The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 8 May 1929 — Page 4

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TOTAL ECLIPSE TOMORROW | is it that a thin stripe of red is someNEW YORK, May 8. (UP)—• When | times visible and sometimes invis-

the moon interposes itself between j ible?

HONORS FOR JOAN D’ARC

French Celegrale oOOth \nniversary Of Callant Victory At * (trleans.

ORLEANS, France, May 8, <UP) ( —Five hundred years ajro, on May 8, 142M, a gallant shepherdess, Joan d’- - Are, at the head of a nondeseri|tt Sarmy of peasants and soilders oblige d ,the English to lift the seijfe of (irIvans, and today all France will iw; y tribute to the memory of the little Kiri who nine years ago was caninrz-

ed a saint.

,«. Orleans has kept the maid’s memory alive through five centuries with annual ceremonies to observe its dc■liveranee, but none has ever hud the eclat which will be given today’s official ceremony. For more thari four ’centuries, Joan has been venerated in Orleans and by pea-ant^ within leagues of that bid city but this is ”theifir.-t time that the entire nation joins in the celebration. j In Paris the maid’s statute in the rue de Rivoli, a rather gaudy gilded replica of the girl on horseback is hidden under flowers. In Domremy, where she was born in 1412 in a house which still stands thousands of pilgrims have gathered to pra> at her

birthplace.

The French Government, has made a national fete ol Joan’s day of glory and the church, which long ago made her a patron saint for children, has ordered special masses read in 8,800 churches in France. French historians have completed histories of every phase of Joan’s life and it is now possible to account for every minute ef her time from the days she tended sheep on the wooded hills of Hois Chesnu until she died a victim of British vengeance on a pyre

at Rouen.

It wa- in the winter of 1428 that she received the call to aid her King. Charles VII, hearing the voices of three saints, Mitehael, Catherine and Marguerite. The following March Charles consented to hand ever a few soilders, and in rapid order she obliged the English to puit their seige of Orleans, beat them at I atay and saw Charles cunsecraied at Rhei.ns. French ainiv ki-oiiIs were turned aver to find that the army which the King gave her numbered six men, to wh' in were added hundreds of peas-

iants.

i There are still relatives of Jua:i living in France and during the past year, experts have been going over the claims of thousands of persons who contend to be related to the saint through her brothers. The number has been reduced to 50, whose claims have been admitted and they will be . honor guests at today’s celeb ation

here.

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PENDLETON — A large walnut tree which stood on ground which foimed the yard of the courthouse when this town was the seat of Madison county, has been cut down to clear a drive way for two apartment buildings. The tree wa- six feet around at its base. ANDERSON — A new $15,000 building, work on which was expected to start soon, has been planned by the West Anderson Church of God, the pastor, the Rev. S. F. Williams, announced. , —— i ANDERSON — John Cummings found a young deer back of a barn on his farm three miles west of here. The animal leaped a fence and disappeared. He expres.-ed the belief the deer was one of several which •■scaped from a deer farm at Summitville several years ago.

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TIPTON — Bullet proof Fixtures including a large quantity of glass was to he installed in the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company hank here at a cost of approximately $3,000. MISHAWAKA—Property on which Charles E. Weiss, near here u -ides, has increased in value one-half cent. While spading the yard of his home, Weiss dug up a half penny token dated 1812. It was a product ef the t'nited States mint at the time of the second American war with England.

the eaith and the sun tomorrow for a scant few minutes casts parts of Southern Asia into darkness it will mean much to Albert Einstein, the 50-year old German professor who.-e < > i name has become synonymous with ] ;| that type of learning most of u- never will understand. For the solar eclipse that is visible in Sumatra, the Malay State of Kedah, Siam, Cochin-China and two islands in the Philippines will be watched closely for evidence to su--tain or reject the Einstein hypothesis in regard to relativity. Five of twelve expeditions assembled to observe the phenomenon are preparing to test the theory that now almost generally accepted among physicists startled the scientifc world when first put forward in 1!)15. The experiment, in brief, has to do with photography of the stars in the neighborhood ef the sun and determination of their real and apparent po-

sitions.

Einstein believes that light does not travel in a straight line. His theory is that light has mass or weight and that the light from a distant star will “bend” as it passes near the sun. He holds that on the earth’s surface the deflection can not be observed because distances are too small when compared with the 1S6,000 miles a ray of light travels in a single second. Then, too, the mass of the earth itself probably is not sufficient to produce any visible bending of starlight. This hypothesis, known as the Piinciple of Equivalence, may be proved by taking the photograph of a field of stars during an eclipse and comparing this photograph with one tuki n of the same -tars at night when there is no sun. It might be explained that the eclipse itself has nothing to do with starlight deflection. But only when the moon hides the sun and darkness has come upon the earth is it possible for the stars to be -cen and photo-

graphed.

