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Entered as secona-class matter Au
gust 29th, 1923, at the postoffice at
'Tokotna, Alaska, under the Act of
TMnrch 3, 1879.
'Takotna, Alaska, December 29, 1928.
I PLAN CIANT TELESCOPE
TO EXPLORE NEW STARS
PASADENA, Cal.—The largest tel
escope ever made, twice as bin and
tfour times as powerful as the present
.greatest instrument, will la* erected
<on some yet undesignated California
imounain top. It will be a 200-inch
1 reflector.
Announcement of this plan, one of
tthe most dazzling steps in astronom
ical research in many years, was
made here tonight, and two outstand
ing aims were outlined. One is the
capacity to detect millions of celes
itial podies never before seen. The
(Other is organization of a national
: scope of scientists and business men
tto insure maximum results.
The announcement was made by
the California Institute of Technol
ogy, o which the International Educa
tion Board has made an appropria
tion to build the telescope and labora
tories and shops for its operation.
'The Carnegie Institution of Washing
ton and the Mount Wilson observa
tory are co-operaing.
The present world’s largest tele
jscope is the 100-inch reflector on
Mount Wilson, California. The 200
iinch reflector, as large as the floor of
.a good-sized room, will have four
times the power of the 100-inch. For
(example, the canals, of Mars in the
mew instrument will show twice the
(diameter of he 100-inch images, but
this doubled diameter means they
lhave four times the size and four
times the light.
The present most remote nebula is
•estimated to be a a distance of 100*
<000,000 light years, alight year being
(the distance light travels in one year.
'There are 50,000 of these nebulae
mow known. New light is expected
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A Short Drive Through De
I lightful Forest Scenery.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Mutchler
Proprietors
upon Millikin’s discovery.of rays from
space which .he identified as probably
from the creation of he elements of
which this world and other celestial
bodies are made.
A possible auxiliary, the announce
ment says, is a 40-foot Michelson.
stellar interferometer mounted on the
telescop*'. This instrumen measures
the diameter of stars. 'Existing tele
scopes have I been just large enough
to permit measurement of a few star
I diameters, and doubling the capacity
via the new instrument opens a field
of spectacular possibiliies.
One measurement hoped for is the
binary stars, which are two suns
1 close together, revolving about each
i other. Such measurements are be
lieved to hold one of the secrets of
| how worlds are created. j
The building of the reflector has
been undertaken'by. the General Elec
! rie Company.
! SIR OLIVER LODGE VOICES
HIS FAITH IN DEITY
1 - !
GLASGOW.—The existence of God
' and of a future life was ferventry
proclaimed today by Sir Oliver Lodge
to the Briish Association for the Ad-!
vancement of Science. With his own
beard a snowy white and the majority
of his distinguished congregation
j scarcely less venerable in appearance,
Sir Oliver, in the humility of his be-j
lief, declared that all mankind are
yet children in a nursery.
The scientist-philosopher towered
; over his auditors in Wellington
Church with his striking head out
| lined against the sombre woodwork of
| the pulpit. Pounding his fist on the
huge golden and black book lying on
the rostrum, he declared “science,
with all its great "work, has not elim-j
j' inated the accumulated witness of the |
! ages.”
“Real existence is a much wider
thing than terrestrial existence,” he
said. “We are mistaken "in believing
that life can exis for only material
bodies.
“There-are-many persons who for-.
| merly lived on this planet and who
! still hover close to us. They retain
i many oif the attributes that they once
1 had here. The dead are not dead, but
! alive. They have bodies, but not of
! matter; what I may call spiritual
; bodies. They are clothed, but not
with material'clothing.
“Mankind came onto the earh very
! recently, so its corporate blunders are
the mistakes of infancy. Our squab
bles are like those of children in a
nursery, but they are deadly and I
! hope we will have no more of them.
1 They tend to destroy civilization,
j “ Life in its present infantile form
| is not .very agreeable to he mass of
people, but human nature is higher
than its circumstance. In many re
spects, however, we still are <avacres.
