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Show BOY SCOUTS If the Boy Scout will look at the sky about six o'clock any morning of this week it will well repay him. Here is what he will see: First in order from the east, where the sun will soon rise he will see the planet Venus, pretty nearly the same size as the earth then to the right he will see the immense daddy ot all the planets, the giant Jupiter, into which all the whole lot of the other planets plan-ets coul be tucked, and with room to spare. Jupiter has four moons revolving re-volving around him, which in my little lit-tle 'scope, magnifying sixty-three diameters can be plainly seen. Well, you get radio from that. But it's a series, a long and arduous series. A patient astronomer, gazing at those moons saw that the time of obscuration obscura-tion varied from the computed time according to the earth's position in Its orbit, being three minutes behind If we were on the opposite side from Tupiter, and three minutes early tf on his side. The orbit of the earth was so many miles, he computed it, md gave to the iworld the astonishing astonish-ing discovery that light had a meas-uable meas-uable speed. But watt, you're not connected to radio from that yet. That gave rise to the theory that other oth-er waves existed similar to light. So , Hertz discovered them, Marconi put them into . harness for man, Pupin translated them into hearing, and behold! you had the radio all from the moon of Jupiter! This Is a ro-mantio ro-mantio chapter In the study of that abstruse science, in the realm of pure thought. Read the National Geographic Geo-graphic of January and get the beautiful beau-tiful story first hand. Come into my office early this "week while the moon is young, and take a look at it. You can see old dead craters in the face face of Sylvia, Syl-via, heaps and heaps of them. And ;ou can see jet black shadows cast hVo-ll5- mountains, for our shodows lave a mellowness in them, caused 'iy the moisture in the air; but on he moon moisture is lacking so that y ' shadow is not a half tone, mellow-' mellow-' .d by refraction and reflection, but a whole gob of intense black. That 1- you can see with my 'scope. Those e shadows are cast by mountains larger i, than the Oak City hills, as large as e Nebo. And in the early stages of ; the moon, you can see crags (appar-d (appar-d ently) hanging over the edge, out In black space! ' Come to the office as early as the n Continued on Page 4 i |