Evening Star Newspaper, January 27, 1924, Page 27

o THE STARRY SKIES IN By Prof. Barton of the University of Pennsyl: interesting astronomical | the month will be the oecul- | tation of the Lright star Aldebaran @t A, figure 1) by the moon, on the evening of February 13 or early sorning of February 14, As seen Washington, D. €. the star asses behind the moon at 12:20 am, Bud emerges at 1:05 am, February 34~ -castern standard time. The star 35 %0 bright that the occultation can Bo observed without a telescope. “rom other places the event will wecur at a different time; in general earlier as one goes westward. By matehing the moon and the star, Which is the only bright star near the moon on that evening, one can tell about when to expect the star to be hidden, If at all. The moon Mo over a space equal to its diameter in ®n hour. It must be remembered that the star will disappear suddenly | When the edge of the moon, and not the illuminated part, reaches it, for the whole circular moon is there even though unseen, The star is more than a billion times as far from the moon as it is| from us_ It is so far away that when | lines are drawn from any points on earth to the star the lines are so Rearly parallel that no one (not even ®u astronomer with his most deli- cate instruments) can detect that they are not parallel. Looking at 1ig person at 1 sees the star W the direction but the moon Dides it. A nersen at A sees the star 1 the direction AB: that is, he sees it | at the | dze’ of the moon. A Terson at C sees |t at the upper edge | If we drew a line from the star to every point of the moon’s edge, thes lines would form a eylinder whi radius {3 the same as that of Moon, 1,080 miles. Persons on carth’ inside the cylinder would _the star, As the moon moves linder moves with it, and as rth rotates different parts of carth are moved into the cylinder, fo that it becomes a more or less complicated problem to state from Just what places the occultation is Tisible and what the times and con- ditions "will be from any specified of FIGURE 1. THE CONSTELLATION: THE BOTTOM., THAT 1S. IF F. BOTTOM AS SOUTH NOW Is. POINT OVERHEAD. Neptune, which invisible to the naked eye, is he only planet wh an he marked on figu however, can be seen low st in the evening twilight hright that th, for mista in it FIGURE 2. ight star: at C, now at its invisible to is as bright calendar a few had not. the e Gregorian tofore, the church created confusion. calendar is p Ruthentan Catholic st Feres to it. Otherwise practicall whole 1 world uses one ¢ ar. Not sin 2 has there n such uniformity. There were somo disturbances in’ the churches in Pe- trograd at Chrisumas time because of the change by those who did not adopt it. ars This Julian The ad- o naked eyt as the Pole star Wit RBible of the shows the following rec- Washington, son te his ‘wife, was ebruary, 17 orning, and of April follow- iz e 11th bout” ten in haptized on ing.” I the 3d The Reform. Tre change in the calender i monly called the Gregorl reform. The comments upon it by the most celeb i _astronomer produc Simon Newcomb, esting. In his celebrated wo wever., we shail celebrate his bruary not February the date of this official record. | reason for this is that now the | { the Gregorian endar, where- A= at the time of Washin m's birth the Julian alendar was still in use . h in ngland and the colonies, At | ular Astrono; he wrote: Tt there that tinie there were eleven days dif- | were any oh ing the calen- To the Julian calendar every | lur - fourth vear is a leap vea plained la month, th or endar makes exceptions to this s rule by owmitting the obse leap year in As rked for the char Durpose right tlm 1 be accurate ush for all ctical purposes during mavy ce ; |:: L:vt. however, it is difi hwow whet practical object is cd by seeking any such It s important that “at the B win seedtime and anging | harvest, shall occur at the same time cuis. ten days were |of the Year through several succes- Although the de- | but it is not of the 2, B wd did nee that they should lendar the same time now that 100 vears ago. ror would any difficulty to our de- 100 years hence if the cur In the middie of heen th last Jgure 1 . e inn : Juld have suld crn continued.” { much por Yereafter be cor the com more nearl of the lea o “lagy th ¢ calendar met with sitiom, and ft mav that in this § o sense of the peo- right than the ned. An addi- date was | tioral complication was introduced &l at 1381 we call it]into the reckoning of time without 2oRe. Hisdot Yotner | any other real object than that of a5l A January | making Easter come at the right 1. In one svetem Washinkt Y time. TAs the end of the cen o horn In 1731 and i the othe broaches, the question of making 1900 HoW) yelrs GEE EHen: to i leap vear. as usual. will no doubt fnsion. Janvary 1 was be discuseed, and it is possible that ¥ngland slso when the C come