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(uto «• »lVit ll t4a faH tof>M*tfy al Ua U totato* 4*4 W-*to almtod 4? «M tor** appatoi** mt M+toinrr <-«%•(**<to4 4* 4m Ms 4 ***W •** .» M ■MtUwatotol folia Am toyati eatoM ba 4 to tor art *4 •to **.*r* ikaa Hi y+n* » Uawator « v.fc*' MM U*« WMBti 4* MM torn ttoki*. a4«4 V ptoMk MiU mm tjmmtmr rtymy * gt* k*y • The First Instalment of "The Moon Hoax” Richard Adams Locke^^^. - ■ v ■* Edqar A, Poe By ELMO SCOTT WATSON NE HUNDRED YEARS ago this month both America and Europe were buzzing with excitement. An English astronomer had invented a wonderful new telescope and with it had “made the most ex traordinary discoveries in every planet of our solar system; had dis covered planets In other solar sys tems; had obtained a distinct view of objects in the moon, fully equal to that which the unaided eye commands of terrestrial objects at the dis tance of 100 yards; had affirmatively settled the question whether this satellite be Inhabited, and by what order of beings; had firmly established a new theory of cometary phenomena; and had solved or corrected nearly every leading problem of mathematical astronomy.’’ It was an American newspaper, the New York Sun, which made this astounding revelation. The Sun had been founded by Benjamin H. Day in 1833 ns the first of the penny newspapers in the United States. ^ On August 21, 1835, the second page of the ' Sun carried this small news Item: “CELESTIAL DISCOVERIES—The Edinburgh Courant says— ‘We have just learnt from an eminent publisher In this city that Sir John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope, has made some astronomical dis coveries of the most wonderful description, by means of an immense telescope of an entirely new principle.' ” It was true that Sir John Frederick William Herschel, the greatest astron omer of his time, had gone to South Africa in January, 1834, and established an observatory near Cape Town to complete the first telescopic survey ever attempted of the whole surface of the visible heavens. So that much of the story was true. On August 25 three columns of the first page of the Sun were devoted to an article which ap peared under a modest headline of “GREAT ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERIES—Lately Made by Sir John Herschel, LL.D. F.R.S. &c—At the Cape of Good Hope.” This article was credited to the “Supplement to the Edinburgh Journal of Science." It wns true that there had once been an Edinburgh Journal of Science but the readers of the Sun did not know that It had suspended publication several years previously. This first article was devoted almost entirely to a discussion of the importance of Sir John’s discoveries. He had “paused several hours be fore he commenced his observations, that he might prepare his own mind for discoveries which he knew would fill the minds of myriads of his fellow men with astonishment. And wrell might he pause! From the hour the first human pair opened their eyes to the glories of the blue firmament above them, there has been no ac cession to human knowledge at all comparable in sublime interest to that which he has been the honored agent in supplying. Well might he pause! He was about to become the sole de pository of wondrous secrets which had been hid from the eyes of all men that had lived since the birth of time.” All of which was an excellent “build-up” to whet the interest of the Sun’s readers in what was to follow. But it did not give any definite information about the astronomer’s discoveries so there was nothing for its readers to get ex cited about yet. But on August 20 the Sun print- j ed four columns of vivid description of what was to be seen on the moon. The astronomers reported: "In the shade of the woods on the southeast ern side we beheld continuous herds of brown quadrupeds, having all the external characteris tics of the bison, but more diminutive than any species of the bos genus in our natural history. Its tail was like that of our bos gruniens; but in its semi-circular horns, the hump on its shoul ders, the depth of its dewlap, and the length of its shaggy hair, it closely resembled the species to which \ye have compared it. “It had, however, one widely distinctive fea ture, which we afterward found common to nearly every lunar quadruped we have discov <^ered; namely, a remarkable fleshy appendage over the eyes, crossing the whole breadth of the forehead and united to the ears. We could most distinctly perceive this hairy veil, which was shaped like the upper front outline of the cap known to the ladies as Mary Queen of Scots cap, lifted and lowered by means of the ears. It immediately occurred to the acute mind of Dr. Herschel that this was a providential contrivance to protect the eyes of the animal from the great extremes of light and darkness to which nil the inhabitants of our side of the moon are perl r. odlcally subjected.” On that day the moon story In the Sun became the talk of New York. But more was to follow for the next day’s account Introduced the Sun’s readers to new regions of the moon—the Vaga bond mountains, the Lake of Death, craters of extinct volcanoes and luxurious forests divided by open plains “in which waved an ocean of . -(lure, and which were probably prairies like : o of North America.” Of animals there were < . ed “nine species of mamalla and five of ovlparia.” But the Suu's readers were waiting eagerly to know if there was human life on the distant planet, and on August 28 that curiosity was satisfied. The astronomers were looking upon the cliffs and crags of a new