| Show WORLD IN GRIP OF DRY PHASE while we are arc speculating about the possible causes of dry weather fier in our own region wo we may note for whatever it may signify that in england they are plying giving serious thought to pro ba leius ems caused by talling falling of tho the water levels in streams a phenomenon that lias has been developing in for a couple of years now that my may bo be mere coincidence but on tile the other liand hand it may bugge suggest si that tent conditions affecting a far wider area than just our group of a halt half dozen dozen midwestern mid uld western states area anro at t work it may be that tile tho alpis areas which now seem to be particularly wet ivet not not dry dry such as some parts sok oi tho the hast east arc the exceptions find and that either cither the khe whole world or at least the northern hemisphere la Is in the dry phase ar pf a long limn cycle everybody now knows of course that radical climatic changes do talce take place that the ice caps at the poles have advanced and retreated Is proven by the ho evidence of our hills and valleys and lakes jakes and soll boll even some sam of tho the ancients surmised that there had been great climatic changes in E europe drope by which ohp tho cold in central and northern E europe had greatly moderated but bui these changes come over such long periods as to mean nothing to any single generation of men whether hether there really are definite yeles cycles subject eventually to measurement c ur whereby weather conditions condic vary within a relatively brief period of years says a eteen i year n wet to dry cycle or a forty arty year wet to dry cycle it not yet known but there seems reason enough for even a person to suspect it A hundred years hence when n vastly greater amount of rell reliable ablo ln in formation aboaf weather happenings has boon been ea gathered in this and other countries it may any be possible to preil p lct the next swing dryness and the next swing toward wetness with real so far ns s tiny largo large area Is concerned ned meantime wo hero here I 1 in n iowa may liay rest on tin tile fact that drastic changes in climate do not seem every ever to come rapidly find and that several times in the past this region has known prolonged dry spells only to emerge again I 1 into compensating wet spells nowhere on oil earth has there been within the period of white mens mails knowledge it n moro more dependably lepen dably fa clIn inte for producing thi necessaries of life than in tills cors belt i of which lown la Is the center DesA desmornes Des loines tribune |
