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THE DAILY PANTAGRAPH, BLOOMINGTON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1938. PHONE waJaub 4500 FOUR By Ed Reed Colder Era Pnnnrpcc Will $18,000,000 LOST AND congress win SMALLWOnder OFF THE RECORD "The Three Bares" 1 Not Do Much, Mallon Says Thinks Only Minor Changes to Be Made BY PAUL MALLON. (Copyright, 1938, for The Pantagraph.) WASHINGTON, D. C. Many may be called but few will be chosen at the impending congress.

IZuch legislation is being promoted, more will be A drug company finds that 18 million dollars of its money is missing. It's probably tucked away between the alarm clocks and the ham sandwiches. It Is notable that although they know the money Is missing, they haven't the slightest idea where it might be. If there's any place that is a perfect setting for putting things down and losing them, it's the modern drug store. Even the best kept drug store will be slightly confusing so long as folks pass) from the.

toy department through electrical appliances and into liquor with one step. With so much good? s'tacked up, a mere 18 million dollars could kick around for days without being noticed. Only some accident would lead to Its discovery, like If It turned up In the mayonnaise la some sandwich you ordered without mayonnaise. SIMON PURE. Coming, Says Scientist Botanist Studies Mud Of Great Ice Age BY CAPEL McNASH.

OBERLIN, OHIO. (UP) Dr. Paul B. Sears, professor of botany in Oberiin college, reveals the past and predicts the future from pollen in mud from the bottom of northern Ohio bogs mud sometimes still cold from the ice of 10,000 years ago. With a special tube which the doctor designed himself, specimens of the mud are taken from depths ranging to 40 feet "Going down a foot is, roughly speaking, going back 300 years," Dr.

Sears said. "We strike bottom at between 35 and 40 feet usually. That means going back 10,000 to 12,000 years when the great glaciers retreated from the Great Lakes region." The mud contains pollen which fell to the bottom of Lake Erie from nearby vegetation. For thousands of years the bottom of the lake built up, unti! today, where the scientist takes his samples, there no longer is a lake only a greyish brown bog. GETTING COLDER.

"My findings indicate that the climate here gradually is changing toward a colder, moister atmosphere, which talked, less than usual will be enacted. Pipe lines for the session are already being laid by the downtown executives and assembling congressmen, and these furnish a fairly dependable indication of what the i mi rr Mr. MaUon country is in for. You may write the prospects on your thumb nail this way: OH, FOR A HOUSE arm program Only minor changes now seem likely. Admin- ATI CCVPM fARI Pl istration will not propose a substi- 1 1 CVCIN "You'd better rent a beard, too, Tucker! I'm afraid you can't raise it by Christmas!" WHO? WHAT? WHY? Men and Events Back of Today's News Word comes from Hollywood that CLARK GABLE, movie star, is to ask his wife, Mrs.

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Michigan boulevard, Chicago. Others in leading cities. Health Tests as Needed Safeguards In Sports The first death in 50 years of a player In a basketball game here, again emphasizes the importance of every boy knowing that he is physically fit before he plays. The Illinois High School Athletic association has voted, following a suggestion which originally came from the sports department ISf The Pantagraph, that a thorough physical examination be required from every boy seeking a place on a team. This suggestion was approved by Don Seaton, state supervisor of athletics, and passed on by him to the state association.

A certificate under this plan must be obtained from a competent physician and a copy kept by the state association and by the high school which the boy represents. A boy having once made a team and having a chance to move up toward a state championship would be naturally inclined to minimize his aches or pains and to ignore any physical defects which might develop during his playing season. Sometimes the spirit of sportsmanship leads a youth to forget that 'he is still a boy in his teens, and that there are things in his life to consider other than winning or losing in school games. Friends, whether they be the boy's best girl, his parents, or his town's mayor, may exaggerate the "hero" role for the boy, may present winners with watches or other trophies. These natural expressions of friendship should not induce the boy to forget that after all his health is his chief asset.

