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The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-06-04

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hard to rebuild their church.
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Scriptures, all the countries round about
were similarly distressed. We are in
formed by the same authority that "all
countries came into Egypt to Joseph to
buy corn, because the famine was so sore
in all lands"
Those countries, including Palestine
Babylonia and Arabia, were at the best of
times rather SHY" on rainfall. When a
series Of dry years came crops were liable
to fail, with consequent hunger for their
populations. 1t was with them as with the
settlers in Kansas and Nebraska.
There was a dry period all over the
world from 1851 to 1865, the years of the
Civil War. There was a wet period from
1875 to 1880. It is an interesting fact,
illustrating the economic effect Of such
fluctuations, that in dry period the price
of grain averages 13 per cent higher than
In wet period.
The Swiss meteorologist, Bruckner, in
collecting the data on which his theory of
cycles is based obtained records of severe
Winters dating back to 1000 A. d. He
made notes Of the dates at which, through
centuries, the rivers of Europe had been
unlocked by the melting Of Ice. This be-
cause there Is a direct relation between
temperature and rainfall; the warm years
are the dry years, the cold years are moist.
He even studied the records Of the dates
of vintage harvests running back to the
fourteenth century The range OF his OBJ
servations was wide. Swiss glaciers were
not overlooked. They advance during cold
and damp periods, and retreat during years
OF warm and dry weather. Their recorded
movements during a great length of time
confirmed the professors theory.
The theory has been further confirmed
in a very interesting way by study of the
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fringe along the edges of that continent
Australia is largely desert Nearly ne
sixth of the total area of the United States
is waste beyond redemption for agri.
culture.
Already this world OF ours is short of
water. In our own country, which we are
accustomed to regard as exceptionally
fruitful and productive, the average rain
fall over the total area is thirty inches.
Sixty inches would be none too much.
With that quantity OF available water the
United States could support a population
of 1,000,000,000. With its present allow
ance 1t could not adequately maintain
more than half that number of people.
Between the Rocky Mountains and the
Sierra Nevada extends vast region that
is one Of the most hopeless deserts on the
globe. Yet there was a time, not more
than a million years ago. when all of that
area was well-watered and covered with
luxuriant vegetation. II had many large
rivers and was the watershed of two enor-
nous lakes, the shore lines OF which with
their pebbly beaches are plainly to be seen
to-day skirting the mountain sides.
One of those lakes, in western Utah and
extending over into Nevada, was $50 miles
long from north to south and IT'S miles
wide. II covered 1900 square miles, and
its greatest depth was 1000 feet. The
Great Salt Lake is remnant OF it. The
other lake, further west and stretching
along the base Of the Sierra Nevada, was
very irregular in shape and covered 8,422
square miles. It's greatest depth, 866 feet,
was where Pyramid Lake now remains as
a small leftover piece Of It,
Those great lakes are gone-dried up
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the wheat did not ripen. Economic col
lost everything they had in the world, and
by 1890 most of the region presented
melancholy spectacle of abandoned fields,
empty farmhouses and deserted towns.
The condition of affairs thus brought
about was such as to convince any OBJ
country had undergone a permanent and
hopeless change, rendering it unfit for
agriculture. Nevertheless, as experience
has since shown, there were moist years
to come again in Kansas and Nebraska;
and even in dry years farming has been
made successful there by the planting of
drought-resstant cereals and an economi-
cal use of the available water.
In Egypt at the present day not only the
size of crops, but even the extent of land
available for tillage, fiuctuates with the
oscillations" of climate, as the cycles
come and go. What Joseph did was to
take advantage of seven moist years, when
crops were bounteous, and put in storage
great quantities of grain, as a provision
against dry years that were to follow. He
had advance information; the Kansas
farmers Of the eighties had no such warn
ing.
All Of the early civilizations grew up in
desert regions, for the simple reason that
where water was plentiful Nature was too
strong for the primitive agriculturist she
smothered him with a luxuriance Of weeds.
In dry country, helped out by irrigation,
he could get along nicely. turning on the
rain, so to speak, in quantities to suit his
requirements.
