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TITC CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 28, 1921. 5 jVoted Astronomer Discounts Theory Of Collision Of Comet pons-Wehnecke With Earth GIRL DISGUISED AS BOY IS SEIZED AS BANDIT; WORE 'EM TO GET JOB, HER TALE y V. XV. CAMPBELL, Lick Observatory, Univer- tory res' sity of California. yrittt'ii Especially for International News Service. JIt Himiltonfl Calif., June 28. The pppy.AVinnccke comet, discovered by . t at Marseilles in 1819 and next ob- ,rtv.l ,1V .V'innecke at Bonn in 1858, ?t . " .i i . - One-' i uuim me sun in 0.8 and during the month of June it be only a few millions of :! ircin tunic iiicrj is 1 ' eVpn the remotest possibility of, a Elision l-.etween the two bodies, a me LoriV iWCI a display of so-called 'hpotinc stars may ocur at some time tin l.Hter.half of June. However, en? s justified in saying that the tVcrovr will or will not occur, and in jrv cast' not the slightest cause for an ti;;iv exists. "i'owit is not a solid body such as tv'p earth or moon, but is believed, ac frd:ns: to all the evidence, to be a col ie, ion gases, vapors and innumer jvf o'.id masses, the latter varying from tnisrosccpic dust particles up to a f?w inches or a few feet in diameter. w nen a comet is m the vifinity of the sun, as the present com t is fv-Tj- six years, the extremely 'nf!v divided materials in its make 't? are expelled in a direction away from the comet's head by some repul fjve foive originating in the sun. and is f.noly divided material traveling out from the head which forms the comet's tail. This procedure, repeat ed at s'joessive returns of a comet, fl na'iy r0,1s of aI1 ts tail niaterials. iz'ain. when the comet is near the sun. the sun's gravitational attraction jCt? more strongly upon the nearer fr,ot.M-y masses than upon the more j?t?.iT ones. The nearer ones are rrnpe!kd to travel more rapidly in trailer orbits and the farther ones 'rsr siowly in larger orbits, with he cnr.seq'nce that the component bodies ye scattered more and more along the orbit of the comet. The orbits of the several particles well in due time de velop considerable differences of posi li'on and what we may call the bundle of cometary orbits will acquire a great diameter; the distance between the or bit? may amount to several million &:? BRIGHTEST ON JUNE 11 It is a well-established fact that r.ar.y coivtts have actually become fainter and fainter to a final state of r.visi'.'ility, in the manner and for the reasons just described. For sev eral such comets whose orbits pass close to the earth's orbit, there are meteor showers resulting from colli sicr.s of the scattered cometery parti cles within the earth's atmosphere. Many f these particles enter the at mosphere with speeds of twenty, thir ty or forty miles per second, and the friction with the atmosphere and the vymression or the atmosphere imme diately in front of the rapidly moving bodies generate heat in a mere fraction of a second sufficient to make the small masses burst into flames and be consumed long before they can get down to the earth's surface. The mild display of meteors always visi ble on the nights of August 9, 10 and 11, especially after midnight, is due to collisions with the fragments of imra comet of 1862. The startling ?oWer of shootInST stars observed in 1833 and again in 1866 resulted from collisions with small mases which for merly belonged to the first comet of 1S66. Tens of millions of such small bodies, ranging in mass from the in finitesimal up to those usually weigh ing in merely grams or ounces, but oc casionally pounds and tons, collide with our atmosphere's upper strata every twenty-four hours, but seldom does one or these come through to the habita tion of man. The great museums contain a few thousand such bodies which were not fully consumed in their descent through the atmosphere, and while these findings are but a small percentage of those buried a .few inches or a few feet within the earth's surface strata, it is not known that any human being has received injury from the rich celestial bombardment which has in all probability been con tinuous through thousands of years. A considerable number of meteors ob served in June. 1916, by Mr. Denning, the leading meteor observer of Great Britain, and others at the same time by Dr. Oliver, the chief American stu dent of meteors, were found to be mov ing in orbits paralleling that of the Pons-Winnecke comet, but a long dis tance behind the position of the visi ble comet itseif in the orbit. The in ference is strong that these meteors were the results of collisions with widely scattered fragments of the com et. Inasmuch as the outlying small companions of the comet doubtless numbered in billions, are not of them selves visible, no one is authorized to say definitely that similar collisions with the earth's atmosphere will occur in the latter half of June. The num ber of shooting stars then observed and having their origin in the Pons Winnecke comet, may be none, or' rela tively few, or very great. The comet itself is not expected to be visible to the naked eye. At its brightest, about June 11, it should be of the seventh or eighth magnitude. The faintest stars visible to the aver age good eye are of the sixth magni tude. Occasionally the brilliancy of comets increases in erratic manner, but even so a view of the comet will doubtless be for those who have tele scopic assistance. it jS I I I u; "1 Miss Sophie Derdzanski, J H J Freddie Smith, v ;" ES EEO Jas. P. Vining, Manager. LINVILLE, N.1 C. Climate Unsurpa ised. Cuisine and Service Excellent. Golfing, Tennis, Riding, Fishing. ( Write for booklet. ' ML a