To avoid serious backsets, or even tragedies, the boy must be sure his general health warrants his engaging in so strenuous a sport as basketball. Kerensky Denies Aid Of Jews In Revolution In one of the recent radio addresses of Father Coughlin he pretended to quote from a United States government secret report of 1917 purporting to disclose that the first revolution in Russia, when the czarist regime was overthrown, was stirred up by a cabal of foreign Jews. These statements have since been controverted by persons close to thj events of the 1917 revolution, including Alexander Kerensky, who headed the provisional government which succeeded the czarist regime, and by Trotsky, one of the leaders In the revolution. Chief Frank Wilson of the United States secret blocked in the senate at the close of the last session, is one of the urgent subjects before the 76th eventually may lead to another ice age, Sears said. "We once believed that the great glaciers retreated from 100,000 to 150,000 years ago, but now we knov- that their retreat was much more recent." The pollen is embalmed in the mud, and by examining it under a microscope it is possible to determine just what type of vegetation grew upon the shores of the lakes.

From the type of vegetation the nature of the climate is indicated. Dr. Sears, working with his peat congress. VHY Father Coughlin allowed to continue his radio addresses in i of criticism by his superiors A passage at arms such as that between Father Coughlin and Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago is nothing new In the former's stormy career. On many occasions he has quarreled with priests of the church.

Official sources explain that Father Coughlin owes obedience di $286,000 to call every thing off. That ought to make the separation a trifle EASIER, but there ain't many of us home town boys who can afford to decorate the mahogany to this extent, and sort of grease up the skids to slip the War Dept. out of our lives. Ever since some keen minded feller wrote that book about the "House with SEVEN GABLES," all of the vivacious hens in the country have been livin' and prayin' for a home of THAT KIND. Tain every woman that can slip out of the matrimonial yoke with a lodin Ration May Pep Up Adolescents Brady Offers Tip To Banish 'Fatigue' BY DR.

WILLIAM BRADY. (Copyright, 193S, for The Pantagraph.) In some parts of the country simple goiter is present in more than one third of all school girls and more than one fifth of all school boys, due to Insufficient iodin in food and drink. When children get a suitable iodin ration they are much less likely to have enlarged neck. Many girls and some boys in their early 'teens, whether they have any thyroid enlargement or not, begin to mope at a time when they should naturally or normally be full of the vivacity of youth and the joy of living. Parents worry about them needlessly.

There is always plenty to worry about, in bringing up children, but if your, young son or daughter of 12 to 15 begins to mope and pine and be inclined to melancholy and doleful day dreaming, don't recall that your uncle went insane we all had more or less of that in the family and don't worry about some secret vice, for there is no ground for that notion but give the child the benefit of medical care. TSE DOCTOR. Let your doctor examine the child particularly for incipient tuberculosis. Meanwhile see that the child gets a suitable iodin ration say a drop or two or three drops of common tincture of iodin, dropped from the glass rod in the iodin vial, in a drink of water once a week the year around or else every day for a month in each of the four seasons of the year. Even in cases of exophthalmic goiter (Basedow's disease, "toxic" toiter, inward goiter), the symptoms of which are sometimes difficult to distinguish from those of Incipient pulmonary tuberculosis, a suitable iodin ration seems to have only beneficial effects.

In the goiter belt, particularly in Michigan, the use o4 iodized Bait in place of common salt by a large portion of the population (by recommendation of the Michigan health authorities) has brought about a definite decrease in the number or proportion of operations for goiter in that part of the country. In a communication from "the tired college girl's" mother, which I printed in my column, the value of an iodin ration as one remedy for what another doctor feared might be "verging on neurasthenia" is indicated. The tired college girl's mother wrote: FATIGUE. "My 16 year old daughter had been under the doctor's care for more than a year for anemia. That was overcome by the doctor's treatment but she still suffered from a kind of chronic fatigue which seemed Impossible to overcome.

She had been ready for college since September but unable to go because of this great lassitude. I gave her the iodin ration according to the instructions in your "monograph. The result has been simply unbelievable. The doctor told me to keep right on with it. She is very happy and I am so grateful she was so tired she couldn't enjoy life as other young people do.

Now she is bubbling over. I repeat, in my judgment everybody who is not under medical care should take a regular iodin ration. If you are under medical care for any particular trouble, ask your physician about it. Youngsters in their 'teens should be "bubbling over," not moody and lackadaisical as too many of them are, just for the want of a w-ee drop of iodin. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

EIGHTY. I am 83 years of age. play 18 holes of 'golf daily; and have never had any doctor but you. (F. L.