Taking this into view, II will be under
stood why, when Egypt was afflicted by
the seven years drought, spoken of in the
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quire for us to emerge from this nebulous
mist or whether we have experienced the
worst of 1t as yet.
1t is not the discomfort of mankind and
these variations of temperature, the en-
ervating heat waves Of Summer, and the
unusual low temperatures of Winter,
which are of chief consequence. It is be-
cause these changes of climate affect the
size and price of crops the world over, as
already pointed out
They control the level and supply OF
water in lakes, rivers and wells. BY de-
termining the success or failure of crops
they have a marked influence upon emf
grafton from Europe and upon immigra-
ton into the United States. Climatic
cycles are also economic cycles.
Such changes are of most serious i'm
portance in regions where the average
rainfall is relatively small--as, for ex-
ample, in eastern Russia and western 81.
IBERIA Under those circumstances a series
of exceptionally dry years may render the
country uninhabitable, forcing its popula-
ton to move away. perhaps never return
ing, and allowing towns and irrigating
works to fall into decay.
Not long ago we saw that very thing
happen in the United States. II was at
the time Of the agricultural boom In west
ern Kansas, Nebraska and eastern Colo
RADIO. Farmers in great numbers went out
onto the high plains to grow grain, and
for while they prospered.
The boom began in 1880. Just when the
moist spell Of cycle was beginning. For
seven years the spell lasted-just as hap
pened in Egypt in Joeeph's time-and, with
a sufficiency of rain, the crops were abund-
ant. But then things began to dry up. The
rain failed; the fat kline grew lean, and
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series of seventeen similar years of alb
normal Winters, Summers, rainfall and
crops-some may be worse and some may
be better than the year now passing.
The theory first worked out by Professor
Bruckner is now generally accepted by
scientists. 1t is that climatic changes oce
cur in cycles" of about thirty-four or
thirty-fve years, and that each such cycle
includes seventeen years that are cool and
rainy. and another series OF seventeen
years that are warm and dry. And as the
earth is gradually drying up" these hot
and dry cycles become more and more
serious in their effect upon mankind and
his food supply. 49,.
Another factor which makes the effect
Of these cycles more serious for the human
race is due to mans own acts. He has cut
off the trees and produced barren spots
which once supported him amply. Still
another factor Is the distressing fact that
the desert areas of the world are steadily
increasing. .#
And another disturbing fact is that all
over the earth are dry river beds where
once great rivers flowed, and the streams
and rivers which still continue to run are
greatly shrunken from their volume in
former centuries, while still other rivers
which would be flowing in their beds to-
day have found openings down through the
earth's crust and have been lost in subter.
ranean caverns.
II is also pointed out by the observers
at the Koenigstuhl Observatory. near
Heidelberg, Germany, that our sun and
earth are passing through vast nebulous
cloud which has had its influence recently
upon our weather. This was explained in
a recent article in this newspaper, and II
is not known how many years II will re-
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And Warns Us That We Will Haze II
With Dried Up Wells, Fanished

rings of,annual growth in trees. As every
body knows, each such ring represents
year in the lifetime Of the tree. In a
moist season the tree makes more wood
than in a dry season, and therefore, in a
section through the trunk. wet years are
indicated by rings more widely spaced
Such sections show plainly the climatic
cycles. periods of much rainfall alternat-
Ing with periods Of lack of rain. 1t is but
another illustration OF Pharaoh's dream
puzzle of the fat kline and lean kline.
A special study. in relation to this mat
ter. has recently been made of the giant
4. Sequoias in California, which are by far
the Oldest of all living things on the earth.
Sections of them show, by their rings, the
climatic cycles running back thousands Of
years. For (as the rings telD some of
those mighty trees were already Of large
size when Christ was born in Bethlehem.
At least four (whose stumps remain to
recite their story are over 5000 years
old, and one of them was a tender sapling
in the year 1905 B. C.
What causes these cycles? That is a
HucStioh houOuy 10 duiC W dusWcI
with confidence. One eminent scientist,
Lockyer. has attributed them to fluctua-
lions in the amount of heat given out by
the sun, which. occurring at average in
tervals of thirty-fve years, produce
changes in the general circulation of the
earth's atmosphere.