i i Should you reach the end of your rope would you have to let go? v Many men have reached the end of; their rope, and, due to the lack of ability to save their money in prosper- ous times, had to let go when the crisis came. Benefit by the experience of men of this type. If you haven't a bank account al ready, start one now. Be prepared for the uncertain tomorrow. "Life is what you make it" make yours one of prosper ity and success. The first dollar saved is the cornerstone of future success; Lay your cornerstone today at American iiras Go CHARLOTTE, N. C. Capital and Surplus and Profits, $1,800,000 W. H. WOOD, President. . J-E. HEMBV, Vice President. J. E. Y5,3' TreaS' pEORGE STEPHENS, V. Pres. H. L. DAVENPORT. m,, LEE- vice P"dent. n 4Wl5?' Sec' TrcaS' J0IIN G. NICHOLS, R. D. HAWKINS, Vice President ' r Asst. Sec.; & Treas. - r;. WHITLOCK, Trust Officer. JOHN FOX, Asst. Trust Oler V ALTER LAMBETH & BRO. Managers Insurance Dept. The career of Freddie Smith, al leged bandit, gunman and soldier of fortune, is ended, in his place is Miss Sophie Derdzanski, a very anxious voxmz sdxL indeed. The aHaa diflSculty confronting a girl ta search of a job was the primary reason for Sophie taking to men's garb, she explains. Coming from her home on a farm near Mari nette, Wis., to Milwaukee, she a: first obtained employment as a waitress in a .downtown restau rant. But the work was hard and the pay small. Then she met Gus Someizk, now held witli her, and it was at his suggestion that she borrowed a suit of bis and set forth in search of a man's job. She got it, but of the alleged holdup she declines to speak. America Is Goose Which Lays Golden Eggs For The Allies many Vienna. "What is the Austrians' attitude toward us; how do they feel about America?". This question falls from the lips of every American enter ing Vienna when he meets members of the American mission and American Red Cross workers. A truthful answed is seldom received, for the "Viennese finds soft flattery to be his second nature; just as the Berliner tactlessly answers with un necessary blunt rudeness. A Berliner ; answered: "America is a nice goose which lays golden eggs; the golden eggs are nice; but unfortunately for us she is neither an eagle nor an owl, but only a goose in the international political world." . The Viennese will tell you how much he appreciates the Red Cross relief work. He will express the hope Ameri ca will co-operate .with England and France in the promised international loan- For the last year, Vienna, like the mythical Tantalus, has had an interallied loan to feed her starving babies, dangling; just out of her reach. Not a week has passed but what the Vienna papers have carried dispatches from London or from Paris, stating that England and France were attempt ing to arrange an interallied loan; all that wasf needed was America's partici pation. . , We Furnish the Money. England and France never explained exactly why it is impossible to have an interallied loan without the partici pation of the United States. Ameri ca didn't wait for the moral or ma terial support of any other nations be fore she started her relief work for the children of Austria. It rather looked say the residents of Vienna, as if the allies were to furnish the idea and America the money in the interallied loan; the credit and thankfulness for the humanitarian work to be equally divided. "If America would come out flatly and say she will contribute one-third of any loan England and France wish to make, it would stop a lot of articles in the Austrian papers which ultimately have the effect of anti-American propa ganda," said a United States Consular oficer in discussing the subject with the International News Service corres pondent. ' - Those Troublesome Loans. The Vienna Freie Presse is typical of the attitude of Austria toward the United States. "England has asked Washington to cancel her debt." says the Freie . Presse. "England owes the United States four and a quarter bil lion dollars. . Before the War England was the greatest .creditor nation, but now the land is deeply in debt to the United States. Although this power ful world empire is at the crest of its might', and its ability to pay, is un questionable, it feels it necessary to take this step to make its debts more bearable. "France owes America almost three billions of dollars; Italy more than one and one-half billions, and even Bel gium more than: three hundred mil lions. These amounts together, almost ten billions of dollars are firm fetters binding the Entente to America and making them daily and hourly depend ent upon America's patience- "It's a peculiar contradiction that this financial dependence so far. has had so little political effect. It has been again and again noticeable since the end of the war that the Entente Powers have shown but little regard and but little consideration for the wishes and needs of -the United States. "Although Washington has declared the proposal unacceptable, England feels it necessary to renew; the at tempt to secure' a cancellation of her debt. France is following a similar plan in attempting to make some ar rangements for the settlement of her interest due America. Nevertheless, no one In London or Paris is asking the political intentions of the principals and ideas of the United States; on the contrary, an especially clumsy example of the contradiction between the allies financial and political attitude toward America Is the slight respect shown the new President. "Although everyone In Paris and London knew that a new government would take of ice. ins America on March 4, no one in Paris considered it . neces sary to wait for this government