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WAR DOES NOT
RULE WEATHER,
SAYSBUREAD
Popular Fallacy by Statement
From Washington
Experts
CREATOR STILL CONTROLS
Conditions of Last Summer May
Be Explained by Natural
Causes
Washington, August 31—"There is
nothing in it," says the United States
Weather bureau to repeated inquiries
as to whether the war affects rain­
fall or any other weather conditions.
There is a popular fallacy that con­
cussions, explosions, and the libera­
tion of gases in the European con­
flict is having an effect on the weath­
er, not only over the battlefields, but
elsewhere on the globe but it is only
a fallacy, say the weather specialists
of the United States Department of
Agriculture, even though it has ex­
isted since the beginning of historic
times. Before gunpowder was used,
the ancients had an idea that battles
produced1 rainfall, which was caused
by the clash of swords and the sweat
of the fighters.
Later, the same theory was trans­
ferred to the noise produced by mus­
ketry and artillery later still, to dust
particles and smoke from burning
powder, upon which the moisture in
the air was supposed to be condensed
and to fall as rain, and now to the
gases freed by explosions, and liber­
ated in the new chemical warfare.
These theories are not combated
merely by other theories, but by ac­
tual observations made officially by
several of the belligerent governments
and the net result of these careful
observations is to refute the idea that
war has any effect on weather.
While the notion of this effect has
been repeatedly exposed in scientific
journals, the general pres? has from
Vime to time printed articles in which
the idea of a connection between bat­
tle and rainfall has been brought for­
ward. For this reason the weather
officials feel that the following facts
may be timely and interesting.
KCHI Cause of HaJiifall
The real cause of rainfall is the
cooling of the air by the vertical
rising of heated air currents, and the
incoming of cooler currents to take
their places. All weather condition!)
depend ultimately for their origin on
the heating and cooling of the atmos­
phere. All the powder that could be
reasonably expended in any battle,
even by millions of men engaged,
would not be enough to produce any
appreciable change in temperature
throughout any considerable section
of the atmosphere over the battle area.
Some have thought that the jarring
effect of concussions joggles together
the moisture particles in the air, just
as a sharp tap on a windowpane will
start a descent of larger drops from
many small ones made by a mist or
drizzle. A sharp downpour of rain
following immediately after a heavy
crash of thunder is supposed to be an
example of the same cause and effect.
This theory was partly back of the
"rain-making" attempts formerly tried
in Kansas, Texas and elsewhere to
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CASUALTY LIST NO. 13.
Section No. 1,
Washington, D. C., Aug. 31.—The
following casualties are reported by
the commanding general the Ameri­
can expeditionary forces: Killed in
action, 10 missing in action, 1
wounded severely, 65 died from
wounds, 29 wounded, degree undeter­
mined, 2o prisoner, 1 total, 126.
Killed in action: Privates Burch
ard C. Bargey, Great Falls, Mont. Ra
uiond O. Machen, Oshkosh, Wis.
Raymond L. Nichols, Madison, Wis.
Died of wounds received in action:
Sergt. Carl B. Ciillan, Ottomwa, la.
Corp, Lee A. Siman, Barney, la. Wag
oner Cecil Webb, Columbia, la. Pri­
vates George W. Draeser, Marshall,
\$is. Louis Heacock, Dubuque, la.
JAMES G. JOHN: EPWOKTH, N. D.
Clarence L. Reinig, Toledo, la.
Wounded severely: Lieut, Edwin B.
Thorson, Ashland, Wis. Corp. Arno
William Mahnke. Sheboy.ban Wis.
Privates Oscar Carson, Underbill, Wis.
William Kaber, Westbend, Wis. Mar­
tin J. Harder, Sergeant Bluffs, la.
Willis Hopkins, Junction City. Wis.
break droughts by a "bombardment of
the skies."
The weather specialists point out
that in all such cases, even when rain
has followed such bombardments, the
moistlire was there and was due to
fall anyhow without man's' interven­
tion and that in the few cases where
rain has fallen it has been a mere
coincidence, the rain being due to
natural causes, and the drought was
broken because it was time that it
would have been broken in the natur­
al course of events. In short, mois­
ture would fall when it was present
if it were not present all the concus­
sions that could be devised by man
could not make rain.
