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
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"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.
The sight of a woman member being
dragged down the floor by attend
ants instead of advancing up it amid
the gallant salutations of the house
would have put a different complex
ion on the proceedings.
SUFFRAGE SESSION TODAY
Colorado Legislature to Act on
Anti-Radical Laws.
DENVER, Colo., Dec 7. The Colo
rado legislature win convene at noon
tomorrow in special session to ratify
the woman's suffrage amendment and
act on recommendations of Governor
Shoup for anti-radical laws, emergen
cy appropriations and an antl-auto
mobile theft law.
Girls Sue for $5000 Eacb.
WALLA WALLA, Wash., Deo. 7.
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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. And yet and
yet
What if this professorial Porta
should have the correct slant at it all?
was decided upon, - according to the
telegram, because of the many im
portant matters to be considered by
congress early in December. Many
of these problems will be disposed
of soon after January 1 and the mem
bers will then be In a position to
give the reclamation committee more
attention.
Mother. Dies From Grief.
SOUTH BEND. Wash., Dec. 7.
(Special.) Heart - broken through
grief over the death of her son,
Thomas, Mrs. Gregor Vettor, a pio
neer of Frances, passed away at her
home there Tuesday morning. She re
turned from Salem, Or.. Monday after
noon, accompanying the remains of
the son, and was taken 111 following
her arrival.
Farm Near Independence Bought.
RICKREALL. Or.. Dec. 7. (Spe
cial.) Loroc C. Rulifson, who was
with an engineering unit in overseas
service, has purchased the model farm
of the Oregan land settlement com
mission, near Independence. The prop
erty consists of 62 acres, all in a higb
state of cultivation and fully equipped
and stocked.
COMING!
Clara Kimball Young
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