Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1923, Page 38

SOCIETY, THE STARRY SKIES IN JANUARY By Prof. Barton of the University of Pennsylvania. The beautiful winfer stars are with us against Sirius, the brightest of all. at A, figure 1, is nearly five times as hrilliant as Vega, the next brightest «tar visible here, and five and a quar- ter times.as _bright as Capells, nearly overhead at B. Capella, however, 1s in | a more favorable position. Other | bright stars are Rigel at C, Procyon | at D, Betegeuse at E. Adebaran at F. | the twins Castor and Pollux at G and | H, Deneb at I and Regulus at J. Only the two planets Uranus und Neptune, invisible to the naked eye, are in the region of the map; one near the west- crn horizon and the other near the eastern horizon. Venus, in Capri- ornus, may be seen low in the south- in the evening twilight. The other planets are visible late in the uight, Mars in Libra, Jupiter in Scor- pio and Saturn in Virgo. Planets for the Year. Now at the beginning of the year may state briefly what will hap- pen during the next twelve months. Mercury will be visible in the early evenlug for a few days about April 16, August 15 and December 9, and in the early morning about February and September 27. One of interesting events of the will be the transit of Mercury the face of the sun, May 7. The whole transit will not be seen from any part of the United States, but vonditions are better in the west than in the east. The last transit occurred in 1914 and visible here, and the next is in 1927, not visible here; then there is one in 1940, visible in part. Venus will be an evening star until July 1, the morning star for the re- maihder of the year. It will be far- thest east of the sun April 21, far thest west Septesaber 10, and bright est May 25 and August 7. It will be conspicuous as a morning or evening star most of the veur, and the planet will be in more favorable position for | evening observation than at any time since 1916, Mars approaches the earth so close- this year that it is almost as near 1 possibly DI E It is e close at intervals of fifteen scventeen years, but this year it | nearcr than usual, even on these occasions. Not since 1877, has it been #0 near. It will be closest on August 22 Venus is the only planet whose brightness ever excee that of Mars at that time. The planet is too far south for the best observation from | northern observatories, but it will be cbserved by them as well as possible trom both hemispheres. Mars will be | an evening star after August 22. Ju piter is a morning star until June ihen evening star until December Saturn is a morning star until April then an evening star until Octo- her Uranus is an evening star until March § and after September Neptune is an evening star from bruary § until August 1 The lat- r two planets are not visible to the ked eye. As all bright planets will visible during the spring and sum- mer, Venus and Mars, under unus- vally favorablo conditions that part of the year, will be an interesting one as far as the planets are concerned. Eclipses. Although there are five eclipses durine the vear. which is more than the average number, no part of any one will be visible from any part of the United States. There are three partial eclipses of the sun visible chiefly from polar regions, as partial eclipses of the sun usually are, and two total eclipses of the moon visible from the other hemisphere. There ! will be an interesting oceultation of Aldebaran on February 14. The earth is nearest to the sun on January 1. The Calendar. The beginning of the year is a suit- ble time for a discussion of our cal- endar, the Gregorlan calendar. In- terest In it is revived by the fact that in October it was adopted as the cal- endar of a large mber_of people who had before used 4 different one. the Julian calendar. Now practically the ‘whole civilized world uses the game calendar. This is the first New Year day for all since the change. As 13 too well known to require detailed discussion here, the calendar was in great confusion at the time of Julius Cacsar and it became necessary