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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS, SPANISH FORK. UTAH B5!SfS13ISiaiSI0I3Siai3S13132ai3ISI2EI3ra 'I News Notes to Live in Bad Bach! Help That back Is a bad Wearing you out? Are you lame, achy, nervou and depressed? It a Privilege Utah Ogden. Hearing on the appointment of a receiver for the Interstate Sugar company, which Is sought In an action Instituted In the Second district court by the Columbia Trust company nas been postponed until September 2S by Judge James N. Kimball. Salt Lake City. Senator Reed Smoot has gone to Washington, where as a member of the American debt funding commission, he will assist tn preparing for the visit of. the Frerfch At the conclusion of delegation. these negotiations Senator Smoot will complete the framing of his 1360,000 tax reduction bill to be presented when congress again convenes. Richfield. Mr. pnd -- By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN SAID to an American of English birth, a Londoner, Wliata the longitude of Greenwich 7" He answered with a perfectly straight face, "I have never heard of such a place." I said, Why, Greenwich ' observatory, which gives the world Its time. It's only five miles from St. Paul's cathedral youve heard of that, havent your He said, Oh, you mean Grlnnldge and thats one on you. But I don't know Its I said, longitude. And thats a better one on you." Thereupon we both laughed. We havent really had 250 years of Greenwich time, hut 1925 Is the 250 anniversary of the building of the famous old Royal observatory perched on a hill In the middle of a park of 185 acres In Greater London. There was a garden party the other day in the park In Its honor, attended by King George and Queen Mary, many notables and the delegates to the International Astronomical onion. Man's Increasing appreciation of the Importance of time In his affairs has apparently kept pace with his progress In civilization. All over the world as g soon as man ceased from and settled down by a hearthstone he began making sundials, watercloeks and hourglasses and tinkering with calendars to make them correspond to the movements of the sun and moon and stars. And modern life Is in no small degree centered on the clock and the calendar. And when man had emerged from the Jungle the challenge of the sea hit him full. That challenge has been accepted since the day of the first hollowed-Iocanoe. At first even the most adventurous mariner kept close to land, so that he might beach his craft when the storm came. When his vessel got too big to be beached he ran out to the open sea to avoid being blown ashore. And when he found himself out of sight of land, with no sun showing, he was In danger. Small wonder Wat he set himself to the task of Inventing ways of determining the points of the compass, the location of land and his own location. By the Fourth century A. D., the compass came Into use In the Indian ocean. An observatory for the study of the stars was established about 800 B. C. And of the beginning of mnps and charts no man con say. After man had made up his mind that the earth was spherical In shape he made a globe and drew circles around It, one set paralleling the equator and the other set passing through the poles. He called the distance north or south of the equntor latitude (wide) and east and west measurement he called longitude (long). In a comparatively short time the nnvlgntor learned to approximate his latitude. But for a long time the determination of his longitude baffled him. This was a serious matter In many ways. If you send a man to a place "somewhere on Western avenue, Chicago." he will probably have trouble In finding It, for that street Is one of the longest In the world. But If you say, Western avenue and Madison street," It wl be easy. No wonder some of the early maps are all askew, with the geographers and cartogrn pliers guessing at the longitude I In these latter days, latitude Is the distance of a In place north nr south of the equator, measun degrees, minutes and seconds, the equator being represented by 0. In a degree of latitude there are 00 minutes, each possessing the value of u sea mile (0,080 feet). In modern practice the latitude an.be determined at sea In alx different ways. The most usual Is to take an observation of the sun In cloudy weather. It at meridian or can be taken from the pole star, from the sturs, from the moon. Longitude determination nowadays Is simple when you know how and have sextant and clocks. For difference of longitude and