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It is curious how State lines mark differences in the U.S. There are no climatic differences between Kansas and Missouri, and small climatic differences between Kansas and Nebraska; yet the three States hold populations in which are marked differences-differences at least which Americans may distinguish. Doubtless to Chinamen all Americans look alike! But Americans know the differences between Americans North, East, South, and West and dwellers in a section know minor differences between persons living in neighboring States in the same section of the U.S. The larger sectional differences in Americans may be somewhat the result of climatic influences.

This article presents information on the book "Climatic Change: Evidence, Causes and Effects," edited by Harlow Shapley. Most scientists are now agreed that the climate is again changing over very great areas of the world. This process has been in operation for at least 65 years and perhaps a century, and has been accentuated in the past two decades. This change in climate may be a mere temporary swing of a few decades or centuries, an insignificant period from the viewpoint of the geologists. The change may, again, mark the end of what Shapley calls the Little Ice Age, which began in certain regions about the time of Britain's first Queen Elizabeth, and has lasted until the present.

The article focuses on the book "Ancient Plants," by M.C. Stopes. The book is about fossil botany which was stimulated to a great extent by the discovery of tropical forms in the ledges of the Far North, and by the resulting conjecture to account for the tremendous climatic changes by which the snows had replaced the jungles. it is now clear that two suggestions ventured long ago and half-heartedly received by the scientific world, prove to have been inspirations. The first of these is that the earlier life on the globe dwelt in the simpler forms of structure; the second, that there has been no break in the line of development, despite the great gaps which exist in the records of the past.

Presents several letters to the editor. Views of the United States on China's present economic situation; Group cooperation seek in the economic sphere to create better society; Climatic changes as a factor for the failure of leadership capabilities and bureaucratic bungling of the Chinese.

In Miami, for instance, the newspapers whose columns once groaned with the advertisements of real-estate developments now solace themselves with a glorification of the local weather by holding up that in the North in lurid contrast. The morning newspaper prints no local weather prediction. A little spell of cold or rain in Chicago or New York, which is dismissed by the press of those cities with a few inconsequential paragraphs or gets no notice at all, is good for a spread-head on the first page in Miami. Yet it is a vastly impressive sight, this winter playground in the southernmost tip of the states.