Scientists Claim
Sun May Change
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Star
la hurtling through space, carrying the
planets with It. Thin In the figure an
liounced by Prof. Edwin II. Front, Dr.
8torr« 11 Barratt and Dr. Otto Htruve
of the Yorks« otmdrvntory, as the re-
«ult of a new determination of the
speed of the nun by the npectrogrnms
of stars rich In helium, the gna now
used to support dirigible balloons A
total of Z431 separata apoctrum photo
graphs have been made of 3iW of the««
stars nine« 1001. Those photographs
«how the dark lines which appear
when the star's light Is analyzed by
passing It through the spectroscope.
Each line Is due to the pronenco In
the star of a certain chemical clement,
and difference« In the positions of the
lines tn the stars from that for simi
lar element« on the earth permit a de
termination of the stars' niMlons, to
ward or away from the earth.
Mince the stars are moving tn all
directions, their average motion should
be practically zero, but the earth,
along with the sun and other planet«,
Is Itself moving through space, so all
the stara ahead of us seem to show
motions toward us. while those behind
seem to be retreating. By finding the
differences. the speed of the solar sys
tem Itself b< obtained, mid hy locating
the stars where the apparent motion
Is greatest, the exact part of the sky
toward which the sun is moving may
Im found. This Is In the constellation
of the Lyre, near the bright star Vega,
which In th« evenings now appears ns
n bright star low In the northwestern
sky.
Nearly Double Their
Heat in Year.
Madison, Win.—Will th« m». th«
power plant of th« earth, worn« time In
the future radii'« or Jnrr«aM< Its light
■ nd bent production by 5 per cent?
Thin I m the quratlotl mixed by a pnp«r
preaented to the National Academy of
Mcl«n<e« m««ttng nt the University of
Wlnconaln here by l»r. Joel Mt «bbl ns,
director of th« Washburn obaarvatory.
Change« In th« heat poured out by
the Hun. caualng great Inconvenience
or denth to humanity, are comddered
poaslhle by Nome aclentlnt«. mid I me
ter Htabbl
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told <>f »turn Hint nearly
doubled their production of bent In a
year.
Hom« great celestial heat-regulating
mochanism or law that k«c|m the «turn
at n proper heat level. Just a
* nn au
tomatic thermometer control« the fur-
nare or electric heater, must exist,
Doctor Mtebbln« said, In comdderlng
the ¡Hinnlble cntiMequencra of long con
tinued Inconstancy of the nun and
atara.
Sun la Variable Star.
"It hu» been demonstrated by the
work of the Smlthionlnn natrophysl
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cnl observatory mid tin stations, under
the direction of Dr, C. <1 Abbot, that
the nun inny be culled a variable star."
•mid I »«ctor Btebhlus. "That la. the
amount of radiation In the form of
light and hent which the nun emit« In
not always the name, but changes to
the citent of aeveral per cent on each
■ Ide of the average. The reaults of
the Hmlthsonlnn ob«ervers are being
Used to study the connection between
weather changes and variations In the
sun. with considerable promise of suc
cess."
Minco the sun la only one of ninny
million stars, the question arises, how
near Is this variability of the sun typl
cal of the stnrs In general? Roughly,
tlie stars may be divided Into those
which arc white hot, yellow hot and
red hot, the sun being n yellow star
Tlie chief work of th« Washburn ob
■ ervatory Iles nt present In the hicas-
urement of minute fluctuation» In the
IlgM of stars by means of an electric
cell photometer. With this Instru
ment It la possible to measure the con
stancy of the light of one star by r«-
ferrlng It to two or more other atnrs
for comparison. In this way the
eclipses of stnrs by dark companions
may be studied, and also other varia
tions In light. Revoral cases have been
found where white hot stnrs have
changed ns much ns 1 p« r cent be
tween one year and the next, nod other
eases where the change Is more rapid
—2 or 3 per cent In ns ninny weeks
Some yellow stars Ilk« the sun seem
to have Irregular variations of 2 or 3
or even 5 per cent, while certain red
stnrs mny change ns much a« 20, 30 or
40 per cent.
