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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH rHE Cntered Act of t RICH t second March 3. COUNTY 0tt REAPER class matter Feb. 8, petjlefiem ie gtar gfjone ill jf oreber pe a Jflpsiterp to detente 1928 1879. the Post Office. Randolph. Utah, under tk Vo. E. Marshall, llntiness Manager SUBSCRIPTION 11.50 Per Year in Advance Layton Marshall, Editor and Proprietor i - Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features. Could It Have Been A Comet, a Group of on the long journey. Keplers theory satisfied pretty well until 1826, when Professor Ideler of Berlin pointed out that at no time are the three planets in absolute conjunction so that they would appear as a single star, even to the naked By ELLIOTT PINE eye. Another piece of evidence tending & to cast doubt on the Kepler theory Is oto tofren 3Teus tea born in was brought in by the geographers. JBetfjlefjem of lubes in tfje bap of They showed that ther were no roads or trails through the mountaine &erob tfje bing, beftolb ous regions that the wise men had tm'se men from tfje Cast to Jerusalem. to traverse on which they could keep i i born the planets in sight for any length that t !3bere fearing, of time. So this attractive explanatoe een babe of Jfor Jetos? tht Itfng bi star in tbe east, anb are come to tion gradually faded out. It will not be until early in the 25th century, toors&ip &fai. however, that scientists can test the full possibilities of Keplers conjecEHfjeti $erob tbe fclng bab bcarb these thing, be tea troubleb, anb ture. It is not entirely ruled out until this time comes. all Jerusalem feoitb &im. Perhaps a Comet. In the last century came a new fjen &erob, tofcen be bab pribilp attempt to explain the Star. Prof. talleb tbe boise men, inquireb of R. A. Proctor propounded the theory them biligentlp bibat time tbe tar appeareb. WNU Release. VTEW YORK. In the drum beat of bombs exploding on Berlin, Dr. Jan Maarten de Moor, newly appointed Dutch representative on the United Planets, or a Nova? , Wants Extradition Nations Of War Criminals Commission Condition of Peace fJ.KS states: The favorable war situation makes It more imperative for the commission to start functioning properly. War Crimes, trend in the tfjere-cstn- In other words. Hitler and his pals may expect a summons any day now. DutchThe sturdy man is determined that one mistake made after the last war will not be repeated. The extradition of war criminals must be made a condition of surrender now. The commission, he believes, must work through the national courts of the Allied nations. Dr. De Moor escaped to England Immediately after the German invasion of the low countries. In London he has served as president of the Netherlands Navigation council and also of the Netherlands Mari-am- e court. A sound experience in law fits him for these responsibilities. After receiving his degree from the Municipal University of Amsterdam in 1918, he went on to become Doctor of Political Science in 1923. In 1928 he was appointed fudge of the Almelo court; in 1934, judge of the Rotterdam high court; ind then in 1939 he was elected vice president of the Netherlands Law society. which must He is Rotterdam-bormake his appointment to the War Crimes Investigation group grimly satisfying. I&ben tbep bab bearb tbe bing, tbepbeparteb; anb lo, tbe star, tofjttfj tbep sahi in tbe east, toenf before them, till it stoob ober tbe spot habere tbe poung cbilb baa. Klfjen tbep sab) tbe star, tbep baitb exteebing great )op. -f- llattbebi eb 2:2-1- 0 'T'HE Star! Matthew calmly the appearance of this marvelous heavenly portent as a historical fact. For 1900 years many millions have believed that the majestic and unimaginably beautiful herald of the Messiah actually shone over Bethlehem, casting a of effulgent glory on that stabeam still but p'CHOES seven years old where ble the young child was. pretty plain drift around as that has seemed It entirely fitting that swagger little admiral, Zengo moves into Japans Supreme the birthplace of Christ should be re-cor- ds n, Yo-shid- a, pointed out in so magnificent a manFew laymen ever thought of lofty perch questioning the reality of that star, although nothing like it ever was in11Tokyo ke known before or after the momendo his level best to lick the tar out of tous event. But astronomers, being the United States, and it is this im- exact scientists, have tried to reconminent effort which stirs up the old cile the evangelists words with the known facts on the nature and moechoes. tions of heavenly bodies. The other Seven years ago the admiral three Gospels, by the way, do not sailed some pointedly rattletrap mention the star. warships along our coasts and In the 17th century, Johann Kepeverywhere he anchored he widone of the greatest of the early ler, ened his brown eyes at repor-toriwhile calculating the astronomers, mutterings about Japans orbits of the planets Jupiter, Saturn in the Pacific. expansion Purely and Mars, extended his figures back commercial, no more! Military? to the time of Christ. He discovered The very idea! Naval? With that these three planets were in conold tubs like these two? Why, junction in the year 7 B. C., accordthat is unthinkable. ing to the calendar. Making alThe training squadron he com- lowance for the well known error manded amounted to only two ves- in dating the year of Christs birth, it was possible to call the year 7 sels, one as old as the Russo-Japa- flese war, and he made it clear he of our era as actually the year in would have been happier with even which Christ was born. Now if, as less. Because Japan had no im- Kepler calculated, the three planets ambitions. The Philippines? were very close together in that perial She hadnt even a symptom of an year, they would form a brilliant interest in the Philippines. glow in the sky, during the month of December. So, Kepler reasoned, This was the song he sang, the conjunction of these planets was sweet and low, at a luncheon Star of Bethlehem. the of the Japan Society in New In Sign of Pisces. York city while his officers and crews rambled innocently around This conjunction appears in