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The End of the World By J. HUGH PRTJETT Aitronomr, Extension Division Oregon Higher Education System In his younger boyhood days the writer was kept in a constant state of fright by those who could prove "definitely" from biblical passages that the end of the world would come within two or three years. Every un usually dark cloud made the boy quake at the thought that our beautiful earth would be exploding and burned before nightfall. The expectancy of the end of the world has through the cen turies instilled both joy and dread in the minds of mankind. The early Christians seeming ly considered it an immediate and happy event. About A.D. 1100, the widespread belief that the certain end was right at hand surely influenced the ex cesses of the Crusades. WEEK END SPECIALS Weeping $(50 CHERRY J oBLUE SylOO CYPRESS 4 4 to 5 ft. o Golden 5)75 BERKMANSZ o IRISH $j00 JUNIPER 4 to 5 ft. A Basket of PANSIES With Every Purchase of $2.00 or Over Court Street NURSERY 1132 Court St. Many times during the past century a definite date for this terrestrial catastrophe has been assigned, but the old world still rolls right along through empty space, sustained by mighty( and orderly universal processes which are absolutely uninflu enced by the errors of human judgment. Some have thought that all earthly life would be poisoned should we ever pass through the tail of a comet.. But this has occurred twice during the past century (1861 and 1910) without any noticeable effect. And it is likely that heads of comets have struck the earth with only local ized destruction occurring. An asteroid impact might be some what similar. ' It is pretty well agreed that our moon, after getting farther from the earth for awhile, will in the distant future approach much nearer than now. How ever, because of tidal forces it will break up into countless pieces which will form a lumi nous ring around our world like the ring around Saturn. Aside from the inconvenience of some of the fragments ' tumbling to earth, this would cause no gen eral destruction. Sun Will Go Out Assuming the correctness of the present theory regarding the source of the sun's heat, old Sol will not "run out of fuel" for untold ages yet. But it will surely finally go out and leave our solor system with only the stars as the source of light and heat. A source or real destruction would be the approach of an other huge sun (a star) from the depths of space which might plunge into our sun. The increas ing brightness of such a star through the multitudes of gen erations while it would approach us, would allow scienists ample time to predict the end. If our sun should suddenly flare up as a nova, all life on the earth would soon be ended. Astronomers see the possibil ity of the earth's destruction at some future time through natural occurrences. But there is no evidence that this is an event of the near future. If it takes place at all, it may be a Sunday, April 17, 1931 MESFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE TPtZ ' On The Side (Distributed by Kiitf hope's Heart, my heart, wear crown No matter what fate may bring; Love that died in winter's frown May live again in spring. Think, of all that yet is thins. And of the world so far; Heart, my heart, do not repine. Still seek love everywhere. Heine. GOT THE REAL STUFF These 74 children in the Garfield School at Garfield, Utah, have a right to grin. They just learned that when they were innoculated last year they all got the real Salk anti-polio shots. None were given inactive vaccine. Is That So? Is an animal's mind like ours? Can an angleworm learn any thing? Can a raccoon think? A chimpanzee reason? A human, after all, has a superior, reasoning mind. He can employ conscious means to ward achieving planned ends; reason in abstractions; with imagination look forward into the future; by recalling past ex periences, guide himself in fu ture action; comprehend such imponderables as roundness and justice. Certainly these products oe- speak a reasoning mind out look, are they not all mature adult products? i million or a billion years from now. from the scientific stand point no time prediction is pos sible. no IN l Big PFctur 121" TV " THE MANHATTAN 21 I y'-j By Eugena Burnt Ranger-Naturalist Let's go back, back say when we were nine. What then? Was our comprehension of impon derable concepts as clear or as full as it is now? Patently, no. But make no mistake, there was an abundance of intelligence, And at age 9, we were capable of learning, and fast. But now, let's lift six years, and go back to the age of three Now,, what did we "see" at three' Certainly the world from our three-year old view -was most circumscribed, limited to the ball we were holding, the person standing next to us mother, father, brother Or neigh bor. But yet, although our con cept of the realities of life may have been fuzzy death as an end, for example, could not be comprehended yet, at three years our senses were alive, some, including eyesight, a good deal better than now. Sense Weak at Birth And before that? Let's go back even farther, beyond the vague understandings of hunger, sleep, security back to the mo ment we were born. What, then? Then, even our senses were weak: although our eyes were wide-open, yet we were blind because our vision was not backed by enough mind to re port and interpret the images; our nostrils were unable to re port what smells went through them; high notes struck on the piani meant nothing.. And back before that? As the human, develops in the womb, there is a time when he has gill