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TIME'S CURTAIN FALLS
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London, Apr. 21. Olter Swimming Club defented Penguin S.C., champions of Eng land, who they challenged to water polo match, by 3 goal to
There is another danger, however, it in that we are gradually moving away further and further from the NUT, Modern astronomy holds that constantly and at all times there is going on a whole-sale destruction of matter with consequent setting free of radiant energy. This, of course, means loss of weight, for instance, in the sun. It is estimated that the sun loses weight at the rate of 300,000 don, last night, million tons every day owing to thin upnihilation of inatter and radiation:
CRIPPLED SCOUT WHO CARRIED ON Fourteen Years in Hospital
2, nt. Marshall-street Baths, Lon-only last September-has been
A. Archer,
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McCracken became
n scout
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spent most of his life in hospital A crippled boy scout whe has -from which he was discharged awarded the most coveted scout prize for his courage, during 14 young Leanderyears of physical suffering, of the liberaled energy. The earth 5.C. member, won the Middlesex is also losing weight but only at the 100 yards free-style championship Cracken, aged 17, of the 117th 4%
He is Troop-Leader John Me rate of about 99lbs. a day. This loss in 61 3-6ser, and R. Poulson, a Manchester Troop, sad he has of weight on the part of the sun and the earth me as a leasening of the member of the same club, was received the Cornwell decuration natual attraction between them with necond only a touch behind. D.ter at a reception at the town hall,
fram the Lord Mayor of Manchen.6% the result that the earth is gradually West (Penguin) was third. receding from the sun. After a tim6 This will cause
a very appreciable Munroe Bourne, the Oxford Uni- when in hospital, at the age of five, cooling of the earth's surface. But it is once more a consolation to know versity student and Empire cham-amination lying in bed on his back. and passed his "tenderfoot" ex- that for a reduction of the tempera-pion, failed in his attempt to beat. ture of the earth by 30 degrees C. the 220 yards English record by won the signalling trophy, and he White in hospital, too, his patrol over a million million years will lo required, no maybe we can get ac- 3-5sec., his time being 2 min., taught hundreds of boys the rudi- elliantized before then.
25 nec.
ments of scouting.
His cheerfulness and courage WHEN ACCIDENTS HAPPEN. J. S. Cruickshank, formerly Ar-won tributes from doctors and But let us not be disappointed ifgentine amateur golf champion nurses and his scout officers. these possibilities have little of thrill and now a professional in Buenos He ban won the decoration in them. Last week I mentioned that Ayres, arrived in England by the (which is named after Jack Corn- between the planets Mars and Jupi;Blue Star liner Afric Star yester-held by only 44 scouts) for "carry- well, of H.M.S. Chester, and a ter there was a cluster of smalt bodies tiny planets in fact, eireling day. He will enter for the British on" in spite of his sufferings and round and round the sun as the earthi or any other planet does. These tiny pen championship at St. Andrew's difficulties. planets are called Asteroids. We find on July 3 to 7.
His Record
them to be nut a heavenly caravan
of related travellers who happen Just to be going that way and keep together for company And anfety. They tell us they are very closely ré-j inted, in fnet belong to one family, and they do look like one another and show a common origin. It seems that once upon a time,
a very
OPENING OF BOWLS CHAMPIONSHIP
(Continued from page 12-)
Labrum or B., G. Cooper as his next opposition, whilst Coutes will
remote epoch, there was a planet-be- tween Mars and Jupiter, quite a large te, but not so large ax Jupiter, Round and round the sun it circled: at one time in Its round it came be up against a stiff proposition fairly near the sur, ut another time in either C. E. Marques or T quite far away. But it kept trying to eat that turn near the sun. as the Ferguson.
posible, until one day
an acest will also have to be at his
ellent took place; it cut the corner
just foo fine and there was spill, the best to defent either F. Xavier or planet got completely shattered into G. N. Mitchell. small fragments and there was no one there to bind them up again,
It is
not recorded that any om saw that ne- cident happening but similar neridents have been seen, and it is supposed that the Asteroids are the fragments of that ill-fated planet and that they have moved out now to
more safe
and less exelting distance from the 8077. In the year 1840 a comet was sven to try the same stunt um gol broken into two fragments and un- other one in 1916 also got split into halves for its rashuvas in getting too near the sun. A more serious ne ellent was actually seen in 1882 when a comet was observed to break up into four parts as it rounded the sun at very close quarters, The shooting- stars, that we often AOC in the heavens are believed to be fragments of comets foolhardly enough to come within the sun's danger zone. There are also families of comets whoau members follow one another round the sum in their very elongatel orbits as though they originally formed a sin.
le and
are consklered
ofer comet. So, too, the rings
be due to the fact that a former moon of Saturn tried to her how close it could get to that planet and succeeded in Letting too close for its own safety. It was broken up into myriads small fragments which now follow one another in a continuous stream form- ing that ring-like appearance rouud Saturn. These accidents do happen. You remember, too, how the planets
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This is how John McCracken "carried on":
Fourteen years ago, at the age of 3. had an accident which result- od in spinal trouble.