concorted action may be taken endarimananonien “n the part of the leading nations interest in the matter has Leen | lnoking to a return to the old mode revived b, the f: that the n- | of rcckoning. . Orthodox “Congress" of ‘the ctorn | Tt may be uraice now to chenge Orthodox Church has at last adepted | back to the Julian calendar. but the the Gregorlan cale The «|change to the Gregorian calendar was made by making October 1, conmonly suprosed to have been «f the old Jullan ndar made for astronomical e for prevails In AI-I da of It feast have bull | den- (rle wa en in | wisdom nunciation. ma the da Changin dar quoted this way. 1In the Yy n 0id con- adopted in egorian cal- and then accepting the new searcely Fe regarded Jeap vears. This chuch change from an astronomers v Russla, Rumania and Serbia. joint—at least, a medern astrono- adopted though these countrie mer's. If one but goes to the south- As usual, we carry only standard quality Radio | supplies — the kind vou ‘can rely on to give com- plete satisfaction. o On Display on First Floor Complete anfenna equipment. Full line of Radio accessories, ‘including head phones, B batteries, in- sulators, etc. 3 We Invite Your Inspection of Our Stocks Grebe Type CR3 with RORD 3-Tube Unit. $140.00 Grebe CR9 3-Tube................ 130.00 Atwater Kent 10-5 Tubes. .......... 104.00 Westinghouse Radiola RS. . . ... ...... 85.00 Radiola, No. 2, complete with phones, tubes and batteries . ................ Freed-Eisemann 5-Tube Neutrodyne KD.. 88.00 Westinghouse Rectigon Battery Charger.. 18.00 Music Master Horns. . . ............. 30.00 Brandes Table Talker. ............. 10.00 & Ross jnc 97.50 B 11™MAND'G STS. .THE. SUNDAY. ST FEBRUARY |Ce vania. N drafting the radio-control bill which he expectes to introduce soon in the House, Representa- tive Wallace H. White of Maine, is receiving more complaints today concerning regenerative recelving sets which throw out energy and “spueals” Into the air, and more sug- gestions on the necessity of control- ling these sets than he is recelving about any one phase of the problem, and fully one hundred times as much as about the danger of monopoly which was the big bugaboo last year. It hus been called to his attention . WASHINGTON, ngress Will Be Asked to Place | Firmer Curb Upon U. S. Radios¥ D. €, JANUARY 27, 1924 PART the fact that a canary he was bring- ing home sang In harmony with the |© ship's radio wave note. As soon as the operator started to listen his O.K. the bird redoublcd i forts In a key which interf serfously with the recept flagship’'s answer that it possible to get the messag couldn’t 1 out of the bits of tools 1 for | ef- =0 the | scared. It only takes ome ‘nut’ to ‘gum up' an entire city with a spark- coil arrangement—and to date all that has been practical (or wise) is to threaten license suspension. A po- Iice court review wouyld make the of- fenders be careful during broadcast owner, ‘began: 1ts lusty ‘son reserve hours. And at any hour code.: XU REEIL PRRER (T THSLY wons senders should keep well below 250 gherator gave b in. desia . meters—supposed to be 220. TReY |couldn't get his answer through the have more frequencles in their as- |guaG @Ftp™G #HIWEL EE slgned wave band than all the broad: | {1t oy mensage was not casting stations put together. Lel correctly. and the. wilueks them use them entirely. ‘were heid in. the J “I don't want to discourage the | (S, "0 G0 TR, amateurs or young men—just want g them to do the right thing. I am an g h by A amateur myself. The only way to get some few in every 50,000 persons is to prosecute them. ¥ > he threw e | its general dir ’ without effect. Again he call agaln the dicky bird, popular with its ten now {m [ |8 firemen “brig” of the bird but when delivered to its ‘ultimate refused to sing | German ferry boats on the W s | water nopu | ana 52 farmers That each plar God with some special use for<wiich " | tended, led to the belict. that the viper's bugloss shaped like u serpent's cure =n bite. wner ashore, although unharmed, it was vears ago with reed: Ferry Boatx Carry Radfo. oA eeh heac 2 nish ferry boats plying Letween i of the Baltic carry radio now d have agreed to tramsmit radio- | ams for the patrons of the rnemude run b not tarted transmitting. tlon of ra routes i surpris iark, sinee recent nly 0 eiving ion of about | This applic io on inland | & in Den- | census st sets out of three and one- | uarter millions, Among the classes hiefly interested are recorded 602 | tudents and pupils, 334 electricians, 41 craftsmen, 320 retired persons WHEN YOU NEED A KEY You need our instant dupli- cating service, Duplicate key, 25c. Bring your locks to the shop. TURNER & CLARK Basement. 