Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-30
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an acceleration beyond what would be
normally experienced in q cool place.
The doctor then get a number Of cleo
trio fans in the top OF the chamber In
motion. The students in q short time
were able to endure the heat and even
to work in cooperative comfort In spite
Of the close confinement and the high
percentage OF carbonic acid in the air
This was because the air at IS degrees
was cooler than the bodies Of the sub
jects and while in brisk motion 1t was
sufficient to make them quite comfort
able.
DR.. Hill in his lecture on the result
Of the experienments declared that the
age Of heating houses and trains IN
winter was coddling the race and tend
ing to break down the natural defen-
sive mechanism Of the body, render
ing 1t thereby more liable to illness. He
said:
Gold air makes us more active TO
warm ourselves. makes us do more
breathing and gives us better appe-
tite. The system is toned up and we
take in more food and oxygen. hot
dry air dries up the throat. and makes
people prone to infective disease. In
America. where they pump dry air into
their schools there Is a very high rate
of diphtheria. Instead of having arti-
fetal methods for keeping our rooms
hot we ought to have means for keep
ing them COOL"
An expedition, the purpose OF which
Is to thoroughly explore the Dead sea
and it's environs under the leadership
of DR., Bruhl of the University OF Ber-
lin, has just arrived from Europe and
continued to the scene Of it's future
operations
The motives of the expedition, so 1t
is emphatically averred by DR.. Bruhl
are purely scientific, with absolutely
no elements of commercialism entering
into it's ultimate object. Its members
are. with the exception of a man from
Copenhagen and possibly another from
SWenden, all German scientists and
engineers.
The expedition was organized IN Ger
many several months ago and seems to
be most thoroughly equipped, scienfi-
cally and otherwise. 1t is financed by
private subscriptions, a few members
defraying their share of the expense
while among the contributors several
leading Zionists figure very promi-
nently.
The work Of exploration will consist
in the major part of sounding the
depth of various sections of the lake
as well as analysing the unique and
complex composition Of its waters.
studying it's shores. investigating the
nature of the different minerals that
are said to abound in that region, ex-
ploring, as far as is possible, the chan
nels of the many rivers and hot water
streams, apart from the Jordan, which
flow into the sea from both the east
ern and western mountain ranges that
hem it's shores, examining and CLASH
flying the varieties Of fish that exist In
large numbers only in the extreme
southeastern section Of the lake, which
consists mainly Of shadows and
marshes. It must be remembered in
this connection that 1t has always been
! firmly maintained by those who
visited the Dead sea and wrote trea-
tises about 1t long ago that no fish
Of any kind can make their habitat IN
any part of it and this long -estao-
lished belief was given the death blow
only recently by a pleasure party OF
Americans long resident In the coun-
try who visited the southern end Of the
lake and discovered fish.
+ -sp.it remains for the members OF
the German expedition to arrive at the
causes which undoubtedly must be due
to varying conditions of chemical COM
position Of the water that make it pos
sible for fish to live in certain sections
of the lake and not In others: and. in
short. to find out everything about this
! strange body of water from scientific
Istandpoints that is worth knowing.
In order the better to facilitate its
operations the expedition has chartered
a little steam vessel for the space OF
three months with the proviso that al
3the option of DR.. Bruhl the lease may
be extended for an indefinite period.
What ultimate political or CONNER.
Icial motives, if any. underlie the sur
face of the enterprise time only car
show
This is by no means the first attempt
made to explore the Dead sea region
Indeed the honor Of priority in this di-
rection belongs to the doughty Lieu
tenant w. F. Lynch of the American
navy, who, as early as the year 1915
/! spent considerable time in research ant
/ exploration of that region at the eX-
pense Of the American government ant
at great risk to his person. for in those
days facilities for travel were Of the
crudest and people did no. know how
to guard against the ravages of ma
lara. to say nothing Of the predatory
marauding Bedouins. now under eff
4 fectual control by the Turks. but who
/ were then a lot OF lawless, aggressiv;
bands.
Despite all these l,ardships and diff.
! culties Lieutenant Lynch was fairl,
successful in taking measurements a:
well as solndings of different part:
Of the lake To him, moreover belong:
/ thee redit of being the first man t.
/ travel in q little boat from the Sea O
C;alilee down the River Jordan to tn.
i Dead sea.
According to the lieutenants nara
tive. the lake measures some fnrtysi'
miles from north to south and from
six to twelve miles east and west. 1t
total surface area was therefore com
puted to be $50 square miles. It's great
est depth was 1900 feet at its northern
end and it's shallowest part being at it
southern extremity. varies from five t.
fifteen feet only.
Indeed, so distinct were it's deep an'
it's shallow portions that Lieutenan
LYNCH described it's bottom as consist
ing of two submerged plans. an ele
waited one at it's southern half averag
\ ins thirteen and a depressed one at 1t
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