From the July 14, 1934, issue

DESERT PLANTS DEFY THEIR DROUGHT THAT NEVER ENDS

Plants of the Southwestern desert might well be amused—if plants could feel amusement—over the present grievous outcry caused by the drought’s menace to the softer-bodied crops of the moister areas to the east. For desert plants have learned to live in a land cursed with a drought that never ends.