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Show I TOO MUCH BRAG IN CALIFORNIA There is no lack of boaM and brat among Calliornians They see in the sun, moon and suns omens of California's Cali-fornia's superiority jn everything Recently Re-cently the Los Angeles Times, In noting not-ing that Los Angeles is fairly pros perous, while other parts of the country coun-try are dull, made this deduction: There is no effect without a contributory cause. Chance may favor Individuals, but She fortunes of communities are regulated by something more stab-le. Why does Los Angeles glow In a darkened Industrial sky ' like a brooch in a beggar's breast?' Why is this one little spot away out on ihe rim nf the Pacific alone favored by the gods of industry'' Far removed from the hitherto recognized centers cen-ters of industrial activity, hampered ham-pered in sending its products to eastern markets by freight rates that arc enormously nigh, with a hinterland sparsely populated and whose development has Just begun, be-gun, why is Los Angeles alone nd vancing while the rest of the country is receding? Divers solutions of this economic eco-nomic riddle will be offered by the apologists for less prosperous communities. "Propaganda based on elaborate and misleading ud-1 ud-1 erti?ing' will cry the envious. H "Touring crop selling at profiteer ing prices" others will allec "Climate and the moving-plclure Industry" will not be without sup- i bbbbbbbi porters. Perhaps In some remote section a still, small oice, the voice of truth that never rants or villlf ies. will utter in the midst of I the clanging of the anvil chorus the true solution. lN'ITSTKIAl. FREEDOM. Nonsense! Lus Angeles has no .11 , dustrlal problems worth) Ihe name be- ' cause Los Angeles has no industrial j life to compare with a' city likf Pi: s I burg, or St. Louis or any place of size in the United States Los Angeles is supported by the How of money from prosperous homes throughout the United Stales homes thai do not feel the pinch of poverty even when tho country is In a d pn w:un. There is 1 j great stream of tourist monej pouring into Los Angeles. The number of ar- j H rivals dally is at present estimated a' 1 H 2000, with a spending capacity almost j H unlimited Ogden helps 10 make H Angeles by contributing not less than H $! 00,000 a year to its upkeep. There Is H an entire colony of Ogdeniles in south- H ern California at ibis time, and each H and every' one of the group is a lib- H eral spender. An Ogdenite who lately H returned from the coast said he could 1 go out at any time of the day and H meet a dozen men and women stroll- H ing on the beach or promenading on the boulevards. bbbbbbbbbI ii.i-a.- |