Tomorrow will not be the first time that such experiments have be n made. Obseivations and calculations based on eclipses in 1919, 1922 and 192<> yielded results almost identical with Einstein’s predictions but there were certain di-crepancies, no matter how infinitesimal, that gave a loophole for scientific skepticism. Two factors combine to make scientists optimistic over the thoroughness of tomorrow’s tests. In the fir t place the period of totality is unusually long—five minute-. In the second place the expeditions arc widely spaced. In Sumatra are groups from Swarthmore and Potsdam; in Kedah from Greenwich; in Siam from Cambridge, and in Cochin, China from the French Bureau ties Longitudes. Thus if clou is or rain should defeat the months-long plans of astronomers in one point another expedition might have entirely favorable conditions. Another advantage is that the sun is in a comparatively “good” field of -tars from an astronomical viewpoint. Next to the opportunity of checking the Einstein theory, study of the corona, that luminous halo which surrounds the hidden sun, will afford much interest. This gleaming band is seen only during eclipses and Langley, watching one from the rare air of Pikes Peak, was able to trace long streamers to a distance of 12 diameter- from the sun—more than 12,000,0011 miles. Where there is mystery today there is science trying to unravel it. And the corona is a storehouse of mysteries. Of what is a green line within it composed ? Does the corona rotate an I if so at whui. velocity? Why

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To tne man in the street these may seem questions that even if answers were obtained would not affect him. But the truth i- that almost every human life ha- be, n affected by the lesults of past lur observations. For instance they gave the first clue to the constitution of matter and

tfum will point the way to new rle,’rents, perhaps to a solution of the bvhavior of light that will aid control of radiation in power houses, broadcasting stations and homes, perhaps to long-range weather forecasting. it is a strange commentary that many of us are hoping for a cloudless day tomorrow to help our garde- or our golf game, whereas half way around the earth; also desiring J

today every industry is making use I a clear sky, are little groups who

of scientific discoveries in regard to the atom. They established the principle- of spectroscopy and the spectroscope is widel.v employed in determining purity of minerals. Perhaps stud\ of the solar spec-

await an opportunity for study and observation that may benefit the j whole of mankind and bring imperish- ; able fame to the man among them i whose -ight and insight is a little

keener than his fellows’.

8YX0P8I8 Arthur Faunce returns from an rrpedttton to the South Pole headed by Simon Overton. Aerordlng to reports Overton is dead and Faunce receives the leader's honors. Jloth men loved Diane, daughter of Judge Herford, but neither had spoken, Faunce because of his great friendship for Overton. Faunce brings Diane Overton’s message and photographs. After a dinner given by the judge, the explorer and Dr. Gerry iraik home together. Dr. Oerry slyly suggests that Faunee is troubled and •that he had best get his trouble off of his mind. Faunee leaves the doctor, still thinking of Overton.

Faunce had been favored. Overtoil had seen that the lad was wlth-

last, stricken with the awful look of death, pallid and calm, a smile on the Ups. the eyes closed. Solitudes, vast, white, Inexorable, the peaks of blue Ice. the mirage that mocked and deluded, only the shriek of the wind to break the

silence that drove men mad.

He remembered what he hud just said to Diane- his assurance of his devotion to Overton, and it seemed to him now like an attempt on his part further to Imperil his own salvation by deliberately deceiving her. Yet he had really loved Overton. It was his love for the dead man, the remembrance of his boyish gratitude, that was driving him

on, goading him to misery.

Of what avail was the rescue that had brought him and his surviving comrades out of that frozen Inferno, and had crowned him with

e .* < *® r , k°; v the laurels that Overton had sought.

If he could reap no reward, not even grasp the triumph of their success, their victory over a rival

took hold of the younger. A friendship was formed, protective on the one side, almost adoring on the other, and from that time their fates had moved forward In an in-

separable course.

When Overton went to Annapolis, he had helped Faunce to work his way through college When Failure's father died and left his

English expedition, without pa. ing the price In a mortal agony that had rll but extinguished the light In his soul? He had returned to And himself a hero, to be feted and honored In New York and In Washington, to be mentioned with mingled envy and praise In London

estate a small one—to his widow and Paris—and he could not sleep!

and Arlhur's stepsisters, Overton

had tided Arthur over, until he got a place, and his grandmother's death left him the sole heir of her modest fortune. It was this old

In the weeks that followed Faunce drifted restlessly from Mapleton to New York, from New Yok to Washington, and then, assured of Diane's continued presence there, back to Mapleton. Meanwhile he had been signally honored, as the surviving leader of the successful expedition, at home and abroad. A medal had been voted to him by Congress for his distinguished services, and he hod been notified of his election. In London, as a fellow of the Itoyal Geographical Society. Like the proverbial candle In the wind, Overton's life and his reputation had been extinguished together In the ent rnal snows; but they had not been exiled from the mind of Faunce. He was fully aware that his honors rightfully belonged to his friend, that he was In much the same position as the mythical Jay In the peacocks

plumes.