that lie should take some actlon with, re- spect to it. He solicited the advice of ihe astronomer Sosigenes and acted upon his suggestions. Previous cal- endars had depended largely upon the motion of the moun. Sosigenes very wisely discarded the moon altogether and made the calendar depend upon the sun only. The year, as he knew, was very nearly 3653 days in length. If 365 days was accepted as a year, the seasons would begin about a quarter day later each year. To pre- vent this the scheme familiar to us of having three consecutive years of 365 days followed by one of 366 days (leap vear) was adopted. Every Year (in our present system of num- bering) which Is exactly divisible by four. was a leap year. This does not apply to B. C. dates. This was the simple Julian calendar »d by practtcally the whole civil- ized world from the time of its es- tablishment in 45 B. C. until 1582, and Ly a large but less importang part of the world until 1923, and still used by a very small part. To date it has been used for 1969 yvears. The egorinn Chunge. The yvear of the seasons, the tropi- cal year, is 11 m. 14.5 s. shorter than the 3651 days used by Sosigenes in the Julian calendar. The difference made the seasons occur a day earller than shown by the calendar in 128 veare. By 1582 the beginning of spring (the vernal equinox) occurred on March 11 instead of about March 24, when the Jullan calendar was es- tablished. To remedy the dlscmep- ancy and prevent its recurrence, Pope Gregory XIII called a council for the considerution of the calendar and upon their advice a bull was is- sued changing the calendar to the system now used by us called the Gregorian calendar. ~Sections of this p2pal bull are worth quotation, tran- lated, to show clearly the reéasons for the change. “Considering, thererore, that ‘three things are required to be joined to- gether and established for the right celebration of the festival of Easter according to the sanctions of the holy fathers and of the ancient Roman Pontiffs, "especially Pius and Victor first, and also of the great Ecumen- lcal’ Nicene council and of other Pirst, a fixed place of the ver equinox; second, the correct position of the fourteenth day of the moon, which falls either on the day of the equinox or mext follows it; lastly,! the first Sunday which follows the same fourteenth of the moon—we wish not only to restore the equinox 1o its former position from which it | has receded about ten days since the | icene Council, and to bring back the | present moon to its place of that time | from which it is distant more than | four days, but also to provide a plan by_which hereafter the equinox and west | elusiv | prietors | Potomac river. EC . Figure 1. The constellations at 9 the sky, so that the direction faced is hold cast at the bottom, as south point overhead the fourteenth of the moon shall never be removed from their proper ‘herefore, that the vernal equinox which by the fathers of the Nicene Council was established at the twelfth of the culends of April, may be restored to that place. we direct and command that from the month of October, in the year 1582, ten days be omitted from the third day before the nones to the day before the ides, in- and the day which follow the feast of Saint Francis, accustom- ed to be celebrated on the fourth day before the nones, be called the ldeas of October. “In order that the equinox may not again recede from the twelfth of the celends of April, we direct that every fourth year continue to be bissextile (as is the custom). except in centesimal years, which formerly were sextile and which we wish the vear 1600 to be. After it. however, ihe centesimal years which follow shall not all be bissextile, but in ev- ery 400 years the first three centesi- imal vears shall not be bissextile, but 1o always | p.m., January 1 t tne bottom Hold the map up to that Is, if facing east The cener of the map is the every fourth centesimal shall be a bissextile year. Thys the years 170! | 1800, 1900 are not to be bissextile. * < | ““Dated at Tusculum in the year of |the Incarnation of our Lord one thou- sand, five