"These minute changes like that of
1 per cent per year may not seein very
great," Doctor Stebbins commented,
"but when It Is considered that the
stars are supposed to shine with much
the snme brilliance for thousands or
millions of years, It is evident that
any progressive change of 1 per cent
annually cannot continue for many
years In succession. It Is suggested
that the stars have some way of auto
matically regulating their radlntinn, so
that when they are so much below
normal In some way they recover, and
likewise when they become brighter
than normal the aacceaslv» radiation
1« ninde to decrease.”
Planets Hurtle Through Space.
At a speed of nearly eleven miles
or 17.2 kilometers a second, the sun
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Only “Lady
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Gorilla ;;
New York.—First-class habits ami
manners in third-class quarters on
ocean steamships opened a new chap
ter In ocean travel during the past
summer. In the course of which not
less than 40.0txt Americans crossed and
recrosHci! the Atlantic In a new type
of accommodations known as "tourist
third cabin."
Most of these travelers were of the
educational or otherwise Intellectual
type of American, and though rnnny
of them tagre new to Atlantic travel,
they are possessed of nn outlook on
life that bus enabled them to banish
class consciousness on shipboard, nn
achievement that a few years ago
would have bOen considered among the
things that could not be done.
Some few among the thousands who
have Inaugurated the new style of sea
going for tourists frankly have not
been happy In their efforts to enjoy
tourist third cabin, mainly because
they do not see that you get what you
pay for, on shipboard as on shore, and
that comforts In third class necessarily
do not embrace all the luxuries one
has In drat class.
On a day when the White Star liner
Majestic was tsking ont more than dtX)
in tourist third cabin. In addition to
some 1,000 in other classes, a well
dressed woman among the 000 who
had a berth tn a four-berth room, on
her arrival at her stateroom, said to
her steward:
"1 wish to be called at 7, steward,
and to have my lemon water at 7:15,
Breaking Florida Rail Embargo
The S. 8. Bennington of the Rutland Bake Michigan Transit company
loading n cargo of freight at the Municipal pier, Chicago, for Florida by way
of the lakes, Mt. Lnwrence river nnd Atlantic seaboard. Because of the embargo
on all railroad freight shipment» to Florida except food, Chicago firms hnve
been unable to fill many orders for badly needed household supplies and the
■ 11 water route will In a measure relieve the situation.
Memorial to Dead Gunner»
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^few York.—Congo, the only ■
I < I kmal« gorilla tn captivity, ar- i
■■ rived from Central Africa on the *
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»White Star liner Homeric with ‘'
; J Its captor, Benjamin Burbled, of ‘ '
; . > Jacksonville, Fla.
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Congo was captured at Klv ‘ '
< • 40 days' journey from Stanley- ■
; ; vtHe on the west African const. J
"You cannot kidnap a young • 1
' ’ gorilla from the village where It I ’
; ■ ■ Ilves with Its parents without a *
:: fight,” said yr. Burblrd. “We
' got natives to Imitate the snarl '
I! of the leopard In the Jungle, !
I ; J which caused the male gorillas J ’
| . to seize th«lr big clubs and sally ■ ।
” forth Io battle with the arch ¡j
■ > enemy of their tribe.
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J “We rushed In and In a
atrug- i I
- ■ gle I seized a six foot gorilla by ■ >
I the throat and had my right I !
• • hand badly bitten before the ■ '
beast was killed.
It weighed
' about 400 pound*.
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“Congo Is four years old. ■ >
‘ ’ weighs 150 pounds and Is three *'
.. feet high. She will grow to bo < >
” five feet five. Inches and weigh
. . 3<X» pounds at the age of fifteen • •
;; years.”
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Sick Man a Hero
Portsmouth, Eng.—Eying 111 In bed,
Joseph Birch heard a woman cry: "My
child Is In the burbor! Can anyone
j save him?”
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Birch rose from bed, ran across to
the quay side, jumped Into the harbor
and pulled out an eighteen inonths-old
boy. Birch then collapsed and had to
•c carried back to nis bed. The res
cued child died before a doctor could
attend him.
Opens New Chapter
in Atlantic Travel
Latest Type of Accommoda
tion» Prove» Popular.