difference of time Naught-naught-naug- ' jungte-travelln- g 1 gm TFrrtmJ?. rrs. xrAy& ctBvzmxjsr correspond. Thus the local time of 15 degrees west of Greenwich Is one hour slow of Greenwich time and so on, an hour for each fifteen degrees of longitude. Thus to find the longitude of any given place It Is only necessary to find out how much Its time Is fast or slow of Greenwich time. On shipboard the navigator uses a chronometer, the error of which In Greenwich mean time and its dally rate of gain or loss are ascertained In port. A navigator therefore finds his local time by observing the sun through a sextant The difference In time multiplied by 15 gives the longitude In degrees. Of course the length In miles of a degree of longitude variea at various latitudes. On the equator (0 degrees) It Is 69,164. At 45 degrees It Is 48,082. At the poles (90 degrees) It Is 0.000. To go back : In 1675 a French nobleman, Le Sleur de Salnte Pierre, startled the world by announcing that he could determine longitude by observing the position of the moon among the stars. This announcement was especially interesting to the English, who even then had an Idea that the tight little Isle" was Mistress of the Seas." Salnte Pierre appears to have been the Einstein of his day, inasmuch as there was apparently but one man In all England who was competent to pass on Ills theory. This man was John Flamsteed, a born astronomer. He was then twenty-nin- e years of age. Up to fourteen he went to the public school at Derby. Then he devoted himself to astronomy, unassisted and without Inhe attracted the atstruction. At twenty-thretention of the Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, which had been organized In I6G0. Sir Jonas Moore, surveyor general of ordnance. Invited him to live .In his house In London tower and there be devoted himself to observations of the stars. So when Charles II heard of the boast of Salnte Pierre he said. "Then let John Flamsteed do It, too. But John Flamsteed said It couldu't be done. He said accurate Information as to the positions of the stars was not available, hence an accurate calculation of the moon's place was not . possible. "Well," said the "Merry Monarch," "since that Is the case, let John Flamsteed figure It out In hla own way. I'll found a royal observatory and make him astronomer royal." And Charles did to rectify the Just that, directing Flamsteed tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude at sea for perfecting the art of navigation." After a long controversy over the selection of the site for the observatory Greenwich hill was finally chosen and Sir Christopher Wren was requested to submit a plan. Charles was usually hardup and was then presumably a little short." Anyway, he allowed but 500 pounds for the building of the observatory, The builders had to get material where they could. Bricks were taken from the ruins of Tilbury fort A gatehouse In the tower was demolished for other material. The cornerstone was laid August 10, 1075, and the roof was on by Christmas. So John Flamsteed found himself astronomer royal in the Royal observatory at an annual salary of 100 pounds a year. Forthwith he applied to the government officials for equipment with which to carry out the kings commands. Nothing doing! Never In, all the years of hla service nearly half a century did he get an Instrument of any kind from king or government So Flamsteed went to work with his own Instruments. And he made others. After thirteen years of alow progress he Inherited a small He thereupon began the construction of a Urge new mural circle. This Instrument Is a graduated circle, In the 'plane of the meridian, sea-goin- g e for-tun- e. attached permanently to a perpendicular wall." It la used for measuring arcs of the meridian, ne took time to Its construction. It was .fitted out with telescopes and very finely graduated. He was rewarded. With It he was at last able to observe the stars In the meridian exactly In the north or south when they were at their highest above the horizon. Flamsteed published his observations in detail Just before his death In 1719. And Flamsteed's British Catalogue" has been called "one of the proudest products of the Royal observatory at Greenwich." At that, this "Catalogue" was not by any means accurate. Miss Herschel made an exhaustive examination and found that Flamsteed bad catalogued 111 stars that be had never observed and had observed 500 that he had not catalogued. Nevertheless, Flamsteeds work was of vast importance, due to the fact that It was the