. Whether studied as the head of the planetary family to which the earth belongs, or whether as an average member of the great household of suns that dwell In the distant skies, Old Sol has many thrills for the student. To the inhabitants of the earth the fact that he shines is the most Impor tant physical consideration in llfle. From him we derive warmth, light and power; without him the oceans and even the air itself would freeze; and, of course, under such conditions, life would be Impossible. While the stars appear to ns about aa much like the sun as the fireflies of a summer night, yet the patient In vestigations of astronomers show not only that the snn is a star, but that It Is by no means either the largest or brightest of the celestial family. As sured that It is a star and knowing that the next nearest one Is 300,000 times as far away, astronomers ad dressed themselves to the task of learning about the other stars by Studying our own. They found that there a.' some like It, giving out the seme kind of light, though most of them send us, through the spectrum, messages that tell quite different stories. All In a Vast Migration. Whan we consider the solar system —-with Its great sun, Its eight planets and their 27 moons, and its 800 aster oids—as occupying an area whose di ameter Is nearly 6,000.000,000 miles (some 8,000,000 times aa far as from New York to Chicago), It la amazing to think that there may be millions of other solar systems as large or larger than our own, comparatively close to us as atar distances go, though so re mote that their planets could not be assn by the astronomers of the earth, even with telescopes as much more powerful than the biggest ones now in use as the latter are stronger than the naked eye: So careful an astronomer as Agnes XI. Clarke tells us that a skiff in a vast, unfurrowed ocean could not be more utterly alone than is our solar system in its little earner of the uni verse. She continues: “Yet -the sun Is no Isolated body. To each individual of the unnumbered stars strewing the firmament, down to the faintest speck of light, ... It stands in some kind of relationship.” Spectroscopic studies and skv ob servation alike tell ns that our sun and ills family are all headed In a great migration across the sky to ward a point between the constella tions of Hercules and Lyra. The speed with wlyeh we are trav eling in that direction is 12 miles a second. The velocity of an artillery shell is around 8,000 feet a second; that of the sun is 03,000 feet. An artillery shell with the velocity of the solar system through space would, ac cording to Kippax. penetrate a sheet of steel four city blocks thick. Is our great family Journey through space along a straight road, or is It revolving around some greater body, even as the earth revolves around the sun and the moon around the earth? The astronomer tells us frankly that if ttie sun has an orbit its curve as yet defies detection. Star Cluster in Hercules. A faint Idea of the stupendous num ber of stars that dot the sky and the staggering distance that separate them from our earth may he obtained from a fuzzy little speck of light in the con stellation of Hercules. It is visible to the unaided eye only on the clear est nights; hut train a high-powered telescope on It and you will see one of the finpst star clusters in all the heavens. Ritchey’s photograph of this cluster, taken with the big fSO-inrh Mount WII son reflector, discloses that it is made up of more than 50,000 stars, very ■ many of them as big and as bright as our own sun. How far away they are cannot be said, for they are too re mote for measurement with the finest instruments yet devised. It Is cer tain. however, that they are at least so distant flint tlie light coming to the earth from them this year may have started on Its hurtling Journey through space about the time of Joshua's con quest of Jericho. A glance to another spot In the firmament will afford a weak sugges tion of the tremendous age of the uni verse. The central star of the sword of Orion appears to the naked eye as merely a dim little fellow that might be passed without a thought. But a telescope discloses it as the most magnificent nebula In the heavens. Its diameter is thought to be 20,000,0f)0 times greater than that of our sun. When the sweet singer of Israel sang that "the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shew eth His Handiwork,” he had never seen more than 5,000 stars. With the latest Mount Wilson reflector 300,000, 000 write themselves upon the photo graphic plate. Settling HI* Doubts. A Boston man of discriminating taste, dining at his favorite eating place, ordered fricassee chicken, took one look at It and called the waiter: “When does a chicken become a fowl here?” The obliging waiter scowled hard before finding his answer; “When It is a rooster, sah . . . it's a matter of sex.” But the patron did not seem con vinced, and the steward was sum moned- Again the polite Inquiry: "When does a chicken become a fowl, M-r “Never, sir. In this restaurant!" came back the steward ; and the guest went pleasantly on with his meal^- , Pittsburgh Sun. Did Look Bad. "Oh, yes, we are engaged to be mar ried next spring; but I fear she has not that utter confidence in me that comes with perfect love.” -Why so?” "Well, when a fellow looks back and sees her testing the diamond In her engagement ring on the window pane don't you think he has good cause to feel a bit dubious?” k. ARMENIA NEEDS FOOD Supply Is Exhausted. American Relief Workers Report. -:— 1 Bread Is Made From all Sorts of Sub •tances—Break-up of Winter Re veals Terrible Conditions— Seed Grain Needed. New York.—A cablegram received by Charles V. Vickrey, general secre tary of Near East Relief, dated Alex andropol, tells of how investigation by American relief workers has revealed terrible starvation among refugees and orphans with the break-up of winter in the mountain villages of central Ar menia. Foodstuffs throughout I he area are exhausted, the cable says, and con tinues: "Bread is made from all sorts of substitutes, including flax, chuff and sawdust, having no appreciable food value. The people ure extracting un digested materials from old refuse and giving it to the children. Health con ditions ure critical. Gastric and in testinal troubles prevail, due to mal nutrition. A large per cent of the people are suffering from skin diseases. One-fourth of the adults ure incapaci tated anil bedridden. “In the villages visited there are 1,500 orphans who should he removed Immediately if they ure to live. Even in small villages the weekly death list Includes ten children. In many villages all children have lost their hair during the winter. Several eases were so des perate that the people resorted to eat ing human flesh, which practice was sharply punished by the authorities. Officials said they are doing all they uun to prevent It, but the people lose their senses from hunger. At Mah maudehuk a family of tifteen persons vtas visited a month ago. Now only three of the family remain. The dead Include all the male members of the family. Great anxiety Is expressed about securing seed and grain for spring planting. The head man of the I largest village said: ‘If we can secure seed we shall be on our feet by mid summer. If we don't get seed we ure doomed to death." Near East Relief has sixty American relief administrators, doctors and nurses in this area. During the winter, however, their supplies and resources have been so reduced that they have been able to do little more than care for the large number of orphans al ready accepted In Institutions, a single i orphanage numbering 18,000 children. Secretary Vickrey declares that not only the lives of the orphaned children this spring, but the food supply for the entire population next winter de pends on the prompt dispatch within the next few weeks of grain for food and seed from the United States. LAUGHING LION CUB This youngster is laughing with and at you. So far as known it la the first time a photo has ever been made of a lion cub In the act of laughing. Nature students who have seen the photo say that the cub Is not laugh ing but Is prepared to go to sleep and la yawning. The owner of the cub Is Mrs. H. E. Cole of San Francisco. STRADIVARIUS BRINGS $9,000 Maker Received 80 France for It When He Made It In 1735. Paris.—A Stradivari ua violin, for which the maker, Antonlus Stradi varlus, received 80 francs when he made It at Cremona In 1735, has Just been sold here for 103,400 francs, In cluding the war tax. This Is equiva lent at current rates of exchange to about $9,000. The violin was for a long time the property of the late Charles Latnour eux, founder and conductor of the famous Lamoureux orchestra. The recent tests, which seemed to establish that modern-made violins can not be distinguished from ancient one* by their tone, do not seem to hav* affected the price of ancient instru ments. if this sale Is any criterion. 8«nt Him a Mule's Head. Independence, Mo.