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Show TIIE SMITHFIELD SENTINEL. SM1T1IFIELD. UTAH f Mi Ask Me Another 'JkwvOaA Those back East whore agitating to make the turkey our national bird are late. Eenja-mi- n Franklin had the same notion 150 years ago. Old Ben pointed out that the eagle was a robber and a tyrant and was A Death Valley Road Through Once Dreaded American Desert Has Now Become the Playground of Man J Prepared by National Geographic Society. Washington, D. C. WNU Service. NEWS that the Thirteen had become the States didn't reach Pacific coast Spaniards till years later. Barriers of distance and desert were such that even after Cali- fornia joined the Union, in 1850, it still took weeks to get mail from Washington. No other state was ever so isolated. Men hated the desert then and feared the horrors of death from thirst. Every trail across it was strewn with bones of men and oxen and abandoned wagons. Now the desert is man's play-- j ground. Planes, trains and motors, of course, have robbed the desert of its dreads. Now idlers in shorts, pajamas, or bathing suits sprawl about these desert pleasure resorts, as in Death valley, and fret if they cant get this or that favorite brand of imported mineral water, all within a stone's throw of where 'dying pioneers found not even a mouthful of alkali water! The sting has been taken out of Death valley completely by mod-- I era transport. Much of it is now a and winter vis- i national monument, in over new roads, swarm itors ' lured by its astounding physical I bright-colore- d ! I j You can imagine that here a gi-- I ant smashed the world to bits, baked it, then spilled seas of paint over the colossal, silent ruin. Natures emotions range from utmost ' fury to moods of restful calm. Stand on Dante's View, a peak in the Black mountains which towers high above the floor of Death valley, and you can see over more than 150 miles of this weird, incomparable region. Far to the west is Mount Whitney, highest peak in the United States, and below you is the lowest point in North America, 276 feet below sea level. And up the valley floor there stretches what looks like vast alkali swamps; but that is an illusion, for it is merely a coloring of the desert. All Alone With a Chipmunk. "Do you live here all alone?" a traveler asked an old man who sat before an empty hotel in the historic ghost town of Ryan. "Me and a chipmunk, he said. "My friendll be out soon so you can see him. He always comes to cat at ten oclock." And at ten he came! Borax and a few other minerals first made Death valley a busy place. It was then that the famous teams hauled the big freight wagons with a water-tantrailer, taking weeks on the long, rough round trip out to a railroad station on the Mojave desert. Mining is abandoned now. The borax diggers found a richer, more convenient deposit near Kramer, on the Mojave desert, where they can bring up huge chunks of glistening, glassy borax, with a railway close at hand. So the long mule trains are no more; but you can still see the giant wagons standing along Furnace Creek Wash, where the tired, dusty mules were last unhitched. Beside these big wagons visitors pose now to be photographed. That is commonplace reality; all about is unreality, illusion. Save one or two tiny favored spots where water comes down from the canyons. Death valley knows no cultivation. Despite sightseeing buses and private motorcars that throng its dusty trails, there is still something very significant in the warning signboards which tell how many miles it is to the next water. its destiny DilTcrcnt, indeed, seems from that of other California ! . Booth Earth Formations. 20-mu- le k Today a huge industry has grown up and the groves there resemble those about Bagdad or Basra, in Iraq. Much of the desert basin above the Salton sea, with its duck clubs and speedboat races, is still empty; here and there are date and other gardens of astounding fertility. Men must have felt the heat the day they gave such local place names as Mecca, Arabia," Thermal, and Biskra. Planes from Los Angeles for Phoenix, Tucson and El Paso fly down this long, hot valley, entering from the north through San pass. .Grotesque tumbleweed, rolling over deserts in hard winds, looks like brown bears at full gallop. Not far from San Gorgonio pass, you may visit the site of one of' many construction camps on the Colorado river aqueduct project with its miles of tunnels. A worker there once found a petrified egg about the sue of a coconut Across the valley men dig the great hole that will carry water under the San Jacinto mountains. Like the Indians before them, local whites say that sometimes this mountain growls. Geologists say it is a "young' mountain; that if there are growls, they may be earth tones from subterranean movements along earthquake faults. Earthquakes Now and Then. Earthquakes occur here when one block of earth crust slips past another along an earth fracture. Several such faults extend from the Mojave desert to offshore islands. One such slip caused the Long