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EH PASO HERALD
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!New Telescope For Mount Wilson
"News From the Front"
By NELL BRINKLEY
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Bene Bache
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international News Service.
V? Ill JLfllllg 1T1UUI1 V XU1111
Monster Reflector Expected to Show If Ruins Exist on Moon as Evidence of
Human life There; Theory Advanced That Moon's Inhabitants .Live m interior.
w-w- - ASHfNGTON. D. C. Sept 22.
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r w. the fact is likely to
Was the moon ever inhabited?
If so. the fact is likely to
be ascertained before long. One way
or the other the question will be
practically settled.
Where there have been habitations
or artificial structures of any kind.
such as beings human or humanlike
might erect, there should at least be
rums of some sort to represent them.
Are there such rums anywhere on the
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surface of the moon. i
Up to the present time it has been
Impossible to say no or yes. But soon r
. , 1
it win d aiirerent
There n now being set up in Call-
forma, on the summit of M out, t W i H
s..n. near Piena.
tronomical telescope in the world
It will bring the moon, for seeing
purposes, to within a distance of J4
miles' Just try to grasp that idea.
Really. however, you cannot grasp
It. You cannot know what it means.
,.,1 it it jlo.irl.- ami delinitelv ( . -
niainMt Trt av that the lamented
Lusitania would have been plainly!
visible and recognisable as a ship at
that distance helps onl a little bit
How big win tne moon mo . wo
brought within an apparent distance (
f'le5 . .n I
The ouestinn can hardly be ans-
wered, because there is nothing of a
s.re at all comparable. If the moon!
were actualli but tt miles distant)
from the earth, it would practically ,
fill the entire heaiens.
Think it out for vourselS. The 1
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', mll. i-i
i'i-T'f; "f i m,,rlrV
earth. Interpose such an enormous
obstacle between the eje and the sky
st a distance of only 24 miles, and
how much of the heavens would re
main to he seen
Minor Details Conld Be Seen.
Hpof'Vn1!?
If a person gi
from a distance of 54 miles", even
tumor details of its surface would be
plainb di'tincui-lible. He couio ,
not see a motor car journeying across)
ti. f it ihki nlains. but half a regt- '.
Trent of troops on the march would
at once attract his notice. One good
sized building would escape his eye.
hut the ruins of a small town would
he conspicuous
Thus it mav be. said that. when the
great telescope is finally pointed
heavenward from the summit of
Mount Wilson, it will be for the first
time possible to determine definitely
whether there are today on the moon's
surface anv physical memorials or
relics indicative of former occupancy
of that satellite by thinking creatures
Hke or even remotely resembling our
selves. Face Always the Same.
The face the moon presents to us
Is as everybody knows, always the
same face. What the other side of the
satellite is like nobody can say.
though presumably its configuration
is in a general way similar to that of
the hemisphere presented to our view.
The area of the visible face is a little
larger than that of the continent of
South America, and nearly three
fourths of it is occupied by vast level
Plains, the rest being exceedingly
rough and mountainous, with numer
ous formations resembling huge vol
ranic craters. "
The moon is distant 40.0 miles
from th earth But the wonderful
artificial ee on the summit of
Mount Wilson w ill cut its apparent
distance down to one-18.600th of the
at tual distance.
The instrument in question n
reflecting" telescope which
means i
that, in place of a glass lens, it ;
use. a concai e mirror to catch and
roncentrate the rajs of light from the
moon or other heavenly bodj. The
mfrror will be 101 inches in diameter.
One easilv understands that the
making of a lens of that size would
be attended with difficulties well nigh
insurmountable. A piece of glass big
enough for the purpose could hardly
be produced without flaws, the slight
est of which would senouslv interfere
with the efficiency of the telescope.
Mirror Easier to nioe.
