Show Record cord Shows ShoVE E Erth rth Has Ague Quakes f Seismograph Expert Prez Pre Pre- z djs Continued Disturb Disturb- anc auces s. s as Planet Grows Older Older B RAFF ELE BENDANDI L the United Press Pless T r IE Jan 3 UnIted Pre Press Press- st s- s t If r ome time Urne on this poor and globe of ours lland and events ot of p ut signIficance ha have ve be ben n tak- tak place In addition to earth earth- c i akes volcanic eruptions and tel tel- J urIc lc excesses of every ever 1 kind which i haye been liberally registered of r Ja ate must must be added the atmospheric irregularities whIch recently have been of frequent occurrence from From all parts of the world the C bring us ils stories storie or bum c ces es cyclones and catastrophes shows signs of renewed Enta becomes agitated earth trembles and shows signs everywhere The 1 of natural r nt ft in so n ml parts ot of the world us to that the est es- es t bUshed cosmic laws are being Uis ups up- up s t L. L press registers the these c ious phenomena the 1 glue their eyes to their eden eden- instruments ments polish up UI their J and calculate the precise of Inches or decimal points hes of raIn fallen The earth earth- j experts Issue seismological r and the drop oft off again sleep sleep ot of the just s the newspaper reader gradi grad grad- i u U begins to convince himself t that something out of the ordinary The scientist agrees force torce appears to b bIf be If vork among the cosmic e E oUr planet to one ot of t e. e crises to which the earth Is it 1 liable e. e J Is a scIentifically demonstrated t that our earth passes through I periods In which It sut- sut Yf rs one might say from intermit intermit- While scientists clen t. t as yet say whether these j Titu bances are Illnesses ot of youth f old age the statistics appear 1 ie and more frightful and the I symptoms ot of the trouble appear and graver graer m tact the century rt teens to have opened an era of an n. n i Instability y of the i. i f pf of the earth on which so many Qt our our hopes are founded For time thIs crust has seemed to l from tremendous convulsive re J which Induce fear Into the daring aring spirit ot of humanity just at I t the e moment when it is dreaming dreaming- j over all the king king- doms of nature rhe fact remains that the inter inter- r Mio tires fires from which r e. e seismic disturbances radiate j y p ss tHrough varIous phases From old ag-old calm during which J I L t s inner forces deem eem to slumber slum slum- t A ber per to an unexpected awakening every awakening and every seIsmic period causes of human victims t Then followed the catastrophe ot of n n the glorious beginnings of the conquest of the air and so m many ny ther scientific discoveries erles by man av also the mysterIous cosmic the telluric 7 opened with the great earthquakes in In inI if the life was small I loss of was l than OO villages were de- de I royed J Then Tien followed a series of earth earth- ju kes In 1901 causing immense ge and loss ot of human life U rIle volcano ot of Pelee in Martini Martini- qu which que-which appeared to be dead brevet tor- tor SUddenly woke on May S 8 evet yer up spread death and destruction i Island appeared to be the s symptoms 1 t ot a great fever which had taken possession ot of our planet t 1 of the earth and shocks ac- ac ruin and occurred oc- oc r by victims in various places s. s c I. I ThE Th world was nervous in 1902 but abut there were xo 1 great disturb disturb- I r ces The great seismic tempest ws w still distant There were merely mere mere- ly th first of the fever afterwards Increasing have j ken n the crust of our planet for forr r rs he crisis became more Intense in ft The earth trembled and shiv- shiv ereL re And the fever came to a head ort rIV 4 when In far oU off India J a ta reduced the towns town of and Lahore to ruins and t id mOre than human 5 Some months afterwards c canth T the turn of Calabria Th n. n followed the catastrophe of an Francisco on April 18 1906 which according to officIal lations was the most wIde known On August 17 of the earn year Valparaiso and all the C coast suffered greatly vo lyo years e rs late an earthquake convert Calabria and ores Mis- and many of the neighborIng to on the sea In into o vast cemeteries h terres' terres with victims 11 Liri and Giola GIoIa di Marii arSi were razed to the ground b by k ae on January 13 1915 pan to toa often the victim of es Jc disturbances was the vic vic- tI September i. i 1923 when Tokio and other towns vere partly destroyed The phenomenon came to life ag again in in the new world with slight hr Kew York culminating In f fb on en June 29 1925 at San San- i. i Thus as It happens we are In the ac acUte te period of the terrible crisis upsetting the bowels of the s. j j r eo and seismologists are i th the tremendous m mystery b us timid hypotheses which I if agreement some some pro l ii rises whilst others give p in or e express press fears about the future f IN wa so much scientific t we do not hesitate to 1 that contrary to the opinion S orcet ln experts the great telluric cries rf es which afflict OUr earth are tar from far from decreasIng but are alwa always gr in n number |