Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-06-27 | Page 7 | About Earth's Shape

I q 11 ABOUT EARTHS EARTH'S SHAPE 1 i S I Hy Ii- DR un WllLIAM E E. It is rel related and therefore mn may maj be true that a small boy who had not pot made a brilliant success of re recitations In geo geography raphy came to his written examination ex ex- animation and confronted the question What is the shape of ot the earth He could not recall the answer that was Vils In InI InI I the book but remembered more or less Jess I indistinctly some things which he lie had aard and so wrote his lIS answer The earth arth I is i in bad shape That answer should have c g him a s passing mark marie on his entire paper laper The earth I h i is in bad shape Those Those- pe peo by plo Us Its who h regard It aa aasi as si flat fe fer are r troubled t who inequalities of ot f surface and those regard I it as round are to Compelled admit that It poles ioles oles and that it is flattened at th thE wab les at an a absurd angle as i it makes maes its dally daily upon its own unsteady axis an and man mani I I II i I 6 es t s no 1 little Itt I e eccentricity in Its Its' an journey around the sun Even Eyen this is not the whole story human part of it is badly out of ot ad adment ment Most rost of ot the people In thet except ourselves are are more or less and the more welk about ourselves the less certain we that we also are not in bad shape Nevertheless Ne er I am unwilling that thal bO boys boy's B answer should go unqualified earth has a fairly fairl creditable a good many centuries for keeping ular hours It does the days day's won wona worl a a. schedule that can but excite our for its reliability v vIt It is the best world any of us known thus far and may be the that some of ot us are likely to have Let us admit that it is Js In sonic some in bad shape Let us us' us se working together we cannot bett better r hape We Ve cannot do m le restore the rotundity of the poles not many of ot us are anxious to toj there anyway m We Ve can do something to Improve part of the earth where we act I live and that js is s the part that mo most cerns I us