Show p 3 x l. l I r t 1 4 t u r s g b bi i I I J 1 J d 1 1 Ii r. r Th E Z Z T V q an an Diego W ere Its It's Al- Al ti Watts wallS Fair Weather Weather Wea Wea- ther Cher Scene of 2 Military Activity of Manu Varieties S 1 HEN war broke out Uncle UncleS S w Sam bore bore bor down upon r L Y V San Diego Cal Cat and said Wake I 1 I up sleeping beauty t t 9 9 99 Youre You're conscripted I want your clear blue skies for my aviators your jour our ocean ocean going going mesa for a khaki city and your deep locked land Y harbor for submarines radio stations marine bases great battle ships and andY andall andall Y all sorts of exciting things k All right uncle replied San Diego l dropping Its dolce doice far niente for workIng workIng work work- t Ing tag overalls You bet I And concrete And concrete ships suggested Uncle Sam as an after afterthought I want you to build shoals of them w Again San Diego was enthusiastic and thus by an odd trick of the these e war wartimes wartimes wartimes times the most peaceful dreamy city In 11 America has become a military pageant Before the war San DI Diego go was renowned re renowned re- re for Its perpetual cool ool fair re-I re sunny weather for desert seascapes and flowers for tor old Spanish a architecture arch archi sa artistic atmosphere and romantic romantic ro ro- mantic mantle traditions It was a a haven for se seekers of rest Joy and play Today Today Today To To- day It stands at attention In olive drab Its population has bas been doubled by uniformed men and It has bas more more war activities than any city of it its size si In Inthe Inthe ing g the country r A Mixture of Races r Its wave wave lulled lulled quiet Is broken byk hy by hythe hythe k the rhythm of ot marching feet the music music mu mu- I a sic of ot military hands bands the clatter of ot hoofs hoots and the aerial chug chug chug-chug chug of mo mo- tors tore A ship building plant will so soon m bring smokestacks and thousands of ot workmen to the poets poets' 3 r city Up and down palm lined ge geranium e- e bordered avenues go French officers In horizon blue an occasional Briton or Canadian daredevil aces with silver wings and adventurous a weather-beaten weather faces Mexican vaqueros vaqueros ros turned cavalrymen haughty Navajos Nav- Nav ajos Pimas and Hopi who have swapped swap swap- r tied ped gorgeous blankets and ancient ancients ancient's s 's desert pueblos for tor drab uniforms and army tents cowpunchers ex-cowpunchers tryIng try- try t J Ing tug to feel natural In navy middles middies and Jaunty caps and soldiers and anel sailors sailors sailors sail sail- ors drawn from one-fifth one the area of the United States Camouflaged ships slip often Into the azure harbor and r sail away under convoy carrying thousands of hard muscled hard muscled young l warriors to the battle line In France coaling station To the government come come strange vessels flying foreign flags Sometimes n a Japanese ship drops anchor and groups of ot polite little hittie lit hit r tie tie tle brown men go sightseeing through I the streets Into the life the thrill of of housewife washL washing wash wash- war has come The L ing lug the breakfast dishes hears hear hooft hoof- hoof 1 t beats and ami rushes to the porch A Ar r scout rides by He lle hitches his horse f and recon recon- at nt the edge of ot the canyon I for Imaginary nuns Huns Hap Happily he finds only quail and meadowlarks meadow meadow- I larks and soon the whole cavalry troop 4 comes come galloping tall galloping tall lean rangy riders as brown as their own khaki One tine wonders If the kaisers kaiser's Uhlan are so much a n part pirt of horse and sad sael- die llIe Many of the horsemen al' al are aie from the Frederick Remington country and anel have ha shot wolves and coyotes rounded round round- ed 1 up cattle thieves and ridden days through sand and cactus with alkali dust clinging Ito their eyelashes The sun on the satiny backs of th their ir mounts Two or three wave waye gayly at nt Mrs Housewife on the p porch Sh She returns returns returns re re- re- re turns the salute with a comradely flourish of the tea low towel el and in a flurry of ot dust they are gone gone Aircraft In the Sky Time was when hen San got a n thrill from waiting two or three hours at an aviation meet finally to be told by a fat gentleman with a megaphone that as the wind was strong the exhibition exhibition would be postponed Later when tw two o or three lonely onely airships be began an circling circling circling cir cir- cling overhead the population elevated their noses and craned their necks In admiration The first graduating class of eight from Rockwell field was vas hailed hailed hail hail- ed by bv the new newspapers as a great event Today with 20 airships In the sky at t once and with thousands of birdmen training at nt North Island the civilians are blase However the theof chutter of an engine brings l Mrs rs Housewife out of ot doors to look It may be Mike Brown super ace super super-a ace e of ot North Island or some fome space-defying space I Frenchman borrowed from the fighting line to teach battle acrobatics I In such a case numbers of ot dinners will wait walt while the aviator climbs the theair theair theair I air in leaps and bounds as though I vaunting up a gigantic aerial staircase stair stair- case When he