To higher beings we must seem prim
itive indeed.”
AN EMPIRE FOR A SONG.
I Peter the Great of Russia, ship
j builder .and insatiable explorer, want
I ed to know whether Asia and Amer
ica were joined in one continent or
separated by the sea. For the solu
tion of this geognajttiical problem he
undertook the organization of an ex
: pedition, but died 1 before its depart
ure. His widow, xhi .Empress Cath
erine, carried' out the -project by send
ing Vitus Bering, a Dane, to sail be
tween the ttwo continents or ~ prove
hem to be j connected by land. Behr
' ing found the intervening'waters and
in 1728. claimed 500,001) square miles
j of landion the American side for Rus
I sia. .Thus was Alaska born. *
j Brior to the Civil TOiar !the West
| was agitating for annexation of the
j Russian territory, and on March 30,
, 1867, the United "States paid $7,200,
! 000 to Russia for the .area. Secre
itary of State Seward negptiated the
treaty under which the -purchase was
consummated.
Newspapers, men of affairs, poli
. ticians, enemies "df the administration
' as well as its friends, decried the pur
chase of Alaska. Slogans of the day
were “Seward’s .Foljy,” “Seward’s.ice
/
box,* “Seward’s desert.” The new
possession was nicknamed “Walrus-1
sia,” and tfao.se who favored the an-!
negation were rediculed as “Eskimo
senatora.'* The country’s products—
walrus, ivory, gold, seals, grain, fish
and whales—were sneered at, and it
was said Russia had sold Uncle Sam
a “sucked orange.” In spite of coun
trywide opposition the purchase was
ratified fay 'Congress; by\a vote of 113
to 43.
Today the United States would not!
. accept as .many -billions as it paid in
millions for this land which has
proven so rich m natural resources
and so prolific of revenue. Only men
of vision could fooretell the future of
Alaska, and yet those men, whose
wisdom time .has proven, were cruei
i fied on the cross of public condemna-1
tion and abuse forrmanifesting that'
wisdom. There ara* always two sides;.
| to every question,* ahdiat least one.
side must be wrong.-^Ex. ;
The Restful South. 4
Sylvester Poli, of Mew Haven, who
has just sold his chain dbf vaudeville,
theaters, for $30,000(000- .said aat .".a
lanchr.au 1
“I've worked hard' for forty years
and now 111 have.aiwr^Stful winter.
For a restful winter, friends, —go
South—not to Palm Beach or Havana
or snchrSke 1 hectic ■ places—but . to
] Georgia or. Alabama.
1 “These States are ms restful. T -iri"
Paint Rock, With its- cinnamon roses
and wild honeysuckle, I Bald tot a na
tive one? day:
““What do you do here: all sum
: mer?’
“ ‘Loaf and'fish,’ said he.
! ““And what ^o. you do'iri.the win
I ter?' |
| “ ‘We don’t fish.’ ”
Peace.
Dr. "R. I). McKenzie, -professor of
sociology at the University of Wash
! ingtora, was advocating disarmament
at- a dinner party in Seattle.
“Bu we "can’t,’’—said'a lady, “dis
arm in toto. "Consider the yellow
peril, doctor.”
“ThereTT be no yellow - peril,
! ma’am,1* said' Dr.'’McKenzie,- "if we
I act white!** .
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
AH persons having claims against
the. estate of Stewart MSCormell, *de
cpared, are hereby required to pre
sent the same, under oath, to the un
dersigned, administrator of the said
estate, at his residence wat Flat,
Alaska, or at the office ibf^the Probate
Judge tit Flat, Alaska,■'tn' of Before
May 31, 1929.
Datad, ’Fhtt, . Alaska, ‘'October 15,
1929.
HARRY DONNELLEY,
Administrator of the estate of
Stewart McConnell,' deceased.
; First pub. Nov. 24; last Dec. 22, 1928
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