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The Washington times., 1926-07-08
ON PLANETS
By Garrett P. Serviss

'sIn another OF your interest
ing articles please tell us what
Is the inclination of the poles OF
the various planets to the
ecliptic, and whether they all
reyolve around the sun, and on
their axes. in the same dtrec-
ton. Also the moons OF Mars,
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and
Neptune--in which direction do
these moveg-B. o., Philadelphia.
TNHE ecliptic marks the plane
i in space in, or upon, which
the earth travels around the sun.
1t might be likened to an in
visible floor on which the earth
circles, like skater skimming
around and round a central point
on the level platform OF rink.
Now, the other planets, through
all having the same central point
(the SUM travel around 1t on diff
ferent invisible floors, or planes,
each more or less inclined to the
earth's. So the great solar rink
may be said to have a multiplicity
Of floors. tipped in slightly diff
ferent planes, but all intersecting
along lines passing through their
common center. Every floor Is
used by a single planet, but the
planets never get into collision be-
cause each travels at q different
distance from the center, so that
their paths (orbits) never meet.
AS they go around the sun in
their respective planes they also
spin an their axis and the axis
are all more or less inclined rom
a perpendicular to the planes, ike
the pegs of tops leaning at vari-
Gus angles to the floor on which
they run about.
Two InclinatiOns
So we see that there are two
inclinations to be taken into ac-
count. First, there is the inclinh-
ton Of the plane Of the orbit Of
each planet to the plane Of the
earth's orbit, namely, to the eclip-
tic; and second, there is the. In
clination of the axis of each planet
to the plane of it's own orbit.
Take first the inclination OF
the orbit to the ecliptic. In the
case of the earth this Is zero,
because the ecliptic is only the
projection OF the plane or the
earth's orbit. And, living on the
earth, we naturally, or neces.
sarily, take the ecliptic as a
fundamental plane by which to
measure the inclination of the
orbits Of all the other planets.
1t is known, however, by nnath-
efnatical reasoning that there ex-
lists fundamental plane, called
the "invar!able plane" OF the
solar system, to which the planes
of all the orbits, including the
earth's should be referred; but
this is not currently used, it's
position not having, as yet, been
absolutely determined.
Referred to the ecliptic the in
clinations Of the other orbital
planes are closely as follows:
Mercury E dsSS Venus. . deg.
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ONCE-OVERS

Have you allowed what others might think to influence
you in giving up which would be of benefit
to you7
Because you wish to maintain your position in society,
you cinging to yearly salary which nothing
but the money it brings
You cannot hope advances your mind called into
play sufficiently to real mental growth The routine
means stagnation
Yet you wea5wiled take the first step toward
future competence because entails less spending money
in the present. less time at your golf dinner clubs
your socalled friends would drop you because you
chose to stay out Of what you term the "soeial SWIM
they not worth keeping
IL you should reach financial crisis result Of
much thought of the present instead of planning for the
future where would your friends be thenY
Don't Let your social friends dictate your life course
aoAa 0eopsrtshs
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NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
-RY Helen R0Wland

Married Men And Husbands
MOT all married men are hus-
bands; some Of them are
merely married bachelors.
A tame married man Is one
who doesn't have to keep string
tied around his finger to Ri
MIND him that he Is married.
He knows that he's Somebody's
Daring and keeps his mind on
his job.
He parts his hair to please his
wife, keeps her photograph on his
desk, wears the cravats she buys
for him, comes home every day
for dinper and spends his Sun.
days digging in the garden or
fixing the car.
His wife can trust him with his
stenOgrapher, her best friend or
the Village Vamp. He never
looks twice at another wotnan--ia
his Wife's pregence--and never &C.
cepts the most alluring invitation
\ without saying, EN- see what the
Wifi says" He doesn't need to
wear q wedding ring-you can
always spot him by that mar
ried look"
He is, in short, the nobIest work
Of womaIl-A Regular Husband!
The wild married man, on tho
: other hand, is one with whom
marriage never takes" no mat.
ter how often he may go to the
altar. ....
It rolls right off him like water
off a slicker and leaves his
habits, his opinions, his ways and
his clothes unaltered by jct or
little.
He was married when he was
off his guard or under hypnotic
influence-and he never forgives
the woman who took that ad-
vantage of him.
Home, to him, is just some
thing to get away from--a con-
venient place to go to in order to
change his clothes for the eve
ming out.
The only way to keep him in
the house nights is to chloroforrn
him and tie him to the floor-and,
even then, his astral body may
be roaming off somewhere with
1.-THE boys" while his material
body Is tugging. at the letters.
He never THINKS Of himself
as q married man" any more
than a prize Pekingese thinks Of
himself as somebody's dog"
He IL "Everybody's Darling:
and other women regard his wife
a. unreasonable" if she objects
The Washington times., 1926-07-08
An OyerzealOus Cop

