The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-06-08
TODAY
MAY GIVE WORLD
NEW KNOWLEDGE
SPECTOGRAPH EXPECTED TO
REVEAL NEW FACTS CON-
CERNING CORONA.
IF WEATHER is CLEAR
Astronomical Stations Established
At Various Points in Western
States-Comes from Japan to the
State Of Washington.

StateS-(OmeS from Japan 10 1oS
State of Washington.
Washington, June 8.-If the skies
are clear, an eclipse of the sun will
be visible in the United States late
today from 3:55 o'clock, where it
will enter at Aberdeen, Wash, until
Gal when it will end in Florida
During its course, it will cover Sec
tions of Washington, Oregon, Utah,
Colorado, Kansas. Oklahoma, Ark
ansas. Mississippi, Alabama, Geor-
gia and Florida.
The line of totally will be fifty
miles wide, while that of serli-total-
ity will extend for $50 miles.
San Francisco, June S.-A great
astral pencil, whose point is fifty
miles in circumference. is to draw a
jet black line across the United
States, from Aberdeen. Wash. to
Orlando, Fla. this afternoon.
While the marking is being made
chickens are expected to go to roost
and birds to nest. Street cars may
run with their headlight aglare, and
there will be a sudden strain on all
lighting utilities. The great cosmic
titan who will hold the pencil and
mark the line will get even" with
Washington for stealing an hour of
sunlight on that day. for he will take
forty-seven minutes of that sunlight
back again.
The point of that pencil, black as
ebony, will represent an eclipse OF
the sun. The point will begin with
the moon. and will drop in an exact
cone to the earth, where it will de-
lete a considerable portion OF the
Pacific ocean and the states OF
Washington, Oregon, Utah. Colora-
do, Kansas. Arkansas, Oklahoma,
Alabama, Georgia and Florida, in
about the same manner that mill
tary censor deletes an Objectionable
line from war correspondent dis
patch. The stock of the pencil will
be represented by a nebulous space
of inhnity, millions of miles long,
between the sun and the moon.
Great Day for Astronomers.
Many an astrological Christopher
Columbus will be out along the
line" to discover new world or
two. The mythical planet Vulcan.
said to hover near the sun, may pos
sibly be given a positive identity.
The great solar force that makes
Mercury shake with an astral agual
as it spins around its orbit may be
uncovered. 4 thousand theories
may be proven or repudiated. chief
of them being the theory of rela-
tivity, first suggested by Einstein, a
German physicist.
The nubbin OF this theory is that
the light from stars beyond the sun
is bent by the suns gravity before
il reaches the earth in about the
same manner that street car rail is
bent around a slight curve. The
eclipse is expected TO prove whether
such sun gravity can bend light or
not.
The eclipse is expected also 10
throw some light on the compost
ton of the suns spectrum which,
during the period of totality. glows
with greenish hue. What makes
it green is the question the scien-
fists are going TO try TO answer.
Points OF similarity and dissimilar-
ity between the atmospheres OF the
sun and the earth are to be given
close attention also.
The polarized light Of the sun will
also attract interest. Scientists at
the University of California and
elsewhere say that the light around
the sun moves in regular waves like
air waves. instead OF being steady,
even substance, as around the earth.
The eclipse may explain this differ
ence.
Important Discovery Expected
The coronal spectrum of the sun
according to Prof. F. P. Lewis. de-
partment OF physics, University OF
California, is made up OF unknown
elements. IIOlcSsOi Lc"S - ~
study this coronal spectrum through
a large quartz spectograph as
member of the Lick Observatory
party sent to Goldendale. Wash
The spectograph. in the event o,
clear weather. is expected TO reveal
many new and startling facts con
cerning this corona and accompany
ing spectrum.
The war has had some effect on
the plans for observing the phenom'
ena, many of the scientists who OBJ
serve such things now beng en-
gagged on preliminary study OF ths
great German eclipse, which IS due
somewhere in France n an un'
named date.
Stations have been established
however, by the Lick observator,
at Goldendale. the United States
observatory at Baker, Ore tht
Yerkes and Mount Wilson observa'
tories at Green River. Wyo-. tht
Allegheny, Chamberlain and Yerke'