Imperial Valley press., 1913-07-11
HEAT THROUGHOUT STATE
CAUSES MUCH COMMENT

Imperial valley is experiencing a bad
run of heat, and it behoOves everybody
to be on their good behavior. First
Of all. suppress the almost universal
tendency to peevishness 1t doesn't
help you and it makes i'll will that MAJ
last longer than The heat
+ The san Diego Union has been com
piling interesting comBents by papers
throughout the state, which il -ivos ~
follows:
This is the season when The editors
Of papers published in the interior of
California feel constrained to write
weather editorials in which the pre-
valent warm wave is minmiZpd. So far
as it may be truthfulIy belittled. and
sometimes discussed with utter dis
regard Of truth. IT is impossib3. Of
course, actually to deny the tem?cra-
lures registered by the THERMOMETERS.
and it is deemed bad policy not to stand
up for the GLORIOUS climate Of Cali
| fornia." and as q result each writer
displays more or less ingenuity in ef-
forts to extricale himself from the
quandary in which the soaring mercury
places him. Some. il may be re-
marked with regret. qualify for lie
Ananias club. At least this Inference
! will be drawn from the Stockton Mail
which declares:
''The hot weather made nearly every
newspaper editor in the valley perjure
! his everlasting soul. They all de
i clared that though hot it was not un-
comfortable. and above all things there
was always a hotter place. (Oh. no.
not the place you are thinking Of. but
some Eastern sectiOn.) Why not be
honest about the California climate
once in a while? 1t is 50 good most
Of the lime that we can afford to ten
| the truth about it. II was hot. and
| you don't have 10 die of heat. either 10
realize when it is discOmfOring
Other journals admit that the hcai
! is uncomfortable. but rejoice if does
not Kill or disable. aS in the East. One
Of these papers is the Sacramento In
ion. which cheerfully remarks:
Last Saturday in Sacramento the
weather bureau reported that the mcr
curry climbed to 90 degrees above zero
or above blood heat. This was from
three to six degrees higher than the
killing heat of the East. but there VAS
not single report Of a resultant deafn
or even of a prOstratiOn. and nobody
expected that there would be. The day
was uncomfortable warm, but that j,
! the worst that ran be said Of il: i
| added nothing to mortuary records,
nor would il have dorie so fau inc nter-
hi iofa,
we know from experience"
The Fresno Republican, while frank
ly conceding terrific heat in its city
! thinks the weather would be endurahie
| il people would dress and eat and think
| proeprly. The paper says:
"TIeat with us during the summer
| Is normal. 1t is, to be sure, that sort
Of heat which is not dangerous to the
| lives or health Of white men. We en-
dure 40 or il5 degrees i'll Fresno
with Some sense of pride and no risk,
while anything over 90 degrees in Chi
| cago begins to tell its tale of death.
But even our heat is uncomfortable
unless one dresses for it, Kipling IS
our authority for the statement that
| here are no ten commandments east of
Suez and that never law Of God or
man runs north Of So"
This little symposium on heat and
| its philosophy is so charming that San
Diego would gladly make a contribution
| to it if conditions here warranted. 1t
happens. however. as in former years,
that this city is disqualified. The h,Sn-
est temperature in San Diego thus fGr
this summer has been only 10 degrees,
| according to the local weather burcou,
and on one day only did the mercury
go SO high. Obviously, a San Diego
paper is precluded from the journal
istic joys of prevarcation or phiosr-
phizing in which some interior popers
revel at this season.