Beach earthquake of March 10, 1933. Mud and hot water squirted from cracks that opened in the ground. Many, people say they saw a waving motion pass across the fields which set trees, houses, and water tanks to swaying, while up from the rocking earth came a roaring sound If a giant could seize the edge of this region, as you might grab the lid of a steamer trunk, and thus lift the top off southern California, you would see below it one of Natures busiest workshops. Down here, in the dark, things go on which affect all that live up above in foe sunGor-gon- io deep-tone- d, shine. Far into foe earth, miles and miles deep and many leagues long, run the faults or fractures that figure in foe quakes; but more important to man on top of foe ground are the vast underground basins that hold water for his wells and other great natural tanks, from which for decades he has pumped that oil which, more than anything else, has put this region on a solid economic basis. Since exciting early days, when pioneers bored and found oil in commercial quantities within the city limits of Los Angeles, its flow has increased, and southern California has become a financial and geographic center of a Titan industry. Oil Attracted Many Thousands. As with the land booms, so in foe days of oil excitement there came hordes of oil executives, technicians, drillers, rotary helpers, derteamsters rick men, and truckmen, roustabouts, pipe liners, tank builders, refinery workers, and stock salesmen, adding their thousands to an already heterogens, eous population in and around Los Angeles, the fields of Kern county, and the Kcttlemcn hills. Cne well in Kcltlcmcn hills was bored in 1933 to a depth of 10,944 feet, a new record. Odd, indeed, to visitors is the sight of oil derricks set out in the ocean, down the coast from Santa Barbara, which pump oil from below the sea. At the Rincon field a well has been bored which is more half a mile from the mainland. than d by mans ir- The discovery that holes already deserts rigation ditches! very deep could be drilled even Once Arid Regions Now Gardens. deeper and actually deflected to Maps of barely 30 years ago bore reach new sections of oil pools has the words "Colorado desert" across given Huntington Be?ch a new what is now Imperial county, with boom. From an airplane you look down 60,000 people. where oil is If the prehistoric monsters who on tank farms, left their tracks about the Salton sea stored; dusters of white metal could come back, they would find tanks appear like giant frosted cakes; roofs of still larger reserplenty to eat now, for this bclow-the-sregion has become the na- voirs, built like ponds, are protected tions hothouse. by lightning rods. These, the roarYears ago a plant explorer for the ing refineries, the long pipe lines, United States Department of Agri- trains of oil cars, and tank steamers culture brought some date suckers loading at the ports, are the outfrom Arabia, which were planted, ward and visible signs of this trade experimentally, at Indio, in the Coa- now operating under foe oil conservation law. chella valley. criss-crosse- ca the emblem of va--r ious European monarchies, whereas foe turkey was not only our largest and gamest wild bird, but a native of America. To be sure, young turkeys arent so smart. They love to get their feet wet so they may die from it. In dry sections, young turkeys have been known to jump down an artesian well 90 feet deep in order to get their feet wet. But foe adult turkey is wise and wily, a noble spectacle in the woods and popular in a cooked state, owing to his magnificent bust development and his capacity for holding stuffing or insertion, and his superiority when worked over into turkey hash. But if we are going to make a change in emblems, why not choose foe worm the humble, dumb, unresisting worm as typical of most of the present populace? It could be a worm, too, which would save costs in modeling, because so many of us are the kinds of worms that never turn. peace? 4. How fast can currency be counted? 5. Where is the oldest painting of the Virgin and Child in existence? 6. Docs it cost more to educate a child in a city school than in a rural school? 7. When gold is hammered into the thinnest gold leaf possible, what color is it? 8. What is the definition of a split infinitive? Answers A 1. giant California Information on a much wood will giant Sequoia tree yield? 2. How many persons out of a million will live to be one hundred years old? 3. Who was the first American to receive the Nobel prize for Our National Bird. LAS VEGAS, NEV. Answers Offering 1. How about Achievement of Peace A Quiz With Sequoia tree yielded 3,009 posts, 650,000 shingles and 100 cords of firewood. d and the The upper branches of foe huge tree were not one-thir- used. Various Subjects Roosevelt, for his efforts in bringing about the treaty of peace between Japan and Russia in 1905. It was awarded him in 1903. 