VENUS, MERCURY AND THE
EARTH NOW ENGAGE IN A
GAME CELESTIAL FOOTBALL
(By The Associated Press)
BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 12,
—Venus, earth and erratic little
Mercury are engaged in a game
of celestial football—kicking,
whirlwinds back and forth ar
ound the disk of the sun. This
may ultimately cause weather
variations on the earth.
Such are the facts presented
through the Smithsonian Institute
by Dr. Fernando Sanford of Palo
Alto, Calif., in a study of the
wide variations of the three in
ner planets of the solar system,
said the reports.
Sun Spot Theory
Some thirty years ago the
English astronomer, Mrs. A. S.
U. Maunder, called attention to
the curious fact that the invis
ible side of the sun turned away
from the earth seemed consider
ably more favorable for sunspot
activity than the terrestrial side.
More spots were formed and few
er disappeared on the invisible
aide.
For some unknown reason the
earth seemed to inhibit the for
mation of sun spots on its own
side, or to aid their formation on
the opposite side. If this were
true of the earth, Dr. Sanford
reasoned, it should be more true
of the planet Venus which is al
most as massive a body as the
earth and more than twenty mil
lion miles closer to the sun, so
that its influence should be more
potent. He has checked this hy
pothesis with sunspot records for
15 years.
In Different Orbits
Earth and Venus move in diff
erent orbits. Sometimes they are
on the same side of the sun,
sometimes on opposite sides, and
sometimes half-way between. Dr.
Sanford checked the sunspot
phenomena on the visible side of
the disk for all these planetary
positions. He found that the sun
spottedness on the terrestrial
side was approximately 80 per
cent greater when Venus was
on the opposite side of the sun
than when she was on the same
side as the earth. When the two
planets were at 90 degree angles
from each other, a condition
which obtained 20 times during
the 15 years, the sun-spottedness
was about half-way between the
two extremes.
Influence is Greater
“It would appear from these
results,” concludes Dr. Sanford,
“that the influence of Venus on
visible sunspottedness is much
greater when the planet is on the
opposite side of the sun from the
earth than when it is on the same
side. That is, the apparent effect
of Venus on the sun spots is to
repel them to the farthest side
of the sun. Phenomena observed
by Mrs. Maunder indicate that
the Earth also repels sun spots
to the farther side of the sun."
Mercury is Erratic
The orbit of Mercury, tiniest
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of the planets, is so eccentric
that it was difficult to determine
the precise effect, but Dr. San
ford’s analysis indicates that
there is approximately a 15 per
cent increase in sun-spottedness
on the terrestrial side when Mer
cury is on the opposite side. He
also found a distinct relationship
when Venus and Mercury were
both on the side of the sun op
posite the earth.
Now, Dr. Sanford points out,
there can be little doubt that
sunspots are highly electrified.
They are great masses of rotating
gasses, each thousands of miles
in radius in the atmosphere of
the solar disk. If these inner plan
ets are similarly electrified it
would explain the repulsion, sin
ce like electrical charges always
repel each other.
Are Negatively Charged
Dr. Sanford previously conclud
ed on the basis of a considerable
body of other evidence, that the
sun, earth and moon all are
negatively electrified. It would
be fair to assume, he holds, that
other planets similarly are nega
tively charged. Hence the proxim
ity of such a negatively charged
body would tend to “kick” the
negatively charged rotating mass
of gas to the opposite side of the
sun, the strength of the kick de
pending on the size and nearness
of the planet. On this basis Ven
us would be expected to have the
biggest electrical kick of all, ow
ing to its mass and position.
Now sunspots have long been
known to increase and decrease
in definite cycles—-best known of
which is one of the slightly more
than 11 years. The relation of
this cycle progression to the
planetary configurations remains
to be worked out and probably
is extremely complex.
There is a definite correlation
between the degree of sunspotted
ness and the output of solar rad
iation.
Effect on Weather
Again, as shown by the work
of Dr. Charles G. Abbot, secre
tary of the Smithsonian Institute
there is a notable correlation be
tween solar radiotion and terres
trial weather.
Hence the configurations < f the
three inner planets may hi ulti
mately an active cause of weather
variations. Sunspottedness has
been found to be associated in a
complicated way with the sun
output of radiation. This brings
about modifications of tempera
ture over the earth. Hence the
movements of Venus and Mercury
may have an important elTect on
weather phenomena.
Then presumably the outer plan
ets carry similar negative char;;
es, but they are, so far away
that, so far as Dr. Sanford could
determine, they exert no in
fluence on sun spots. For them
the whirling gas masses are too
far away to be kicked.
Baseball Scores
(By The Associated Press)
COAST LEAGUE
Seattle 3 Portland 0
Missions 2-7 Los Angeles 3-5
Oakland 2-4 Sacramento 5-2
San Diego 5 San Francisco 7
Missions 5, Los Angeles 6.
(First game)
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Philadelphia 1, Chicago 5
Washington 12, Cleveland 2
Boston 4-2, St. Louis 6-3
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Chicago 6, New York 0
St. Louis 8-10, Brooklyn 9-3
Pittsburgh 2, Boston 3
Cincinnati 1-2,Philadelphia 7-7
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LONDON, Sept. 12, — Next
M ndny was set today as the date
for trial c-f George Andrew Mc
Mahon, charged with alarming
King Edward, by brandishing a
revolver during a military par
! ade July 16.
Two defense attorneys were as
signed and were to confer with
I their client in Brizton prison to
day.
ST. CHARLES, Missouri, Sept.
12, — At least five were killed
when eighteen freight and oil
cars of the MCT train were de
railed and destroyed by fire last
night, 20 miles southwest of here.
Rescuers expressed the feat
i that several other transients may
have been burned to death.
CHICAGO, Sept. 100. — Repre
sentative William Lemke, Social
ist party candidate for President,
recommended that the govern
ment use its own money and cred
it to retire its tax exempt inter
est bearing bonds and apply the
billion dollars he estimated it
would save yearly to an old age
pension fund.
NEW YORK. Sept. 10. — An
automobile with a dead man at
the wheel crawled thru the heavy
traffic at Columbus Circle at four
miles an hour, swerved and side
swiped a parked taxi, picked up
speed as a dead foot slipped atop
the accelerator, jumped the surb
and plunged into a crowd of pe
destrians, killing one, injuring a
half dozen others, and then stop
ping.
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ment of J. Weldon Jones, as act
ing High Commissioner for the
Philippine Islands occasioned
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