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Show THE RICH COUNIT REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH In .Southern California Are We Overcharged? Being Timid HIS own timidity is the Even our pleasures cost more than they used to. Many a fellows idea of a good time is to pay a $50 fine for 50 cents worth of fun. What ailed the clothing of the ancients more important than a run in the stocking of the modems? You may have a neighbor and be unable to determine whether it is laziness or a kind heart. Both, maybe. Keep your promises and discharge your obligations. It happens occasionally 'hat a man who sees nothing in poetry but ingenious nonsense cant understand why he should be considered foolish by another man because he enjoys Wagner or Mozart. last a timid man ever fears. And yet timidity has lost many a cause which could have been won without rashness or even boldness. The man who is afraid to invest his money loses an income just as truly as the man who has no money to invest. A policy that straddles and hedges in order to avoid' the possibility of error is itself an error. No great scholar, statesman, or reformer is It has been well said that he who never makes a mistake never makes anything. good-natur- al. Oil Derricks r Form Background for Tomato Fateh. Prepared by the National Geographic Society. C. Washington, D. WNU Service. with priests at the old and they will tell that pioneer padres trained Indians to do the first irrigation work in Southern California. Some of their old ditches still exist. You can tell by where these missions stand what good judges of land the priests were. They never built a church on poor soil. Local farming owes these padres a great debt. They not only brought the first cattle and horses, but they experimented with seeds to see what would grow best in California. They planted the first oranges and grapes. Lemons, figs, and olives they brought, too, and wheat, des-- . tined to become a tremendous crop. Almost feudal in aspect were these mission farms. Indians were trained as farmers, cowboys, carpenters, saddle makers, and weavers. They made things not only for the use of priests and themselves, but for Spanish soldiers as well. Cattle became the mainstay of life, with beef the chief food; 'hides made leather for saddles, harness, and shoes, and even served as money. Early sea traders from New England called them California bank notes' Sheep, too, were raised; and Indians made blankets and cloth for suits from the wool. They raised some hogs also, mostly for lard to make soap. Missions served as stock farms from which private owners could borrow enough breeding animals to build up their own herds. Horses of a tough, speedy type, with a strain of Arabian from those brought to Mexico by conquistadores, thrived there, multiplying so fast that in time wild herds became a nuisance. Men used to drive them into the sea to drown them. Cattle often ran wild over the travopen range. In elers sometimes had to shoot savage bulls. At slaughtering . time, vaqueros. rode down the thundering herds, slew what they wanted, and left carcasses to be skinned by butchers who followed. Melted tallow was packed in hides and transported to sailing vessels along the coast. This trade dwindled after gold was found. The inflowing of population made an end to the great droves of cattle, wrote Dana in 1859, on his second trip to California. Old Ranches Cut Up. Today this once huge industry, which kept the shoe and leather trades of New England supplied, is a dim tradition. In museums you see old oxcarts and horse gear, massive hand-mad- e furniture and pioneer weapons. Santa Barbara stages a fiesta each season, in which modern beaux and belles dress in pioneer Spanish costumes, ride horses with Spanish saddles, sing Spanish ballads, and dance fandangos to early Spanish music. But the modem spectacle is more splendid than the original hard, frugal life of toil ever was. Practically all old ranches are cut up now. One or two, like the Santa Margarita and the Tejon, remain; but overseers make their rounds in motor cars. In fields where grunting oxen once pulled wooden plows, you hear now the staccato voice of gas TALK . ; self-defen- se . -- . . tractors. Among squawking macaws and tinkling bells in the Mission Inn garden at Riverside stands an old, old orange tree. It is one of two navel seedlings sent here from Brazil, by way of Washington, in 1873. Both lived and are ancestors now of countless trees whose fruit reaches not only the most obscure nooks of the United States, but goes to forty-od- d ports overseas, even into Alaska by dog-sle-d delivery. What a colossal feat of distribution! To move and sell such incredible cargoes, more than 13,000 growers form the Fruit Exchange. Their salesmen are posted in 59 central markets, here and abroad. Their brand stamped on fruit is known around the world. They even own their own timber lands and sawmills, where millions of crates are made long-taile- d, . for packing fruit. like orange and lemon oils, citric acid and citrus pectin, are made and sold by this organization. Ships that carry its fruit abroad are vast floating refrigerators, for they must pass through the Panama canal and other tropic