Show SEES THE EARTH DRYING UP Attention Called to Necessity of Protecting Pro-tecting the Forests Berlin Prof Honnlg ono of the most brilliant of the German geologists geolo-gists makes some terrifying predictions predic-tions for the American continent where owing to Its being denuded of forests he maintains that the earth Is rapidly drying up He draws his conclusions con-clusions not only I from such phe 0 nomena us tho receding of glaciers but from the carefully conducted experiments ex-periments on springs and rivers In various parts of tho world Hennlg says In nearly every country of Europe tho supply of spring water and generally of subtorranean moisture mois-ture Is rapidly decreasing Our grandchildren grand-children will begin to feel the want of spring water In many places where now there Is an abundant supply Ono of the main reasons why hitherto the earth has retained Its moisture has boon that extensive forests covered Its surface But every year shows a startling diminution of forest area and hardly anything Is being done for reforestation re-forestation Tho United States is a horrible example Thoro tracts as big as European Eu-ropean states will be arid to all eternity eter-nity which might havo been preserved pre-served for culture by wlso economy of time forests Countries which play fast and loose with their forests aro simply hastening their downfall Prof Honnlg also draws attention to the encroachments of sand and drought on so many regions in Asia Africa Australia and America Once you have a huge sand tract of alkali a tract like the Sahara or tho Gobi desert or the plains of tho western f1 states of America at your door you cannot drive it back ho says Sucb tracts are bound to conquer in the end Their advance Is as certain as tho advance of death and as disastrous disas-trous |