A. Thank you. It is encouraging when patients send in reports at least every 80 years. Many of them write me only once in 90 years. sampler at Camden lake near here, pulled up a tube of gray marl from the bottom of the bog mud 10,000 years old and perfectly pre- rectly only to the bishop of his dio tute program.

Congress will howl, particularly the rival chorus for the old McAdoo-Eicher bill. Sam Massingale of Oklahoma will introduce it in the house, Josh Lee or Schwellenbach (both ultra-New Dealers) in the senate. But downtown resistance will stop it, even if Mr. Roosevelt has to veto it. (Republicans might be glad to let him do it but cannot wholeheartedly support such a price fixing scheme.) Wallace Is still in the saddle; both stirrups are loose but he can probably hang on to his mule another year.

REARMAMENT. Roosevelt is trimming the program down from the 500 million dollar increase generally expected. Better business has made rearmament spending economically and politicaky (The money of c5jrse would not flow anyway until 1910.) The final presidential rearmament recommendations wili prevail although there will be a hot dispute over details. TAXES. A wholly different spirit prevails here this time.

New Treasury Assistant Haynes is bud-dying along inside with congressional ways and means and finance committeemen. Last year Treas-urist Oliphant was telling the congressmen what to do (and they did the opposite). Nothing has been decided. The treasury, deep down, would like to make some more reforms, but congress wants a tax breathing spell. Outcome w-ill depend probably on business.

If business is sufficiently improved late in the session some more secondary reforms may be tried along advertised lines, otherwise not. cese. The bishop in turn has no 6erved. He touched the soft, smooth eujituui uuuiuc ui me pupe, mm material cardinal controls only the particu "It's very cold," he said. "It probably hasn't warmed up in 10,000 years it might still be cold from that ancient ice." The oldest forest whose pollen is found at the bottom of the bogs studied is that of spruce and fir.

TREES. "Now there's not a remnant of native spruce within 75 miles," Df. Sears said. "The climate here once was like that of eastern Canada. "Later came scrub oaks, hickories, and grasses, indicating that Ohio or.ee was a prairie land, and it probably was not so long ago.

Two or three thousand years ago it was much warmer here, and even lar diocese or archdiocese of which the cardinal happens to be bishop or archbishop. The canon law of the church allows a bishop to. forbid publication in print by any priest under him. The canon law was formulated before the days of radio, but presumably a bishop could forbid radio addresses in the same way as printed words. The present difficulties of Father Coughlin with Cardinal Mundelein recall the difficulties between, the father and Cardinal of Boston in December, 1934.

Father Coughlin, saying that the cardinal had tmbliclv him MEAL TICKET tucked away in the recesses of her handbag, and that old 286,000 berries out to buy a lot of ham and Shanghai berries, and steam heated flats durin' the winter solstice. It beats hitch hikin' and panhandlin'. But I wouldn't want it to get into the record that I am BLAMIN' Clark, for it's a mighty dangerous practice for a feller to be carryin' that much around in his jeans, when there are eo many good lookin', designin wrens in circulation, bent on a purse snatchin' expedition. I don't think Clark has a desire to covet his neighbor's wife, or his maid servant, or any of that SHALT NOT stuff enumerated in the Good Book. But I do feel that his CURIOSITY may have gotten the best of him at times.

You know, folks, all wim-men are NOT ALIKE, and Clark, I would guess, wants to know WHY and in WHAT RESPECT they DIFFER. But there is only one safe method to employ in dcalin' with the female element, and that is either to KEEP your BANK ACCOUNT DOWN, or UU AT are the major jects which will demand attention from the next congress Overshadowing other problems which will require the immediate attention of the new congress when it meets on Jan. 3 are provisions for stronger national defense and revision of the neutrality and immigration policies in the light of events which have occurred since the last congress adjourned. Increase in armaments will probably determine the extent to which the 1940 budget will be unbalanced, and also the volume of new taxes. Republicans have added 90 percent to their strength in the house of representatives and over 35 percent in the senate, but Democrats retain substantial majorities in both houses.