Our atmosphere is a mechanism Of which
We have still much to learn. We do not
quite know how 1t works, or why. Profes
sor Cleveland Able has said: 1T is en-
tirely possible for such combination OF
winds to occur as to give US in one century
conditions favorable for rain, snow and
glaciers, but in another century drought,
sand and desert"
Professor Humphreys, of the United
States Weather Bureau, says that reduc-
ton of only ten degrees in the average
temperature OF the atmosphere would
bring on another Age of Ice. There would
not be enough heat in Summer to melt all
of the snow and ice deposited during the
previous Winter. Thus, as time went on,
snow and ice would gradually accumulate,
forming sheet thousands of feet thick
which would bury all of our northern
cities.
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Startling Pictorial
Evidence of How the
Deserts Of the Earth
Are Increasing.
Photograph of Bones
Of Natives Who Dwell
in the Semi-Arid
Region of Africa,
Where Nature is
Slowly Turning What
Was Once Fertile
Land Into Desert.
And
Photograph of Barren
Desert in Northern
Africa, Where Once
Were Fertile Fields
and Well-Fed
Inhabitants, Now a
Hopeless Wilderness
Long Since Aband.
oned by Man.
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countless millions in Russia, China and
elsewhere. t.f-
Professor Nicholson, one of Russia's
foremost scientists. who has studied the
facts, asserts without hesitation that we
have entered the first year OF cycle of
abnormal weather conditions which is ex-
planned by the scientific theory of "oscilla.
ton Of climate" which was first formu-
lated by a Swiss meteorologist named
Bruckner.
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What the population
of the world has real
ly to fear, however, Is
the drying-up of the
earth's crust. This
has been going on
progressively for many
millions of years; 1t
still continues and
seems to afford a GER
tain prospect that the
eventual destiny of
mankind is to be de-
stroyed by hunger.
Everywhere on the
globe the deserts are
spreading. The north
ern half of Africa Is
mostly a hopeless
desert, much of which
was within historic
tim es sufficiently
watered to be tillable
and inhabited. Most
of Asia is desert or
near-desert; its teem-
ing populations main
ly OCCUPY a mere
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VYYYHAT Is the explanation of the alb
NJ normally warm, snowless Winter
w last year, and the exceptionally
hot heat waves which swept through the
Summer, and the very scanty rainfall?
Is it purely an accident that the crops
this year failed in the fertile fields Of Rus
STA, and that famine swept over China and
India, and that the wells dried up in Eng
land, and that the water supply of London
and many English towns was SO reduced
that people we're warned to waste not a
drop, and were forbidden to water their
gardens?
Is 1t also an accidental freak of the
weather that the crops in Germany, France
and other European countries were partly
starved because of scanty rainfall, and the
famous Swiss lakes went dry and for the
first time in history revealed the hitherto
hidden foundations of the prehistoric lake
jewellers never before seen by modern
man? ..
Science has been deeply concerned with
these worldwide phenomena Of the last
twelve months and is able to not only ex-
plain exactly why we have had this alb
normal weather all over the face of the
globe, but is able to go further and make
the disturbing prediction that We have just
passed through the first Of a series of
seventeen years of abnormal Summer heat
and dryness and Winters Of exceptional
severity.
The comfort, wellbeing, and even the
life OF the human race are intimately tied
up with the weather. II the scientists pre-
dictions are right the present famine and
distress of Russia, India and China will
become worse and more widespread The
price Of vegetables and foods will increase
in the more favored localities, and disas-
trous fires in forests and plains will follow,
as they always do when the surface of the
earth is abnormally parched.
The Old Testament narrative of King
Pharaoh's dream and the prophetic inter:
probation by Joseph may well be remem-
bered now.
According to Chapter Al Of the Book of
Genesis, old Pharaoh dreamed a dream"
He saw seven fat and seven lean kline
(cows). And the ill-favored and lean
feshed kline did eat up the seven we'll
favored and fat kline"
This dream was so vivid that 1t i'm
pressed and disturbed the Egyptian ruler.
