THE MOTIXIXG OREGONIAN, ' MONDAY, DECEMBER S, 1919. WEDNESDAY , DEC. 17 IS THE SHIVER 'Dickens to Pay' Among Plan ets of Solar System. 'TIS WISE MAN WHO SAYS IT "World Is Coming to End" Is Free Hand Translation of Astrono mer Porta's Prognostication. OLD EARTH STILL IS SAFE SAYS PORTLAND ASTRONOMER Conjunction of Planets Referred toss-Portending Disaster Has Occurred - Many Times Before and Without Disturbing Universe at AIL BY BEX HUR LAMPMAN. Are you in tune with the universe? Does the high harp of the infinite, of which the planets are but celestial keys, vibrate in unison w ith the cos mic melody in your soul? Are your lodge dues in arrears? Is your in surance paid in full? These be moot matters, for On Wednesday, the 17th day of December, in the year of our Ijord 1919, such a discord will shudder through the province of the solar system, will rattle and bans away amid the dead and ltvins worlds, will swirl tempestuously through the bil lion acres of interstellar dust, as may well give pause to the most self-satis-tied citizen who ever made a payment on a bungalow. At least, that is what Professor Albert F. Porta, an American as tronomer, cheerfully arose to predict some time ao, and did predict, and still maintains to such purpose that many a rusty marrow-bone has crooked in unaccustomed prayer, and niany a fervid fanatical religionist has hailed the occasion with mani festations of gloomy delight. -And down iu Mexico, so the press dis patches say, a number of anticipa tory wights have taken the path of suicide in order to beat the game. Opinions Do ot Agree. 'The world is coming to an end about the middle of the month," is the free-hand translation that has been given to Professor Porta's gladsome divinations. Kre this discussion farej further it ought of right to be noted, as a nervine worth the taking, that the savants of the United States naval observatory, and all other eminent star gazers the wide world round, do not agree with Professor Porta. They say that his data are correct, but that his deductions are. in the sprightly vernacular, decidedly the "bunk." That there is nothing in the planetary conjunctions to give cause for alarm, and that one may breakfast on the fateful 17th with the same undisturbed equanimity that one did earlier in the week, is '.heir comforting reassurance. But it isn't every day that there arises an , established scientist to pronounce finis for that fine old. bubble, the world. And while the curtains are down", in the prelude as it were, folk ought to make the most and the best of it. For even the end of the world would come- not unrecom mended by obvious advantage. Where, asks the man in the rear of the hall, would flit the troublesome cost of coal, and whither the shortage of sugar or the advance in streetcar fares? In the same cataclysmic glory that would abolish magnates and mortals all frets and furies would flame into the ashes of the moribund planet. Planets to Group. Professor Porta bases his predic tion on the fact that December 17, Just a trifle more than a week dis tant, will see the grouping of six mighty planets in conjunction, a solar league that will tug with irresistible force at the furnace of the sun. And these conspirators of the heavens Tvill be Neptune, Jupiter, Satvrn, Mars, Venus and Mercury. From the spleen of their intrigue the hapless earth, not in any sense a party to the plot, will be bombarded with such weather as will transcend the days of cosmic birth. "The most terrific weather cata clysm experienced since human his tory began," predicts Professor Porta. "It will be caused by the hugest sun spot on record a sun spot that will be visible to the naked eye. It will be a gigantic explosion of flam ing gases leaping hundreds of thou sands of miles into space. It will have a crater large enough to engulf the earth, as Vesuvius might engulf a football. "There will be hurricanes, light ning, colossal rains. There - ill be gigantic lava eruptions, great earth quakes, to say noMiing of floods and foarful cold. It will be some weeks before the earth will regain its nor mal conditions." Not content with this forebodinsr. Trofessor Porta indicates that, at the . same time, the planet Uranus, a burly big fellow, will be on the off side of the sun, in direct opposition to the league of six. The magnetic cur rents so established will go through the sun like a knitting needle through a ball of yarn. Kai-th In Direct l,lne. With the six conspiring planets grouped in the narrow limit of 26 degrees on the same side of the sun. the earth will be outside the league, St an angle of 90 degrees, says Pro fessor Porta. In the position of the Innocent bystander the world will rock with the impact of the solar dis charge, he declares. "The earth," observes Professor Porta, "will be in direct position to receive almost the full force of the monster electrical disturbance as it leaps into activity on what, to us. will be the eastern horizon of the sun's disc." And there you are! What manner of wallop is this to hand a world already weary of overmuch excite ment and asking nothing better than the boon of a quiet Christmas? Whether the world is in for rough weather, or whether it isn't, it is cer tain that the profession unlocked Pandora's box of troubles for his fel low scientists, in all the colleges, uni versities and astronomical observa tories throughout America and the planet folk who discovered any num ber of important