1233 New York Ave. About 100,000 species of plants have by botonists S AT 9 P.M., FEBRUARY 1. AC THE EAST HOLD E. AN OCCULTATION OF A STAR. THE STAR 1S HIDDEN BY THE MOON TO THOSE WITHIN THE CYLINDER. he will find win summer is heg| e vorthern With the quency of truvel and close ship of different parts of the small change when worl in the cquinox is qu This is the year and the month ich ar sxtia Jay inserted Leth cale ~ xtra bruary o fixed date. July 4. T day of latér than e—that over a dav—we call it a leap SAMUEL G. BARTON. u.s. INSfITBTIBNgéEEN Senator Greene Warns Influx Undesirable Tmmigrants Must Be Restricted. Warning that government institut in the United States are tened a great Influx of uny | from Europe was given by ¥ Greene of Vermont in an a | meeting of Burnside Post | Wednesday night. *“The full and overfiowing. ai Senator « ting pot ory that future generations *can be their mothers shall He said men fight and hoped that the better than them.” women, r th Addresses were also Dunl, rs. Alc snal commander command, respectively; Miss Jennie Hamilton, partmental president of the District local auxiliary. given. Imitations may be dangerous When you' see Colds Toothache | HOLD | THE MAP TO THE SKY SO THAT THE DIRECTION FACED IS AT/ ST AT THE TER OF THE MAP IS THE » relation- IN PERIL FROM ALIENS | irable immgran A R last | ator Greene & the pres- { ent-day American girl, offered the the make coming woman would prove worth fighting far. | Columbia, and Nora Albers, head of the A musical program wa that in England there is a rigid con- trol over receiving sets, which have to be licensed as we license trans- mitting sets and then because of con- ditions ' the sets are standardized and control thus exercised. There I8 a vast difference, Rei sentative White points out, in c tions in this count Here, we have at least ten receiving sets to one In Great Britain. Always there is doubt In the first instance whether' our people would tolerate control over recelving set® Representative White emphasizes, and it is certain, too that inspection and control would re- guire a personnel and an appropria- tlon which is immediately out of the question, he feels sure, “This does not alter the fact, how- ever, that one of the serious difficul- tles most often complained of at the |present time is occasioned by receiv | ing set epresentative White says, |"elther of a particular type or efficiency and ‘ignorantly handled Interfcrence by X-Ray. “Another suggestion that comes to | a A nireguently is the ity for laerial in anticipation ; iminating the interferen | the newly desighed 1.000-mile x-ray and similar machines jnow building at the naval resentative White explains, {laboratory at Belleview, centers where machines of this gen- | Robinson explains. al kind are common, substantial in- | When the former ZR-1' terference is caused Ly them. I can|gave way officert and men jumped not see at this time any practicable | controls, engine. i ballust releas method of dealing with them, but Gunner Robinson, in his mplaints from the seaboard|shack in the control car, sprang states of interference due to ship and [ his set. Tearing loose volt shore communication are many.” says | ammeters Representative White. in calling at- tentlon to another angle of the in- | terference problem. “This situation somewhat difficult to handle,” he ontinues. “We can control trans- tting sets and operators on Amer- ican ships and we can exercise any Fourth: cast waves slowly, which is the 1 necessary thing. great deal of it from 400 to ters. Le except in case of an S. O. even with a selectiv you don’t he interlappink closely damps and blots the broadcast wavy RADIO NEWS aerlal . pacity, induc: cording to Gunner Ro aboard on the wiid tnstruments the pre of ingtal establish communicatiop with home station. But he paratus was wet from the he could use his phones or key. degree of control over forelgn shins!less than an hour he had -his set working, but it was not an S. O. & while In American waters: but when the foreign ships get beyond our|that he Sent, as most Sea eraft wor three-mile limit our effective con-|have been forced to do. under t trol is gone | circumstances He ticked “The remedy probably lies in agree- | sage that the Shen ments between the American and the | control, which put at rest any fe foreign .opefators and in a wider|the Navy may have had and allay separation of the wave bands used |alarm among the fami in broadeasting and in ship-to-shore | cers and men. communication.” ! out of_the { call for » {dio call. I giving him his_first po verified later by Lakehurst. navigators then knew was driving their ship. “Communication was then ter in- Te- derkness came <. the Shenandoah Confirmation of Viewpolnt. S OB &t Newa Confirming what Representative White suid, a letter was delivered to him while he was giving this in- terview, from a broadcast fan in New England. who offered the following suigestions: First more money ‘o radio department which now has . atori | four men for this big dlstrict which | Yeatner data,” he