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Show BEAVER PRESS )ERT EXPLAINS "WEATHER"! Scientist Takes Weather Apart to See What Makes So Peculiarly; Scoffs at Professional Rainmakers. t By DR. FRANK Science Service Lkes the weather? f t,e iwve are apt to ask these questions. Sometimes in the i Lr tint persistent heat engenders, sometimes in W- - but we really would like to know a little about a trifle easier to endure. tat would make our discomfort ill ivntl"ipr niipcfinnc f.iv uI .n in particular, is still too voting to know" f can answer some of them. ,svcrs But science Lsncss , , ' athcr happens at all isf- JWtl r as y f ' , V-?Y- l 1 M tea; iet J s ' HS j" . f Serr: 1 $ v & " dev., 1 tin: ' i " ! 1 M eed; It TIIONE Stall Writer weather act so mean at tii at ni ikes the tBr we c et too much weather of one kind, as we have we did of its opposite, past few weeks (or as u.c fee interacting iaciors. fun the turning earth, and Le of an atmosphere on shines ft Where the sun farm: we've all noticed ien the sun smuca Scenes and Persons in the Current News tween them, all right, though the dividing line is not knife-sharJ. B. Kincer of the United States Weather Bureau puts it this way: "Climate is the general run, or sum total of weather, and that sum total does not seem to be undergoing any fundamental changes. Weather is the phase of climate that we experience from day to day and week to week, or even year to year. Therefore, weather varies, often abruptly from day to day, due to vast changes in air mass movements. In other words, climate is relatively stable; weather erratic." Thus, we can speak of the climate as a more of less dependable thing. If you go to England in autumn, of course you take umbrella and rubbers; if you go to Southern California in summer, equally of course you do not. You count on the climate. Yet there might be a sudden erratic shift in weather, that would sizzle you in London in September, or drench you in Hollywood in June. Climates do change, but not in a human lifetime, or even in a whole row of generations. Permanent climatic changes are jobs for the millennia. It is suspected that the climate of northern Africa was moister 10,000 years ago than it is now, but we are not certain. The climate of Ohio was once like that of Greenland but that was a matter of a million years. The climate of Greenland was once like that of Ohio but that was even longer To those anxious queries, certain pessimistic souls are singing the answer, in a doleful minor key: "It ain't gonna rain no mo'!" Nevertheless, it will: it always does rain, eventually. But assurance that rain will come is not an explanation of its coming. What does mnke r:,in- - Rain is the offspring of the mar- - war, moist air meets something cold. The something may be a land mass lvine athwart a ' mmt ,e, wind. The higher the land the harder the rain, other things being equal. That is why the rains of England and Ireland are gentle and moderate, and that is why precipitation is heavier, and frequently much more violent as well on such mountain heights as the Himalayas and the top of Maima Kea in Hawaii. But in normal seasons we get plenty of rain, and frequently quite violent rainstorms as well, in regions where there are no mountains at all the open sea, and the wide Ul L i 4 U f V A l:7-UClKJ,- France. li h Cv iv svJCxvS of attery t - A.W 13 H A t rfH t? VUAiVJKVt"; ?4T' WtM&i Vv Ti. A-S-.- . 2-- X ?M l VT A FS SJI'W. "ff llx Xt t'-- W''?& vV'ii the U S. S. Oklahoma for transportat on to refugees from Bilboa, Spain, being taken aboard battle with the rebe s north ol Madrid to out of marching forces Spain the of loyalist on the Dardanelles which Turkey is zone demilitarized Turkish artillery entering the former JAVELIN THROWER After His Vacation Cruise I lowlands of the Central United States. Why there? Even in mountainless lajjds there are what might be called meteorological mountains. They are masses of cold air, migrating down from the Arctic and meeting the warm, moisture - laden air migrating up from the Gulf. The normal tiling when two air masses collide is for the cooler to plow under the warmer, lifting it into the air. As it rises it expands, and as it expands it cools. When it no longer contains heat enough to keep the water in vapor state the water condenses, first into microscopic droplets or tiny snowfiakes to form clouds, then by coalescence of the into drops large enough to fall as rain. cloud-drople- Frauds Flourish Can't we do anything about the weather? Must we just sit still and let the rain come when it gets good ' ago. H and ready? Cycles Are Irregular We can't. We must. For in spite of Climate does have its fluctuations the old and complaint of that is, prolonged "spells of Mark Twain, there is as yet nothing weather" of one kind, followed by that can be done about the weather. equally prolonged "spells" of opThe usual crop of weather-makinposite sign. These are the "cycles" proposals has been harvested of r you hear talked about. About every the drougth. These c thirty or forty years there is a cli- suggestions always flourish when max of drought, like the one we is scorched with all useful are having now. In between, there sun and growth of thirst. They perishing will be an opposite climax of wet when even