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Show THE LEW SUN, LEW, UTAn s--- a - - ,mmmmammmmmim -.;t'f,' VV '- r ( 3 iit IS M?1 v . 1v,-f fif. ' ? p ilft lla'ay o' "Natures "t"1" u( lMwii v , J fi X IM 'U put to shame the most ambl- . N f M fhj X iTvrntPchnlcal effort that the NW. J' I? ' 3 1 A V r!ii,. l A , ' i,, -' , AVti're .::7.-.:;.-f.:.-:::-: tutu II 'J mir, hind 1 CiKtp: l kit i a uGt. M uk r.J ... ri MO SCOTT WATSON '. I " ion flpA the earth -4 ft Triune stars," a spectacular dls- 0f "Katures ui'" .- ,111 nut to snanie mo V ;;prrotechn.cal effort that h 3 mind of man couiu puooimj w,.. A Astronomers believe there Is a chance that It will. For, according to their j ttlcolatlons, such a display la at least fl , rear overdue. Here Is the reason: On the nigiits oi iuvcuiuci r the world was visited with the greatest meteors of which there Is any certain ID along the eastern seaboard of the Ues people looked up at a sky that itllr aflame with "falling stars," many u brilliant as the most brilliant "fixed ' tit flrmament "The stars fell on this i ate flakes of snow" one observer has "and It was calculated tnat ai least f them had fallen during a period of srs." ' neoDle besan to recall that exactly on fa date In 1799-84 years earlier there U i similar shower or "railing stars." j 1SG6 there was a great shower and In a nly slightly less spectacular than the ::j year. Perhaps It was only coincidence m showers had come at 33 or 34 year !j or perhaps It was another manlfesta-tbt manlfesta-tbt regularity of Nature. At any rate, jonomers looked for another shower In i It failed to materialize. Neither did It b aert year. Evidently the 33 or 34-year tad been skipped entirely. mutated b.v the failure of the Leonids 1st Is the scientific name of these "fall- Ira") to appear on schedule time in 1809, roomers eyed the heavens hopefully on if 12 and 13, 1932. But once more they e minted, as thev were acaln last year. lidj 4 I of them still think that this coming J :e may see the display of "Nature's flre- shBlIar to those of the years mentioned What has happened to these showers of it periods of one-third of a century? J. knows, The disappearance of the Leonids of the mysteries of science, jm except as they come In showers like jMids, are not at all uncommon. There ft a clear, moonless nieht when you can- i outside your house and see several of in the course of 15 minutes. The most of ! conrse, are very small mere little wisps !' that shoot across the heavens. But now 'a yon may see a much brighter one. At itaogh not many of us will have the luck ' one comes with a thunderous noise e roar of a cannonade, and a. brilliance ms the eyes. re these fiery travelers through our -:iien used to think that they were actu- !1 Kpnfran lMM it l . j - iuubc iiuiu lueir uiuunuKS. 2 J are still many men who hold to ram, uui u is very iar irom true, are great suns, manv of thpm vastly 1 aa oar own unn. nnii mini Ana nntn mll. ""lies distant from our solar system. of H ltt tte fie,y display of stones, captured . 3 'Store h tti ...t.i.i m .v j iuc KtavlLHLlUII UI LI1H tfUTLU. to incandescence hv th frlntion nf flat blankets our globe. These stones atmosphere at almost unthinkable Png from 28,000 to 160,000 miles per incomes of them? Thev do not rwH the h around us? N0. thft most of thom ff I WIe still many miles above I iDd then' however, one that is yj iL , np before k hlts the o"1"1 8101188 are ca,le(5 meteorites. jc4 rir,fand8 of them- weienin frm J wl SeTeral tons' are on exh,blt ln 1 1 SiJJS6011' farmers may happen at Ste- p"t Harvey H. Ninlnger of t tte world's greatest authority on ? VtSfT"5 anywnere in the United f- f . &St one 8tone from sky STi ? h oki- 18 a ,arSe one- or it may Em k!m. i- vu experience, collected more than 1,500 of P past n years. His specimens i Is f4- in iLmost every ,aree museum ln Si NSParls Berl,n Vienna; In S I I Sm "" ' the Smithsonian f I jAlnston. in the Museum of Nat- ! K oL Trk Qt': na to many ST UJZ?.?? has "ted even one 'J neat 4 fOiJ I m i sua. .. v. t uas coected even one- j 4"Ron,. t B mwsi 01 rroressor 1 l tW Mre J" bought from farmers . i v.r!B "P hile Blowing n- f li'l 1 for when one know d N:iroaJ; meteorites are one of . lr.rites or stony meteorites. S t false., w black on the outside, f tiri' . :.when 0De a lain ex- time. I irin v.vi nuier case, or 1 1 a mi i hiV"7 beaTy- 0ftei ,-il!,eu,,PJt in It, which Mi ften, but not . somewhat 'iD Dd fioeer, aT. JZ" . -s was, i - , -u.ugc ib, SV'7l7 "f "ome otLer , ? ' meteorit . t ,r bit hp t ,.., f Ilear!e- than the .vera. i ttJ are alwuyi black on 3 X. i .. ... . . 1. Great crater left by the enormous meteorite which fell near the present site of Wlnslow, Ariz., some time before the white man came Into In-to that country. It Is almost a mile across and 600 feet deep. The meteorite, weighing several million tons, is burled more than 1,500 feet be low the level of the desert. (Photograph by Fairchild Aerial Surveys.) 