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NOTES OF THE DAY
WINGS OVER EUROPE
1935.
TO MARS AND
BEYOND
By H. B. NICHOLS
There is no great power in the world which is less open to the charge of militarism or aggressive- позв in her policy than Great
This article from the Chris- Britain. Yet the British Govern-
tian Science Monitor concerns mont is finding it necessary to make
the new 200-inch telescope large increases in her air strength.
designed for the California In- stitute of Technology, to bo The - pacifists in Britain are an- are the Equally unenay
housed on Palomar Mountain, cary.
80 miles north of San Diego. critics of the Government on the
The trial mirror was cast at other side. In the House of
Glass Works, the Corning Commons Mr. Winston Churchill
Corning, New York, on March elaborated a powerful argument,
25, and final casting was ac- complished Oct. 7. It is ez- challenging the Government to
pected that the telescope will answer whether it was true that
not be ready for use until 1938- Germany was preparing an air arm
32. would a few years which within give her crushing superiority over
The Very Idea!
AN UPLIFTING S
INFLUENCE
By Padre Horatio Bogg
N A RECENT WEEK-END,
our Police Force wore at piny. To understand the full force of that statement, it is necessary to visualise several hundred strong,
the 30, 40 and 60-inch mirrors, until finally the 100-inch was in- atalled at Mt. Wilson. One great difficulty is to keep these great mirrors at a uniform temperature. Ir one acction of the surface cx- pands or contracts more than an-Bilent men relaxing until they are other, and this is always the case little childron romping the play-
falds. where. cold nights fellow, warm daya, visual images are distorted. With hills and valleys on the
mirror surface, it is about as use Hess as a razor blade without
sharp edge.
Britain. The statement was shown W a short ladder. The touch of baby's feeding bottles, "Pyrex."
pre.
narrow
A
This was the great thought which inspired us, when, after that great day, we carefully went over the ground to confirm startling reports which had reached us.
of
Amongst up-turned clodes earth, we discovered footprints:
With the aid of a powerful lens, we discovered also that the foot-• prints were uncommonly largo and flat.
What other deduction to form than that these uncommonly large and flat footprints were left there by pollcomen? ·
"Tender baby," one astronomer casually remarked, which gave a glass-maker the idea of experiment- TE climb the steel rungs of ing with the type of glass used for to be exaggerated. Yet the
metal is cold to our hands and the This has proved less temperamental, which we leas affected by temperatures. In ponderating feeling in Britain is
platform to mount for our trip through space the future all mirrors will doubt that she has, at the moment, no
Before loss be of "Pyrex" until something sways like a bos'n's chair. alternative to equality with other
us are control buttons, mounted better la found. leading powers. Competition In
like the conductor's panel on the No one has yet looked through a And so the cat has been let out Веспиве thrust upon her. Why?
podiom of a moving stage. A 200-inch telescope. We are to be of the bag-that in those large- disarmament agreement, up to strand of twisted steel around us the first to take a trip into regions footed policemen traditionally now, has falled in Europe; because forms a slim railing to which we of the cosmos millions of light years grim and relentless in the pursult
aerial further off in space than the mind of criminals there pulantes Germany has left the League of cling like spiders on an
of any astronomer has yet travelled. heart susceptible to the games of Germany Nations; because
is strand.
Somewhere, five or six stories The problems before us for solu- Innocent childhood!
So powerful is this influence for avowedly, and to an unknown ex-
nearer the summit of the obsertion constitute specialisation in star tent rearming. But Mr. Baldwin, vatory roof, is the eyepiece of a gazing far beyond anything con- the better, that Pock-Marked Chan. ponsible in the days of individual of many aliases, was pró- speaking for the British Govern- great telescope. A hum of motorsceived
foundly moved. breaks the stillness. We learn how Copernicus and Galileo. ment, held out hope that a method
of "Arabian of agreement might yet be found. Prince If France can be induced to accept Germany's demand for equality. If Germany can be brought back into the League, and if the extent and limita of the Locarne method can be clearly defined, Europe could make a new start. May It not be Great Britain, with hoped that moral support from the United States, may take the lead in defin- ing a constructive policy of con- structive disarmament strengthen. ed by regional pacts and collective guarantees?
it
{
Hussein
Nights" must have felt when his magic carpet began to away. Wel Are "riding" the world's largest telescope, whose cycloptan eye, 200 inches in diameter, was recently cast at Corning, N.Y.
