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Safety Valves
Of Earth Sound
Volcanic Alarm
Scientists Look for 'Blow Off
in 1929 Warning Comes
From Hot Subsoil at
La Bourboule.
By STERLING HEILIG.
L Bourhoule, France, Aug. 20.
(Special.) The old "extinct" vol-
. canoes of Auvergne, in France, are
awaking.
The ground, here at La Bour
boule, as at Royat and Mont-Dore,
at the depth of an ordinary well, is
three times as hot as any corres
ponding subsoil m France,
French scientists are scared of
earthquakes and volcanoes breaking
out of peaceful hot springs, between
now and 1929 when the sun's ac
tivity will have its greatest power to
make the earth's crust "pulsate."
These "extinct" regions of Au
vergne have been tranquil during
long geological ages. When the
Alps and Pyrenees rose from the
plain the volcanic mountains of Au
vergne were old and "dead" already.
It was easier for the Alps and
Pyrenees to rise than for these an
cient safety-valves of Auvergne to
loosen up again.
So, now, if Auvergne is awaking,
the earth is threatening to blow off
steam worse, than when the Alps
and Pyrenees arose!
The Grand Climax.
There is a sublime story here.
It is vouched for by the Abbe
Moreux, dircct&r of the Bourges ob
: servatory; Camille Flammarion,
. brother-astronomer; the geologist,
; Suess, in' his studies of the Carlsbad
; hot springs, and many others. The
grand climax mentioned in the
; Book of Revelations and the secend
Epistle of St. Peter will arrive when
the earth's crust grows too thick to
pulsate at all.
But long before the earth blows
up for good it will blow off some
steam. It threatens soon.
Look for something like this in
central France in 1929!
Unless the subsoil around La
Bourboule cools off meanwhile.
Sphere Theory Blasted.
The earth is not a sphere.
Neither has it the shape of
orange slightly flattened at
poles," as we were taught in
an
the
old
geographies.
The earth is a four-sided pyramid.
Of course, the flattening of the
surfaces is slight, compared with the
total size; but the fact itself is as
certain as that the earth is a soft
boiled egg or a cream-puff, whose
liquid molten magma, hotter than
2,000 degrees centigrade, is solid by
force of pressure.
The earth's crust is comparative
ly cold and unimaginably thin.
Geologists agree on 40 miles to 100
miles thickness. Compared to the I
,euu miles ot the interior molten
mass, the crust of 100 miles is like
an egg-shell or orange-peel I
English Discovery.
- - The discovery of our pyramidal
form was made, not by a French
man, but by an Englishman,
Lowthiau Green.
Long ago, all the surface of our
.earth was molten paste, like Jupiter
today. Under rotation, it began to
flatten itself at the equator; but the
intense cold of space soon formed
a crust which thickened, little by
.ittle,
At first, the crust was a smooth J
and compact whole. But as the in-
tcrior paste contracted as it cooled,
the outer crust was left too large.
Hence cracks and folds the first
inequalities of our surface. Als.o, the
first shiftings which we call earth
quakes. Once, it was imagined that
the mountains were thrown up by
hazard; but Lowthian Green has
shown that the great lines of frac
ture were produced by the most
beautiful rule.
Lateral Compression.
Every sphere submitted to lateral
compression tends to form a four
sided pyramid. Our earth did not
escape it.
Examine a terrestial globe.
Are not the oceans laid out regu
larly on three sides? These great
plane surfaces are (1) the depres
sion of the Pacific; (2) that of the
Atlantic and (3) that of the Indian
ocean. They are three plane sur
faces of the pyramid, their depres
sions attaining frequently five miles;
and they are bounded by the great
lines of fracture-which are the
edges of the pyramid. What are
these lines of fracture? Why, the
mountain chains!
Many parts of them have been
worn down by erosion and others
covered by water. The fourth great
plane is found at the North Pole.
Its corresponding summit is at the
South Pole, where excessively high
Mountains are discovered.