part of the satellite: ‘‘But whilst gazing upon them we were thrilled with astonishment to perceive four suc cessive flocks of birds descend with a slow, even motion from the cliffs on the western side and alight upon the plain. . . . About half of the first party had passed from our ennvas, but of all the others we had a perfectly distinct and de liberate view. They averaged four feet in height, were covered, except on the face, with short and glossy copper-colored hair, and had wings composed of a thin membrane, without hair, lying snugly upon their backs, from the top of the shoulders to the calves of the legs. “The face, which was of a yellowish llesh color, was a slight improvement upon that of the orang-utan, being more open and intelligent in its expression, and having a much greater ex panse of forehead. The mouth, however, was very prominent, though somewhat relieved by a thick beard upon the lower jaw, and by lips far more human than those of any species of the Simla genus . . . These creatures were evidently engaged in conversation; their gesticulation, more particularly the varied action of the hands and arms, appeared impassioned and emphatic. We hence inferred that they were rational be ings, and, although not so high an order as oth ers which we discovered the next month on the shores of the Bay of Rainbows, that they were capable of producing works of art and con trivance . . . We scientifically denominated them the vespertillo-homo, or man-bat; and they are doubtless innocent and happy creatures.” The Sun’s circulation sky-rocketed to 15,000, to 1G,000, to 18,000—on up to 19,360, the “largest of any daily in the world.” Its press had to run 10 hours a day to turn out enough papers to meet the demand. The nest Installment comprising 11,000 words was printed on the three succeeding days. In it was revealed the discovery of the great Tepiple of the Moon, built of polished sapphire, with a roof of some yellow metal, supported by columns 70 feet high and six feet in diameter. In the valley of the temple a new set of man-bats was discovered. Then one night, when the astron omers finished work, they neglectfully left' the telescope facing the eastern horizon. The rising sun burned u hole 15 feet in circumference through the reflecting chamber, and ruined part of the observatory. When the damage was re paired the moon wag invisible, and the narrative came to an end. Although the story had ended, echoes of It were being heard far outside the Sun's circula tion territory. In Paris the Sun articles were translated into French and Issued as illustrated pamphlets. The same thing was being done in London, Glasgow—and even in Edinburgh, the home of the fictitious “Supplement to the Edin burgh Journal of Science’’! And then came revelation that the whole thing was a gigantic hoax! A reporter on the New York Journal of Commerce named Finn met u reporter on the Sun named Richard Adams Locke. Finn told L/icke that his editor had in structed him to get extra copies of the Sun con taining the moon story because the Journal of Commerce was going to reprint it the next day. "Don’t print it right away,’’ said Locke. “You know, I wrote that story myself." Instead of being grateful for being saved from printing the fake, the Journal of Commerce im mediately denounced the story as a hoax. Other newspapers took up the cry. Rut the Sun did not Immediately confess how it had fooled not only its own readers but al most the whole scientific world. Finally on September 16 it printed a long editorial discuss ing the moon stories and mentioning the wide spread interest they had aroused. It said: “Some persons of little faith but great good na ture, who consider the ‘moon story,’ as It la vul garly called, an adroit fiction of our own, are quite of the opinion that this was the amiable moral which the writer had in view. Other readers, however, construe the whole as an elaborate satire upon the monstrous fabrications of the political press of the country and the vari ous genera and species of its party editors. In the blue goat with the single horn, mentioned as it is in connection with the royal arms of England, many persons fnney they perceive the characteristics of a notorious foreigner who is the supervising editor of one of our largest morn ing papers.” This “notorious foreigner’’ was James Gordon Bennett, born Iff’ Scotland, who had shocked not only the conservatives of New York but some of his Journalistic contemporaries by the sensationalism of his Herald. The "Moon Hoax” had the curious effect of spoiling a promising tale by a man destined to become one of America's greatest writers. Edgar Allen Poe had started a fanciful tale of a similar nature under the title of “Hans Pfaall." But when he "found that he could add very little to the minute and authentic account of Sir John Herschel," he tore up the second installment of his story. In later years he took pleasure in picking to pieces thp Sun’s moon story. He wrote: “That the public were misled, even for an in stant, merely proves the gross ignorance which, 10 or 12 years ago, was so prevalent on astro nomical topics. And yet it was, on the whole, the grentest hit In the way of sensation—of merely popular sensation—ever made by any similar fiction either in America or Europe. From the epoch of the hoax, the Sun shone with unmitigated splendor. Its success firmly estab lished the ‘penny system’ throughout the country, and (through the Sun) consequently we are In debted to the genius of Mr. Locke for one of the most important steps ever yet taken in the pathway of