The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-03-12

ness OF assigning space. conserving resources elm
mating world dahsers and putting an end to those
aw'ui tunaits and expressions which have marked
the settlement or claims to space heretofore.
VIII there ever be real rest? VIII the nations
ever be able to accept their quarters things settled
for all timer"
The conditions can be permanently settled,
because the earth itself and always must be- in a
state OF change. These changes will In the future
lofce upon the human the greatest migrauons
in it's history
There is good to expect within 4 thousand
-the-elimaie i-the-wheie- ,xorid-wIll-
enormously warmed by the alteration In the air
which we are bringing about every day by the burn
ing OF coal There is some reason TO believe that this
change has already become perceptible Mcdowell
British investigator has determined that the mast
nifty winters have brought fewer frost days In
England than any other fftyyear period since 164I
and the discharge OF carbonic acid gas into the air
from our furnaces which Is bringing this change
has scarcely begun The first great migration there
ioie VIII De INTO the now frozen North-Siberia.
Finland, Lapland Canada and Alaska These will
become great agricultural 2regons-f the expected
change comes about.
But this will be but an eddy In the stream of
change and will run against the secular change by
which the world Is cooling of and drying up Some
time the warming process will stop The cooling
PROCESS which has been going with certain alter
nations and disturbances since the earth was a mol
ten mass-and long before--w reassert itself.
Thousands OF years hence the frozen about the
poles will again begin To broaden The timber line
will begin to creep down the mountain sides. The
great migration will bout-face and turn again from
the poles toward the equator The nations Of the
and northward from the south until at last the peoples
of the world will make their last stand against ad-
yancing cold and drought In narrowing which
will include Central Africa, Southern Asia, Northern
Australasia and the South Sea islands; and the La
Plata valleys in South America-together with the
West India islands
Along with this secular cooling will be q secular
drying up OF the earth by the fixing OF water In
chemical combinations and it's absorption into the
body OF the globe. The deserts which will then
spread the regions occupied by the United States
and Europe will be not only cold but dry. The men
OF that day will again find themselves In world
OF which explorer will be able to force
his way; and poetry and literature will again be
filled with the mystery OF the unknown, It was
when Othello told Desdemona's father Of the Hyper
koreans and Of men whose heads did grow beneath
their shoulders.
These migrations to come. They will b
very slow--so slow that the movement will be i'm
perceptible And they will probably take place
through Of world regulation which will eliminate
and OF decreasing birth rate which will make
poverty unknown until the last vanish In q sur
viving few pinched between the two advancing
frontiers OF the frost-men who will be wise enough
to triumph their fstes. even while yielding 70
them.