Lowthian Green, pursued and am
plified by the Abbe Moreux, has
ihown that by astronomical causes
the earth has undergone a twisting,
resulting in what geologists call the
Mediterranean depression.
In America this twisting is very
marked in the subsidences around
Panama and "the Ditch of the An
tilles." Further on it is continued
by the Sahara, the Mediterranean,
the gulf of Bengal and the Malay
Archipelago. All these regions are
doubly volcanic and quaking.
Enter the Sun.
Now, the sun mixes in.
The earth's crust dilates under re
curring solar in.luences, in periods
of 11, 33, 100 nd 1,000 years.
As the crust dilates the gases im
prisoned in the interior of the earth
immediately profit to quit the solid
although molten magma in which
they exist confined.
No harm yet. But a period of
solar calm arrives. The earth's
crust tends now to contract again;
but the gases, not being able to re
turn to the interior mass, mus,t es
cape. So we have volcanic action.
Earthquakes are shiftings of the
crust, in the same play of dilatation
and construction. In the past year
the seismographs of the world have
registered some 2,000 earthquakes
which nobody felt!
Burns the Hand.
Pulsations of the crust are relieved
from too great stress by the safety
valves of the volcanoes.
But suppose we find old extinct
safety-valves, completely clogged up
for 7,000,000 years, beginning now
agaiii to, loosen up, we'll say that
B. J. Flannery Joins
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B. J. Flannery, formerly with the
Omaha Dodge agency, has joined
the salesmen with the Dort Sales
company, 2211 Farnam street.
Mr. Flannery is known as one of
the most conscientious automobile
salesmen on the row.
there is something new upon the
program.
So say these Frenchmen of science,
as they measure the unprecedented
and constantly increasing subsoil
heat at La Bourboule!
Are the "extinct" volcanoes of
Auvergne now opening up again
not necessarily to "blow their heads
off" next year, but just uncorking
more and more under gathering
pressure?
If so, the forces beneath them
must be unprecedentedly terrific!
Why, this old volcanic region of
Auvergne was "extinct" remained
corked up and did not budge 2.000,-
000 years ago, when the Alps and
Pyrenees were hurled intq the sky!
And now the subsoil burns the
hand, at La Bourboule
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Montns and Miles-
Of Battery Service
Hew many months will a battery
last? Well, how many months will
a pair of shoes last? Or a pound
of sugar? Or anything else that
"wears out" or is "used up?"
Elmer Rosenglen, Nebraska Stor
age Battery company, says:
Obviously the life of any such
object depends not alone upon its
com nualitv hut also nnon the kind
of use it gets.
j car owner wno urives iu,uuu
miles per year certainly takes more
out of his battery than one who
drives 5,000, just as a pedestrian
who walks a great deal wears out
his shoes faster than one who spends
most of his day at a desk.
"The driver who starts and stop's
frequently, with short runs in be
tween, or who uses his lights to ex
cess, is not recharging his battery
nearly so fast as he is discharging
it. He is like the housewife who
keeps dipping sugar out of the sugar
jar faster than she replenishes the
supply from the store room,
"It is just as ridiculous to ask
how many months a battery will last
as it is to ask how many months a
pair of shoes or a pound of sugar
will last, without inquiring how they
are to be used."
Cadillac Ranks Close
To Fords in Detroit
Recently the Detroit Automobile
club checked its records to ascer
tain what cars the members drove.
It was found that the Ford wa3
first, with 2.577, but the remarkable
fact about the figures is that Cadil
lac was third with 1,102, having
more cars than all the so-called popular-priced
lines with one exception.
When it is considered that the
people of Detroit are "motor wiser"
than almost any other city in the
country and that they know motor
cars intimately, this can be taken as
a distinct tribute to the Cadillac.
This goes to disprove the old
adage about a prophet and his own
country, because the Cadillac certain
ly has the implicit confidence of the
motor car owners of its own city.
