Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1902 — A Good Word for the Cold Wave. [ARTICLE]

A Good Word for the Cold Wave.

Prof.'Willis I. Moore, chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau, has put himself on record as being a friend and abettor of that purely Ameroan institution, the cold wave. The following is an extract from a recent article of his on that subject: It may be said that the American cold wave has no counterpart; that nowhere else, unless it be in the steppes of Russia, does the temperature have such oscillations in such short periods of time, nor do the icy blasts sweep over such broad areas. But this is not at all to our disadvantage.. lam of the opinion that the American cold wave is one of the most beneficent gifts of nature. Its pure, heavy air from above scatters and diffuses the carbonic-acid gas exhaled by animal life and the fetid gases emanating from decaying organic matter. It gives us more oxygen with each inspiration of the lungs, and the abnormally high electric potential that always accompanies such air invigorates-man and all other animal life. The cold, north wind, if it be dry, and it usually is, brings physical energy and mental buoyancy in its mighty breath. Let no one disparage the American cold wave, for much of the physical and intellectual energy that has made this country great, that has caused it to take the leading place among the great nations of the world, that has caused its people to excel in the arts, manufactures and commence,, was born in the activity and energy of the cold, north wind