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Show Days Longer tember. and then the days in the South begin to get longer. KNOW THE WEATHER Are the summer days and spring, too. longer in the northern north-ern part of the United States than they are in the South? YES, SIMMER and spring days are longer in the north, and winter and fall days arc S longer in the southland. When the sun crosses the equator (it ! did this on March 20 this year) the days in the northern latitudes lati-tudes begin to get longer than in the southerly states. By the end of March the difference dif-ference already amounted to - about ten minutes, and this differential dif-ferential will increase steadily until at the time of the summer solstice (June 21) the days in Boston, for example, will bean ' hour longer than the days in ' Charleston. THE DIFFERENCE be- I tween Maine and Miami w ill be even greater. The sun returns to a more southerly position. recrossing the equator in Sep- |