Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-30

w an egg? And did you let go the idle remark
the summers nowadays lot hotter than they used
to.be?
If So the chances are that with thing leading
another you also said that the winters getting
milder.
But that's all the bunk During the past years
the whose job is to keep tabs temperature
port that there has been small change in the climate
United States but nothing that you could notice
without the help OF a lot of delicate gadgets
Anyone who thinks this summer a szzler probably
wouldn't hold that opinion long If he she read recent
study that gives clear picture of what other
generations went through when Old Sol let 60 with every
thing he had.
Take a certain day back in July 1876. The city of
Washington mndng its own business when the heat
high that the street tracks in the middle of
expanded in curved lines and drew the bolts
under the record temperature
There were lot of hot days in the 18th century
the worst came on July IS when the thermometers
Of London popped off through the end of their
glass the mercury inside them hit 1852 degrees
Fahrenheit That was summer TO remember because
the temperature stayed in the 140s and 1905 Crops
curled up died-burnt to erisp-and hundreds of
breathed their last from heat pIesration
The whole eastern seaboard of this country got
blistering 1772-and July A. at that On that
day more than 1876 cases reported in
New York City alone Nearly half of them died France
felt something to remember in the following year when
the heat hit is degrees.
That reminiscent Of what had struck that coun-
try in 1918 Then the thrifty housewives
prepared their the table just by exposing them
to the rays of the for short period And it was
commonplace trick bury eggs the hot sand and take
them few seconds later perfectly cooked.
The weather has played such important part in
everyday life that records have been kept Of it in some
other hundreds Of years. These tell that
1892 the famous Rhine River literally quit under
bombardng the actnc rays and almost dried right
up The Rhine did practically the thing again in
1893 and this time II had the Danube for company Both
streams were barely trcke due to the awful heat
England, tradtionsly fairly cool country, went off
the norm in 1926 and again in 1851 The latter hnspc
was the Many soldiers of His Majestys Army
drilling Aldershot, suddenly keeled dead under
the suns The thing happened in Paris Scores
Of French soldiers snstroke victims when someone
issued the order for them 70 pass in review.
New York got similar weather two years later and
this time the city seemed literally TO be fire. Some
temperature the vital statistics
of the time which showed that 214 persons died OF sun
stroke.
The hottest place in this countryday for days said
10 be Yuma Arizona where the thermometer frequently
hits lis degrees in the summertime
give good idea the terrific force of solar
heat couple Of scientists down and figured ii out in
plain language Sir Robert Ball the famous astronomer,
said that single square foot of the surface could
be placed under the boilers Of Atlantic liner she'd
break the speed record crossing the
Another famous student the heavens Richard A.
Proctor said the heat would be equal that caused
by burning II billion of per and this
temperature could melt almost three trlon of ice
every hour
LUCKILY for us only about one in 1000 million solar
rays break through TO give good sunburn.
Just the believers getting hotter
will have foot stand the British Meteorological
Office. study climate changes the
earth is growing hottcrbu only at the rate of two de-
grees century
This won't like much to persons accustomed TO
great temperature changes from morning until night but
give il chance few hundred years and might
be that New London, al the end of that time
would become the climatic equivalent of present-day Ha-
Cairo. But such change wouldn't be very APP
parent anyone who has Ived through only
Of scorchers.
Some scientists think the earths gradually increasing
temperature is due 20 heat from the Others
say the atmosphere burning rays
weakening Sull others contend that tho Gulf Stream
warming UP and throwing out heat