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East Oreg'onlan Round -Up Souvenir Edition
Pendleton, Oregon, Friday, September 19, 1019
COMET COMING NEAR THIS YEAR AFTER
ABSENCE OF 70 YEARS FROM OUR MIDST
Second Traveller Will be Due Within Year; Comets are Tail
leas Now, Oases Beng Frozen-
MARKETS BUREAU HAS
GATHERED FACTS AS TO
' COST OF PRODUCTION
la the year 184, the year Leverrler
dlscovered the plunet Neptune, Dl VI
co, an ltallun astronomer, detected a
fulnt patch of llKht which proved to
be a comet on Ita way toward the sun,
writes W. H. Knight In the Brooklyn
Eagle. , It cams from distant space,
arriving at Ita perihelion between the
earth and the Bun In Murch of that
year, and was vlHlble for 10 weeks,
jtk orbit was computed by Dr. Pierce
of the Ilarvurd observatory and It wus
found to have a long period of 74
J ears and consequently it la now near
ly due to muke Its reappearance for
the first time since that orbit was de
tunntned. '
Hu. ley's comet, which shone mag
nificently In our skies In 110, has a
period of 76 years, and both
Hal ley's and Dl Vlco's comets have
their aphelion, or farthest distance
from the sun, a few million miles be
yond the orbit of Neptune, a giant
planet on tho outpost of our solar sys
tem. These are wild to belong to the
Neptune family of comets, the theory
being that comets coming from distant
apace on their way towards the sun.
If they happen to approach near that
great planet, will be swerved from
their course by Its powerful attraction
and will ever fefler revolve In a new
and closed elliptio orbit. J
Now, according to these calculi
tlons, Dl Vlco's comet must be tra
versing an orbit similar in extent to
Halley's, in which can It will be due
to return to this part of the solar ys- I
tern some time during the years of
1919 or 1920. The reason the exact
time of Its reaupearanee can not be
made more definite at the present ,
time, la that Is precise path of ap- ,
prouch toward the sun. Is not accur- i
atnly known, und if It should lie near
the great planet's Jupiter or Hatura
I's velocity would be either accelerat
ed or retorted in accordance with cer
tain luws governing two heavenly bod- 1
lea moving near each other In space.
Tailless Now.
Dl Vlco's comet should now be
within 800,000,000 miles of the sun.
but at that distance away lta gases
are frozen solid by the zero cold of
distant space. When, however. It ap
proaches as near the sun as the earth,
I the vivifying rays of that luminary
I will melt and expand those gases and
set up connective currents among
them, some of them boiling up to
wards the aun, and others being driv
en back by the Impact of the sun's
rays, thus forming that weird thing
a comet's tall.
The comet Itself will probably have
a bright nucleus, surrounded by a
hazy, nebulous envelope of gases,
which the telescope will show as per
meated with clouds of Illuminated
dust,. swirling and streaming In .a
state of violent agitation. , In anjf
event it will be an interesting object
for astronomical Investigation, and if
its course should lie within a few mil
lion miles of the earth, it will be a fine
spectacle for the unscientific observer.
. There Is another comet belonging
to the Neptune family which will be
due a year later. It Is Brorson's cot
et of74 years. It may be delayed a
year or so, or It may arrive in ad-
vance of its predicted time, and come
Into our skies at the same time. When
It does make Its next appearance it
will be studied with better Instru
ments than any which existed three
quarters of a century ogo, and by
means of that are boiling within Its
furnace of seething commotion and
what other new branch of chemical
and optical science spectrum analy
sis we shall be ubte to determine what
.ninls luminous particles aro being
twit with the velocity of light far out
Into the distant confines of our solar
system. It is a fascinating study.
The Federal market bureau has
data that will be placed at the dis
posal of congress when that body be
Kins investigating the high cost of liv
ng will be Information gathered dur
p tho pnt six years by the city mar
kets Its' ch of the Bureau of Murkets.
This section of the department of agrl.
culture is chiefly concerned with the
estubllHnjng of economic urban dis
trlli'. t ion t, stems for all classes of
produce. ,
Beraupe o the character of Its-work
and for want of authority to enforce
the adoption of Its plana by commu
nities, the division of city markets has
to cr.inlne Itself to advising munici
palities and groups of citizens con
cerning the means of eliminating ex
pensive overhead charges and thus re
ducing cost standards. Principal
among the recommendations of the di
vision will be permanent terminal
pluns, reduction of return hauls, and
sunltury and regulated market facili
ties, and these suggestions, it Is said,
ean e worked out so as to materially
reduce living costs. It is not claimed
they will have any effect on the pres
ent emergency, but that they will sta
ble future conditions and so stand
ardize conditions In the locality where ;
they are put into effect as to make '
living costs room easily regulated bv
state end municipal laws and ordinance.
wioilier feature of the Bureau of
Varkctr fight against the high cost of
living is the produce inspection serv
er, i.ow In the second year of Its "n-
forcement. This servio is intended
as a protection by producing shippers
middlemen and railroads handling
produce shipments. Under the in
spection service shipments to all
principal terminals and cities are in- j
spec-led on request and their condi-!
uon ou trrival Is reported. On this
report, accepted as prima facie evi-1
dci.e In the- dourts. the producer o- j
the c-.i-Rli'ncu adjusts claims for dam
airo and spoilage of produce In tran- 1
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HERE IS HOW RUSSIAN
B0LSHEVIKI CONDUCTED
ONE CONFISCATED MINE
JEWEn COLLECTION OF ANIMALS AND BIRDS,
- LOCATED IN PENDLETON, 17 YEARS VORK
(Continued froip pace 1.8)
so responsible for the habitat groups
of 8otith America which are a valu
able work as an employe of the U. able exhibit in the museum. .Since
6. Biological Burvey, also for the' 1912, when he became identified with
Field Museum of Chicago. and for the 'the Biological Survey, he has obtained
'state. He spent seven months in j for the government 844 birds and 2,
south America where he found 700 411 mammals. For the state he has
birds in the tropics which have been obtained 1000 mammals and 1000
placed In the Field museum. He la al- ! birds.
Antinterestlng object lesson of the
way the simon-pure brand of Russian i
Bolshevism in industry really works ,
is afforded by Carl Ackerman In htB j
book, "Training the Bolshev:ki," Just,
published by the Scrlbners:
"I recall meeting the manager of a
goldmine: near Ekaterinburg, an
American who had lived at the mine
years representing the foreigners who
had bought and developed It . When
the Bolshevikl controlled the local i
Soviet, they decreed him out of office, I
and decreed the mine the property of
the goldmine. Their dreams were
realized. They were no longer la
borers; they were owners!
"One might have thought that wor.
kers suddenly made point owners of i
a rich mine would have organized and
developed it. but they didn't. The
mine was their property. That satis
fied them, but the machinery was
made in France and wus. therefore a
symbol of Capitalism, so they destroy- ;
ed all the mach nes machines which t
ad been manufactured and brought j
to these shafts at an expense of 1,400, I
OOOfrancs. Then they began working
the mines In the most primitive fash
ion until the labor became too diffi
cult, and one after another the miners
drifted away."
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