THE CITY AT THE BOTTOM OF LAKE MICHIGAN

The New York Times, Sunday, February 17, 1974, reported a subterranean heat source extending from Mexico to above the Salton Sea. If subterranean geothermal sources can be gotten out of the air over the Salton Sea, what next? A week later a radio announcer was heard saying a balloonist was lost over the ocean below Morocco. If the ocean is now beneath Morocco, no wonder he was lost! Journalists are not the only ones living in an unreal world. The United Nations and the Population Reference Bureau end the North American continent at the Rio Grande! The continents of North and South America are joined by the isthmus of Panama, are they not? Although geologists tell us the continents are drifting, to my knowledge Panama has not slid between Mexico and our Southwest. The two cultural regions of the Americas, Anglo-Merica and Latin America, are hot coterminous with the two America continents. Language is so imprecisely used of late, that such confusions are becoming the norm