Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-11
BRAKE The Earth
Magnetic Storms Are : Robbinq
Our Planet of Mo;son.

The world is slowing pwn in its
daily rotation. and the daE are get
ting longer. according TO Professor
Louis a. Bauer Of the Came gie insti-
tute. Washington. MuCnc Tic storms
are putting a magnetic hs Ske on the
earth. and If they continues 10 construct
this brake. NJ the rate IN INSURED for
the past ten years. in Just 1920 years
this good old earth will nj longer be
turning on it's axis. but will settle
down with one side in per petual sun
shine. blasted by wither!n heat. ana
the other side in endless d t-kness and
cold. corresponding To the. extreme fri
gidity OF interstellar space!
Observe II is not claim 8 that the
earth positively will come O a stand
still in this year 1921 A. -. but sim
ply that 1t is being sub k,cted to
brake that may stop it b E that time
Probably most scientists ould argue
that magnetic storms viii 5be less VIC
lent IN future. that others forces will
intervene and that the ste z ping OF the
earth will be postponed .~a,rcat many
years beyond the date NAMED
But all scientists will scquiesce in
the statement that the earth is slow
ing down and sooner or la nr will come
70 q stop.
When the earth stops StUrniug the
side toward the sun Will b ecome over
heated, and water will dry up, and
blistering deserts will erb-er the sur
face. Near the edge of'tia, sunlit side
there viii be a temperateA zone. where
the sun will always be one hour high
or thereabouts, remaining at the same
height above the horizo 10 year in and
year out Every hour will be like
o'clock in the morning, OF. a summer
day. To this delightful region the
worlds population will fiy-k
A little removed from rhe hot area
will be the twilight zo'Ie, also quite
habitat with the suEay unending at
the horizon.
Though life in the brrid OF hot
zone VIII be insupportalbIe. as n rule.
yet on the outer edges. where the sun
is but two or three hours high. people
may live in a temperature OF 100 TO
40 degrees by means ofsvarious cool
ing contrivances. =
On the dark. cold sid E4of the earth
all the water VIII be sfTozen solid.
Even mercury will freeze in that aw.
full chin. IL will be impossible for
human beings TO penet'a more than
three or four hundred q lies into the
dark and fricid zone. which viii 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 al the water on the hot side dried
up ana evaporated Will tend 10 cause
great disturbance of Hhe continents
and oceans Of the globe There must
bc some sort OF reurr= Hlgement. and
It would seem that the -oceans would
tend 10 seek the habita ale temperate
zone. 'hich would Their. be the equa-
tors equivalent Sine the curtG's
su"sHCe contains very II uch more wa
ter than land II is extrt pIply probable
that the temperate zone will no; con
tain nearly enough land Eto satisfy the
population and that theDe will be con
tinuous struggles for possession OF
valuable Soil. IL IS eva u, conceivable
may be driven TO So =, permanent
residences IA sailing vc. Sels or steam
craft. subsisiing by tsE a..
During the period wh.s the earth's
days are lcncthcui-g pei Fr'pUbly great
social changes must CO eoe about. due
10 the difference I'm hOu r.. When the
days get TO be forty no, ms long IL will
surely be necessary 10 arrange for a
period OF rest and sleep tin the middle
OF the day.
As the days lenGthen NATL they ex-
coed q weeks duration a Iisorts of com
prcarions will ensue. :tnd the days.
weeks and months will Become hope
lessly mixed. Scientists kgree that the
lunar month will length en- as the day
Iengthens. though the DE- YVSlll increase
the more rapidly. AccG Td ing to Pro
fessor Ernest w. Brown NOf Haverford
college, who has given special Htten-
ton TO this subject. Their E will come
time when the month an q the day will
both Ice OF the same DUR I-ion.
As the earths day Ge IS longer and
longer the time will CON, = when a day
is u year loo, Then the Te will be no
more days aud nights. no sveeks and no
months. The earth nlw; ~ will have
one side 10 the sun. and ID G moon will
have one side to the earth. and the two
will turn around the suns once a year
as IL fixed on a rigid bar, There will
be no more seasons on tAIe earth-no
spring, summer. autumn! or winter.
The weather OF the Sc ASrsl seasons
,du be experienced only Pby travelling