The makmg'of a mirror is a wholly
different affair It is. to begin with,
a glass disk: but whether it is per
fectly transparent or not is of no im
portance, inasmuch as light rays are
not required to pass through it. It is
merelv ground on one side to a perfect
concave, and this concave face is
coated with silver by deputing the
metal upon it from a chemical solu
tion The problem is to grind the con
cave face of the glass so perfectly
'tr, that, when converted into a
reflector bv the siHenng process, it
will throw- back .all reflected li?ht
rays in such wise as to make them
meet at one point a focus At that
point they are received b a plane
mirror, m the telescope tube which
throws the light beam out sidita'-s
through a smaller tube. Into the eve
piece of the smaller tube the observer
looks.
This is not easily understood, per
haps, from so brief,a description in
words, but a glance at the accompany
ing diagram will show just how tne
observer, looking through the eve
piece at the side of the tele-scope, sees
the image of the moon or other hea -
inly body that is reneciea oy me con-
cave mirror.
FMe lean In Making it. I
So difficult a task was the grinding
of this glass for the great reflector
that, when it is finished, nearly five
f-eaxs will have been required to make
t. It is the "retina" of the huge arti
ficial eye. whkh will be able to see
IiO.000 times as far as the unaided
organ of human vision.
Th study of lunar detail requires
a verv cleai atmosphere. In Jamacia,
with "a fi-lnch telescope, one may see
things on tne moop tnat couia noi oe
distinguished with an instrument ten
Tfll'S DAIMTIEST DISH
Fly CtyVSTVSCE CXATtKE.
aWS3s
Vegetable and
BOLL SOrT1 if' -onjaj r ,J tT"
put lem T" chil' Wa-h '"1
dry some well biinciiru iwi-ct
laves and a fen celery stalks and
put them In th refrigerator. Then
hoi! the required amount of short
lengths of macaroni or spaghetti
(Cold left over mararon! may be tiFed t
tffi tender, drain, run coid water over
times that size in New Tork or Boston.
The Harvard station in Fern, estab-
Iihed m ISM on a mountain peak of
I , . finAa .
was set up mainly for the purpose of
sur eying tne la oar orn, ue niter
appearing, from that point of vantage,
with a sharpnees of detail aever
vouchsafed to observers in northern
latitudes.
Hence, also, the idea of .placing the
gigantic new telescope on the top of
Mount Wilson, in California. That
j mountain, close to the sea. is one mile
in height. Thanks to the elevation
of i's summit, and to the dryness of
,ne ciin)ale an exceptional opportun-
jty Is afforded there for astronomical
observation. Clouds almost never ob-
scure the heavens, and the absence of
atmospheric moisture makes the view
f BeenIv j,,, beautifully clear,
Th, ,eIe.ope ,,,, w h manv
the task of carrying it. in sec-
. , onntmin
' (which is very steep) is far from
; easy. To construct and properly
j lioube it, so that it may be safe from
damage b storms, w ill cost at least
I a quarter of a million dollars. But.
;hapiil, money is no object to the
ri Carnegie institution, which has the
' undertaking in charge.
. . should be remembered that
Qn absence of at-
mosplte can no storms
"o wind nor water, that is to say. to
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nifiK waii uciivu. iucic i nv undo
iial agenr to do so much as disturb
a stone 01 brick, unless one is to ac
cept the theory that there is still some
olcamc activity on the tunar orb.
Think olcnnoex Still Act I.e.
Evme eminent astronomers (among
' ?.w- H. nckenng,
Some eminent astronomers (among:
ot Harvard university) have been ol
opinion- that such volcanic activity
does really exist. For proof. thev re
Bedtime Storv For
l.VCLK V Ifit.ILV
SBr HOWARD
o
Mi day. when
Uncle Wiggily.
Longears. the nice rabbit gen
tleman, was reading the paper
on the front stoop of his hollow stump
bungalow he heard some one in the
woods nearb calling.
'Oh. Uncle Wtecily. oried the
voice. "Such trouble as there is
now!"
