Evening Star Newspaper, July 31, 1927, Page 11

SUN SPOTS GROW AS 1978 NEARS Naval Qbservatory Expert| Says Period of Greatest Activity Is on Way. Photographing the sun daily at noon and observing its phenomena for over-a, quarter of a_century_has been | the task of Prof. George Henry Pe- ters, solar expert at the Naval Ob- | ‘servatory. Thursday nights he may be seen lecturing to a public group ound the big 12inch telescope, “preaching the gospel of astronomy’ in a popular way, and explaining the vagaries of the heavenly bodies only a man who has devoted a life time of study to the subject can dis- course on it. Sun_spots are a special phase of Prof. Peters’ work, and he looks for 014 Sol to have the “measles” in good shape by the latter part of next vear. E approach their maximun | r cycles, and late in 1928 the | king of the heavens is due to be all | spotted up, leopard-like, although Prof. Peters says it is possible this may run over into 1929, These spa magnetic storms, he explains, adding that science believes there is a link be. | tween the spots and radio disturb. ance, but this must be studied more | extensively before accurate conclu- | sions can be arrived a No Big Groups Now. Just now, Prof. Peters says, there are no enormous groups of spots on the sun. The minimum was reached st, 1923, and this solar now swinging toward the pe greatest activity. B i ch 1o spots sun, but each day now there are spots discernible. In addition to his work in his office perched in the Ob atory woodland, well above the downtown lsvel of the city, Prof. Peters has been on several solar eclipse expeditior Back in 1900 he was in Georgia, observing the wonders of a total eclip: In 1901 | he was in the island Sumatra, | in the Dutch East Indies. He visited | Spain in 1905 to observe a total eclipse north of Valencia. In 18 him to Oregon to get a sun while the moon blott Although he had never been the air before, at the age of 62, Prof. | Peters went aboard the naval dirigible | Los Angeles in January, 1925, and ob- served the total eclipse of the sun over the eastern part of the United States Went to Sumatra Again. In the Winter of 19256 he | went to Sumatra with the eclipse ex-| pedition. The natives were mc e- | customed to the scientific instruments, | but some of the younger ones who had not witnessed thelr visit some 25 years | before thought the American scientists | made the eclipse, as their elders had | believed on the previous occasion. Prof. Peters has ~himself made, ground and polished several lenses for | use in his work, among them two 10- | inch lenses with' 113 inches focal length. { He became interested in astronomy | when but a boy in high school and achieved distinction by - lecturing in churches and schools “for ths fun of ew England family ay in America from o was born at Hart- at the | i again that traces its s Pilgrim days, ford, Corn v, physics and optic first came on duty at the Naval Observatory in | 1898. | For vears each Thursday night he! he public on the won- ns and-asserts that he délights in this work particular The Summer finds the public a to look through the observato: telescope and have new worlds opened up to them. There is usually a larze waiting list, as applicatfon must be made beforehand to the superintendent and a special card is sent to each visi- tor. Sixty is the usual number of a Thursday night party. Expert on Malay Language. Prof. Peters excels in quite another | sphere fror astronomy. He is one of the few men in Washington who can speak the Malay language. He thinks | this tongue is one of the most sono- rous of them all and terms it the uni- | versal language of the eastern coun- | tries he has visited. Before his first vis- it to Sumatra he studied the language | from a book himself, but during his | two visits to the Island he was en-| bled to learn the pronunciation fluent- He also speaks French and Span- For photographing the sun on each clear day that he is fn Washington Prof. Peters uses a photoheliograph | with five inches aperture and 40 feet | focal length. The image of the sun is | snapped” on a plate four and one-hait inches in diamster, the light being |of the | upon the vacation period. | | which, face of an unsily lom which Prof. much time to is the ‘hat sun Spots cause pronour ase in the aurora boveal alike. He