Chief political question is whether a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats can be formed in opposition to the New Deal. The possibilities of such a coalition will receive an early test in the senate vote on confirmation of the reappointment of Donald W. Smith as a member of the national labor relations board, and in efforts to amend the national labor relations act to make it "less one sided." Members of both parties will support amendments to the social security act to increase old age pensions and extend benefits of the system to such groups of employes now exempt as seamen, agricultural laborers, possibly domestic servants. The administration will endeavor to find the minimum bill sufficiently generous to head off, more expansive plans advocated by pressure groups. Other proposals to help the underprivileged include health insurance and federal aid for education.

Farmers also w-ant revision of the AAA and more money. The current appropriation of one billion 425 million dollars for the WPA, which it was hoped would last until the first of March, will probably be exhausted by the end of January, and the original estimate of 500 million dollars for the remainder of the fiscal year will be insufficient unless the rolls are drastically reduced. In voting additional funds, congress will consider various proposals to separate relief from' politics. The public works administration and the United States housing authority have both allocated virtually all of the funds they were authorized to lend and grant, may ask for more. Many "emergency" acts and agencies are scheduled to expire in 1939 and renewal of many of them will be sought Legislation to aid the railroads, At times In three years, charged that in" man came inere still were buffalo in what is now the latter had flagrantly disregard SPECIAL REARMAMENT TAX.

A dozen high responsible officials will bet you even money (but not too much) that Roosevelt will rec permit It to KEEP YOU DOWN. OLD NEWT PLUMM. ommend a specific rearmament tax. A few even expect a flat 10 percent ABOUT METHUSELAH (Copyright, 1938, for The Pantagraph.) iiiurea.de, in inguuie laxes. xi mis is proposed, it will not be enacted.

ed the commands of the popes to work for social justice. In the following May, Cardinal O'Connell, without specifying Father Coughlin by name, publicly condemned the "hysteria, yelling, and screaming" of those who "stir uprisings and create discontent in the hearts of the poor." Throughout 1936 Bishop Gallagher, Father Coughlin's superior, defended the father. Gallagher admitted that he had suggested the two public apologies which Father Coughlin made to President Roosevelt, once for calling him a liar and once for calling hinv a scab president. Ohio." According to Dr. Sears, the present conditions here 'may be but a recess between ice ages.

"The pattern of climatic changes in this region since the last glacial age is quite similar to that of previous interludes between ice ages," he said. "We may be enjoying but a brief respite, geologically speaking, before the ice again descends on the land." Knowledge Test Can you answer seven of these Turn to Classified Page for answers. In what year Was the steam- service in the years from 1916 to 1920 says that he has made a thorough search of the records of the department, and he could find nothing to substantiate the alleged report from which Father Coughlin quoted. Kerensky, who is now sojourning in the United States, took occasion immediately to contradict the statements of Father Coughlin. He dismissed them as "fantastic" and wholly unsupported by his own knowledge of the events of that time.

Kerensky declares that there were no Jews taking prominent parts in the overthrow of the czarist government. On the contrary, Jews were considered among the enemies of the bolshevist regime when the Lenin forces succeeded the Kerensky setup of the original uprising. Most striking statement of Kerensky is to put some of the persons of the present Nazi regime, in Germany, which is now brutally persecuting the Jews, as themselves conspirators to set up the bolshevist government in Russia, Ludendorff, afterward a right hand man of Hitler, tells in his memoirs hov he under the kaiser's government aided the escape of Lenin from Switzerland into Russia to propagate bolshevism as a means of destroying Russia, then in arms against Germany. ANTI-MONOPOLY. A change in the patent law will undoubtedly be recommended by the President or justice department The patents office now is working privately with Assistant Attorney General Arnold on a text of a possible proposal to free patents.

This may be enacted, but no other anti-monopoly legislation (including corporation licensing bill) has a chance. Arnold will continue to revise the anti-trust status quo with his consent decree bludgeon and without further legislation. Methuselah at ninety was a healthy roguish lad And no trace of indigestion up to then he'd ever had. They say he'd reached two hundred ere the doctors thought if he Gave up eating midnight lunches somewhat better he might be. I've been looking up his record and I've searched the books in vain, For the time the doctors told him that his teeth were causing pain.