Sunming | is really not sufficient to handle the |y e Geaiription of an unpre tremendous volume of correspondence | Gantad experience fraught with gr | alone, besides ship, shore, broadeast- | goncar ing. amateur inspections, trouble | TNEGE (i thae radio haa | hunting, ete. Qnly $1.000 a year for|siderable to do with the rem | travel expenses! Why, $1,000 a onth | g vigation of th rial o be too much, If the air | @iERCO0e Farte and °d every fifty or hundred|jng {n reports from her base. s as it will o iive ner Robinson. “We kept the hey gave wouldn't were poli square 1 eventual { especially well as the t t 1 h. es of the offi i bring- | The ? b¢|reports from NERK came through ir had been “The ship und shore sta- tions are being cleared off the broad- t But there is still & 0 me- them kecp off those waves , because receiver when r the code, yet the wave a broadeast wave o n ition report. | Th where the guls 00d_for the remainder of the trip,” says Gun- | on- cable rator of @ | cleared for this mobile station. which of iving set as well as & sending =et | 5 00 (1900 0 more responsibility, feeling for oth- | PTaye® JARCEL T | ers, and to give him a hetter sense of | i1 coon Le replaced with long-d most historic. (Continued from Twenty-sixth Page.) golng her mooring tests her 300-foot | s also being tested fer ca- radio | meters. | and other testing instru- ments, he began hooking up kis trans- | mitting and receiving sets so as to| the und his ap- driving | rain, and had to dry it all cut before ! off a mes- | doah was under regurd for others—charge a fee {0 | an00 and medium-range transmitters, | both classes of stations—especially | W77 S L0l icine the operator of a single-cireuit re- ! 0 U0ca0 ar use generative set, which is In reality a|rxplorations. The designers are Squealing transmitter. ers should be prohibited DUtting out | 519 set fumctioned such Scts in the future and the own- [Yooiaq up while ers of such recciving sets should be | pizht crutse of the prohibited from allowing an inexpe- | rienced person to run such a ‘squeal- | |ing’ set. Ome person in one house should be licensed to run such a set Let them have such sets changed | song of a canary weuld in any over if they don’t like that. Besides, | affect the prolongation of the and Arct sets in the en route- on renandoah is | Wireleas Talea. no where near adequate attention to numerous radio préblems that need 00 men instead of four to a district. A house krown to have a radio (or an aerfal) without a fee license would be out of luck—they'd have to LAay. is more than willing to L small fee. captain, the Orion operator hird—"Put _some real teeth in|the flagship to ask that steps he law 1o prosecute the very few per- | taken to secure the firemen’s rel stent senders (‘ham’ operators) who | and return to the states. re ‘bold’ youths and cannot be| Sparks got his m Three firemen from the Nagasakl authorities detal ashore, although their sh was safling. 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Aspirin - is.the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of * Salicylicacid N the request of I called i r One would scarcely think the sweet way in- | the fee revenue would pay for some- | carceration of three of Uncle Sam's jsallors in_a Japanese prison, but so the tale of un er-Navy operator goes the good ship | | Orion_got themselves in wrong with and were | Manufactur- | from disappointed. however, as the! well after being the { € sage off despite e WRIGHT o F Always Right w uality and Price 905 Seventh St. Phone M. 167 Our February Discount Sale Starts Monday ' Its a sal¢ of furniture that sets a new standard of value. Demonstrating what the buyers of good furniture may ex- pect from the \Wright Co., where “good furniture costs least.” American Walnut Bedroom Suite, $185.00 By every comparison regular price. we consider this fine suite $50.00 under the A glance at the quality, workmanship and material will substantiate this. Included are the following: Spacious wardrobe wit two top drawers. vanity with three drawers on each side and deep mir rors, 43-inch dresser. and bow bed. walnut. T\\‘fl—(l 16 American the Wright Co. ) S AE ANR IRIE AASATIRABAHIS i( ’ b Faultless finish and construction. Compare the price. No one undersells Strong oak frame upholstered in imi- tafion leather. This is a long davenport bed not a short one Chair Sale! Dining Chairs Bedroom Chairs Rockers and Benches Windsor Chairs These odd chairs have served their purpose as samples and now they must go. \We need the space they occupy for other merchandise. The dining chairs are in ma- hogany and walnut; bedroom chairs in walnut,vory and ma- hogany finishes—Windsor chairs in mahogany only. Every chair’is reduced so deep- 1y that in many instances the price of $5.00 is close to onc- half of its actual worth. 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