firs, of Its kind made with telescope and clock. It may fairly be said to be the beginning of modern precision astronomy. Inasmuch as It determined the precise position of many of the stars. Its Immediate effect was to fix the meridian of Greenwich. Ita later effect was to maka the Greenwich meridian the standard meridian from which all longitude la measured and all time counted. Edmund Halley of Halley's comet fame succeeded Flamsteed as astronomer royal. Dradley succeeded Halley In 1742, There have been four astronomers royal between Bradley and the present Incumbent, Sir Frank Dyson. And, of course, the equipment has been enlarged and modernized. There is a new observatory, for. one thing. The old observatory Is still standing and Is a venerable relic. The time ball, known to skippers of the Seven Seas, drops at exactly one oclock p. m. The United States accepts Greenwich time, but It does not have to watch for the falling of the Greenwich ball to know when it la one p. m. The United States Naval observatory gives the nation Its time. Its standard clock Is kept In an underground vault at a constant temperature and nlr pressure. Noon la announced to the nation by telegraph lines. This clock Is corrected constantly by a series of observations of the sun and certain fixed stars. When Greenwich was accepted by the world as the standard meridian from which longitude Is reckoned, It was necessary to fix on a place where days begins" where ' dates are changed by navigators. This International date line" Is the 180th degree of ' longitude In Here is an example of the way It works: When It Is 12 oclock Monday at New Tork (and In other places having eastern time) It Is 11:00 a. m. In Chicago; 10:00 a. in. In Denver; 9:00 a. m. In -- Sun Francisco; 7:58 a. m. tn Sitka, Alaska; 6:29 u. m. In Honolulu all Monday. But It la Tuesday In the following places: 1:03 a. m. In Manila; 5:35 a. m. In Apia, Samoa; 2:39 a. m. In Melbourne; 2:18 In Tokyo; 12:45 a. m. In Peking. When it Is 12 noon Monday In New York It Is 5:00 p. m, Monday In Londou (Greenwich). In the United ' States Naval observatory at Washington Is what the astronomers who use It call the "zenith tube." It la said to be the only Instrument of Its kind and the best In existence for its purpose. Anyway. It was devised by Dr. Frank E. Rosa. Prof. F. B. Ltttell Is shown using the Instrument to determine the variation of latitude at Washington. It has baen determined that the axis of the earth's rotation changes Its position continually. The result 1 that the North pole moves around In a circle, completing the circuit tn about fourteen months. This circle Is never greater than alxty feet tn diameter. Bo Peary's North pole Amerlgan flag is not far out of the way. -- mld-Paeifl- Mrs. Andrew golden wedding anniversary by giving a dance and social at the Anona pavilion. Mr. and Mrs. Lawson have resided in Richfield practically the entire time since their murriage fifty years ago. Salt Lake City. State roads accounts of Washington county have been found to be 61371.64 short of their proper balance, due to the county making a number of disbursements direct Instead of through the state road commission, it was shown In a report made to the state auditor by Deputy R. C. Smith. Salt Lake City. Preparations for taking the annual school census of Salt Lake CUy are under way In the office of George King, clerk of the city board of education. It is expected that the census takers will be put to work In the various precincts of the city on October 15 and they must hare their work completed by October 30. The census last year showed a total of 32,103 children of school age In the city and It Is anticipated that the census this year will show a gain of at least 1000 or more children of school age. Ogden. Deer hunting within the Grand Canyon national game preserve on the Kalbab national forest during an open season from October 1 to November 30 will be subject to strict a bulletin Isregulation, according-tsued by the forest service. Applications will be received in advance by the forest supervisor at Kanab, Utah. Applicants will be assigned dates on which they can hunt, in order that the hunting camps may not become overcrowded. A charge of 5 per head with a three-heamaximum per man, la provided In the regulations. Salt Lake City. Lieutenant Colonel George W. Edglngton of Idaho Falla, Idaho, has been assigned to command the Four Hundred and Fourteenth Idaho regimental Infantry of the One Hundred and Fourth Division, It was announced at the local division. Lieutenant