engagements that must be kept after December 27 begged for another viewpoint, for ref utation, contirmation, anything that would eet their troubled minds at case. Scientists lve Views. And the scientists have told the world not to worry. Astronomers of the United States naval observatory nd of Lowe astronomical observa tory, whence come practically all of the straight tips anent celestial hap penings. present or In prospect, refute Professor Porta at every point. And here is the gist of their statement In reply: That time and again groupings of planets have arranged themselves as they will on December 17, without producing unusual disturbances on the earth. That a grouping very aim- liar occurred during last May, with out untoward effect. That the world had as much reason at that time to expect the worst aa it has now, ff there is anything in Professor Porta's theory. That in May of the present year there was a sunspot visible on the orb of day, and there was an electrical torm on the earth, but that the coin- BT PROFESSOR J. W. DANIELS, Hill Military Academy. IN VARIOUS daily papers an article by Professor Porta, an astronomer, appeared, wherein he predicted a world catastrophe to occur on or soon after the 17th of this month. At that time seven of the eight planets of the solar system will be in as nearly a straight line on one side of the sun at the same time as It is possible for them to be, and so, according to Pro fessor Porta, their combined gravita tional pull upon the sun will cause such unusual and awful disturbance of its gaseous body, producing . tre mendous "sun spots," and these spots violently exploding and blowing the source of our light, heat and- life into fragments, that our earth will, by inference, be overwhelmed In ruin, or possibly stsuck by some of the great sular fragments hurled earthward by the sunbui-st, and itself, burned and broken, scattered in the abyss of space. No more admirable answer to that article could be made than that by Miss Lewis of the Naval observatory at Washington; but her argument may be supplemented by one from a slightly different viewpoint, although the conclusion will be identical with hers that such occurrences as pre dicted by Professor Porta are not likely to happen. Granted that the gravitational force of the seven planets In "conjunction" is ever so great, all the potency of Professor Porta's prophecies is nulli fied ,by the, fact that, in the eons , of the existence of our solar system these planets have been -many times before in a like relative position. Within less than a year Venus has been in a position east of the sun that invested her with the same in fluence upon both sun and earth th.it she now has west of that luminary; and the. movement of the other planets is so slow that in the time occupied by Venus in thus changing from her eastern to her western elongation, none of the planets has materially changed its position, with the exception of Mars; hence, these planets have for months been more or less in somewhat similar relative positions to the earth and sun as they now occupy, without doing any in jury of any kind to one another. If the combined forces of the plan ets In conjunction are to affect the solar body at all, that effect will not be produced suddenly, but very grad ually. Seven planets have been in conunctlon more or less for several months past, and any influence such conunction could have upon the sun would have been manifested some time ago. Yet no such effect has been either felt or seen, either upon the earth or on the disk of fiie sun. The planets now. are approaching the maximum of their conjunctive pos sibilities, .and their power. If any, should be very clearly manifest, in creasing from the imperceptible to that which could be discerned by the uie3 by-other systems and senses, both on the sun and on . the I th. f. 1,7.1 earth. But no such manifestations have occurred In any degree whatso ever, thus far, and we are warranted in the assumption that none such will occur. Moreover, the article referred to la accompanied by a cut representing the solar body In the activity of ex plosion. Such an effect of the planets upon the sun Is based upon premises scientifically Illogical. For the pull of the planets upon a sphere com posed wholly of gases, would tend to elongate that sphere long before producing any explosive action. Any such elongation would be perceptible to anyone viewing the disk of the sun through a properly prepared sun glass, as the disk, instead of main taining its apparently circular form, would be pulled into the form of an ellipse, the difference between the major and minor diameters being suf ficient to be noted even by the unas sisted eye. This .elongation should have commenced months ago, but nothing of the kind is discernible yet, and nothing of the kind is appre hended or expected. If an explosion of the sun Is ever to take place, the causes of such an ex plosion will, we believe, be found in the chemical constitution of its "gas eous body. Indeed, the sut-spots that periodically appear on the disk of the sun are probably results of terrible explosions internally of that body. Such explosions are going on all the time within the solar body, and many of them are of sufficient magnitude to make themselves felt upon the sur face, and hence visible to the eye in the form of "spots". These spots are sometimes of sufficient size to dimin ish, in slight measure, the amount