and give It the opportunity to cooperate in these most important decisions. It almost looked like the European En tente wanted to divide their profits and get them safely locked up while Ameri ca still had her hands tied. , "No one can contend that America's attitude toward European questions Is unknown. The American representa tive at Brussels; solemnly announced that Europe could, only be restored when treated as a whole. The Ameri can policy that industrial . peace must be restored most certainly is not actu- lated by motives of friendship for Ger-the bonds. But for her own interests America can not permit a continuation of war policies to destroy Europe but requires the restoration of orderly commerce. CUT IN PROPERTY (Continued From Page One.) it if given five guess. Each of the four took five guesses at the county, and O. J. Coffin, editor of The Raleigh Times, was the only man who named Scotland county in. his list of five. Scot land is the second county in the State in its per capita wealth, and the drop from Durham to Scotland is considera ble, nearly a thousand dollars. The per capita of this county is $1920.52. There are 29 counties in the State which exceeded the State average in per capita wealth. The others fell be low the State average. Col. Watts has been interested in the per capita wealth of the different counties because he believes that the school fund should be distributed on the basis of ' per capita wealth rather than school population, OTHER LARGER COUNTIES. The per capita wealth of some of the other larger and wealthier counties in the State furnish interesting compari sons with Durham and Dare. The per capita wealth of Forsyth is $1, 975.34; Buncombe, $1,441.51; New Han over $1,436.97; Guilford, $1,680.76; Gas ton, $1,636.89 and Mecklenburg, $1,- 743.57. Calculator and figurer that he is, Col onel Watts thinks in terms of political parties, and he has discovered that nine of the eleven poorest counties in the State are those which are domi nated by the Republican party. Tie makes no claim that the Republicans are the cause of the poverty of the counties, for if he did immediate atten tion j would be called to the fact that Dare and Macon, the two counties in the State possessing - the smallest amount of this world's goods, are safe ly Democratic. But the other nine of the eleven counties at the bottom of the list are all Republican counties. PRAISE FOR SHIPMAN. Commissioner of Labor and Printing M. Li. Shipman, who is the dollar -a year director of employment bureaus in North Carolina, and Francis I. Jones, Federal director of employment work, will go to Wilmington, where they will confer with Governor Cam eron Morrison about the appointment of an assistant director for the work in North Carolina. Mr. Jones has been recently appointed Federal director, and this is his first trip to North Car olina. He was very warm in his ' praises of Commissioner Shipman for the fine work being done in North Carolina in bringing jobs and man together. Hi was particularly pleased with the at titude of the State government in ap propriating $10,000 to co-operate with the Federal government and the dif ferent counties in getting free employ ment bureaus in the leading cities of the State. North Carolina is doing pio neer work along this line, Mr. Jones declared. Because of the very fine work being done here under the direc tion of Mr. Shipman the service has appropriated more for1 the North Car olina work than has been given . any other State with the exception of two, where the population is much larger. Mr. Shipman reports that 207 people registered with the employment Dureaus in Rocky Mount, Charlotte, Greens boro and Raleigh during the past week. These four bureaus also had 122 calls for workers. Ninety were referred to jobs and 73 were placed. The - Wil mington office will open July 1 with Harris Bellamy. in charge.' TOWNS MAY OBJECT. That some of the cities and towns of the State' will object to meeting the request 'of the Council of State for def inite information in which they based their plea for a special session of the Council of State is the report m Ral eigh. It is said that the financial con dition of some of the cities is such that they do not want to advertise to the world that they are skating on such thin ice as they are. It is recalled that this very proposi tion was suggested at the meeting of the municipal association, and objec tion was raised at that time. Some have suggested that the financial con dition of some of the cities is such that the municipal officials do not want their own people to find out about Jt. Others feel that making pubic the fi nancial condition of the average North Carolina city would make it almost im possible for them to get any more monej' either through the sale of bonds or from the banks. 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Just received a new shipment of pretty, Fancy Voiles, in the most attractive color combinations imaginable. You'll like having a new, cool Frock of one of these patterns and it's only 49c yard. $6 Whit Tub Skirts Of course you need a Tub Skirt or so, and you'll be charmed with these pretty new models, with their effective styles and handsome materials. They are marked today at a special price $6.00 values at $3.95. Charming HandDrawn Voile Blouses-Special at An opportune offer of these hand-drawn Voile Blouses, in. several very new styles. One style is particularly pretty, with its at tractive frills, while jabots, give distinctive ness to another group. ' And they're marked at a special price, too just $3.75. -Itw 'i S pi IVEY & 4 i A- V
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