Show Not Quite So o Clever ever For all our talk about regulating the weather for all our experiments at rainmaking rainmaking rainmaking rain- rain making all our construction of jf elaborate irrigation reservoirs and canals all our building of flood control dams and dikes for for all that man can do Nature still stin makes him seem puny and helpless in the face of her capriciousness Take the flood drouth-flood situation now plaguing two different areas of oC the nation nation nation na na- na- na tion which are separated physically b by only a relatively few hundred miles In Kansas record June rains have so saturated the countryside and filled streams that rivers in many parts of eastern eastern eastern east east- ern Kansas have gone over o their banks At Kansas City the flood crest was predicted predicted predicted pre pre- to go half a foot over the 1903 record peak A metropolitan area of population was nearly paralyzed At some points in Kansas City Kansas water was pouring through second story windows Arm Army engineers say the damage damage damage dam dam- age could reach a billion dollars On the other hand just a few hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred miles to the southwest Arizona New Mexico and parts of Texas are bewailing bewailing be be- wailin wailing a dearth of water which is drying drying drying dry dry- ing up reservoirs and streams and threatening crop losses which could run into the hundreds of or millions of dollars Utah itself itsel has its share of this southwestern southwestern southwestern south south- western drouth problem As a series of articles in the Telegram said most of the southern half hall of the state is facing a critical situation because of lack of rainfall In most parts no rain has fallen since May and with a cloudless sky there isn't even any hope of artificial artif cial rain- rain making Kansas would gladly share her water with Utah or Arizona or almost bordering bordering bordering border border- ing New Mexico and Texas But Mother Nature doesn't arrange things that way and and when man tries his efforts seem so o puny in the face of her cloudbursts and floods her brazen skies and searing scaring heat it makes us feel humble Were We're not quite so clever as we sometimes think we are |