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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane Dangerous Rioting Home "Weather . Idleness and Vice Aimee McPherson's Debut Vicious race riots in California. Califor-nia. Filipinos and white men quarreling, murderously, warn a-against a-against Asiastic immigration, from whatever source. The riots, starting start-ing in the Pajaro Valley, near Wat-sonville, Wat-sonville, spread for fifty miles. Fermin Lovera, a 22-year-old Filipino, Fili-pino, was shot to death. Alfred Johnson, white youth, was stabbed in the back. Filipinos have been imported in considerable numbers to work on fruit and vegetable farms. That caused trouble, aggravated by the Filipinos hiring white girls to entertain en-tertain them in their so-called club houses. Seventy Filipinos spent the night in the City Hall for protection. Regardless of opinions as to human hu-man rights, international brotherhood, brother-hood, etc., the fact is that white men, in a white country, wiU not allow their jobs or their women to De taken by Asiatics, and common sense forbids Asiatic immigration of laborers, from our own Asiatic islands, or any other source. In Los Angeles, after the rain that means prosperity the sun is shining out, hot, and bright. Angelenos, as the inhabitants of this happy city call themselves, early or recent arrivals from different dif-ferent states, tell you about their home weather. An ex-New Yorker says New York is cold and slushy, and seems to glory in it. A former Oregonian tells you, with intense satisfaction, that in his part of the world the big Wil-limette Wil-limette River is frozen solid, automobiles au-tomobiles driving over it. Ice breakers are clearing a water path for boats. Concentrated Los Angeles civic pride has a good deal to do with this city's progress. If an Angelene lady falls downstairs down-stairs in the suburbs and sprains her ankle, that's more important to Los Angeles newspapers than would be the simultaneous blow-;ng blow-;ng up of Vesuvius, Aetna, Mount Pelee and Popocatapetl. Herbert Fleishhacker of San Francisco is at Santa Barbara,, looking, as usual, for something more to buy. He tells you that everything wiU be all right with business after two or three months of repentance. That until you have seen Del Monte, you have seen nothing. Californians are like the Italians of Dante's time. Each thinks his principality the one spot worth while. The fact is that every mile of this coast has something that is to be found nowhere else. All the way from the palms in the south to the giant fir trees and roaring mountain rivers in the north, is is all a land of wonder. Lower California, long peninsula owned by Mexico, stretching a thousand miles along the Paoific south of the California border, offers of-fers opportunity- to some young man with millions and ambition Harkness, who has given millions to Harvard and Yale; Young Leeds, the tinplate heir, who seems anxious anx-ious to do something, or some other. oth-er. There has been offered to this writer a tract of land along the coast on that peninsula running 400 miles and sixteen miles wide. With this fair-sized kingdom, man interesting experiments .could be made, if the experimenter had millions mil-lions of dollars as well as millions of acres. Investigators in California's San Quentin prison find that idleness is the curse of prison life, leading tc rebellion, brooding and vice. Investigators In-vestigators might make the same report, far from San Quentin, at Palm Beach, Agua Callente, Newport New-port and other well known resort?. For those made worthless by Inherited, In-herited, or too easily acquired wealth, there is no cure, generally, but the undertaker. But there should be some way of keeping convicts busy, and interested in v.'ork. They should not compete to the deriment of free labor or private pri-vate business, but they may be occupied oc-cupied with fair profit to themselves, them-selves, without such competition and made to know, by experience, that work is better and more profitable prof-itable than crime. Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson, brilliant young revivalist who has caused many to mend their ways, will make talkies and preach on a really big scale. "Sermonettes," to make heaven and hell as real as Santa Monica and Wall Street, will be sent far and wide, preaching the gospel to all the world, literaly. The directing gentleman got useful use-ful experience directing the production pro-duction of "Dante's Inferno." Mrs. McPherson promises to make Dante's Dan-te's effort seem as mild as a mother goose story. Alister G. MacDonld, son of Britain's Brit-ain's Labor Prime Minister, is on his way here from Chicago, setting a good example by flying. The intelligent young man intends in-tends to study Hollywood, and western wes-tern architecture. He will find in Los Angeles San Francisco. Seattle and other coast cities much worth studying in the way of architecture. |