Evening Star Newspaper, November 10, 1936, Page 8

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It is true that great tragedies have attended these maxima, but at irregular intervals before and after. | makes dally measurements of the | variations of the sun at four stations |from Mount St. Katherine in the | Sinal Peninsula to Mount Monte- |suma ' in Chile, is concerned pri- marily with the effects of the sun- spot cycle on weather and refuses to associate it with psychological phe- nomena. At the start of the present cycle, however, Dr. Orestes Caldwell of the Advisory Committee of the American Museumn of Natural History presented data which indicated that predictions of disaster accompanying sunspot maxima may not be entirely the results of unfounded superstition. Have Physical Effects. ‘The sun spots themselves, Dr. Cald- well pointed out, are not in them- selves portents of earthly events, but ‘they may have certain physical effects in the earth’s atmosphere which set off sequences of events which eventu- ally effect the human nervous system and the human emotions. Sunspot maxima, Dr. Caldwell's curves showed, have been associated | with wars and depressions. Whether the relationship is purely lortuitous cannot be determined in the light of present knowledge. Charts of business activity in the United States since the Civil War, compared with the corresponding sun- spot cycle, show some curious re- | lationships. Each sunspot maximum during that period was followed withe | in 30 months by a depression or panie. The great rket crash of 1929 | followed the solar maximum of 1928. | The less ‘marked 1921 slump came after the solar peak of 1918. The 11907 panic was the sequel of the 1906 sunspot maximum. The great panic of 1893 followed the 1892 peak. | On the other hand low points i {the sunspot cycle usually have been | followed by periods of business stabil- |1ty and prosperity. Thus the eras of | WAr prosperity, 0 etc., each followed on the heels of a sunspot minimum. Effects Wild Life. should the sun, 93,000,000 miles away, have so notable an ef- ! fect on human history? The Smithsonian Institution, which | Coolidge -prosperity, | THE BOARD TO GIVE NOTICE OF HEARINGS BY MAIL Montgomery Church and Civie @Groups Will Be Advised of Liquor Permit Pleas. Speaisi Dispateh 1o The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md., November 10.—Due to complaints that hearings on applications for beer licenses are not well enough advertised, the Mont- gomery County Liquor Control Board, meeting here yesterday, decided to have leading organizations and churches in ‘the communities which would be affected notified by mall of the pending hearing. “The board denied the application of Joseph M. Henley of Boyds for a class D beer license at Dew Drop Inn on the Rockville-Gaithersburg pike after a hearing. It was pointed out that there already are a number of beer places in that vicinity, TIVE HELD RPE FOR MERTT GAINS Woman Voters Say Presi- dent Can Carry Out Pledges for System. " President Roosevelt's “great vote of confidence” gives him an'opportunity to carry out almost immediately the Democratic campaign pledge to ex- service, directors of ing. 2 ‘Thelr . statement was issued thraggh Miss Margaret M. Wells, Minneapolis, president of the organ- isatioh. It clted China is planning & leaf “tobacco ‘monopoly. | Choice sional more. Rocker FREE with any pur- | chase of $69 or} pledge to the National | | League of Woman Voters said yes- | terday after their semi-annual meet- | the Democratic | EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (., TUESDAY law all continuing positions which because of the emergency have been exempt from ita operation.” Prencuncements Recalled. “While the 1932 Democratic plat- fortn contained no civil service plank,” aald the statement, “President Rocse« velt has made several blic pro- nouncements in favor of the merit system, It 18 & matter of public record that during these years more | than 200,000 employes have been add- ed to the Qovernment tolls without civil service classification. “The President has sn imporlant responsibility in fulfilling the merit system promises he made in accepting the platform of 1936. He already has by executive orders taken steps | to place all postmasters and employes | tend the merit system to the classified | of H. O. L. C. in the merit system and'to improve the method of trans- ferring exempt employes. make the greatest progress in all time toward -eliminating