2. Prof. Harvey Ninlnger of the Colorado Museum of Natural History examining the Para- goutd meteorite which he found himself and which is the largest meteorite ever seen to fall and later recovered. It fell at 4 o'clock In the morning of February 17, 1930, near Paragould, Ark., and weighs, together with three other fragments frag-ments broken off from it, 905 pounds. 3. A typical stony meteorite. This one almost hit a man standing In his dooryard. 4. A typical Iron meteorite. This one fell near Chihuahua, Mexico. 5. Hole In the earth made by the meteorite which fell near Paragould, Ark. 6. Widanstatten figures When an Iron mete orite Is polished and treated with acid, these lines come Into sight They are found only in Iron meteorites. the outside when newly fallen, turning to red dish-brown in the course of time. Inside, how ever, they differ greatly from iron meteorites and also from one another. One common kind looks very much like a piece of grayish-white cement, covered with a coat of black paint; or, If it Is an old fall, of black paint mixed with rusty brown. Another kind is quite black Inside. Indeed, they may be almost any shade between black and white under their outer crust Stony meteorites are also often pitted, but the pits are seldom as sharply defined as they are In the Iron variety. After the surface has turned from hlnok to reddish-brown. It often looks a eood deal like the crust of a loaf of cracked wheat bread, with similar little flakes scattered over It These flakes may also be seen while the surface Is black. They are flakes of metaL To see a meteorite actually crash to earth is one of the most spectacular sights among nat ural phenomena. One vivid description of a fall some rears ago tells us that the noise was like "heavy cannonading, accompanied by an unearth ly hissing,'' and that the ground trembled as in an earthquake. People rushed from their houses In frieht and though It was mldafternoon, they saw a great "dazzling" ball of fire In the heav ens, "like to the moon Id size, sputtering ana throwing off a long train of sparks," and leaving ln Its wake "a heavy line of black smoke." This meteorite fell In more than a thousand frag ment near Forest City. Iowa. One piece, weigh ing 68 pounds, fell near a farmer in a field and buried Itself more than three feet In the hard prairie soil Hardly a year passes without a fall somewhere In the United States, witnessed by persons who testify to Its splendor and frightening aspect Fortnnatelv. however, we have never been vis ited by a meteorite such as fell on the Isolated steppes of north-central Siberia In 1908. The force of the air, blasting out from it mowed flat more than seven hundred square miles of dense forest It killed a herd of 1,500 reindeer, and forced a train, 400 miles south, to stop In order Jo keep on the rails. A Russian farmer, 50 miles away, was knocked nnconsclous and returned re-turned to his senses to find the air so hot that he feared his clothes would catch fire. His house wna demolished. This great mass of Iron, buried deep In the ground. Is estimated to weigh 40,000 tons; but it Is small Indeed when compared to another mass that fell on the desert plains near Win-slow, Win-slow, Ariz, In a time before the white men came there. This enormous meteorite, which bored Its way more than 1,500 feet Into the earth. Is known to weigh several million tons. It left behind It a crater almost one mile across ana nearly COO feet deep, as It appears today. Many other tremendous falls have happened since the world began. No doubt If were t0 explore the bottoms of the oceans, we wouia find hundreds of great masset of stone and Iron burled In the alime. Other great masses are burled beaili 5ur feet nd the craters wwen they left behind them have been obliterated by wind and rain. It has been discovered very recently, re-cently, however, that traces of these craters may sometimes be seen when viewed from aloft ln an airplane. Several groups of them have been found ln America during the past two years. Where do meteorites come from? It Is supposed sup-posed that they are fragments of comets which have been torn f apart by the powerful gravitation gravita-tion of the sun and the larger planets of the solar system. The Leonids are believed to be fragments of Temple's comet, which has disappeared disap-peared like the meteor showers. Another comet, known as Biela's, was actually seen to break up and finally to vanish entirely; but now we are showered with an unusually large number of meteors whenever it should be In the neighbor hood of our earth, according to the computations of astronomers. How many meteorites have really hit the earth? Professor Ninlnger estimates that more than 87,000 of them have fallen on every square mile of the earth's surface since the mammoth roamed the steaming forests of prehistoric times. That means that the very ground on which we walk is made up largely