South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-06-22
LIFE ON MARS.

LIFE ON MARS.
Marconi. working with delicate machinery on his
yacht is unsuccessful receiving wireless message
from Mars He will try again
Mars recently has been the 10 our earth
since 1903 trihe of only about 100000 miles
away AT times the distance 235, 900 600 miles
In 1924 the red planet will approach within a.
100000 miles of earth.
When become conceited about travelling several
hundred miles hour in sirpanes should
ponder the speed of the mysterious bodies call
stars.
True philosophy is humility in the realization of
the infinite wonders of the universe compared with
the speck. humanity
What would you see If you could travel to Mars
in a rocket7
To start with, you'd find a Planet about half the
of the earth. Mars has two moons A day and
night lasts 81 minutes longer than on earth. The
Marian is 6s7 days long.
The oceans OF Mars are rapidly drying up 1t
has least 200 canals" rs wide and
not these canals, but the vegetation that sprouts
up along them in springime
Temperature Mars averages so degrees.
A rock that weighs 100 pounds on earth would
weigh only sS pounds on Mars.
This difference in gravity, along with other pecu-
Iarities of environment our scientists to
believe that If people live on Mars they are from
- TO 10 feet tall.
All these scientific facts and sreculations about
Mars are interesting. More interesting is mans
ability TO reach through space so many millions
miles and gather these pieces of direct and cir
cumstantal evidence.
The knowledge and machinery with which our
scientists accomplish these feats acquired pa
tently and slowly through many thousands of years
1t is a great step forward from primitive man
who believed that the shining heavenly were
devils and supernatural beings. The human race
is progressing steadily mentally. and the would
marvellous OF could picture it.
Mankind is sailing slowly, through fog and night.
to unknown destination.
The American Association Of Variable Star OBJ
servers, an organization composed largely Of anna
astronomers. is conducting a nightly patrol Of
the sky under the guidance of Harvard College
observatory.
Just present the telescopes are much pointed
toward variable known in the catalogues
as S Cygni
interesting point about S Cygni is its irregu-
lar habit of changing its brightness. Somewhere
out in space it hangs-a great blazing sun. perhaps
many times larger than We see il
ordinarily as a star of than twelfth magnitude.
Suddenly all in a few hours tme-it will increase
n brightness to between the eighth and ninth mag
nitudes It will hold this brightness for period
Of days or perhaps week or two, then will
taper off in its usual dimness and remain dim
about three months.
An increase Of four magnitudes in brightness
that the star at its bright stage giving off
43 times as much light as in its dim stage Imagine
what would happen to this earth if
began behave in such IF the sun
increased much magnitude in brightness,
all life such know it. would start to shrivel
up and die An increase OF four magnitudes in the
brightness of the sun would bake the earth to a
crisr.
When bright sun. revolving about another sun
that is so bright into line of sight,
all that we see is single star apparently increasing
in magnitude But the spectroscope tells the story
of whether we are looking at one star or two stars
or a number Of revolving about common
center OF gravity
Cygni is a single star and its changes in
brightness are therefore not due 10 eclipses but
come from within The astronomers patiently work
ing 10 solve these riddles are on the trail of the
secret OF the universe small fact. finally
cleaned from endless research provides the key
with which unlock many other facts and gradu-
ely we learn more about the universe OF which
am earth form so ineonsiderable a part.
In Detroit. a man married a widow with p child
zen. This puts the aviator who dropped four miles
in second place.
The ex-kasers memoirs VIII be published in sep
TENDER The melancholy days coming.
Money is different from people. Idle money
doesn't talk.
The greatest study OF mankind is man The
greatest puzzle is woman