The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-16

kinds of conversation goes on- There will at least be two kinds of talk. Talk about what other people have done and talk about what somebody has done himself. The commonest kind of table chatter about what other men have done relates to baseball and prize fighting. A very common kind of talk about what a man has done himself has to do with golf. There are many golf play CTS about and they like to tell about the game.
 Baseball and prize fight talk CTS use more words. The golf takers get more attention. When a man talks about something he cannot do himself and another man did do it is not so import ant When a man speaks of a thing in which he himself is pro- ficient he speaks by the fact, and gets more attention.
 The Rotary Club at its last meeting heard a talk about what other people have done by a man who does 1t himself. George c. Waldo, able editor of the Post and the Telegram. brought in the Harvard slides and gave a talk about astronomy.
 
 It was an interesting evening and an unusually vivid, interest ilIg~~a-nd dramatic talk. Editor Waldo, isn't So often seen at the big fights though he knows what they are. His conversation is not usually addressed to the mer- its of baseball players or the pro- ficiency of golfers. though he knows these things.
 At his home, in secluded Fair field. he maintains an up-to-date radio outfit and an observatory. which some people say Is the finest amateur observatory in the United States.
 He not only talks about the he studies them himself and speaks after the fashion of those who know by experience; the best fashion of all.
 
 The Moon. planet nearest to the world. Is better known as to one half of 1t than equal part of the world Man sees 1t all through his great telescopes. By the shad- ows which they cast, its noun tains 16,ooo feet high have been great craters, level plains sur rounded by walls which tower thousands of feet aloft, have been written down.
 Tho sun. millions of miles away is a variable star. Fortu- nately says. Editor Waldo. 1t does not vary very much. Perhaps enough to cause earthquake and tidal wave on the Chilean Coast which just now has devastated 1900 miles and destroyed thous- ands of lives.
 The world is in a universe of its own fin which distances are measured by thousands of light years. The light year Is not a time so much as 1t is a distance. It fs the distance in which light travels in one year, moving at a rate of 1s6,000 miles a second Beyond our own system there are island unfverses, the near est of which cannot be closer than 15o.ooo light years away
 
 It ts too much to say that they are island universes. The best opinion of the larger number of astronomers Is that they are so. The idea of infinity Is the nearest the human mind has ever come to finding a thought represen- tative of this astronomical hy- pothesis.
 
 Moving among the universes is a vast nebula made up of a sub stance which must be a million times lighter than any gas known to earthly chemistry.
 
 Speaking by pure speculation after a fashion which does not attain to the dignity of the hy- pothesis, this exceedingly tenuous material covering it's share of space suggests even more strong Iy than the electron does, that all things perceived by the sense of man are the product of creative will. A most interesting subject for those interested in metaphys- les.
 
 What good does it do to know sbo11+ the stars? Why not more