The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-02

coal, as well. Peat and coal, as you know.
are of vegetable origin. Furthermore, In
some OF these meteorites traces of water
have been found and in others oxygen.
These discoveries imbedded in the stony
masses form a message compact, uneauivo.
cal and startling. They show not only that
life exists somewhere "out there" in the
world they have been torn from, but also
that the world "Out there" must have been,
in some respects, like our own.
The crinoids, sponges and Corals, much
like the same formations we still have on
this earth to-day, prove that this other
world possessed an ocean, the peat and
coal, that it had vegetation and probably
forests; the water and oxygen, that 1t pos
sessed an atmosphere.
Where rolled the world OF which the
meteorite was a part? What ruled tt
creatures comparable to man, lower forms.
higher forms, or strange shapes produced
by processes OF evolution unknown to us
here? And what happened to that world?
such things can be guessed at only.
As to what its life forms were two
things seem reasonably sure. One is that
they resembled in some degree those we
know on earth This is indicated by the
similarity Of the crinod fossils to our own
crinoid forms, and by the presence of
water and oxygen showing that the condi-
tions were to some extent like our own.
The other thing we can believe with rea-
sonable certainty is that while they re-
sembled our forms in some respect they
differed widely in others, for the condi.
tons in which they underwent their long
evolutionary processes must have been
alike In some ways different in others.
The artist who has made the large draw.
Ing on this page gives you an idea Of what
you might expect If you visited another of
these inhabited planets. You would prob
ably see forms which reminded you Of
things you had seen on earth, ut weirdly
and Enthusiastically different as in a night.
mare or talry-tale You would almost Ger.
tainly see forms Of life that resembled TO
some extent our vegetables--living things
fastened by their roots--and living things
with power of locomotlon that would re-
mind you In fantastic way OF our own
animals. You might or mig not need the
helmets and oxygen tanks which the artist
mas provided his men in the drawing--de
pending on whether the atmosphere was
Ike our own or different from IT,. Soma
Kind Of atmosphere there would have 10
be, else there could be no life. The exact
detail, or course, Is purely imaginative.
The most extraordinary and most dis.
cussed single meteorite that ever came TO
earth Is the famous "knyahlnya"--so called
from the name OF the Hungarian town near
where 1t fell. II Is also known as the Hahn
meteor, because of the exhaustive study
OF 1t made by DR.. Otto Hahn, geologlst and
physicist OF the University of Vienna, Ac-
cording TO his views and those of other
German scientific men. this meteorite was
largely composed of fossil animals and
plants. This, Of course, was in a past gen.
GRAFTON, The greatest minds OF the nine.
teenth century We're divided on this blazer.
ON It and other siderites, Lord Kelvin
based his hypothesis that all life was orig.
lnaly brought 10 this earth from other
planets in meteor forms which brought not
only fossils but living germ cells.
have no brief TO hold for Hahn or bis
meteorite, In that particular case the sub.
'ect was ana still is, controversial. Many