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Giant Telescope To Be Ready By 1940; Astronomers Expect To Wrest More Secrets From Universe
At Mount Palomar, Cal.
Pasadena, Cal., Apr. 1. Astronomers estimate the new 200-inch telescope using the great mirror, expected to end its transcontinental journey in March, will double the distance man can see to some 3,500,000,000,000,000,- 000,000 miles.
It is expected to bring into view Uneasy
100 million galaxies like the one the earth's solar system moves in; to shod now light on the riddle of what the universe is doing, and perhaps to solve the intriguing question of
Minded
whether there is life on Alars, Americans
Theoretically, but not practically, tho mammoth telescope will be powerful enough to ahow a skyscraper on the face of the moon or to spy across the country into the windows of the capitol in Washington.
Aid Treasury
The scope is being erected atop $621,867 HELD 6,000-foot Mount Palomar in the clear-aired San Diego mountains near the Mexican border. San Diego, nearest big city, is 129 miles away, Assuring that there will be no bother. some ground lights.
Succeeds Hooker Lens California Institute of Technology is the builder, aided technically by Mt. Wilson Obscrvatory, whose famous 100-inch Hooker telescope the new giant will succeed as the
world's largest."
IN CONSCIENCE
FUND OF U. S. Uneasy-Minded Citizens Add $5,885 to Total
In Past Year
Washington, Apr. 6. Persons who wanted to have
an easy mind paid $5,885.69 to Upon completion some time after the United States Treasury last 1940, the science's largest and costliest tool. year.
will telescopo
becoma
The great mass will weigh some 500 By so doing they took a load off tons. The expected cost has not their respective chests and raised
of guessca been estimated, but
national "Con- the value of the various scientists range from $2,000 science. Fund" to $621,867.65. 000 to $3,000,000.
The "great-eye" the mirror to be
deliveret by the Corming, N. Y., Glass Works, is the heart of the new instrument.
To this a resident of Sacramento, Cal., recently added $100. These contributors never give their names. more The "Conscience Fund,'
18 Document For four years the big chunk of prosaically known pyrex, nearly 17 feet across and 23 126,420, was started in 1811 when inches thick, will be whirled under an unknown individual sent $5 to grinding tool inside a cork-lined, air the Treasury of President Madison conditioned Caltech laboratory. For
all it 17 tons, the glass will be because he felt he had "defrauded handle easily as a round of cheese (the government." by a 100-ton grinding machine, bulk- ing 40 feet long and 30 high,
Liko Giant Saucor
Before the year was over enough money had been contributed by guilty minded persons to bolster Some time in 1939 or 1940, the the fund to $250 and it glass will have been ground to a per- launched into perpetuity.
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fect parabolic Curve and will bo Although there were no more given a coating of aluminium. Tha
every
mirror will then resemble a giant, contributions until 1827. shiny saucer, with a hole in tho cen-year since then with the single ex- ception of 1848. bad consciences
Lre.
Mounted
at the bottom of a 65. have increased Treasury totais. foot steel tube balanced so delicately as to move almost at a finger's touch,
Goes Into General Fund The money is set aside as "anon-
the mirror will begin its job as a ymous contributions" and included "great eye" some 300,000 times as In the nation's general fund.
effective as a human oye.
The worst conselence the nation Contrary to popular belief, the telescope will not magnify. The ever had, judging by the year's mirror will act as a "light funnel" total, must have been 1916 when All light reaching the 200-inch circle $54,923.15 was sent in and, on the will be reflected inward, because of basis of population, each citizen's the curved surface, to a single beam bad dreams were worth exactly one- small enough to enter the eye.
im-
con-
twentieth of cent. A distant star's image resected to
Contributions usually are this point of focus will be bright and aharp. Subsequently this image then pelled by sudden pangs of may be magnified greatly through a science and are customarily sent i set of lens without becoming fuzzy by persons who have used postage Just as a photograph by a high-stamps a second time, failed to pay powered camera may be enlarged duties on articles, evaded income: nore than one from a cheaper one taxes, or stolen government proper-} without losing its distinctness.
ty.
