The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-07-06

the present high wages in the building
trades. 4
The union leaders were considerably
worried also about public opinion.
Men working at other lines for $50 Q
week, for example, have little SYM
pathy for striking carpenters demand
Ing S12 a day and scorning SO q day.
Nor did they like governmental inter-
est In cutting housing costs. So they
got behind the housing bill In q big
way.
World Wide Drouth
Possibility that the entire world 10
headed for a drouth Is admitted by
officials Of the. weather bureau. This Ii
not a prediction. It IL simply ad-
mitted as a possibility. *
The point is, according to Chief
Meteorologist Joseph b. Kincer, that
temperatures all over the world are
slightly above normal, and records
show that high temperatures and
drouths 60 together.
Which condition produces the other
Is another question. It is like the hen
and the egg, Mr.. Kincer comments.
! "AIl we know" he said, as that each
induces or produces the other. The
point here is very simple. To pro-
duce rainfall, winds carrying moisture
must be chilled. If the weather Ii
very hot, the winds are not chilled.
and therefore do not precipitate.
ION the other hand, absence Of rain
tends to produce heat, so we get back
to the hen and the egg illustration"
Some scientists, Mr.. Kincer admit
ted, blame the higher Temperatures on
the sun spots. The weather bureau
Is not certain about this. OF course
actually the bureau concerns itself
only about the weather Of the United
States. Weather outside this country
= Interesting only as it may affect
weather inside this country. Though
this Il very much more widespread
than might at first be thought.
For example, the drouth in Soviet
Russia, resulting, according to cables
received from London, in purchases Of
Argentine wheat by the Soviet 70
public, has a very marked influence
in the United States because 1t boosts
the price Of wheat
But that is not the concern Of the
weather bureau. Another division of
the Department Of Agriculture worries
about that. What conditions do con-
Germ the weather bureau outside the
United States are changes in Canada,
the Arctic, the Pacific, the Atlantic and
Mexico, which result In changes In
rainfall or temperature In the United
States.
ScoG at Theory
One theory about the drouth in the
Northern Central states, much talked
about recently, Is scofed at by the
bureau experts. That is the theory
about the change in course Of the JAP
anese current being responsible. It
was q pretty theory. The only thing
that II wrong about II, according to
the weather bureau, is that the jap
anese current has not changed its
course
But It is true that the winds carrying
moisture from the Pacific, which for
merly flowed down the Mckenzie val
ley and hence dropped their moisture
over the now drouth stricken area,
did not blow that way last winter, or
this summer SO far. They have been
passing over the Hudson Bay country
and thence down the Atlantic coast Of
the United States. Which. accounts
for the much heavier SHOWS in that
region last winter and the more than
usually abundant rainfall this spring
and summer.
The Japanese current theory being
out, the weather bureau experts ad-
NIT frankly they have not the slightest
idea why these winds changed their
course. Nor whether they could do
anything about It II they did.
The worst feature about any drouth,
the experts point out, II that It tends
to fatten on itself. Here again enters
the hen and egg problem. Once q
drouth starts, MI. Kincer explains,
every additional day Of It makes It
less likely that It Will rain the next
day. The point ID that the drouth
enhances the heat, and the heat
lessons the chances for the mois-
ture to carry winds to be chilled,
and therefore precipitats their mois-
ture.
Naturally this does not 60 on to
what might seem its logical conclu-
sion, tor Il always rains eventually.
But short Of moving . few icebergs
into the path Of these hot moisture
carrying vinds no one has proposed
anything that can be- done about Il.
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