sitting Tuesday afternoon. The beat down on
Union Station plaza with cruelty urchns
their faces flushed and sweat gmed gave joyous whoop
they plunged clothed into the cooling Of
Columbia fountain
Enter the joy killer!
An ocou jealous policeman Of the Sixth precinct
heard the merry laughter Of the happy boys Swinging his
baton, he ordered the lads to get out o. there"
With the fear Of blue uniform that Unborn
IN American youth today the boys scampered down hot
pavement.
But Captain Martin Reilly commander Of Sixth was
boy once himself and understand how inviting foun-
tain looks orrd day Reilly told the oficious cop he
bad no authority to chase the bathing boys.
30 today Columbia Fountain again will be the for
youngsters And will continue to be public bathing place
until adequate bathing facilities supplied long suffer
ing and voteless municipality
The Washington times., 1926-07-08
BY ELSIE ROBINSON

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; 20 min; Mars, deg. 81 min.;
Jupiter, deg. Is min; Saturn,
deg. 20 min; Uranus. 0 deg. 4S
min; Neptune. deg. 8 min.
From this we see that the orbit
Of Uranus, next to the most dis
tant plane, is the nearest in ac-
cord with the plane Of the earth's
orbit. It may be remarked that
the best calculation Of the posi-
ton Of the invariable plane,
spoken Of above. makes its in
clination to the ecliptic deg. 35
min, which lies between the in.
clinations Of Jupiter and Saturn,
the two heaviest planets, and is
not greatly discordant with that
of Neptune, the most distant
plane.
Greater Difference
Next we come to the inclina-
ton OF the planetary axes from a
perpendicular to the planes OF the
orbits. Here the differences are
far greater than in the case Of
the orbital inclinations. The
earth's axis is inclined 20 degrees,
81 minutes; that Of Mars, "a de-
grees, 80 minutes; that Of Saturn,
26 degrees, 40 minutes. But the
axis Of Venus seems to be nearly,
If not quite, perpendicular to the
orbital plane, i. e., IT. has no in
clination, while the inclinations OF
the axis Of Mercury, Uranus, and
Neptune, IL any exists, are uncer-
tain or unknown. That OF Jupi-
ter's axis is also small, amount
ing to only 3 degrees, S minutes
less than one-eighth as great as
the inclination OF Saturn's axis.
It is singular that the axes Of the
two largest planets should be so
different in inclination while their
orbital inclinations are so similar.
But, although the inclination
of the axes of Uranus and Nep-
tune is unknown, their satellites
travel in planes which are so in
clined to the ecliptic that the
four moons of Uranus revolve at
almost a right angle to the plane
OF the earth's orbit, the inclina-
ton being OF degrees, So minutes,
while. the single moon Of Neptune
actually travels in a backward
direction, the inclination Of its
orbit being 1873 degrees, s minutes,
or 48 degrees, more than 9 right
angle.
All the planets travel in the
same direction around the sun
(west to east, but the two most
distant of Jupiter's moons, the
eighth and ninth, travel back
ward, as does the ninth moon Of
Saturn, whose interesting name is
Phoebe,
The Washington times., 1926-07-08
The Clothing Strike
Common Sense Could Stop Il

