| Show WORLD IN GRIP OF DRY PHASE while we ore are aboia tile the possible po of dry weather in our own region we may note for mb whatever ateer it may signify that in ingland the ari giving serious thought to problems causell caused ly by falling of tho the water levela in streams iq a phenomenon that has been developing for a couple of years acari n w v that moy be ba more coincidence but anthe on the other hand U 1 nifty may suggest that con editions affecting a far wider area than just our group of a halt hall dozen dozen mid western sta statis tos to s are fit at work N orl it may be that the areas which now seem to be particularly wet not dry such buch as some parts of ala 0 rait are the exceptions and that elther the m whole hole world or at least tie northern hemisphere la Is in tale dr alla phae e of a long time cycle levers body now knows of courso course that radical climatic chan changes do 10 tal take c place that the ice fee cing cps at the p les lea have advanced and retreated li 19 proven by the evidence of our hills and valleys and inkes dikes ond and soil kven seme of the ancients surmise 1 that there had bad been great climatic changes in surope rope by blitch the cold in central aind northern curole e had greatly moderated IW but thase cl channes cliones ianes come over such long periodic es ca to mean nothing to any single ongle generation of men whether really aie cycles subject eventually to aneas ure mout whereby vi weather cather coada eions vary within a relatively arief period of 0 aars sava a na wet et to dry cycle or a forty 3 ear car wet to dry cycle it not yet known hut but there keenig renon enough for even cen a nonscientific person to suspect it A hundred acara eara hence when a vastly greater amount of rell rellice ible in formation about aboa went liei happen ings ingo haq hag ben been gaUi eril in arid and other countries it kiy m ly be pos sible bible to predict the alie next swing owing toward dr arness biess and lie e next swing toward wetness met with wit real so BO far na as ar ari large acca li ji concern concer concerns nl meantime me e here in iowa tuny may artst on the fact that drastic changes in do nt not seem ear to come and unit that several times in the past this region has known pro longed dry spells only to emige em ige again into compensating wet NoNi here on oil tarth arth gitig ams there been the period of white mens know lolo a more depend dependably ably fa norahle climento for the necess necessaries arles of life than in this corn com licit belt of which iowa Is the center Ds |