Result of Actual Observations*
Actual observations by French, Bri­
tish and American observers have
failed to establish any relationship be­
tween storming the enemy and storm
from the skies. Careful studies show
that rainfall and battles do not coin­
cide enough to give the basis for a
theory of cause and effect. The great
battles in France in the spring of 1917
failed' to interrupt the long spell of
fair weather that accompanied them.
Furthermore, an examination recently
made of the records of local distribu­
tion of rainfall over England during
the first twenty-two months of war
made by the British Meteorological
Office resulted in strengthening the
evidence against the theory.
Old Theories Die Hard
The director of the French Meteoro­
logical Bureau, M. Ango, practically
says that the wish is father to the
thought, ^ind that an idea that is deep
seated and of long duration dies hard.
The survival of the fallacy is due to
the suggestion constantly given by an
instinctive belief. Possessed of such
a belief, one is inclined to note only
the favorable coincidences, he says,
ignoring the many circumstances that
do not bear out the theory, and thus
to become more and more confirmed
in the opinion.
It has been maintained that recent
severe droughts in the western part
of this country have been due to ex­
cessive rainfalls over European bat­
tlefields. The idea was advanced that
so much rain has fallen in France
that there was not enough to go
round, so the folks in other quarters
of the globe had to do without. The
IMPORTANT NOTICE TO
Automobile Owners
We find that closing our places of business
at 6:00 P. M. and remaining closed all day Sunday,
does not in any way assist the Government in pros­
ecuting the war in fact, we find that this was
not a Government order in the first place.
We also find that in closing we have caused
a great hardship to farmers who work in the fields
late and then go to town to do their trading
also that we are using more mechanics to do our
work than we did before we took this action.
Therefore, beginning immediately, we will
remain open and supply the wants of automobile
owners every day until 12:00 midnight, and on
Sundays until 12:00 noon.
Corwin Motor Company,
Missouri Valley Motor Co.,
Standard Oil Company,
M. B. Gilman Co.,
Dakota Motor Company,
Motor Car Supply Co.,
Western Sales Company,
Bismarck Motor Company,
Lahr Motor Sales Company,
Percey E. Worrell. Madison, Wis. Jo
seph Murphy, Milwaukee. Wis. Otto
Seimmssen, Harlan, la. Hugh
Warner. Hannibal, Wis.- Charlie C.
Wick, Plymouth, Wis. Emil Zeuske,
Shawno. Wis.
LIST NO 12.
Section No. 2.
Washington, D. C.. Aug. 31.—Killed
in action, 55 wounded severely, 55
total 110.
Killed in action: Sergeants Richard
Johnson. Eau Claire, Wis. Michael J.
Lang. Madison, Wis. Corps. George
W. Chapman, Edgar, Wis. John Wick
lund, Eau Claire, Wis. Privates Christ
W. Christensen. Gillett. VVis. Abner
F. Dahlberg, Rhlnelanderi Wis.: An­
thony John Drens, Sheboygan, Wis.
John Finvey. Superior, Wis. John
Krause, Gillett, Wis. Leo F. Leary,
Gartiot, Wis.. John A. Sky. Odanata,
Wis. Adolph• Titnm, eCnturia, Wis.
Wounded severely: Sergt. Frank
Weise, Middleton, Wis.: Corps. Oliver
Ff. Engel, Gladbrook. Ia.: Martin L.
Nass, Milwaukee, Wis. Privates Jo­
seph Florozk Milwaukee. Wis. Glen
Hoard. New Auburn. Wis. Adam
Neverko, Sioux City, Ia.
Weather Bureau says that all such
theories are in the same category and
all are equally unworthy of belief.
NO 50-50 BRAND
OF CITIZENSHIP
Adjutant General Fraser Calls
Attention to New Military
Provision
Calling attention to the fact that
citizens of neutral countries who have
declared their intention of becoming
American citizens 'but who am not
yet fully naturalized may claim exemp­
tion from military service 'by surrend­
ering any rights whio they hiay have
gained as prospective citizens of the
United States, General Fraser today
writes local boards in North Dakota
as follows:
"It is earnestly hoped that boards
who may have occasion to use this pro
ceedure will vigorously call the at­
tention of the registrant claiming
thereunder to the ultimate facts* and
result of his taking advantage of this
act of congress. He not oialy loses
his rights to become a citizen at some
future time, but he is 'FOREVER DE­
BARRED FROM BECOMING A CITI
ZZKN OF THE UNITED STATES.'