Unveiling Britain
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and my bath at 7:20, The bath must
be tepid—”
The steward gasped, and sought the
chief steward for third cabin, who en
deavored to explain as diplomatically
as possible, that third cabin service
did not extend to the serving of lemon
water to rising passengers, although
bath hours could be arranged.
On another ship carrying tourist
third cabin passengers, a woman ex
pressed indignation when she learned
that she would not have access to the
swimming pool, and another was bit
terly disappointed by the absence of a
grllL
Plain Comforts.
Happily for the steamship people,
these cases are exceptional. A ma
jority of the thousands who have
traveled this year In tourist third
cabin have begun their journeys pre
pared for plain living. Such passen
gers have n»t been disappointed on re
ceiving what they paid for—plain but
clean and comfortable quarters, plain
but ample food, and- simple but ade
quate service.
That their room steward did not
lavish as much attention on them as
If they were occupying the regal suite;
that there were no finger bowls nt
table; that the bill of fare did not In
clude ortolans under glass or plover's
eggs In aspic Jelly, did not worry them.
They each had a comfortable bed, a
reasonable amount of stateroom space,
n deck chair and rug, together with
Just as much bracing sea air and
speed, as the first-class passenger who
paid ten times as much for his pas
sage.
,
The tourist In third cabin makes
the round trip to i’.irope for consid
erably less than the cost of a one-way
ticket for a berth at minimum rate In
first cabin. He gets his money's
worth, plus. In creature comforts.
I hies he experience any discomfort in
other directions that would lead him
to give up traveling by this thrifty
method?
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An Exploded Theory.
This Is the first year In which the
tourist third cabin Idea, inaugurated
In 1923-24, has had a thorough trial.
Possibly the outstanding question
to be answered is—Can the average
American content himself for consid
erations of thrift, with anything less,
materially anil socially, than the maxi
mum his money can buy?
Ever since steamship travel began
It has been a tradition that an Ameri
can will fret and fume nt the idea of
being in a class below somebody else.
A stock phrase among ocean travelers
In years past was, "You can't get
Americans to travel second class or
third class. They want first class or
nothing." The phenomenal success of
the tourist third cabin Idea has ex
ploded that theory. The 40,000 new
tourists of 1925 have shown It to be a
myth—that the American with the
class distinction complex has been ab
sorbed In the tourist movement with
scarcely a ripple to show his presence.
With the comforts to be hnd In all
three classes on the modern liner, the
supposed American aversion to classifi
cation of passenger*, can be only men-
tai. Hence Its chill hns evaporated In
the sun of popularity that hns shone
on tourist third cabin. -
The tourist third cabin traveler who
Inclines to positive Ideas on classes In
travel can still get n comfortable re
action by joining the majority In the
suggestion, that a tourist third cabin
ocean voyage after nil Is more or less
of n lark. New Ideas hnve opened a
new avenue to Europe.
The Royal Artillery War mi-morlal, corner of Hyde park, London, photographed Just as the duke of York had
unveiled IL The memorial is the worimf Charles Sargeant Jagger, an ex-soldler.
Peary Birthplace
to Become Shrine
H I I I I I I I I I I I I H-H I 11 1 I . H- I-;
Ohio Claim» World’»
Largest Sunday School :
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Canton, Ohio.—A single Sun- ;;
• • day school with more than 6,000 . •
” students gives Canton Its claim ”
• • to the largest school of the kind ■ ■
J in the world.
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The classes meet In the First • •
;; Christian church and are led by ”
tened Robert H. Thé birth came just
the pastor. Rev. P. H. Wei- "
To Pre»erve Family Home at a tirpe, however, when the father ••
!: shlmer. who has been teaching i
had been offered rather promising In •' a class in tills church for 24 •;
of Discoverer of Pole.
ducements at Gallitzin, six miles north " years. In bls own class be has ..
Johnstown,
I’a. — Unmarked
for of Cresson. He moved, was taken ill ;; 1,500 men and women students. ;;
years, known only to a few historians, some months luter and died at Gallit • * In addition to the 6,000 men, ■ >
and neglected to a great extent by the zin. Perry's mother and the family '; women, boys and girls in the ; ’
owners for fifteen or twenty years, the then moved from Cambria county. ■ • Sabbath school, 600 babies are • •
birthplace of Admiral Robert H. Just before the death of the father, I; listed In the cradle roll.
