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Show This Week kj ARTHUR BRISBANB , '4 Complaining Is Waste 200,000,000 Ounce Los Angeles Still Grows Tigers, Beware This pacific Coast goes along cheerfully, as well It may, with so many States lu the Union helping to build up popuatlon and prosper, lty here. It's against the unwritten law in this neighborhood to complain, 0 carry and umbrella or wear an overcoat over-coat Besides this is a land of "everything can be done." Mrs. Scudder, the potato chip queen, says: "If Easterners that complain about business would put into their business the energy used in complaining, com-plaining, they would not need to complain." v. She fries 100 tons of potatoes In a month. Nature recognizes no depression, and this coast has glgantlo crops. The,"SunkIst," co-operative organization organi-zation of orange growers, will ship 70,000 cars this year, compared with 60,000 cars last year. Thirty-three years ago they shipped 1800 cars. Tell your grocer be should sell bis oranges cheaper this year. They cost him less at wholesale, and selling good oranges Is public service. Regardless of area it will take long for any country to have as , big a business as ours. There is no excuse for bad conditions and Idleness Idle-ness here, except the excuse of foolish fool-ish ignorance. Killing the value of silver has ruined hundreds of millions mil-lions of our customers. Allowing unlimited stock gambling has taken the minds of millions from their real business. And our stupid immigration laws shut out the populations on which our success and prosperity are . built But all that foolishness will be overcome. The United States offers to lend China 200,000,000 ounces of silver for fifty years, according to news from Pelplng. Governments change rapidly in China and fifty years hence China's rulers may have forgotten about the loan. However, we have the silver and it doesn't matter much whether we have it, or China has it. Lent at present prices, If we got it back at 1981 prices plus Interest, we should probably make a net profit of 100 per cent above interest in-terest The world will not be stupid , enough to leave silver at its present pres-ent price, thus making It impossible impos-sible for 800,000,000 users of silver money to buy goods in the markets of gold standard nations. Los Angeles, where such crowds pour over the sidewalks as you never saw even in New York or Chicago, Is widening many city streets, a-ettlnr readv for rha fii- ture. And the roads of approach from the east are widened and straightened. straight-ened. Fifty-seven dangerous curves have just been taken out of the Cajon Pass road, leading back to Vlctorville, Barstow, and points east The roads are made less romantic ro-mantic but safer. They are also made sometimes much steeper than they were, because modern automobiles auto-mobiles can climb anything. Douglas Fairbanks has gone to India, taking letters from the Duke of Sutherland to the Maharajah of Mysore, and letters from other Dukes to other Maharajahs, Princes and Potentates, plus a letter of credit which is Important Fairbanks Fair-banks will shoot real tigers from the backs of a real elephant In the Mysore territory. His camera-man goes along and his director to tell the tigers what is expected of them. Chicago's police have a "lie meter," me-ter," that, attached! to the arm of a suspect under cross examination, tells when he is lying. It works, ; because, the human heart, not taught to lie, changes its beat when the anxious process of lying begins, In India, barefooted natives giving testimony, lie with straight faces. But they twitch their big toes, and lawyers watch their feet A well known capitalist twitched his thumb, when bluffing at poker, and lost large sums, until he began be-gan holding the cards with four fingers, the thumb kept hidden. The British will release Mahat-may Mahat-may Gandhi, who has been In prison since last May and made a very comfortable prisoner, Britain being careful not to make him a martyr. The trouble is that being released It will be necessary for him to invent in-vent some interesting agitation. A Mahatma, like a salesman, must show results. But poor Gandhi, peaceful at heart doesn't know exactly what to do with the 800,000,000 who stand behind him. What would Napoleon Na-poleon have done with such a crowd, or one of the great Tartar rulers, or even some leader of Tammany Tam-many Hall, who would know how to use their votes? ttl, 19)0, by Kin Fettiim Srodicac, be) |