4. The expert counters of the Department of the Treasury have counted approximately as many as 40,000 new notes a day, and 25,000 old ones. 5. The oldest painting of the Virgin and Child in existence, done about 150 A. D., is on a wall in the famous Priscilla catacombs in Rome. 6. The average cost to educate a child in a rural school in the United States is $53.31 a year, ard the average in a city school is about $96.18. 7. In this condition it appears green by transmitted light. 8. A split infinitive is one in which an adverb is introduced between the word to," and the verb form, such as to largely deThe word to" as used crease. with the infinitive is not to be classed as a preposition; it is an integral part of the infinitive and hence should not be separated 3. Theodore 2. It is estimated about thirty in a million will live to this adfrom the verb form. vanced age. VOU may either win your peace or buy it; win it, resistance to evil; buy jt JL compromise with evil. You may buy your peace with j. lenccd consciences; yoU may buy it with broken vows-b- uv it with lying words-b- uy it whh base connivances buy it with the blood of the slain, ami the cry of the captives over hemispheres of the earth, while you sit smiling at your serene hearths, muttering continually to yourselves, Peace, peace. when there is no pc?le, but only captivity and death for you. Ve Humans In going thrui;h life we often bewail our misfortunes but seldotn dwell upon our blessings; the is reckoned to a day, the bad debt to computed to a cent, the sleepless night is spoken of with deep but we forget to reckon the many months of our health; we take as a thing of course, and not worth mentioning, that we enjoyed hours of calm and refresning sleep undisturbed even by a dream. Wamega ss Times. one-sid- ed The Sucker Crop. PARLIAMENT, next month, will pass statutes to curb stock market tricksters, brokers, and bucket shop operators who, its estimated, are fleecing foe British public to the tune of $25,000,000 annually. Weve tried it and it doesn't work. As Bamum stated, a sucker is born and sometimes every minute twins. But the crooks who prey on the sucker crop, like the 'Dionne quintuplets, come along in batches. That breed spawn close to shore and the young all survive. Thus is the rule of supply and demand balanced. In good times, there are just enough suckers to go around. In hard times, foe suckers grow scarce, but, when one comes along, foe crooks raffle him off and the winner takes aU. Anyhow, legislation wont save a sucker from himself at least not in this country. He'll break through foe law in order to prove he's a sucker in good standing in the suckers lodge. how By the way, many degrees have you taken? brother-membe- THATS WHY YOU GET MORE FOR YOUR MONEY IN FIRESTONE STANDARD TIRES FlRESTONE builds a dre made of top grade materials and sells it for less money because Firestone passes savings along to you in the form of extra values. Firestone controls rubber and cotton supplies at their sources, manufactures with greater efficiency and distributes st lower cost. Because of these economies r, Restrained Statements. A WAYFARER in Oklahoma; who claimed to have starved him self for forty-on- e days, on being asked how he felt, replied that he felt sort of hungry. 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Join die Firestone SAVE A LIFE Campaign today by letdng your nearby Firestone Dealer or Firestone Auto Supply and service Store equip your car with a set of new Firestone Standard Tires today's top tire value. Gum-Dippe- . Tom Emerys saloon and for colored only. snack-stan- first-qualit- y long-weari- d A group of tire-saf- customers fetched out the limp remains of a darlf perron who had been bored thrice through the heart. Uncle Tom." I inouired of the isnt that Monkey proprietor, John?" subdued-lookin- g DONT RISK YOUR Sho is suh. How did it happen? I asked. Well, suh, said Uncle Tom. It seem like he musta antagonized Mr Buck Evitts. LIFE ike fnm mmrn tin, mitt liid fnitetma Ml .Tim ami, tin art liabk M tmetam, khw MW amd ikiddm plause. The comm'ssioncr of Indian affairs wants the Kavajoes to grow fewer goats. The Navajocs are balking. Goat ha!r is a profitable crop; goat meat makes good eating for an aborigine stomach, anyhow and goat smell is agreeable for Navajo noses. It seems to neutralize some of the other perfumes noticed during shopping hour in a reservation trading post. 0 IRVIN S. COBB. WNU Servlet, I 21 BATTERIES THAT last year highway accidents cost the lives of more 38,000 men, women and chHdren? Thai a million more were injured? THAT more than 40,000 of these deaths and injuries were caused direedy by punctures, blowouts and skidding due to smooth, worn, unsafe dips? AtriOih. cm! CmcLmR ON SMOOTH WORN TIRES! DO YOU KNOW Smoked Glasses for Snakes. (AN TIIE way here, I attended this years sr.ake dance. The dance has become indeed n ft range sight for the snakes. If the tourists don't modify their wardrobes by next year. I expect to see the snakes wearing smoked glasses. Veteran snakes that have iY:cn part during past seasons are showing signs of the strain. 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