Arizona republican., 1918-06-08

patch. The stock Of the pencil will be represented by a nebulous space of in finity, millions of miles long, between the sun and the moon.
 Many to "Watch" Eclipse
 Many an astrological Christopher Co., lumbus will be out "along the line" to discover new world or two. The mythical planet Vulcan. said to hover near the sun, may possibly be given a positive identity. The great solar force that makes Mercury shake with an astral ague as it spins around its orbit may be uncovered. A thousand theo- ries may be proven or repudiated, chief of them being the theory of relativity. 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 it reaches the earth in about the same manner that a street car rail is bent around a slight curve. The eclipse is expected to prove whether such sun gravity can bend light or not.
 What Makes it Green The eclipse is expected also to throw some light on the composition of the suns spectrum, which, during the pe- riod of totality. glows with a greenish hue. What makes it green is the ques- ton the scientists are going to try to answer. Points of similarity and dis similarity between the atmosphere 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, near here, and elsewhere say that the light around the sun moves in regular waves like wire less air waves. instead of being a steady, even substance, as around the earth. The eclipse may explain this difference.
 Are Unknown Elements | The coronal spectrum of the sun, ac- cording to Prof. E. P Ledis, depart ment of physics. University of Califor. nia, is made up of unknown clements Professor Lewis is to study this corona | spectrum through a large quartz spec | tograph as a member of the Lick ob- servatory party at Goldendale. Wash | The spectograph, in the event of cleal weather is expected to reveal many new and startling facts concerning this | corona and accompanying spectrum. | The war has had some effect on thu | plans for observing the phenomena many of the scientists who observe such things now being engaged on pre-. liminary study of the great German eclipse. which is due somewhere il | France" at an unnamed date.
 Where Observers Flock
 Stations have been established, how ever. by the Lick observatory at Col dendale, the United States naval ob servatory at Baker. Ore, the Yerke and Mount Wilson observatories a Green River. Wyo., the Alleghany Chamberlain and Yerkes observatorie at Denver, the Drake university ob servatory at Matheson, Col. the Sprou observatory at Eads. Colo, and tn Smithsonian AstrophySical -obServator' at point in Kansas.
 These stations are all on the line t be drawn by the great astral pencil an are situated at all sorts of attitudes t get all possible effects.
 Time of the Eclipse
 The eclipse will begin at 7:29 in tn I morning at a point south of Japan an will end at the Bahama islands, eas of Florida, at I:29 in the evening Greenwich mean time. The shadoN will enter the United States at 2:55 il the afternoon. Pacific standard time or 3:55 daylight saving time, and wi leave at 5:41 Central standard time, o 6:41, daylight saving time.
 The line of totality will be fifty mile wide and that of semi totality 150 mile wide. The eclipse will be visible, how ever in varying phases all over Nort and Central America and Japan and great portion of China and Russia.
 Before Copernicus discovered in tn sixteenth century that the planets re volve about the sun, eclipses were source of terror, scientists say. Arabia wise men happened on the theory ( eclipses some time before. but kept tn knowledge to themselves in order tha they might strengthen their hold on tn illiterate populace by utilizing tn phenomena.
 Followers of Copernicus were burne at tke stake for their beliefs.