The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-07-29
NEVADA LETTER OF
WASHINGTON NEWS
Heat at Capital Oppressive to Men
From Tropics, but Cool to
Alaskan; General News of
Washington Interesting

WASHINGTON, D. c., July 22.-
Sometimes other things than poll
tics go by contraries at Wash
ington. There's the weather, for
instance, and the way is affects
people. Even the spectacle of
Democrats announcing themselves
in favor of protective tariff on
everything affecting their home
states is no more surprising. The
Democrats need the votes One might
naturally assume that men from
the torrid zone would consider
Washington weather moderate, and
that one from the frigid north
would feel the heat. Quite the con-
trary, in some instances at least.
Dan Sutherland, the delegate
from Alaska, whose office is but
few doors down the hall from that
of Representative Arentz of Ne
vada, wears a serge suit and a
hard-boiled collar, steps around
fright smart" and says he does not
notice any heat wave. Around the
corner of the corridor is the office
of Jaime C. De Veyra, delegate
from the Philippines. He has gone
to the seashore to cool off; because,
as his secretary says, "The heat is
very hot, you know"
Now Alaska is six times nearer
the North Pole than Washington
while the Philippines are bordering
right on the equator. The logic of
the situation so far as stated would
seem to put Nevada people in the
torrid-zone class, because they do
feel the heat. Senator Oddie, who
had lively afternoon in the vice.
presidents chair yesterday after
the tariff bill was called up, says
the heat is something awful,
awful" and his assistant secretary,
Mrs. Blaney of Reno, declares she
has nothing to say which will in any
way modify the Senator's opinion.
Representative Arentz admits
that Death Valley has nothing on
Washington except the thermometer
readings-the heat is felt no more.
George 7. Mills or Carson City,
secretary to the Brazilian Expo
sition Commission, follows old Ne
vada traditions and says, cts hell,
if you want to know what l think
about it." Your correspondent ad-
mits the place George speaks of
probably is not more than a mile
and a quarter distant.
Anne Martin contributes "Ne-
vada: Beautiful Desert of Buried
Hopes" to the July 26 issue of The
Nation. According to Washington
talk this does not mean that Anne
has buried her hopes forever; she
has merely cached them for four
years. But that is not the subject
of her story.
Her comparisons with other states
are startling, to say the least. She
says Nevada has "a meager and
boss-ridden population" She re-
fers at least twice to the vicious
legislature introduced by Senator
Pittman, particularly in regard to
land and water rights. Her de-
scription of the hardships of pros
pector and homesteader are par
ticularly true to life. 81 have
seen," she says, "rivers flooding
their banks on the way through
barren valleys which, in the Ian
guage of congressman, would bios
som as the rose with the storage
and distribution Of this water" !"
She points out that according to
the last census the irrigation area
of Nevada has decreased.
Attention of country publishers
should be called to the fact that
another bill to lower the zone
postage rate has been introduced
in the House (H. R. 1865, this
time by Kelly of Pennsylvania
Propaganda for its passage is be-
ginning to come in. 1t is claimed
that the present high rates "take
business away from the government
postoffice department which could
be carried at profit" The gov
ernment therefore is closing money
in large amounts" Perhaps smaller
publishers might with advantage
confer with the frairht carriar.s