Evening journal., 1918-02-01
DON'T SAY anything
Good OF JANUARY
Months Whole Existence 8
Crime Against Shiver-
ing Humanity
TRIED TO SHIFT
BLAME TO DECEMBER

January, all het up about something
or other ross on It's hind legs, kicked
the stumn out Of the dashboard and
generally smashed Up records. past per
formances and old man Usual Proceed
urc in a most frlghtful manner. When
the thing was all over and January had
expired without a tear at midnight last
night. enough had been done 20 make
the name O word Of reproach among all
self-respectlng months.
40 one time and for a considerable
period March had the blue ribbon Tor
being the mos generally nasty and IN
necessary month. but, compared 10 The
carousal that January has been ON the
past thiriy-one days merely coming in
like O lion and sneaking out Ike the
we'll known lamb. Is absolutely nothing
to get critical about.
In the first place, IN chronicllng th'
things that this January has foolishll
went and done. there's straight
charge of seventeen days of snow anf
one extra day Of pure, unadullerated
spiteful rain. In these seventeen days
1876 inches Of snow have been contri-
buted and there's nothing very gentee
about that when one considers that 81
inches IS what any ordinary. average
intelligent and honest January would
have done. At no other time since i9il
has there been any such extravaganza
In snow. but In that year January lc
loose with i6.6 inches.
It's In the matter Of plain cold tha
the month should be censured and crit
icised most severely. Now since 1911 81
degrees above zero has been the usua
mean temperature for January. But d,
you suppose for one second that thii
wild month that we've Just got rid o
was satisfied with any such tame fgurl
as thatl You should get-you-a-Hun
not FOR starting out with the coldes
January day in the forty-nye years IN
month struck q general average Of 2
| degrees above zero or degrees lowe
than the usual mean temperature 10
the past forty-lvo Januaries. The proul
I figure OF n degrees mean temperature
was also , degrees below the coldes
past January. that Of 1910 holding IN
/ championship belt, with the record O
% degrees mean.
All this cold weather ambition.
should be understood. was started, fos
tered. ahetted and assisted by non
other than New Years day Itself
which cracked all past records wit
a great drive that sent the unprepare
mercury 10 i've below zoro-the cold
est individual January day within M
memory Of the Oldest living inhab
tanis Of these parts.
Poor December Blamed.
But al that, maybe January shouldn
be blamed too much Il was reall
Miss Defenders fault, for Just tai
Sunday. December 80. as an example
/ there she got all excited and LEI b.
temperature drop 20 6 degrees belo
zero, so she could have the reputatic
OF having had the very coolest day
century. II amt right for nj,
young female month 10 act that va
even II the women can vote In Ne
York state this vesr
Just what Miss December and NJ
! Janusry-who is recognized these DAY
as being straight ont and ont IN
month-should have forgotten all the
manners because we are AZ war, s bes
explained by The simple fact that re
Gently there has been an unusual sola
activity In the torrid zone. and thi
unusual solar radiation causes the at
mosphere about the equator 20 beocm
buoysnt and rise-like the price q
scotch-thus drawing in cooler air
like temperance falkland causing
decided drop tn temperature in N
temperate zones. particularly in the v
ciniiy of Berlin and such.