The Washington times., 1917-12-30
The Eye of the World
1t VIII Take Scientists a Great Cosmc Journey From
Which They Will Bring Back Wealth
IN KNOWLEDGE Untold.

How do you look the stars clear nights when the
moon little earth lantern hidden and the universe
burns and bases in the sky above you?
You imagine different creatures looking at flying
express train.
The hopoad beside the track hears the noise does
not even see the train
savage from the Jungle would throw himself fat on
his face not trying to understand the dreadful rushing
screaming monster.
modern civilized will understand the train per-
fectly, calculate its speed and know its destination.
Thus human beings look at the stars above u.s. the real
universe in which we and our little earth nothing
deck of his baeshp points his thick short toward
the sky and says You me- talk long you please gen.
tlemen but who made all that?"
He believes that he has said something powerful tend
ing to demonstrate the existence of Supreme Being All
those things there The air therefore somebody
have MADE them Just Napoleon ordered the making of
the bateshp which he standsand that settles it for
him.
Galeo born nearly four hundred years ago. heard that
somebody in Holland had made tube that made distant OBJ
jects come closer to the eye.
With only that information Galleo made the first tee
scope and first of all human beings upon this planet he
looked upon the mountains and valleys of the
observed the phases Of Venus and studied the moons of
Jupiter
Calico was the first guide that led the human race into
outside and made them realize that they travellers
tiny ship sailing in company with great fleet Of suns
and planets
In 1912 Galieo died and in 1912 was born the great
Newton explained how Why the suns planets
comets obedient to the law of gavtaon He formu
lated that law, enabling that after him TO search
at certain spot in the heavens for planet and find it.
or predict accurately the return Of a comet.
wonderful farmers son was Newton taking up as a.
boy book geometry and throwing aside because
too trang he knew automatically all that was in it and
He taught the human mind the science of mathematics
He made possible for men to deal with the dimensions Of
infinite space gave them the law governing motion and space
The great Napoleon looking at the stars may be COM
pared to the toad looking at express train Galeo first
exploring distant space studying the moons surface and
that Jupiter mao conecIlon OF moons "nere our
earth has like the savage seeing the train
for the first time
And Newton measuring arranging defining was like
the civil engineer that lays the railroad beds straight and
helps future traffic.
You cannot make hOptOad think inteIgently about an
express train.
You could interest Napoleon in double and triple
stars in the fact that light travelling around this earth
seven times in second is still coming and has not vet
reached from stars distant that the life of planet
hundreds of millions of years. is not enough to allow fast
. travelling light to make the journey
Every human being moderately intelligent interested
in this picture Illustrating in striking way the erection of
the and biggest world telescope at the observatory
Mount Wilson.
The scientists expect wonderful things of this new
cosmic eye with which will look trons of miles ntD
space
1t is expected that this eye will enable men to see 'a
the stars in of creation
The milky way that stretches above you like belt
the sky, is made up of millions of suns close
together that they look like path of light Around each
speck of light that belt travel planets upon those
planets of them possibly lower than ourselves
and others infinitely above plan and live and born
and die and WONDER
1t literally impossible to give the human mlnd even
the trained mind any conception of the distance which
this great telescope will penetrate into space and show the
blazing made faint by distance
In one year light travels $500 900 100000 of miles
Those figures mean absolutely nothing to any of u.s.
With present telescope, sixty inches in diameter
we can see stars far away that it takes the light ve
thousand years. travelling at the above of
speed to journey from of those stars planet
This giant telescope will show to astronomers stars
that separated from the distance through which
light could travel in seventy-two thousand years.
To get any conception Of that dstsnce multiply $780,
900,000000 miles by 70 000
Little creatures are, indeed
Those vast distances hundreds If thousands Of trions