Seward daily gateway., 1925-09-16
PAGE SEVEN

increased demand upon the public treasury" he remarked. Pointing out the importance of the Pacific survey, Colonel Jones added:
 Around us, extending for thousands of miles in every direction, stretches the mighty eXpanse of an oceanic new world It's area, 7OOOO,OOO miles exceeds the total expanse of all the continents and islands on the globe. The maximum width of the great sea 10000 miles, is two fifths of the cir conference of the world Truly, a fresh and unique section of the world to explore The geophysical forces are here seen in actual operation on scale of unparalleled grandeur.
 Ocean currents sweep around one third the circumference of the globe. Depths of five and half and six miles have been located The periphery of an ocean is outlined by an immense ring of active volcanoes, a veritable ring of fire.
 Tt is singular that with venerable civilizations of remote antiquity on both shores of the Pacific-China and Japan on one side, the Toltec, Maya, and Inca Empires on the Other-the very existence of the great ocean was not certainly known to Europeans un- til about four centuries ago, when the new world and the great ocean were discovered not far apart. In fact, the European discovery of the oceanic new world occurred almost simultan- eously on both shores. In 1511 Albu- querque stormed Malacca and Portu- guese ships began steaming through the Strait and radiating toward all parts of the Malay Archipelago, China and Japan. In 1513 Balboa from the summit of Quarequa gazed upon a bOundless ocean, while in 1920, Ma gellan's ships emerged from the Straits named for him into the Mar Pacifico, discovering the Ladrones and the Philippines and circumnavigated the globe.
 Survey to Enlarge Food Supply Tt is scarcely too much to assert that the coasts and waters of the Pa cific can feed the world. But before an inventory of such resources car 2 be made there must be comprehen sive geographical survey. The first essential is to complete our know | ledge of the configuratiOn of the sea
 bottom and to obtain data for baby metric chart, or one made by deel
 sea sounding. Developments in aer
 ial surveying and in subequeous sounC
 ranging encourage the hope that rapiC and thorough methods will soon bt l practicable. These will permit th' | construction of a model map of tho 1 ocean bed.
 l Such a model showing submarine 1 pIatteaus, ridges, shelves, pinnacles ' as we'll as valleys, troughs and abyss
 SS, w III SSlNS uOI OA1Ay l6tF lSoCAIlOAA bNA
 all branches of hydrOphysical re
 search. For example, food fish ar l found only on the continental shel
 or slope, or in it's immediate vicinity
 Crustaceans about for a few hundre
 fathoms beyond the mud line at abou
 100 fathOms. Thus the fishing bank
 can all be located and fishing right
 adjusted.
 Variations of temperature, densit!
 salinity, acidity, etc., affect the Ocea
 currents and all together affect tn
 migrations and supply of food fisl
 The circulation of the waters in tn
 great ocean is the climatic balanc . wheel for many regions, ever strivin = toward an equilibrium, which, fortl = nately, is never quite attained. Tn
 sea has it's seasons no less than tn
 land"