•
Effectively disguised as a Distin- First let us zoom out beyond the guished Visitor, he had slipped into Then cross the sports ground to satisfy him- un, our nearest star. neighbour at about 25,000,000,000 ears had persistently refused to yer to Alpha, the next nearest self with his own eyes what his 000 (25 trillion) miles. But mea-bellere.
It was then that he spied his old suring any farther in miles would Jockeying back and forth on the be like mensuring the distance enemy, P. C. Bunder Singh. But radius of
the circular chamber. from New York City to Buenos what a Bunder Singh!
Gone was his uniform turban, Therefore overy there comes a new senantion as Aires in inches. reach the sixth "floor" and begin 6,000,000,000,000 (BIX trillion) to disclose the darlingeat of top- to move slowly around at right miles we travel we'll call one light knot-so cute, so tiny, so ravish- Our "carpet" is moving year. We are now travelling at a ingly perched on the owner's head azimuth. as no other elevator can, taking us mental speed far greater than light as he pounded in on the last lap of on a path parallel with the ground. which takes a whole year to go a quarter-mile.
"Brother, I almost got into third In the semidarkness ahead looms |6,000,000,000,000 miles. Before us the telescope eyepiece, a small tube we see the Milky Way, our own place," he said, earnestly, wagging a black beard at Taupei Chan but not unlike that of a microscope galactic system, spread out like a containing a magnifying lens. This great "blue-berry pancake with without penetrating his effective is the only plece of glass on the stars for blue-berries. It is hard disguise.
Taupei Chan could only nod dumb. whole instrument capable of magnito realise that as close together as fication. The huge concave mirror these stars seem, each is as distantly-his power for speech at the in a light-gathering medium, a re-from the other as our sun is dis-moment lost as his fascinated gaze flector only. Its value lies in the tant from its nearest neighbour. rivetted on the top-knet.
To say that Taupei Chan was ability to collect light four times Yet we pass then like fence posts
18 fact at pose with the as we streak along through space impressed by this other side of mildly. In him its power for up- 100-inch Mt. Wilson telescope. It on our "magic carpet."
Now, if we would see all the lift began to work, and within that
can "do" celestial objects four times as distant.
TUESDAY, FED. 5, 1935.
A BAD SYSTEM Following certain revelations regarding New York's courts of law, there have been some out. (spoken criticisms of the manner | TRAVELING LEAGUE
in which politics are brought in- to such prominent play in the A proposni has been put forward American system of juria for the "decentralisation", as prudence. It is common know-were, of the League Council, Why should it not make the rounds of ledge that the attaining of a
Europe or, for that matter, other judgeship, for instance, is made continents and meet from time to So powerful is this telescopo, it sights in one trip, we must travel short hour of his slaful ilfe, more
a political
time in appropriate capitals? This can bring the moon within a few still faster, change our speedometer good was done than when P. C. the subject of scramble, so that the man who is not one of those periodic at- miles of us and Murs so close we again from measurements of dis-Bunder Singh first took the trail When Taupei Chan eventually left a judge must either tempts which have caused heart- might inspect "cannis" or distance in light years to measure- against him,
ments in megaparsecs, each mega- tinguish cities, if there were any. men campaign like any other candi-burnings, to change the head-Yet in spite of its power, these parsec belag equal to 1,636,000 light the field, he was weeping bitterly.
ur approximately 10 years
quin- "What a man, what a man!" he date for office or must cultivato quarters of the League. Natural- must remain unseen for, the same
Now we can
pass mattered. "And to think I could even greater galaxies than Our the goodwill of the politicians ly, the Secretariat must continue to reason we cannot see the spokes of lion miles.
It is possible to believe that from who have the appointing power, be housed, the Assembly must con- a moving wheel or the designs on tiny" Milky Way. Dr. Harlow have wronged him!"
In the case of the stars, That is the way American judges tinue to meet, and the general them.
