The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-05-10
Observation-Disclosures
: 1|es, the World Is Not Round
C/Wlbu Glenn Voliva, Famed Overseer of Zion,
Gives the en- Reasons Why He Firmly Believes
He Travelled to Europe On Flat Earth

x you said it. Annabelle It's FIAT Ole
~ world after ali.
Anyone wishing to disprove thai
u statement can make $1,000 for him
Al! he has to do is prove his point to the sat
isfaction Of Wilbur Glenn Voliva. general over
seer Of Zion City. Illinois. called BY some folk
the hottest city on EARTH"
He believes the world is as Rat as a pam
cake. He supports his belief by quotations
from the Bible and by mathematical calcula.
tons. At the moment MI. Voliva is taking his
first real vacation in 2o years travelling in Eu-
rope. Africa and the Holy Land.
To any one that can prove to him that the
earth is round. rushes through space and is hello
in place by gravitation. Voliva will pay 5000
good American dollars.
His offer hold. good until 1886 in which yea
the overseer Of Zion predicts that the end of tn.
world will be at hand and the millennium ushered in
BY that time. Voliva figures. it won't make much
difference whether the earth is FIAT or otherwise
Because in 1885 the bobbed-haired Aappers. gin
toten and other jazz-age behemoths will get theirs
in the form Of high voltage toaster lined with 6r.
and birthstone.
Voliva calls himself a Zetetic. This term, &C
cordins to the dictionary. means seeker after
truth. But more particularly It is applied to
those who say the earth is FIAT as opposed to
those who hold It to be round or slobuiar. The
latter are called ''slobularists.
THERE are 10 reasons why Voliva main
tains his contention is right:
1.-The earth does not move. Il is
a stationary plane. The sun. the moon and
other celestial bodies move around the earth.
They are propelled by two great ETHEREAL cur
rents. One current runs north. the other south.
1.-THE sun IS never seen below the horizon.
But at the vernal equinox at 6 p. M. il the
earth were globe. the sun would stretch thou
sands Of miles above and below the horizon. il
the sun were the size that astronomers say i is.
3-"Clobularists contend that the earth is
round because i casts a round shadow on the
moon. They say that only sphere can cast
round shadow. But this IS not So Go into
room at night. Turn on only one light. Take
a FIAT ruler and ball. Il will at once be
proven that even Hat piece Of wood can cast
a curved shadow on the ball.
4-"Many Of the fixed stars that show as
mere pin points are supposed to be suns Of i'm
mense size. millions Of miles away.
They are nothing Of the kind. Astronomers
and other followers Of the Copenican system have
removed them to such unreasonable distances.
simply for the credit and convenience Of their own
theories.
5-'If the earth were round as some contend.
and It it really moved around the sun instead Of
lamp posts and tall trees in the city parks would
fall in straight line. But they do not. From
sunrise to sunset they describe great curve. about
half Of an ellipse.
6 A NY ONE wishing to make test Of this
~ can do 50 with an orange or ball. in a
darkened room with but one lamp Place
an upright stick near the center Of fiat table.
and carefully move the light halfway around.
You will get the true sun dial curve. This IS the
curve that the sun makes on the earth. which
stands still while the sun moves.
To see what would happen # the earth moved
around the sun. fix match IN the orange. and
place the light in the center Of the table. Squarely
rotate the orange. You will get short straight
line. All Of this bears witness to the irrefutable
Schools teach children that the earth
has sailed around It. That is silly. 1t is nm
possible to sail in q straight line either due east
or west. The magnetic pole Is at the center Of
the fat plane. which is the earth. Ships sailing
around the outer circumference keep the point
Of the compass always toward north and steer
at right angles to It. The course thus described
is . circle. But thoughtless educators still keep
up the primer contention that RECOMMENDATION
proves the earth Is round.
7-"!f the sea. as a part Of the world and
sharing in its supposed slobulariy. really par
took Of the surface curvature. then this curva-
ture ought to be visible from balloon. fol
sweep Of 50 miles. looking in either direction.
But no such curvature has ever been seen. Only
q vas, and uniform level presents itself. This
level rises perspectively to the eye-line.
6-"The Bible says in Rev. i that when
Jesus Christ returns Every eye shall see Him.
bu. if The earth Be spherical. how could every
person see Him3 Those that live on the bottom
Of the globe could never zee around i to the
top. And those that live on the top could never
zee around il to the bottom.
9-"If the earth Is round. how would i have
been possible for the devil to have shown Jesus
All the Kingdoms Of the world IN moment Of
time. unless all those countries were on one gen.
eral level2 -.
lOE"The round earth theory contradicts the
Bible and makes Z liar Of God. The Bible IL
supreme Truth and God i The essence Of truth.
For example, il the earth were round the Biblical
account Of universal deluse taking place on
whirlms sphere would Be almost preposterous.