Arizona republican., 1921-01-11
Our Climate

7h. only way we have found to dispel @ false and ssa impression of our climate. (and all things false r. baa) Is to bring people here and induce them to stay through the year. IL Is not enough that they be mere winter residents. Their praises of our fali winter and spring climate is not accepted by the un- Knowing evidence in support of our summer climate
 when mention is made almost anywhere in the country Of our summer climate countered by the .sory of the Yuma soldier and his blankets, worn shrcadbare by two generations of telling. It never had good point and certainly has not now. People outside of Arizona speak of climate generally as Arizona climate" The whole state is supposed to be supcrheated at all seasons of the year.
 People have been informed only by travellers who nsvc fitted through Arizona in midsummer over the summer route suffering discomforts of travel which has its dscomforts everywhere in summer tune In stuffy cars. and railway cars are always ssuffy
 The thermometer also misrepresents by with holding part of story and the best part of it- shas tho thermometer tells fin the East the Middle and the southern states with their dense' hu- rnidiy and what 1t relates in the clarified atmos- racrc of the valleys as we'll the mountains of Ari rona is quite another.
 And those Of us who have lived through and .,rei the summer of an Arizona valley have felt the dlrfercncc when we have travelled in the East in August or the early days of September in suf- locating heat wave. so common there from early in July untn the middle of September.
 At home we had suffered none of the suffocation we then endured the gasping for breath sight of men and animals stricken in the streets of Kansas City and Chicago the paralyzing heat stroke laid men and horses in the harvest fields. Of these thines knew nothing home
 We may have complained of the too fervid kisses sof the and his long persistence. but of his fatal wOoing of us and all the time we were booking forward with pleasant antiopations fan and winter climate the delightful on the American continent, and the climate which every winter offers asylum to hundreds of citizens of rima ae-famed Southern California. the fogs and chm of winter even in that favored land.
 And have ready relief from even the slight camauc annoyances of our long summers It is but a haif-day's from ahy valley in the state to cool retreats in the mountains or foothills where from a week end we sent back refreshed and vigorous. ..Fhcse places arc being brought by i'm proved highways. and shortly they will be easily ac- cessibie to au.
 There was time when the residents of the Salt River Valley left alone with the ardent sum- There nothing to distract their minds from such discomforts brought no amusement no cooling devices. But that is not so now. Anywhere one may find comfort diversion. We have com modous. well ventilated picture houses and audi turiuns. have cooling systems and fans and in.
 
 mobiles and thousand devices to make us forget that it Is There is no need for one to fle, from it.
 The right time for resident of the Salt Rive valley to take vacation, if he it. is in mid fan when fin the East the naples are glowing tn sumach is setting the landscape fire and the oal and ash displaying their beautiful brown fal gowns; when the tang comes into the air the frs herald Of the when this beautiful scene shal be obseured by ice and snow for two months to b followed by other weeks and months of rain susl and mud.
 Bet long before that win be back in Arizon oith its winter and spring sunshine amid the per netual of the citrus and olive and the re turning green of the cottonwoods to be followe shortly after by the verdure of the fg the ash an thc maple and the small plumes of almond peac and apricot
 Oh Boy. here is the life worth living