The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-07-24
|(E AGE WORLD MENACE;
AC|ERS MOVING SOUTH
l.rcTRucTIoN OF MOD E R N
CIVILIZATION is vIsIoNED.
rrrrEs MAY BE DESOLATE.
TRAVELS TO NORTH

MILAN to Study Movement OF the
T~orsn Fields, Which Cover Nine
unndred Thousand Square Miles
Of the Arctic Region.
7. the world to experience a second
]. ace" when chill winds will blow
49, the land, bleak, desolate and
t.,sft Of vegetation, and half-stafved
will chase half-starved wild ami
In. over the dreary waste in the
Lar hunt for food?
WIN the enormous ice cap in the
Mar regions advance steadily south
oa with an irresistible momentum,
.f co. which the skyscrapers OF our
&DoJern cities will crumble and under
WY which the wonders of twenti-
+ \. S''c century civilization will vanish?
4 Scientists say the first ice age OF
! world lasted 100000 years. In the
sortbern sections of the United States
h maintains whose rocks show signs
4 beinp churned and rounded in gla-'
M drift
srstria and Hungary are signs prov
N bevond doubt that the world has
Re- been covered with ice save for a
moaratiyely narrow strip in the tor
zone which was then frigid with
n ,,;,de that blew off the vast ice
No Cause for Worry.
Scientists say that second ''ice
r is inevitable. But the present
iteration need not worry. Though
ice cap of the polar regions is
living southwark at the rate of 90
a day citizens of the United
ktes will continue to pay 40 cents
hundred pounds for ice for a long
Ahe to come.
But it is with perfect sincerity that
&nald B. Macmillan, noted Arctic
Hborer, is travelling to the north, the
Ia of perpetual ice and snow, to as
tain whether the world has any
sng to fear from the dread spectre
8cold and hunger some scientists say
4menacing civilization.
"a sheet of ice and snow covers the
eire polar area. Rising 5000 feet
bye the sea level this sheet stretch
i over 100000 square miles OF land
Il sea.
Sapt. Macmillan says it is moving
zwly but inevitably toward the out
rs OF civilization. He says it might
D. to the very heart Of civilization,
s'sh great cities, like New York, be-
MI its terrible weight and destroy
Nthing that characterizes the pres
81 century.
q Lived in North.
= ibis noted explorer should know
sreof he speaks, for he has spent a
hber OF years of his life in the Far
Fth.
twenty years ago, leading an expe-
pn across the polar regions, the
OF sublime desolateness, he came
z b valleys smiling with vegetation
flowers of varied hue.
eturning ten years later these val
were choked with ice, with gla-
s. with the white sheet that had
hnced southwark, and that, he con-
Is, is advancing at the rate of 90
a day.
little vessel, the Bowdoin,
~ Macmillan is leading another
edition to the North. He fully ex-
5 TO see valleys, which were ra-
81 with vegetation ten years ago,
filed with ice.
1 ometimes huge glaciers, veritable
ntains of ice, are detached from
enormous moving mass. These
southwark in the open sea,
fhlng occasionally to point Oft
coast of Maine.
Sight Many Bergs.
aptains of transatlantic liners rerI
sighting an unusually large num-
OF glaciers, or icebergs, in the At
g this year. Since the Titanic
Ok one of these floating mountains
precaution has been taken by
rs The United States govern
has equipped a small vessel for
lal cruising service in the, waters
Fted by the big bergs.
u the fact that they are being
PED IN increasing numbers may
port the contention of those scient-
who say another "ice age" will
XSperlenced by this earth, which
10y has had a lot of trouble and
Eultles. 1t may indicate that as the
ice mass advances the frigid zone
s with it, enabling the icebergs to
I farther and farther southwark
out being dissolved by the warmth
ie temperate zone.
Some Scientists Laugh.
acMlllan will have something
ny interesting to report when he
rs from the frozen north, for the
Is becoming a little concerned
The ice pack up there. He will
lgte to tell Just how far the ice
iias travelled in the last ten years
whether its rate of travel is be-
us slower faster, or is maintain
ah even gait.
one Macmillan report that the
'u'eft OF the ice field will event
suomerge the United States
are scientists who will laugh and
,ae5 all the wonders science has
lpllShed a means will be found
y me ice pack before it gets too
ClFillzation is now far enough
N'5d to solve its own problems.
RID REACHES NORMALcY: