A "new" star, flashing out from previous obscurity, has just been located in the Milky Way, according to Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard College Observatory. The discovery of a strange celestial object was made by Dr. Max Wolf of the observatory at Heidelberg University in Germany. Photographs made at the Harvard Observatory have confirmed the fact that it is really a "nova" or "new" star. . . .
A nova is really the explosion of a star, and is the most vast of all known physical catastrophes. But despite the violence, the stars that are affected seem to be pretty much the same after the outbreak as before.
Cheap gasoline is pleasing to the man who owns a car, but it is a menace when it means, as it does at present, vast overproduction and economic waste of a natural resource upon which a large part of our industrial life, national defense, and domestic comfort is dependent. . . .
According to the Federal Oil Conservation Board, "the total present reserves in pumping and flowing wells in proven sands has been estimated theoretically as but six years’ supply" at the present rate of production and consumption.
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