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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane A More Cheerful Country Salt Stays in the Ocean Tests for a Pacifist Why Sheep Give Thanks This western land like every other part of the country has its share of depression, but Eastern visitors observe in Los Angeles' crowded streets, more cheerfulness than in New York or Chicago. Perhaps "depression" is more easily borne in brilliant sunlight than in cloudy cold. Also, this section of the country with Boulder Dam under way, and government work six months aread of schedule on the $15.000- 000 job. has its greatest problem, WATER SUPPLY, permanently solved. Lcs Angeles and twelve other cities in this Boulder Dam district recently voted, five to one, with admirable courage and forsight a bond issue of two hundred and twenty million dollars to build an aqueduct to bring the water to the thirsty land and its enormour-quickly enormour-quickly growing population. The government hesitated and delayed about spending $165,000.-000. $165,000.-000. Los Angeles and twelve sister sis-ter cities promptly voted fifty-five millions more than the total government, gov-ernment, to take care of the water. Dam and aqueduct will be ready-in ready-in six years, and the next stop will be the spending of $25,000,000 by the Imperial Valley. That bond issue will build a canal adequate in size and make the valley independent inde-pendent of a canal now in use that runs through Mexico at the mercy of revolution or international interna-tional difficulties. There will be no cessation ot population growth on this Pacific Coast, until the saturation point is reached. That, fortunately, is far off, for airplanes will make town lots of Pacific Coast mountain moun-tain tops now bare, and this desert, des-ert, far from movies . and soda fountains, will be safe many a year for those that like solitude, and are unlike Schopenhaur's "negroes "ne-groes that cannot get enough oi one another's snub-nosed company and like to crowd, I am told, fifty in one small room." Population on this coast MUST' increase without ceasing, as salt increases in the ocean, almost twice as salty now as when our ancestors lived in it hundreds of millions of years ago. Salt, once it gets in the ocean, CANNOT get out, for only pure water is lifted by the sun's rays. Human beings, when they get into this beautiful country, perfect climate, and atmosphere at-mosphere of genuine democracy. WILL not leave it. Mrs. Kate Crane-Gartz dislikes the idea of preparedness. She asks, "Doesn't the peace caravan trekking across the country coun-try with a gigantic petition to the President, mean anything to you?" Yes, unfortunately, it means PA- 1 THETIC FUTILITY. We should work for peace, hope for it. pray for it. march for it. But we should always be ready for the other thing. The example of heaven is surely good enough for Mrs. Crane-Gartz and ether pacifists. Pacifists should humbly remember remem-ber the lines in Revelation, "and there was war in heaven; Michael mid his anpcls fcucht against the dragon; and the dragon fought his angels." It was fortunate for heaven and the earth thai; Michael and his angels an-gels were "prepared" for trouble. "And the dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the wnoie world; he was cast out in lithe li-the earth, and his angels were cast out with him." Heaven, of course, wanted peace in thoso ancient days, but prepared pre-pared for war. That's what we should do. Have you heard of the liver-tluke liver-tluke that destroys thousands of sheep? The larvae of the liver-fluke liver-fluke live in snails, are dropped by snails on pastures, eaten by sheep with the grass and the sheep die. Liver- fluke, snails and sheep probably would say, "Men can never do anything about that." They are mistaken. The Department of Agriculture announces that airplanes will drop copper sulphate dust. It will kill the snails, the liver-fluke larvae will have no place to develop, and the sheep will not be killed. That is something for sheep to be thankful for, on this Thanksgiving Thanks-giving Day. Nobody quarrels about salt water or fresh water; there are plenty of both for everybody. The day is coming when nobody will quarrel about property or take any special interest in it. There will be enough for everybody; enough food, good books, music and leisure leis-ure the only things really important. impor-tant. Today men accumulate money, wear themselves out and lose their characters doing it, as the tumble bug exhausts his energies storing up treasures in his storehouse. Men wall not be tumble-bugs forever. for-ever. That is something to be thankful for. The change will come when the intelligence of men and their science sci-ence are devoted to providing enough for everybody, Instead of too much for a few. |