—On his hunting trip Frank Brown got an elk and or dered the head mounted. He was ex pecting It one day recently, and when a big box arrived by express he pro cured a hatchet. nHll puller and der rick and hastened to open It up. The boys gathered around to watch, and when the box was carefully opened the excelsior and straw removed, there was the head of a grinning mule with dead Jlmpson weeds for branching ant lers. Those who saw It pronounced It a very fine head of Its kind, and th* Joke was complete when the big ex press bill was presented. •GYPSIES” ON THE INCREASI Nomadic Life Seeme to Be Beoomini More and More Attractive • t Here In America. One need not think that the gypsy I disappearing In America. On the con trury, if the nomadic life Is the es scniial of the gypsy, the number o people living such a life is iucreusinj dully. One meets on the high roadi from New York to the Pacific coas freshly formed caravans of recently arrived immigrants of all nationalltiei taking to the road. I huve met whole families of Jewlsl peddlers living the gypsy life as thej traveled and sold their wares, vvrltei Konrad Bernovici in the Century, huve met several ambulant Italiat barbers and their families traveling from village to village, plying tlieii trade as they went along, a uumhei of tinkers, welders, coppersmiths am a good many for whom the eighteentl amendment has opened the purses ol villagers and farmers. Wtiile in Ohio recently I found on« morning a camp of negris-s whi traveled In a big motor lorry. Tht men were daaeing cakewalks on tiu street corners for the amusement ol villagers und for pay, and the womec wore attempting to tell fortunes ami sell baskets and amulets. When I questioned Sambo, telling him that ] had never before seen negroes eami outdoors in that fashion, he answered with pride: “We isu’t colored people any more—we is gypsies." It lias been made plain, I think, that the term “gypsy” as now applied should be understood not wholly as a racial name hut as a term meaning a ptvsple living a nomadic life in cara vans. In whatever land the gypsy hna appeared he has proved a magnet, drawing out the Intent nomadic In stinct of certain native folk, who have cither followed after him or aped his wumlerlng habits. Tliis nongypsy element Justifies “gypsy" as a covering term for all who turn nomads to satisfy the eternal wanderlust. It is eonfcrary to fact to believe that we are less nomadic than our prehistoric ancestors. As a matter of fact, most of tinman ingenuity and Invention was and is applied to make travel easier, more comfortable and more rapid. Whether we use caravan wagons, motors cars, trains or flying machines and whether we give different excuses for these travels, at bottom the real reason is the same nomadic instinct that drives the gypsy from place to place. Finally Got Their Man. The old adage that the royal Cana dian mounted police always get th«*lr man Is true in the ca-^e of Sergt. M. M. Stevens, who arrived recently at San Francisco with Chow Shlmookskl, taken Into custody at Mexico City, after a chase lasting five and one-half months and covering 100.000 miles. Shlmookskl, charged with a double murder at Prince Rupert,' British Columbia, whs taken north by another Canadian officer. The chase for the fugitive led across Canada, then through the Atlantic const stutes from Maine to Florida, and thence to New Orleans and Into Mexico, according to Sergeant Stevens. Small Gardens. Eight hundred gardeners, members of one garden club In Washington. I). C„ made an average of nearly $75 each from vegetables grown on one tenth of an acre during the season of 1021. Some of these gardeners sup oiled all the vegetables for families of ,0 and 12 people from their small gar dens. Many of them canned ami stored quantities of vegetables for winter use. These gardeners not only pro duced food, hut secured valuable exer else. These clubs followed method* recommended by the United States I>e partrnent of Agriculture. Qualified Committee. At the Legion post meeting In New Jersey, one comrade was reported to be sick and a motion was carried that a committee of three "be appointed to visit Comrade Jones, sympathize with him and try to cheer him up.” Then it was reported that another comrade hod been married since the Inst meeting, nnd the commander sug gested that the post take suitable ac tion. "Send the same committee to see him,” suggested a voice. — Mixed Drinks. Hp had made several vain attempts 1 to swallow the mixture; but, somehow or other, he could not get it down. When at last he did manage to catch the waitress’ eye he called to her nnd said: "There’s something funny about this coffee. It tastes like cocoa. The waitress sipped It, made a wry j face, and sipped It again, to make sure. "I’m sorry,” she said. "I’ve given you tea.”—Tlt-BIts. Hospitable Soul. “That’s the third time this week \ the kitchen roof of this boarding house has caught fire,” grumbled the chief. “What are you going to do about1 It?" asked a bystander. “What can we do about It? The landlady had cotTee and sandwiches ready when we arrived.”—Birmingham Age-Herald. The Literary Bug. "Mow. girlie. I’ll put you among the books, department of classics.” “But I been selling lipsticks and rouge. I don’t know pothlng shout classics." “You don't need to know nothing. Just see that absent-minded gents don’t walk off without their change."