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1 General News 1 ffia (gntttfo foWltttUt CStattWr i I -: . . ......... , Want Ads VOLUME XXV. SECOND SECTION LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1927. NUMBERJ60; BOY SKY-GAZER REAL SCIENTIST CHAMPION OOtltKU .IKES SMART (iOI.I'KIt i Mlnikuhda course und Johnston will bo thoroughly ut homo when tlie big drive Blurts. Ho has been Minnesota champion for six years. won thu western nmutcur title In lit:M and played on throe Walker 'cup tcums. Jiis business is selling t bonds. Ballet Remains Russian Spectacle; Performances Unequalled, Is Claim j Li ! l'erformanc s embracing ull the MOSCOW. Jan. 18 (AT) Huh-old as well as modern bullets are I sla, the land of the bullet, main-j produced nightly at the National J tains Its dancing spectacles unlui- , theater hero und in .Leningrad, paired In beauty and originality, ! Critics ussert that for technique, even though tho seats are beyond ! rhythm, beauty of costumes and thu rcuch of tho a vera go citizens, j execution thu Russian ballet is un equalled. In Itussia ballet dancing Is re garded as a serious profession, on un equal piano with dramatic act ing or operetta singing. A e our so of eight years iti required before a girl or a youth Is qualified to lake even a minor part in the ensemble. A large ballet school Is main tained by (he state, where children from the age of 8 to 10 years are put through a thorough course of gymnastics, calicthenlcs, dancing, pantomimic, music, acting und aro of beauty,' vurlety and tajitc. m-iiiuga uiiu t utuiury, iuu, ru of a high artistic and mechanical order. There la one ballet In which cnsiN s. parks, waterfalls, takes and mountains are shown with Impres sive erreci. 1 in such harmony and coordination do the vast numbers esthetics. Kach set of muscles of tho legs and arms Is trained sep arately, and particular stress Is laid on the control und movement of tho spine. - Hallet spectacles In which five hundred or six hundred dancers purticipatn are not uncommon In Moscow. Tho costumes, an herit age from the old- Tsarist regime. Harrison R. "Jimmy") John ston, who carried tho namo of St. Paul to great heights In golf com petition, has changed his residence and business to Minneapolis, and hereafter will play under tho ban ner of tho Mlnikuhda club. Tho national amateur championship mutches will bo played over tho Knoxville, Tennessee Lad, 8 Years Old Progresses in Astronomy ) of dancers perform that the audi Village trustees of KllleotlvlllO N. Y., have forbidden tho throwing of snowballs. ence has the impression of a sin gift great entity on tho stago working with precision. 1 1 13 .! '1 Youth 1 aflame with knowledge knowledge such us only mature indents and sedate professors nr. dluarlly boast in the case of s- yenr - old William OaumiwaV lirownlow II, or KnoxvtiJc. Tenn. Wttltuiu Is on terms of int.'mate iKquulntunceship with such note worthies us Hetelgeuse, light yours, Orion's belt iiikI Custtir and Pol lux. Tluit Is to suy, ho Is a com petent astronomer. , Two years ago he began pester ing his father for books aljput slurs; Ills father responded and last (.'hristmus presented him with u cosily telescope -a sizable af Jitlr will) a four and u half Inch objective li lis. With thin he awiH-pn thu heuvens every cle:ir night. NKA Service and The Observer asked Wllliain to write a story about thu stars as he has como to now thi-iii. ilerc It In, just us he prepared 11. Ky WILLIAM G. BltaWNfXJW 31 Klght-Year-Old Knoxville, Tenn., Astronomer (Written tor Thci Observer and NliA Service) If early In the evening you look toward thu aoutheast section of t his- inont sky, you will seo four very bright stars that make u large (Jlainonfl, Thu lowest one, .farthest to the cast, is Stilus, thu brightest star In tin heavens. Kirius Is only elf? Jit Mtrlit years distant from the earth. A light year refers to the distance light travels In a year six mil lion miles. At the top point of the diamond, much higher up and to the aouCi. Is Aldebaran, the red eye of the bull. The other two corners of the diamond are in thu constcDutlon Ortoir. The upper one is Hetelgeuse, which Is 4) a million miles through and so large that If the sun were in Its center, its . circumference Mould take- In the -orbits of ho;h the earth ami Mars. . The other star is. Itigel, awhile, lint slur of grout size, -400 light years distant. It Is one of the greatest: of t lie suns. Our own sun at this distance could be seen only with a good telescope. - Iletwuen Hetelegeuse and ltlg'.i ii m three bright - stars" In a line which form Orion's belt, from which hangs ItiH sword. J n the sword is the great nebula ol Orion a glowing gas which evrn a strung field glass will show only us a small patch of llglit Infills nebula Is Theta, a quadruple star. Above Aldebaran are the I'lel ade, which everybody knows. Higher up in the oust, above Sir lus, Is the first magnitude Hter prucyon. In the "Little' iog." Uglier still are the twins, (.'asior and I'ollux', and overhead Is Cu pella.' Castor Is a double star t which my telescope shows as two suns turning about each other. Kach of these also Is double, but as tronomers know this only by studying their lttrht with a spec troscope they are to closo to get her. Tills whole region has the must bright slurs thai can be seen with the naked eye of any region in the sky. Jupiter Is low In thu southwest ut. llils time of year, und is bright enough to be seen before It gets dark. Mars Is to the south high er up. Jtnth Mars und Aldebaran are red, but Mars Is brighter an 1 makes a steadier light, without twinkling. i k'km:.. laiu.ic. tastk OMIJUNS M U.S. JVSLLli The wife uf a multi-mtlltoiiairc can afford to experiment with Im provement of the drama. Klcklo public taste Is a burrler, however, and next season Airs. Samuel In still, wife of Chicago's public util ities mugnnte. and the former Gladys Wullis of the- stage, will vury tho tuctles wherby she is trying to interest the -Middle West in meritorious theater fare. Two American plays were presented by Airs. Insult s company this season but next yen, it Is hinted, ho will turn to Ibsen and Shakespeart'. Airs. 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