Earth's Atmosphere Distorts
The only way the Treasury has Distortion caused by the earth's of notifying them of receipt is by
degree atmosphere limits the
of
magnification posible. Thus, though pubilshing the fact in the press. the telescope theoretically is powerful The letters that have poured in enough to show up two bright spots over the years after mental tussles 30 feet apart on the face of Die moon, and sleepless nights are manifold
this power cannot be realized.
Further, astronomera will not waste
time pointing the 200-inch giant st
the moon and other nearby objects
The
in expression
Postage Stamp Ono Worry "Since becoming a Christian,"
well within smaller telescopes' range. wrote one man paying a debt to new instrument will pick up conselence and the past, "I am duly where the present world's largest Impressed to restore a postage Mt. Wilson telencope leaven off. stamp which I used once. May Present Hmits of the ML Wilson the Lord bless each one and save telescope is 1,800,000,000,000,000,000,-
000 miles, whero Dr. Edwin Hubble each one and save our Bouls."
Mt. An old Civil War soldier gave has glimpsed far-off nebulae. Wilson astronomers estimate the 200-$200 to an Indiana pastor to send inch telescope should double the range to the fund because he had ridden
of the 100-inch Instrument.
Look Directly Into Mirror Astronomers using the new tele scope at direct focus will perch in a cartridge-shaped carriage in the mid- die of the 60-foot tube near the top. They will look directly down at the mirror.
away on a government mule after to Appomatox, and he wanted square the debt.
And a girl of the mauve decade, once wrote to the President:
Majesty, President "To his Cleveland:
Under other arrangements, a small "I am in a dreadful state of mind, mirror, instead of the astronomers, About two years ago I used two will be placed at the end of the tube. postage stampa that had been used This mirror will reflect the sin before. I did not realize what I images back through a hole in the centre of the "great eye". In an had done until, lately. I think of dear other type of focus, a mirror placed it might and day. Now, at a 45-degree angle will reflect the President, will, you please forgive light off to one side.
me. I will never do it again. "In-
In 1916 one contributor sent and $80,000 in four instalments after the World War un English- man sent a farthing as his pro rata share of the British debt." Only recently have come tributions to "help balance the budget" or to "help in the deficit our country is facing."
con-
Astronomers will do little direct closed pleased find cost of three "Reving" Meat of the work will be stamps and plenne forgive mo for done photographically. A camera I was 13 years old and I am sorry plate exposed to the reflection from the "great eye" for hours will pick for what I have done. From one up dim stars and nebulao that a direct of your subjects." -visual observation would miss. The -$80,000 From One Contributor developed photographs are studied under microscopes later.
EVEN EXPERT
SPELLERS BAULK AT
*** FOUR WORDS New York, Mar, 12 Four tongue twisters in the English language are so "formi- Many requests have been dable" that even experts have warded to Treasury officials naking difficulty spelling them, Teachers' They vary from charitable organ- for loans or gifts from the funds. College, Columbia University, izations to the man who wanted to get out of the poor houso to write Altogether there are 40 words on and illustrate a novel. LTD.,'| this most difficult list, but a survey Once lotter in German' came
by Miss Allee E. Watson on the
revealed to-day.
for-
"Psychology and Pedagogy of Spall from the depths of the Brazilian ing issued through the college forest, written by a Russian bureau of publications, finds tho ax- Tho. Treasury will not allow any perts themselves misspelling fluo-part of the fund to be paid out. It
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ono "t ichthyology with an "" In contributors don't care much, They abond of a “y” and saccharine with Ogura on being angels, will ono "."
The study emphasises the necessity the art of spelling correctly is to be of applying the rules for breaking mastered, but adda, that ignoranco in syllables and how to add sufixes the chief stumbling blocks
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