patronage and | substituting merit in public appoint- meunls, “The National League of Woman Voters believes the American people Choice of Many He can| NOVEMBER 10, 1936. effecting & chauge in the merit sys- tem situation in the FPederal Govern- ment. They will watch eagerly for his recommendations affecting the whole system of public personnel and what can and most certainly should be done by & New Deal dominated Gon« gress. *The league has had over a long period amazing evidence of the coun- try-wide indorsement of the merit system. This force of public opinion has provoked study of the situation in simost every State. Action is now | coming. Only nine States have a civil service law. But aiready leagues of woman voters in Connecticut, In- diana, Michigan, Minnesota, Maine, Nebraska, - Pennsylvanis, Oklahoma and Rhode Island are promoting en- actment of State laws. In Ohlo, Mas- sachusetts, New York and Wisconsin improvement of existing laws is jo be sought by woman voters, PSR BOTE China is' plarnming additional rail- way oonstruction, —_— QGreece has planted 150,000 citrus bject to the civil service | look to the President’s leadership for | trees in the last ye Valuable Items Town Withdraws Appeal. PREDERICK, Md. November 10 (#.—TFrederick has withdrawn an ap- peal from a Circuit Court ruling that the city ordinance regulating the sale chaser’s door was invalid. Attorneys | opposing the ordinance contended it was in conflict with the intsrstate commierce clause of the Federal Con- atitution, Vote for quick cough relief Cough Drops. (Two kind: of coal brought direct to the pur-| Storks and Eagles Fight. 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Boudoir Chair, chintz covering, in- cluded FREE with any purchase of $69 or more. In the first place, there is the effect | | on crops and, of perhaps even great-{ "er significance, the effect on wild lfe. | | The great drought of the past Sum- | ! mer may have been, in some way not ! clearly understood, related to the in- | creasing activity of the sun. This is the most direct economic relation- ship. | But speculations have been ad- | vanced of a much more direct effect on human emotions. There is a greater output of ultra-violet radiation and hence a greater percentage in sunlight of this invisible “light” which is just beyond visible violet in the | spectrum. Now life on earth is very | nicely adjusted to the amount of | ultra-violet reaching the earth's sur- face. If there were much more of it all living things would be poisoned. If there were.much leas of it life . would be horribly stunted. | The earth's surface is protected | from too much ultra-violet by a thick | blanket of the rare gas, osone, & form {of oxygen, which completely sur- rounds the planet at an elevation of about 20 miles. During the Winter this ozone blanket is built up to its maximum of thickness, with the re- sult that in earlv Spring less ultra- | violet is coming through than at any | other time of the year. Ozene Comes Through, l ‘The theory has been advanced that this phenomenon together with the ! Increasing warmth, is responsible for | llhe great outburst of life with the | melting snows. All Summer the ozong blanket s getting thinner until by | mid-Autumn the amount of ultra- | | violet coming through is at its max- mum, with the result that Nature | starts to die—almost regardiess of the temperature. | Human emotions vary with the sea- | | sons. The hope and enthusiasm of Spring are followed by the melan- | | eholy of Autumn. This is probably | | primérily due to suggestion from the | changing states of Nature, but there may be some more direct effect on the human nervous system | Another importani, but extremely obacure factor, is the changed elec- | trical condition of the atmosphere. | During & sunspot maximum the sun is sending enormous quantities of elec- trons, or particles of negative el tricity, into space and into the earth’s atmosphere. The human system is an ' electrical system and almost certainly is affected by the electrical field in which it exists—but just how nobody knows. Elliott Rules Out Lighthouse Unit’s Plan for Movies RIVIERA ITALY GREECE PALESTINE EGYPT INDIA CEYLON AL PHILIPPINES CHINA JAPAN HAWAI CALIFORNIA PANAMA DAYS From New York January 9, 1937 - Fares from $2300 (with bath from $3990), including standard shore programme. S your travel agent or Canadian Pacific: 14th and New York N.W,, Wash.,, D. C. 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