Show HIE I 1 IRI OF SE we suffered seven or eight years with a lack of water the rigors of a drouth wera upon us then seemingly comes a turn more water reservoir filled rains more often the underlying der lying cause no one knows As another example the winter of a year and a half ago had the coldest weather we have ever experienced here this last winter was a late fall only very mild only twice did the writer button up his overcoat six months ago and then followed a cool spring with much rain but when summer came no rains to speak of A very dry season on now what little rain does fall is meager not worth mentioning the variability of the seasons puts us all like the hopi indian doing a rain sing to get wetness in a month the ho pis will set the date for their snake dance then for about nine days they will enact a drama and pray for rain we in our churches will probably do the latter half of that the prayer but without the snake that s only half way going into it why not he lie whole rite for a years the givers of rain have listened with heedful ears to brown men asking for the life giving rain surely their appeal for it must be correct for they get it we have charts a daily service but yearly the indian asks for rain whispers the message to the little brother the snake and yearly he gets rain doese the lord hear only the white man s palaver 9 if so what creed lots of ballyhoo in the papers about an upswing of business we hope there is a basis of fact in it and not all political hot air and not made possible only because of the huge sum that is being squandered around from Wase hington if no more than just that one factor the sum is big enough to be reflected in a bettering of business without business itself being basically better pump priming has to be repeated it is a crutch our people dont care to throw away and its a peach of a political vote getter so we ought to have orle more squirt ot its juice just before election as well as now how |