New Britain herald., 1921-10-11
SCOUTMASTERS SEE
 THE MOON CHAPTERS
Also Roast Hot Dogs on River
 Bank by Moonlight

What the eclipse of tho moon will look like on Sunday night and many other things they did not know before, were explained to IS scoutmasters and members of boy scout troop councils of this city. who motored to Wesleyan university at Middletown last night Four automobiles left scout headquar- ters at To clock, bound for the big ob- servatory. At the latter place they were met by Professor Frederick Slo- cum. instructor in astronomy, who look charge of tho party
 Professor Slocum first took hi3 guests into a class room where, by means of stereopticon slides, ha ex- plained tho various phases of the moons changes and also explained some enlarged views of the moons surface.
 Tho party waa then conducted into the observatory proper where the ad vantages of tho wonderful telescope with which Professor Slocum and his pupils study the heavens. was placed at the disposal of the visitors. The moon suddenly ceased to be just large ball of light 240,00O miles away, with mysteriou1 man, woman or dos on ita face. and waa brought down
 
 college floor for inspection. The large craters. of which Professor Slocum explained tho names tho mountains alpine passes, volcanoes, hills, valleys etc, were shown as clearly as on re- lief maps used in geography lessons in schools.
 It ia interesting to noto in connec- ton with thin visit. that while Profess sar Slocum. in reply. to question, said it neVScfl had Nbeen definitely established that there was any life on the moon. Professor w. H. Pickering, said to bt, tho world 'a leading astronomer and an authority on lunar and martian phenomena, who has just completed a series of telescopic observations at the Harvard station at Vaudeville, Jamai- ca. statea that ho haa discovered con- ditions which convince him that there is life on the moon.t He claims to have some photographs showing the growth of vegetation as well as blizzards and snow storms.
 An interesting. statement. which caused many humorous side remarks wal Enado by Professor Slocum when ho said that, due to the difference ir gravity, there was six times the force ir the earth's aa thero is in the moons gravity, In other words if a man car jump six feet high on earth, tho sam propellinC forco would send him 3t feet into the air on the moon. Thi led prominent local clergyman, wht was in the bunch, to advise a youns man interested in athletics that if h. heard of any moon visitors coming down to compete in track events il New Britain to take immediate steps to hava them barred.
 < The visitorsS y1>1eAs ta ken to an; t@ 6ther classroom where many fT1u7nin ated photographs of the sun, moon comets. Mars. sun spots, moon spots milky way and eclipses both of tn sun and moon were shown. Photo graphs showing just how the moo will look in an approximate 90 pc cen.. .eclipsa. between 5:30 and "A next Sunday evening were shown Many questions were asked Professo Slocum by the party concerning tn number of stara in the milky way what composea the tail oi g comei what shooting stars consist of, etc.
 Another moon gazing party too place "a short time later on the bank Of tha Connec"Arut river near Crom we'll, when the same group of me spent several hours roasting hot dog over a charcoal fire, swapping yarns etc. and looking at the moon as the would new found friend with con siderable newly awakened interest.
 A brief pow WOW concerning tn proposed boy scout play to keep aliv scouting in the flood devastated are of Pueblo, Colorado, follow ed.