cactus wilts. iiynf-Mgrow be other cycles years. There may Rainmakers need only one kind of within these, and perhaps even 'icsome Picture of a Tornado. fertilizer: money. They invariably all but outside ones them; longer of the Weather's Freaks. , the cycles are too irregular in ar- make the modest proposal: You e air gets warm. Anything rival and duration to permit of de- pay my expenses while I do the work, and a bonus for every tenth warmed expands and there- - pendable prediction just yet. No rain, omes lighter. Those of us who can remember of an inch of ram that falls. no bonus; only my living and travel rises when thus expanded and back to the early nineties will resecret call the bankrupting drought that expenses, and the cost of the ed, because cooler, denser om somowhprp ptsp fpnris to ia under it and boost it up. v.orKing toward a restoration disturbed equilibrium. Since n shines straightest and hot- ear the equator, and has less g effect near the poles, the al tendency is for the cool. jp' air to flow southward along .Surface, while the rising, cooler I1 ws northward over it. i the earth stood perfectly still I had a perfectly smooth and ! surface, and if the warm- sun went rcunJ and round it fn the ancient Ptolemaic astron- the surface wind would be straight from the north, the unpor-ai- r wind straight to ld the . t 1 ' kW g pseudo-scientifi- r i I'lffiiniiwini'ii Tilly Fleischer of Germany who won the javelin throw in the Olympic games at Berlin with a record inches. The throw of 148 feet 2 previous Olympic mark was 143 feet 4'.i inches set by Miss Mildred Didrikson, famous American girl star of the 1932 games. A-- 25-3- 2 .JfSJ, . yci.LI is-l- A fc N 4 President Roosevelt appeared to be well rested and in excellent condition for the strenuous work in connection with his campaign. BACKS SPAIN'S WAR Rumble Seat Jail in Oklahoma pf k-- I Two Forces Act Together f''it 1 the earth turns on its axis, doesn't hang onto the air as I'ly as it dor s to land and water, fhat the air tends to sliD a little. I e h by tl.o UP a Rive ux Wesi. X"e forces R un from 5 I ' ie Tliis is the rumble scat Jail invented by Alex Watson, transfer Prisoners being transported agent for the Oklahoma state penitentiary. are made to sit on a cushion on the floor. straight out the way to the top 'icre. But as it is, the i t on the air together, a Wind Co-Operati- general northwest to southeast northern hemisphere, and ''vest to northeast in the ve U- T'? 177' It has To a Farmer Like air current directions. This-t- he Weather Is All Important chemicals used in my formula. If r, rain falls, they take the credit cash. If no rain falls, they ri;r generate .... .L --emir "" and the considerable cash for lar climatic depression take still to he chemicals" are invathat sent them migrating Some of those the "secret of water, and also act dif- Heads I win, tails Oregon territory. expensive. s riably .. 7 wlw: in sfi'ii.nm trains left wagon-trackbe a sweeter could iu4 iose: what lake you them the dried bed of Goose lake racket for a smooth-talkin"proiRain, condensed into rain the snow. beard? Van a Dyck In Oregon. Subsequently with fessor" 1331 of But in the drouth The facts, then, methods are rough out the bare. The Older laid were oad fr;irif,.i,i. .gain tracks less u'. expensive and 3 ., "win ui .l. ine wuriu simpler had fulfilled itself. The magi' 'i us aciaiis u cycle climatic . cy- - for their practitioners. wrnes these ...mo. the imitate tribes ,, terriiieally complicated. Is of vvnai tuu. primitive cians ny wn,(.r that nie weather cles? Nobody knows. nuiiM" " of thunder with rattles and sound -o- i"' drums, or they throw water into the ,V K'v,''s evcn tne experts many champions ihnrf ,. . 1. WVOte II,,,, r 9 OIlC OI me I That A.nick a vein in the chiefs i iicuuiivia still disagree air or they or go nn wWch the doctors arm and let a little blood, h he Climate other "sympathetic'' some , through Changing? r,r t ike sides nimst-u- their mere Vl',at is ... titu. ternrl:rn,.( procedure. But like our own cuj. Persona, land, of this colleagues iured !'ence between climate knri paid. their expenses weather-still get pcrament. they What will make se n.u.ii I - .... oi Western Newspaper Union When will it rain? a i"i puz.zie irlp tI ihfre is a difference be- - It rain? scour an the country then. And simia in found ZL f i a. f,;'s n!,ernations of irregu-f-'- y shaped oceans and continents. rts and forests, which load dif-feair masses with differing rits .JTt !i nirtiire. lm rn,'''s sticking up here JT there wnich act as paddle-Fec'- s or blades or cause in Dr. Juan March, Spain's richest man, who is accused by leftists of financing the present Fascist revolt. The Spanish recently was reported to have contributed heavily to the rebel's war chest. Garment Factory Dedicated 'Jiern. riot all nf tho .u : surfnr,. , r (i, Jy smooth and uniform. "- multi-millionai- circulation warming sun did not SOU'! ut this fMii.liii.'ii'Ai-'-"- g rain-makin- g . ( - li. uii-4- SS toWMnt to fashion show featured the festivities which marked dedication cf W. H reseurcn.cui .umm.w.i of the ghtstown. j., teaerai tory which is will earn their daily bread turning out garments Planted garment Worker, who populate this New Deal Utopia such as the model is parading. i A I - |