of the dust into which they have fallen. Confirmation of that belief Is seen In the the ory advanced recently by Ralph W. Stone, assistant as-sistant state geologist of Pennsylvania, that a coating of meteorite dust 19 inches thick lies on the surface of the earth. This coating Is an accumulation of 60,000,000 years or more, he says, and is constantly being Increased, although at such a slow rate that it Is not noticeable. Out of 470 meteorite falls since meteorites be came known and accredited, 125 years ago, 130,-000 130,-000 individual meteorites have been recovered, or an average of 277 a fall. This figure supplies one meteoric stone for each 400 square miles of land surface of the globe ln a century and a quarter. Most of the falls were observed ln areas of comparatively dense population and where surface sur-face conditions were favorable for observation of the landing and for recovery. "If we consider the 287 witnessed falls In European Eu-ropean countries, Russia, India, Japan and the United States, amounting to 129,349 individual meteorites or 450 stones a fall, ln a combined area of 7,250,000 square miles, we have one meteorite me-teorite for every miles," Mr. Stone says. "During the 125 years only two falls from which stones were recovered were observed In the whole western third of the United States, apparently due to spare population and the nature of the terrain. Although practically all observed falls from which stones are recovered occurred in daytime, there is no reason for assuming as-suming that falls are not Just as frequent at night . "On these assumptions, it Is conservative to estimate that in these twelve countries at least ten times as many meteorites fell as were recovered, recov-ered, or one to each five and a half square miles." . , . If the rate of fall of the last century has been constant according to the assistant state geologist each square mile of 'jra n celved 727 meteoric units. In the 60,000.000 years since the beginning of tertiary times, on this basis of computation, the earth received 87,240 meteorites a square mile. The weight of the 12949 stones recovered," he continued, "was 17,074 pounds. This Is a very low average, since the larger stooes usually bury themselves, but this figure gives about two ounces a stone. ' This would mean a five-ton a -wjuare-mlle average for the entire earth, In the last 123 ye-Sbould we continue the computation for long, er periods we get Into ponderable figure.. Then. ,f we figure not from the beginning of tie ter-tiary ter-tiary time but from early Paieoric time. COO,. 000000 rather than 60.000,000 years go. we get a weight of material which certainly would make The earth wabble on Ua axis If concentrated In one spot on the surface." JeSlei the meteorite, which lani about a mIlUon an hour aily are consumed In our atmosphere at-mosphere before striking the earth. Mr. Stone of that would mean 50,000 ton. of mete. H fftlng down dally th elobe. however, the result would b a layer one SdU thick in 10.000 years, or a blanket 19 feet deep In 60,000.000 Howe About: Using Soldiers Destroying Our Nation John D. Rockefeller ft BU Syndloctc WNU Samoa. By ED HOWE WE HAVE a good many profes. slonal soldiers who live in con-sltlerable con-sltlerable magnificence and Idleness Idle-ness ln our expensive forts ; cavalrymen cavalry-men devote much time to fancy riding rid-ing not required In war; army posts are the mainstay of the aristocratic aristocrat-ic game called polo. Since we pay an enormous soldier sol-dier tax, why not make some sensible sen-sible use of soldiers? Why not distribute dis-tribute squads of them over the country and require them to get exercise ex-ercise by chasing highwaymen, bank burglars, the radicals who bomb peaceful and useful business Institutions, Insti-tutions, and beat np peaceable workmen? Why not a thousand soldier camps instead of a few dozen luxurious ones like the Presidio, a show place In San Francisco? Why not use the fighting men we employ at such terrific expense In maintaining maintain-ing reasonable order in a thousand different communities? There Is a man named Oswald Spengler whose writing one hears a good deal about Ills book called 'The Decline of the West" Is an attempt to prove that the United States Is going to the devil, and that nothing can stop it Mr. Speng. ler does not specially criticize ns for throwing our cookstoves and beds away, and going back to camp-fires camp-fires and brush piles, except that his statistics seera to show that while nations always destroy themselves them-selves with dissension and false progress, our pace la rather more rapid than has been the rule ln national na-tional destruction heretofore. Civilization, Mr. Spengler declares, de-clares, always destroys Itself because be-cause people demand too much of It After a man gets one bath room, and Is fairly comfortable ln his home, he demands two or three; It was lately charged against a