of heat and light from the luminary to earth; and in this way have some little influence on atmospheric con ditions. ' The sun Is pouring streams of elec tric influences upon the earth with out cessation. The earth is a huge magnet because of the electric poten cies deposited by the solar rays. Hence, there is nothing to apprehend in the thought that we are subject to electrical disturbances other than those that are constantly with us and affecting us every hour of every day of the year. W ere the space inter vening betweyi the sun and the earth occupied by matter capable of conveying sound better than the ether theoretically supposed to occupy that space, the roar of conflagration and the burst of- explosion on the sun's body would not only be heard on the earth, but would be of such ter rible character and magnitude as to render life on our globe impossible. It is inconceivable that any such potency resides in the planets, at their great distance, as could cause a solar catastrophe, and hence materially af fect life on the earth. Even were all eight of the sun's family of planets on one side at the same time, and In perfect alignment, that Is, in perfect conjunction, this would be true In only a very slightly less degree. The sun and its system of planets have been In existence unmeasured cen turies; conditions for catastrophe and destruction have been present all these centuries, and will be for un numbered ages to come. The destruc tion of our system is not destined to come about this way. nor at this time. The solar body, accompanied by its family, is rushing through space now unoccupied by sther systems; and sci ence demonstrates that our system will so rush for many -renturies to come, without- possibility of collision witn otner systems. But when we have finished our course through un occupied space, and have entered that uni- apprehension Is LADY ASTOR TIRES OF HOUSE HOTvlAG E "Queen of Arena" Averse to Patronizing Attitude. 'PAIRING" OFFERS MANY at hand; ror the end of our system must come only by such collision; and sun and planets, at such a moment. will be scattered as Imponderable dust through the abysses of strange universes. ... . - .. v. - At present we need have as little fear of disaster to the earth from an explosion of the sun as of the absurd rumor that the moon will suddenly abandon her appointed path and plunge Into the earth. When the moon is in conjunction with these planets there is the possibility of the tides becoming higher than the nor mal; but even this is problematical and cannot be said to be anticipated. cidence was apparently Irrelevant, as sunspots fully as large and electrical storms fully as lively have occurred in other years when no two planets were In conjunction. That on August 1 of this year. Mer cury, Venus and the earth were grouped In less than 30 degrees on one side of the sun, and that Mars, Neptune and Jupiter were similarly arranged on the other side, and that the six planets so arrayed produced less perceptible "pull" than a member of the bartenders' union in a prohi bition convention. That if the combined electro-mstg-netic forces of planets in conjunction could bring about solar and terres trial storms, such storms should have been observed in giant intensity dur ing May and August, when, according to the theory advanced by Professor Porta, the situation was equally ripe for trouble. That the vast wound, predicted by Professor Porta, In the side of the sun, whence the electro-magnetic forces of the planets are to draw flaming catastrophe into space, is nothing particularly new, as similar solar wounds have frequently been observed while all was serene on earth. . . - Other Spots Recalled. That not less than six sunspots large enough to be seen- with the naked eye have been observed in re cent years, and that Professor Porta's emphasis upon the abvious character of the one that is to be misplaced. And, anyway, that sunspots are low, not high that they are depressions in the surface of the sun, not torches leaping open-mouthed and eagerly at the earth or other unwary planets. That a sunspot commodious enough to enguir tne eartn is by no means un common that most of them would accommodate the globe with room to spare, and that at least one of them was delved to a depth that would have swalloyed precisely 104 words like ours, as a hungry puppy snaps up fly. Suffice it to say that his fellow astronomers have riddled Professor Porta's theory a most distressing one to shreds, have laughed him to scorn, have held his science up to con tempt, and have otherwise exhausted all the bromides of contumely. There is no trace of a scientific cause for alarm," says Edgar Lucien Larkln, director of the Lowe astro nomical observatory. "The entire WITNESSES TO BE FREED MEXICO CITY PRESS AX- NOTJNCES JEXKIXS CASE STEP. Excelsior Declares 4 0 Mexicans Held in Connection With Trial Will Be Released. LAREDO. Tex., Dec. 7. Forty Mexi cans of Santa Maria and San Bernabe, held as witnesses in connection with the abduction of William O. Jenkins, American consular agent at Puebla, Mex., will be released at once, "as there is no proof against them of wrongdoing," according to the Mexico City newspaper Excelsior. The newspaper, a copy of which reached here today, prints a Puebla dispatch under date of last Friday giving this information. The contem plated action, the newspaper says, "caused Jenkins to say in an indig nant tone that he would