Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-02

nobody would have known it was
hot.
1t WASH It hot. There was a
pleasant breeze surging through
leaf and bough that removed any
evidences of humidity The alti-
tude of Wichita and western Kan
sas in general is such that we new
er suffer from the suffocating hu-
midity that makes it hotter in IL
linois and Iowa at 85 degrees than
it is in Kansas at los.
William Middleton Jones, i1ard-
bitten farmer from Cedar Rapids,
Iowa. who is striking for more pay
for his corn, who says he can It
make both ends meet, who is so
broke he is down to his last $150,000
in Liberty bonds, drove into Wich-
ita Thursday in his 12-cylinder
car, took the governor S suite at
! the BroadvieW, had dinner at the
Allis for himself and family of six,
and expressed surprise that sum-
mer in Kansas had not yet arriv-
ed.
"'Too hot to work up in Iowa
and it's no use anyway. Why sweat
only to go broke faster by work
/ ing than by loafing."
Mr.. Jones. a smart man, is think
ing of spending the summer in cool
Kansas. He comes from state
, where it really gets hot.
1t is high time the people of Kan
saS quit bowling about their mis-
fortunes most of which do not ex-
ist. IF Kansas has a sorry repu-
tation for climate it is our own
fault and nobody else's.
Kansans brag to the world that
we have the worst tornadoes in the
country. AS a matter of fact sew
en- other states in the tornado belt
have more and worse twisters than
we have here. If you don t believe
it, look it up in the weather rec
ords at Washington, D. G.
Kansas folk boast that our grass
hoppers are bigger. more voracious
and more deadly than any other
grasshoppers on earth
If you want to see real grasshop-
perS go over into the tall corn belt
east of the Missouri river. One
Missouri grasshopper could whip
and devour an army of the Kan
saS variety and move on the next
county like a conquering Alexan-
der.
Kansas people write back east
about the high winds that sweep
our plains spreading death and
disaster. That recent dust storm
that brought considerable part
of Ford county into Sedgwick was
a gentle zephyr from a tropic isle
as compared to the big winds that
raise cain with farm homes and
loved ones in Nebraska, Minnesota,
North and South Dakota, Illinois
and points east. This writer has
seen dirt storms in Iowa that OBJ
scured the sun, turned day into
night, and blew stone barns from
Keokuk to Council Bluffs.
Kansas summer winds are a ben
ediction and delight.
Yet Kansas correspondents sent
more wild yarns back to the east
ern press and magazines of opin-
ion about the big dirt and dust
storm than would be required to fill
the Sunday edition of the New
York Times.
Kansans blow and brag that this
state produces more and worse
moonshine whisky than any other
state in the union. They declare
there is more poison to quart of
Kansas rye than can be found in
gallon of red-eye in any state
east of the Mississippi
The truth of the matter probably
is that Kansas moonshine is no
better or any worse than the booze
that is peddled in various guises
throughout the country.
KansanS go to eastern centers,
to the north woods, to California
and to Canada, spreading the word
that this state has the worst roads
in the world. They give it out to
the world that Kansas mud is
deeper and stickier than molasses
in Tophet.
Travellers passing through Kan
sas compliment us on our high
ways. We have a few roads that
are not all they should be but they
stack up mighty well with roads
IN other agricultural states.
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