The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-12-08
rake The EARTH
Magnetic Storms Are Robbino
Our Planet Of Motion

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Our Planet Of Motion.
mar STAND STILL SOME DAY
ytsa ons Side u the Wsrid win q :
0essrf Furnaces, the othsr = olaet.
~ Wasts. and Mankind win Find
oessif n crampsd Quarters
H. world y slowing down In its
10y rotation, and the days are get
o1ne lsager. according to Professor
1ouis \ Bauer Of the Carnegie insti-
- Warrington Magnetic storms
- patting Z magnetic brake On tho
eartA. and n they continue to construct
TO- brake, at the rate measured for
- past ten years, In just $3.50 years
IT. good cid earth win no longer b.
Ft1Ening O In axis, but win settle
Town with one sids n perpetual sun
Shins. blasted BY wfthefing hsat, and
H. other side h endless darkness and
roa1. corresponding 10 The eztrsms fri-
gidity OF interstellaT spaes.
Observe It Is mt claimed hat tn
earth positively WIN come to . stand
stfll II this year 62s1 4, D.. but Nm
ply that II = being. subjected 10 .
brake that may stop 4 BY that t1me.
Probably most scientists would argus
that magnetic storms win - len ~
lent In fututA that othef fosc0 WIN
intervene and that the stoppfns Of thu
Earth will be postponed . great many
years beyond the date name1
But all scientists VIII, acquissce h
the statement that tho earth b slow
Ing down and sooner OF later viii come
10 q stop.
When the earth stops turning the
side toward the sun viii become over
heated. and water win dry up. and
biistefing deserts will ' the sur
lace. Near the edge OF the sunlit side
there win be q temperate zone, where
the sun win always be one hour high
of thereabouts. remaining ut the same
height above the horizon year IN and
year out Every hour win be like 9
O'Clock in the morning Of a summer
day. To this delightful region the
worlds population win Gock.
A little removed from tho hot area
win be the twilight zone. also quite
habitable. with the sun unending at
the horizon.
Though life In the tcrrid a. hot
some will be insupportable. a 4 rule.
yet on the outer edges, where the sun
r. hut two or three hours high, people
may live In a temperature Of 100 to
lao degrees by means Of various cool
Ing c~ontrivances.
On the dark, cold side of the earth
MI the water will be frozen solia
Even mercury will freeze In .,at aw-
ful chill. 1t VIII De impossible for
humsaa beings to penetrate more than
three or four hundred miles into the
dark aud frigid zone, which win be
far more inaccessible than are now
the polar wastes.
/ The fact that all the water on the
cold side Of the earth will be frozen
and all the water on the hot side dried
up and evaporated will tend to cause
q great disturbance Of the continents
and ceans Of the globe. There must
be some sort Of Encouragement, and
It would seem that the oceans would
tend to seek the hahifable temperate
q which would then be the equa-
tors equivalent Since the earth's
surface contains very much more wa
ter than land 1t is extremely probable
that the temperate zone will not con
tain nearly enough land to satisfy the
population and that there will be con-
tinuous struggles for possession OF
valuable soil. 1t Is even conceivable
that a large portion Of the people
may be driven to seek permanent
residences In sailing vessels or steam
craft. subsisting by fishing.
! During the period when the earth's
days r frightening perceptibly great
social changes must come about. dine
to the difference in hours. When tho
days get to be forty hours long It Will
surely be necessary to arrange for :
period Of rest and sleep IN the middle
Of the day.
AZ the days lengthen until they ex-
coed q weeks duration all sorts Of com
plications viii ensue. and the days.
weeks and months will become hope
lessly mixed Scientists agree that the
lunar month win lengthen a the day
lengthens. though the day will Increase
the more rapidly. According to Pro
lessor Ernest w. Brown Of Haverford
college, who has given special attenr
tion to this subject, there will come .
time when the month and the day viii
both bs o. the same duration-
Al tho oarth's day gets longer and
longw tks time viii come when I day
IS . pear long. Then thet4 N11 f. no
mors Aays and nights, no WG6led6An 70
months Tie earth always vln havs