The Waipukurau Press. Tuesday, April 24, 1906. IMPROVING THE WORLD.

Waipukurau Press, Volume I, 24 April 1906, Page 2

The Waipukurau Press. Tuesday, April 24, 1906. IMPROVING THE WORLD.

_ o A writer in the New York Journal laments the fact that mankind has not yet given its attention to the problem of controlling ocean currents. The idea is one that we should expect to come from America. We know, he says, that Great Britain is “heated with hot water,” but we do not why that hot water keeps its temperature and stays in its path across the cold ocean. “ What would you think,” he asks, “of a man who had in his house a hot water system of heating which went wherever it chose, compelling the family to follow around and sit down near it ? You would say to the man that he ought to utilise the heat in his house in a sensible way ; make it warm' the whole house and keep the temperature even. That is what the human race is going to do some time, when it gets brains and power enough to put in order this little house of ours, the earth. For it is little — S'> small that it would melt like a snowdrop if it tell into our sun. In time men will regulate these hot water currents of the ocean intelligently, diverting and directing them where they are most needed, melting the ice from shores perpetually frozen now, and diminishing the too great heat elsewhere.” It is comforting to have entire faith that before the human race has done with this planet, “ the heat which now makes the equator unendurable will be transmitted scientifically to our poles, and the entire earth be made habitable, comfortable, with a temperature to suit the desires and the needs of men.” The real work in “ earth improvement ” that is before the human race is, according to the writer, the harnessing of the sun. At the equator, he thinks, men will establish great central plants fur collecting and distributing the sun’s heat. And when they take the great heat that pours down uu the equator, conveying it ail over the earth, wherever heat is needed, they will diminish the surplus' heat of the equatorial regions. They will make the earth what it shouiu be, and supply comfortable homes, not for a paltry fourteen hundred., millions of humen beings, but for tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of millions of comfortable, intelligent people. An ingenious elector, at a political meeting in Christchurch one winter’s night, suggested that ' these islands should be towed to a warmer region in the cold season. Apparently, the difficulty will be met in the future;by. bringing the warmer climate southwards.