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At 5. in a school for crippled Japan 5% Sterling children, was enrolled as a Scout. Passed tenderfoot exam, while fr best.
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-SIR F. S. JACKSON Sir. F. S. Jackson, the former Yorkshire and England captain, spoke of the spirit of cricket at a | fincheon to the West Indies crickej team, given by the British Sports- man's Club at the Savoy Hotel,
Angle-Persian Oil Proposing the toast of the visi-Burmah Oil
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Rest Food owlers and straight bowlers, i hope.
AMERICA'S STAKE IN EUROPE
Continued from" Page 144
the
and our earth were sald to have tions of Great Britain Rd come into separate existence owing United States, "which accompany to the tidal action of a great star that, the cruel economic warfare between in its wanderings, came perilously those countries."
near the sun. What If that star came back again and RO disturbed the
we
What I think of matches that su on over a week, I dure not say.
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I predicted that limited Test Paris. matches would mean trouble.. If Geneva. people get bored with long patches Berlin.. the barrack, and if they barrack Helsingfors.
Olo "A cricket match without a timeMilan.. Athens. it is not a cricket match. Buenos Aires. cricket with impunity. Cricket as New York.
"Nobody can attack the sport of
Shanghai.
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"The first round of the Washing courses of the planels that the earth to negotiations has ended in fai- was forced to alter its path and take fure," the paper concludes. "Now
new one that brought it at one the hapless participants, some of we knew it a few years ago was Amsterdam part of its round too near the sun them We can
badly mangled in former played in a manner which was in Vienna. imagine something of what would happen if the earth got within economic contests. are going to the best interests of the game, that danger zone. The sun would Londen, hoping that
the foggy
"I am convinced that it should be Madrid. look bigger every time we came near atmosphere of the British Isles will continued
Bucharest to be played
in that Hongkon and smaller qvery time went help reit the acuteness of ripened way." further away from it, for if we came conflicts. But, as is already obvi
Brussels... Mr. G. C. Grant, the West Indies Stockholm.. nearer at one time we
go fous, the Loudon conference will fail captain, and there were hopes that should further away at other time of the to open any prospects for agree two West Indian
Copenhagen.. year. As we approached the critical ment between the adversartes.
ericketers now Lisbon distance there would be a general only results will be a still greater and Constantine and Francis Yokoharra.
The engaged in League cricket in Eng-ombay. loosening up of the foundations of the Intensification of the contradictions would be able to play in the three Montevido*. earth, accompanied by great rambling and antagonists between the twa Tests, and earth-qunkes as part broke from part with great violence. Great land major imperialist powers." Mildes would occur, great gashes nud chaams would appear all over
the
surface of the earth, the earth open catastrophe, no ginnt star seems to ug up and awallowing all things that boom in our track in the distance. But
In his farewell sermon in Due- walked upon the danger spots. The who knows whether some such thingham Cathedral, the Dean sun's heat would inercase and dinn may not come like a thief in the night? Welldon) said that he was grateful (Dr. ish to great extremes. Tremendous Astronomy has nothing certain
to to the critics who had found fault
tidal waves would roll over the oceans predict as to all this and so we may with him scarcely less than to the submerging islands and continents. be in peace. The rearing of the sea and the noise
friends who had been kind to him.
If the Churches
soon
of the earthquakes would be frighten. We have in these lectures touched
were to come ing. Rocks would be hurled from but lightly on the bile acience of together there must be advances mountain sides, volcanoes burnt forth Astronomy. But I hope they have at ante on both sides. into activity. The seas and rivers least not been
In this view would
boil up
Alling
the almople and unlearned minds by con Nonconformists to the Cathedral.
uninteresting, Very he had not hesitated to welcome atinosphere with clouds that would templation of what they observe in obscure the aun's light; but give a the universe easily come to a know- any lesson in life, it is the lesson of "If," he concluded, "I have learnt kindly shade from its heat. Cities ledge of the Architect, thereof. Mo- religious liberty." would fall in ruins as in great earthdern Astronamy interprets the uni quakes, flames would consume them. verse as the work
In a reference to St. George's Terror and pante, famlite and untold mathematician, of a mind to whom could be no difference of opinion of a supreme Day, Dr. Welldon said that there horrors would cover the face of the the most abstruse mathematics in as earth. Few could survive long those mere instrument skilfully handled, about the League of Nations or. all be over. Life would have ceased scientist Sir James Jeans: diret, however, that war had been calamitous days. But soon it would
quoto a sentence from that endent Paciflats were sometimes not to for the Conference on Disarmament. and instead of the planet called the cover," he says, "that the universe earth there would remalu a group of shows evidence of a designing or con-productive of exalted Christian vir- fragments, great broken rocks and trolling power that has something intues. dobria of all kinds to mark where common with our once the earth had beeni
ALL THIS CAN HAPPEN, Can this all come to pass? So far
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48 Astronomy can say it can come to ly evaluated it. So that not all the virtue of citizens alone which could
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