"What is it?" asked the bunny rab
bit, hopping out of his chair In such
a flurry that a fly, who was asleep on
his pink, twinkling nose, slid off and
fell to the porch. "Who are you and
what is the matter?" asked Uncle
Wiggily.
"I'm Peetie Bow Wow." was the an
ew ei "And I've come to tell you
brother Jackie is lost. Just as I was
when I fell asleep the time I was
playing hide-and-go-seek. Will ou
please go out and see If you can get
the catbird to saew, and find Jackie
as she found me?"
"Certainly ril do that for you,
Peetie." answered the bunny uncle.
"Come along."
So Mr. Longears and Peetie went
into the woods looking for the cat-
bird Rut thev mn A tint finri hr
I pues. she had flown south to keep I
arm, lor winter was on us wa.
"Oh. dear" explaimed Peetie. when
the had looked an over and had not
found Jackie or the catbird either.
"What are we to do. Uncle Wiggily T
"Well. I hardly know," was the an
swer. ' But perhaps I can think "
Excuse me!" interrupted a voice
down in the grass, and out hopped a
bjack cricket. "But did I understand
you to say tabt a were looking for
a catfish T
"No. a catbird. Miss Cricket, which,
is quite different." said Uncle Wig
gil . "Thank you just the same, I
though. But I'm afraid a catfish won't
do." And he told the cricket how he
and Peetie wanted the catbird to mew
so the lost Jackie would think it was
a kitten which he could chase up a
tree and hare some fun.
"But maybe a catfish would do as
well to find my brother," suggested
Peetie. "Let's try tt. Uncle Wiggily."
"All right, we will, the bunny
uncle Faid. "Though I very much
doubt if a catfish can mew like a
kitten, though X know a catbird can."
So Peetie and the bonny rabbit gen
tleman went to a broolc where a cat
fish lived and they called to it to come
to the top of the water wliere they
could talk to ft.
"No, 1 am sorry." said the catfish.
ai ii stuck us not very pretty head .
out of the brook. "I can t mew like
a kitten. But still, perhaps. I can tell
you how to find the lost Jackie. '
"Oh. please dor, begged Peetie. "He I
.helped find me and I want to help
fin.l him".
"Wait here a minute,' said the cat- i
fisb as it swam away. It was grone
about five minutes, during which time
neie w iggiiy and Peetie looked
through the woods, but without find
mg Jackie.
' I know where the little lost
puppy dog Is, said the catfish, com-!
insr back
"Where''" asked Uncle Wiggily.
He has been caught by a bad watei
snake in this brook." was the an-'
fewer "Come I'll show you where his 1
den is "
So the catfish swam along in the
water and Peetie and Uncle Wigailv
followed alonu on the bank and prettv
soon they came to the den of the
water snake.
There the h? creature as hnHin;;
poor Jackie by the tail and wouldn't
Macaroni Salad.
t" nol, dra-n nnre iror"
h- ' i-'r sialk- ro"..5'
i,sti roots And pu. tn-p the
macaroni into a mixing bowl; poui
over all a mayonnaise dressing anil
mix well Arrange lettuce lears on
Indiviflual salad plates and dih up
th arove tp rhf cenrr of ea-h -,
orate with halves of Engllch walnj
fer to marked changes which, as the v
assert, have taken place in the phs
ical configuration of portions of the
moon's surface within the last two
centuries. In that period, they say,
the so called "Crater of lanne" has
shrunk to something like one eighth
of its former sixe. More striking is
the case of the walled plain of "Plato."
the smooth floor of which (surround
ed hv- a. ring of high mountains) is
sprinkled with volcanic cones, scat
tered over an area 6n miles in diam
eter. From time to time these cones
alter in number and size.
May Be Life in Interior.
Once upon a time, say the astron
omers, the moon had an atmosphere,
and presumably there was water on
its surface. But eventually the air
and water were absorbed into its in
terior. There is at least a possibility
that its one time inhabitants if there
were any such) may have followed
the air and water into vast caverns,
formed by volcanic bubbles beneath
the lunar crust, and that in these
sublunar hollows they may continue
even now to survive, subsisting, per
haps on crops of such mushroom like
plants as might be successfully culti-
vated under conditions of the kind.
