The Washington times., 1918-05-05

to the Pacific across this continent
The little picture of the earth at the top Of the cartoon
shows clock that size would look to standing on
the
It would look to the man. larger than the face
of a watch held in your hand.
The gigantic clock hands reaching from to ocean,
would seem to the the small as the hands
on an ordinary watch and they would to move as
slowly move the hands of your watch
The hour hand of a clock like this would travel at the
rate of more than 1000 miles per hour-or $50 miles min
ueabout fast in minute as the fastest aeropane can
go in an hour.
What would happen if great steel hands should fly
around this clock every hour covering all country
The small pictures 1, 2, 3, and T. give the answer
Travelling two and half miles per second the hands
as you see picture No would cut of mountains In No
they would shave of forests In No see the great
hands passing between express train and aeropane at sixty
times the flyers speed In No you see the hand shaving
Of steel buildings In great cities
Mountains hills, buildings, all would go down to a
evel-and yet to the the moon nothing exraord
nary would to happen The cumblng mountains the
falling buildings the forests down like grass woudf
invisible from that distance The great clock would look as
you in the little picture at the top OF this cartoon Inc
moon would say There is great clock fastened to
the earhs surface that keeps very good time and he
would notice nothing else.
This picture makes us realize how little are how
little we amount in the great whole Of which we are
part how little we understand cosmc power ana the great
realities.
You know the great sun Arcturus Thousands of years
ago the shepherds studied that bright STAR of which the
name Bear Guard so called because that star Is
placed guard at the end Of the Great Bear constellation
The Bible speaks than once of Arcturus.
Job reminded in his humiliation of the great distant
suns, that testify to the Creators power.
(which maksh Areturus, Orion and peiade. ind tn.
(which doeth great things past finding yea,
without number"
And again.
eanSt guide son7"
81 uttered that understood not said poor bewildered
Job and well he might could he have known the facts about
Arcturus, the great bear guard in the heavens.
That sun travels 100000 miles in every twenty -four
hours Yet it is far away-over 200 billions Of miles
from this earh-that it not to move. Astronomers
watching and comparing it with the ancient records ind
that in 800 years its apparent motion and displacement Of
space has been only equal to what appears to US to be the
diameter of the 1t travels than four million miles
day and seems to have moved about foot in 300 years
Arcturus to us bright spot in heaven The planets
that surround him and travel with him in his journey of more
than four million miles every day invisible to we
are them Strange things happen there, calames and
wars perhaps and all fly through infinite space caring
and knowing nothing about each other.
Who can say that the invisible microbe is small when
our own sum- million times big earth is invisible
nearly all Of the other spheres that travel through pace
Is there no hope of achieving real knowledge day?
Yes there is only hope but certainty and our prog
ress in astronomy proves it.
The ancient Greeks only few centuries back taught
and believed that Areas out hunting and great bear
which happened to be his mother changed into bear by
witchcraft.
Zeus the supreme god of the Greeks looking on decided
that he would not Areas be guilty of marcide by killing
his own mother the bear So he seized them both and
planted them in the heavens where she became the conte
ton Ursa Major the great bear and he Arcturu the bear
guard.
With such childish beliefs the ancients were content
Modern science measures the distance Of Arcurus from
this planet accurately the speed with which it
travels
That progress and infinitely greater progress
hereafter-or have not really begun to think to solve
the big questions that suggest themselves They have not
even approached what should be the simplest questions of ALL
WHy are ne here do come, whittier do ne go?
And do ne 20 earth die Wan
fh ULane together to the next habioH
= "In Ny man.On'. 1t
not have told go to prepare place for
you"
Does that mean fixed celestial abode with various man
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