New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 16, 1929, Page 25

Wllmmwlz wmmmmr: | | i e o U I A AN AR Herbert Janvrin Browne, Forth on This Page His Astound the Moon Plays in Determining HE moon, which for ages past has occupied little more than e romantic niche in the pop been reveale: 2 tremendo r, factor in the fate and fortunes. The moon, Herbert Browne, famous ogist, by directly af on the , I governs markets of the world, for agricuitur products, for raw materials of sort and for all other commoditi In far-off India there y ine. In Russia there may be an un precedented wl crop. In South America comes a fearful drought. Wall Street stos rise and fall sponse to these world-wide fluct: in the aff: of men. And the American f tute business the happy Russia dering at this, call it “ or “economic conditions.” It does not occur to anyone of them that the moon in the sky, with its h nign face, has a great deal to do with his success or failure. How does the moon, it may asked, exert such potent influence ovi the pract affairs of mankin b ly, according to Mr. Browne, because the moon has a powerful effect upon the weather, hitherto doubted even by science. This Summer, says Mr Browne, will be a hot one for North Americ Next Winter will be severe in the Eastern part of the cont 5 normal in the West, and there will be hurricanes in the Caribbean region this year. This is not mere guesswork, says Mr, Browne, nor is it based upon the old- fashioned a New and Pronounced Shift in the he ”» darC hing oon elpsto ake ~ ose ortunestor ankind Who Sets Theory of the Part eather Conditions. study of planet, as it moon, eirc around our Browne, is co tion with re ition termarches have I on weather, for the moor g the me and ¢ Photograph of the Moon, Shows It Southwest- ward, a ] Causing Distribution of Warm and Cold Areas. i Will Sweep Across Eastern North America This Summer. Atlantic Ocean and the s North Westw 2 W the Russian Boy, One of Vietims of Droushy and Far Explainy When the ward we may and twent of food er e moon there is much more famine in India than whe 1\ T E V. When the moon is in the i erica, my fore it wiil b the warm waters of the s B Warm winds blowing from westward, massing them to feed t £ northward will heat tF southwest monsoons with moistu v reason of high temperatu A Happy-Faced Roumanian G th a Bountiful Supply of Wheat, Symbol- izes Her Country’s Plentiful Harvest. This Is the Indirect Result, Says Science. of the Moon's Influence. explains, “dur- onths there has r area of unusual warmth tern Arctic. From thence air is pouring southeast- Europe, and, as it becomes d by the Summer sun, it in northwestern Europe ason of drough might e such a con- e unpreventable, the result rable process of Nature. ice fields ed, allow- move southward in ents, they would re- ¢ waters of v cooling the Zurope from immediate f course, for this year. try out the plan in an- i, if it works, operate it icult? Not ng ship, such as n, can plow through nd not much Aretic A fleet of half some thousands of eld ice could be moved out of that ature of sea ice is -two degrees » the melting of a thou- re miles of it would lower ature of seven thousand of face water by an g point. The ant of the last o Were the ice not there, ould become a rela- eenland would en- f the Scandi- wheat belts move northward us co er the South Outward from the Ant- is a prodigious but ir- e, which is a major n Argentina, South ia. the Antarctic ice at and release it north- hat there might be no undue on, would be entirely prac- n annual cost of a few mil- t would be not worth con , tak into view what might ben 1 influences ates of the southerly ex- b ca and Africa, Browne Moon's nd Arabia. ' e customed to re- s of the celestial body It is a rocky ball, ameter and its attrac Y pow No wonder, b the ans 1 have de- t should be able to influence 1 the earth. ng moon positions and ar radiation affecting of the oceans, we e to inform west- ence, in spite of its s, has discovered in the moon a friend and a foe of man- kind. T e meteorologist it assumes a place in ulations vastly more im- tant than it enjoyed in the past and called “man on the street” ce of the moon in the sky that afflict a n a W meaning, a new sig- g not a sentimental one! G 2 scrmprar s