— Judge. SHORT SHAFTS ————— Idle talk won't put uieu to work. . - TIk Kiel canal la til tulles long. The sip In gossip Is the sip of tea. True saving lies in wise spendihg. tine’s temper improves with disuse Beauty may also be lipstick deeik Audacity is the stepfather of suc cess. Why Isn’t a wealthy actor a fixed star? A pawned opportunity seldom Is re deemed. Cloves often savor of the spice of wickedness. A man should know the company he avoids. Don’t fail to ask for advice If you wish to Hatter. As a man grows older he swaps his ideals for ideas. Honesty Is always the best policy for the grocer. Text many people don't want to work with their hands. The roll-top desk often covers a mul titude of disorder. Some tnen would lie other than hyiio crites If they could. Wise parents aren't above apologis ing to their children. Men often make bad breaks lust before they go broke. The only thing that acts mv« boyish than a hoy is a man. Look out for propositions that will not bear looking Into. Beware of (lie man who Is foreter harping on Ills honesty. If some people didn’t marry In haste I they would stay single. When suspicion enters the door love i goes out of the window. To he a gentleman all a man has to | do Is to hide Ills meanness. Don't think for a minute that man ] ' wants but little here below. Kiclies have wings. Poverty crawls under the door and abides. Life's Immitigable bore Is the man who linds everything a bore. - There Is one compensation for the man up a tree—he lives high. I Says Sam: Spite Is sand in the com munity carburetor. I»nrget It! Hotter one hoy in the schoolroom than a dozen In the poolroom. Wireless telegrams come under tha head of disconnected sentences. What we wish is the shadow; what : we will la the substance, maybe. Few men ever wear their trousers out at the knees praying for work. Many a man is prematurely gray be ! cause of Ids wife's auburn tresses. Don • worry about your looks. You will always look good to your friends. Laugh and the world laughs with you, even when you are laughing at it. ’ Salads remain perennially popular because a salad Is something you don't have to cook. Feci a smile and the right kind of smile will show up; hut drat the artificial ones. Now and then you hear of an Ideal husband—but, honest, now, did you over see one? After we have regulated the rain fall, we might pay more attention to regulating humanity. Don't be afraid to ask questions. That's the only way you can find out a good many things. One consideration that .checks weak kneed revolutions is that people have to die In revolutions. Ignorance ia bliss—generally—when there Is something suspicious the mat ter with one’s insides. It remains unhappily true that an utter optimist can provoke as many yawns as an utter pessimist. The person who does his own task, | whatever It Is, bravely and well, sel dom has time to criticise others. Aunt Ada's Axioms: Order means peace for the home, sanity for the mind, and security for the state. T There Is such a thing aa being too unseltisb. but very few of ua are In danger of falling Into the excess. There seems to he no place like home for the charity that begins there, ns It seldom gets any further. I The Monitor ► CARE RUINS FISHES’ ‘MORALE* Protected Salmon Grow Too Tam*, Canadian Parliament la Told by Expert. Ottawa, Ont—Government flsh hatcheries hnve ruined the “morale* of the salmon of British Columbia, ac cording to the story told to the house of commons by A. W, Nelli. It seems that when the salmon come Into the world at the flsh hatcheries they are guarded against all enemies and Mr. Neill says they lose their protective In stinct. So. when the salmon has come of age and Is sent out In the cold world he Is ns “lame as a cat," to quote Mr. Neill, and when he meets an ene my he "stands with his mouth open and accepts murder as If such u thing were foreordained.” jj--.--------a • Celebrate 100 Years of l l Wedded Life. ; l Poplar Bluff, Mo.—A. G. J • McKenzie, who has passed the | J fourscore milepost in the Jour- J i ney of life has reported that his i { father, one hundred and twenty- • • two, and Ills mother, one Imn- ■ i dred and nineteen years old, J » celebrated their 100th wedding i a unnlversmy In Scotland a short J • time ago. McKenzie said he was • 5 the youngest son of seven In the J • family and that all of his i I brothers are alive. , j I ft_a ..... MELCHOR-Druggist The Old Reliable Tel. South 807 4826 So. 24th St. ... ... llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll E Best Drugs, Sodas and Sundries ~ :i in City | PEOPLES DRUG STORE f Prompt Service = E 111 So. ltth St. Jack. 1446 | fllll.Illlllllll.Illlllllllllllll.II fyVWVWWUVUVVWdWjWJV£ When in Need of ^ :■ Cleaning and Pressing > Call Market 3366 Ja I* Price* Cheap Work Guaranltwd J C J. D. HINE* 5 ■ Tailor 'Uaner Hatter % a 5132 So. 24 St. Market 3366 ■, /WVVWWWVWWVVWJWWW Finkenstein’s Groceries & Meals best Goods at Lowest Prices 26th &lBiondo’Sts. 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