The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-31
WHAT IF HARTMAN
 SHOULD VISIT MOON?

The distinguished astrononomer. the Abbe Moreaux, director of the Observa- tory of Bourges France has published an intensely interesting book called "A Day on the Moon. In this he describes in the light of the latest astronomical re- search just what man would see on the moon. He states that if there should ever be a man on the moon he would have very hard life, says the Salt Lake Tribune.
 If you were an airman, flying. say, 6211 miles an hour, you could cover the 23S,S33 miles in about 160 days of nonstop flight "On the day when men have at their dis posal an explosive material powerful enough to give to the shell an initial ve- locity of 12 kilometres (71s miles) per sec ond the shell shot into the air would never come back to the earth. The called civilized nations could then find in the exercises of shooting the moon a strong counter attraction to the folly of mutually bombarding each other"
 As to mans progress toward his planets suburban neighbor, there are many ob- stacles. At about six miles above the surface of the earth respiration becomes painful; at about 12 miles the air is rarefied that no animal worthy of the name could live there. even for the briefest moment
 Even suppose the journey were possible,
 
 strange, certainly; but insupportable There is no dawn to herald sunrise on the moon. but there is the zodiacal light, 10 times more brilliant than with us. For a few minutes to the chromosphere is in sight. : Then all of a sudden, blue rays of light, so strong that the eye cannot endure them, dart from the distant horizon. Isles of brightness seem to rise up around us as the summits catch the sunlight The day has come'- and with it what? Huge "craters'' Of volcanoes, ramparts of the inner sub stances of the moon, with the fiery moun- tains proper encircled by them; absence of air, or any gas that can be breathed; no water; frightful precipies; steep de- clivities; awful desolatfon; mot patch or moss, not a health-grown ledge to soften the rocky ridges and sharp-cut edges of fethose abrupt surfaces; not even the lowest form of plant-lffe, not lichen to attenuate the wild aspects of the land scape and give it even the slightest ap- pearance of life.'
 When it is monday on the moon-that is, when the sun has completed half it's course across the sky-the ground will be heated to sunch degree that it would immediately roast any organic substance placed upon it's surface. The tempera- ture would be above PIP degrees. and during the long lunar night of about two weeks a gas thermometer would indicate a cold of some 300 degrees below zero.
 Advantages to the human? You would of a surety seem strong man according to your familiar standards. Take. for instance. a rock which you would judge to weight exactly 100 pounds here on the earth Lift it to your arms on the moon and you would feel as if you were holding up % pounds" Think, too, what~a 'lifter'' you would be! Before jumping over an obstacle. or leaping across mass of = -a- will do well to De careful. and to remind yourself that an effort which would enable you in your own country to make A jump of six feet would carry you to a distance of s6 feet on the surface of the moon"