Show A AMERICA MOVING I WESTWARD I It may maybe be e news news to most o people that North America has traveled from Europe Europe Eu rope across the Atlantic to its present present pres pres- ent eat pos position or on the globe and that ItIs itis It Itis is still moving toward China According to the calculations of Professor of Marburg 1 Germany Germany Ger Ger- many North America in the last twenty six years has moved feet feat vay a away from Europe and Greenland MI ti four eighty years has traveled the appreciable appreciable appreciable ap ap- ap- ap distance of feet also away from Europe Professor Weg ener believes believer that this t movement westward Is due dire to surface pressure exerted by fee Ice Not only does this thu pressure force the continent or island upon which It Is 8 exerted to sink but Just as asa a lot of ot cakes of ot Ice lying upon each other in a pan of ot water move the lower strata of the ice cakes sideways side side- sideways sideways ways so does surface pressure of let iCE force an Island or even a continent tc move sideways Greenland so much smaller than the North Norm American con continent and loaded down more mor heavily with ice because of its northern latitude lati tude would move much more rapidly than our own own on continent as it actually does if Professor be correct If Professor be right then it is not merely possible but probable that America and Europe were at one onetime onetime onetime time either one and the same conti continent continent nent or so close together than even the rude craft and meager seamanship of the early Hebrews and Phoenicians could carry men and women from one continent to the other The average breadth of or the Atlantic Atlan Allan tic ocean ocean Is 3 about miles Each mile contains fe feet t. t A simple arithmetical problem gives us us' the extraordinary extraordinary ex ex- ex result that supposing North America to have traveled at atthe atthe atthe the same sarno speed In in the past as in the present it took our continent years to accomplish the journey to Its present site alto The Idea is a fantastic one It suggests that In about 2000 years rears if the present speed be kept up the Pacific coast of America may bump against Japan and China thus obliterating the Pacific ocean 01 QI le leaving ving it merely a chain of ot lakes |