have the guilty persons punished if it took all his capital, including those who had threatened the natives to make them testify against him." Jenkins, the newspaper adds, was notified at midnight Thursday that he was free "by order of the Judge" and was released without any further ex planation. Excelsior declares it is rumored the judge will be removed. A dispatch from Atlixco, Puebla, published in Mexico City, reports the surrender of many rebel officers to General Pablo Gonzales, Carranza army commander. These Include Juan Ubera. one of the men accused of having abducted Jenkins. Way to Leave Hall Before Debate Ends Quickly Found Despite Ministerial Whip. (Copyright by the New Tork World. Pub lished by Arrangement.) LONDON; Dec. 6. (Special -wire less.) Lady Astor is In her element In the house of .commons. She is queen of the arena. The members are falling over each other all of the time, not merely to fulfill, but to an ticipate her slightest wish. She- has had more Information volunteered to her as to what she ought and ought not' to do by members of all parties than any preceding novice. Having listened to the extremely dull Scottish land debate until 10:30 o'clock on Thursday night. Lady As tor thought to go home to her fam ily, but the ministerial whip barred her exit. Baying she should remain to vote for the government. She pleaded fatigue, but the whip was Inexorable. T. P. O Connor, father of the house. standing by, gallantly came to the rescue and offered to pair with her so she could leave. But half a dozen other members hanging about were already rushing to her assistance with the same proposition. They all ex plained that any time she ever need ed to pair on a vote they each and all would be delighted to oblige her. She smiled her thanks and went home. First Vote Is Against Bonds. It is claimed that she fulfilled. In a way, the prediction that she would make a speech on the night of her introduction to the house. The de bate was on the premium bonds bill, and when a member opposing the scheme said workmen would sub scribe for the premium bonds only by taking It out of their wives' house keeping money. Lady Astor pointedly said: "Hear hear." Eventually she gave her first vote against the premium bonds, although Horatio Bottomley, their proposer personally canvassed her in their fa vor. So far Lady Astor has not been in the smoking room, but holds a little court every afternoon in the tea room and uses the library for her corres pondence. She has entertained com pany at the house, most of her guests members, with a thin sprinkling of womenfolk. Kindly and complimen tary as is all the fuss that is being made about her, she does not relish It, as she wishes above everything else to be on the same footing as ev erybody else not to be treated as an exotic. Entry In House Protected. If certain plans had not miscarried. Lady Astor's sensational entry into the house of commons would ' have been spoiled by a dreadful anti- max. It happened that on the day she took the oath Countess Markie vicz, the Sinn Fein member for the college division of Dublin, was in Lon don and certain of her friends went in search of her to get her to present herself at the bar of the house and take her seat on that same day. Hav ing been returned a year ahead of Lady Astor, the countess would have taken precedence In going to the ta ble and there would havo been ter rible confusion indeed, horror. It happened that Countess Markie- vicz had left for Manchester early in the afternoon, so she could not be found. The purpose was that Count ess Markievicz should advance to the table, refuse to take the oath of al legiance, but make a speech instead. 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The ear of corn is fully developed and is filled for fully two thirds of its length. At that point the kernels begin to break down and make way for well-defined rows of oats. LAND MEETING POSTPONED Reclamation Association to Assem ble in Capital January 14. SALEM. Or., Dec. . (Special.) The meeting of the executive commit tee of the Western States Reclama tion association, which was scheduled to be held in Washington on Decem ber 11, has been postponed until Jan uary 14, according to a telegram re ceived today at the offices of the state engineer from Governor Davis prophecy is a 6ickening travesty on' of. Idaho. the majestic science of astronomy. It) The -delay In holding the meeting has already caused widely spread mental suffering here and in Europe. This is'the limit of limits. "Calm all fears the planets will not be anywhere near their common straight line of December, and if they should be. and originate huge spots on the sun, and the spots and adja cent explosions occur, then the earth will be far and away from. their cen tral line of concentrated pull on urge of gravitation." It's all very reassuring. So far as Portland is concerned the police bu reau promises to have the (situation well in hand end of the earth or no end of the earth. Inspector Circle of the detective bureau admits that he has placed three of his best sleuths on the job with instructions to investi gate thoroughly. Mayor Baker says mat ne wui meet fate in the city hall, where so oft he has met It before. mere is a general tendency, even among laymen, to minimize the event as a marvel of press agenting that will dismally fall to produce the ad vertised spectacle. 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