slits, when he shows a tail in fact, looks just like a tadpole. And in that development from conception to mature adulthood, the human lives through the be ginnings of consciousness,- too, progressing gradually through awareness, finally attaining the ability to deal in abstractions In expressing ourselves, we be gin by making little whimpers or protestations and wind up contemplating an expanding universe. Animal's Mind Like Human's Again, can the angleworm learn. Can the raccoon think? The chimpanzee reason? Most assuredly, like humans, they can learn, think, and rea son. But any given animal's mind is like the human's provid ing you place him in the same relative stage of development from conception to death. When the babe is held by its mother while adults are convers ing about the new super-hydro gen bomb, 6,000 times as potent as the one which ' annihilated Hiroshima, is it filled with dread? No. No more than the tadpole which doesn't know to squirm as the kingfisher dives upon it. Certainly, the far, far away thoughts of adulthood are not the thoughts of childhood and the thoughts of a child are not the thoughts of animals, either. Can Find Way Through Maze Animals, however lowly in the scale, can learn. A worm patient ly . trained, can find its way through a simple maze. A cock roach, completely against its in stincts, can be taught to prefer light to darkness. A cat doesn't sit on a hot stove twice. To be sure, between the rac coon and the man there is a difference the 'coon may have the cunning to outwit a smart dog, but yet the racoon is ignor ant of the meaning of justice strictly, this is a product of a mature human being, whose mind has developed far and beyond that of raccoon. Admittedly, in the raccoon there is not enough mind to do calculus but there is enough mind to lure a dog away from her brood and into the water where she can drown him; or putting mussels on a sun-baked rock to make them open their shells. In the angleworm, mind flick ers feeble and small; in chim panzee it has grown to a much greater quickness; in human, it has progressed where it deals with imponderable concepts. But whether worm, raccoon chim panzee or human there is Not so long ago a color psy chologist said if a secretary wore a red dress it would stimulate her brain. Make her quicker on the trigger mentally. Now another expert on the same sub ject claims black typewriters are depressing. That they slow up a secretary and decrease her endurance. He suggests brighter colors for typewriters and favors yellow. Keep this in mind, mis ter. If your girl Friday seems a trifle slow mentally and lacking in speed as a typist, buy her a few red dresses and a yellow colored typewriter. Asking Queries from clients. Q. What are the seven buildings in New York City which are sixty sto ries in height or higher? A. I asked four Manhattan taxi driv ers this question and none could answer it completely. A. 1 Em pire State. 2 Chrysler. 3 Ci ties Service (60 Wall Street). 4. Bank 'Of Manhattan. 5 R.C.A. 6 Woolworth. 7 Num ber 500 Fifth Avenue. So they Say For those born under Virgo (August 23-September 22) the lucky color is purple; lucky day, Wednesday; lucky number, five. So if you are a Virgo, all you have to do is to put on a purple necktie, go out to the track on Wednesday and play five and five in the daily double. Or, so say the stargazers. Passing By Mae West. Last of the Brook lyn bonfires. With the aid of platform- shoes Mae achieves an illusion of height on the ,stage and screen but she is really only about five feet. Also, though she specializes in portraying sexy sirens, she leads a spinster-like existence in her private life. She neither drinks, smokes nor stays out late. As to her brief matri monial alliance of years ago with a man named Frank Wal lace, she once . said: "It was a kissless marriage. I am still a spinster." Briefly Ovid, author of "The Art of Love," maintained that no wom an really understands love until she is 35. Balzac agreed with him. . . . Get it right. The first man to be styled "Public Enemy Number One" was John Dillin ger The term "Public Enemy" as applied to criminals was ong inated by the great Chicago legal light, Frank Joseph Loesch. Sidelight Not everybody can wink with By E. V. Durling FstturM Syndicate, lac) both eyes. That is, wink first with the left eye and then with the right eye. Try it. If you can do it you are a Grade A winker. . . . The longest name in the Bible is Makershalalhaschbaz, and if you don't know in what chapter it appears, your Sunday school teacher should blush for your ignorance. Lot Letters Before you were married, how did your wife start off her letters to you? How about now? I am referring to salutations such as "darling," "beloved one," "honey bunch," etc. A reader of this column, a United States Marine, once told me he received a letter from his girl friend beginning, "my daring, divine, devastating, delightful, darling dream man." And that the letter concluded, "your itsy bitsy cuddling cutie." mind mind in the growing, from feeblest beginnings to con cepts without end. (Copyright, 1953, by Eugene Burns) (Released br McClure Newspaper. Syndicate) Free: Br special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo- oedia Americana, mr panel ' of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best auestion o'n nature and wild life a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous relerenc work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week, new ques tions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. 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