Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-03-27
AURORA NOT FROM ELECTRIC CAUSES
BUT FROM HIGH WINDS HIGH ABOVE us
IS VIEW OF ANCIENT WEATHER MAN
Andrew jackson De Voc Shoots OFF Novel Pyrotechnics
About Northern Lights That Upset All Hitherto Sci
entihc Investigation, But Fails to Show Relation of
Winds to Borealis, and Leaves Color Out of Question
GOOD A GUESS AS ANY HE GUEsSEs

This section of the east was visited
on Monday night last by wonderful
display of aurora borealis, or northern
lights, which caused a great deal of
interest. Many people who had never
seen anything like it before called I'D
some of their neighbors and made in
quiry as to what it all might be. Near
ly every family in this section saw the
phenomenal exhibition of heavily pyro-
technics, and the great sight was en-
Joyed. 1t was most awe-inSpiring. too.
The great flashes of white, blush light
came out of several points of the COM
pass, first appearing in the north, then
switching slowly to the northwest.
west and northwest, then away over to
the east and southeast. The huge
streaks of white light looked like i'm
mense swishes of comet tail light that
slowly moved to one side or the other,
stretching away up to the zenith and
gradually failing, only to be followed
by ether more amazing plumes that
were weird and fantastic to the last
degree. Some nervous people could
not get it out of their heads that it did
not portend some evil to fall upon the
earth and were not satisfied until the
display began to lessen shortly after 10
O'clock
There are many theories about the
hn
being that it comes from excess of cleo
tr1cal energy in the arctic atmosphere,
which spreads into great areas and af-
fects artificial electrical construction
like telegraph and telephone lines that
are themselves always subject to cleo
trlcal induction more or less all the
time
But the most unique, as well as the
most laughable, theory of these lights
is one wholly different from any other.
and is fathered by Bergen county's
immortal weather profit" Professor
Andrew Jackson DeVoe of Hacken-
sack. He rushed into the Hackensack
Record office Tuesday morning and let
fall these intellectual suggestions:
Mr.. DeVoe said the northern lights
are produced by nightly currents of
wind blowing cross-wise, and that the
lights drifted from east to west at Il
height of more than five miles and
were reflected upon the moisture that
was in that portion of the atmosphere
ut will take 4S hours for that cur
RI 70 thn a
clared. "A mighty storm is advancing
from the north, and this wind, which
is moving toward the formation of that
storm, must pass over us in 4S hours"
Mr.. DevOe predicted that as soon as
the wind gets down to the surface of
the earth there will be thunder storms
and a great change in atmospheric con-
ditionS, followed by a cold wave for
the last two days of this week
Mr.. DeVOe said that all true sci
ence must harmoniZe with the Bible,
and that he had never been able to
harmonize the statements of biologists
in regard to the earth'S age, as they
insist the earth has existed for 100000
years. BY scientific experiment it has
been found that the most extreme cold
of our earth lies directly over the tor
rid zone. There it is 1870 degrees be-
low zero at a height of six miles. Our
earth is surrounded by thin shell of
extreme cold. Some day in the future
this thin shell is going to break and
the extreme cold now over the torrid
zone will descend to our own earth
and the earth will change it's axis. The
north and south pole will be located
on the equator, and instead of our
earth revolving from east to west it
will revolve from north to south, which
he admitted would spell ''finis" for us
all.