Show athis this week h 7 ARTHUR BRISBANE people and things A lopsided league why gen wood travels A new monroe doctrine after a soul has spent a thousand years in paradise it probably forgets to wonder and no longer mentions the marvels of the place pavements of gold walls ot of jasper that strange beasts talk or tho the h red black white and gray her horsemen so in california after one hundred visits you take for gran granted t ev that which amazed you and exhausted your adjective supply on the first few trips the flowers sky the beauty of the ocean and the mountains are not to be described bed you must see them A drive through los angeles out to hollywood oft off to the right among the hills of beverly and on down to the ocean over those hills through one of the tine fine roads built along the canyon walls Is or ought to be a part dart of every americans education you cannot possibly imagine what this country Is thero there la Is progress then a check then th en further progress but always progress there will be ten million people in los angeles and the little group of suburbs around it be f tore existing lives shall end there will be fortunes made here bore far beyond the dreams of avarice which Is saying a good deal in america come and see remembering that in california the summer season Is the best season the important world news yet to have official confirmation announces the retirement of germany italy and japan from the league of nations that would leave in the league only two great nations of europe england and prance france this Is not our affair tor for we are blessedly out and shall never be pushed into the league but with the three nations out of the big five the league will feel like a centipede minus seven ty two legs europe will find itself preparing for war as in 1914 with no central u gathering place even for talking about peace japan feels that the league interferes ter feres in exclusively asiatic matters germany feels that she has been badly treated italy resents too much advice and being classed as a child mentally by the two big nations that really are the league if japan italy and germany get out that will begin a naw new european chapter add to the list of important and intelligent people now in califor mia general R E wood now traveling through this western country by airplane general wood a west pointer was for several years in charge of government work on the panama canal now he is president of sears scars roebuck and has been visiting his distributing departments and retail stores throughout the west his answer to the question are you studying and correcting mistaken methods in your branch offices should interest business men no said he 1 I am not looking for weakness in our branches I 1 am finding out by visiting these branches nhat hat is the matter with us at headquarters if any part of a mans body work well you know something Is wrong in his head it if branches in a big organization dont work well that shows something wrong not with the branches but with headquarters by visiting our branches I 1 find what Is the matter with my own methods and with headquarters generally paraguay and bolivia may after all not enjoy their real war young gentlemen of paraguay and bolivia are rushing to the colors eager to tight fight somebody in paraguay young women including debutantes and society ladles insist on joining the army they wont knit or do homework but insist on fighting in the front line trenches and if there are no trenches they will dig some but the south american ladles and gentlemen may miss the pleasure of finding out what a real war Is like the united states has joined with south american countries in that it will not lecog nizo territorial gains made by armed force this means a sort of monroe doctrine among countries in south america it would hardly be worth while to tight fight for land it you enjoy it after you got it europe should have had such a 10 recognition non agreement in 1914 it would have prevented the silly program of carving out and setting up impromptu nationalities zor toi which ono one of our distinguished presidents was largely responsible coming west passing tue llie bg biggest pea canning factory in t the h a world just east cast of ogden in ut utah a h you learn that ordinary workers formerly paid sixty and seventy ants cents an hour now get eighteen cents an hour tor for a ten hour lay day skilled mechanics get twenty two cents an hour 1932 by b emst far int 6 T |