At the beginning Of the active cloak and suit season. forty
thousand strikers leave their work in New York City They
demand week Of forty instead Of hours Forty
hours long enough to drive sewing machine They
guarantee Of S6 weeks every year which reason
able Business intelligence should arrange that What do you
expect you condemn whole industry six months deness
per year?
What interests those outside the industry is the that
industrial qnare still settled personal quarres
settled In ancient Rome In Streets by instead Of by
Of calm judgment and arbitration.
The Washington times., 1926-07-08

get through. everything all
smoked up with ends OF sound
and vibration. Throws you back
in on yourself. Shuts all The
other fellows away from you.
Makes you sore, doesn't itsPal? Il
Static queer little word, but
what lot It can teach us Il wen
listen.
You didn't know there was such
a word until you got your radio.
did you? Yet you've been bump
ing up against static all your life.
Take the superintendent down
at your shop. Nice fellow. isn't
he? Wonderful the amount OF
work he can get out Of the men,
Why, when he's in the right
mood, he's human dynamo.
Everyone in the whole place feeIs
popped UP. The day just zooms
along. But at other times thereM
be something wrong. You won't
be able to put your finger on It,
but every man In the place can;
feel It. He doesn't act differ
entity. Doesn't look different. Yet
everything drags. Everyone Is
on edge. The work output IS
cut down half.
What's. the matterg
STATIC.
You, yourself, go through the
same experience, don't you? Those
moody spells Of yotlrs-queer now
they come on you. One day you'll
be feeling like licking your weight
In wild cats. And the next day
you'll be way far down In the
dumps. Nothing will interest you.
Everything you touch will go
wrong. No snap. No pep. Sick?
There doesn't seem to be any
pain. Yet you feel as II you'd
been dragged through a knot hole.
And you make everyone who
comes near you feel the same
way. Ordinarily you're a friend.
" sort OF cuss. Like to gossip
with people. willing to take their
advice, laugh over the least little
joke. But when one of these
moods come on you're just about
as sociable as a tiger with
toothache. Funny, isn't 1t?
STATIC.
What do you mean by static?"
you ask. "I can understand radio
static all right, but human static
when they borrow him FOR the
evening.
He is like a book or good
silk umbrella; once you let him
out Of your sight, you never
know when you will see him
again.
He is, in short, the Eternal
Bachelor. Marry him, If you are
looking for excitement and ad-
venture. But IL you value your
nerves, your peace of mind and
your beauty sleep, pick out 4
man who can be tanned and
made into e Regular HIiSBAAD!
The Washington times., 1926-07-08
LISTEN, WORLD!

that's q queer
one. Air static
that's Just d
tumble cf sounds
ana air currents
ave lengths
an getting tan
gIed up atm
pheric 4 suppos
But human sta ic
Isl u M d ii
haven wave
his How can
they set static ~
G u esa again,
Pal. Wave lene tbs
are the best
things humans
have.
You say you
can understand
radio static, but
you can We've
learned that there
are such things
as sound waves
and we've made
The Washington times., 1926-07-08

4&s4 - 90D
JMKC last
night and couldn't
make 1T. could
your Too much
static. Eounded al
HE the air was
stag ing d riot.
Funny thing
b b D ii t static.
Sometimes you can
get almost any
station clear as g.
bell. Sound as IL
they were III the
next room. Won
derfuI when it's
like that. Makes
the earth seem to
shrink, while you
grow bigger and
bigger until you're
reaching out and
b oil d in & every
thing In your
arms. And then
again vnIf nan,t.
The Washington times., 1926-07-08
More Dictatorship
Self Government Is Slow.

The Parliament Of Poland goes into the discard under
the influence of dictatorship following Italy Spain Turkey.
dictator has been predicted for France and Germany
A unlikely In either country the French and Germans having
been educated in history and politics their Socialist parties
Men that know history learn that each country must learn
govern itself, as each child must learn to walk
The Washington times., 1926-07-08
WISE SAYINGS

r I'VE virtuously. and you can
~ not die too soon. nor live too
long.-Russell.-
If you meet not your better or
! your equal, keep to your solitary
Journey; there Is no companions
ship in "a Buddha.
Comparisons are odious. Mar.
lowe.
Promise Is most given when
the least IL .saidsC hapnaan.
The Washington times., 1926-07-08

w YILL ROGERS the comedian, says he gets az his
w humor from reading about what the Congressman
~ do in Washington.
The Washington times., 1926-07-08

