Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1919-11-26
SEVEN PLANETS
AT DANGER POINTS

A San Francisco paper recently
published an illustrated article by
Professor Albert F.. Poita, noted
sunspot forecaster in which he says
that owing to strange grouping Of
six mighty planets, such as has not
been seen in score OF centuries, the
United States next December will be
swept by the most terrific weather
cataclysm experienced since human
history began.
1t will be caused by the hugest
sunspot on record-a sunspot that
will be visible to the naked eye.
Since men first began to make rec
ords OF events, no sunspot has been
large enough to be seen without the
aid of instruments This one will be.
The sunspot will appear Deem
ber II, 1919, and will be vast
wound in the side of the sun. It will
be a gigantic explosion OF flaming
gases, leaping hundreds of thousands
Of miles out into space. 1t will have
a crater large enough to engulf the
earth, much as Vesuvius might en-
gulf football.
Such a sunspot will be rich enough
in electro magnetic energy 10 fling
the atmosphere OF our planet into Il
disturbance without precedent or
parallel There will be hurricanes,
lightning, colossal rains. 1t will be
weeks before the earth will regain
its normal weather conditions. There
will also be gigantic lava eruptions,
great earthquakes. to say nothing of
floods and fearful cold.
Professor Porta gives as his rea-
sons for making this portentous
prophecy that the planets in their
orbits swing In great ellipses around
the sun. They are linked to the sun
and to each other, by chains of cleo
tro-magnetic energy whose compell-
ing forces counteract each other and
hold each planet in its regular path.
Whenever two planets wheel into
such position that they pull together
on the sun--either in conjunction
on the same side Of the sun, or in
opposition with the sun between
them-their united pull causes the
suns gases to "explode"-to leap out
+ into space in the whirling volcano we
call a sunspot These sunspots in
turn cause storms in the atmosphere
OF our earth-doubtless on other
planets as we'll Two planets united
are enough to cause a small sunspot
and a small storm. Three cause
larger one-four make a very great
storm indeed
But-on December II, 1919, no
less than seven planets will pull
Jointly on the sun. These will in
clude all the mightiest planets,
those with the most powerful pull
Six OF them-Mercury Mars, Venus,
Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune-will
be in conjunction; grouped together
in the greatest league of planets"
ever known in the annals of astron-
omy. They will be massed in the
narrow limit of but 26 degrees on
the same side OF the sun! Directly
opposite, coming into opposition with
this gigantic league, will be the huge
planet of Uranus. The magnetic
currents between Uranus and the
six planets will pierce the sun like
a mighty spear. Our earth is out
side the league, at an angle of near
ly 80 degrees--in perfect position to
iCtOlNt Nllt iuli lOlIt VI lllt
monster electrical disturbance as it
leaps into activity on what, to us,
will be the eastern horizon of the
suns disc.
This means, according to Profes-
sor Porta, that we shall get the
full strength of the storm when the
sunspot is at its worst, before the
exploding gases have had time to die
down. Such close grouping of
planets has never been recorded be-
fore. The whole solar system will
be strangely out of balance.
What will be the outcome Profess
sor Porta claims he is unable to state
beyond the fact that the storms.
eruptions and earthquakes will be tre-
mendous in their strength and scope.