Morris tribune., 1909-11-12

GOVernOr johnson, and 1t IS further SAID tnaL
he has rented suite of offices in ST. Paul that
make fine meeting place for Democratic
politicians. The Kitchen Cabinet will be in
fine shape to make fight for Democratic sue
cess next year if they get half chance.
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Until very recent years, the whole weight
of authority of all the navy departments of all
the various governments has been thrown in
favor of the development of bigger and heavier
and swifter fighting ships. Naval officers have
successfully demanded the building of the
ironclad when wooden ships were in vogue, the
battleship, the dreadnaught and the super
dreadnaught Naval officers once jealous
of the torpedo, as they now of the sub
marine and the airship, but the torpedo has
now been adopted as the regular equipment of
the great fighting vessels, and the submarine is
slowly gaining certain recognition. Last week
a submarine vessel tried out by the French
navy travelled 1000 miles in II days and cover
ed 200 miles without stop The greatest
battleship ever built cannot compete with a
small submarine of such effectiveness, and
some very great changes in naval warfare are
sure to
On account of the refusal of congress to
pass an amendment to the federal constitution
providing for the election of senators by the
people, movement was started fourteen years
ago to amend the constitution by the other
method, that is, by having two-thirds of the
states call upon congress to call convention to
amend the constitution It is now stated that
the necessary two-thirds reached when the
Alabama Legislature passed such a resolution |
some time ago, and that it is now the duty of
congress to arrange for a constitutional con-
vention. But meanwhile public opinion has
been considerably modified, and it is quite GER
tain that two-thrds of the states do not now |
want the constitution amended The Minnesota
Legislature at one time adopted such reso1u-
ton, but we doubt whether it would be done
today. Choosing senators by direct vote has
been tried in several states, and the method
has been shown to have very great defects The
right way to get the right kind of senate is to
send the right kind of men to the Legislature.
The United States weather service is con-
tinually demonstrating it's reliability in fore /
casting weather conditions for a couple of days,
but for some time it has been attempting long +
range forecasting of the weather for week in
advance. It has met with only partial success,
but yet great advances being made and
much valuable information is being ga thered. |
BY cooperation with the weather service in i
other countries it has been found that all gen. |
eral storms with few exceptions travel around
the earth from west to east For this reason |
the eastern states are much interested in the
weather of the western states, and Europe is in
terested in the weather of our Atlantic sea-
board Similarly the weather of the eastern |
coast of Asia has an interest to us, but theI
question which has not yet been settled is how |
to determine whether storm is going to in |
crease diminish it passes to over the |
Pacific ocean. 1t is certain however that the |
movements of the atmosphere governed by
very definite laws and in due time scientists |
will be scattered over the whole earth gather |
ing data from which these laws can be deduced. |
When these laws finally studied out, the |
government forecasts for week in advance |
will be reliable as they now for day or |
two
HALF OF THE BATTLE WON