If Overton had lived, Faunce might have been envious—he knew that he was not free from that taint; but be could at least have accepted any tribute that came his wny with a light heart. As It was,

bond that bad drawn him Into the h [ s ho " < ’ rB »o many millstones first expedition to the south pole, i a * ,0,lt hl * "® c,t . £ re . w pal,> a 1 n<1 Overton, as a lieutenant In the n ’ an( ^ dark shadows under navy, had organized the great ad- * ye * made their expression venture. He had selected Faunce | '•k'’ on R haunted look; but bis to accompany him. and the trip had ' r , ery modesty, his evident hesltabeen successful up to a certain " on the full measure of

point. Then the Inexorable conditions of polar exploration bad worsted their efforts, and they had been forced to turn back Bitterly chagrined, Overton had returned for another year of preparation, and then, flushed with new hope, and with that kind of fateful vision which pursues the most difficult and dangerous chimeras, he had set out for the second time, determined to plant the Stars and Stripes at

the farthest south.

In the Interval between the two expeditions much had happened. Overton had become an arkno\ 1edged force In the world of adven-

applause, only served to Increase the Interest In a personality so

attractive and so reserved. It appealed most keenly, pep.

haps, to the Imagination of Fanny Price. Her girlish fancy clothed the handsome explorer In all the attributes of the favorite heroes of romance. The fact that she perceived, only too clearly, his Infatuation for Diane Herford whetted her admiration by removing Its object from the proximity of her

own possible adorers.

"He would never come here at all." she reasoned shrewdly, "If ho wasn’t In love with somebody. Ho

ture, and Faunce whs aware that 1 isn’t In love with me that's eer-

he had set his heart on the one tain so it must be Diane!”

girl who had remained to both of It was just about that agreeab'e them the sweetest and most charm hour which Is devoted to drinking ing reminder of their young days a sociable cup of afternoon tea at Mapleton. That Diane, too, had | when Fanny thrilled to see Faunce outgrown their early environment' coming up the broad driveway and matured Into a gracious and which led to the dean's modest

accomplished woman of the world I Queen Anne cottage

seemed only fitting and natural; | For a moment she leaned forand Faunce knew, long before the ward, with both hands on the sill Ill-fated ship sailed from New York, | of the bay window, and watched that the young leader had left hts i his unconscious approach. She heart behind him. waa quite composed when he e i-

Faunce had felt a thrill of satis- tered the room, a few minutes

faction, too, that under that supreme 1 later, and found her rearranging

test ho had not fatted to keep hts faith with his comrade and benefactor Loving Diane himself, he had stood aside and left the field free to his rival. Ho had found some consolation, In the midst of his discomfiture. In the 'act that he had demonstrated his own spiritual growth, and hud proted to hlmoelf that he was now above those moan devices which. In his

her little tea table with deft* and

graceful hands.

"I Just heard that the Herfords might go to Florida this winter,” he observed, balancing his cup In a way that would have wrung Mrs. Price’s housewifely heart with

anxiety for her host rug “I think Dl likes to play golf."

“She doesn't seem to care for It here. I asked her to go to the

. »*x I tx# 1U lUO boyhood, had sometimes won for i links Ihe Isst time 1 was home, and

him Immunity from punishment, or „ho refused "

a reward that was not rightfully Fanny elevated her delicate

hi*- I brows.

The expedition had sailed amid "Perhaps she had another onthe thunder of salutes from the l gagement. You know Dl's the war ships In the harbor, and for I most popular person In Mapleton ’’ the second time Overton followed He set the neglected cup down the Bl-omened star that led him on the table and looked at her with

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toward the south pole Faunce ehiiddered and passed Ma hand ove« his eyes. His reverie was broken. He could no longer recall the past without seeing the wraith that eeen.ed to rise from the very mist over the brook and to shape Itself before him, as It had shaped Itself hundreds of times already, Into a vision of Overton as he had seen

him last.

Faunee saw It as he had seen It

preoccupied eyes. 'She's perfectly charming. Isn't she? But do you think I moan, does she seem quite happy?" Fanny temporized, aware of a sinking heart. "She should he. She’s got everything, and the old Judge adores her." He loaned hack In his chair, toying with the spoons on the table. (To he continued.!

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