FlRIED to set
JMKC last
The Washington times., 1926-07-08

when they borrow him FOR the
evening.
The Washington times., 1926-07-08

He is like book or a good
silk umbrella; once you let him
out Of your sight, you never
know when you will see him
again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
FIFTEEN MINUTES OF RADIO EACH DAY
BY JOSEPH CALCATERRA
Noted Authority on Radio.
II Rights Reserved. Reproduction Prohibited.

and with 1875 volts the negative grid
bias should be 1915 volts.
Super.Power Tubes.
Tho Ux 210 and OK $40 are super.
power ampliner tubes designed for
exceptionally great volume without
distortion and are particularly adapt
ed for use with amplihers operated
from rectified alternating current.
They require a filament terminal
voltage of 7.6 volts draw l.25 amperes
can be used with plate voltages as
high as 425 volts, and require q grid
bias at this high plate voltage Of SO
volts negative. The base used Is the
standardized large sixe base.
The Ux 100 and Ux ll2 and the
corresponding OK 220 and OK liz
will no doubt be the most popular and
most generally used to increase ETH.
cheney. Remember, however. that
you cannot just substitute them In
your present set without making the
required changes in the circuit ia
take care of the increa sed plate volt
ages and grid bias that they require
Remember, also. that while there
is long list of new Tx base tubes
the only ones that are really new are
the UX l20. Tx 112, Ux 2l0 and the
corresponding OK 220, OK 112 and OK
80. Substituting a UX 201A for q
wv 20lA or OK 301A for a c 30lA
will not improve the set unless the
,ube you take out Is pretty we'll gone
and requires replacement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
Va ,uum Tubes. Old and New.
Part NJ

The really new tubes for receiving
purposes are the UX 100, UX 112;
UX 30 and the corresponding Cum
ningham tubes. OK 220, OK liz and
OK $40. All of these tubes are equip.
ped with the new standard UX and
OK bases. the two bases Ux and OK
being Identical. The difference in the
code letters is due to the fact that
they are merchandised by two sepa-
rate orga nizations.
The Tx 100 and OK 220 are de.
signed for use with UX 1873 and OK
299 tubes and are, therefore, equip
ped with the small standardized Ux
and OK base. while the UX 1l2: UX
20; OK liz and CX 80 are designed
for use with the Tx 301a type tubes
and are equipped with the large
sta nda rdized base.
You will notice that while gener-
ally the Cunningham numbers of
tubes are 100 points higher, such is
not the case with the OK 112. in
which case the number is the same
as that of the Radio Corporation.
Do not ask for "CX 2l2" when what
you really want is a OK 1l2.
Same Voltage Used.
The Tx 40 and OK go tubes
operate at the same f1lament terminal
voltage as the w 1873, &c 1879. G 299
and OK 299 tubes-namely. 3 volts
but they draw twice the tilament
current namely. o.l25 amperes. A
20 ohm filanent rheostat Is required.
\ maximum plate voltage of 13J
volts can be used with the new tube
and the response Is naturally much
greater. AS against the use of As
volts negative grid bias in the Nv
1919 tubes, etc, ii negative grid bias
of 22ia volts, provided by a small
221&-volt 81 battery, is required
The tube is designed to be used only
in the last stage of an audio fire.
quency amplitier although it can be
used in other positions.
The UX lie and OK lie does for
the storage battery set what tho UX
100 and OK eco do for the dry bat.
terry set. 1t is equipped with the
large standardized base. II is de.
signed for the last audio amplif1er
stage of storage battery set II op-
volts, but also uses twice the fila
ment current of the wv 20lA or c
30lA tube. drawing % ampere. a
6-ohm rheostat l. required. 1t can
also be used as detector with a plate
voltage OF 40 volts, but is primarily
intended a. an audio frequency ampli
fer in the last stage. II can be oper.
ated with plate voltage as high as
1915 volts. At 90 volts plate volta ge
a negative grid bias of volts should
be used with 1875 volts the negative
bias should be rs volts With 1875
volts it should be 8 volts grid bias
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
FANS DEMONSTRATE
SPEED IN RELAXING
Message Sent From Manila to New
York in 10 Hours and
8 Minutes.
Special Dispatch to The. Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. January 3o-Radio
amateurs who are out this Winter
to better the record made by the
fraternity during the polar communi.
cations work last Summer are adding
to their laurels with ''DX." or dis
lance work, and in many notable in
stances are giving demonstrations of
speed that might engender pride in
a purely commercial venture where
speed meant financial profits. Per-
haps the outstanding pair of events
were staged with the joint assist
ance of the Orient and Occident.
The first relay was started from
the station Of Lieut.. II. P. Roberts
at Fort Mckinley. Rial. p. I. This
station, PI.1HR. turned the relay over
to station 6BUC. the Radio Club of
Hawaii station at Honolulu. The
Hawaiians in turn passed the mes
sage to station 5LI, owned and OPP
Grated by Max Patton, tr., OF Green
Vile, Tex. The message completed
its travels when the Texan established
communication with John Mulvihill,
owner of amateur station 2BN. The
entire transaction was completed in
lS hours and 9 minutes from Manila
to New York
Another of the successful relays
originated in station FI-sLBT, Saigon.
French Indo- China. 1t was relayed
from there to Lieut.. Roberts at sta
ton PI-lHR, Rial, p. I. The next
jump, the longest In the relay, car
ried the message to station G-2LZ,
owned and operated by Mr. Mayer in
England. While the message was
destined for Brazil, the English sta
ton was not in touch with South
America. Instead of sending the mes.
sage directly, Mr.. Mayer relayed it to
J. $. Streeter. owner and operator Of
station A4Z. of Cape Town, South
Africa, who In turn passed the mes
sage on to r. OXenham, also of Cape
Town.
This latter South African was able
to give the message to station b.
1AF, owned and operated by c.
AlIneida Of Rio de Janeiro. Brazil,
who acted as the delivering agent.
The message was consigned to sta
ton BZZ-5AB. a station that had been
putting It's signals into French Indo-
China with perfect regularity. accord
ing to the Saigon amateur.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31