the taking pictures. He was a good sign of Pisces, or the Fishes, every 800 years. Since the sign of Pisces looking singer. He had a strong, had a special meaning to the Jews, agreeable face, a good chin, fineit was entirely logical for the Magi ly etched lips, and his clothes His starched whites to interpret an apparently new star helped. would have stood alone. And within this sign as the long awaited his gaze was beautifully candid as he told how happy he felt in friendly, hospitable America. Even a suspicious onlooker would have sworn Pearl Harbor never had entered the little cagey coots head. Admiral Yoshtda Is Finally Singing True to the Pitch appears from sight. Seldom do they last more than a few days. So if a nova of extraordinary brilliance did burst forth a few days or weeks before the birth of Christ, this could be the Star toward which the wise men hurried, so long ago. It must be remembered, however, that the nova, if such it was, actually had burned out long before the first Christmas eve, because most of the stars are so distant that light takes many years to travel from them to the earth. Only lately the Nova has been seen, but its light has been traveling through space for 1300 years, at 186,000 miles a second. Learned Guesses. But these conjectures and scientific guesses are simply that guesses. No one knows just what the Christmas Star was, or how it directed the wise men from the east to the little town of Bethlehem. It may be that, since there were prophecies to guide the Magi to that village in Judea, the Star did not exactly point the way, as some fanciful legends have put it, but merely indicated to the wise men the glorious day was near at hand. The director of the Adler Planetarium in Chicago comments that no star could stand still in the heavens while the three Magi plodded wearily onward. It would swing with the other stars in the daily round, as the earth turns on its axis. And again, a star could not remain fixed over the stable on that night of nights, casting down a great broad WAS IT A COMET? Theory that beam of purest light. That, is, no natural star could. It would the Star of Bethlehem might have move onward with the procession of been a comet was advanced in the 19th century. This photo, taken in the heavens, until it set below the 1940, shows Cunninghams Comet. horizon. A Miracle. , But the world has believed in that that the mystic. sign was really a comet. These celestial travelers of Star for 19 centuries. Scientists do space, flaring up suddenly, moving not deny that it could have been a across the sky often for days or miracle that Star of Wonder, Star weeks, and then disappearing, al- of Hope that shone over the crib ways impressed the ancients as of the Saviour. It is no more difficult to believe that a star could mighty portents. There are a few flaws in this the- send its beams down on that sacred ory, too, as several historians quick- spot than that angels sang to the ly declared. First, a comet was a shepherds, Glory to God in the fearful thing to all peoples of an- highest. It is one more marvel tiquity, a harbinger of evil to come, among many marvels. a warning of retribution for sin. From the Scriptures and from tradition it is known that the three wise The Magi, being learned in astrology, would know this, of course, and men or Magi (Magi was the term would not likely consider a comet for astrologer in the East) saw a an announcement of the Saviours great light in the sky, and took it for arrival. It is possible that these wise the Star that heralded the birth of men did not follow the prevailing the King of the Jews, who would superstition. They might have called deliver mankind from bondage. The some comet his star It is objectthree learned men, called kings by ed, however, that any comet bright tradition, mounted their camels, and enough to attract the wise mens at- came together, one from Chaldea, tention would be noted down in some one from Persia, and one from Arabia. Their names, according to Bede, secular history Josephus, in particwere Kaspar, Melchior, and Balular. There is no such confirmathasar. tory account. When they came to the stable in The Nova Theory. Bethlehem, they knelt in reverent Lately, a plausible and poetic theory has been presented. The Star wonder, like the simple shepherds of Bethlehem may have been a gathered about the Babe, and ofnova or suddenly blazing star. For fered their rich gifts of gold, franka brief time a nova may outshine incense and myrrh. Today, alevery star in the sky. The most though scientific knowledge has adsince the brilliant on record flared up in 1572. vanced a thousand-fol- d Another was observed by the afore- time of Christ, the mystery attached mentioned Kepler, and by Galileo, in to all that sacred story remains. 1604. Novae that can be seen by The Star of Bethlehem is still a the human eye are rare. It is only mystery to science. It will always since photography has been applied remain so, for there is no way to to astronomy that much is known recreate the physical conditions of about them. What causes the flamthat night, so long ago, and to innot is but known, phenomenon ing vestigate the phenomena with prepossibly it is occasioned by the col- cise instruments. But millions of. lision of two dead stars. The im- Christians will continue to believe pact liberates the fiery interiors of that the glorious symbol of hope, the two bodies, and the . seething the Star, shone over the little stable gases swirl and shoot in a glorious on that first Christmas, while celesdisplay of light. The nova may burn tial music floated over the countryfor some time, but eventually it side, and all the world was hushed cools and fades, and generally dis in wonder. messenger from heaven, and to start War council. ner. Fromhis , , al j , ctmm. efim 'teftE'1' And. never mmd For st-e- y Alone end heppy my dreem. Jrt ivvc'i Her-cul- is . ' WNU Features. CLASSIFIED DEPAR T M E N T OFFICE EQUIPMENT WE BUY AND SELL Office Furniture Files, Typewriters, Adding Machines. Sales BALT LAKE DESK EXCHANGE SB West Broadway, Salt Lake City, Utah. 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