Show atmosphere Is a tonic when the amazed european asks us what makes the sluggish mind of the immigrant stir and waken in the united states and then to climb at first hesitatingly but soon with vigor and confidence to the top round in the ladder of success we are accas tomed to reply its in the air and we are right the spirit which fired our fathers to cross the wide atlantic and which in less or equal degree still animates the thousands annually seeking our shores la fed and fanned by the cold winds from the northwest the cold wave Is born in the beav ens miles above our beads usually over the rocky mountain plateau suddenly a mass of bitterly cold air will tumble down upon montana U rushes down as though poured an enormous tunnel As it falls it gains momentum and reaching the earth spreads over the mississippi valley and then over the atlantic states covering them like a blanket it scatters the toul logy breath soaked atmosphere in oui towns and cities and puts ginger into the air we fill our lungs with it and live new waves are always coming fol lowing each other in regular probes slon like the waves on a it Is fitting then that meteorology the science of the weather should be a distinctly american product and that the people 0 the united should have the best weather service in the world the united states gov eminent spends 1 a year on the weather bureau which Is more money than all the governments ot europe combined spend for similar service century magazine |