In addition. there Is the weather to
consider and other conditions beyond
the ability of the radio operator to
correct.
My reason for selecting u fairly
high.powered station was to be as.
sured OF constant reception. No salts
factory test can be made with. a sta
ton whose radio waves fade.
Now / announced when we had
suitable station coming in. Il want
you to pull out the plug while l make
changes In the set and then plug in
when signal. You have q good idea
or the volume and the clearness of
the set tuned for this station. All
right, then. I'm going to leave the
dials and the rheostats exactly where
they are. but | am going TO clean off
the contact tips at the base OF the
tubes"
Smith plugged out while removed
zach tube in turn and performed the
job that might result in better recep-
tlon through better contacts. When
the plug to the loudspeaker went
In again, however. there was no i'm
provement In the reception.
But reception has not been spoil.
ed" ] reminded him. That's i'm.
portant. The way You were doing the
job you couldn't tell what improved
or spoiled reception even if you did
make change"
Smith pulled out the plug again
while | tried exchanging a radio fire.
quency tube for an nudio tube.
shifts the Tubes.
Why don't YOU shift all the tubes
around while you're at it," he asked
when | told him To plug in.
Because" ] explained, "if we shift
them all around and hit on an i'm
provement in reception We'll never
know what particular change did the
trick
A wide variety of changes, how
ever. made no material Improvement.
And after each change Smith plugged
in SO that we could measure results
with the same yardstick.
Finally l looked at tho "A" bat
terry connections and found that there
was an accumulation OF corrosion
on one Of the posts This looked
like the answer. We cleaned Off the
post thoroughly and then plugged in.
But still no difference.
Perhaps reception Is as good as we
can expect on a warm rainy night
like this" he suggested
Now you're talking sense" | said
Make a note of the exact position
of the diaiS and rheoStats. Tune In
for this station tomorrow and make
comparison with touight's results.
That will solve your problem.
Next Week. No. 81: Avoiding
Distortion.