* HALF OF EARTH’S LIFE OVER, SAYS STAFFORD DECLINE WILL NOT BE NOTICEABLE FOR HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS Earth Now Gets Less Heat From the Su tnhan It Radiates; Losing Air and Moistur^ too That the planet Earth is just en tering the afternoon of life, and that from now on conditions will grow worse instead of better, because of the loss of heat, light, atmosphere and moisture, which has begun to take place, was the belief given by Prof. O .F. Stafford, of the Chemistry De partment, during the course of an il lustrated lecture on “A Theory of World Formation,” which he delivered during the assembly hour yesterday, April 7. The dismal outlook suggest ed, however, will be realized so grad ually that for two hundreds of thou sands of years to come the earth will still be much as at present. This slowing down process will reach its limit when eventually the earth turns upon its axis only once a year, and all life disappears. This condition has already been reached by Mercury and Venus, the two plan ets nearer the sun than the earth, * and it will be the turn of the earth next to suffer this fate. At this time our planet will turn always one hem isphere to the sun, the other being in eternal darkness and cold. This con dition will so affect climate that life as we know it would become impossi ble. The earth long ago began to lose heat faster than heat is brought to it from any source. In the course of time the general fall in temperature will be such that it will be below freezing everywhere. Plants then can no longer grow, and without plants animals also must cease to exist. Space outside our solar system con tains millions of heated bodies like our sun, and probably very many more such bodies which have lost their heat and are therefore cold ajad dark as our own sun in time may be. • Several viefs of spiral nebaiae were shown, from which type of heavenly bodies the speaker said our own solar system was formed. The character istic of these boties is the two arms which start from direetly opposite points on a central nucleus and spiral about it. These spiral nebulae were probably formed by the intense grav itational forces elfective as two suns in their course came very near to each other. The spiral a\'ms consist of the matter whirled out into space as a re sult of this process. This matter fall, ing together would produce the plan ets and satellites of solar system. The meteorites, which fall at ir regular times in the present era, are the last bits of these spirpl arms, which are now and then gathered up ^ by the earth in its passage through space. » The pits on the moon, which previ ously have been held to be volcanic craters, were explained by Professor Stafford to be dents caused by the striking of meterorites upon the sur face of the moon. The cone which is always present in the exact center of each so-called crater, was shown to be a necessary result of such an impact. It was explained that solids, under certain conditions, have the properties of liquids, and Professor Stafford showed by a series of pic tures, that a crater shaped formation having a cone center always present resulted when an object disturbed a liquid. • ° The theory proposed, said Profes sor Stafford connects together'all the known facts of astronomy, chemistry and geology in a much more satisfac tory way than any other, and promis es to supplant entirely the older neb ular hypothesis heretofore generally accepted. PILL SMOKING UNPARDON ABLE SIN, SAYS MR. HYLAND Mr. Hyland, manager of the Ore gon Building at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, sends the following note to President Campbell: “We are very much pleased with the service rendered by the Oregon students so far, and hope that the P good work will continue. Tell the boys that cigarette smoking is one of the unpardonable sins.” T. M. CAN'T FDD MID Want Westerner Who Knows Frater nity and Athletic Situations for Secretary The position of Y. M. C. A. Secre tary for next year is open. Of sev eral names suggested, none is ac ceptable to the Advisory Board. A committee consisting of the Y. M. C. A. executive officers and Dr. E. S. Conklin was appointed to look up a suitable man. The board expressed themselves as preferring a Western man who has attended school for a time in the East, and one who under stands the fraternity and athletic situations. Prof. A. R. Sweetser was elected to the Advisory Board, succeeding Prof. E. E. DeCou, retiring President, who has served on the board 12 years. Hon. R. A. Booth, C. A. Dalzell and C. A. McClain were re-elected to the board. Officers were elected as fol lows: President, Dr. A. E. Caswell; Recording Secretary, C. H. Edmund son; and Curtis Gardner, Financial Chairman, -re-elected. Charles Koyl, the retiring Secre tary, plans to leave June 10 for Sea beck, Washington, where he will at tend the Northwest Y. M. C. A. stu dent conference. June 21 he will go via San Francisco to Black Mountain, North Carolina, where he will attend the student secretary conference and summer school. Secretaries from all the colleges in North America at madE kIv of***' SSSL CADIES the oreqana 1 n »M»M* Eugene’s Pa^ Sweet House bowling U^«»vEv