prominent citizen of Texas he had nineteen. Now he has lost not only his nineteen nine-teen bath tubs, but his house, and the fortune that supported It Ills neighbors who had but one bath room took after this aristocrat, and caught him. They are all going to the creek for bathing now, but they had an enjoyable fight. Mr. Spengler believes the special speed we have displayed in going to the devil is due more to our editors edi-tors than to any other cause. The American newspapers, he charges, have thrown away the brakes and pursue a wide open policy; they drive as fast ln everything as their readers drive their new automobiles, automo-biles, and wrecks will Inevitably destroy de-stroy us a little earlier than has been the rule in older civilizations. A few conservatives are begging for reasonable delay in traveling the road to destruction: for at least as much moderation as the Greek and Romans displayed, but ours Is a fast age, and probably we shall continue con-tinue to step on it Considering the many bad things I have known other men to do, I conclude John D. Rockefeller is an exceptionally good man. Ills father was a runaway, and deserted a good wife and her little children, but John was a good boy, and took care not only of his mother and his younger brothers and sisters, but looked up bis father and helped hira, too. When John had children of his own, he had family prayers, and tried to bring them up right The Rockefeller foundation, the greatest philanthropy in the history of the world. Is still on Its feet although al-though possibly staggered a little by the recent depression. At ninety-three ninety-three old John is still pursuing his policy of saying little, and doing much. In moral conduct, finance, fairness, common sense, bis average is higher high-er than that of any other man I know from reading the papers. Of course he has been rich a long time, but this Is the most excusable of faults, since every one is trying to be guilty; and I predict that after be ha. been dead long enough for gossip to get around to the truth (which it always does) his monument monu-ment will be a little higher than those of Goethe, the poet Hannibal, the general, or Plato, the philosopher. philoso-pher. After all. it is the Butter and Egg Mao who is in position to most Influence In-fluence and better the world by making a higher average ln the practical things. Writing a bit of poetry, winning fight or tossing off a philosophical philosoph-ical gem, are small matters compared com-pared with the daliy Butter and Egg struggle; in this John D. Rockefeller Rockefel-ler has long been a master and made an exceptionally high average aver-age from a boy of fourteen to so old man of ninety-three. There Is a bold, merciless thing called Right Opposed to it Is a timid thing making explanations called Wrong. There 1. no natural excuse for blackguards; they never get a. xnncb out of life a. gentlemen do. BRISBANE THIS WEEK Revolution in Austria Why Paint Toenails? Slow Waltz, Less Fighting Watching the lien Lay Vienna and what Is left of Austria Aus-tria are threatened with a revolution. revolu-tion. Signs placed secretly on mall boxes read: "Worker, and comrades, remain united and be careful The day of revenge . la coming." Signed A Fighter." With that comes news that the Vlenua-Parls-London express train was wrecked ln Austria by the removal re-moval of a steel rail, causing the death of a fireman and one other and Injuring many. The result of such tactics, keeping travelers and money out of Austria, may be to bring revolution more rapidly. In New Orleans the convention of "American Cosmeticians," manufacturers man-ufacturers and distributors of things that ladles put on their faces, an nounco more in the way of transformation trans-formation than has been seen thus far hair of many colors, easily changed; very fine "precious atoue" effects on the finger nails. Many tilings can be forgiven, but bope and pray that ladles and cosmeticians cos-meticians can be persuaded to give op painting the toenails. It I. a terrible thing when a young woman crosses her legs to see, peeping out of new-fangled sandals, a big toe with a nail made to look like a ca-bochon ca-bochon ruby. Knowledge of mob psychology Is shown In the statement of a night dab manager. "When a fight breaks out In the club the orchestra has orders to stop Jazs and everything exciting and play a slow, dreamy waltz. That quiets them." According to information obtained by Mr. "Whirligig," a quiet waits keeps those not interested In the fight from Joining ln. An Intelligent Frenchman, Gus-tave Gus-tave Le Bon, has written a book called La Foule ("The Crowd"), that confirms the night club manager's mana-ger's theory. Crowds do not reason ; logical arguments have no effect on them. But music does affect them, and so doe. loud yelling. A distinguished American, living In Spain, told bow wonderfully fresh the eggs were. . The farmer's wife