| Show WORLD IN GRIP OF DRY PHASE While ne e are speculating about the possIble causes of dry weather In a our 0 own n region we may note for whatever It may signify that In England they are giving serious thought to problems caused by fall faU falling ing In of the water ater levels lD in streams a phenomenon that has been des de clop elop lag Ing for n a couple ot of years now lb-it lb may he be mere coincidence but on the theother theother other hand it may suggest that con conditions affecting a far fal wider ider area than just our group of a half dozen dozen Mid Id Western states are lt at or w orb orbIt It may maJ be that the m areas which now seem to be particularly wet et not dry such as some parts p of the East are the exceptions exceptIon and that either the I whole world or at least the northern I hemisphere Is In the dry phase of a aI along along I long time cycle Every body now kno knows knos s ot of course that radIcal climatic changes do take tahe place That the ice iee caps at the poles have advanced ad and retreated Is prOven by the evIdence of our hIlls hIllsand hillsand and and lakes and soil soU II ren ven some of the surmised that there had been great climatic changes In Europe by whIch the coM cold coMIn coldIn In central and northern Europe had greatly moderated But these changes come oh 0 er such long perIods as to mean nothing to nn single genera genera- generation tion of men Whether there really re are definite cycles subject eventually to mews s whereby hereby weather condl vary within a cly brief perIod ot of years years-ca years sass s a fifteen year wet to dry cycle or a forty year wet to dry cycle It not yet known But there seems son reason enough for even evenn evena n a nonscIentific Person pelson to su suspect It it A hundred years hence when n a vastly greater amount of reliable In formation about weather happen h happenings Ings has been gathered In this and other countrIes It may be pos possible possible sible to predict the nit t sw S ing Illg toward dr dryness ness and the next t swing toward wetness with real occur icy lCY so far faras IS as an any large area is concerned Meantime we here In Iowa may rest reston reston on the fact that drastic changes in climate te do not seem eer e er to come rapIdly and that several se eral times in inthe n the past thIs regIon has l known pro prolonged prolonged longed dry dr 1 spells only to emerge again Into compensating wet spells Nowhere here on earth has there been WIthin the perIOd of white hite men mens l knowledge no Je a more dependably fa- fa ti climate for producing the necessarIes of life than in this corn belt of which Iowa Is the center center- centerI Des Moines Tribune I |