He consulted his magicians, but no one
was able to give a satisfactory interpreta-
ton of the dream. Then Pharaoh sent for
Joseph, who explained that the dream was
meant to tell him that seven years Of
plenty we're to be followed by seven years
Of famine. Pharaoh accepted this expla-
nation of the dream and lost no time in
storing up grain to meet the emergency Of
the seven famine years which, according
to the Old Testament narrative, came to
pass.
II scientists had warned us few years
ago thatNwe were soon to enter a period
Of great and prolonged drought, 1t would
have served no useful purpose because for
the last seven years the world has been
busy with war While science itself has
been engaged with inventing murderous
implements of warfare and merciful means
for alleviating the suffering Of the battle
field, the great drought seems to have set
In and already has caused the death of
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This is confirmed
by the researches Of
Father Moreux, d.
rector Of the Bour-
ges Observatory in
France, who is one
of the foremost ex-
perts on meteorology
and the influence Of
astronomical condi-
lions upon the eli
mate of the earth.
If such men as
Professor Nicholson
and Father Moreux
would dismiss the
abnormal weather of
the past twelve
months as a passing
freak of nature little
further need to be
said. But t h e s 9
scientists and other
meteorologists are
agreed that instead
= of a passing freak
we have encountered
only the first Of n
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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1921-05-17
FOR GRADUATION
FUK GRADUATION
THE LATEST NOVELTY CRAZE
BRACELETS IN STERLING SILL
YER AND GREEN GOLD FILLED,
AT 500 AND UP.
(17-tf) SHIRE & FTTHIAN.


A large section. of the city lot on
which the rock quarry Is located is
being converted into tennis 6ourts,!
which, it is claimed, win be amons
the best in this section of the State.
Four courts wifi be built and the
work is being done by the Ba1zhon
County Tennis Club. with the help
of city and county employees. f. G..
Hagan is supervising the work.
Next Saturday will be work day for
residents of the southern portion OF
the city. Men are asked to don their
overalls and women their ginghams
and assist in cleaning up and put
ting in shape the playground lots that
have been donated to the children OF
Paris. The first lot to be converted
into a modern, up-to-date playground
is that of John NJ. Brennan, near
the Christman greenhouse, and
all persons willing to help make
Fairgrounds for their kiddies are
asked to be on the lot at 8 o'clock
in the morning to work until noon.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1921-05-17
COUNCIL AWARDS STREET AMI
SEWER CONTRACTS

Contracts on streets and sewers
for the city of Paris making an aS-
gregate Of $4,000, were awarded
at recent meeting of the City Coun-
Gil, to Henry Bickel Company, con-
tractors, of Louisville. At the same
time and place the Bickel Company
accepted street bonds worth $4,000
and $4,000 in sewer bonds, at par
in bids for the contracts.
The bids were as follows: High
street, Henry Bickef Co., city's part
$43,464; Traction Company's part,
$25,209; Lateral streets, from Second
to Thirteenth; between High and
Fourteenth, Henry Bickel Co., $43,-
GAL. There were no other bids on
the street jobs; Sanitary sewers TO
cover the district from Main street
east to Link avenue, and from the
Clintonville pike, north to Duncan
avenue, Henry Bickel Co., $27,HS;
X. A. Barker, Louisville, $29,934.20,
J. L. Walker Co.; Hamilton, o., $34,-
528; Metzel & O'Hearn, Newport,
$36,031. The streets are. to be paved
with either Trinidad asphalt or Mex
lean asphalt, to be decided on later.
A concrete base is to be used. Work
is to commence on the contracts as
soon as the machinery and materials
are shipped to Paris.