But his years were several hundred ere they said: "Beyond a doubt "Your molars are infected and you ought to have them out!" Before the end of the 1936 presl- dential campaign. Father Coughlin ship Titanic sunk by collision w-ith had been publicly rebuked by the an iceberg? of Cincinnati and the 2. What is the name" of the bishop of Cleveland for calling the string of islands extending south-President "anti-God." ward from Miami, In 1937 Bishop Gallagher died, 3. Which constitutional amend- SOCIAL SECURITY. None of the pixy programs will have the necessary votes on a He was crowding seven-fifty when the family Expectation that domestic servants ment provides for woman suffrage? 4.

Name the United States ambassador who was recently called home from Berlin by President Roosevelt 5. What does the motto of the state of Colorado, "Nil sine nu-mine," mean? 6 Name the capital of Latvia. 7. Which amendment to the constitution abolished slavery in the United States? and the diocese of Detroit went under Archbishop In October, 1937, Father Coughlin's new superior deplored as "unfortunate" the father's charges that membership in the CIO and in the Catholic church were incompatible) and that the President had shown "personal stupidity" in naming Hugo L. Black to the supreme court In November the Vatican, through its apostolic delegate at Washington, and farm hands w-ill be included still holds good.

Reserve fund arrangement will not be changed (no one knows what to do about it). Old age pension payments may be raised slightly. LABOR RELATIONS ACT. Corrective amendments, making the board more of a judicial body, are practically assured. But there will be a heavy fight on how far these should go, and you may not know exactly what the changes mean until they go into effect in 1940.

M. D. Suggested that a check up of his health would helpful be. And it startled the old fellow when he heard them say: "O-ho! It is just as we expected your metabolism's low!" I suppose they must have noticed when his centuries were eight That Methuselah, the patriarch, was somewhat overweight And "when he reached nine hundred, jut to keep him in the "pink" That daily quart of Luttermilk they ordered him 1 to drink. EDGAR A.

GUEST. 8. What is the basic alloy of announced that it approved Mon- signcur Mooncy's rebuke to Father pewter? Pantagraph Service Bureau You can get an answer to any answerable question free by writing The Pantograph's Service Bureau, 1013 Thirteenth street, N. Washington, D. C.

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tive Australian dog? What Do You Think About It? Contributions are welcomed in this department. Limit comment to 109 words, sign your name and address (names will be left off letters if requested). In case of personal criticism names must always be published. REORGANIZATION. Roosevelt is by no means sure of getting even 50 percent of the four house bills now pending.

He could have had J-jO TIME FLIES two of them on a platter last ses New Regime? Seventh" tinged maybe with some of those archaic ideas. ADParentlv sion, but times have changed. Outcome will probably be a strictly nonpolitical, nonsocial reorganization bill, which is apt to be much nearer Senator Byrd's opinions than the President's. Q. How did California get its r.ame? A.

From the Spanish explorer Cortez, who applied the name to the bay and the country, which he supposed to be an island. It is the name of an island in an old Spanish romance where a great abundance of precious stones were found. Q. Where is the ML Lowe observatory, and how old is it? A. In California, near Los Angeles.

It was founded in 1893. Q. Who selects the students to be helped by government loans under the national youth administration? A. Selection of the students and devising and supervising the employment projects rest with the school authorities. The only NYA stipulations are that the recipients shall be chosen on the basis of need; shall carry at least three quarters of a normal course of Editor, The Pantagraph: With a the day of a return to Republican Republican majority in the legisla- Te is dawning in Illinois, tive lower house at Springfield, the 11 began with the election of Su- "Kelly-Nash gang" out of Chicago will doubtless lose some of their November in McLean county, dominating power, at.

our state domination" so evident, capital. Let us hope so! combined with official conduct It is common knowledge they ig- tinged with an arrogance akin to nore "down state" wishes at will, "Henry the Eighth" type, helps the and often neither heed reason or Republicans. The "coming events study; the work provided shall be genuinely useful and shall not displace any of the institution's regular employes. Q. Can aluminum paint, with an oil or varnish base, be used as a priming' coat on new wood? A.

Yes. Q. I married an alien In 1920, thereby losing my American citizenship. My husband became naturalized in 1924 and I want to know if I automatically regained my lost citizenship? A. It will be necessary for you to apply personally for final papers.

