Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 299, Decatur, Adams County, 21 December 1922 — Page 5

M#nv ’Quakes In 1923 Says Paris Scientist United Pre” Bt * ff Correspondent parl g, Dec. 21—(Special to I) M llyi

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" '•nb Ihelvr- ■ runner of many more, he believes. . According t 0 th „ coinputatlona ot t Moreux, the 'quakes win be mose se- ' Tm-k M, ' lll,erra ««an regions, Mex,c °' Central America, the Antilles and Japan, m case the "irthquakes are very severe, the of"’Ct. may be felt |n 1)Oth n South America. Uter a study of more than twenty years, Abbe Moreux has evolved the ">"-‘ry that earth quakes have some ,l!ll| tion with solar electrical activity or Inactivity. He has demonstratf uit extraordinary solur activity oc--111 iii < ycles of about, eleven years. middle of the present cycle is due

Wille convinced that solar activity ‘Hid earthquakes have some connectlon' Moreux has not yet decided in “xaetly what manner. His statistics siow that quakes are most frequent In winter and more apt to occur durl"K the night than during the day. Apropos of the Chilean quakes, Charles Nordmaun the scientific writer, has some Interesting specula- . i"i,s. in common with most scientists lie agrees that quakes are caused by the cooling of the interior ot the earth. He points out that certain rocks in the heated liquid state expand in process of cooling thus forcing a displacement in the Interior of the earth, which reached the surface. He assumes that perhaps this was the cause of the Chilean earthquake, citing the statement of a?British sea i captain, who sounded the sea-bottom at tiie moment when the tidal wave struck his ship. Instead of 10,000 feet depth which the charts indicated, the sounding showed only about 500 feet. Nordmann believes the sea-floor may have been heaved up by the displace- > meats in the interior of the earth. I Nordmaun states that the earth's crust is in motion practically continuously, but the movements are so slight as to be unnoticed. Seisomoj graphs in several parts of the world record as many as 30,000 quakes per year, of which only a few are perceptible. Davis Offers Remedy For Unemployment (United Press Service) Washington, Dec. 21—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Unemployment crisis that periodically aflict the country II are due’not so much to actual dearths I of employment as to “the inability of I American workmen to adjust themI selves to changing cir utnstances,” in I the op t-ion of Secretary of Labor DaI vis, expressed in his a ; ntal report to I Congress. American workmen, Davis suggested, hesitate to take up unfamiliar lines of work when depression hits their trades. As a result there is constantly a considerable number of unemploy ed who are in that position for no other reason that that they will not take other kinds of work when offered. This number, Davis estimates, at normally one and a half million. When strikes or other industrial disturbances hit labor, the total unemployed swells to the magnitude of a "crisis”. The remedy, according to Davis, is for every workman to embrace a secondary employment. Increased appropriations to enable the Federal Employment Service to carry on an educational campaign for “secondary occupation” was asked of Congress by Davis. “I would be the last one to suggest, I that skilled craftsmen should undertake to beome so-called 'Jacks of all Trades,’ 'but I would urge upon every idle w orkman that when there is •inactivity in his trade, he use every effort to adapt himself to some other tine of work,” Davis wrote. Davis' Remedy “Manifestly the skilled workman an, if he will, do work of some other kind, but my experience is that too often when idleness if forced upon ini ho rejects the thought of other employment for one or more of several reasons. “He may not he able to secure as j high wages in other employment, or lie ’may be under the impression that the secondary employment will lose him prestige in his primary occupation.” Davis urged that more attention be I paid to the Federal employment, service as a possible solution of the unemployment problem. . “We have two problems to meet." Davis wrote, “to preVent the recurrence of the employment depression of last year which threw five or six mil|lion men into idleness and to reduce the number of men who are daily without means of livelihood." “The United States Employment Service, as a national organization, keeps in touch with the general situation in every part of the country. Fully ; organized and equipped, it would have jits lingers at all times upon the pulse of tiie labor supply and demand of the i ountry. The past year this service, witli its co-operating agencies, proved its effectiveness. It listed nearly 2,500000 workers seeking employment and placed nearly 1,500,000 of them in join? without expense to the worker or cm-

ployer. Its usefulness and the need for Its development are plain.” a France Installing New Modern Equipment (United Press Service) Paris, Dec. 21 - A vast project for the electrification of the agricultural regions of France is being prepared by the government. Under the scheme hs outlined by Minister Os Agriculture Ceron, the State would arrange credits and aid In placing electric power at the disposal of every farmer. Under the projected law the nation would advance to individuals and regional syndicates the sum ot 600,000,000 francs. The syndicates and individuals would furnish an equal amount —making a total of 1,200,000/100 francs. The basic object of the scheme is to intensify domestic farm production, to modernize the machinery on farms and thus alleviate the shortage of manpower resulting from France’s warlosses. If the scheme is successful, within a few years the country-side would be a network of electric power lines reaching tens of thousands of farms and furnishing them with power for labor-saving mactynery. Ceron's idea is that France must gtirner from her own soil the means of rehabilitating the country and rendering France economically independent and the only method is to modernize and intensify production. According to the tentative plans the State loans would be for a period of not under thirty years at. a rate not to exceed four per cent. Agricultural authorities predict that such electrification would immensely increase France's production of food stuffs and enable her to become a big exporter, because at, present, despite the fertility of the soil, and toilsome labor by the peasants, production is unsatisfactory, owing to the use of old-fashioned farm machinery. In many places oxen are still used in plowing with the same style of plows

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