Call the registrant's attention to the
fact that only citizens of the United
States can receive a patent to govern­
ment land: that he cannot 'prove up'
on any homestead he may now have
that under the constitution of North
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"The facts should be thoroughly ex­
plained to any one who wishes to
claim exemption. It is possible when
a claimant thereunder fully under­
stands what te claim means to him
and his family, ho may wish to with­
draw the same.
"To put it 'bluntly, THERE NO
LONGER IS ANY 50-50 NEUTRAL­
ITY. A man who as solemnly sworn
before the clerk of the court that it
is his intention to renounce all alleg­
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T/HG
The gam$i$K season will soonabe here and
the hunter is going to make
good use of it*
You can't help bringing home
plenty of game if you have our
kind of guns and loaded shells.
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iance to any foreign prince, poten
tate or soverengnty and especially to
his own ruler, and that it is is inten
tion to become a citizen of the United
States, must understand that this oath
means something, and in te present
great conflict there is going to be a
separation of nations, and a declarant
is either going to be an,AMERICAN
or not—there is no middle ground.
"Of course, these remarks do not
apply to aliens in the full sense of the
word—to those who ave not made a
declaration of intention to become a
citizen. As to those, their own per­
sonal views control, and no attempt
will be made to say what or what not
they should do."
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With a world of pep and power, there is scarcely no
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line of first class Guns and
Sporting Goods in this county.
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BOUGHT NEW BUICK.
A. P. Lenhart wed known Bismarck
druggist, is driving a new Buick Six,
SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1918
The Central meat market will close
at noon, Monday, Sept, 2, La'bor Day.
—Adv.
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FACTS ABOUT
A great many men never learn the game of billiards.
They secure recreation in some other amusement
theaters, golf, baseball, automobiling, etc. That is their
style of diversion, while a great many turn to billiards for
the same reason—some because they could not enjoy more
expensive amusements. There are many that have bil­
liard tables in their homes and belong to social organiza­
tions in which billiard tables are part of the equipment,
but all men do not own billiard tables or belong to organ­
izations that have them, but who like that form of amuse­
ment as well as the other man, and who are "doing their
bit" every day.
There is over one million dollars invested in billiard
room equipment in the state of North Dakota. With very
few exceptions every billiard room is owned and operated
by men above the draft agt—the majority of them among
our best citizens,, and with Very few exceptions the rooms
are conducted properly within the meaning of the law,
which should be enforced by local authorities.
The man that never played billiards should not be too
hasty in his judgment of public billiard rooms. They
answer a purpose much better than the general line of
amusements—one cannot play billiards without exercis­
ing themselves, mentally as well as physically.
The closing of billiard rooms would seriously affect
a great many families, as well as property owners. In
most instances it would amount to confiscation of prop­
erty. If there are any billiard rooms that are not con­
ducted properly, or where loafing is tolerated, the local
authorities should get bust and close their doors, but the
public should not judge all by the actions of any one. If
the police arrested two pick-pockets on the street, that
would be no good reason why they should arrest every­
body else on the street. If one druggist is convicted of
violating the law, all the drug stores should not be closed,
and this applies to billiard rooms as well as all other lines.
When the necessity arises that amusements of all kinds
be stopped for our country's cause, we believe that the
billiard men will be among the first to lock their doors and
give their services where needed.
The government recognizes the value of billiard
tables, as evidenced by allowing billiard concessions in
all army camps throughout the country. Som,e conces­
sions carry as high as 200 caron and pocket billiard tables.
Every battery or company in regular posts have billiard
tables—no army officers' club is without them, and no
mention was made of billiard rooms in the list of non­
essential businesses mentioned in General Crowder's
"Work or Fight" order.
Much has been said against billiard rooms, the most
of it spontaneously, without consideration of the facts
that govern their operation. Well conducted billiard
rooms are as much of a necessity as any other kind of
amusement. It will be a sorry day for all of us when
amusements are discontinued in this country.1 The Brit­
ish and French governments had curtailed aim.usements of
all kinds for a short time, and found results were bad.
They since have removed all restrictions and now en­
courage amusements of all kinds for recreation and di­
version of their peoples.
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