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Show No Hurricanes In West Hurricanes don't mean much to western people. The only places we see them are on the front pages of newspapers, usually in the form of headlines proclaiming "hundreds dead" or "thousands dead." We see these headlines so often they are almost tiresome. tire-some. But we should nevertheless appreciate now much more tiresome these occurrences must be for people living in Cuba, Porto Rico and other points in the Caribbean.-sea, who are forever rebuilding their homes and risking their lives. The western part of the United States gets very excited about its storms, earthquakes and floods, and this excitement excite-ment leads to a lot of bad advertising in other parts of the tvorld. '' ' 1 L Actually, very few of us fully realize how safe we are. By far the worst catastrophe of recent years west of the Rockies, as the writer remembers, was the Santa Barabara earthquake. And the casualties were none! |