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Show ' LOS ANGELES AT. A DISAPPOINT MENT. A newspaper man. who left Ogden last summer, intending to make Los I Vngeles his home, has returned with some wholesome advice. including one or two "don'ts." He says that, if you must labor for a Ining, don t go to that part of California Cali-fornia Furthermore, if you must go to Los A'lieles for your health and to satis fy a wanderlust, don't buy real cs t?tf or invest in any of the building and loan associations. Heal estate Is a gamble worse than that of faro or roulette and there are thousands of victims of the game in that city. Th whole atmosphere of Los An-! An-! gn'es is depressing to any one who roust work for a living and come in Contact with the tremendous struggle strug-gle for existence going on in nery avenue of employment The employ ment agencies nrp crowded with job fceekers and a call for one position brings a great rush of despairing men and women. The Standard repeatedly has said that, if ever confidence were shaken In the real estate market of Los Angeles, An-geles, the boom would collapse as though it were a house made of cards, and now we are seeing a part of that prediction realized e would not care to live where so much of the misery of the world forces itself on orle and is so large a part of the life of a place. We pre fer to remain In Utah where there is no boom and none of the terrible scenes of poverty. Here In the mountains vve get only the echoes of the maddening strife going on where men fight for iobs and face the fear of the coming of the wolf of hunger at their doors. |