expects to g wount of sun-spot obse 12 months, minimum in prospect for 1934 the spots will get fewer as that per approaches. SUMMER VACATION FUNDS ARE NEEDED Deficit of $3,529 Exists for, Camps Good Will and | Pieasant. ' With slightly more subscribed than 10 por )0 required to | sus at Camp Good | Will and to the end| of the Associat- | e of the camps last night appealed for subscriptions | 7 doficit. To | te $470.83 has been subscribed, it | was announced. | Four subscriptions rcceived by The Star, totaling $14, follow: Miss L. | . Hill, §2; Alla K. Clark, $10; J Shannon, $1, and M. P. L. Boyden, $1. | The third party is now enjoving the | henefits of the camps this week, while plans are being made to send a fourth | party on August 9. John Joy 1ds n of the Summer outings committee, is send- ihg out a letter to those who ha subscribed to the fund in the past re- | guesting that th again assist lhf'| burdened mothers with babis and | small children, whose life may depend | ed Cha The Navy Band will play a Good Will on Friday evenin o'cleck. At Camp Pl a group of six young Howard Universit; mes and sports under the direction of John H. Burr. They were Julia Playlock, Florence Clayton, Bertha Lomax, Florence Snowden, Bernice Swan and Ruth Allen. UNFINISHED SYMPHONY PRIZE STIRS GERMAN IRE American Offer of $10,000 to Com- | plete Schubert Composition | Attacked by Critics. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, July 3 The offer by an American concern of a prize of $10,000 for completing Schubert’s Unfinished | Symphony does not mest with fa-| vor among the German critic: Paul Zschorlich of the Deutsche Zeitung, one of the best known mu- sical writers in Germany, brands the offer as “a nuisance” and as a “bu ness trick—a typical American g er stunt.' ‘0 finish Schubert's B-minor phony we need—a Schul ” 2 lich comment “But he lives among us, fcan magic wand won’t discover him. Under the most favorable conditions | there will be an imitation of Schu- bert's style. But it will differ from | the real Schubert as false dlamonds differ from genuine.” The critic of the Taegliche Rund- schau finds that $10,000 is a sum d Schubert but a little rt of it, would have saved him from many an embarrassment, We fear, however, that even if this sum were 0 be increased tenfold, it would not women from | was valued at £150,000. . H.|Once each pillar in_th took charge of the [; ~ | backwoods, with | thor, Karl May, entitled “Winnetou, call to life a new Schubert.” JULY 31, 1927—PART 1. v : photograph of the cun. Black specks are the sun spots. OLD LONDON TRADE HUB ‘ SCON WILL BE TORN DOWN Royal Exchange Once Was Used by All the Guilds for action of Their Business. Trans- By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 30 (#).—The Ro; square cou the ce e of and and Man r back as 1842 this building o build it er sum. | large hall wa one of the ancient gity | companies. Members of the various | guilds used to gather round their particular pillars for the transaction | of business. The operations. the big t special exchange: however, membe of wax candlers now would cost a far allotted to removed these business | With one exception, all| today have their own Every Wednesd of the old compan and chemical makers still meet to transact business. This is now the sole commercial one-time hub of busin —_—— RADIOGRAMS ADORNED. German Liners Adopt Innovation | for Passengers. July 30 (P).—Touri: liners to whom friend: ralati send wireless tions handed 1zes on artistic blanks especially vised for this purpose. At the head of the blanks there | bur:ziin frigate from the seventeenth centur: with all In the corners are the coats of arms of the large amship companies. At the sheet is printed in Medi jode Wint, glatte See able breezs, smooth sea). The n is by Carl Prinz, a Berlin ar tist. BERL German nes: de: GERMIGVS FILM “INDIANS.” Black Forest Is Used for Sccne of America’s Battles. BERLIN, July 30 (#).—Americ between skins” and “pa | life in the Black Forest. A German film company has accepted a scenario based on a story by the German au- and has laid the scenes in the Black Forest near Breisach. Winnetou is the name of an Indian chieftain who is for the German yvouth what Chingachgook or Untas is for American hoys. 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