Colonel Edglngton was a captain In the Ninety-firs- t division and a major during the war. Major Drew Stanrod haa been commander for the regiment for the past year. Murray. Outdone by the courage of a girl employee and the quick action of the cashier, two unmasked bandits, armed for the robbery of the Murray State bank, fled from the bank without loot, and peace officers throughout the country. Including the forces of the sheriffs office and police departments, as well as the Murray marshal, spent the day running down clues without success. Salt Lake City. The second trial of the case of Jesse Eaton against the Los Angeles & Salt Lake railroad, in which 315,000 damages Is asked for personal Injuries, alleged ' to have been received in loss of three fingers cut by a power eaw at a tunnel near Callente, Nev., was begun before Judge M. L. Ritchie and a Jury In the Third district court. Ogden. Permit was Issued by City Building Inspector Carl C. Garf for the second unit of the Lewis school to be built at a cost of $84,000. This Is unit A and will be a three-stor- y brick and reinforced concrete structure measuring 65x173 feet. There will be eight rooms, consisting of a library, gynasium, domestic science, laboratory, sewing room, manual training, shop and showers. This Is to be added to the east end of the school. Ogden. Bids for the construction of the new Reed hotel to be built upon the site of the present hotel and adjoining space at the earliest possible moment, were opened by the directors of the Reed Hotel company. The general contractors submitted bids, but no announcement was made by the directors as to who made the lowest bid or the amount of tbh respective bids. ' Tha California Molasses Delta. company Is the name of the corpora tlon which has been Incorporated un der the lawa of Arizona to succeed the Los Angeles Molasses Feed company of Delta, which constructed a plant here last winter, but which haa been closed for several months. Salt Lake City. The Moffat tunnel through the continental divide was 38 per cent complete on September 1, according to an official report received by Julian Bamberger, pres Ident of the Bamberger Electric liens, here. N. Lawson celebrated d buffer headaches; and disThese turbing bladder irregularities? are often signs of kidney disorder and too dangerous to neglect. Your kidneys ksep the blood stream pure. Once they slow up, poisons accumulate and npset the whole system. Why risk neglect? If you suspect your kidneye, give Doan't Filli a trial. Doant have been used successfully over thirty-hvyears. Are recommended by thouaande. Aik your diar-mes- u their s e neiyhborl A Utah Cate Mrs. C. M. Erd- mann, Bt., N. First tl Brigham, Utah, aavs: My kidneye b e o a me affected and I suffered with beck-ach- e. nervee were InMybad condition. I had dlisy Dells and attacks of blurred eight that made me reel wretched. I was tired and all run down. My kidneye didn't aot regularly. I used Doan's pule and several house rid me of kldnoy trouble. DOANS STIMULANT DIURETIC TO THE KIDNEYS Fostar-MilbuCo Mis. CW. Boilelo, N. Y. Dont be annoyed by ugly blemishes.when red. Irritated, skins can beblotchy -- quickly cleared by v. Bosclees Syrnp for Coughs and Lung Troubles 8o.os.ful for SOo end We S bottl-- run. e ALL DRUGGISTS Cannot Put "Age Limit on Sing ere Since John McCormick decided to maintain a silence, as golden as ids voice is sliver, after he reaches fifty years of age, singers have held lengthy debates with vocal authorities on the subject of the age at which they should retire professionally. Some claim the voice at or near that age begins to full that too many singers have been either too Impecunious or too egotistic to cease at that time and have disgraced themselves thereby. Eldorado Tetri, director of the free choral school of the Metropolitan Opera company, Is a member of the dissenting body which believes a singer la still capable of much melody long past the mooted age. "It Is the physique the health the physical condition that determines the time for resignation from the field of professional singing," he protested heatedly when the discussion reached him. - - Bee Left Remembrance in Small Boyt Finger 1 A child's original conception of what a bee uses for his weapon Is told In the object lesson Frank Abbott King, age four, son of John King, federal cording to the Indianapolis Star. Frank Abbott was playing In the back yard of his home and feasting on sweet, ripe, Juicy pears which had fallen to tha ground. 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