Show Today RABBITS TURTLES PEACE NO O POOR MAN PlANS PlAN'S S PLACE TRY LOS ANGELES THAT T IS TilE THE PLACE BV fly ARTHUR BRISBANE E Copyright 1927 1027 By The Star St. Co HODGE Calif Oct OcL 3 This This Is written ritten w at hedge Hodge e Calif on the so- so 0 caned ca Mojave desert 60 miles back rom from fr om the Pacific ocean 2000 feet bove above a It This writer has bought acres res ac here but docs does not advise you ou ouo to 10 o invest Some day every crery foot loot of this desert lesert d will be green but It is not a ailace alace place lace p for quick quck money-making money no place pl ppl ace for the man that cannot bring plenty enty pl of money mone with him tm Will Hays movie moderator and andins king ins ki ng has asked this writer to get him hima hi m a thousand acres or so here to keep and nd a forget Paul Shoup of the South South- Southern ern c m nn Pacific with millions of acres in Inthis inis this his th is region will 1 bo be asked to oblige e. e Some S ome day Hays will be pleasantly reminded minded re of his purchase but it Is not lot n for the little buyer bujer or the tue man anxious a to male maize a a. living now without working working- w too hard It H is a 0 land of great delight After Arter y ou have base ha e brought in your well start- start cd C d your jour our 40 horsepower hor electric pump throwing t Into your jour our reservoir tg g gallons aliens of beautiful water waler every hour to t o see fee vigorous young joung alfalfa protect protect- protected ed e d in Its youth by a cover corp of tall all t sedan grass covering acres that w ere barren desert and sagebrush one y ear ago makes It worth while to tove li ve here There ought to be little houses h for retired school schoolteachers teachers fire fire- firemen firemen Z ire ire- men m policemen clergymen and other d people scattered over acres cres a about here surrounded by a million illion m chickens and turkeys Riding your y our horse in any direction over o these soft oft s desert flats fiats and hills you jou meet nothing n to remind you of mankind Jack act J rabbits as fleet and almost as S bg b g tg as small deer bound ahead of you youver over o vcr ver the sagebrush and cactus and lurking l coyotes COotes start In pursuit and hank thank t you perhaps for rousing lousing the rabbits r Desert turtles as S big as a rm milk m ilk pall pail draw in their heavy heads as a s you pass coyotes turn them over tear t ear off oft the under shell eat cat the meat ants a clean the bones tones The shells sake make n good bird houses This Is a place for lor men with money money or o r real rea workers At the Los Angeles air fair f recently the blue ribbon for the best b est alfalfa grown here anywhere was won non by b bp y the Hodge Sledge brothers broth rs for whom this p place lace is named When the war ended he the t two brothers took land hero here as homesteaders h and under the soldiers' soldiers and land l act they cleared their land dug their wells built a a. a gallon r reservoir installed their pump all an with w Ith their own hands sleeping at first f under a to lean-to working eight hours h ours a a. day for other men to live hen then t working additional hours on their own account And they get the blue ribbon r for the finest alfalfa in the countr c This Is a good place pla e for formen men nen willing to work like that but they are ar not numerous The wonderful place to see sec Is 60 miles west of 01 here here Los Los Angeles Angelas There la 18 the Ule place to go taking money with you jou OU for investment Harnessing the Uie t Colorado river now a certainty tI thanks hanks t to Hiram Johnson Herbert I Hoover and President Coolidge will double d Los Lea Angeles values alues within a few Tew f ew years ears And with abundant cheap p pf power Dower ower Los Angeles now sixth manufacturing manu mann f city in the country with 6 Industries will rise rapidly to s supremacy Able business men Julius Rosenwald of Scars Roebuck Fire- Fire FIrestone tone stone s the tire man the Goodyear Goodear and other ther o big concerns including the powerful Henry Ford arc are building huge Los Angeles plants Labor is abundant rents and living are cheap and ind there is La no coal problem because you ou do no not need coal The man b l a plant here is Li wise on hi his own wn account sighted far-sighted and a bone bone- benefactor Factor to labor H if G. G G Wells is useful because he Is 1 not afraid to let his imagination work and write l down what it tells him The average man is afraid to say anything thing he lie cannot prove pro by someone dead itt or 1000 years Wells says another war more terrible than Ulan any Is on th thc the horizon The omens are as plain I Inow now as os they were in 1907 It is to I be a war from the air gas gsa suffocating hole cities instead of bullets killing a few thousands Wholesale Instead i of retail murder Wells confesses that he be was as sur sur- surprised surprised when that profession of ruth ruth- ruthless less insensitive mediocrities the mill roth tary profession lon allowed the great wa war to happen Fortunately there is a I that Wells may be Surprised again by an art almost t. t indefinite post post- postponement of the big gas war What Wha t everybody expects usually does no not I happen The worlds world's greatest power paver high finance is 18 better organized than that oar ever and knows what it did not DOt knot C In 1907 1007 that war does not pay ruin ruins 3 even en the winners and would lead lea next time to government tion of capital The kings ruled they thet 7 did not have wr w-r if It they did not wan want war var With finance ruling and no not wanting war the deadly gas S war ma may be postponed indefinitely Meanwhile the little private wars vera developed eloped by the tho big war and boot boot- bootlegging legging thrives and amid constantly im- im improves proves its methods Six bandits held up the Los Angeles Merchants Na Na- National National bank last week we k Five F men car car- carried ried tied each a shotgun the sixth stood In the doorway and called attention to a compact little little- machine gun o of which he handled the trigger fa fa- fa a- a Customers bringing the their money for Tor deposit just before Batur Satur- Saturday day closing closing- were lined up tip against th the wall Bank employees were ordered to lie flat on the floor inside the th wire cage They all obeyed except R. R C C. Elliott manager of ot the bank A little slow to obey he was as knocked senseless with the e butt of a shotgun The six collected the cash an and drove e away In their automobile also stolen n. n If It Mr Wells Velis or anybody can find a way to discourage those little wars of which finance and business are the victims finance and business will be much obliged New York City's real estate is as as- as for the coming coining years year's tAxation at fifteen thousand five hundred mil mil- million million lion dollars That is almost equal b to the debt of the United States and If it Its 15 IS tunes what that debt was before the war But the fifteen and a half halt billion assessment represents only a a. small part of New Yorks York's real estate value New York has never had a real estate estat tate boom The rise wis' wis real can cart cannot cannot not even euro e en guess future values Between Thirty-fourth Thirty and flint Fifty streets and Eighth and aud Third avenue nc rich people from all allover over the United States fill nu the t hotels and spend their money The value of land depends on the amount of money spent on that land The future will Ill see sec New York corners comers sell at nt fifty thousand dollars a a- front foot and more That will make snake good single weep but it cannot be helped The Mellon Institute of announces discovery of 01 a new repellent I for moths Alkaloids which will save cave many millions a 0 year Moths will not touch woolen clothes thus protected and the new repel repellent repellent lent Is 18 easier to use more durable dumble than some similar discoveries More important would be a discovery ery cry that would prevent prent pre nt rust That would save enough money to pay the national debt in less than 20 years year and provide funds for the needed canal and power pOl program at nt the same time lime While waiting for that discovery cry ery builders should concentrate on copper and cement |