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Show This Week By ARTHUR BRISBANE DANGEROUS RIOTING HOME WEATHER IDLENESS AND VICE AIMEE MjcPHERSON'S DEBUT. Vicious race riots in California.. Filipinos and white men quarreling, quar-reling, murderously, warn against Asiatic immigration, from whatever what-ever source. The riots, starting in the Pajaro valley, near Watson-ville, Watson-ville, spread for fifty miles. Fer-min Fer-min Lovera, a 22-year-old Filipino, was shot to death. Alfred Johnson, John-son, white youth, was stabbed in the back. Filipinos have been imported in! considerable numbers to work on fruit and vegetable farms. That caused trouble, aggravated by the Filipinos hiring white girls to entertain en-tertain them in their so-called club-houses. Seventy Filipinos spent the night In the city hall for protection. ir -' Regardless of opinions as to human hu-man rights, international brotherhood, brother-hood, etc., the fact is that white men, in a white country, will not let their jobs or their women be taken by Asiatics, and common sense forbids Asiatic immigration of laborers, from our own Asiatic islands, or any other source. In Los Angeles, after the rain that means prosperity the sun is shining out, hot, and bright. . Angelenos, as the inhabitants of this happy city call themselves, early or recent arrivals from different dif-ferent states, tell you about their home weather. An exNew Yorkers says New York is cold and slushy, and seems to glory in it. A former Oregonian tells you, with intense satisfaction, that in his part of the world the big "Willamette river is frozen solid, automobiles driving over it. Ice breakers are clearing a water path for boats. Concentrated Los Angeles civic pride has a good deal to do with this city's progress. If an Angeleno lady falls downstairs down-stairs in the suburbs and sprains .her ankle, that's more important to Los Angeles newspapers than would be the simultaneous blowing blow-ing up of Vesuvius, Aetna, Mount Pelee and Popocatapetl. ' ' '-... i i . .' Herbert Fleishhacker of San Francisco is at Santa Barbara, looking, as usual, for something more to buy. He tells you that everything will be all right with business after two or three months of repentence. That until you have seen Del Monte you have seen nothing. Califomians are like the Italians Ital-ians of Dante's time. Each thinks his principality the one spot worth while. The fact is that every mile of this coast has something that is to he found no where else. All the way from the palms in the south to the giant fir trees and roaring mountain rivers in the north, it is all a land of wonder. Lower California, long peninsula, owned by Mexico, stretching a thousand miles along the Pacific south of the California border, offers opportunity to some young man with millions and ambition Harkness, who has given millions mil-lions to Harvard and Yale; young Leeds, the tinplate heir, who seems anxious to do something, or some other. There has been offered to this writer a tract on that peninsula running 400 miles along the coast, sixteen miles wide. With this fair-sjz"d fair-sjz"d kingdom, many interesting experiments could be made, if the experimenter had millions of dollars dol-lars as well as millions of acres. Investigators in California's San Quentin prison find that idleness is the curse of prison life, leading lead-ing to rebellion, brooding and vice. Investigators might make the same report, far from San Quentin, Quen-tin, at Palm Ecac!:, Ajua Cali- ente, Newport, and other well known resorts. For those made worthless by inherited, in-herited, or too easily acquired wealth, there is no cure, generally, but the undertaker. But there should be some way of keeping convicts busy, and interested in work. They should not compete to the detriment of free labor or private pri-vate business, but they may be occupied oc-cupied with fair profit to themselves, them-selves, without such competition, and made to know, by experience, that work is better and more profitable than crime. Mrs. Aimee Semple MJcPherson, brilliant young revivalist who has caused many to mend their ways, will make talkies and preach on a really big scale. "Sermonettes", to make heaven and hell as real as Santa Monica, and Wall Street, will be sent far and wide, preaching the gospel to all the world, literally. The directing gentleman got useful use-ful experience directing the production pro-duction of Dante's Inferno. Mrs. MjcPherson promises to make Dante's effort seem as mild as a mother goose story. (Copyright, Kong Features, Inc.) Mailing of Income Tax F.lanUs Bcirrm Th: mailing of 18,000 income tax blanks to individuals and ccrpora-j ccrpora-j tions who will pay government lev-' lev-' ies on 1929 incomes was started i Thursday at the office of James I H. Anderson, collector -of interna; i revenue. The first payment is du? March 15. |