hundred and elghty-first, | the sixth of the calends of March. * ¢ | “Blssextile year” is another name | for leap year. | The Council of Nice met in 325 A. {D. at which time they thought the vernal equinox oceurred March 21 The vear of the Incarnation began March 25 and the date of the docu- ment is February 24, 1681. We wish it noted that the reasons for the change in the calendar were primarily ecclesiastical and connected with Easter. The reasons were ofly indireetly astroviomical. The equinox was not restored to the time at which |it occurred at the beginning of the Julian calendar and the days were in- serted to suit the feast of the saint. Tho subject will be ocontinued next month, &s_there are many who do not understand our calendar. SAMUEL G. BARTON. Quantico Citizens Up in Arms Over Marine Clean-Up Proposal Special Dispateii to The Star. QUANTICO, Va.. RDecember This obstreperous village, twelve hundred feet by one thousand feet wide, rose up with indignant defiance today when it learned that Maj. Gen. Lejeune, commandant of the Marine Corps, had proposed to acquire and raze it, characterizing it as unsani- tary, an abode of bootleggers and a detriment to the morals of the marines stationed at thg big post nearby. For, strange to say. this ram- shackle place. with it's aimless streets, its rubbish-filled vacant lots and its squalid shacks, spells home to some of its inhabitants. They are disinclined to leave it, even though the government agree to pay lhpr‘n a fair price for their property. Gen. Lejeune proposed that Congress p- propriate $500,000 to buy up the place. But Quantico says that would not be nearly enough. : Take M. R. Stevens, for instance. He has lived in his little Quantic cottage for fifty Yyears—long befo) the marines came here to put th place on the map. 20— “Why, 1 can’t leave here for more | than three or four days without get- ting homesick,” he told the write “I'’s not so much, maybe. but I'm used to it. 1t's home to me. “Have you thought of the effect the purchase by the government of this place would have on the morale of the enlisted men?” put in a fresh- faced boy in uniform who was in Mr. Stevens' poolroom when the corr spondent called. “Should the town of Quantico be closed up, there would be no place for the enlisted man to go for recre- atlon, where they would be free from the supervision of their officers, un- less they went to Fredericksburg, thirty miles away, or to Washington. It's & pogr place, but it's better than none. 1F costs a couple of bucks §o Zo to Washington.-and by the time a marine buys his_clgarettes and sho blacking out of hiz twenty a month. there isn't much left. Do away with Quantico and I helieve there will be a lot more of them going over the hill (deserting). L. L. Stevens, proprietor of the town's best drug store, was highly indignant _at, Gen. Lejeune’s on the village. He declared the town was not nearly ‘50 bad ax it had been painted. Other business men—pro- of the restaurants, candy and fryit stalls, the poolrooms and the haberdasheries which thrive off the marines chimed in in similar vein. But Brig. Gen. Smedley Butler. post commandant. who has been itching to wash Quantico's dirty face and dig out its ears, stood back of every harsh word his chief said about the place, "I could clean it up in 19 minutes if I were given the authority to do %0,” he declared, on the eve of his departure for Philadelphia to clean up that town as head of itv police force. “Parasite” and “pest hole,” were a couple of pet names Gen. Butler ap- plied to the place. “Plgsty” was an- other. From his office window he pointed a disgusted finger at it. “Did you ever see a drearier look- ing place?’ he asked. "It has no sewerage and no_ water, depending on the supply at the post. “Thesmain street was paved by the marines be- cause it leads to the dock on the 1t is bounded on the south by the parade ground, on the nzth by the experiment stations gnd héte on the east by the administra- tion building, the barracks and the oflicers’ homes. Ugh! Pigsty.” A few of the inhabitants agree with Gens. Lejeune and Butler, but attack | they are nmewcomers. For instance, the woman who lives in the neatest cottage in Quantico—a nice little cot- tage, with a baby grand plano in the parlor—sai “r "don’t know what T would do without my music. It is so dreary here. Sinclair Lewis, when he wrote ‘Main Street. never faw a place like this. It is infinitely worse than any- thing in his book. The people around here are absolutely vile and the sanitary conditions are indescrib- able. T stay only because my hus- band is employed at the Army post. He is a civillan electrician.” Tntil Congress acts, Quantico is safe from Gen. Butiers washrug, however, as the town is beholden only to the civil authorities of Prince Willlam county—and the Manassus authorities have too much else to do to bother with Quantico. The trades- men are hoping that action will not | come soon, but they are planning no concerted oppositon. ————— i BOOKS RECEIVED. THE SINGING BONE. By R. Austin Freeman. author of “John Thorn- dyke's Cases” ete. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. [ THE GLOBE HOLLOW MYSTERY. Hannah Garyland. author of The House of Cards.” New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. ROBERT _LOUIS STEVENSON BIRTHDAY BOOK. Compiled by R. B. P. New York: Charles Scrib- | mer's Sons. { TWO NO-TRUMP; A Novel of Apart- ‘ment Hotel Life. By Gertrude Myers. Chicago: Covicl-McGee Company. THE CARE OF THE BABY; A Maa- ual for Mothers and Nurmes. By J P, Crozer Grifith, M. D. Phil delphfa: W. B. Saunders Company. THE SEA-WOMAN’S CLOAK and NO- VEMBER EVE; Two Plays. By ! Amelic Rives (Princess Troubets- | koy). (Cincinnati: Kidd Compan: CHRISTIANITY: The Flower " Frait_of Judnism. < By a | —Levi (Mark John Levy). Washing- i ton: ¢hristian League of Jewish Friendship. | ALCOHOL AND PROHIBITION: In ! " Their Relation to Civilization and the Art of Living. By Victor G. ! Veckl, M. D. Philadelphia: J. B. | Lippincott Company AN EX-PRELATE'S MEDITATIONS. Edited by Herman J. Heuser, D, D. New York: Longmans, Green & Co. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE; A Cotempo- rary Estimate, By Edward Bl ! iwell Whiting. Boston: The Atlan- tic Monthly Press, REAL ESTATE BUSINESS AS A PROFESSION. By John B. Spilker, LL D. Cincinnatl: Stewart Kidd Publishers. ... .- HERE YOU HAVE MBE! By Robert Roe. New York:George H. Do- ran Company. THE STRASSBURGER-FAMILY; And Allied Families of Pennsylvania. Being the Ancestry of Jacob An- drew Strassburger, Esq., of Mont- xomery County, Pa. -By his son, Ralph Beaver Strassburger. Print. ed for private circulation in Gwyn- edd Valley, Pa. FROM PINAFORES TO POLITICS, By Mrs. J. Borden Hartiman. New York: Henry Holt & Co. THE MEN’S HOUSE; Masonic Papers and Addresses. By Joseph Fort Newton, L. D, author.of “The Builders.” New York: George H. Doran Company. —_— At the taking of .the last: census | there were only’ two_ states—Vermont and New Hampshire—without artificial ice.factories. Stewart Griffin Shop 1109 Conn. Ave. : " Entire Week Street, Afternoon and Evening Gowns Poiret Twill Dresses, Values 49.50 to 87.50—reduced 29.50 to 45.00. Evening Gowns in Chiffon, Metal Cloths and Laces and Velvets, Values 59.50 to 125.00, reduced 39.50 to 75.00. Afternoon Dresses in Canton Crepe, Roshanara, Satin, Crepe Roman; Values 49.50 to 95.00, reduced 29.50°t0°69.50 l]’HE PUBLIC . LIBRARY Recent accessions at’ the Public i Library and 1 of recommended {reading. will appear in this column | each Sunday. E Finance. {Asada,” Keiichi. “Expenditures of the Sino-Japancse War. 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The Labor Problem and the ‘Social Catholic Movement in France. - 1921, HF-M7761. National Industrial Conference Board. ‘Wages, Hours and Employment in American Manufacturing In- dustries, July, 1914-January, 1923 HFS-N217wh. . 3 Plumd, G. and Roylance, W. G. Industrial Demoecracy. HH- Roberts, G. E.. ed. Labor Problem and the Labor Movement. HF- R5471. Roberts, G. E., ed. HFS- R547w. United States Children's Child Labor and the Work Mothers in the ;Beet Fields of ‘olorado and Michigan. HFM- Una3se. Warbasse, J. P. Co-operative De- HH-W1 mocracy : Wiggins, J. E. Workers' Non-Profit Co-operatives, HH-W631w Transportation. Chatburn, G. R. Highways and High- way Transportation. HJRO-C3% Denfeld. G. A. A Practical Scientific Treatise on Traflic Management. 