If, noweer. this bighl imaginative
theory be accepted, the people of the
moon must have left behind them on
the surface of the satellite plenti
ful evidences of former occupancy.
Some of these evidences, no matter
how ancient, would certainlv remain.
If any such exist, ue have had as
et no means of discovering the fact.
But the requisite means will be fur
nished by the new and wonderfnl
telescope on the summit of Mount
UM,nn AM.1 ...i.V. i . Jt -. 1. -. 1 1
be able to arrive at a reasonably sure !
decision of the question whether or!
not the earth's satellite has ever been I
inhabited. )
the Little Ones
AMI TUB CATFISH
n. G.1RIS.
!et the little
DUDDV doe CT. even
though Jackie cried and whined
"Why don't jou let him go'.'" asked
Uncle Wiggily, indignant like. "If ion
don't ril go get the policeman anq
fireman dogs and make you."
-Pooh! 1 fear not them!" said the,
bad water snake. "If they trr to
catch me ril dive down under water
and take Jackie with me."
"Is there anything I can glvs vou
to make you let my friend Jackie
go?" asked Uncle Wiggily, foxy like,
of the water snake.
"Yes," was the answer, "there is.
I'll let Jackie so for a whole lot of
gold."
"Leave that to me." said the cat
fish, with a wink of his eye at Unci
n iggny.
Away swam the catfish and pretty
soon he came back.
"Iook'" he called to the water
snake. "I have brought ysu mucb
gold."
The snake looked and so did Uncle
Wiggily, Jackie and Peetie. The brook
seemed filled with golden money.
"Ah. that's what I want!" hissed the
snake. Letting go of Jackie he dived
down under the water to get the
money, but it was only the shimmer of:
gold fish that he saw and as soon as
he dived after them they all swam
away.- so he didn't get any after all.
The catfish got the gold fish to play
tne tricK on tne snaite. ox making oe
lieve they were mone.
Anvnow. rne oad water snake naa
' f i,,L,Ki '"tj?' JSt!"rlL
Wiggily. after thanking the catfish
And if th foot of the stairs doesn't
v to war a hore shoe when it
goes to the rubber ball m tell you
next about Uncle Wiggily and Jacko's
pencils.
Copyright. 1917. by XcCIure Newspa-
pt Syndicate,
German Chancelors
. Son a Farm Laborer
Berlin. Germany, Sept. 15. "Willy
Michael is. the youngest son of the
new German chancelor. is working as
r common laborer on a large farm iff
LangmeiU near Gruenberg. in Silesia.
The young man is a student of one of
the Berlin high schools. When the
summer vacation began In July he
offered his services for the harvest
with thousands of other pupils, and
was sent to Silesia, where he works
hard every day from 4 oelock in the
morning until S oelock at night. After
the harvest he will, of course, return
to school.
SCHOOL DAYS
;Ar mafa-a- crTsssw m 1 1
I 7jJ It -cut-ali 1 mmFT W I 1 Jft v
i i wu f .jm & MM 7 III
I 1 "N W . I I r w daw ir I f n I KJ f III " " X J I I
i i . m tss&k r-rzw s pre it i w 1 1
OUT of the yellow pages writta somewhere in France the words leap and
speak.
That night on a sweet -sawHinc pillow the rirl that's left behind re
members and dream of bits of words
eyelids.
"The rattlinr sounds to too Eke the
Babette. No more than that. I dream
picture the best one!
