Show I WHAT MADE rADE Til THE fl g IJ Georges George's s 's Weekly of ot Denver hasa has a assembled the various professional opinions a as to the ause cause of oC the earth earth- quake Of course there was hut but 01 one use cause S but u there are a n good man many scientists And Amul that means menns thit that there will wi Ill h be a 0 variety of explanations hf These rhese are always Interesting after the event hut but n never nr r do tic much In the tw way of either I prevention w enton or 0 warning hut But look hook please at the time alleged causes of th the kle mic trouble on en the coast const Professor Howe D Denver Un University I erl Earth I Is cooling and anti shrinkage of or Interior cau causes es cracking of nf exterior Professor ProCessor Mime Milne of London An Alt upheaval up up- In the tho thi interior Interim of oarth earth arth Professor Profesor Davidson Da University of California Direction of the disturbances disturbances disturb disturb- anC ances 6 ran ron from Crom north to south Professor Good Goode Chicago University ty Due to the R Rocky cl mountains which gradually are I rising Professor m. m Van Hise lUse University of o Wisconsin San Francl Francisco co Is dangerously danger danger- ouy located and 11 will vill always be he subject sub stub JoeL to severe shocks Professor Holland Holand Carnegie Institute Institute tute Trouble is due to tim Mount lacoma Taco Taco- ma Professor Pearson Yale Yalo All AI California Call Cali Col- Col fornia may bo be shattered red lJ by an earthquake earth earth- quake at an any time Professor Wright rIght Yal Yale talor Caused b. b by earthquakes now going on In iii Japan Tapan and Formosa Formo a. a Prore Professor m former Yale prophet The whole universe Is wound ml up for disaster 1 Education Is a good thing timing n But l It Is all ni on the surface Men Ien have hae not yet ct learned all al there Is on top of the earth Agassiz mastered a little Wilson f. Wil VIl son soil found Cound out something about birds Burbank has caught a hint of some plant secrets Muir managed to get acquainted with wih some mountains and there are miners who have P ha penetrated ed td a little Ille way Into the bases baes of or the tho hills But Dut who knows knos even en the surface of the earth Who ho understands the winds Who ho with wih years ealS of experience and the expenditure of or much money mone can cnn tell tel when rain rin will wi fall fal or 01 what the lemp temperature of tomorrow will wi be with wih nn flit any degree of certainty Yet alt all al this is an open book hook Here are the specimens before our Hero are their ther glasses and anti their crucibles their retorts and their scales and ind measures meures Here are arc familiar familar phenomena rep repeated daily daly an and hourly before them them year ear after year ar a and d they cannot tell eli tel us the secrets secret of the sur sur- face Here pee are succeeding marvels of or verdure rc and anti bloom fruition and decay de de- IC- IC cay the fow of or the spring and th the tho f flIght ht of or wild wid fowl Cowl And the they who know inow the most plainly state that they have gone gono but hut a little a way Into the book hooli of ot the natural world I How Ho then shall a man l know ow what Is I hidden Who ho shall I peep ell Into the in- in In-I In h Whal lan man WI with Ut which which to argue ji a condition m or a theory theo theo- ry By what hat t p process cess shall tH the they define to you OU the chemistry which sends hot I water to the time surface In ha one place and and gas In another and elsewhere flings from front the troubled Interior melted incIted rocks and rivers of ot In a lava iava They Tiley do 10 not khow J Japan pan which Is Isan Isan isan an earthquake country and where re records records re- re cords of or Ie phenomena have been studied scientifically for ot a n century at least tb do not pretend to answer the query or solve time the tJ unsolvable le problem lem len They can record the direction duration durton nn and severity of oC a quake when hen It I com comes but hut they thoy cannot foretell It I b by the fraction of a second nor read th the riddle of Its Is origin after the shake hal e subsides Behold we know not nn anything thing I 1 can but hope the time light will wi Ill fall fall fall- Cal Cal- Far 01 oil off at last will wi fall fal for all allAnd all all- nJ- nJ And Amid every ery winter have hn Its Is spring |