1921. HIR-D4l4p. International Correspondence Schools, cranton, Pa. The Traffic Man's Handbook. HJR-Ins3. MecIntyre, L. W: Preliminary Top- ical Outline of the Economics of Highway Transport. HJRO-MI8. Vanderblue, H. B., and Burgess, K. F. Rallroads. HJR-V283rr, Wages. Bureau. | of | MISS JOSEPHINE KAMMAGE, Guest of her while in Way from school nt, Mrs. C. K, Jones ington om her holiday TWO U. S. DESTROYERS "SENT TO HONGKONG SOCIETY URGES NATIVES OF INDIA UNFURL HOME-RULE FLAG Swaraj Party Clilef Says Release of Ghandi From Prison Should Not Be Waited. | | By the Associated Press. - | COCONADA, British India, Decem- | ber 29.—If Mahatma Gandhi is released from prison within a year to recelve the charter of the Swaraj, or home rule party, the natives of India should, without hesitation, un- furl the flag of the Indian republic, sald the non-co-operationist leader, Mahomet Al, in opening the thirty- eighth Indian national congress here vesterday. The ~speaker denounced what termed the autodratic and paralyzing policy of the British government in India, which he sald was crushing progress. He warned his hearers that if they were not careful the awaraj woull be dead within a year, but that if they made an appropri ate resolve and acted on it home rule could be attained within a month. —_— The latest fad among fashionable women in Paris is the wearing of pendants suspended at the back in- stead of over the bosom. Warships at Canton and Detail of L Marines Will Sail Tomorrow. BY JUNIUS B. WOOD. Special Correspondence to The Star and tue Chicago Daily News. (Copyright, 1923.) CANTON, December 29. — The American destroyers Pearce and Noa and half of the emergency detail marines now here have been ordered to sall for Hongkong next Monday. Berths vacated on the Pearl river by the destroyers will be occupied by the gunboat Helena, which is bring- ing Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, American minister to Canton. The destroyers Sicard and Pope and the remainder of the American marines will escort Dr. Schurman back to Hongkong, leaving only the Asheville and Pampanga under Com- mander J. O. Richardson, commander of the south China patrol in Canton. The departure of destroyers and ma- rines will practically end American participation in the naval demon- strations here. The duration of the stay of the destroyers, however, de- pends on future developments in Canton. Consomme Celery Cider Roast Turkey Giblet Sauce Mashed Caulifiower Epicurean Hot Christmas Salad Plum Pudding Ice Cream Stuffed Dates Demi Special Music Hours—One to Eight Phone for Reservations E DODGE HOTEL $2.00. " GRAC INQUIRE ABOUT OUR DEFRRRED PAYMENT PLA W. M. Woses & Sons Furwitare Carpste Established 1881 F Street and Eleventh ANNOUNCE THE ANNUAL he | alted Nuts FORMER RUSSIAN ENVOY TELLS COURT HE IS BROKE One-Time Vice Consul in Chicago Says Wife Owed $2,240 Taxi Bill—Seeks Position. YORK, December 29.—Pr. olas Viadaovich Engalitcheff, on. onsul at Chicag 1o protest agains persecution his creditors, declare that he was no longer oo proud ! admit his poverty, The prince was marricd twice ir Europe and divorced twice in t United States. His second wife, Mm« Betrand of Paris, rode $2,240 ‘wort in hired cabs and <t was this f which he was sued and judgmer gainst him. itors had him in explain, if he could he hadn’t paid. He said he was almost brok | that ke had no job, but was | for one. that his creditors were ho ing him, bringing publicity | preventing him from mak | able connections. His in a brokerage house. Counsel for the | that the princ | Pickwick Arm & suite rated at $490 3 month. ing thi: the prince’ he paid $4,a day. Decision was reserved. aring in cours that ng last job Den; oni Sweet Gerkins Chestnut Dreseinz Cranberry Jells Potatoes Hubbard Squae| Rolls Cheese Straw Hard Sauce Christmas Cuk. 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