"I shut my eyes to danger so don't
mysteriously delectable and fascinating
Preach nurse. May he shut his eyes:
"The jam was great! Ton should
Coprngot SCiby
i ia-v .r" Kfroc
m urn i - &r
that stami out in the dark behind her
machine run fire I bear as I write.
of vou'' and she is glad he has her
"orry"- thT say there is aoUriac: so
as the piquant 'dark face of a little
have seen H vanish. You are the"
By DWIG li
Aad Babette is iad while ijie feels, in her own red kitten s mou'li tu meltiE
of tke strawberry jam she made and knows is DEUCIOl'S' He wha.Kl up,
of course, and her Bps carl in tke dark in crinklint: sTmpathr with the miHnj
5am ray-faces she sees ringed around.
"I gave the driviiur-can you asade me to a chap who ban t anv toik-. Do
jou mind? You are such a good little soul"' Does she mind' ' A be tear
rolls down a warm cheek and makes a round damp spot on the pl!o, and
Babette sees a laughing dark face tke heroic soldier of Franr-' I noex the
soft wool that her own fingers knew the honor of fashion ins' Dn e mind?
"I-Love-Yoa" and Babette remembers his voice and prayer.
XELL BRINKLEY.
Beauty Chats ByEclnaKgntFort)es
Smiles.
IT n AS Darwin, or soma other
equally learned delver into th
orirrln rt thine- j.. . ,
the beginnings of a amile this wai
Our prehistoric ancestors' greatest
loy was eating. When they ate. of
course their mouths were stretchei!
wider than normally and their teeth
showed. After an age or so ihen
more aesthetic feelings began to
grow within them, when thej were
capable of expressing pain. io . etr
they expressed happ-ne b aUT-
lng the position of eatinc trouth
stretched, teeth shoving and bene
the smile'
Maybe you won t like that explan
ation of anything as thoroughlv
charming as a smile. I didn't, at
first, but I think it rather amusing,
whether or not it's true.
By the way. how do you smile? Do
you Just widen your mouth and ex
pose some teeth Do you open your ;
mouth quite wide I have seen some j
otherwise lovely girls do this and
show not only the teeth but quite a I
bit of the Inside of the mouth. Do you 1
keep your lips firmly tog-ether in a
stingy smile, so they seem to form n 1
little crack In your face a younc i
friend of nine described a woman
who smiled so as being ""afraid she -1
swallow a fly." There's an S vear '
old's definition of the stingy smile
"Or does your smile light up your
whole face, and make tt suggestive
of good nature, a love of fun, friend
liness, charm? I think every woman
ought to practice smiling at herself
in a mirror, until she learns the pret
tiest way. This wouldn t be vanity,
a untie is a precious thing and It's
good to practice on under any .
lUmstanees. It will help to make the
mouth sweet looking, too I
Questions and Answers. j
Mrs. WET writes lhat she cured j
herself of gas on the stomach, an
the terribly depressed feelmj: an'i '
struggle for bret'! that ; m"!
ttila .ilmint I ... t, i . . . , . I
ful of olive oil a half hour after each
meal. anl before retiring T t e--
ain't that she is willing to pa" al"n
:hls method, for the benefit of n'ipr
omen wbo aho hi", e rhee ai'nk
sr.'h tr"i- f'irreaf.nn I mi nri
l,n I I TV I" he IW, -
' me. diet i z an mro"i"'
fles&ssassslnnuuuuuuuuuufl
V yrei. smile makes a pretty face.
In the cure rf such a--ute attacks,
and whethe- -r not she t as told to
drink lots of water
Just Fift'.'n No. you do not weigh
oo much if anything you are un-
ie-weirht. for a girl of 15. five feet
v inches tail should weigh frcm
i 'rt pounds up to III or so i should
tngine thar our e; ti"1 be
He.-o"img i' ni'le - lines
' - i '-e tall ind ' -v .'. f'-1 "hat
'ii i it -h i . ' ' s at
If. h(.' tO
e 'i !.,-.!.. look
well, .since thev will break the height.
"Vo don't Mart "roing with boys" In
the populir vense of tht tcrtr C,n
'h"". p'. v-th their a"
'in ce tip H' r w N n' Sov a-ti f-'a
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