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Show Farrell Speech in California Gibed at Salt Lake's '.'Fossils" . t, Mr. .farrell apoke before the Huntington Beach. CaL, chamber of commerce Monday, July . of this . year, and tha Huntington Beach Newa of Friday, July 11. reported hi remark a follow: "Will O. rarrell, boasting frequently fre-quently that he had only ona leg, traveled so fast In hi story of city building that hi audience, following-him InT silence r"lhatwa noticeable, could hardly keep near enough to taka hi dust.' Dynamic Dy-namic logical, ' convincing. Mr. Farrell told the story of Los Angeles, An-geles, a wonder story of a man built city. In a place where no city could grow.. "A story of a dty that atarted with nothing but a few sick men who . came there to die and changed their minds. Deciding to live, they concluded to build ' a city worth living In. They would make it tha biggest and the but city In the world, they decided. The world gibed and laughed and Jeered, but. the . men dug and bonded and atrov. and at last they succeeded and they are faat beginning to reallE their dream of the greatest city In tha world, msn built for men. "WONDER BREAKER." "A wonder speaksr tsll this, story of a wonderful city, a story all Huntington Beach had heard before, held Ms audience In wonderment won-derment at tha bigness of the thing ha pictured and thrilled -every man present, with a consciousness con-sciousness of his duty to the city where ha Uvea. The burden of Farrell'a talk waa that men build cltlea where, they, please, and that no natural advantage,, no conditions condi-tions of luck or fate or chance will be lance up and of themselves make a city unleaa tha manpower ln that city combines, cooperate. euiiue inrvnB iia mamgrr w commerce, th only mean, aa he declared,- through which a city can function. "He urged Huntington Beach men to get Into tha chamber of commerce and to build here the kind of city they wanted to build. He pointed out that tha business men of tha city as aasembled at the banquet war largely young men. 'youthful baUyhooer,' be called them with a golden smll that won th hearts of tha men h Jested about- "FOSSILS" IN SALT LAKE. "A good story teller. Mr. Farrell punctuated hi addreea with frequent fre-quent atorlee. the point of which was aptly Illustrated by hi argument. argu-ment. He closed by urging the men of Huntington Beach to work together, aaging that no one man could do for tha city what all men I wntwi awif. uui urn u mn working together could accomplish any reeulta they might dealre to sst up aa their goal. Ha weed Biblieal stortee andquotstions and, axplain.ng why hs hsd left Utah to soma ta California, sate that Salt Lake City waa located In the Jurassio formation and that seme ef tha eld fossils of that ported were at I II strutting around tha Streets abatrueting progress "Ha said that he came to California' Cali-fornia' because here beside tha ocean waa a valley, tha moot fertile fer-tile ln the world, with Its wonderful wonder-ful asset of climate, Ita coast line ao long aa from New York to Savannah, the moat wonderful resources re-sources under tha gun and the etna ller proportionate popu la tlona. a region capable or such mar-, mar-, veloua development that no sane msn could resist Its lure. |