speed, but the servatory, has been our conductor crest of this new emotion, was are put into office; and a recent work of the Lengue must continue the motion which blurs their image Shapley, director of Harvard Ob- that moment. Tauper Chan, on the
to be done, at Geneva. But that is not their own
quivering of the earth's atmo in cosmological calculation of dis- transported into a life where he article in the American Specta- should not prevent the Council from sphere. Each change in tempera-tance, explaining that astronomers did not know what it was to sin. for points out that by follow-being perambulatory. There is ture and each partiele of dust that have recently been forced to in interrupts the passage of a light ereuse their former dimensions of ray from the stars to earth causes distant star clusters by 150 per dermine their own confidence in in the proposal. In the League's such rays to be bent and turned cent. or more, the judiciary and staff the bench earlier years the Council met in until they fairly dance. This we
seo with the naked eye and wo say While we are talking in big To a Landlord, with men who are not always fit various cities of Europe. It was
I'm tinking of moving: It Wladimir the "stars are twinkling." Magni-figures just how large is the uni- for their jobs. The writer of only after 1926, as
take us to the outer mits so we live on told avenue only 2 blocks this article, a New York lawyer d'Ormesson points out, that it was fication of a celestial object magni- verse? Will our 200-Inch telescope woodnt be no trouble to me coz I
considered indispensable to take fies the dancing as well.
may calculate the diameter? How away. I got a goil and I want to named Jerome J. Licari, remarks
the trip to Geneva,
With small telescopes the twink!-jabout 70 quintillion miles (76 plus live on the Park Avenue side of that England has found a differ-
us figured by the her. ing doesn't matter much, but with 18 ciphers), ent way of selecting its judges.
greater magnification, interferences noted Dutch patronomer, Dr. Wil "They must not only pass rigid
rise rapidly. In 1848 Harvard lem de Sitter; is it 114 ceptillion University boasted the world's (114 plus 22 ciphers), as figured cxaminations in all branches of
largest telescope10 inches in dia by Dr. Edwin Hubble of Mt. Wilson To a Kodak Company, meter. The limit was thought to Observatory? Perhaps we might have been reached, but since then even like to dispute the calculations astronomy has progressed by using of Sir Arthur Eddington, noted
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of the Council must take fresh examinations in Geneva is taken for granted. But both legal and academic sub-if it wore, by exception, in Madrid jects." As a result, says Mr. or Rome or (when Germany comes back) Berlin, its displacement Licari, an English judgeship is a would arouse curiosity, would pro- legal career, not political yoke a genuine interest. But there career. It is attained by the is another consideration which in best members of the legal pro- Council to a travelling circus. It is no way assimilates the League fession, not by the most gifted that it could deal more significant- politicians. Members of the ly the adverb should be under lined-with certain problems in bench owe nothing to anyone; certain places. The Austrian prob| they are above influence and lem, for example, could be more above suspicion.
significantly dealt with in Vienna than in Geneva. The imagination English lawyer aspires to the of men would be struck. The bench, he takes examinations to danger at present is that the the lowest court. If he passes matter of routine, that they should Council meetings should become a and is appointed, he must serve be regarded as hold outside the a definite length of time there everyday world, in a peculiar
atmosphere of before he is eligible to promo-
unreality. Occasion- tion to a higher court. Thus, ally, at any rate, the Council might well revert to its former practice when he seeka promotion, he of going outside Geneva, to arouse must pass new examinations, interest and publicity and to settle and his judicial record is care some questions "on the spot.” fully scanned, with all reversals
When
counting: against him. In this alas, are many who are none of way, England gota courts that these things. Until some way are the despairing admiration of is found of divorcing the bench Americans. The method is in from politics, the average level sharp contrast with the Amart of the American courts will con- can system. Admittedly, many timus to be lower than it should very excellent men-brilliant, be and the country will get, dependentare, to be found in which have been, ther the American-courta. But eo, New York.
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British astronomer and physicist, who views the multitudinous stars with their planets and moons as bulit up of electrons and protons, the building stones of atoms numbering in all about 10,000,000,- 000, 000, 000,000,000, 000, 000, 000,- 000, 000, 000,000,000, 000, 000, 000, '000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 (or 10 plus 78 ciphers). Astronomy Is perhaps one of the best studies to help overcome a feeling of aclf- importance.
Space 18 anite and curved, Einstein tells us. Perhaps a glance through our 200-inch scope will de fine such an Incomprehensible: boundary as the "outer limit of space." Cortainly no other cosmic chemin do for yet conceived could ovor hope to locate it.
A distinguished group of sstro- physicista, represented by Dr.: Edwin. Hubble of Mt. Wilson Ob- servatory, and Sir Arthur Edding- ten of England, whisper for us to examine the red shifts In the spectra of the most distant nebulae, Tell us whether or not these repré- ment actual motion of the stars or not, so that we can know for certain If these shifts mean actual motion. Is the universe really expanding Hike an Infinite soap bubble or is it expanding in some places and con- tracting in others?endment day at
In what direction is cosmic evolu tion" taking place?: Are new Buns,
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