human progress.” If Poe’s estimate Is correct, then Richard Adams Locke is deserving of better than the obscurity into which ids name has sunk, except when occasionally his famous hoax is recalled, lie was born September 22, 1800, at East Brent, Somersetshire, England, and he was a descendant of John Locke, the famous English philosopher. Locke was educated by his mother and by private tutors until he was nineteen when he entered Cambridge. As a student there he be gan his writing ns a contributor to the Bee, the Imperial Magazine and other publications. Be coming interested In the experiment in democ racy which was being tried by England’s erst while colonies across the Atlantic, lie founded the London Republican to spread the doctrines of the new democracy. But it soon failed. Devoting himself to literature and science, he next established a periodical called the Cornu copia. In the meantime he had married and when the Cornucopin fnlied after six months he resolved to seek his fortune in America. In 1882, accompanied by his wife and daughter, lie came to New York and went to work for Col. William Watson Webb of the New York Courier and Enquirer. While covering the murder trial of a religious fakir named “Matthias the Prophet,” Locke ‘became acquainted with Benja min II. Day, the founder of the Sun. Finding that Locke was the best reporter there, Day hired him to write a series of feature stories on the religious fakir for tiie Sun. As a result Webb discharged him for working “on the side” for the lowly penny rival of his paper and Locke was glad to go to work for Day as an editorial writer on the Sun at $12 a week. After the Matthias trial ended It was rather a dull time for the New York newspapers. So Locke went to Day with a plan for “stirring up something" and Day readily agreed to what his star writer proposed. The result was the moon story of a century ago, perhaps tlie most famous hoax of all time and certainly the most impor tant. For, if as Poe says, it firmly established the cheap newspaper in this country then Ameri cans, who enjoy the benefits derived from this "university of the people,” as the newspaper has been called, can remember gratefully Richard Adurns Locke. € Wtitern Ncwipaptr Unioa. Little Lights on LIVING SB By MARIA LEONARD Dean of Women, University of Illinois © Western Newspaper Union, THE SUN-LIT TOPAZ ONCK when leaving Frnnce, I re ceived us a gift a charming little necklace of silver and lapis lazuli. With the gift came to me the story of the maker of the neck luce. A little Frenchman who owned a tiny shop In the Latin quarter of old Paris always In formed his patrons, I am told, that he made his Jewelry with gold, sil ver and love. One day an American lady asked to see the most beautiful thing In the shop. Without hesitation he brought from a high shelf a tiny box, and showed his visitor a neck lace containing a marvelous topaz, which he had bought after the war from a noble French family. "I wish I could huy it,” the lady said. To her surprise he responded, “I am so huppy that you cannot. Though I need money badly, I need its beauty more. Always when I am tired and disheartened,” he said, “I hang my topaz in the win dow, the sunlight comes through It on my work bench, then can I make things more beautiful.” If that would sing in all hearts each day—“to make things more beautiful," what a different world we could make of this old planet. Wars would cease. Hearts of selfish greed would change and share with their neighbors. We can make more beautiful the lives of those we meet each day. Early one morning some time ago I was walking up the beautiful elm bordered walk on the university campus. The day was glorious. There was still that untouchable freshness in air, trees and grass that only spring mornings have. It made one’s spirit dance. I met a professor with his accustomed cane and brief case going to meet his eight o’clock class. One look at his frowning unhappy face, with mouth drooped and self-centered down ward look, and my spirit halted, surprised that hero was one, while walking under God’s vaulted elms, constantly looking down. "No topaz in the window of his soul,’’ thought I. A few steps further I met a freshman girl, whom I knew was having a hard financial strug gle, working long hours after school, but, oh, what "a morning face’’ she hnd, radiant and lovely! When the sunlight comes through the topaz of happiness, It will Il lumine not only our lives, hut oth ers as the sun-lit' topaz made radi ant the tired heart of the little shop keeper. • • • COMING LEISURE NOT long ago a young graduate of two years declared tnat now her college days were over, life held little for her, as she did not need to work, and she was tired of play. ‘‘I am bored with society In particular and with life In general,” she added with a sigh. Here she was, talented, with a wealth of leisure time on her hands and had made of It only an Idling time, instead of a growing time. “One’s leisure is time to Invest," I told her, “it is not time to spend. Time spent is gone, time Invested is saved.” Leisure is not “unoccu pied time”—the dictionary notwith standing! What an Irretrievable mistake for countless generations to have been brought up on. Too long have we been training our children to think and plnn their lives in terms of dollars rather than time Investment. Money spent can always be re earned. Time should be budgeted like money now is budg eted. Children should he taught to expect the largest possible dividends from each day of 24 hours. Parents lose an opportunity for living their children