The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1904-12-29
REGARDS IT AS
NOT IMPOSSIBLE
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of spring." while II the red or center
markings covered the greater part Of
the larva. there would be late fall and
short cold winter followed by an early
spring. Such puerile theories seem too
absurd to find credit in the minds of
the people and are not believed as they
were half century or more ago.
"These maps referred to by Mr.. Wren
are very interesting, and well worth
careful study on the part OF our farmers.
In these maps isobars pass through ter
ritory OF equal temperature, and iso-
therms through that Of equal baromet-
ric pressure, over the whole of the Uni
ted States, while arrows flying the way
the wind is blowing at the localities
where placed, are dotted over the map.
These arrows bear symbols indicating
the condition OF the weather at the
station they represent, whether it be
clear, partly cloudy, cloudy, rain, snow,
etc, and shaded portions of the map
indicate the area over which the report
precipitation occurred, This gives one
at once a mental picture OF the weather
Of the entire United States, and by a
careful study of these maps which are
issued daily, one can soon learn to make
close forecasts of the weather for the
following "a hours. Below the map, on
the same sheet is given printed reports
from the stations represented by the
arrows on the map, and the forecast Of
Section Director Beals for the "a hours
following the date Of the map.
~ am especially delighted with the
statement made by Mr.. Wren to the
effect that the chief Of the weather bu-
reau is building and equipping large
observatory for the purpose of studying
the atmosphere with view to event
ually giving seasonal forecasts, and,
while Mr.. Wren turns down Mr. Hicks
and his theory Of interplanetary in uence
as did Section Director Beals in re-
cent issue Of the Glacier, and although
the libraries of the weather bureau has
all knowledge relative to climatology
and meteorology to date stored on their
shelves, it does not necessarily follow
that other men may not make discover
les along these lines, nor bar other per-
sons from striving to attain the same
worthy object for which our weather bu
reau is working, prouided he strive hon
estly; better, it seems to me, it would
be for all to work together, assisting in
stead of hindering each-other,
"Neither can agree with Mr.. Wrer
that single season would be sufficient
) time in which to make test The the
ory of Hicks il true would not have haC
time since he conceived it to demon
strate the varied effects of the many
different combinations of forces thai
would be brought to bear upon the mete
geological conditions of the earth by tn,
different positions the planets would
assume in their revolutions around the
sun, Even then, man is not infinite
he is liable to err in calculations. Il
we judged the forecasts of the weather
bureau by the standard of absolute &C.
curacy they would hardly pass, accurate
though they are, to remarkable degree,
"The weather bureau is doing great
work, the beneficial effects of which
are being demonstrated more and more
as the facilities for the dissemination
of the knowledge of the results of its
observations and forecasts are increased,
Neither does it need fear the effect of
Hicks theory, ii it should prove true,
and which would be far from asserting
true, or even probable, although it may
be possible. The most sensible thing
| have read in the controversy is the
suggestion of Section Director Beals in
former article to which referred few
moments ago; that is, to take the long
range forecasts and compare them with
the daily reports of the weather bureau,
"ro me the work of the bureau is in
tensely interesting and believe of great
value to farmers who will avail them
selves of the information contained in
these daily reports, and the principal
object that | had IN view when | volun-
teered to make the records Lere was
that might be able to give as much
information as possible from this source
to the epublic through the Glacier
You may say to your readers that
would be glad TO have report from
Odell, Barrett, Dukes Valley, Parker
town, and Mount Hood, of any especial
ly striking phenomena, such as violent
thunder or wind storms heavy snowfall
cloudbursts, seismic disturbances, auro.
halo, parhelia, etc, so that | may be
able to give our director as complete
report from Hood River MS possible"
Beware of COunterfeitS.
"DeWitrs is the only genuine Witch
Hazel Salve' writes ] L. Tucker, of
Centre, Ala. 81 have used it in nv