Show IRRIGATE ATE THE SAHARA DESERT American Windmills Are Now ow at Work Pumping Water for cial Algerian Oases It Is refreshing In nn an almost literal lit lit- eral sense this repot report t that a traveler brings back f from the Algerian Sa Sa- barn the sinking of wells ells and the consequent Irrigation and the Improvement Im Im- provement of ot It Is delightful to Imagine a n fringe of green In that country arid and since the beginning of ot time the blossomIng blossom blossom- Ing Ipg orchards s and gardens the wn waving way way- ing of of fields of grain and the motorcar motor motor- car relieving the patient camel of Ha Us burden and find making across the wastes In tenth one-tenth the time the camel carpel would take to do It Between Tunis and Carthage this observer er counted hundreds hun- hun I of pf American windmills and th the nomad Moor Is ceasing to be so much or or a a n nomad but Is rejoicing In an nn urgent bid for tor American motorcars How far It Is possible for windmills and motorcars to work south from the bOl border bolder er states of northern Africa J and Invade that hitherto hopeless sandy sandr waste perhaps nobody Knows l but It Is encouraging that the thc invasion Inva inva- Invasion sion is proceeding Just dust as it is' is Is Is' constantly con coil narrowing the of the arid regions legions op our own continent G Good od hard highways s 's fire are linking the artificial oases together and the mo- mo furnishes a a. a quick wn way of If communication com com- communication between en them as well n ns as a n means Infinitely superior to the old camel caravan of getting fruits and gra grains ns to market Omaha market Omaha World World- Herald |