Show Nature to Present a Pacific Mid-Pacific Territory to tn the American merican P People ople B Dv T EDWIN FAIR A N NAULTY h in NewYork Times Land waves waves' on Nl the bottom of the P Pacific ocean caused perhaps by northward slipping of f the the A antarctic t ice-cap ice and by pressure from the American coast coast the Japanese archipelago Alaska and the Aleutian islands breaking at last on the deep foundations of the then Hawaii Hawaii- Hawaiian wt Uan U- U an archipelago seem seeni now to be creating new new l land a among nong the various islands and shoals of ot Hawaii The exp expected of f land land- which is likely to come in tl thus this s generation will witt present a as a a gift girt of nature r t to the the United States a territory in t the mid as long as from San Diego California to Queen Charlotte Sound British Columbia and as a J wide a as California a f rna S Such a territory ry ba based d en an t the f pr present r population t of J Java va pi i a 3 would easily s support a population population ot of at least 2 21 28 00 It U would be of tremendous advantage to the I nation na nation na na- ti tion n holding 9 i g it it as a productive tive an and trade base bas and a would odd grow e enough ugh I sugar r to render the United Sta ea Inde Independent independent Pen pendent ep of other present sources of ot th these se ari articles cles The Controlling Fact Factor r in ire Hazard Is la Undoubtedly Humidity H By C C. C E. E U U. S. S Weather Bureau The element that seems t to claim the distinction of being the controlling controlling controlling con con- trolling factor in forest forest b s fro fire hazard azar J ip i un undoubtedly bubi hu humidity dit As s Iii ft fluctuates the degree of fi fire hazard increases S. S and decreases Temperature Tempera Tempera- ture tura and wind only accentuate the influence of low of-low low humidity It mak makes s sno no difference nce how ho hoi the day day or or l how ow high the wind if if the for forest s ma materials ma materials are arc wet fir fire will viii neither s start rt nor spread The se seeming ming exception x p- p tion to this general assertion is th the lightning fire that may be started even v n in th the rain rafn All AH dead for forest s mat materials are re hygroscopic some som to fo a a. a very high degree and readily absorb moisture e f from in humid humid air airor ir ot or lose sc it to dry dry sq that to a m marked d degree gree the moistures moisture content and hence bence the inflammability of forest materials material is determined b by t the e f the air to which t they ey are expose exposed There is is no no fir fire h hazard Zard before the content of ot forest materials has dropped to the inflammability point and the degree of hazard hazard- increases ses rapidly ly with further drying which is accelerated by by rising temperature rc and wind windy c. c Unless British Immigration to Canada da Speeds Up More Ra Rapidly idly By J. J T T. T GUNN Editor Canadian Labor LaDof Press These figures show quite clearly that unless British sh immigration speeds up at a much more rapid rate than han at present West Westin in a very short period will lie he peopled by those who have m migrated d from countries o outside the British empire Th There re is no desire on on the part of labor Jabor in Canada to exclude n non British l European immigrants who wh are desirous of f making a new home here and who vho usua usually ly become steady prosperous prosperous- citizens but a 0 great many of us feel that if Canada can furnish furnish fur fur- nish tho the opportunity to the non British European Europe n lt Jt can also furnish the same fame opportunity to the British immigrant And if if they can see their way WRY to choose the Dominion as as a new home it will assuredly prevent pre pre- i vent yent the the creation of of problems r and difficulties tl that a will in all probability j t take ke place if British immigration keeps getting l less JI in p proper proper- OpOl I I t lion tion on to that from other othe c countries as asi U the case at present |