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Show (Arthur Brisbane Dangerous Rioting Home Weather Idleness and Vice Airaea McPherson' Debut VICIOUS race riots In California. Filipinos and white men quarreling, quarrel-ing, murderously, warn against Asiatic Asiat-ic immgiration, from whatever source. The riots, starting in the Pajaro Val ley, near Watsonville, spread or fifty miles. Fermln Lovera, a 22-year-old Filipino, was shot to death. A'fred Johnson, 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 them in their so-called club-houses. Seventy Filipinos spent the night ii- the City Hall for protection. Regardless of opinions as to human lights, international brotherhood, etc., the fact Is that white men, in a white country, will not allow their jobs or their women to be taken by Aslatios, and common sense forbids Asiatic Immigration of laborers, from our own Asiatic Islands, or any other source. In Los Angeles, after the rain that meanB 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 States, tell you about their home weather. An ex-New Yorker says New York Is cold and slushy, and seems to glory In it. A former Oregonlan tells you, with Intense satisfaction, that in his part of the world the big Willamette River Riv-er 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 In the suburbs and sprains her ankle, that's more important to Los Angeles newspapers than would be the simultaneous simul-taneous blowing up of Vesuvius, Aetna, Mount Pelee and PopocatapetL Herbert Fleishhacker, of San Francisco Fran-cisco 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 repentance. That until you have seen Del Monter jou have seen nothing. Callfornians are like the Italians of Dante's time. Each thinks his principality prin-cipality the one spot worth while. The fact is that every mile on this coast has something that is to be found nowhere 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 thou-sand miles along the Pacific south of the California border, offers opportunity opportun-ity to some young man with millions and ambition Harkness, who has given millions to Harvard and Yale; Young Leeds, the tlnplate heir, who seems anxious to do something, or some other. There has been offered to this writer writ-er a tract on that peninsula running 400 miles along the coast, sixteen miles wide. With this fair-sized kingdom, king-dom, many Interesting experiments could be made, If the experimenter had millions of dollars as well as millions mil-lions of acres. Investigators in California's San Quentln prison find that idleness is the curse of prison life, leading to rebellion, re-bellion, brooding and vice. Investigators Investigat-ors might make the same report, far from San Quentln, at Palm Beach, Agua Callente, Newport, and other well known resorts. For those made worthless by inherited, inher-ited, 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-terested in work. They should not compete to the detriment of free labor or private business, but they may be occupied 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. Almee Semple McPherson, brilliant bril-liant 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 1 experience directing the production of "Dante's Inferno." Mrs. McPherson promises to make Dante's effort seem as mild as a mother goose story. Allster G. MacDonald, son of Brit- ! aln's Labor Prime Minister, Is on his way here from Chicago, setting a good example by flying. I The Intelligent young man intends to study Hollywood, and western architecture. . j He will find In Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and other coast cities much worth studying In the way of architecture. In Hollywood be will find enough to keep him studying all the rest of his life. , (O. kf (1m Pwuuu Snuiwtu. laO I |