would watch the ben Bitting on the nest taking the egg as soon as It wa. laid, and give It to the American for breakfast Similarly, the earnest conscientious conscien-tious American tax collector, watch the country', buslnes. men sitting on the Industrial nest and take away the dollar as soon as it Is made. The veterans' administration In Washington laid down the Interesting Interest-ing rule that blind veterans of the World war should receive twice a. much as a soldier who lost a leg la battle. The legless veteran gets $119 a month as a maximum. If he ha. lost the use of both feet, or both hands, or one foot and one hand and one eye, be can get a maximum of $175 a month. A veteran totally blind Is entitled to $150 a month, plus $50 for a nurse or attendant "even though the blindness resulted from willful misconduct" Except Insanity, no misfortune Is greater than loss of eyesight If you feel gloomy and perhaps begin to feel that "the world 1. going go-ing to the dogs," remember that the Gracchi believed It in Rome long ago. Adam and Eve believed It when they were put out of the garden. gar-den. The world has alway. been "going to the dogs," yet alway. getting get-ting better. May first, according to the President', Presi-dent', proclamation, will be "Child Health day." The best way to promote pro-mote child health I. to encourage abundant distribution of the right kinds of food for children, particularly particu-larly good, fresh milk, butter, eggs, fresh vegetables, fruits, at reasonable reason-able prices. To pay farmers to cut down production pro-duction of sucb things, and fore up price may be good for prosperity, pros-perity, but It will not be good for the health of children. In the Stroud (Okla.) prison young Mr. Raymond Boles, If that Is hi. right name, know, that young, shrinking, timid American girl, .re sometimes dangerous. He walked Into the Rudell borne, pistol In bawl, told Mildred, sixteen, and her sister, Iillian, seventeen, that he wa. none other than the famous fa-mous tandit "Pretty Boy" Floyd, demanded the key to their absent father', automobile. Lillian took away hi. pistol, Mildred beld him by the hair. Since Uncle Sam went off the gold bast, and began buying gold at any price be had to pay, ne na brought serosa the water about $700,000,000 worth of new gold, an Increase In our gold reserve greater than the total gold ownership of any other nation of earth, except France, England and Spain, ThI. make. Europe feel dubious about "selUng dollar, short" WNU Serrfce Ediioa's Firt Fortune Marshall Lefferts, former president presi-dent of the Western Union, once engaged Thomas Edison to Improve the stock ticker, whereupon the Ohio boy produced the Universal Printer which he thought wa. worth $5,000, but he woi!ld have taken $3,000. When Lefferts asked blm If he would take $10,000, the Inventor nearly fainted. The teller of the bank where Edison took the check, being a practical Joker, gave the Ohio lad the entire amount ln small hills. Laboriously Bluffing them Into every pocket be took them home and sat up all night to guard his fortune. Dice of 2750 B. C. Found Shooting dice was a sport Indulged in as far back as 2750 IV. C according accord-ing to research workers who have discovered a dice dating from that time. It is thought to come from ancient Mesopotamia. It differs from modern dice In that the latter are so marked that the sura of the dots on any two opposite sides total seven, the numbers on the ancient cube are arranged so that five opposes op-poses four and two opposes three. The Molly Maguirei The Molly Magulres were members mem-bers of an Irish secret society organized or-ganized In 1843. They dressed la women's clothes, blackened their faces, or otherwise disguised themselves, them-selves, to prey upon agents employed to enforce the payment of rent A similar secret society tn the mining districts of Pennsylvania was known, by the same name about 1S77. PoueMion In Africa The British empire Includes more thnn twenty different colonies In Africa, Af-rica, having a total area of 8.S.13,-000 8.S.13,-000 square mites and a population of slightly over 50,000.000. France has only ten possessions ln Africa, but their area Is 4,300,000 square miles and the population between 80,000,000 and 87.000.000. Longfellow's "HiawatW The Hiawatha celebrated by Long fellow Is not an actual historical character. The name Is the title of a chieftainship hereditary ln the Mohawk tribe, and the first known and most celebrated to bear the name was a great reformer and statesman who probably flourished about 1570 A. D. TELLS liC',7 SHE TOO 4 IKS. OFF HIPS 7 MS. OFF WAIST Tn 40 days hy taking Kruschen Salts, Mm. H!r lilaugh of New York City reduced 2(i lbs. took 4 inches off hips, 3 inches oil mat and 7H inches off waiMt. gin write: "I haven't gone hungry a moment mo-ment I feel fine and i ?l j 1 ltK1t iu you"g''r.' 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