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Show ANOTHER HARD WINTER Along last summer Herbert J. Browne, a Chicago scientist, declared de-clared the winter of 1925-1926 would be the most severe for a good many years, and that it would be followed by a very late spring. Every citizen now knows how well his forecast Came true. So they ought to be interested in Mr. Browne's latest prediction though they will probably not be pleased with it. He says we are in for another an-other severe winter, like the last one, and that there is no need in letting ourselves believe that because last winter was a severe one the coming winter will be mild. If we knew a lot about science we could understand Mr. Browne's reasons for predicting still another long, cold winter; but most of us have always been too busy keeping the wolf from the door to devote any time to science. However, we can understand what he means when he says that since 1922 there hasn't' been sufficient suffi-cient heat from the sun to keep the glaciers in the far north from getting larger and the icebergs more! numerous, and that1 as a result they have moved farther down in the North Atlantic and North Pacific, Pa-cific, causing our winters to last longer even to extend into April and May. But we are not as much interested in what causes long, cold winters as we are interested in getting a few more normal ones. And even Mr. Browne must realize this, for he tempers his prediction with the statement that "after nert winter they should return to about normal again." , |