The bids on box culverts for Par
IRISH avenue, made by the ]. L. Wal
ker Co., $3.50, and Metzel &
O'Hearn, $4,000, were both rejected
by the Council. The Council voted
! to pave lower Main, street, between
Bank Row and the bridge over Stonel
J creek, from the east margin of Main
street to the west margin of Pleasant
street, which had not been included
in the aforementioned contracts. A
petition signed by residents of Mt
Airy avenue, was presented asking
the Council to oil the streets. The
petition was referred to the Street
| Committee. Building permits were
| granted Ira Parks, Lucien Arnspar
ger, Dan Isgrigg and Erastu:
Bowles.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1921-05-17
COURT OF APPEALS REVERSES
BOURBON CASE

The Bourbon Circuit Court was re-
versed Friday by the Court of Ap-
peals at Frankfort, in the case of
Western Union Telegraph Company
against Chas. S. Brent & Bro. and
others, of Paris.
- The suit was for damages by the
firm against the Western Union Co.
for an alleged mistake in a telegram
in which the word eleven" was
written Seven" An option was
given Brent & Bro. for turkeys by
a dealer in Southern Kentucky, and
the time for the expiration of the
option was an important factor in
the transaction. The Judgment was
reversed because the Lower Court
refused to permit the Western Union
to amend it's petition. Brent & Bro.
were given judgment for $568.61
by the Lower Court, and the case ap-
pealed to the Higher Court.
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NOTES OF THE CITY AND COUN-
TY SCHOOLS.

Under auspices of the Paris High
School a motion picture performance
of Julius Caesar" and a Boy Scout
picture, knights of The Square Ia
ble," will be given at the Grand
Opera House at ten o'clock, this
(Tuesday) morning. See characters
about whom you've studied, read and
heard ever since you started to
school. Admission, Grades. fifteen
cents; adults, twenty-five cents.
Commencement exercises of the
Little Rock Graded School are under
way. Friday night program was
given by the entire school. Last
night Miss Mabel Templin's music
pupils gave a recital. The baccalau-
reate sermon was delivered Sunday
by Rev. DR.. Ira Boswell, pastor OF
the Georgetown Christian church.
Tonight the Japanese play. "Yanki
San," will be presented. Tomorrow
night the graduation exercises will
be held, with Prof. e. F. FarQuahar,
of Lexington, delivering the address
to the class of 1921. Each program
will be given in the Little Rock
Christian church. The members OF
the 1921 graduating class are Miss
Elizabeth Burris, William Crump
and Clark Wells.
Friday afternoon the auditorium
of the Paris High School was filled
to overlooking, when the second oi
series of entertainments given by
the pupils was ctaged by children OF
the fourth, fifth and sixth grades
Special features of-the entertainment
were the playlet, "Hiawatha," Nancy
Baldwin recited ."Hiawatha's Child
hood" One of the songs wa:
'Ewayea." The playlet ended witt
an Indian dance by the pupils. An
other feature was the children's story
hour, which was conducted by Miss
Marie Moses, Of the University o.
Kentucky.
Eighty-seven white and sixteer
colored children of the city and coun
ty schools took the eighth grade ex
aminations at the Public Schoo
building Saturday. This is the larg
est number who have ever taken tn
examinations, and, including thos
who took the examination in tn
winter, makes a total of 1872 whit
children of Bourbon county to TAX
the eighth grade organizations thi
year.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1921-05-17
LEGION OFFICIALS TO PAY PARIS
VISIT.

Maurice X. Gordon, of Madison
vile, State Commander of the Ameri-
can Legion. and party of Legion
officials, will be in Paris, Thursday
TO pay visit to Bourbon Post. and
to stimulate interest in the State
meeting of the American Legion. to
be held in Lexington, in September.
The party left Louisville yester-
day morning, and will visit all the
prominent cities in the State. They
Will arrive here from Mt. Sterling.
and will be met by an escort from
the Bourbon Post. Addresses will
be made at the court house by MEM
Ders OF the party. They will go to
M1ilersburg in the afternoon.
Among the prominent men who
VIII be here are Maurice K. Gordon,
State Commander; Emmett O'Neal,
National Executive Committeeman:
Ulrich Bell, State Executive Com
mltteeman; Stephen s. Jones, State
AdJutant; Judge Richard p. Greg
Org; Adjutant-General Jackson Nor
ris. and many others. During their
stay the officials will be guests of
Bourbon Post.