Show thin OZONE THREAD JUST MISSES endangering LIFE one scientist foresees end of uni i verse according to smith report washington A slender thread ot of ozone in tile hie upper atmosphere just j misses enil angering human be li eaith ilith lie cording to dr C 0 abbot acting see sec of the smithsonian institution in its eighty firs t annual report foi I 1 arn alth with tile the higher plants writes 11 actor abbot it must he fie sunshine or fr death with man and tile the herlier it must be sunshine suns liine or sick ack tile alie alue ot of sun raia as a cure im for me lia is is now DIW nall if known lie iby v ind lie eular rays anys chih i e alii vil ri ellve properly cwern to 0 h 11 I 1 n irrow heglon in file tira ra i li shill to i abhat tant tills this very group of rays thus proved so indispensable to elie development or of growing creatures just misses being bel ng cut off from roin sun rays by the truce trace of ozone which exists in our upper III atmosphere mo sphere these views are given by doctor abbot in one of two articles by hlin blin included lu in 31 papers nelch forat orm tile report subjects as as evalu tion lion of the stars and tile the importance of purn Rites in control of insects are CO Vervil J II if leans jeans english mathematician nil discusses tile the new outlook out lil in cosmogony haying flat 0 a nu rither of considerations coin combile blue to r show that the lie un lerse rao Is finite daitor loans jeans Is inclined to bound tile the universe by the neb ula and the star cloud at re keitle pe itle distances of and light years from the earth frow the suns known rate of radiation it ft Is found that hint its mass must be diminishing at the alie rate of about tons a minute he writes at the present rate of raaf radiation the total mass of the sun would provide radiation for fifteen million tars ears the ine cause of earthquakes particularly in the eastern united states Is treated by dr william LL hobbs geologists generally believe lie says saya that such changes in the earths surface are caused by the continuous 1 loss 39 into surrounding space of the heat beat from the earths interior portions tills loss of heat beat he continues is caused by a reduction of volume a shrinking of the Int erlo core of the tha earth and tile outer shell of rock being in already cooled to a relatively stable condition must wrinkle as it adjusts adjust itself 4 |