San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-30

of many smaller cities and towns
there.
/ do not wish to create undue ex
element nor do / wish to create un
due alarm but simply want to sound
a warning that lose who inhabit the
western coast must not feel too secure
in their country. Such conditions
as at this time prevail, such condi-
tons as are being discovered in the
soundings off the coast of California,
should awaken the people to the dang
ers lurking around the thin crystal
formations where lin the twinkling of
an eye" they may be wiped off the
surface of the earth. When? 1t may
be any time. 1t may be hundreds of
years away, but nature gives warn
ings IT these Great changes and earth
quakes are these warnings and earth
tremors. of considerable violence de-
note the close proximity to the places
where Nature will pull off her great
est action.
l would hesitate to say that this
generation may see or hear of this
terrible catastrophe, but l do not
hesitate to say the time is coming
when the world will be startled by
such results. 1t must inevitably
come. | am also convinced that the
time will also come when we will be
startled with another of Natures
acts. the sinking. gradually or catas-
trophically, of the eastern coast.
When We but study the many
changes have taken place in the past,
when we realize that through the ages
past We have had both slow and grad
ual and catastrophe action of the
crystal formations of the earth, as
every geologist knows, the formation
of mountains from out the beds or
the ocean, the forming of new CONT
nents and the recedence and burial of
the old, when we understand the ac-
ton that causes such changes then we
have ample authority to expect the re-
currence of such for the entire scheme
of Nature is but the. cycle plan. :.
As a rule all these changes take
place slowly, So slowly in fact; that
we see but little to cause alarm, but
they take place nevertheless and at
times and at certain territories these
changes become violent and are the
cause of tremendous loss of life and
property. There is no doubt in my
mind of the accuracy of the account
of the flood, but it occurred only
over limited territory, and at such
time there were no means of communi-
cation such as today. / do question
the story of Noah and his ark with
the accumulation of the living things
he brought together TO save for flu
ture population of the earth. How
ever, that has little to do with the
present discussion. BE that as il may,
there is no question but there is some
grounds, at least, for that story, just
as there may be, should that new
mountain range ,ff the coast of Cali
fornia, were a terrific push put be-
hind it such as made the Ozarks and
the Washita range through southern
Missouri and Arkansas. in their last
uprise. making sea between the new
born range and the Sierra Nevadas,
the people along the coast of Cali
fornia would be wiped off the face
of their present abode and the world
would know them no more.
Thus we comprehend the magni.
tude of Natures acts and the pigmy
efforts of man and his insignificance.
When we think of ourselves in COM
parison with the wonders shown us
by Nature and Natures laws. we are
of little concern. We should come
closer TO Nature and know more of
her handiworks. Nature is constant.
ly revealing to us marvel upon mar
vel and we see them not. We discover
her old laws and apply them to our
use.
Yet, how insignificant are our dis
coveries and efforts when we COM
pare them 10 the great storehouse to
which Nature holds the key, and only