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Peary, discoverer of the North pole, a brother, James Peary, moved to the
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at last blds fair to be made into a same section, settling at Cbc»t SpHngs.
Many of bls descendants still live in
shrine.
Mltuated at the western end of Cres the section.
RESTORE LANDS
Tastes Rigors of Cold.
son, once a noted mountain resort In
A glance at the weather records of
Pennsylvania, and passed daily by
TO INDIAN BOY
hundreds of motorists on the William the Cresson section reveals that Ad
Penn highway. Is the house where the miral Peary was subject to some of
fumed explorer first saw the light of the rigors of cold weather In his in Ccurt Cancel» Deeds to Valu
day. It is a frame dwelling of ordi fancy. Just a short distance from his
able Oil Property.
nary appearance, quite a bit beaten by birthplace is the Summit one of the
the elements, but yet in an excellent highest points in the Allegheny moun
Washington.—A four years' legal
State of preservation. Some 15 years tains. Here is located the state tuber
ago a new portion was built along one culosis sanitarium and the village of struggle to prevent the transfer of
side, but other than this, excepting the Gallitzin. It is at the end of a long valuable oil lands without compensa
necessary repairs required by the steep climb up the mountain from Al tion from a restricted Creek Indian
weather, the house has not changed toona and one of the longest and living at Eufaula. Okla., to private in
much since the Peary family left it in steepest hauls on the line of the Penn dividuals, has resulted In a favorable
sylvania railroad. Here the snow flies decision by the Federal Circuit Court
1857.
It was not until about a year ago often and the mercury drops to the of Appeals for the Eighth district, it
the immediate neighbors in Cambria lowest levels registered in the state. was announced at the Interior depart
The Peary home at Cresson now is ment. The land Is located in Okfus
county became aroused and started a
.movement In a small way to insure the owned and occupied by Mrs. Frank kee county, Oklahoma.
The name of the restricted Indian
preservation of the house. At first the Powers. She has gathered many in
movement lagged. Publicity was neg teresting mementoes of the great ex is Miller Tiger. In December, 1921,
lected and In the section there were plorer. and Is entering heartily Into this Indian boy was induced to con
but few who cared enough to really In the plan for the preservation of the vey 80 acres of land to his aunt,
sure the purchase and the retention of home. Among Mrs. Powers' posses Rosannah Brown, without any con
the home as a memorial to the first sions is a letter which was written sideration, it being represented to him
by the explorer to her husband in 1914. that the land was valueless. The aunt
man to reach the top of the world.
a
three-
•This Is on the stationery of the immediately transferred
D. A. R. Take It Up.
fourths Interest in the land to T. E.
Army
and
Navy
club
In
Washington,
After a few months of rather hap
Brotton, C. R. King and J. E. Whiten-
hazard work the campaign was and. after telling of his love for the
ton.
brought to the attention of the Quema- Pennsylvania section, he says he In
When the deed made by the Indian
bonlng chapter of the Daughters of tended visiting his birthplace Just as
boy was submitted for the approval
soon
as
an
opportunity
presented
It
the American Revolution. It Imme
of the secretary of the interior, an
diately -took steps to Interest the self. The letter was signed "Peary."
Investigation was conducted by the
Pennsylvania legislature and also car His proposed visit never was realized.
bureau of Indian affairs with the re
Other
papers
relative
to
the
ad
ried the fight to several members of
sult that the attorney general was re
congress. The chapter has obtained miral's life and his adventures also
quested td Institute a suit to recover
permission to purchase the home and are being held by Mrs. Powers. The
campaign to save the home Is started the land. A decision of the District
convert it into a memorial.
court of Oklahoma upheld the legality
The Peary home is at the Junction because of jhe necessity of the owner
of the transfer. An appeal was then
for
a
sale
within
a
few
months.
Penn
of the William Penn highway and the
taken by the government to the
Cresson pike. It Is Ideally situated sylvanians have manifested quite an
Eighth District Circuit Court of Ap
for a shrine, and 1« one which Is on interest, and' the fact that the state
peals. This court has Just announced
hns
valid
claim
to
the
birthplace
of
the Une of travel and would be visited
another Illustrious American has en a reversal of the decision of the lower
by thousands annually.
court and reinstated the title of the
Charles Peary, the father of the ex couraged the hope that the memorial
valuable oil lands to the Indian, can
plorer, came to Cresson from Maine may be realized with contributions
celing the deed» to the aunt and the
which
have
been
already
solicited
and
and took up his residence in the house
other parties.
next to the academy site. At that time without additional aid.
he was engaged in manufacturing
staves for barrels and like articles,
which stood just across the road from
his home. Ho continued in the busi
ness for years.
May 6. 1856, a son was born in Cres
son to the Peary family. He was chrls-
expected to reflect accurately the spir
STATUESQUE TAOS RED MEN
LURE GROUP OF ARTISTS
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Basic Reason for Colony
Painters in Southwest.
of
Taos, N, M —Of all the aborigines,
the Taos Indian appeals to members
of the famous Taos artists’ colony as
• •
St. Paul, Minn.—The heart. • having the background best suited to
“ with all nerve controls cut away. .
the brush.
• ■ will continue not only to func- ;
The picturesque setting in which
” tlon, but will meet the special .
the Indian.Is found, and the Indian
;; needs of the body through chem- ;
himself, with his statuesque physique,
I leal control of the blood alone.
are the reasons why the eleven per
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So declared R. Walter B. Can- ;
sons—ten men and one woman—who
• • non, professor of physiology. •
form the colony, are here.
" Harvard
University
Medical :
“The Indians of Old Taos hold to
• • school, in a talk before the In- • their customs and costumes more
I: terstate Postgraduate Assembly ‘
tenaciously than any others," says
• • of America.
;
Burt Phillips, deaa nnd founder of the
I
"If the individual faces dan- .
colony.
“They live in a picturesque
■ ' ger, If the body becomes cold, if ; environment, In which they fit sum
I the sugar supply in the blood •
mer and winter.
;; runs too low, the heart will rise I
“The lure of the native Spanish life
I to the occasion, and pump •
nround the plaza of Taos pueblo and
‘; faster, even though there is no "
adjoining villages Is strorffc. An end
• • nerve connection left to tell It •
less variety of subjects are here
” what to do," he said.
available — the mountains, canyons
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Speaking on “some recent
and means, and, above all, the mar
I revelations of the denervated .
velous coloring, which seems to find
■■ heart,” Doctor Cannon asserted ; its equal nowhere else In the coun
" that the chemical control of the .
try."
is largely
denervated heart
The Taos group Is said to be among
through the adrenal glnnd, Just
the first band of artists to receive a
above the kidneys, A tiny bit
large order for pictures as an organi
of adrenalin—.01MM18 of a mllll-
zation.
Each member was commis
gram—thrown Into the blood
sioned to pnlnt three murals for the
stream will Increase heart beats
Missouri state capitol building. As a
ns much as 34 per minute."
result of the commission, the panels
of the new Missouri capitol may be
;; Heart Function» With
Nerve» All Cut Away ;
•H Illi I II I I I I I I I I I I 1 I-H- 4
it and methods of the Taos Society of
Artists.
One member of the society, John
Sharp, now Is confining himself en
tirely to the painting of Taos Indian
subjects.
The Taosans are a stalwart race,
everyone a striking figure, given to
standing on housetops in white robes
at sunrise.
They have fbrnlsbed
Sharp with an inspiration which now
is occupying his entire attention.
The colony Is the outgrowth of a
friendshp struck up between Phillips
and E. L. Blumenscbein in the Latin
quarter of Paris during the late nine
ties.
The pair pioneered Into the Taos
country shortly before 1900. Blumen
scbein later went to Arizona to paint
Pima Indian subjects, but Phillips
stayed on, and It was his persevering
efforts that finally led to the coming
of the other ten artists.
Robs Poor Boxes
Brooklyn, N. Y.—"A church Is a pub
lic place, isnt It?” And the money
folks put In boxes there Is anybody's.
Isn’t It? Well, I don’f see the crime
in taking It." Thus Miss Charlotte
Lehman, New Haven. Conn., defended
herself when she was brought here
from Milwaukee and arraigned on a
charge of possessing burglar’s tools.
Miss Lehman admitted robbing numer.
ous poor boxes.