OCR Text |
Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane Gtill Growing Los Angeles .The Price of Flying Many-Car Families His Work, His Monument LOS ANGELES. Los Angeles, stretching from the mountains toward to-ward the east, to the great seaport on the Pacific, continues to grow and feel happy. A proud native son talking by telephone to a friend in New York says first of all, "I am sorry for you. The sun is so bright here,, it puts your eyes out." And that Is hardly an exaggeration. Children with bare legs and bare arms play and grow in the warm air, all through the winter. Nc wonder they produce Californlan like Helen Wills. This glorious coast from Seattle to San Diego, the land of good roads, faces a family problem less acute in other parts of the country. The problem is, "Which cars be parked in the driveway?" Here the two-car, three-car and four-car four-car family is the rule. A family with only one car Is primitive. What ships are to the Clyde, packing pack-ing houses to Chicago, big banks to New.YorK, and fat goose livers to Strassburg, moving pictures are to this Hollywood land. The two biggest billboards read, "Garbo Talks." They don't even mention the lady's first name, which is Greia. And "at last the voice of voices, Norma Talmadge." Two ladies, Bernhardt and Duse, might dispute that, but they are dead. Norma Talmadge much a-live. a-live. Charley Chaplin has not made up his mind about the "talkies,' although friends assure him that he would talk as well as he walks. He will come to the microphone in time. Meanwhile he wants to give up comedy and play Napoleon, Hamlet, Ham-let, and Svengah. Chaplin is a genius and woulu play the parts well. But to ninety-nine out of one hundred it would be Svengali, Hamlet and Napoleon playing Char ley Chaplin. Millions that are vague about Napoleon Know Chaplin and would recognize him in any disguise. The distressing accident to a Maddux airplane, returning from the Mexican horse races at Agua Caliente is part of the price of progress. It means that one of the first improvements should be to make a plane taking fire, due to collision, Impossible. Engineering science will produce such a plane. When railroading started in France, and an accident between Paris and Versailles killed many, it was thougnt that Frenchmen would ride no more. A troupe of actors, hired, sat in trams at the windows smiling, pretending to like it. Railroading Rail-roading was not abandoned. Flying Fly-ing will Increase every year, and become safer than rail or motor travel. At San Diego Lindbergh borrowed borrow-ed a "glider" airplane with no engine. en-gine. Ke asked a few questions, went up alone, flew for half an hour, live nundred feet up, came down and applied for a first class glider pilot license. He got it. There is only one Lindbeergh, but there are a million young Americans Ameri-cans like him.' They will keep aviation av-iation going. Public works scheduled by state and federal governments, in labor and raw materials, will amount to $3,325,000,000 in 1930. California is proud to stand third in the nation, her public works for 1930 reaching $202,000,000. New York State, with more than twice California's population, leads with $475,000,000. Ohio is second with $233,000,000. This includes only public works-no works-no private buildings. That, also will break records. S. T. Mather, dead in Boston, deserves de-serves a monument as high as the tallest of the magnififent trees pro. tected and preserved by him as director di-rector of the National Parks Service. Serv-ice. Once a worker on the old New York Morning Sun, in Dana's time, later a prosperous business man, Mr. Mather devoted his life and fortune to the extentlon and development devel-opment of our national parks. Born in California, a product of American public schools, and the University of California, Mather would want no monument from men. He knew, as every modern man worth while knows, that the only monument worth while is work well done. Thanks to Mather's work, this Nation, for all earthly time, will possess the most magnificent parks on the surface of the globe. California has a "Fit at Fifty" Club, which politely sends you an honorary membership and says it is endorsed by the Governor of the State. California and every other State should have a "Fit at One Hundred" Hund-red" Club. In this country fifty should be only the beginning of fitness, and hard work. |