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Show rthuir Brii"bn Walk Straight, or Sleep Mexico's Rest for the Weary Keep Your Land Calvin Coolidge Says INTERESTING things on this Paolflo coast, tree, that were growing when Christ was born, earth's biggest ocean, greatest water power, wonderful future. fu-ture. i "' But most interesting, as a measure of our civilization, are-the. gentlemen "sleeping It off on the way north from the Mexican boundary. A car comes wobbling, a representative representa-tive of government stops It The driver, ordered to get out and walks a straight line, cannot do It He must park his car by the roadside, and is told "lie down by the roadside and sleep It off." Six were lying down, sleeping It oft, their cars parked nearby, recently. Sometimes there are more than six. California provides for driving while drunk a penalty more severe than "sleeping It off." It Is, perhaps only fair to make certain allowanoea for our prohibition situation and temptations tempta-tions beyond the border. Just across the line they find Tla Juana, hospitable Mexican village, with a. bar two hundred feet long, excellent beer at a low price, ready to entertain the hol-pollol. A little farther on smooth roads take the thirsty traveler to the new and magnificlently appointed appoint-ed resort, Agua Callente, arranged to appeal to the Brahmin tourist class. The stream of cars pouring southward, south-ward, reminds you of traffic at Michigan Michi-gan and Madison in Chicago, or Flfty-seventh Flfty-seventh and Parle avenue in Nsw York. All those southbound cars take American Am-erican money to a very ably managed Mexican resort, with good music, good food, excellent French and other wines at reasonable prices. ' - In the Casino you may lose as much as you cbpose. Part of It is accessible only to those wearing "evening dress." Fine golf links, and one of the finest fin-est race courses in the world, offering this week the world's biggest purse for one horss race, 1128,000, are part of Agua Callente's attractions. Many Interesting people among seven hundred, gathered for luncheon by San Diego's Chamber of Commerce, with President H. O. Hotchkiss, the mayor of the city and the able Milton A. McRae, early builder of Scripps-McRae, Scripps-McRae, managing the party. Claude Ryan Is there. You ought to know him. He built the ship in which Lindbergh flew to Paris and fame. Just outside the city's heart you can see the factory and the spot that Lindbergh left when he raised the Spirit of Saint Louis Into In-to the air, bound for France via New York. A good statue of Lindbergh, made by the factory workers, mark the spot Also you meet William Hawley Bow-lus. Bow-lus. He superintended the building of Lindbergh's plane. Now he holds the American "glider" record, ap nine hours and five minutes without an engine. Not a man over 30 In that airplane factory when the great plane was built Youth is wonderful. This writer is asked by friendly editors edi-tors that print his articles, In Wisconsin, Wiscon-sin, Florida, Texas, etc., "Why do you talk so much about California?" The answer is, because you write Inevitably In-evitably about the place in which you happen to be. In' heaven It would be necessary to write a great deal about heaven, although another combined place might be more exciting. One lady who owns Florida real estate es-tate suggests, "You must have put your money in California land." No, the humble writer has a ten times greater sum invested in Florida real estate than in California land, one hundred times more In New Jersey than In California and Florida, and a thousand times more In New York City than in all other States. And none of it for sale. Qet good land. Keep it, and it will keep you. But don't buy trash., Calvin Coolidge says little, hut often says much in few words. At Mr. Hearst's ranch od the edge of the Pacific Pa-cific Mr. Coolidge listened with Interest Inter-est to the propounding of various pussies, pus-sies, mathematical problems, etc., by Senator Hitchcock, a guest with him. For Instance, "if a bottle, and a cork cost $1.05, and If the bottle coBta $1 more than the cork, how much doe the cork cost?" That's a Ripley puxsle. . The answer, to save you trouble, is 2 cents. , . ' Mr. Coolidge, listening, offering no solutions, remarked finally, "Senator, I suppose in the Senate you all have plenty of time to work out such problems." prob-lems." Senator Hitchcock tells that What people think decides what they are. Prosperity is to a considerable extent ex-tent a matter of psychology. Once a man was fastened hi a chair, his feet put in warm water, and, aa a practical Joke, he waa shown a raxor of which the blunt edge was drawn across the soles of his bare feet He was told "You will bleed to death painlessly pain-lessly In this warm water." He didn't lose a drop of blood but he died. Don't let prosperity die in that fashion, fash-ion, killed by imagination. .. .. . (O. WO, br Klas Paawwa Siiiilfata, lacj ! V;, : I , : - i |
