Evening Star Newspaper, November 16, 1925, Page 22

-DEATH VALLEY NOW ¥ . to Turn Deadly Desert :F Into Fertile Farms. - S part . desert, v ~ . Wells, where wate V . * pictured the > By the Consolidated Press. * BECOMING AN EDEN ubterranean River Tapped | RENO, November 16.—Sclence has started the transformation of bleak Death Valley, the most forbidding of all the far-flung Mojave into a veritable Garden of Eden. Chicago capitalists have completed plans for establishment of a mag- nificent health resort near Stovepipe can be ralsed in ebundance from a depth of less than 20 feet; Callfornia grape growers are planting hundreds of acres of vine. yards, the Department of Agriculture | i established a station for the and private t surely fore- of desolation on olate mountains| Iying hundreds level, swept by d_shimmering . Death Valley has emigrant wastes. The gorges and and u dozen other fear- ell of the dread the burn: nds inspired in the early nd prospectors. Sparkling Springs Deadly. Panting _wanderers, stumbling ling spri; quaffed the | to writhe out their lives| s of arsenic pofsoning. | = illusifons wrought by the sand and heat on disordered |a minds—ever beckoned to destruction, | until even the dauntless prospctors| valley as a lair of demons. | blossom. Drifting sand dunes obliterated Abe Martin Says: These are opportune days t' pick up a few lessons at mother's knee. Tipton Bud's nephew killed his busi- ness partner yisterday while fightin’ o'er who'd watch th' business this winter while th’ other wuz in Florida. It's reverses an' not boosts that de- velop reg'lar fellers. What's worse'n bein’ on a fraternal committee an’ havin' neuritis in th' right hand? Pres'dent Coolidge never learned t' play, but it hain't too late yit fer him t' git some loud socks an' a yeller overcoat. Tilford Moots’ brother, who's movin' from Californy t' Floridy, says he hates t' leave th’ mountains, but Iowa people are too severe. (Copyright John F. Dille Co.) marked tralls and buried the few springs of safe water until the most experienced desert wanderer hesi- tated to face its terrors. Bleaching bones long marked the toll of human lives claimed by the merciless valley, and_hardy Indians described its arid wastes as “the land forgot by the Great Spirit." But with the coming of the auto- mobile all has changed. Good roads span the storied wastes. Gypsum, borax and other non-precious minerals have vied with gold and silver to at- tract population and capital. And now the green mantle of agriculture is slowly covering the more favored portions of this erstwhile sea of deso- lation. Underground River Tapped. From the hidden waters of the Ar- margosa River, flowing for miles underground, life-giving molsture has been developed. Hundreds of wells .| have tapped precious water deep in the desert's stony breast. Fatal springs have been located and marked th warnings to guide the wanderer. Tropic fruits are springing forth in profusion, and thousands of acres of once sterile sand are beginning to And now the dry, hot cli- mate has been enlisted in the bat- talions of health. Scientists and experts in agriculture assert that the very elements that so long fought man will become his best allies. Isolation of the valley from the surrounding world will safeguarl its orchards, vineyards and gardens from the vegetable insect scourges, and ploneer agriculturists from ruin- ous competition. METHODISTS ‘WARN SOUTH OF AL SMITH Board of Temperance Views Walker’s Trip South as “Effrontery.” Construing the Southern trip of Mayor-elect Walker of New York as a move to obtain the support of that sectlon for Gov. Al Smith as a *pro- posed presidential candidate,” the board of temperance, prohibition and public morals of the Me!hodlst Epls- copal Church views it as “astonishing effrontery” and advises the South to “be on fits guard.” Assalling Gov. Smith and Tammany Hall in general, the board declared in | a statement, published today, that it was ‘“exceedingly doubtful if the Democrats could carry a single South- ern State” under the Smith banner. It is not certain, it added, that they “could carry any State at all.” Assalls Walker’s Record. Attacking Mr. Walker's political record also, the board declared the South would “be interested to know" of his “connection with New York's odorous prize fighting game and with those elements in New York which are doing their best to murder Amer- ican standards of morality." The mayor-elect, the board sald, need not be misled by & “courteous hospi- tality not given Mr. McAdoo's South- ern delegates in New York” into be- lieving that the South will support “the country’s foremost political cham- plon of the liquor interests.” Hits Wet “Deflance.” Let the South remember, it said, the “defiance by Tammany of the Demo- cratic decision rendered by the South, West and a large portion of the East that the liquor traffic should not be legalized and protected,”” and that “Gov. Al Smith and his friends were the first political group in America to introduce a religious issue into a con- vention of a political party.” “The effort to make it appear that Gov. Al Smith's opponents are ‘preju- diced’ against his religion is as false now.as it was-then,’ the board sald. “To a man’ they have more réspect for’ a good Catholic than for-a bad Protes- tant. 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