Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-02-24

of a piece of polar property and it
should be stipulated in the deed that
the exact point OF the pole should
serve as a corner stone he would have
to keep moving his fences about to
avoid possible prosecution for trespass.
If Uncle Sam marks the North Pole
with a monument to some of the brave
heroes who gave their lives in the at
tempt to discover it. he must needs
mount it on runners and keep it on the
move. a permanent stone covering the
race track of the pole would have to be
as large around as a circus ring,
Prof. Hill is working with six or
eight other astronomers. who are sta
toned at observatores as near as pos
eible on the same parallel of latitude
as Washingtcn-S8 deg, 81 min, 2O.4
sec. The most important stations are
Washington. Cincinnati, MiZusawa,
Jaran. Tsehardjui, Central Asia; Carl
forte. ITALY; Gaithersburg, Md. The
central sttttfbh has been the Beiffin
observatory
The authentic North Pole IS not ac-
cordjng to the astronomers, the pole
which men point out on the charts. IN
1909 the wandering pole passed with
in a foot of the chartered North Pole'
and according to Prof. Hill 1t WanderS
home lust about once in every fouf-
teen years. Since then it has content
ed itself with moving about in sor'
of irregular spiral curve. sweeping TAR
thcr from the charted pole, sweeping
hack again. then out again, ana SO on
travelling N curves all the While.
Take an ordinary school siope'
fI1poV
mounted, on a pivot extending thfousi
lis center. Glue a pencil to the Nor.,'
pc1o eo that it protrudes in line Win
tho nivot. Fix pad of paper at flsi'u
anqies to the pencil and touehhg us
no;rt. spin the globe around anu 80
ion, as The globe is not iogsled til7
1ood traces a small dot upon the paper
ascilate the pivot and the pencil traces
snalka-likc coil. This is what the
a,,t,, would do if "a colossal pencil VERY
,+toehaa ia The North Pole ana alloWeu
80 write it's record upon tiXed sileee
~ The skv. Thus YOU see that the
+ronhle with old mother earth IS tiis't
~ avis is rot still, 1t has Two mo-
TONS one revolving and the other %
cillating &c how the
,-t,nnonners have proved this Woulo
surely bcfuddle the layman In popu1
lar terms the scientist through two
sanarate telescopes, watches the ~, ap
,.arent movements of the stars On
TINS Of miles distant. He seiecls g
fow cf those whose positions nave oesl
VII established and which eau ~
eeen through his instruments BY Jay a.
wen as by night. Day after oaN, W. 80
after week and year after year ne op,
serves the latitude where he IS ms 49,.
Of following PATHS by straight sNee pa
the. stars stagger across tileiil s'-N
heck again. These staggerlnss reprG &C.
sent the changes in latitude Now -
onr ATTITUDES are slipping down anu w
ove,. the earth as hoops over pailei'
tbe noles of the earth must be ehahs :
inc Vega, one of the constellation 81
tbe harm. is the principal body consult
ed MANY astronomers agree tnat ool
sTn and all it's bodies, incinalhs NV
eartb. are hurrying at a mighty ta.o
throuch the heavens in the direction
If vega. and that within sometlllnS
like billion of years we snail CRASH
into ii or pass it.-Washington POST