Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-23
OUR CROPS DRYING up
The State In the Grip Of q Water
Famlne--Farmer In Need OF
Rain--The Raln.makers OF
the Government
BY GEORGE NoX MCCAIN
the Government

~ ing to the fact that we are on the verge
of y disastrous drought.
Observing commuters. dwellcrs in suburban
towns and farmers in particular have known
of the threat for several weeks.
Farmers particularly have had their
knowledge at first hand through threatened
loss and Inconvenience
Hundreds Of them have been compelled III
the last ten days to haul water from neigh
boring streams for the household and the
| cattle.
Wells have become exhausted and springs
have gone dry by the thousand in the coun-
| ties surrounding Philadelphia.
| In such an emergency the nearest river or
| creek is the only source Of supply ,or the
| agriculturist
Even train commuters. usually non.
| observant through familiarity. have noticed
| how the grass IN meadows has gone ruSSet
| brown.
| The city dweler in such n time is the
lucky guy. He turns spigot and the well
come water flows.
| TT HAS been a good many years since there
l. has been a drought here in the East.
Even Texas and Kansas, in the last decade
and half, have lost their old time pre-
cmnencc as drought stricken Common
/ wealths
A widespread drought is worse than food
and the next thing to famine.
| There are few who will forget the terrible
drought of the summer of lOOl.
| 1t got 80 out In Kansas and the surround
! Ing States tbat the neopIe despaired of saving
| ANYTHING IN Tho wnv ~ crops from tho de-
vouring heat. .....
Weather observers in the Middle West de-
| clared that the mir was SO hot that precipi-
tation could not occur.
A similar condition is noticeable now
within radius of 100 miles of Philadelphia.
One can walk through the deep brown
| grass early any morning and scarce notice
the dampness Of dow on his shoes
And there is rain In sight
y,,,r Lotto soo.o,, q ,rn;,,,,uro v.;.o,
! Vs.. na.e ,e.re.uli vi N~s.lrui'e't ~ W lison
| L uhdcrtook 10 MAKE STUDY or droushts,
De ,essened. Nothing much came OF IT:
n,otors was au" uuo"t tnis n; ,in;n Una. ,hs sail
wsst "''' "''''" o'''e'' Ill ''' ''"'"
Th., ,,ox, .., ,,,.s ,,.;,,, ,,uo, 49,, u
| ,o-. - ~ is ~. 1oss VII VII 'au"Vu az. hiV.
Gr,n, hnr,ha nnat., U. T. W t'e' w. ny
iTSo Wor,% W. 'ne he. Mro,,r oaoo,,au,.
,,.,,, "eru e ~ war h'sS pI.t! sncCtuaiE
IIisHosea IH, vi 'hat ioea OF pursuing oomoS III
'"''"s ram"
| >.or,Y,,, ~.
a ~ hEn superstl'ion--or myth per
..nIpJi ei :.i was 'nat uroushts came
Ut ReIiVulC ih'erVhls.
nv li't - tna, somewhere IN the world
eSers Seur prdcticaiiy there Ii portion OF
.ne i.a far,n surface that s"herS from lack OF
pIuno a., ~ s.,.
IN I"o., tne year toiowing our own dry
ulhas.el 'nlo"sn the "es'. AustranM ex
pt ptveu o'e vi t"e worst droughts IN her
"''to .,,,
Shan diad S wafer tamine prevailed.
reports said millons-from lack of water.
IN the up country huhdreds OF settlers
"''T - a.s a,E pettsneu @ run .nirm.
araue ad ana .r".nc were demoraIized and it
s,arod ,hot oon,;no,t e a., . .ha' ne''apie ruin
SSn sa.ure, nVNeser; relented IN the sue
.et;une ;e '''on'n' anu poureo do"h generous
Wa,or,bo,oss ,,;u;o -, -
~ hIS "a i.n ui,,iiona M VI uoilaas aa we're iost
nuahin anu ,s.. y. .'Nes "ere sucr'hceo IN that
'heiorho'e terror'
-rropr -. .uo,, .,..,,
| RHr onD 'nv rain making business
- ven "en' up 'ise i9mtny Jones famous
sparrow tne h9ck Island railroad en-
ploSed a ram MAKER VINO Travelled about the
country III speclal car
MS process was VI sccret-that is until
an enterprising newspaper man discovered
IT, iieru 20 a 20, 70,
90 fluid ounces OF water and ounces of
Zine. 49,,
hene" tnls every nour ana stir every
tnlrH minutes: WORK WIN south wind
"nnCh W. Is moisture vino,
Nhen ruin e'ar's reho'e the jar or CROCK
at once.
Inv .neors or aii'geu theory-was that
this hiiA'ure III an open Vessel generated
nEurosen gas, Mnirh as'ehos rapidly. rms
trrares creates ah gaseous atJ or Atmospheric shaft
through the heateu ar, do"n which cold
upper az lus1Ies; .leating storm center
,r, ,,,
.E,N Hnnh r. ", DinENfohIH was
~ the greatest advocate or rain making
twenty years ago.
In fact, ne Was the popular hero OF Texas
for "nie. ne wus the governments 9 ex
per'men.a,i ingh.eoro.oglst: Hls business was
to bust the droughts that were ther
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