Apply to the nearest United States district or state court or naturalization office. Q. What is a sustaining program? A. The term as used in broadcasting, refers to network or local programs w-hich are not sponsored for commercial purposes. 25 YEARS AGO.

Walter Camp, nationally known sports writer, announced his "All American" football team for the 1913 season. Named were Hogsett (Dartmouth) and Merrillat (Army), ends; Ballin (Princeton) and Talbot (Yale), tackles; Pennock (Harvard) and Brown (Navy), guards; Des Jardien (Chicago), center; Huntington (Colgate), quarterback; Craig (Michigan) and Brickley (Harvard), halfbacks; Mahan (Harvard), fullback. Knute Rockne of Notre Dame won a berth on the third team at end. The Schroeder property at Vale and Clay streets, known as "Villa Marie," was bought at public auction by Richard C. Mayland, Bloomington business man, for $13,550.

15 YEARS AGO. Mrs. Mary F. Dillon, widow of Isaiah Dillon, died at her home, 404 Broadway. She w-as 87 years old.

In persecuting the Jews because of their supposed aid to the bolshevists in Russia, the Nazis are now setting up false claims to being "defenders of civilization." Third Term War The battle of a third term for Presiden. Roosevelt is getting to be very hot down along the Potomac valley. There is shooting from every side, but the man most concerned is keeping his peace. Only a few days ago came the pontifical announcement from Senator Joe Guffey of Pennsylvania that President Roosevelt "must" run for a third term, to save the country from reactionaries. To which Senator Holt of West Virginia facetiously commented that "if the President has any third term ambitions," the best way to defeat him would be to have Joe Guffey announce it." Senator Byrd of Virginia is not content to offer funny comments on Guffey, he says that he expects to present a resolution in the senate at the opening of congress opposing a third term for Mr.

Roosevelt. He would use the same phrasing for the resolution which was contained in the 1928 resolution opposing a third term for Calvin Coolidge. The Coolidge resolution passed the 6enate by a vote of 56 to 26, several months prior to Coolidge's famous utterance, "I do not choose to run." Senator Edward Burke' of Nebraska will offer a bill in the next congress providing for one term cf six years for every president, with no possibility of re-election. Some statement from Roosevelt in the near future may put an end to all the speculation, but only adding to the confusion. A Fantastic Crook Death of Gaston B.

Means closed a career which was one of the most fantastic among criminals of various types. He died in prison, but the crime for which he w-as sent to prison, the swindling o- a rich woman on a fake story of his ability to rescue the Lindbergh baby, was not in the same class with other stunts which he pulled during his heyday in Washington. He functioned in the maelstrom of confusion w-hich followed the close of the World war, when the general public opinion was not critical of what was going on in Washington. His career may have been- one of the byproducts of the prohibition era, but his own disposition to criminal moods was his chief motive force. COLLECT ANLV.

Patman bill to tax chain stores out of -existence will be promoted loudly, may get through one house, but certainly not both. Some amendments to federal reserve act along lines which Chairman Eccles laid down in his letter to Senator Vandenberg last June 14 (easing bank examinations to encourage more commercial loans) will be considered, but treasury restraint may delay action. Returning congressmen say business is less interested in spending and pump priming than formerly. cast their shadows before them." pleading request The record, it is claimed, clearly shows an indefensible procedure on the part of the "Chicago gang" puppets of the "Kelly-Nash machine." They are as imperious as a "George the Third" and as dictatorial as the ancient "Gregory the BOSS, THE. KID IS I BUT MR.

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-5 m- r- uii III I I The citizenry of "old McLean" are speaking with their votes. The Republicans must prove to be "worthy and well qualified." DOWNSTATER. Long Range Adv. Editor, The Pantagraph: Will you please permit me to use a little space in your "What Do You Think" column to do a little advertising? I want to advertise the planet Venus or the planet Mercury. Both planets are nearer the sun than the earth.

Because they are so close to the sun they are our most brilliant planets. They are always morning or evening "stars." (Of course, a planet' is not a star at all.) Just now one of them is a morning "star." It is as brilliant as a planet can ever become. Any one who fails to see this brilliant spectacle in the eastern sky is missing a thrill. Get up some morning as early as 5:30 and take a look at one of our nearest neighbors in the great celestial spaces. WILLIAM T.

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