The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-17
washington Cor. ST. Louis Post
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A discovery of tremendous import
to the human race has just been dis
closed by Prof. Louis A. Mauer of n
Carnegie institution. Washington.
The world is slowing down in its
daily rotation and the days are get
ting longer. Magnetic storms are
putting a magnetic brake on the earth.
and If they continue to construct this
brake. at the rate measured for the
past ten years. in just $500 years this
good old earth will no longer be turn
ing like n of Mathewson's curved
balls. but will settle down. with one
side in perpetual sunshine. blasted by
whitening heat. and the other side in
endless darkness and cold. correspond
ing to the extreme frigidity of inter-
stellar space.
Observe. 1t is not claimed that the
earth positively will come to a stand
still in his year 1921 A. D.. hui sim
ply that it is being subjected to a
Probably most scientists would argue
that magnetic storms will be less
violent in future: that other forces
will intervene. and that h stopping
of the earth will he postponed a great
many years beyond the date named.
But all scientists will acquiesce in
the statement hat the earth is slow
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to Il stop.
When the earth stops turning the
side toward the sun will become over
heated. and water will dry up and
blistering deserts will ove the sur
face. Near the edge of the sunlit
side there will be Il temnerate zone.
where the sun will always be n
hour high or Whereabouts. remaining
at the same height above the horizon
year in and ear out. Every hour will
he like s o'clock in the morning of a
summer day. To this delightful region
the worlds population will flock.
A little removed from the hot area
will be the twilight one. also quite
habitable. with the sun unending at
the horizon.
Though life in the torrid or hot
zone will be insupportable, as a rule.
vet on the outer edges where the sun
is but two or three hours high. peo-
pie may live in a temperature of 100
to 40 degrees by means of various
cooling c~ontrivances.
On the dark, cold side of the earth
all the water will he frozen solid
ever mercury will freeze in that awful
chill. 1t will he impossible for human
beings to penetrate more than three
or Jour hundred miles into the dark
and frisid zone. which will be far
more inaccessible than are now the
polar wastes.
During the period when the earth's
days are frightening perceptibly great
social changes must come about. due
to the difference in hours. When the
days get to be forty hours 1t will sure
~ be necessary to arrange for Il Pc
riod of rest inc sleep in the middle
Of the day. Think of a long day in
which it gets light only at 10 o'clock
and we rise n go to work at II
at 16 o'clock we are allowed a recess
and lunch. Al 20 o'clock we stop and
dine and take Il mar. At % we go to
work again: recess at "a. with more
lunch. At 20 we quit-and this is the
rush hours for street cars. At so
o'clock we are home for our night
dinner: at 80 we go to the theater
At SO o'clock the people begin to go
to bed. and by IS or 80 O'Clock the
last night prowler should be tucked
in his little couch.
AS the days lengthen until they eN-
coed a weeks duration all sorts of