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Britain Buys Overland
Coupes for Embassy
The representatives of Great Brit
ain at the forthcoming conference
on disarmament will to all . intents
have the archives of the British em
bassy at their very elbows at the con
ference table, although the embassy
is more than a mile from the White
House or from the other state halls
where conferences may be held. The
accessability of the British records
on all questions will be due to that
fact that several of the staff of the
Eritish embassy have been equipped
with Overland coupes.
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CUT PRICE AUTO STORE
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Chandlers
Oaklands
Open All Day Sunday
Chinese Prince
Fears to Ride
In Automobile
Sends Out Card and Lets Chief
Minister Make Trip to
Tomb of Royal An
cestor.
An automobile party drove up in
front of the royal palace in a Chinese
province a few weeks ago and sent
word in to the ruling prince that they
would like to take him out for a
ride. But this particular prince, it
seems, had never seen an automo
bile before and was so ternlieil at
the prospect of riding in one that
he did not even express his regrets
in person. He did his inspecting
from a safe distance and then sent
out his card.
The appearance of the car, accord
ing to a Chung Mei News agency dis
patched from Peking, caused great
excitement through the prince's home
town.
"Commander Thomas Hutchins,
American naval attache, and E. C.
McPherson, manager of E. W.
Frazar & Co.," says the dispatch,
"have completed the round trip to
Tungling, the Ming eastern tombs,
by automobile and it is believed that
this is one of the first times that
this trip has been successfully made."
Took Three Days.
"In the old days, when it was the
fashion to go out on horseback, the
trip took some three days one way,
at least two nights being spent on
the road. By automobile, in spite
of the sandy roads, the rivers that
had to be, crossed by ferry, and the
many other difficulties encountered,
the entire trip was done in eight
hours, and without any mishaps of
any kind.
"The party left the Isihyamen, or
East Gate at 6 on Thursday morn
ing; 6:30 saw them at the Pei Ho,
and 9:15 at San Ho Hsien. This
was the place that was selected in
the days of pony travel as the stop
ping place on the first night, and by
automobile was reached in a scant
three hours and a quarter. The sec
ond night's stopping place, Dichow,
was reached at 11:45 and at 2:15 the
party rolled into the eastern tombs
and were met by the Manchu prince's
bodyguard. The old-fashioned
troops, still carrying broadswords,
and some even bows and arrows,
were half-terrified, half-fascinated by
the appearance of the car.
"The old Manchu prince appar
ently could not screw up his courage
to sufficient height to venture the
trip in the machine, that was offered
him. After preliminary courtesies,
he withdrew and thereafter sent in
his card, excusing himself. The
priest and his 'number two' went,
however, and it was , said that they
were scared out of their wits through
out the entire trip.
Meet Little Trouble.
"Little trouble was encountered on
the way. The three rivers that were
crossed gave some trouble, one be
cause the bridge seemed ready to
cave in at any minute, and the other
two because there were no bridges
at all, and the crossing had to be
made by means of three boats lashed
together, with the car put on them
laterally. At Dichow, the stone
block in the center of the main gate
way, against which the city gates
are closed, was so high that the car
could not pass over it, nor was there
any other way around. So part of
the city wall vas appropriated and
a runway built across the gateway,
over which the car crawled as easily
as you please.
Removing Wheel Hub Washer
The job of removing the wheel
hub washer of the front wheel is
often an almost impossible job, but
it can be made easy by the use of a
simple tool that can be made by any
car owner. Take a pair of round
jawed pliers five or six inches long.
File a notch on the inside of each
jaw near the end and then reduce
the diameter of the jaws until they
will just slip into the holes in the
ends of the split washer. With this
weapon it is easy to remove the
washer. Simply hook the ends of
the pliers into the holes, close the
pliers to contract the washer so that
it may be drawn out of the groove,
when it is easy to slip it out by run
ning a screw driver point around the
edge.
Mud Scraper
A convenient home-made mud
scraper may be made by cutting a
shallow oval in the running board
before the door. Across the outer
edge of this oval a piece of bar steel
is screwed corresponding to the
thickness of the running board. It
is very simple to scrape mud from
the shoes and the dirt so removed
falls through the oval cut-out in the
board.
