Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1925-06-12
THE STOCK OF WEATHER
AND WAGE FUND THEORY
II We Use Up a Lot Of Heat Now
There VIII BE Less for Use
During the Rest OF the
Summer

Suuunef
CFrom Philadelphia Evening Ledger
During every spell of hot Weathe'
the health authorities tell us 10 sIol
thinking about the heat and we shal
feel it less. They thus prove ina
tbev believe that mind has an lnHu
ence over matter and that, as Hump
~ Dumpty said in his famous COZ
Ioouv with Alice, o"The question Is
which is to be master-that S an:
II has been particularly hard loi
the mind to assert its mastery our,
mo the last week. Insist as we mlsh'
that it was not hot, the tempeIatuIs !,
or something had so far weaHeleu
tbe will that it was only feeple
ond wilted resistance that 1t coulu
offer One could affirm that the neat
was only psychological and haa nc
existence save in the imaglnaClon
and vet fail to convince ones sen
And one could take the philosopn-
icaI attitude and remind ones sen
that heat is nothing but an erect
nroduced by the collision OF VlDra-
lions of ether, or whatever the sclen-
lists call it, with the human BODY
and that if there were nothing Ior
+be vibrations to hit there would pc
no heat. But the weakened wiz
again was unable to transport the
bodv into the frigid stellar spaces
and as a last resort every one wal
lowed as long as possible in a Dath-
+,,h filIed with cool water and thus
created for a moment the Illusion
tbot the statisticians are correct VINO
tell us that the mean temperaCu15 Z
of Philadelphia for June Is only -
6aqrees. Outside of the bathtub sucn
a femnerature seemed so low as 10
irstifv the donning of winter nan
ToIs And the thought of tannels
of once sent the perspiratlon DRIP.
ming down the nose and trickllng OIL
the elbows and making puduIes VI
brine on the floor beneath the Ieet'
Thus the soundness OF the olcIuni
of the health authorities was Demon
s+roted Thinking about the heat
made lis all hotter and did 1t so
quickly that we began to long tnaC
thinking about a trolley car WINE
waiting for it on the corner Woulu
make it appear with no greater u9-
Law. But our inability to control l[ol.
low cars in this way may be thal
nroverbial exception which proves
the rule.
While following the advice OF the
health authorities may alleviate
orr sufferings slightly, there IS no
getting around the record OF the
thermometer. The average maximum
temnerature for the seven days end
ing Sunday night was a tractlon
above 81 degrees. The mercury rose
to 100 degrees on Friday and SatuI-
dav. Without any hyperbole II may
he said that it was hot week.
But for six days beginning Oh
lime 80. 1901, this record was sur.
nassed with an average maximum OF
q little more than SO degrees anu
with two days when the thermome-
ter registered 1O3. The hottest was
three degrees hotter than last week.
and the coolest was the same as last
weeks coolest day. But on neither
of these occasions was the recoru
heat for this city reached. Inc mer-
curv has risen as high as 1O6 de-
grees. This is four degrees lower
than the record for Omaha and nVe
degrees cooler than the maximum
reached in Senator Borah's city Oh
Boise. which may explain why the
Senator stays in Washington IN the
summer, where the mercury never
rises higher than in Philadelphia
Wichita. Louisville and st. Louis
have records of heat one degree
higher than this city.
There is a maximum range OF
Temperature here of only III de-
grees. while in New York the range
is 115 degrees. In Boston it is III;
in Chicago, 1913; in Boise, 1873, ana
in Pierre, S. D., 140. The heat this
year has come earlier than usual,
for the mean temperature for June
is II degrees, the same as that OF
Rome and only one degree higher
than the mean for COnstantinople
and Jerusalem for the same month.
In July our mean is 76 degrees, and
there are only twenty out of forty
American cities for which the rec
ords are available that are cooler.
There are consultations other than
those to be found in the control OF
the mind over matter during heat
ed term, for there is well-estab-
lished theory that there is only so
much temperature to be distributed
over the year. 1t is like the old wage
fund of the Victorian economists. If
we get more than the expected
amount of heat in the first week of
June, there will be so much less to
be distributed over the rest of the
summer. We may expect a hot
Fourth of July, and precedents will
be broken if Labor Day is cool. So
with what we have and with what is
in prospect for specific days, the re-
naming months before the schools
open in the autumn ought to be just
about right to keep the market for
straw hats and lightweight clothing
active.
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