Is a little moth against t ta a mountainous cumulous cloud or feet above the earth the ch clue ches ging of the motor stops and the bird bird- ship coasts In a long swooping dive down down growing larger every minute until It rights Itself and the engine begins to turn urn again He climbs again toward the zenith flies mes meson on his back rocks from side to sl side e loops the loop performs side spins and tail tall spins the zigzagging falling leaf leat and the turn most swift of air movements movements Not until the bird wai-bird has flown off to lunch hunch does Mrs Housewife remember her fireless fireless cooker Peace for the Oregon From an excursion steamer one looks aloft to a n sky whirring with air al planes One counts a dozen en en dor-en a score but it Is Is' Impossible to keep track hack for machines piloted by f students and instructors Instructors In In- are are alighting a and d ascending A sight of ot thrilling loveliness loveliness love love- liness It Is purple blue purple blue water below stretching to the end of the world where almond eyed almond Japanese kiddies are F Flaying In the surf above the translucent blue of skies like those of ot France and Italy against It the blue white planes dipping racing sailing as gracefully as the gulls Some Somo are ire feet teet up specks against pastel- pastel tinted Mexican mountains Others fly I lower their engines scolding ferociously ferociously fero fero- as they breeze along at nt more than a n hundred miles an hour Their shadows flit across picturesque Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese mesa fishing craft pleasure boats and submarine destroyers and battleship brittle brittle- ship Oregon which after the dare- dare deviltry of ot its youth Is spending a n first respectable old age as a naval training ship With the speeding up of ot the war efort effort ef et- tort ort flying Is done seven se days a n week Sabbath afternoons are enlivened by squads of ot machines practicing battle formations flying In wedges wedge like Uke wild I gee eese e. e or In single le file or circling around each other at the signal sl nal of or orthe the he leader in queer Virginia reels reel of the tho air Thousands of feet above earth they suggest SU Est the tM dizzy dizz dance of Insects around a lamp The boys bOJ who wie are starting to the war from San Die Diego o are In luck as to and climate climate and fun I After duty is s over there thre is always play The country Is a perpetual Invitation It Is rimmed about by sapphire seas seas which splash ish ishIn In lacy breakers around cUlTs cliffs grottoes grottoes grot grot- grottoes toes and gUsten glistening ng white benches beaches In Inthe Inthe Inthe the background mountains of pale blue violet and rose appear and van- van isa through hazes and vapors Betwee Between Between Be Be- tween twee mountains and the sea sea- palms wave waye the desert stretches Its mile on mile of mystery and oranges and lemons lemons lemons lem lem- ons bloom from Christmas eve to Christmas evet eve t Movie Stars Are There From the studios at Los Angeles movie stars debouch on the city Hardly Hard Hard- ly a day passes when Theda Bara Barn Clara Kimball Young Mary PIckford Mary Miles Minter Doug Fairbanks or other lights of ot the screen dont don't appear In person to godmother or godfather an orphan regiment Many 1 a bashful rookie whose life Ufe has been spent In mountain solitude remote remote remote re re- re- re mote from feminine fluffiness has talked face to face with the movie star of his dreams dream San SaD Diego's own o Schumann Heinl sings often Ruth St St. Denis Dents and Ted Shawn entertain and many novelists magazine writers and artists who have emigrated to California join forces with with the Y M M. C. C A. A to give the soldiers n a good time Soldiers on hike may eat their noonday meal by the sea on a moun mountain moun- moun tain side In an olive grove or by the ruins of an old mission Often regiments regiments regiments regi regi- ments are Invited to Point Loma a n white city overlooking the sea where theosophists make their home Here are avenues of palms the rose rose- purple domes of temples exotic trees and a n Greek Greel theater where the Raja Yoga girls in Greek robes garlanded with flowers sing choruses or a dramatiC dramatic dramatic dra dra- matic class dass presents a Shakespearean play to a regiment resting from a hike Every ery afternoon at nt Balboa Park the navy boys may listen to an open open air air pipe organ recital If they prefer It to swimming boating or loitering loitering loitering loi loi- loi- loi In Japanese gardens pepper groves or rose-hung rose arbors On the plaza around which Is the regal group of palaces where the navy lavy boys are billeted n a dance Is given every Saturday Sat Saturday Sat Sat- Saturday night with the stars overhead Moorish towers looming up mistily In Inthe Inthe inthe the Background and d glimpses of moonlit sea shimmering between Greek pillars It seems seems an Ideal life And yet wh when n a n streaked and dotted paint- paint splashed transport splashed t transport sneaks Into the harbor harbor harbor har har- bor and weighs anchor a n f few w hours while It takes on a n precious cargo of American youths the only sober ober faces one se sel seA S are of ot the boys who will be left behind |