Commutator Lubrication
Grease should never be used for
commutator or timer lubrication.
Cylinder oil is the proper lubricant
for this part, and it should be used
only sparingly. This applies to all
commutators or ignition distributors.
When grease is used here it frequent
ly serves to prevent the commutator
arm from making contact.
THE BEE: OMAHA, SUNDAY, AUGUST 21. lasi.
Practical Paragraphs
Spares
The question of what spares to
take on reasonably extended tours is
one that bothers most motorists,
Here are a few useful spares that are
frequently forgotten. For instance,
extra bulbs for the headlights ought
always to be carried. A few dry
cells may be invaluable m emer
gency. Two or three pairs of pliers
instead of the customary one should
certainlv be carried. Spare tire valves
and a hand tire pump for emergen
cies will be friends in need on oc
casion.
Clutch Grabbing
This trouble is the opposite of slip
ping. The clutch takes hold too sud
denly so that the car is jerked in
starting and needless strain is in
volved for the entire power transmit
ting mechanism. Grabbing is caused
by too heavy spring pressure, by tac
ings that have become rough and
dry, by end play in the clutch shaft,
by too tight an adjustment. The
driver who jams in his clutch is quite
likely to produce a grabbing clutch.
Internal Short
When one of the cells shows a loss
of specific gravity in its electrolyte of
0 or 75 points, and no leaks can be
discovered an internal short circuit
is indicated and should be remedied
at once. Whenever the specific gravi
ty of one cell falls more than 20
points below that of the other cells
there is trouble somewhere and it
should be run down without delay,
even if it is necessary to call in the
service station.
Grinding in Transmission
When a grinding noise is heard in
the transmission case it will be found
to be caused by one of the following
conditions : Lubrication failure,
either the oil has leaked out or is too
thin in body to do its appointed task,
the shatts may be out of alignment,
Deanngs may De badly worn or
broken, or there may be chips from
injured teeth in the case. Whatever
the cause it should be run down and
eliminated immediately .
Axle Noises
When noises issue from the axle
housing they may be ascribed to one
of the following causes: Maladjust
ment of the driving gears, gears that
have worn out of round. or become
warped, differential bearings that are
worn or broken, a broken tooth or
teeth in the gear, or metal chips in
the mechanism.
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Women's Feet
Are Inspected
By Londoners
American Women Have Most
Beautiful Feet, German
And Dutch Largest,
Says Chiropodist.
London, Aug. 20. Which country
possesses women with the largest
feet?
This question arose from an in
spection of women's feet in Bond
street during the busiest hour of
the morning. Women of many na
tionalities passed, displaying "under
standings" that varied considerably
in shape and size.
Japanese Have Smallest Feet.
"Dutch and German women have
the biggest feet in the world," said
Mr. Robert Wortley, court chiropo
dist. "Their feet are flat, and they
wear shoes which emphasize their
flatness. British women have the
longest feet, but they are narrow;
Japanese women have the smallest
feet of all, and Americans the most
beautiful, because they are well
cared fpr from youth.
"After the American feet I award
the beauty honor to the French
woman, whose foot is a triumph of
grace, while dancing has given a
E act as the
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Mr. Wortley has attended some ot
the most distinguished feet in the
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walking with the late King Edward
in a park near Cronaer, the king
said he wished him to attend his
feet.
"But before you do my feet," said
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Gasoline economy of 25 miles per gallon is common.
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King Edward, "you must let me see
how you care for your own." And
then and there in the middle of the
park, the chiropodist was obliged to
take off his shoes and socks and
show his feet to his sovereign.
"No woman has beautiful feet,"
said another chiropodist. "Why
should they, since men are descended
from monkeys? I saw the foot pos-
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sessed by the original of Trilby and
it was not beautiful."
Road construction throughout the
country last year cost about twice
as much as it did in 1919. As a
consequence, the cost of gravel roads
increased from $535 to $7,250 a mile;
concrete from $21,165 to $40,000. and
brick from $33,000 to $55,000 a mile.
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