Show I Desert Dust DustI 1 I By Johnston r I We are no experiencing the worst drought that this country has ever known Large sections in various parts of the country are devastated In Inmany Inmany many states it is causing much anxiety as to the future Va R ater supply The present condition should open the eyes of dwellers in the great basin of the Mississippi to conditions and problems which the west always has had to face and solve Olve The value of water has no measure short of life itself itsel and what what- whatever whatever ever the cost of obtaining an adequate supply whether east or west that cost must be paid as the price of living More than three hundred million dollars will be poured out for the de- de development development of power navigation flood control and irrigation on the Missouri river and its tributaries if the recommendations recommendations of the presidents president's special interdepartmental water floW flog com com- committee are carried out to some of our agricultural tural prophets It is 15 only a matter of a short time until all farm fann machinery will be equipped with radio Then the farmer can sit on his cultivator and listen to the ball baU game and the latest market reports Some difference from when I used to plow corn with one of those two handled hitch inking outfits out out- fits barefoot with a balky saddle horse on one side of the tongue and a blind brood mare on the other Mr U B Lee oiling contractor on ona ona a project from the Colorado line to Cisco Utah was held up August third fourth and fifth on account of too much moisture in the gravel That road Ras built without any rain and it has not rained since It Vaas Ras built In fact there is 15 no one in that part of the country that can of it ite e eser eer er raining raming Just how the moisture got in the gravel seems to be a mys- mys mystery mystery tery You dry farmers had better get in touch Rith someone we don t know who But you may have a lot of mOlS- mOlS moisture ture and don t know itA it itA A stranger in a small desert town strolled over to the baseball field to see the game that was in progress Turning to a 3 boy he inquired the score score score- two Fifty to and andi none out the boy Do you think the home club will win asked I the stranger I Well replied the boy its its it's a little early to tell yet you see our boys has not had a chance to bat yet Yes there are some nice things about being a 3 man One of them is isyou I you don t have to kiss anyone that is badly m in need of a shave Remember the old saying your sins I will find you out So will your wife The discovery of diamonds In South I Africa was made by children gather gather- gathering gathering ing pretty stones along the Orange and Vaal rivers I In Egypt a divorced man can not leg legally ly remarry his former wife until she has been roamed married and divorced by another man |