waters. Frost is fought with orchard heaters, while millions are spent on sprays and fumigation. ts, wmmmmamammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm The. people m uho tblk of their worries ITfcke everyone troubles increase. policeman should A ed rrestjheTn simply Becfcvse theyre disturbing the pe'ec.e. RTC"'! WNU Service. Indulgent Dad Son, Father can always tell you UndtPlulQi something for your own good if he will speak the whole truth to Even There you. Often he hesitates to hurt Can I trust him? your feelings. The man who always speaks Why, hes so crooked that the the truth is sure to have other wool he pulls over your eyes is if they virtues. half cotton. Regrets Should Deter All regrets are vain as deterrents on fuValue of ture occasions. Individual growers, competing, Inactivity, supineness, and efcould not have obtained such ruined more confeminacy distribution stitutions have methodical, world-wid- e were ever dethan of oranges now graded, inspected, labors. excessive by stroyed and sold by the Exchange. It is women There are who, gifted conspicuous among all mans .coman much the how perceiving operative efforts. Common inter- who loves them has idealized ests unite its members, both in busithem, succeed in living up to his ness and social affairs. Two happy souls! ideal. One visit to an annual orange festival, with all its music, drama, pageantry, and carnival spirit, shows what a role this fruit plays in California life. More than any other one force, it was the lure of life in a sunny California orange grove which started easterners migrating here in the 1880s and it still brings them. From its trees, since the Exchange started its records in 1894, have been picked and sold nearly $2,000,000,000 worth of citrus fruit or more than the value of all gold mined since its discovery in 1848! The Bible story of the miraculous gourd vine that grew in one day to make shade for Jonah is hardly more astonishing, than the rise of the western vegetable trade. It is an exciting page in the annals of our national farm life. New food habits, the call for more green things, is one cause. Advent of the iced car, overcoming Californias former disadvantage of remoteness from eastern markets, is another. Due to geographic barriers, as late as 1900 this trade was a mere trickle. Now, with refrigeration, standard packing, and advertising, more than 100,000 carloads of garden truck, largely grown in California, ride east every year. Busy Imperial Valley. a Imperial valley, that Hothouse of America once called the Salton Sink, grows more cantaloupes, honeydews, and casa-ba- s than any area its size in the world. Its large-scal- e operations are indeed industrialized farm- ' THE CHEERFUL CHERUB do not act A Worthy Ambition Perhaps Both in Error Greatest personal triumph is to I always speak well of Smith. make a friend out of an old eneHe doesnt speak well of you. my; and as interesting an ambi-tio- r Well, maybe we are both as any other. A boost when needed is better than a pull that isnt. Yes, Tell Us He My father weighed only As soon as a man begins to love his work, then will he also four pounds when he was born. She Mercy me! Did he live? begin to make progress. OTeoasETO 0000 saw aooQ (50 S0W 0000 o below-the-se- ing. Terrific heat, dust, and the frantic picking, packing, loading, and icing of more than 6,000,000 crates of melons in a few weeks turn this valley, from May to June, into an inferno of nervous haste. Only Mexicans and Japanese seem able to work in the fields; some say that only they can . tell just when a melon, should be picked, or when a mule will surely drop from being overheated if driven another rod. Yet 60,000 residents endure this climate! Frost-fre- e regions along the San Diego coast send their share of tomatoes, celery, and other green foods. Los Angeles county was the pioneer garden spot; there first grew that lettuce now called iceberg head, an Italian strain introduced through Vilmorin, famous seedsman of Paris. Electricity for Everything. You marvel at miles of power lines carried on steel towers. Hardly a country home is without electricity. , Farmers throw a switch and machines cook food, heat water, milk cows, sterilize milk, and separate the cream. Electric power hatches eggs and warms the coops. Long, dry summers call for much pumping, and electric irrigation pumps run almost continuously from April to September. Walnuts, formerly dried in the sun, are dehydrated now by electricity. To make seeds germinate faster, cables laid in the soil are heated by this power. With electricity oranges are colored and precooled for shipment. Motors hum in myriad industries. In busy oil fields, shops, and harbor sheds, bright lights turn night into day. With electricity men drill for oil, pump it when natural flow subsides, and refine it. The same source heats enormous furnaces and - - -. annealing ovens. t Q0M? 0000 000 A C3D0O Til RE'S There is a reason why Louis Meyer won the Indianapolis race this year and why he is the only man ever to. win this gruelling race three d times. He always used Firestone Tires, and never experienced tire trouble of any kind. Louis Meyer knows tire construction. 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