an early life lesson on successful living when they fall to keep on training them in their play time, as we hear so often “run away and play.” Play time in childhood becomes leisure In adulthood. Leisure In America Is coming; leisure that In the past has been a gift to the rich only will soon be part of an nverage man’s day. In order to spread the work of the world to more heads and hands, some folk will be forced to work less hours so that others may work at all, for every one who has to live ought to have a chance to work. Work is a blessed privilege, so is leisure. Only the man who appre ciates work can fully appreciate leisure, and I am beginning to think, can appreciate life to Its full est. The true test of an educated per son is that he can enjoy himself when alone and not have to pay an other to amuse him. Life holds no boredom for the man who can rec reate his soul In his leisure time. Life’s enrichments come to us not through the use of our money, but through the use of our time. Since the American goal has been riches rather than enrichment, what are we going to do with this coming leisure? Teach Children Pride in Father and Mother By HELEN GREGG GREEN. Na tional Kindergarten Association, New York. "Clyde, ns you know. Aunt Emmy Lou, is president of the Hl-S and he's to he the tonstmnster Fridav evening. lie's so diflldent about standing up before people nnd ‘be ing featured’, hut I think tie’ll get along nicely. Our neighbor. Mr. Jef fries, the attorney, will help him get his little ‘speech’ ready. I know." "Why. Marjorie," Aunt Emmy I-ou expostulated, "If he needs any help, why doesn't he have his father help him? Fils extremely capable fa ther 1" ‘‘‘Ills extremely capable father.’’’ Clyde’s mother looked a little puz zled. "I know I have an especially good husband, but I have never thought of him ns particularly hrll liant." “That’s Just It," laughed Aunt Em my Lou. ’* ‘A prophet Is without honor in his own home,’ ” she mis quoted. “Do you know that’s a mis take so many parents make? They don’t thoroughly appreciate each other, nnd they don’t impress their children with the talents that make Father or Mother shine In the out side world. Oh yes. I understand, we let the boys and girls know of Mother’s goodness nnd Father’s hon esty. All the 'cardinal virtues’ are acknowledged. These nre most Im portant, of course, but you know boys and girls get so much ‘kick’ ns they call it, out of having able, at tractive parents. And, In nine cases out of ten, the display of these ‘as sets’ is saved’ for our adult friends.” "I hnd never thought of that, Aunt Emmy Lou,” admitted Clyde’s very at tractive mother. "Now thnt yen mention it, my husband does write an unusually well-worded letter, and (hose advertisements he prepares for his compnn.v are gems. He certain ly has a remarkable gift In this di rection, but I’ve Just taken It for granted. I’m positively ashamed—I don't believe 1 ever told him how in teresting they are." “Well, my dear, the little auntie continued, "that's a mistake easily remedied. But you know when hus bnnds and wives treat each other with the same considerate courtesy and appreciation that they give to the smartest, most interesting out sider they know, soon the children behave the same way. And when Father, Mother or children do things worth praising, they should be praised. It’s easier to discipline boys and girls If they admire their parents, as well respect them." "We save most of our ‘charms’ for our friends,” answered Clyde's mother thoughtfully. "Why don’t we try to be more attractive to those we love BRAIN STIMULI Brains are electrical, according to the recent discovery of a group of scientists who found that nerve Im pulses are electrical surges and that the largest travel to the brain In direct relation to outside stimuli. Be side nerve Impulses flowing Into the brain there are regular surges flow ing through the brain Itself even in the absence of any stimulus. This was proved by a very delicate ap paratus which Is capable of ampli fying electrical currents 1,000.000 times. When electrodes were at tached to the skulls of the subjects the surges were transformed Into audible clicks. Scientists have not yet found out what these brain surges Indicate, but It Is thought that they may be hooked up in some way w’ith the brain’s ability to re ceive and transmit messages sent by the nerves. best nnrl so win their admiration? Well do I remember how very proud I always was when Mother and Fa ther were dressed for an evening party. I would lie awake long after they had gone, thinking how for tunate I was to have such fine-look ing parents. And now that 1 think of It, I always listened more atten tively and made more effort to please my mother when she smiled at m?, wearing a particularly becoming dress.” “Thnt's true, every word of It,” Aunt Emmy Lou agreed, “And I think I’ll go right home and suggest to Clyde that he get his fa ther to help him with his talk to the boys. Now that you have starred me to thinking about It, I’ve decided his father Is the smartest man I know ” Hopeful Words We are still a very young world and I believe that we are getting better.—Sir Wilfred Grenfell. Look for tha Best Get rid of the defeatist spirit; get faith In good, In human progress, In human destiny.—Jan G. Smuts. k y i£2 WESUI-TS / ^ A Ik Will a cheap quality spray do the job?...u wilt Qj^ykREFUSE SUBSTITUTE^U* & . E&HfevF LYTO X^33SI DoesYour Mirror Reflect Rough,Pimply Skin? Use CDTIOIRA Anoint the affected parts with Cntlcnra Ointment. 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